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• New configuration for reserved lane leading to Champlain Bridge

  12-11-2018 23:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Monday was the first day that car traffic was reduced to one lane over the span of one kilometre on the Champlain Bridge-bound Bonaventure Expressway, because the lanes are being reconfigured.
  As part of the project to build the new Champlain Bridge, the reserved lane for buses heading toward the bridge will be on the left lane of the Bonaventure, leaving drivers with just one lane in between exits 3 and 4.
  This new configuration will be in place from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. during rush hours. Dr
  
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• Body found in Rivière-des-Prairies after screams prompt search

  12-11-2018 23:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Rescuers retrieved the body of a woman on Monday afternoon after searching for her since the morning in the Rivière des Prairies along the Montreal North borough.
  Residents on Gouin Blvd. near Sir Wilfrid Laurier Ave. reported hearing a woman’s screams coming from the waterway.
  Firefighters deployed their nautical rescue team and Montreal police joined the effort.
  
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• Victim dies a month after attack; homicide charges expected

  12-11-2018 23:39 via montrealgazette.com
  A coroner has determined that an 80-year-old man who died on Friday did so as a result of the injuries he suffered when he was attacked more than a month ago in the Ville-Marie borough.
  Montreal police spokesperson Andrée-Anne Picard said homicide investigators will meet with prosecutors to determine what should happen to the charges Jean Bourbonnais, 41, already faces in the Oct. 10 attack on Rainer Franz. The elderly man was found lying on a sidewalk on Hope Ave., near Hector (Toe) Blak
  
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• Lachine man charged with threatening a Journal de Montréal reporter

  12-11-2018 23:07 via montrealgazette.com
  A 22-year-old Lachine man has been charged with uttering threats at a Journal de Montréal reporter to prevent him from reporting on his court case.
  Jessy Dylan Lapointe, who’s being held at the Montreal Detention Centre, made a brief appearance via video linkup before Quebec Court Judge Sonia Mastro Matteo at the Montreal courthouse on Monday.
  The accused is already serving a sentence he received in October after he pleaded guilty to three charges involving two young women and a min
  
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• Accused in Kirkland shooting to undergo further psychiatric evaluation

  12-11-2018 22:37 via montrealgazette.com
  A West Island man who was charged after his five-year-old son and father-in-law were shot in a Kirkland home last Friday has been ordered detained at the Philippe-Pinel Institute where he is to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
  Quebec Court Judge Marie-Josée Di Lallo issued the order Monday as the 36-year-old Dollard-des-Ormeaux resident made a brief appearance at the Montreal courthouse.
  The man, who has two sons, is accused of trying to kill both. He faces six charges in all: two counts
  
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• Ensemble Montréal wants to ban applause at city council meetings

  12-11-2018 22:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Banning clapping in city council would create a more respectful atmosphere and save more time for the important business at hand, the municipal opposition argues.
  The Ensemble Montréal party is hoping the city of Montreal will follow the Quebec National Assembly’s lead by banning applause during council meetings.
  Ending “the use of applause to demonstrate support or disapproval during question periods would decrease partisanship, eliminate any perception of antagonism bet
  
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• Montrealer Alyson Charles wins World Cup gold in 1,000 metres

  12-11-2018 22:02 via montrealgazette.com
  SALT LAKE CITY — Montreal’s Alyson Charles won the first gold medal of her career in the women’s 1,000 metres on Sunday at a World Cup speedskating event.
  She found the top of the podium after skating through the morning repechage rounds, earning first-place performances in all five of her races in the distance.
  “Winning a gold medal in my second World Cup is really incredible and far above my expectations for myself,” Charles said.
  “At the start of the season
  
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• Update: Order for Azur métro cars won’t prevent Bombardier layoffs

  12-11-2018 20:41 via montrealgazette.com
  A $448-million order by Montreal’s transport agency for more Azur métro cars from a Bombardier-Alstom consortium won’t save at least 100 Bombardier Inc. workers from layoffs.
  The fate of the plant in La Pocatière, which houses the company’s railway division, had been uncertain since the loss of a lucrative Montreal electric train contract and a lack of orders.
  The fresh deal announced Monday for 153 rail cars follows Bombardier’s announcement of company-wide
  
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• Watch: How to combat opioid overdoses with naloxone

  12-11-2018 20:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Naloxone is an antidote to opioid overdoses.
  It’s something McGill social work student Richard Davy thinks everyone should know how to administer. He’s been offering free clinics to that effect at the McGill Social Work Student Association.
  In this video, he goes through the basics of what to do if you encounter someone experiencing an opioid overdose.
  And if you don’t think that could happen to you, Davy urges you to think again.
  “We all live in the greater Montreal area
  
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• Repairs to force partial shutdown of southbound Highway 13 this weekend

