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• The Kevin: Tierney legacy lives on with renamed literary award

  06-11-2018 23:44 via montrealgazette.com
  The legacy of late filmmaker and Montreal Gazette columnist Kevin Tierney lives on with one of the largest anglo-Quebec literary prizes being renamed in his honour.
  The Kevin, the $3,000 first-prize winner of Infinithéâtre’s 11th Write-On-Q! playwriting competition, has been awarded to Alex Poch-Goldin for Make Up. According to the jury, the play is “a provocative and insightful commentary on modern relationships with an emphasis on the use of technology.”
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• Laval Rocket captain Byron Froese using life in minors as motivation

  06-11-2018 23:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Byron Froese might never be a star, but of the 110 National Hockey League games he has played over eight years, 48 came with the Canadiens last season.
  On Tuesday morning, following an early 60-minute practice at Place Bell, Froese and his Laval Rocket teammates were preparing for a nearly 400-kilometre bus trip to Utica, N.Y., and a game Wednesday night. Then it’ll be another six hours by bus to Cleveland the following day for a pair of weekend games. The organization will take a cha
  
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• What's happening in the West Island area this week

  06-11-2018 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Galleries and exhibitions
  The Stewart Hall Art Gallery, 176 Lakeshore Rd., Pointe-Claire, presents the 2019 Art Rental Collection, a wide selection of artworks by more than 75 artists. Continues until Dec. 2. Call 514-630-1220, ext. 1778.
  Galerie de la ville, 12001 de Salaberry Blvd., in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, presents an exhibition in various media exploring the subject of time by visual artists from the group Le Cercle 9. Continues until Nov. 18. Call 514-684-1012.
  The Kirkland Library, 17100 Hy
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens at Rangers

  06-11-2018 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Can the surprise team of the early NHL season make it two road wins in a row … on consecutive nights?
  We’ll find out Tuesday, when the Canadiens – fresh off that thrilling Shootout win against the Islanders – face the Rangers.
  After Antti Niemi’s heroics against the Islanders, Carey Price will be back in the nets.
  And while minimal travel is involved in getting from Brooklyn to Manhattan, fans will be able to gauge how a smallish team performs in the second half of
  
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• Suicide crisis: Family wants state of emergency declared in Nunavik

  06-11-2018 22:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Mary Simon doesn’t remember much about the phone call.
  It was a Friday in early October and the news hurt so bad it made her knees buckle. Her niece, 22-year-old Natalie, had taken her own life.
  “It’s the call that makes you scream — ‘It can’t be true,'” said Simon.
  She felt helpless at first and went back home to Kuujjuaq to spend a few days with her brother Bobby May. They shed tears, held each other and said goodbye to Natalie.
  But they weren’t
  
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• Alouettes rusher William Stanback named a CFL top performer of week

  06-11-2018 21:04 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — Montreal Alouettes running-back William Stanback, Edmonton quarterback Mike Reilly and Eskimos running-back CJ Gable were named the CFL’s top performers for the final week of the 2018 regular season on Tuesday.
  Stanback had 31 rushing yards on six carries and 103 receiving yards on five receptions as Montreal defeated Hamilton 30-28 on Saturday. Montreal ended the season with back-to-back wins, a silver lining in a campaign that saw them finish 5-13 and miss the playoffs fo
  
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• John Abbott holds joint Remembrance Day with Ste-Anne's vets

  06-11-2018 21:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The 13th joint Remembrance Day Ceremony will be held at John Abbott College in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue on Thursday, Nov. 8.
  Veterans will be present for the ceremony, along with students from Macdonald High School, McGill University — Macdonald campus, Edgewater and St. Patrick Elementary schools and JAC. 

  The public is invited to the one-hour, bilingual ceremony which begins at 10:15 a.m.
  Processions led by three different pipers will leave from MacDonald High, John Abbott and McGill&
  
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• After Rona closure news, Legault sets plan to guard Quebec head offices

  06-11-2018 21:00 via montrealgazette.com
  François Legault’s government is preparing a plan to keep Quebec companies’ head offices in the province.
  The action plan will be part of the announced review of the role played by Investissement Québec, the government’s financial arm, which will now have a specific mandate to maintain head offices in Quebec.
  Premier Legault addressed the issue during a news conference Tuesday after news broke Monday that nine Rona stores in Quebec are being shuttered by U.S.
  
