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• Pointe-Claire man pleads guilty to possession of stolen silver

  07-11-2018 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
  A West Island resident, who was one of the first people to be charged after more than $10 million worth of silver was stolen from the Port of Montreal three years ago, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to being in possession of a fraction of the loot.
  Norberto Cordeiro, 52, made a brief appearance before Quebec Court Judge Sylvie Durand at the Montreal courthouse where he pleaded guilty to being in possession of proceeds obtained through crime. As part of the same hearing, Durand agreed with a joint r
  
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• No lights on your bike? That'll cost you $127

  07-11-2018 23:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police started issuing $127 tickets to cyclists who did not have lights affixed to their bicycles, front and back, this week.
  With the end of daylight saving time last Sunday, which ushered in an earlier dusk, rush-hour bike commuters heading home at 5:30 p.m. in the dark were pulled over repeatedly on the de Maisonneuve bike path outside the Vendôme métro station Monday evening. The crackdown, which will continue all week on the city’s busiest bike corridors and cycl
  
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• Weather alert: Snow moving in to much of Quebec on Friday

  07-11-2018 23:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealers heading to the Laurentians and other parts of the province on Friday after work might find the traffic delays worse than usual, thanks to the four-letter word that begins to get a lot of ink around this time of the year: SNOW.
  Environment Canada has issued a “special weather statement” for much of Quebec on Friday — Montreal is not on the list yet — that goes like this:
  “Snow is knocking on the door!
  “A major low pressure system from the Southern U
  
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• Beyond the Plate: Nora Gray's Emma Cardarelli is no outsider

  07-11-2018 23:20 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the seventh instalment in the monthly series Beyond the Plate, looking at the motivations and passions of local chefs. This month: Emma Cardarelli.
  The 1983 coming-of-age film The Outsiders feels like an ideal backdrop to use in describing the career trajectory of Emma Cardarelli, of the restaurants Nora Gray and Elena.
  Cardarelli hails from the house of Fred Morin and David McMillan. These two masterful chefs adopted a mentoring tactic similar to venerable director Francis Ford Cop
  
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• McGill Redmen: U.S. scholar says name reinforces white settler society

  07-11-2018 23:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Why do non-Indigenous sports teams steal the names and symbols of North America’s first peoples?
  McGill University’s continued use of “Redmen” for its teams has many on campus grappling with that question. The name is considered an anti-Indigenous slur and has spurned protests and a campaign to rename the team.
  When it emerged in the 1920s, the name Redmen was intended to describe the school’s signature colour but many still find it offensive and point to McGil
  
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• Canada Post says Quebec cannabis buyers not affected by data breach

  07-11-2018 22:59 via montrealgazette.com
  A data breach at Canada Post that revealed personal information about customers of the online-only Ontario Cannabis Store did not affect people who made online orders from the Société québécoise du cannabis, the postal service said on Wednesday.
  The breach was specific to the OCS, it said.
  SQDC spokesperson Mathieu Gaudreault said it had received assurances from Canada Post that Quebecers were not affected by the breach and that it was still in communication
  
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• Analyze This: Max Domi is driving force behind Canadiens' offence

  07-11-2018 22:03 via montrealgazette.com
  In 82 games for the Arizona Coyotes last season, Max Domi scored only nine goals, four of which went into an empty net. In 15 games this year for the Canadiens, Domi has nine goals, all of which have come against a goaltender.
  Domi’s impact has been stunning to say the least, as he’s been the driving force behind Montreal’s offensive resurgence.
  Last year, the Canadiens scored a paltry 1.96 goals per 60 minutes of ice time, good for 30th in the league — only the lowl
  
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• Plante 'proud' of city budget to be unveiled Thursday

  07-11-2018 20:40 via montrealgazette.com
  The municipal opposition is calling on the Valérie Plante administration to limit tax increases to one per cent in its 2019 budget, to be unveiled Thursday.
  “Montrealers especially do not want a repeat of last year’s fiasco, when the administration raised taxes by 3.3 per cent, breaking its promise not to raise them beyond the level of inflation,” Ensemble Montréal leader Lionel Perez said at a news conference on Wednesday.
  Plante has promised that that unlike las
  
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• Canadiens, like their goalies, are running hot and cold

