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• Plante open to new regulations in wake of Hells wedding

  04-12-2018 23:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante suggested Rhéal Fortin do his job and keep to his own jurisdiction Tuesday after the Bloc Québécois MP criticized her for not endorsing regulations to ban events like the Hells Angels wedding held in downtown Montreal on Saturday.
  She added that she would be amenable to new laws if the police or population supported them over safety concerns.
  “As a federal minister, I would invite (Fortin) to stick to his own spheres of operations,&
  
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• 'I deserve the truth': Family of slain teen files police ethics complaint

  04-12-2018 23:02 via montrealgazette.com
  In the months after his son Riley was shot and killed by a Sûreté du Québec officer last summer, a question kept eating away at Larry Fairholm.
  Fairholm was at the scene of the shooting that night in Lac-Brome, he remembers trying to push beyond the yellow police tape to find out what happened to 17-year-old Riley.
  But even after the information started to trickle through, the most basic questions were left unanswered.
  “I wanted to know did he die instantly? Did he writ
  
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• STM doesn't have enough working buses to meet its schedules

  04-12-2018 22:58 via montrealgazette.com
  So many buses are parked for maintenance or repairs that there are now not enough working buses to meet the schedules set by the Société de transport de Montréal.
  More Montrealers than ever are being stranded when buses don’t show up because of a record number of buses parked for maintenance or repairs: up to 541 out of a fleet of 1,815 or 30 per cent. In the last two weeks, the STM cut its service by between 83 and 151 buses, according to figures provided to the
  
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• Update: Quebec confirms plan to reduce immigration by about 20%

  04-12-2018 22:56 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Despite a warning from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Quebec is steaming ahead with its plan to reduce its immigration numbers by about 20 per cent.
  Immigration, Diversity and Inclusion Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette tabled a plan in the National Assembly on Tuesday. It says Quebec will reduce the total number of new arrivals from 53,300 in 2018 to between 38,000 and 42,000 in 2019.
  The plan was tabled even though Quebec and Ottawa have yet to reach an agreement on how it will
  
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• Kramberger: Replacement for Île­-aux­-Tourtes span is a bridge not too far

  04-12-2018 20:30 via montrealgazette.com
  While patience is required, Off-Islanders will be blessed with a new hospital as well as a new bridge along Highway 40 in the coming decade, as promised by the Quebec government.
  Plans for a project to replace the aging Île­-aux­-Tourtes Bridge, part of the TransCanada Highway that connects the West Island with Vaudreuil-Dorion, were detailed in a document released by Quebec’s Environment Ministry last week. The new bridge, to be built just north of the existing structure, wi
  
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• PQ wants to abolish loyalty oath to Queen Elizabeth

  04-12-2018 20:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The opposition Parti Québécois is seeking to abolish the oath of allegiance Quebec MNAs must swear to Queen Elizabeth II.
  At the moment, any newly elected MNA who wishes to sit in the National Assembly and benefit from its privileges must publicly swear their allegiance to the monarch, who is also Canada’s head of state.
  Interim-PQ leader Pascal Bérubé will table a motion calling for an end to the loyalty on Tuesday, hoping to rally other parties to the ide
  
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• Boys who shared explicit photos of teen girls can stay at private school

  04-12-2018 20:23 via montrealgazette.com
  The Séminaire des Pères Maristes, a co-ed private school in Quebec City, said on Tuesday it is at a legal “impasse” that obliges it to keep in class students who pleaded guilty last week to charges of online luring and sharing explicit pictures of teenage girls.
  In a statement issued Tuesday, the school’s administration said that it cannot expel the students because of Superior Court ruling made last August
  Last week, news reports stated that two of the stude
  
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• Opinion: Rise in hate crimes calls for a unified response

  04-12-2018 19:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Since the deadly Quebec City mosque attack on Jan. 29, 2017, Canadians have come to recognize that our country is not immune to the growth in hatred and racism spreading across many liberal democracies.
  The latest figures from Statistics Canada on police-reported hate crimes only confirm the worst fears of community advocates. Islamophobia is a reality Canadians Muslims face. In 2017, hate crimes against Muslims rose sharply, up 151 per cent from the previous year, with 349 documented cases
  
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• Pit bull-type dog attacks two women in Lanaudière

  04-12-2018 19:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Two women were injured on Tuesday after being attacked by a pit bull-type dog in the Lanaudière region.
  The dog attacked its owner in a house in the town of Sainte-Béatrix, TVA news reported
  The two women, aged 31 and 73, were bitten several times on the arm. One of the victims may have her arm amputated, says the report, which also said another dog was also present during the attack.
  The women were taken to a hospital to be treated for their injuries. The two dogs have been taken
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Coach Claude Julien makes change on fourth line