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• Reminder: Weekend Turcot traffic hell to spill over into next week

  06-11-2018 20:38 via montrealgazette.com
  The Trudeau airport is telling passengers to plan to be three hours early for their flights.
  Sacred Heart School of Montreal — which has a large West Island contingent, is telling parents to consider carpooling or public transit.
  These are two examples of preparations being made for upcoming worse-than-usual traffic on Montreal’s roads. While motorists are becoming accustomed to major highway closures over the weekend as part of the reconstruction of the Turcot Interchange, the next
  
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• Obituary: Former Quebec premier, PQ leader Bernard Landry has died at 81

  06-11-2018 20:23 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — When it comes to his political legacy, history will likely show Bernard Landry was a better co-pilot than a pilot.
  Yet, in the last years of his life, Landry would often express regrets at having resigned the leadership of the Parti Québécois in 2005 after obtaining a low confidence vote from the party rank-and-file.
  “I should have reflected at least one night before resigning,” Landry told an interviewer in 2015. “I loved that job. I am heartsick.
  
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• McCann promises nurses more jobs, no more mandatory overtime

  06-11-2018 19:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Health Minister Danielle McCann is assuring nurses that mandatory overtime will be abolished and more full-time jobs will be created under the new Coalition Avenir Québec government.
  “I intend to very quickly to assess your workload,” McCann said Tuesday in a speech to the 2,700 members of the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec, which is holding a convention in Montreal.
  “I am extremely concerned by the increase in the number of sick leaves
  
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• Opinion: It's high time for McGill to drop Redmen team name

  06-11-2018 19:51 via montrealgazette.com
  As members of the McGill Indigenous community, we were disappointed, though unsurprised, to read the article by four alumni supporting the continued use of the Redmen name for the university’s men’s sports teams (“McGill’s Redmen bear name of school colour” Opinion, Nov. 1).
  McGill University’s own Provost’s Task Force on Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education stated unequivocally in 2017 that the name needs to be eliminated, detailing its egregious
  
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• Who are the candidates for Montreal's police chief job?

  06-11-2018 19:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal is looking for a new police chief, Quebec Public Security Minister Geneviève Guilbault said Tuesday.
  Guilbault confirmed that interim Montreal Police chief Martin Prud’homme will not stay on when his mandate expires at the end of the year and the Quebec government will support Montreal in the process of selecting a new police chief.
  In Prud’homme’s report, he recommends two members of an outside committee that oversees the police department: retired RC
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Players get to sleep in before facing Rangers

  06-11-2018 19:36 via montrealgazette.com
  The morning off was probably built into the schedule weeks ago, but the Canadiens were able to sleep in Tuesday morning secure in the knowledge that they had earned the extra rest.
  “I’m cancelling the morning skate for you (media) guys,” head coach Claude Julien joked after the Canadiens left Brooklyn, N.Y., Monday night with a 4-3 shootout win over the New York Islanders. The Canadiens came back from a 3-1 first-period deficit as they once again avoided a second consecutive lo
  
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• ‘Great sense of urgency’: Jewish leaders warn threats must be dealt with

  06-11-2018 19:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Leaders of Montreal’s Jewish community are keeping a close eye of the trial of a Montreal man who allegedly threatened to kill girls at a Jewish girls’ school.
  Robert Gosselin, 55, has been charged with inciting hatred toward Jewish people and threatening to cause death and bodily harm to Jews after anti-Semitic posts were written on the Facebook page of Le Journal de Montréal.
  The social media posts said: “A good Jew is only good for firewood” and “What matt
  
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• Opinion: Let's make REM's construction safer for children

  06-11-2018 19:05 via montrealgazette.com
  The new REM light-rail system is Montreal’s most important public transit undertaking since the city’s métro was built more than a half century ago, with the potential to reduce traffic and emissions. And yet, construction of the REM station at Édouard-Montpetit does not seem to have been planned with the health of the public in mind.
  Located in an Outremont neighbourhood, right beside an elementary school and the Université de Montréal, the three-to-four-
  
