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• Obituary: Harry Rosen, Montreal dentist and maker of imposing public art

  17-11-2018 23:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Harry Rosen was a pioneering Montreal dentist who made a name for himself as the creator of imposing outdoor sculptures that are on display around the city. He died Thursday at age 89 of pancreatic cancer.
  An emeritus professor in McGill University’s Faculty of Dentistry who specialized in reconstructive dentistry, Rosen developed a lifelong passion for sculpture while moving rocks and boulders near his country house on Lac Patrick in the Laurentians.
  “The kind of dentistry I do is m
  
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• Woman seriously injured as Montreal police chase fleeing vehicle

  17-11-2018 22:20 via montrealgazette.com
  A 42-year-old woman is in serious condition in hospital after a police chase led to the woman being struck by a Montreal police patrol car on Sherbrooke St. E. in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve on Saturday morning.
  According to a preliminary report given to the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), the provincial body that investigates whenever a police force is involved in an incident where a civilian is injured or killed, at 10:54 a.m. Saturday, the Sûreté du Qué
  
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• Jean-François Lisée refuses to concede he made mistakes in campaign

  17-11-2018 22:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Former Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée says the party would have done much worse in the election had he not aggressively attacked Québec solidaire in the last days of the campaign.
  But as for the party’s dismal score Oct. 1, Lisée said the PQ was up against a powerful force; Quebecers’ desire to get rid of the Liberals so it did not matter what he and the party had to offer.
  “Globally we won the campaign but lost the election
  
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• Canada Goose's new Montreal store draws fans and a PETA protest

  17-11-2018 21:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Canada Goose Holdings Inc. wants its customers to know what real cold feels like — from the comfort of a $1,000 parka.
  The company has added frigid rooms to some of its stores where shoppers can test the luxury coats in temperatures as low as -25 C. A Montreal location, whose Friday grand opening attracted customers as well as PETA anti-fur protesters, is the fifth to include the fancy freezer, and Beijing will join later this year as the company rolls out its China expansion plan.
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• Montreal police car involved in violent collision

  17-11-2018 20:50 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal police patrol car was involved in a violent collision with another vehicle on Sherbrooke St. E. in Hochélaga-Maisonneuve Saturday morning just before 11 a.m.
  Une femme aurait été violemment heurtée par une voiture du SPVM https://t.co/xt4R49vx3l pic.twitter.com/E2nZtEv4BI
  — ICI Grand Montréal (@icimontreal) November 17, 2018According to witness reports given to Radio-Canada, the police car struck the other vehicle with enough force to eject the
  
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• STM buses running out of gas is more than a daily occurrence

  17-11-2018 19:26 via montrealgazette.com
  It isn’t a daily occurrence for a bus to run out of fuel. In fact, it’s more frequent than that, according to figures provided Friday by the Société de transport de Montréal.
  Earlier this week, Renée Amilcar, the STM’s executive director of buses, said it was a rare occurrence for a bus to run out of gas. However, the STM statistics contradict Amilcar’s assertion. Within the last three months, there was an average of 1.3 reports per day of
  
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• SAQ strike: Managers keep 10 Montreal liquor stores open this weekend

  17-11-2018 17:42 via montrealgazette.com
  A labour dispute has shut the vast majority of Quebec’s liquor stores this weekend.
  Store and office employees of the Société des alcools du Québec walked off the job on Friday and are only expected to return on Monday.
  But that doesn’t mean you can’t buy liquor. SAQ managers are keeping some stores open, including nine in Montreal. The government-owned monopoly has posted a list on its website of the SAQ stores that remain open.
  On Friday, Superior Court J
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Carey Price back in goal against Canucks

  17-11-2018 16:17 via montrealgazette.com
  VANCOUVER — The Canadiens will wrap up their three-game Western Canada road trip when they face the Vancouver Canucks Saturday at Rogers Arena (7 p.m., CBC, SN1, TVA Sports, TSN 690 Radio).
  Since the game has a 4 p.m. local start time, the Canadiens didn’t have a morning skate Saturday. They held an optional practice Friday afternoon at one of the University of British Columbia rinks with 11 players taking part: goalies Carey Price and Antti Niemi, defencemen Mike Reilly, Xavier Ouel
  