  12-11-2018 20:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Repairs and maintenance to overpasses on Highway 13 that span Highway 40 and St-François Rd. have forced some road closures in the area beginning this Friday night.
  Beginning at 10 p.m. Friday and continuing until 10 a.m. Saturday, southbound Highway 13 will be completely closed to traffic between Exit 6 (A-40 / Québec / Ottawa / Gatineau) and the access ramp from eastbound Highway 40.
  The ramp from westbound Highway 40 toward southbound Highway 13 will also be
  
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• Sun Life Building offering free weekend tours as part of its centennial

  12-11-2018 20:20 via montrealgazette.com
  To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Sun Life Building in Montreal, Sun Life Financial is inviting the public to participate in free tours of the building on the weekends of Nov. 24-25 and Dec. 1-2.
  Heritage Montreal guides will take visitors on tours highlighting the building’s unique architectural features and lesser-known historical facts behind the Quebec heritage treasure.
  The tours are being offered free of charge, by reservation only, and space is
  
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• What the Puck: Max Pacioretty's return to Montreal reopens trade wound

  12-11-2018 19:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Max Pacioretty returned to town during the weekend and re-ignited the controversy over his departure from Montreal.
  You can be forgiven for missing this given that Habs talk was dominated by all of the chatter around their US$84-million goaltender and the team’s decision to sit him to give him time to work on his issues “upstairs.” More on that later.
  The former Canadiens captain had a decent night in his first game as a Vegas Golden Knight at the Bell Centre, with a game-high
  
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• McGill Redmen: Tensions mount as students vote on controversial name

  12-11-2018 19:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Even if students vote Monday to keep McGill University’s controversial team nickname, the campaign to change it will rage on.
  Tomas Jirousek is a student athlete leading the fight to change the McGill Redmen’s name because he says that, throughout the university’s history, it’s been used to dehumanize Indigenous people.
  Whether or not his side prevails in a campus-wide referendum to change the name Monday, he says the fight goes well beyond McGill’s boundaries.
  
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• Lise Ravary: Denise Bombardier is one tough cookie

  12-11-2018 19:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Last week, I said I was going to write about Quebec journalist and author Denise Bombardier. Promise made, promise kept.
  Who doesn’t know that she’s one of Quebec’s most fearless freethinkers, an intellectual powerhouse, a bestselling author as well as a pop-culture icon? An intellectual version of Barbara Walters.
  Her autobiography, Une vie sans peur et sans regret, which came out on Oct. 22 is already on its third printing. More than a personal memoir, it’s a histo
  
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• The mayhem that wasn’t: Commuters heed warnings to avoid Turcot

  12-11-2018 19:29 via montrealgazette.com
  It was even a surprise to Quebec’s Transport Ministry that so many motorists seemed to heed the warnings of gridlock and stayed off the roads.
  Transport Quebec spokesperson Martin Girard said the department saw nothing remotely close to the eight kilometres of gridlock its traffic-prediction models had forecast. In some parts of the city, traffic was even lighter than normal for a Monday morning rush hour.
  “It’s certainly not within the worst scenarios that we anticipated,&rdqu
  
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• Joe Beef guides us through the apocalypse with a cookbook, and much more

  12-11-2018 19:24 via montrealgazette.com
  There’s a recipe named for Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the new Joe Beef cookbook, accompanied by a story from co-author David McMillan about how a compliment from Canada’s 15th prime minister — yes, Justin’s father — on a dish he’d prepared made him realize that cooking was the path for him.
  Another story, this one in the introduction to a recipe for a buttered turnip soup, describes a seemingly telepathic connection between McMillan and Frédéric M
  
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• Opinion: Let's get with the times on medical communications technology

  12-11-2018 19:19 via montrealgazette.com
  The principal method of communication between doctors in Quebec is still the fax machine. Quebec is years behind other provinces in deploying health-care technology. We also still use pagers and paper in the digital, mobile age.
  When I started working as a doctor in Quebec, just under a decade ago, we were still faxing requests to pharmacists for patients’ medication lists. If you were working in the emergency department, you had to hope that the patient having a heart attack had the
  
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• ‘A sense of life’: Montrealers pay respects to ex-premier Bernard Landry

  12-11-2018 18:34 via montrealgazette.com
  The tributes to former Quebec premier Bernard Landry shifted to Montreal Monday with his body lying in state at Notre Dame Basilica.
  Landry’s flag-draped casket was carried into the Old Montreal church by a Sûreté du Québec honour guard shortly after 8 a.m.
  At 10 a.m. the doors swung open to members of the public to pay their respects. They have until 6 p.m. Monday to do. Landry’s state funeral will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the same location.
  By 10:30 a.m. a small
  
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• Typical Quebec cannabis users are young men, survey suggests