  07-11-2018 20:22 via montrealgazette.com
  It would be foolish to suggest that the Canadiens have a goaltending controversy.
  Carey Price is No. 1 and, if the Canadiens hope to be a playoff contender this season, he has to play like a No. 1.
  Antti Niemi is a seasoned veteran who has proven his worth as a backup since the Canadiens claimed him on waivers a year ago. If Montreal is going to be a playoff contender, he has to be ready to answer the call when Price needs a break.
  Only one of the goaltenders got the job done on the Canadiens&rs
  
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• God help us, a forecast is warning of 14cm of snow in Montreal next week

  07-11-2018 20:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Winter is coming.
  That is not an overplayed Game of Thrones reference. It’s a reality of life in Montreal.
  And snow, the harbinger of winter, is on the way — at least if you’re following The Weather Network’s forecast. As of mid-day on Wednesday, it expected 5cm of snow next Tuesday and 1-3cm on each of next Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
  The worst case scenario in this forecast is 14 centimetres of snow. The best case scenario is that the forecast is wrong; it wouldn&rsq
  
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• C Series sale to Airbus was a "very good thing," CAQ economy minister says

  07-11-2018 19:43 via montrealgazette.com
  The sale of the Bombardier C Series jet program earlier this year to European giant Airbus was “a very good thing,” Quebec Economy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon said on Wednesday.
  Without paying a cent, Airbus was able to obtain 50.1 per cent of the C Series program, which cost $6 billion to develop.
  On Oct. 17, 2017 the day after the signing of an agreement in principal between the two companies, Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault denounced the deal, calling
  
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• Quebec restarts provincial bond sales as economy expected to slow

  07-11-2018 19:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec raised $500 million by tapping its existing 2.75-per-cent bond due in 2028 in the first sale of long-term debt by a Canadian province in two weeks.
  Canada’s second-most populous province sold the bonds at a relative yield of 59.5 basis points over federal government bonds, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s the lowest spread of the nine offerings of these bonds, which were first sold in April.
  This is the first sale of bonds by a Canadian province since Oct. 25, w
  
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• Montreal native Marc Dos Santos gets Vancouver Whitecaps coaching job

  07-11-2018 18:44 via montrealgazette.com
  VANCOUVER — Marc Dos Santos has been named the new coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps.
  The club announced Wednesday that the Montreal native has been hired as the team’s new head coach.
  Dos Santos spent the past season as an assistant coach for expansion Los Angeles FC, who were knocked out of the Major League Soccer playoffs by Real Salt Lake last week. His coaching career began with the Quebec Elite Soccer League’s Lac St. Louis Lakers in 2006, and he was head coach of the
  
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• Is the surplus really $3 billion? CAQ takes another look at the math

  07-11-2018 18:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Premier François Legault on Wednesday questioned whether the $3-billion surplus announced last week by his government is an accurate figure, and told reporters the government is reviewing its calculations.
  On Friday, provincial Finance Minister Éric Girard commented on the government’s monthly financial report, which indicated a $3-billion surplus had been accumulated between April and August. However, Legault was pouring cold water on the figure Wednesday, questioning
  
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• Martin Patriquin: My conversations with Bernard Landry

  07-11-2018 17:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Bernard Landry shouldn’t have cared a wink about me or what I wrote.
  Landry was a separatist politician who led the Parti Québécois from 2001 to 2005. I’m an anglophone journalist. We should have existed in that karmically challenged status quo bedevilling many English journalists and the politicians they cover: I would continue to write unsympathetic things about him, and he would continue to ignore me.
  But Landry, who died Tuesday at the age of 81, always called back.
  
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• Montreal will start following guidelines on how to display Quebec flag

  07-11-2018 17:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Beginning Nov. 19, the city of Montreal will adhere to provincial regulations concerning the presence and precedence of the Quebec flag displayed in or flying over municipal buildings.
  During a presentation Wednesday to the city’s executive committee by representatives of Montreal’s offices of protocol and government relations, it was announced that the Quebec flag, until now absent from Montreal’s city council chamber and from the Peter McGill room (where the executive committ
  
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• Spike Lee to speak at next year's C2 Montréal conference

  07-11-2018 16:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Filmmaker Spike Lee will be taking part in the 2019 C2 Montréal conference.
  In a statement, the C2 Montréal said Lee “will lead the discussion on racial inequalities and the creative storytelling behind his powerful films.”
  Lee is the first speaker to be announced for the eighth edition of the business conference, which will take place from May 22 to 24 and have the theme “tomorrow.”
  He last appeared in Montreal in September for the city’s Internationa
  
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• Is Old Port pyramid show just an excuse for Guy Laliberté to DJ here?