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• Montreal police search for missing Griffintown man

  17-11-2018 16:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing man.
  Scott Nigel Calder
  The 38-year-old man — Scott Nigel Calder — has been missing since he left his home in Griffintown on the morning of Friday, Nov. 16.
  Calder is five-foot-11 (180 centimetres) and weighs 165 pounds (75 kilograms). No clothing description is available.
  Police said he may be in Montreal or Ontario.
  “His family fears for his safety because he made worrying comments and he is not
  
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• Two women killed in car crash northeast of Montreal

  17-11-2018 15:42 via montrealgazette.com
  A two-vehicle collision killed two people on Friday night in St-Alexis, in the Lanaudière region, northeast of Montreal.
  At about 9:15 p.m., a car with two young women tried to pass another vehicle on Route 158. The driver lost control of her car, which hit a pickup truck.
  The two women, aged 20, were killed instantly.
  The driver of the van was not injured.
  The cause of the crash is undetermined, but snow and road conditions may have played a role.
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• SAQ strike: Managers keep nine Montreal liquor stores open this weekend

  17-11-2018 15:08 via montrealgazette.com
  A labour dispute has shut the vast majority of Quebec’s liquor stores this weekend.
  Store and office employees of the Société des alcools du Québec walked off the job on Friday and are only expected to return on Monday.
  But that doesn’t mean you can’t buy liquor. SAQ managers are keeping some stores open, including nine in Montreal. The government-owned monopoly has posted a list on its website of the SAQ stores that remain open.
  The SAQ also notes that sho
  
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• Karl Lohnes: Updating your holiday decor with a few new colours

  17-11-2018 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Holiday decor trends change from year to year in order to capture current colours, metallic finishes and themes. But that doesn’t mean you have to start over every holiday season with a new palette or theme. You can keep what you already have (and love!) and build on it to achieve a fresh festive feel. Holiday palettes tend to be based on a few main schemes. Gold, green and red have always been the classic, best-selling colours for traditional holiday decor; while modern holiday decorators
  
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• Montreal catches Christmas spirit with Saturday's Santa Claus parade

  17-11-2018 14:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Tens of thousands of Montrealers are expected to line Ste-Catherine St. on Saturday for the Santa Claus Parade.
  Mother Nature is co-operating. A fresh layer of snow has set the Christmas mood and the temperature is expected to hover around 3 C.
  The 68th annual parade is to begin at Fort St. at 11 a.m. and will end at Place des Arts.
  The Peel and McGill métro stations are the best options for those arriving via public transit.
  Presented by the downtown business association, the parade is t
  
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• While you were sleeping: Back-to-life lawsuit, Trump 'easily' answers Mueller

  17-11-2018 14:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Good morning. Before you head out, here’s a roundup of stories from the overnight desk.
  New Mexico woman sues hospital for resuscitating her: A New Mexico woman who was brought back to life is suing the hospital for violating her rights. The Albuquerque Journal reports lawyers for Jamie Sams filed a lawsuit this week in New Mexico state district court against Santa Fe’s Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center. The lawsuit filed on behalf Sams, a writer known for books on spiritu
  
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• Week in Review: Turcot woes, bus mayhem, construction pain, short-lived surplus

  17-11-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on what stories you might have missed this week in Montreal.The mayhem that wasn’t: Commuters heed warnings to avoid Turcot
  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 e
  
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• Shelter: Upheaval leads to adventure and a cozy Mile End starter home

  17-11-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  In 2013, Tarjei Skaar was about to start his last year in high school in his native Norway when his father, Knut, was appointed as the representative for the Nordic Delegation to the International Civil Aviation Organization. Similar to a diplomatic posting (ICAO is a United Nations agency), Skaar senior’s job required the family to move from Bergen to Montreal for three years — an upheaval for the family (his wife is an air traffic controller), but also something of an adventure.
  Sk
  
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• A residential fire has claimed the life of a 70-year-old man in Quebec City

  17-11-2018 13:32 via montrealgazette.com
  A man perished in a violent fire Friday night in the Quebec City suburb of Beauport.
  The fire broke out around 10 p.m. in a three-story residence. The victim, 70, was found on the second floor. Emergency responders were not able to revive him and he was pronounced dead on the scene.
  Two others were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
  Approximately 70 firefighters were called to the scene. The cause is not yet determined.
  