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• Flu vaccination program launches in West Island

  06-11-2018 18:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Roll up your sleeve, it’s time for your annual flu shot.
  The Montreal West Island health network (CIUSSS) launched its seasonal flu vaccination campaign Tuesday at Bob Birnie Arena in Pointe-Claire.
  The campaign for the West Island and Dorval-Lachine-LaSalle networks continues till Dec. 15 at various locations.
  “We’ll be at nine sites over a six-week period,” said Nancy Lyons, head of health network’s flu vaccination program.
  “We go to sites near the popu
  
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• Wanted: A new police chief for Montreal — must be vigilant

  06-11-2018 18:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal is looking for a new police chief, Quebec Public Security minister Geneviève Guilbault said Tuesday.
  Guilbault confirmed that interim Montreal Police chief Martin Prud’homme will not stay on when his mandate expires at the end of the year and the Quebec government will support Montreal in the process of selecting a new police chief.
  She also unveiled Prud’homme’s final report on the troubled force, 11 months after he was named to the temporary post, replacing po
  
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• Quebec health minister promises nurses more jobs, less mandatory overtime

  06-11-2018 17:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Health Minister Danielle McCann on Tuesday reiterated her pledges to the province’s nurses that mandatory overtime will be abolished and more full-time jobs created, saying she will work quickly to realize both promises.
  McCann made the statement while addressing the 2,700 members of the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec, which is holding a convention in Montreal.
  During a speech interrupted repeatedly by applause, McCann said she wanted to “return a
  
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• Pot insiders: Who’s already cashed out their cannabis stocks?

  06-11-2018 17:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Recreational cannabis has been legal for less than a month, but some insiders at companies supplying the Société québécoise du cannabis have already started to cash out.
  Even before the SQDC opened its doors, insiders at cannabis companies — a category that includes the officers and directors of a company as well as people who hold more than 10 per cent of its shares — had already sold millions of dollars worth of stock.
  A company’s insider
  
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• Democrats Abroad: Americans in our midst are consumed by U.S. midterms

  06-11-2018 17:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Are you, too, all ginned up about U.S. politics these days? Do you, too, find yourself gobbling up all manner of U.S. news and late-night talk shows? Are you, too, having issues with those who don’t share your point of view about the man occupying the Oval Office? Can you, too, differentiate between a Beto O’Rourke and a Ted Cruz?
  If you answered yes, you, too, have become most invested in Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections.
  So many Canadians, who, for the most part, used to conc
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: John Dory with Caponata

  06-11-2018 17:16 via montrealgazette.com
  John Dory with Caponata
  Serves 2
  A readable book of tempting recipes, colourful anecdotes, reports on each seafood and its status, and exceptional photographs, Ship to Shore: Straight Talk from the Seafood Counter is the fish cookbook we have long needed.
  John Bil, celebrated in the world of oysters and then as a straight-shooting seafood marketer and restaurateur, answers all our questions, species by species (House of Anansi, $34.95). Top chefs have endorsed this excellent book, which tackles
  
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• Man steals truck, uses owner's credit card to gas it up: Laval police

  06-11-2018 17:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police have turned to the public in an effort to track down a truck thief who used his victim’s credit card to gas up the stolen vehicle just hours after taking it.
  The incident occurred May 11 and saw a Dodge Ram truck stolen from outside the victim’s home on Des Patriotes St. in the city’s Sainte-Rose district.
  The theft occurred sometime between 9 p.m. and 11:15 p.m., when the victim was visiting a friend. Later that evening the suspect, driving the stolen vehicle, sho
  
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• Drug-dealing grandmother sentenced; pit bull may get second chance in N.Y.

  06-11-2018 16:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Frances Richardson, who saw two of her grandchildren attacked by a dog she was looking after, has been sentenced to perform 100 hours of community service for drug trafficking.
  The 62-year-old St-Michel resident made headlines this summer when the dog she was looking after first bit her four-year-old granddaughter on the head, then severely injured her seven-year-old grandson after she took the first child to the hospital.
  The Montreal police report on the Aug. 19 incident describes the animal a
  
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• Your GST/HST Information Is Now at Your Fingertips!

