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• Stu Cowan: Former Canadien Steve Bégin gets his high school degree

  08-11-2018 23:27 via montrealgazette.com
  When it comes to NHL players, Steve Bégin was as tough as they come. But on Thursday morning, the former Canadien was having a hard time holding back his tears.
  The reason: he finally received his high school graduation diploma at age 40.
  “I was a little emotional,” Bégin said following the official presentation from Quebec Minister of Education Jean-François Roberge at the Bell Centre’s Restaurant 9-4-10. “I’m always like this. There&
  
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• Montreal police seek help to ID body found in St-Lawrence River

  08-11-2018 22:11 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal police are trying to identify a man found dead in the St-Lawrence River, near Pointe-aux-Trembles, in late May.
  Police say the man was believed to be between 20 and 40 years old, around 200 pounds and six feet tall. 
  He had long black hair, but bald on top. He had a moustache, short beard, an earring in his left ear and wore a bracelet branded with the website underdoggers.com.
  He was wearing a T-shirt bearing an image of the Mona Lisa, and had a&n
  
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• Five things to do in Montreal area this weekend, Nov. 9-11

  08-11-2018 22:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Young the Giant
  The alternative rockers perform at Mtelus Friday at 8 p.m. Opening act: Lights.
  Blake Pouliot Plays the Sibelius Concerto
  Canadian violinist Blake Pouliot performs the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal at Maison Symphonique on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Bruckner’s Third Symphony completes the program. David Afkham conducts.
  Das Rheingold
  Opéra de Montréal performs Wagner’s masterful work, “
  
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• Montreal budget highlights: Taxes are going up, but not as much as you feared

  08-11-2018 20:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal property taxes are going up next year, though not by as much as last time.
  Most businesses will see a drop in taxes thanks to a change in how non-residential building owners are charged.
  And more money is being poured into repairs to roads and water infrastructure.
  “This budget will make a difference in the lives of our citizens today and for the generations to come,” Mayor Valérie Plante said as she unveiled Montreal’s $5.7-billion budget for 2019 on Thurs
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Paul Byron now listed as week-to-week

  08-11-2018 20:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens Game Day is a new feature this season in which we will follow the Habs during every home game from the morning skate in Brossard through the post-game interviews at the Bell Centre, updating throughout the day with all the news, quotes, notes and opinion you’re looking for:
  Canadiens forward Paul Byron, who has missed the last four games with a lower-body injury, is now listed as week-to-week by the team and has been placed on the injured-reserve list.
  The Canadiens also announce
  
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• Update: We’ll help laid off Bombardier workers find jobs, Legault says

  08-11-2018 20:09 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — News that Bombardier is slashing 5,000 jobs — including 2,500 in Quebec — as part of a restructuring plan landed with a thud Thursday, sparking anger from workers and calls for action by opposition politicians.
  Arriving for a meeting with Saguenay Mayor Josée Néron, Quebec Premier François Legault said he has spoken to both the president of Bombardier and the head of the union.
  “It’s a sad day but I assured both we will do everything po
  
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• N.D.G. woman to be charged in theft from Montreal Canadiens' group

  08-11-2018 20:06 via montrealgazette.com
  A 27-year-old Notre-Dame-de-Grâce resident is scheduled to make her first appearance at the Montreal courthouse next week on a charge alleging she stole a large sum of money from the company that owns the Montreal Canadiens.
  The accused, who does not have a criminal record, is alleged to have stolen “more than $5,000” from l’Aréna des Canadiens on April 8, the day after the Canadiens finished their regular season at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto against the Mapl
  
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• Nunavik crisis: 124 people have died by suicide since 2010

  08-11-2018 19:24 via montrealgazette.com
  At least 124 people in Nunavik have taken their lives in the past nine years.
  The latest numbers on northern suicide, provided by the Quebec coroner, point to a longstanding crisis that appears to be getting worse.
  The region went from having 13 suicide deaths per year, in 2015, to 16 the following year and 22 in 2017.
  Roughly one in 100 people in Quebec’s North are taking their own lives — a statistic that doesn’t include suicide attempts or self-harming behaviour.
  If tha
  
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• Social Notes: Costumed for CURE Foundation fundraiser