  12-11-2018 17:54 via montrealgazette.com
  It is an amendment to the federal cannabis law that has been sought by medical organizations in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada. But a decision by the Legault government to increase the minimum age for legal cannabis consumption to 21 from 18 could also blow a major hole through Quebec’s legal cannabis market, a survey by Quebec’s Institut de statistique suggests.
  The survey, conducted before cannabis legalization between March and June 2018, polled 10,000 respondents aged 15 and
  
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• Adele Sorella pleads not guilty to killing daughters as Laval trial begins

  12-11-2018 17:15 via montrealgazette.com
  LAVAL — Adele Sorella stood before the jury and, in a faint voice, pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the 2009 deaths of her daughters.
  With that, Sorella’s trial began Monday morning at the Laval courthouse.
  Sorella’s two daughters, 8-year-old Sabrina and Amanda, 9, were found dead on March 31, 2009.
  In her opening instructions, Superior Court Justice Sophie Bourque reminded the six women and six men of the jury of the important task ahea
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: Morgh ba Zardchoobeh is 'everyday turmeric chicken'

  12-11-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  How to give a lift to simple, familiar foods could be the title of Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and Stories, by Los Angeles food blogger Naz Deravian (Flatiron/Raincoast, $45).
  The author left Iran at age 8, returns each summer to Vancouver where she grew up, but has never forgotten her heritage of lively, spiced food and happy times in the kitchen. Morgh ba Zardchoobeh or as she refers to it, “everyday turmeric chicken,” uses “the workhorse of our spice cabinet.” I
  
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• Quebec will help match ex-Bombardier workers with aerospace openings

  12-11-2018 16:49 via montrealgazette.com
  The provincial government will work with Bombardier to help the 2,500 Quebecers the company plans to lay off find new jobs in the aerospace industry, Economy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon said on Monday morning.
  Bombardier will provide the government with detailed information about the affected workers and the government will use that information to work with other aerospace companies to match workers with open positions or access existing and training programs, Fitzgibbon said.
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• Updates and traffic hacks for getting around Montreal during Turcot chaos

  12-11-2018 15:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Perhaps the message got through.
  After a week-long publicity campaign that depicted in frightening detail the number of road closures and detours caused by the shutdown of the Turcot interchange, Monday morning traffic on Montreal’s road network was surprisingly light.
  A rush hour ban on truck traffic on Highway 20 between the Turcot and St. Pierre interchanges may have contributed to the situation — with vehicles with more than three axles ordered off the thoroughfare from 5 a.m. to
  
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• Police investigate after body discovered in Nuns' Island woods

  12-11-2018 14:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police have been deployed and a crime scene set up after a body was discovered early Monday in a wooded area near De Gaspé St. in Nuns’ Island.
  The body was found at 7:10 a.m. and police had few details on the deceased. It also remains to be determined whether the death was natural or the result of a criminal act.
  This story will be updated.
   
  
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• Bombardier-Alstom to build 153 Azur cars for Montreal's métro

  12-11-2018 14:48 via montrealgazette.com
  The Bombardier-Alstom consortium will provide 153 Azur subway cars — the equivalent of 17 additional trains — for Montreal’s métro system, the consortium announced Monday.
  The contract is worth a total of $447.7 million and will see $281 million of the work go to Bombardier’s factory in La Pocatière. About 170 Bombardier employees will be assigned to work on the order, which will also provide work for 70 Alstom employees at that company’s plant in Sore
  
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• The value of your off-island home is increasing. And that might hurt

  12-11-2018 14:06 via montrealgazette.com
  It seems that every one I talk to these days thinks everything is more expensive and that their salaries don’t seem to be keeping up with those rising costs. I totally agree.
  Your food budget doesn’t seem to go as far as it used to, partly due to rising transportation costs and our weak dollar; there’s an increase in school fees and daycare costs, more money for insurance premiums, electricity and other utilities and of course, the big one: a lot more for gas at the pump.
  Livin
  
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• Sound of screams trigger search operation on Rivière-des-Prairies

  12-11-2018 14:02 via montrealgazette.com
  A search operation by police and firefighters was in progress Monday morning on the Rivière-des-Prairies near the borough of Montreal North after residents on Gouin Blvd. near Sir Wilfrid Laurier Ave. reported hearing a woman’s screams coming from the waterway.
  Firefighters have deployed their nautical rescue team and are cruising river in search of the woman.
  By 7:30 a.m. no trace of the woman had been found.
  This story will be updated.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Officer seeks help to not 'look stupid' catching chicken

  12-11-2018 13:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were dreaming of warmer climes. 
  The death of former Liberal minister Jean Bienvenue was announced on Sunday. He passed away on Oct. 13 at the age of 90, but his death notice was only just published. Bienvenue was elected as MNA in 1966 and 1970 in the riding of Matane. After the Liberals’ return to power in 1970, Robert Bourassa appointed him deputy government house leader, a position he held from January 1971 until Bourassa’s defeat in
  
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• Montreal weather: Is it too early to say it's looking a lot like Christmas?