  06-11-2018 15:55
  We've made improvements to My Account for businesses: you can now view your GST/HST information!The GST/HST returns you have already filed are now available online. The information on them is also shown in your statement of account and in the summary of your tax obligations, both of which you can access from the My Account home page.You can see information regarding certain GST/HST elections made and, if you are a public service body, view any rebate applications filed.Our enhanced service offer
  
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• Report card on Montreal police force to made public by Quebec

  06-11-2018 14:55 via montrealgazette.com
  One year after calling in the head of the Sûreté du Québec to temporarily take the helm of a Montreal police force beset with internal power struggles and sagging morale, the provincial government is expected to release the report of interim-chief Martin Prud’homme on Thursday.
  Prud’homme, whose mandate to head the Montreal force is expected to end next month, was pressed into service last December in the wake of a devastating report on the Montreal force by forme
  
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• LGHF unveils Recognition Wall to highlight generosity of donors

  06-11-2018 13:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The Lakeshore General Hospital Foundation (LGHF) announced its 2016–2018 Capital Campaign has raised a total of $8.2 million.
  The LGH fundraising campaign, which exceeded its fundraising goals by $200,000, is aiming to expand, modernize and improve infrastructures and equipment in three priority areas of the Lakeshore General Hospital in Pointe-Claire: the Cardiac and Intensive Care Units, Mental Health and Geriatric Units.
  The foundation also unveiled a new Recognition Wall, designed to h
  
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• While you were sleeping: UK fisherman saved from seal colony

  06-11-2018 13:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened long after it was dark outside. (It’s going to be like this for a long time.)
  A community group is calling for the for the construction of social housing units on the former Blue Bonnets raceway site. On Monday, Project Genesis planned to present a petition bearing roughly 1,850 signatures at the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough council meeting, in hopes of getting a firm commitment from the borough. It calls for at lea
  
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• BEI investigates death of man who collapsed in Montreal court cell

  06-11-2018 13:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s office of independent investigations, BEI, has launched a probe into the death of a man last Sunday that followed his collapse days earlier in a Montreal municipal court holding cell.
  The 42-year-old man had been arrested by Montreal police on Oct. 21 and, three days later, was placed in a holding cell at municipal court.
  The man, surrounded by fellow detainees, collapsed and was treated at the scene by first responders. He was then taken to a hospital where he died Nov. 4.
  The BE
  
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• Montreal weather: Wet and windy again, but warmer

  06-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  If there is a bright side today, it’s the forecast high: 12.
  Other than that, the weather forecast is grey and wet again.Environment Canada is calling for rain or drizzle in the morning, with an east wind east gusting to 50 in the afternoon.
  Tonight: Showers with a low of 9.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by tagging them with #ThisMtl. We’ll feature one per day right here in the morning file. Today’s
  
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• Cannabis cash-out: Insiders at SQDC suppliers have already made millions from stock sales

  06-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Recreational cannabis has been legal for less than a month, but some insiders at companies supplying the Société québécoise du cannabis have already started to cash out.
  Even before the SQDC opened its doors, insiders at cannabis companies — a category that includes the officers and directors of a company as well as people who hold more than 10 per cent of its shares — had already sold millions of dollars worth of stock.
  A company’s insider
  
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• Canadiens at Rangers: 5 things you should know

  06-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Canadiens-Rangers game Tuesday at Madison Square Garden (7 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690):
  The matchup: This is the second half of a back-to-back set, and the Canadiens opened with a dramatic 4-3 shooutout win over the Islanders Monday night. Montreal rallied from a 3-1 deficit and won it when Joel Armia scored on the first shootout attempt of his career. After a slow start, the Rangers have won three games in a row and are coming off a 3-1 home vi
  
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• Americans in Montreal have eyes peeled on U.S. midterms