  07-11-2018 16:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Guy Laliberté doesn’t seem to worry much about the price of what he wants in life.
  He paid $41.8 million in 2009 to be blasted into outer space for a 12-day trip in a Russian rocket, though in the end he was reimbursed by the Cirque du Soleil for the trip. Laliberté is the founder of the world-famous Montreal-based circus and at the time of the space trip, he was the controlling shareholder of the Cirque du Soleil.
  In 2007, he bought the atoll of Nukutepipi in French Polynesi
  
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• Man shot at Little Italy restaurant is Montreal's 25th homicide

  07-11-2018 16:32 via montrealgazette.com
  A man in his 30s died early Wednesday after being shot Tuesday night in a restaurant in Montreal’s Little Italy district.
  Montreal police said Wednesday the victim, believed to be 35, has yet to be identified and died of his wounds overnight in hospital.
  The victim was shot at least once in the upper body while in Café Cubano on Beaubien St. E. near Casgrain Ave.
  At least one suspect is believed to have fled the scene in a getaway car parked in an alley.
  Police have erected a crime
  
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• Reminder: Weekend Turcot traffic agony to spill over into next week

  07-11-2018 16:00 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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• Update: Man shot at Little Italy restaurant is Montreal's 25th homicide

  07-11-2018 14:34 via montrealgazette.com
  A man in his 30s died early Wednesday after being shot Tuesday night in a restaurant in Montreal’s Little Italy district.
  Montreal police said Wednesday the victim, believed to be 35, has yet to be identified and died of his wounds overnight in hospital.
  The victim was shot at least once in the upper body while in Café Cubano on Beaubien St. E. near Casgrain Ave.
  At least one suspect is believed to have fled the scene in a getaway car parked in an alley.
  Police have erected a crime
  
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• While you were sleeping: Midterm results and stolen toilets

  07-11-2018 13:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were resting and/or watching election returns in a foreign nation.
  The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal was urged to tighten and expand its policy on workplace harassment. The recommendation was made by an independent expert tasked by the OSM’s executive committee with conducting an independent investigation into complaints of sexual harassment against Charles Dutoit. The OSM said it accepts the recommendation. But the invest
  
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• Dollard girl learns uncertainty, isolation as Helen Keller in Miracle Worker

  07-11-2018 12:55 via montrealgazette.com
  When Lakeshore Players Dorval announced the auditions for The Miracle Worker, the idea was to cast a teenager, 14 to 18 years old, as deaf and blind Helen Keller.
  But when director Donna Byrne saw 11-year-old Melia Cressaty’s audition for a smaller role as a blind child, she asked her to step into the role of Helen for a moment. It worked.
  “I was very nervous because I hadn’t prepared,” Cressaty said.
  Lakeshore Players Dorval launches its season with William Gibson’
  
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• Kramberger: Eyesore or necessary evil? Tempest over a Tempo ban

  07-11-2018 12:48 via montrealgazette.com
  A West Island divided: Allow temporary car shelters or not? This hot-bdfutton issue has been debated for many winters.
  The car shelter has been deemed an eyesore that ruins a neighbourhood’s residential character by the No camp, but there remain certain jurisdictions that do permit their use. These jurisdictions rule they are a necessary blot on the landscape that allows peace of mind to homeowners, since their use keeps driveways and vehicles clear of snow and ice.
  They are allowed in Dor
  
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• Pointe-Claire man to plead guilty to 2015 Port of Montreal silver heist

  07-11-2018 12:03 via montrealgazette.com
  A West Island resident is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday to playing a role in the theft of more than $10 million worth of silver ingots stolen from the Port of Montreal more than three years ago.
  On Oct. 24, Norberto Cordeiro, 52, a man who resides in an apartment building on Lakeshore Dr. overlooking Valois Bay in Pointe-Claire, announced his intention (through a lawyer representing him that day at the Montreal courthouse) to plead guilty to a charge or charges related to Project Silver,
  
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• Steampunk musical revue tells little-known story about a Townshipper