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• Traffic hotspots to avoid on Saturday

  17-11-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It will be a hard slog to get to the South Shore today as roadwork will be affecting several spans and routes.
  Mercier Bridge
  The bridge will undergo repair and maintenance work starting at 1 a.m. Saturday. The span toward Kahnawake will be closed completely and only one lane in the opposite direction will be open. By default, the same work will close the entrance to Airlie St. where the roadway connects with Highway 138.
  Exit 63 on Highway 20 westbound (connecting motorists to the bridge as wel
  
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• Max Domi is a huge fan of Canadiens linemate Andrew Shaw

  17-11-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  VANCOUVER — If you’ve listened to any Montreal sports-talk radio this season, you’ve probably heard people criticizing the Canadiens’ Andrew Shaw.
  Actually, if you’ve listened to enough sports-talk radio you’ve probably heard people ripping just about every player at one point or another after a Canadiens loss. That’s just the way it is in Montreal with fans who are so passionate about the team and treat every loss as a panic attack.
  As for Shaw, people
  
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• Josh Freed: I hope this column puts you to sleep

  17-11-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I woke up at 4:05 a.m. the other night and had an urgent anxious thought, typical of that hour.
  Had I checked my Guardian newspaper subscription lately? It’d been about a year since I took a cheap intro offer of $40 and if I missed the expiry date it could rise to $80.
  That soon reminded me I hadn’t checked my landline phone bill recently, which could go up without notice, too.
  That soon got my brain feverishly thinking: why do I need a landline anyway? Maybe I should cancel it, sinc
  
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• In these tough times, the Gazette Christmas Fund lends a hand

  17-11-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I have had the great honour of writing to you about the Montreal Gazette Christmas Fund every November for the last five years. And every year, I look through some of the thousands of requests we receive so I can tell you about some of the Montrealers who are seeking help.
  Back in 2013, a lot of those requests involved Christmas gifts for children who might otherwise not receive them. This year, the reasons are grimmer.
  Of the first 50 applications I looked at, the vast majority of applicants sa
  
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• Canadiens at Canucks: Five things to watch

  17-11-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  VANCOUVER — Here are five things to watch when the Canadiens (10-6-3) play the Vancouver Canucks (10-9-2) Saturday at Rogers Arena (7 p.m., CBC, SN1, TVA Sports, TSN 690 Radio):
  Back-to-back starts for Price: Carey Price will be back in goal for the Canadiens after making 43 saves and being named the first star in a 3-2 win over the Flames Thursday night in Calgary. Price, who had sat out the previous two games while working on his mental game, now has a 6-4-3 record with a 2.99 goals-agai
  
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• Montreal weather: Only a chance of flurries today

  17-11-2018 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Mainly cloudy with a 40-per-cent chance of flurries in the morning.
  A west wind will blow at 20 km/h, gusting to 40.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of 3.
  Tonight: Clear and frosty with a low of minus 8.
  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 @arcpixel.
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• #ICYMI: Bilingual pays, arm wrestling, #$%& snow, other news

  17-11-2018 04:30 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  If you want to be better off, it’s best to be bilingual. A new analysis of Canada’s 2016 census indicates those who know and use both of Canada’s official languages at work earn more than their unilingual counterparts. Among allophones in particular, the statistics show that knowledge of both languages translates into a considerable jump in salary. Bilingual anglophones and francoph
  
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• Stu Cowan: Life must be wonderful for Canadiens' Jesperi Kotkaniemi