  06-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Are you, too, all ginned up about U.S. politics these days? Do you, too, find yourself gobbling up all manner of U.S. news and late-night talk shows? Are you, too, having issues with those who don’t share your point of view about the man occupying the Oval Office? Can you, too, differentiate between a Beto O’Rourke and a Ted Cruz?
  If you answered yes, you, too, have become most invested in Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections.
  So many Canadians, who, for the most part, used to conc
  
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• Allison Hanes: A year later, traffic and taxes still annoy Montrealers

  06-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The only sure things in life are death and taxes, or so the saying goes. To that list, Montrealers might also add traffic.
  Traffic is hell in this city and has been for years. The congestion caused by the volume of cars on the road is routinely exacerbated by the scourge of construction. Orange cones are so ubiquitous, they have become an ironic symbol of Montreal, emblazoned on T-shirts and even showing up as the stuff of Halloween horror scenes. Shutdowns and detours from massive construction
  
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• Armia makes it count in shootout as Habs beat Islanders

  06-11-2018 05:45 via montrealgazette.com
  BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Joel Armia might have seemed an unlikely choice for a shootout, but Canadiens coach Claude Julien said he was the right man at the right time.
  Armia, who had never taken a shot in a shootout, gave the Canadiens a 4-3 win when he beat Thomas Greiss with a quick shot on the glove side in the fifth round of the shootout Monday night.
  “I knew what I wanted to do out there,” said Armia, who had seen the first nine shooters fail when they tried to deke the goaltender
  
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• About last night … Canadiens comeback ends in 4-3 Shootout win

  06-11-2018 04:27 via montrealgazette.com
  It was a fight to the Finnish:
  • Brilliant goaltending, after a shaky first-period, by Antti Niemi.
  • A tying goal – his first since the season opener – by Artturi Lehkonen.
  • The Shootout winner by Joel Armia, of all people.
  • Another solid outing for the youngest player in the NHL.
  And this team …
  On the road against the New York Islanders, the hottest team in the Eastern Conference, the Canadiens fell behind 3-1 in the first period.
  If this was last seas
  
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• Montreal police find missing 21-year-old woman

  06-11-2018 04:19 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal police force has called off the search for a 21-year-old woman last seen Monday morning at a Pointe-Claire health facility. Samantha Pompura was located safe and sound in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue by public security.
  
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• Montreal mural dedicated to Alanis Obomsawin

  06-11-2018 04:19 via montrealgazette.com
  A mural honouring filmmaker and Indigenous activist Alanis Obomsawin, designed by Atikamekw artist Meky Ottawa, was inaugurated on Lincoln Ave. in Montreal on Monday, Nov. 5, 2018.
  A mural honouring Alanis Obomsawin was inaugurated on Lincoln Ave. in Montreal on Monday, Nov. 5, 2018.
   
  The Gazette’s T’Cha Dunlevy interviewed her in a September article: Alanis Obomsawin, 86, revives singing career.
  Best known as a filmmaker, 86-year-old Alanis Obomsawin has re-released Bush
  
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• Canadiens overcome 3-1 deficit, overtime penalty kill to beat Islanders in shootout

  06-11-2018 04:01 via montrealgazette.com
  BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Joel Armia scored in the fifth round of a shootout to give the Canadiens a 4-3 win over the Islanders Monday night at Barclays Center. The Canadiens came back from a 3-1 deficit to avoid taking a second consecutive loss for the fourth time this season. They improved to 8-4-2.
  The Canadiens found themselves in a hole when they were called for having too many men of the ice with 26 seconds remaining in regulation time, but they managed to hold off the Islanders, who went int
  
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• Group renews calls for social housing at Blue Bonnets site

  06-11-2018 03:54 via montrealgazette.com
  A group led by community organization Project Genesis is renewing calls for the construction of social housing units on the former Blue Bonnets raceway site.
  Advocates have been pushing for social housing on the abandoned Hippodrome site for years.
  On Monday, Project Genesis planned to present a petition bearing roughly 1,850 signatures at the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough council meeting, in hopes of getting a firm commitment from the borough.
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens beat Islanders 4-3 in Shootout