  07-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Fun fact. Townshipper Reginald Aubrey Fessenden invented the radio. Fessenden was born in Austin, in a portion of the Eastern Townships often referred to as the Lost Nation. It’s an isolated area where people speak with a distinct dialect.
  Back in the 1980s, playwright David Fennario discovered Fessenden’s accomplishment when he came across a plaque honouring the inventor during a walk in the Austin back woods. The discovery eventually resulted in a play called Fessenden Follies.
  Dir
  
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• Montrealers can expect decades of roadwork misery, 2016 report shows

  07-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealers might be thinking the roadwork torture they’re being subjected to will surely come to an end at some point. One day several years from now — poof — the number of construction zones and detours will diminish and most of the city’s streets will be as good as new, right?
  Wrong.
  A report produced by Montreal’s civil service in 2016 that has never been presented to the public reveals that even if the city immediately nearly tripled its total annual investment
  
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• Montreal weather: Warmer and windy

  07-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  First, the good news: there is only a 60-per cent chance of showers today, in the afternoon, and we might even get a peek at the sun.
  But it will be quite breezy, with a southwest wind of 50 km/h gusting to 70. The high is forecast to hit 11.
  Tonight: Cloudy periods with a low of plus 4 and wind gusting to 50.
  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
  
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• McGill student gives free workshops for opioid antidote naloxone

  07-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Richard Davy wants you to learn how to administer naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote. You, me, everyone.
  The first-year McGill social work undergrad is offering free clinics on how to use a naloxone kit, Wednesday at noon and next Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the McGill Social Work Student Association.
  Places are filling up fast, and if you doubt that knowing how to administer a naloxone injection is something you need to have in your back pocket (let alone the kit itself), Davy begs you to reconsi
  
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• Hudson health forum will help inform seniors, immigrants, parents

  07-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  An English health forum comes to the Stephen F. Shaar Community Centre in Hudson, Friday.
  There are two sessions at the community centre at 394 Main St. One session runs from 2 to 4:30 p.m. and the second session runs from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
  The event is organized by the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Community Health Network (REE V-S) along with the St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Patrick of the Island parishes.
  The first English off-island health forum organized by the groups was held in Pincourt in February.
  Fre
  
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• Choreographer creates a steampunk universe with custom-fit movements

  07-11-2018 11:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Even as a young child, dancer Kerwin Barrington was drawn more to choreographing for others than performing herself. Barrington is responsible for the moves in David Fennario’s steampunk revue Fessenden Follies, which has its world premiere at Hudson Village Theatre, Thursday.
  The Clock Master production is directed by Glen Robinson, with costumes by award-winning visual and texile artist Tina Struthers and original music by JP Vialard.
  Barrington, Robinson and Vialard joined forces from t
  
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• Library digs into the trenches for Canada’s last 100 days before Armistice

  07-11-2018 11:33 via montrealgazette.com
  On Sunday, Nov. 11, Canadians will observe the 100th anniversary of the Armistice, which marked the end of the Great War in 1918.
  West Island residents wishing to learn more about the bloody conflict that was the First World War and the sacrifices made by Canadian soldiers on the battlefields of Europe a century ago are invited to attend a special presentation Nov. 10 at 2 p.m., at the Dorval Library.
  Caitlin Bailey, curator for the Canadian Centre for the Great War, will present a bilingual lec
  
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• In the Habs' Room: 'I didn't make the saves at the end,' Carey Price says

  07-11-2018 05:42 via montrealgazette.com
  NEW YORK — Canadiens coach Claude Julien wasn’t about to throw goaltender Carey Price under the bus after the Canadiens dropped a 5-3 decision to the New York Rangers.
  “I’m not talking about any individual because, as a group, we weren’t very good so it was more than just one player,” Julien said when asked to assess the goaltender’s performance.
  But the goaltender, who gave up five goals on 32 shots, literally shouldered some of the blame for the loss i
  
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• About last night … Canadiens blow 3-1 lead, lose 5-3 to Rangers

  07-11-2018 04:29 via montrealgazette.com
  I guess we can chalk it up to fatigue.
  After beating the Islanders in a five-round Shootout Monday night, the Canadiens faced a rested Rangers team less than 24 hours later.
  And through 40 minutes, the team that should have been tired wasn’t.
  The Canadiens had 29 shots on Henrik Lundqvist and led 3-2.
  But they lost Joel Armia to injury. And with Claude Julien obliged to shorten his bench, the home team had an 8-5 shot advantage and scored three times during the game’s last 20 minutes
  