  08-11-2018 19:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Ever since childhood, I’ve had a major thing for dressing up, which naturally leads to a predilection for Halloween. So you can imagine the annual exhilaration when all that costume charisma is harnessed by esteemed evenings like the inaugural Costumes for CURE Icon Event at Espace 3550, benefiting the CURE Foundation’s fight against breast cancer.For your dressed-up, glammed-up pleasure, voilà — the reveal of this new dazzler on the masked fall lineup.The
  
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• The Great War as it really looked: colour photos bring past to life

  08-11-2018 19:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Memorizing In Flanders Fields as a student, and keeping that memory alive into adulthood, is one thing; knowing that the Montreal Canadiens’ unofficial motto (“To you from failing hands we throw the torch …”) is from John McRae’s iconic poem will get you bonus points. Wearing a poppy pin for a couple of weeks every November can only be good. But at a time when technology and social media have us all living in a perpetual present tense, a little more is needed to ke
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: It's time to install those winter tires

  08-11-2018 19:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s a four-letter word that makes many people cringe. With the trees shedding their leaves, pumpkin-spice everything at your local coffee shop and the cooler weather settling in, it’s only a matter of time before the snow hits. According to meteorologists’ reports, the snow is supposed to begin as of next week, and there is no telling how many snowstorms we may see between now and Dec. 15, the deadline for the installation of winter tires.
  If you’ve already lived th
  
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• Opinion: Canadian veterans' homelessness is solvable

  08-11-2018 18:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Every November, poppies appear on lapels across the city as we remember the men and women of the Canadian military killed in conflicts around the world, as well as those who have served and continue to serve. Of those fortunate enough to return to civilian life, some transitioned with ease, and others with difficulty.
  Among those who struggled include veterans who have ended up on the street. We don’t think we need to underscore just how unacceptable it is that those who were ready to lay
  
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• Update: Bombardier employees frustrated by lack of information on layoffs

  08-11-2018 18:12 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — News that Bombardier is slashing 5,000 jobs — including 2,500 in Quebec — as part of a restructuring plan landed with a thud Thursday, sparking anger from workers and calls for action by opposition politicians.
  The head of the Unifor union representing 1,900 workers at the Bombardier completion centre in Montreal — where they work on the Global series of planes — says the layoffs represent a worrisome sign for the overall outlook of the aircraft industry.
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• Get real: 11 essential events at Montreal documentary fest RIDM

  08-11-2018 18:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Documentary cinema is alive and well in Quebec, as evidenced by the 157 films in the 21st Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM), which takes place from Thursday, Nov. 8 through Sunday, Nov. 18.
  Of those, 50 — nearly a third — are by Quebec directors; and 81 — over half — are directed by women, making RIDM one of our city’s most gender-equitable film festivals.
  Far from the stuffy, talking-head stereotype of documentaries of old, today&
  
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• Hotel Intel: Wild Women Expeditions helps you conquer the wilderness

  08-11-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Strong women wanted.
  Wild Women Expeditions will take you where you have never gone, or even imagined going.
  The travel company organizes 200 complex, challenging excursions — guided by women, for women — in nearly 30 countries, from Canada to Chile and Iceland to Indonesia.
  “Empowering women doesn’t only refer to the #MeToo movement,” said Jennifer Haddow, Wild Women Expeditions’ owner and director.
  “Conquering the wilderness helps w
  
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• Perjury, obstructing justice charges dropped against Montreal police officer

  08-11-2018 17:56 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal police officer accused of committing perjury and obstructing justice in a high-profile case brought against him and his partner saw the charges filed against him dropped this week.
  David Chartrand, 39, had been a member of the Montreal police for 11 years when he was arrested in July 2016 with his partner Fayçal Djelidi, 41. The case made headlines because both men were part of a squad that investigated street gangs and had access to police informants.
  The investigation that pr
  
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• La Presse seeks to eliminate 37 jobs through voluntary resignations

  08-11-2018 17:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Unionized employees of La Presse met Thursday morning at the Palais des Congrès after receiving a summons from their employer, and learned their company wants to eliminate 37 jobs through voluntary resignations.
  The job cuts are aimed at reducing labour costs and were announced as contract negotiations continue between La Presse, which earlier this year transformed itself into a non-profit organization, and its unionized personnel.
  La Presse employs about 230 editorial employees out of a
  
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• STM budget: More frequent bus, métro service promised