  12-11-2018 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A mix of sun and cloud with 40-per-cent chance of flurries in the morning.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of 4.
  Tonight: Rain or snow with a low of zero.
  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 photo was posted on Instagram by @martin_proulx_photographer.
  Quote of the day:The living owe it to those who no longer can
  
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• It's not over yet: Another day of Turcot chaos

  12-11-2018 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Monday is the last day to deal with the Turcot Interchange being closed to remove the old, overhead concrete expressway.
  Turcot Interchange:
  The access for Highway 20 West from the Ville Marie will be closed until Tuesday at 5 a.m.
  The Ville-Marie access from Highway 20 East will be closed until Tuesday at 5 a.m.
  Turcot FERMÉ dès ce soir à 23 h 59 jusqu’à mardi matin 5 h. Des conditions de circulation très difficiles sont à prévoir. La colla
  
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• Montreal's tax changes a good first step, small business owners say

  12-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Business owners and neighbourhood business associations say they’re encouraged by changes to Montreal’s non-residential tax system introduced on Thursday as part of the city’s 2019 operating budget.
  “I think we’re finally getting some, I wouldn’t go as far as saying respect, but at least an acknowledgement of the fact that small businesses are important in the urban tissue and that maybe we’re paying too much of our share,” said Philippe Sarra
  
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• Allison Hanes: Heads up, there's a new hazard on the streets

  12-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Walk down the streets of Montreal these days and you may find yourself bobbing and weaving to avoid hazards suddenly in your path.
  Not orange cones or potholes or puddles, but rather other pedestrians who aren’t paying attention to where they’re going. You can be sure they’re not looking at the falling leaves or admiring public art or are absorbed in conversation with friends. For the most part they’re staring at their smartphones.
  A sign of the times, this distracted ped
  
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• A special Montreal homecoming for Vegas Golden Knights reporter

  12-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Max Pacioretty isn’t the only one who enjoyed a special trip back to Montreal on Saturday when the Vegas Golden Knights played the Canadiens at the Bell Centre.
  For Pacioretty, it was his first game in Montreal since the Canadiens traded him to the Golden Knights on Sept. 10. For Alyson Lozoff, it was a visit back to the city where she grew up and a chance to spend time with her mother, who is recovering from a stroke. The Canadiens won the game 5-4.
  Lozoff is a rinkside reporter for AT&am
  
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• #ICYMI: Remembrance Day, Prince of Pot, Bombardier layoffs, other news

  12-11-2018 04:30 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  Thousands of Montrealers of all ages, origins and walks of life packed the four sides of Place du Canada on Sunday morning as cannons sounded a 21-gun salute in a solemn ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War.
  Marion Scott files this report: Remembrance Day: Solemn ceremony in Montreal marks 100th anniversary of Armistice***
  For someone destined to become o
  
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• Former Liberal minister Jean Bienvenue dies at age 90

  12-11-2018 03:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Jean Bienvenue, a former Liberal minister under Robert Bourassa, died on Oct. 13 at the age of 90 in Quebec City, Capital Media Group reported on Sunday.His death notice was only published last week at various obituary sites.Born in June 1928, Bienvenue studied at Université Laval before being admitted to the Quebec bar in June 1952. He went on to be a member of many law firms.He was an associate of former premier Jean Lesage and, between 1960 and 1966, became in turn crown attorney
  
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• 'Prince of Pot' tries to get busted for selling banned merchandise in Montreal

  12-11-2018 03:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Longtime cannabis policy reform advocate Marc Emery, also known as the “Prince of Pot,” failed in his first attempt to get arrested for selling goods that promote cannabis culture in downtown Montreal on Sunday.
  But he vowed to keep trying.
  Emery was hoping to get arrested to shine a light on, and eventually challenge in court, what he calls the hypocrisy of Quebec’s Cannabis Regulation Act, which prohibits, for example, the use of the cannabis leaf symbol to sell items that ar
  
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• Suspect appears in court after boy, man shot Friday

  12-11-2018 00:58 via montrealgazette.com
  A 36-year-old man appeared Saturday at the Montreal courthouse to face various charges, including at least one for attempted murder.
  The identity of the accused cannot be disclosed to protect the child.
  A five-year-old boy and a 69-year-old man were wounded Friday night by gunshots at a Kirkland residence.
  Police had responded to several 911 calls around 7 p.m. concerning a man in distress in a house near Ste-Marie Rd. and Montrose Drive, which is on the border between Beaconsfield and Kirkland.
  
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