  17-11-2018 03:51 via montrealgazette.com
  VANCOUVER — The Canadiens held an optional practice Friday afternoon at the University of British Columbia arena with 11 players taking part.
  Guess who the last player off the ice was?
  Jesperi Kotkaniemi.
  Wouldn’t you be if you were an 18-year-old playing in the NHL?
  “It’s pretty fun,” Kotkaniemi said while sitting in a tiny dressing room afterward, still in his equipment. “I’m living my dream. I think that’s the only thing I can say.”
  Before
  
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• Quebec to consider covering cost of continuous diabetes monitoring

  17-11-2018 03:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Michaella Etienne’s preschool daughter Annie loves to skate in her neighbourhood arena and play hide-and-seek with her older sisters.
  But were it not for a thumb-sized device that Annie wears that monitors her blood sugar continuously, playtime might not even be possible. That’s because Annie has a form of Type 1 diabetes that doesn’t show any symptoms if her blood sugars drop low or soar high.
  That’s a potentially serious problem. If Annie’s diabetes were to become
  
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• Marc Garneau to run again for the Liberals in N.D.G.-Westmount

  17-11-2018 03:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Transport Minister Marc Garneau will run again as a candidate for the federal Liberals in the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce–Westmount in next year’s general election.
  The political party made the announcement on Friday, saying the nomination will be made official at a “Team Trudeau 2019 Nomination Event” to be held on Sunday at the Centre Raymond on Upper Lachine Rd. in the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough.
  Garneau, 69, a former ast
  
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• Revenu Québec employees extend contract by a year

  17-11-2018 02:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Revenu Québec employees voted 80 per cent in favour of prolonging their collective agreement by a year and, in doing so, saw their salaries increased thanks to a new classification of their job descriptions.
  The roughly 6,000 employees will receive, on average, a three per cent hike in salary. Part of the increase will be retroactive to 2016, said Christian Daigle, president of the Syndicat de la fonction publique et parapublique du Québec.
  In some cases the increase will be 1
  
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• Company plans to build natural gas pipeline between Ontario and Saguenay

  17-11-2018 02:11 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec-based company has announced plans to construct an underground natural gas pipeline that will run 750 kilometres from northeastern Ontario to Saguenay.
  The proposed pipeline project, announced by Gazoduq, will be part of a chain delivering natural gas from Alberta to Énergie Saguenay, a company that holds a license, from the Office national de l’energie, giving it the go ahead to build a facility that will liquify the gas before exporting it to potential markets in Europe an
  
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• Quebec food wholesaler Groupe Colabor cuts 51 jobs

  17-11-2018 02:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Food wholesaler Groupe Colabor announced Friday a plan that will see it lose 51 employees, about 3.7 per cent of its workforce.
  The Boucherville-based company said in a statement issued Friday evening that it came to this “difficult” decision to improve its operational efficiency, its profitability and its competitiveness by cutting $2.9 million in annual expenses over the next year.
  The plan affects most divisions of Colabor in Quebec and Ontario, and includes the closing of its sel
  
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• Radio station buyer proposes to replace Montreal's 91,9 Sports with pop music

  17-11-2018 02:05 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Leclerc Communication, which is acquiring Montreal’s 91,9 Sports, has asked the broadcasting regulator for permission to convert the French-language sports talk station into the same popular music format used by its Quebec City station WKND 91,9.
  Leclerc, which owns WKND and Blvd. 102,1 in Quebec City, reached a deal in August to buy 91,9 Sports, as well as controversial Quebec City talk station CHOI Radio X, from RNC Media for $19 million. The deal, as well as the format ch
  
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• 'Open for business': Quebec won't rule out investing more in Bombardier

  17-11-2018 00:13 via montrealgazette.com
  The provincial government would be open to investing more in Bombardier, Quebec’s economy minister said following a meeting with the company’s president and CEO, Alain Bellemare, on Friday morning.
  “There’s no requirement for us to invest,” Pierre Fitzgibbon said Friday morning, but he said he made it clear to Bellemare “that would there be a requirement, would there be an opportunity, we would be open for business.”
  The aerospace industry is &ldquo
  
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