  08-11-2018 17:36 via montrealgazette.com
  The Société de transport de Montréal is promising more frequent service for buses and métros next year.
  In its $1.46-billion budget unveiled Thursday, the STM commits to increasing service on the Orange and Green métro lines, reducing wait times to five minutes at most on weekdays.
  Métro wait times will be reduced further during morning and evening peak periods.
  The changes represent a 2.2-per-cent increase in service over 2018, the STM says.
  The agency
  
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• Update: Firefighters free workers dangling from Côte-St-Luc high-rise

  08-11-2018 16:44 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal fire department’s specialized rescue team has rescued a pair of workers who were left dangling 20-storeys from the ground Thursday morning after the scaffold they were working on partially collapsed.
  The incident occurred at about 8:15 a.m. at a high-rise at 5470 Cavendish Blvd. near Kildare Rd.
  After two hours, the workers, who were not injured, were taken to hospital as a precaution.
  The rescue forced traffic to be re-routed around the site, and Cavendish Blvd. southbou
  
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• Montreal budget: More than 22,800 small businesses to get a tax break

  08-11-2018 16:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Small businesses will get a break this year, the city of Montreal said as it introduced a progressive property tax system for non-residential properties that will effectively reduce rates on non-residential properties with evaluations below $3 million.
  The new system, introduced in the municipal budget on Thursday, will reduce property taxes on the first $500,000 of a building’s evaluation by an average of 9.9 per cent.
  This will reduce property taxes for just over 22,800 small busine
  
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• Montreal budget: Taxes are going up, but not as much as you feared

  08-11-2018 16:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal property taxes are going up next year, though not by as much as last time.
  Most businesses will see a drop in taxes thanks to a change in how non-residential building owners are charged.
  And more money is being poured into repairs to roads and water infrastructure.
  “This budget will make a difference in the lives of our citizens today and for the generations to come,” Mayor Valérie Plante said as she unveiled Montreal’s $5.7-billion budget for 2019 on Thurs
  
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• ‘Une catastrophe’: Bombardier layoff bombshell sparks anger, calls for action

  08-11-2018 16:30 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — News that Bombardier is slashing 5,000 jobs — including 2,500 in Quebec — as part of a restructuring plan landed with a thud Thursday, sparking anger from workers and calls for action by opposition politicians.
  Up first was interim Parti Québécois leader Pascal Bérubé, who immediately called on Premier François Legault to haul in Bombardier’s leaders to explain themselves.
  He also said Bombardier’s leaders should “wi
  
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• Kotkaniemi and Canadiens electrify the Bell Centre | HI/O Show

  08-11-2018 15:52 via montrealgazette.com
  On this week’s show, our panelists — Gazette sports columnists Stu Cowan, CBC Daybreak’s Jessica Rusnak, former Canadien Chris Nilan and host Adam Susser — reflect on the Habs’ fun start to the season.
  They weigh in on these topics:Habs’ young guns get fans on their feet
  Carey Price’s inconsistent play sounds alarm
  Max Domi thriving in Montreal spotlight
  Nikita Scherbak playing his way out of town
  Jesperi Kotkaniemi gains valuable experienceRelated
  
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• West Island man in Project Silver pleads guilty, will have no criminal record

  08-11-2018 15:07 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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• One senior dead, another seriously injured in two accidents in Laval

  08-11-2018 13:55 via montrealgazette.com
  A woman died and a man was seriously injured after they were struck by cars in two separate incidents in Laval late Wednesday afternoon.
  A 73-year-old woman crossing Favreau St. was struck by a car around 5:45 p.m. She sustained serious head injuries and was later declared dead in hospital. About 15 minutes earlier, a 66-year-old man was seriously injured after he was struck by a car while crossing the intersection of Lévesque Blvd. and Montée Saint-François in the Saint-Vin
  
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• Stars Above: A view of the galaxy's crown jewel, Saturn

  08-11-2018 13:43 via montrealgazette.com
  As chilly weather really get underway skywatchers can hunt down a giant asteroid and gaze at a double stream of bright meteors pulled apart by Jupiter’s massive gravitational field.
  Starting in the later half of the first week of November start looking for a trickle of shooting stars originating from the South Taurid Meteor Shower that runs through Nov. 12. The individual streaks of light appear to radiate out from the shower’s namesake constellation Taurus-the bull, which will be ri
  
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• While you were sleeping: Why is there an alligator in this hot tub?