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• Tired-looking Canadiens squad squanders 3-1 lead in loss to Rangers

  07-11-2018 04:07 via montrealgazette.com
  NEW YORK — The Canadiens had a taste of what it feels like to squander a 3-1 lead as the New York Rangers rallied for a 5-3 victory Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. Neal Pionk scored at 17:16., while the teams were playing 4-on-4 and any chance of a miracle comeback by the Canadiens ended 56 seconds later when Mika Zibanejad added an insurance goal.
  Twenty-four hours after they rallied from a 3-1 deficit to defeat the New York Islanders 4-3 in a shootout, fatigue appeared to catch u
  
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• Liveblog: Rangers beat Canadiens 5-3

  07-11-2018 03:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Two late goals sealed the deal. Neal Pionk went ended to end to give the home team the lead, then Mika Zibanejad scored an insurance goal.
  Pavel Buchnevich tied the game 3-3 8:25 into the third period.
  Tony DeAngelo’s power-play goal had made it 3-2 late in the second.
  Tomas Tatar gave the Canadiens the lead 4:40 into the second period. And less than two minutes later, Max Domi’s power-play goal made it 3-1.
  It took all of 23 seconds for Tatar to beat Henrik Lundqvist when the g
  
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• Interim police chief Martin Prud'homme hails improved climate at SPVM

  07-11-2018 03:42 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s been a long, intense year for interim Montreal police chief Martin Prud’homme, and it’s not over yet.
  Prud’homme, director of the Sûreté du Québec, took over the Montreal force temporarily last December after a devastating report into conditions there. His mandate ends at the end of December, when he will return to the SQ.
  On Tuesday, Prud’homme’s final report was made public, including recommendations on his successor at the Serv
  
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• #ICYMI: Bernard Landry, Charles Dutoit, more news

  07-11-2018 02:11 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  Former Quebec premier Bernard Landry died Tuesday at the age of 81. We have two reports, both by Philip Authier.
  Obituary: Former Quebec premier, PQ leader Bernard Landry has died at 81
  Bernard Landry to be honoured with state funeral
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  An internal investigation opened at the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal regarding two complaints of sexual harassment against Charles D
  
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• Montreal will have a new police chief by December, says Mayor Plante

  07-11-2018 01:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal will have a new police chief by the end of the month, Mayor Valérie Plante said Tuesday.
  Plante made the announcement at a press conference at city hall where she endorsed a newly released report by interim police chief Martin Prud’homme on his efforts to reform the troubled force, raise morale and improve its image.
  The new chief will be one of two candidates recommended by Prud’homme, who was seconded from his usual job as director of the Sûreté du Qu&e
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens 1 – Rangers 1 after one

  07-11-2018 01:49 via montrealgazette.com
  It took all of 23 seconds for Tomas Tatar to beat Henrik Lundqvist.
  But first-period momentum shifted, and Carey Price made a spectacular save on Jimmy Vesey halfway through the period.
  Then 16 minutes in, Jonathan Drouin turned the puck over in the neutral zone and it became a Chris Kreider goal.
  The Canadiens had two power-plays, the second of which was dangerous.
  Shots were 17-11 Canadiens.
  
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• Bernard Landry to be honoured with state funeral

  07-11-2018 01:48 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — As tributes poured in Tuesday, Premier François Legault announced former premier Bernard Landry will be honoured with a full state funeral.
  Emerging from his office to comment on the death of Landry, Legault said he had spoken to Landry’s widow, Chantal Renaud, and offered the state funeral.
  Renaud accepted.
  Clearly moved, Legault added his own tribute to Landry, who was his boss when he was a Parti Québécois minister in Landry’s cabinet. Quebec&rs
  
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• Probe into sexual harassment allegations against Dutoit inconclusive: OSM

  07-11-2018 00:18 via montrealgazette.com
  An internal investigation opened at the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal regarding two complaints of sexual harassment against Charles Dutoit has ended inconclusively.
  The OSM’s executive committee ordered an independent investigation last December after receiving a complaint against Dutoit, who was the orchestra’s artistic director from 1977 to 2002.
  During the investigation, the independent expert looked into two complaints.
  But after communica
  
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