  06-11-2018 03:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Joel Armia, of all people, won the game with the only goal of the Shootout.
  Artturi Lehkonen finally got a goal, tying the game eight minutes into the third
  Max Domi’s power-play goal, late in the second period, set up a fun third.
  The home team dominated early in the game, and Casey Cizikas beat Antti Niemi from close in at 4:05. Almost eight minutes in, a Brendan Gallagher turnover became Valteri Filppula’s go-ahead goal. Then with five minutes left in the period, Cizikas
  
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• Liveblog: Islanders 3 – Canadiens 2 after two

  06-11-2018 02:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Max Domi’s power-play goal, late in the second period, sets up a fun third.
  The home team dominated early in the game, and Casey Cizikas beat Antti Niemi from close in at 4:05. Almost eight minutes in, a Brendan Gallagher turnover became Valteri Filppula’s go-ahead goal. Then with five minutes left in the period, Cizikas scored his second.
  Islanders on the PP to start the third.
  Shots through 40 are 23-14 for the team that’s trailing.
   
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• Montreal police searching for 21-year-old woman

  06-11-2018 02:43 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal police force is seeking the public’s help in finding a 21-year-old woman last seen Monday morning at a Pointe-Claire health facility.
  Samantha Pompura is five feet tall and weighs 105 pounds. She has green eyes, shoulder-length brown hair and speaks English. She was last seen wearing a black long-sleeved sweater, black sports pants and dark shoes.
  Police believe Pompura, who uses public transit, could be near John Abbott College in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Police said t
  
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• François Legault says it's 'too late' to stop Rona stores from closing

  06-11-2018 02:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Premier François Legault said Monday that it is “too late” to do anything about the closure of nine Rona stores in Quebec by U.S. hardware giant Lowe’s.
  “We need to look forward. We can’t re-do history. We can’t re-do the decision that was made by the Liberal government to let Rona’s headquarters go,” Legault told reporters.
  But Legault promised his Coalition Avenir Québec government will “do everything” to keep other comp
  
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• #ICYMI: Calèche horse, city taxes, Mr. Dressup, more news

  06-11-2018 02:29 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  An investigation of the circumstances surrounding the sudden collapse and death of a calèche horse in Old Montreal on Sunday afternoon has been launched by Quebec’s department of agriculture, fisheries and food (MAPAQ). Meanwhile, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante said the incident serves as more confirmation that her administration’s decision to ban hor
  
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• Hydro-Québec chair and vice-chair resign

  06-11-2018 01:28 via montrealgazette.com
  A month after the election of the Coalition Avenir Québec, the chair of the board of Hydro-Québec, Michael Penner, has submitted his resignation.
  La Presse Canadienne has learned that the lawyer, who was appointed by the Couillard government in 2014 and was supposed to remain in his post until 2023, came to the conclusion that his days were numbered and the new government would replace him.
  It’s unknown if the process to replace Penner has begun. Vice-chair Michelle Cormier,
  
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• Sharp, grateful Montreal man plays down turning 110

  06-11-2018 00:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Robert Wiener doesn’t see what all the fuss is about.
  Sure, he turned 110 years old last month, possibly making him the oldest man in Canada. And the honour did earn him a birthday card from Queen Elizabeth herself.
  But Wiener dismissed the accolades with a wave of his hand Monday.
  “It’s not like I won the Nobel Prize or saved someone’s life. I’m just old,” said Wiener, a retired dentist and former McGill University professor. “I just inherited good gene
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens at Islanders

  06-11-2018 00:20 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens aren’t the only surprise of the early NHL season.
  The New York Islanders, whom the Canadiens visit in Brooklyn Monday night, are 8-4-1 – good for top spot in the tough Metropolitan Division.
  The no-longer-woeful Islanders have won five straight, most recently 3-1 over New Jersey Saturday night … while the Canadiens were losing to Tampa Bay.
  The Islanders have a gaudy goal differential of plus-12, tying Tampa Bay for tops in the Eastern Conference. (The Canadiens
  
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• Watch: Dr. Joe Schwarcz: The truth about spirulina

  06-11-2018 00:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Dr. Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society, looks at the facts behind this colourful algae, touted as a superfood. Is it worth a try?
  
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