  08-11-2018 13:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were having nightmares about snow.
  Police on Montreal’s South Shore are warning parents about a sexual extortion scheme targeting teenagers on Instagram and luring them using the popular game Fortnite as bait. Police with the Régie intermunicipale de police Richelieu St-Laurent say they’re investigating four cases in which teenage boys have been extorted through the same scheme in the last couple of weeks. According
  
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• Trucker in Project Silver pleads guilty, will have no criminal record

  08-11-2018 13:28 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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• West Island Mission needs gifts and volunteers for new initiative

  08-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The West Island Mission is looking for volunteers and gifts for a new initiative being launched next month.
  By appointment, parents registered with the food bank are invited to come to the facility and choose a gift for their child or children, Dec. 1.
  In the past, a wrapped gift for each child was placed in the Christmas hamper. But this year, the annual Christmas hamper distribution takes place separately, on Dec. 8.
  After selecting the gift(s), parents may wrap their selections or have them w
  
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• Montreal weather: A mixed bag again

  08-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  We seem to be in for a little of everything today, except snow.
  Environment Canada is calling for sun in the morning followed by a mix of sun and cloud with a 30-per-cent chance of showers in the afternoon. Wind southwest 20 km/h gusting to 40. High 7. UV index 2 or low.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy with a 30-per-cent chance of showers early in the evening. Clearing late in the evening. Wind southwest 20 km/h becoming light in the evening. Low minus 1.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montr
  
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• Montreal spends more on roads than rest of Canada, with worse results

  08-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It is not only an impression that Montreal roads are in worse shape than elsewhere.
  New data confirm the condition of the city’s streets is worse than in other places in Canada.
  It also shows that Montreal spends more than double, and even triple, what is spent on roads elsewhere in the country — despite having poorer results to show for the investment.
  The trend isn’t a new one, but it was confirmed once again in the 2017 figures released last week by Municipal Benchmarking Ne
  
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• 'It's been an honour': Landmark Chinese restaurant L'Orchidée to close

  08-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Those Montrealers of a certain age still fondly recall Ruby Foo’s, a classic Chinese restaurant, one of the go-to city spots of its epoch, located not in the heart of Chinatown or even downtown, but on a not terribly exotic stretch of Décarie Blvd., not far from other popular eateries of the day like Miss Montreal and Piazza Tomasso.
  Though the uber-posh Ruby Foo’s has been closed for 34 years, its faithful diners continued to fantasize and rhapsodize about, among other deligh
  
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• Hanes: Surviving Kristallnacht, WWII with hope that history won't repeat

  08-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Willie Glaser apologized for not wearing his military uniform with all his medals.
  He’d given a talk to high school students the previous day, he explained, and took it to the dry cleaners to ensure it will be pressed and ready in time for Remembrance Day commemorations this weekend.
  Glaser is a veteran of the Second World War. Now 97, he is typically in demand as a speaker this time of year. But it’s the events he witnessed before he became a soldier that resonate on this sombre occ
  
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• Buffalo Sabres at Canadiens: Five things you should know

  08-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Canadiens-Sabres game Thursday at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio):
  The matchup: This is the second meeting between these teams this season and the Canadiens will be looking to avenge a 4-3 loss in Buffalo on Oct. 25. The Canadiens are coming off a 5-3 loss to the Rangers Tuesday in New York that dropped their record to 8-5-2. Montreal hasn’t lost back-to-back games this season and they’re hoping to keep that streak
  
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• Stars Above: Asteroid and meteor encounters

  08-11-2018 11:30 via montrealgazette.com
  As chilly weather really get underway skywatchers can hunt down a giant asteroid and gaze at a double stream of bright meteors pulled apart by Jupiter’s massive gravitational field.
  Starting in the later half of the first week of November start looking for a trickle of shooting stars originating from the South Taurid Meteor Shower that runs through Nov. 12. The individual streaks of light appear to radiate out from the shower’s namesake constellation Taurus-the bull, which will be ri
  
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• South Shore police warn of Instagram, Fortnite sexual extortion scheme

  08-11-2018 03:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Police on Montreal’s South Shore are warning parents about a sexual extortion scheme targeting teenagers on Instagram and luring them by using popular online game Fortnite as bait.
  Police with the Régie intermunicipale de police Richelieu St-Laurent, which serves 17 municipalities on the South Shore, say they’re investigating four cases in which teenage boys have been extorted through the same scheme in the last couple of weeks.
  According to Sgt. Jean-Luc Trembl
  
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• #ICYMI: Landry funeral, bike lights, new top cop, more news

  08-11-2018 02:39 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.Regular folks and a political who’s who are expected to pack the state funeral for former Quebec premier Bernard Landry on Tuesday in Montreal.
  Philip Authier files this report: State funeral for Bernard Landry at Notre-Dame Basilica on Tuesday
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  Montreal police started issuing $127 tickets to cyclists who did not have lights affixed to their bicycles, front and back, this week.
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• God help us, forecast is warning of up to 14cm of snow in Montreal next week

  08-11-2018 02:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Don’t let Wednesday’s warm temperatures and brief sunny periods fool you; it really is time to dig out the woollies and winter boots.
  Environment Canada is predicting sinking temperatures over the next week, with snow on the weekend for parts of the province and flurries in Montreal by Tuesday.
  “Today it (went) up to 12 degrees and that probably is the warmest we are going to see in the next week at least,” said Peter Kimbell, Warning Preparedness Meteorologist with the M
  
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• Little Italy homicide victim recently served sentence for drug conviction

  08-11-2018 02:14 via montrealgazette.com
  The man who was gunned down inside a restaurant in Little Italy Tuesday night had recently completed a sentence for his role in a plot to smuggle a large amount of cocaine into Canada.
  Two sources familiar with the investigation have confirmed reports that it was Philipos Kollaros, 38, who was shot while inside Café Cubano, a restaurant on Beaubien St. E. near the corner of Casgrain Ave. At least one suspect is believed to have fled the scene in a getaway car parked in an alley.
  The
  
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• Framestore's visual effects won an Oscar, built a Montreal home base

  08-11-2018 02:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s booming visual-effects industry attracts talent from all over the world. But it also gave one visual-effects producer the chance to return to her hometown to work in the business she loves.
  Chloe Grysole, who grew up in St-Lambert on the South Shore, moved to London in 2008 to pursue her career in the special-effects biz, plying her high-tech trade on movies like the Harry Potter flicks and Skyfall. Then she returned to Montreal in 2013 to work as senior visual-effects producer
  
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• State funeral for Bernard Landry at Notre-Dame Basilica on Tuesday

  08-11-2018 02:09 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Regular folks and a political who’s who are expected to pack the state funeral for former Quebec premier Bernard Landry on Tuesday in Montreal.
  One day after Landry died at age 81 at his home in Verchères, the government confirmed the details of his state funeral in a statement.
  As per the tradition, Landry’s body will lie in state in the Red Room of the National Assembly Saturday, Nov. 10 with the public invited to pay their respects from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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• Liberals accuse Legault of creating confusion about Quebec's surplus

  08-11-2018 01:47 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The provincial Liberals accused Premier François Legault on Wednesday of deliberately creating confusion about the province’s financial surplus by questioning his own government’s numbers.
  An hour after Legault let it be known he’s not sure the province’s surplus is actually $3 billion as stated Friday by his finance minister, the Liberals lashed out.
  They accused Legault of cooking up a story, possibly as a way of skipping out on some of his more ex
  
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• It's coming: Temperatures to drop over the next week, snow on the way

  08-11-2018 00:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Don’t let Wednesday’s warm temperatures and brief sunny periods fool you; it really is time to dig out the woollies and winter boots.
  Environment Canada is predicting sinking temperatures over the next week, with snow on the weekend for parts of the province and flurries in Montreal by Tuesday.
  “Today it (went) up to 12 degrees and that probably is the warmest we are going to see in the next week at least,” said Peter Kimbell, Warning Preparedness Meteorologist with the M
  
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• Sylvain Caron chosen as new Montreal police chief

  08-11-2018 00:33 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal has chosen its new police chief.
  Sylvain Caron, the former assistant director of the Sûreté du Québec, has been chosen by the selection committee in charge of finding a replacement for interim chief Martin Prud’homme.
  The announcement came less than 24 hours after the provincial government released Prud’homme’s report on his efforts to reform the troubled force and improve its image.
  Prud’homme, who warned that
  
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