  04-12-2018 19:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens coach Claude Julien has spoken much in the past about the importance of finding an identity on his fourth line.
  Tuesday night, when the Canadiens play the Ottawa Senators at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio), Julien is going to change that identity by inserting Matthew Peca into the lineup and taking out Nicolas Deslauriers.
  Peca has been a healthy scratch for the previous four games and five of the last six, while Deslauriers has played every game since missing the
  
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• Leslie Roberts to leave CJAD

  04-12-2018 19:20 via montrealgazette.com
  A prominent local media personality will be leaving his gig — but amicably. Leslie Roberts has announced that he will be vacating his mid-morning talk-show slot at CJAD to become the editor at large for a travel website.
  Roberts, who leaves his post Dec. 21, took over from the retired Tommy Schnurmacher two years ago.
  “Leslie’s departure is a loss for CJAD, no question,” CJAD program and news director Chris Bury said. “Leslie is experienced, level-headed, smooth. He
  
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• Quebec tables plan to reduce immigration; Trudeau says now's not a good time

  04-12-2018 19:04 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it’s a bad time for Quebec to propose reducing the level of immigration.
  On the same day as the Coalition Avenir Québec government tables its plan to cut the number of new arrivals, Trudeau said he thinks Quebec is on the wrong path.
  “What I hear across Quebec is that entrepreneurs and businesses are concerned about a lack of labour,” Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa. “I am not sure it is the best time to reduce the
  
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• Cirque du Soleil Contest – 2 Classics in Montreal

  04-12-2018 15:09 via montrealgazette.com
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• Quebecers more OK with crucifixes, Stars of David in public service: survey

  04-12-2018 15:01 via montrealgazette.com
  While two-thirds of Quebecers support a ban on religious symbols in the public service, that support focuses most strongly on the hijab, turban, kirpan and face veil rather than the crucifix, Star of David or the kippa, a new survey suggests.
  The Angus-Reid poll of 1,500 Canadians — including 350 Quebecers — found that respondents in this province were almost unanimous in their opposition to a public servant’s wearing the full-body-covering burka (91 per cent), the niqab, a fac
  
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• Three years later, most Charbonneau inquiry recommendations implemented

  04-12-2018 14:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Three years after a high-profile inquiry into allegations of corruption in the Quebec construction industry filed its report, a committee tasked with tracking the progress of its recommendations has found that 29 of them have been carried out, 12 partially executed and 19 remain unfulfilled.
  Last year at the same date, the committee found significant progress, with 60 per cent of the 60 recommendations fully or partially carried out. This year that rate stands at 70 per cent.
  In its report publi
  
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• For love and farce, Snow White retold as a panto at Hudson Village Theatre

  04-12-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Actor John Sheridan has performed in his fair share of Hudson Village Theatre holiday pantomimes. His first was Cinderella. He played an ugly stepsister.
  “It was set in the ’60s which meant miniskirts and go-go boots,” Sheridan said. “And I was a villain. Villains don’t fare well with the audience.”
  This year, Sheridan put on the writer/director cap for the HVT panto Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, which opens Dec. 14. Tickets for the annual panto sell quick
  
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• While you were sleeping: U.S. officials think New Mexico's a foreign land

  04-12-2018 13:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were counting sheep — or reindeer.
  Hydro-Québec and the Nutashkuan Innu band council reached an agreement allowing for work to resume at the Romaine Hydroelectric complex. Hydro-Québec reported that the agreement will allow the creation of jobs for the Innu community through contracts that will be issued in the coming years. The details of the deal will not be published for several more weeks. The reopening of the sole acces
  
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• Police to investigate suspicious death of Sherbrooke woman

  04-12-2018 13:47 via montrealgazette.com
  The body of a woman found Monday evening in the west end of Sherbrooke is being treated by local police as a suspicious death.
  The 58-year-old woman’s body was found outside a building on Notre Dame St. at about 7 p.m. and an autopsy has been scheduled to determine the cause of death.
  This story will be updated.
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• Montreal weather: Sunny, with a wind chill

  04-12-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The sun will make an appearance today, if the forecast holds up.
  Environment Canada is calling for mainly sunny conditions with a high of minus 4. Wind chill minus 14 in the morning and minus 9 in the afternoon.
  Tonight: A few clouds. Low minus 10. Wind chill near minus 13.
  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 In
  
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• McGill alumna in notorious Iranian jail faces possible death sentence

  04-12-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Ten years ago, Niloufar Bayani spent long day summer days on a boat in the St. Lawrence River near Montreal, researching invasive species — the zebra mussel and the round goby, a bottom-dwelling fish.
  Today, Bayani is sitting in Iran’s notorious Evin prison facing an espionage charge that carries a death sentence.
  She was arrested by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards 10 months ago with eight other environmental activists tracking the endangered Asiatic cheetah.
  “I&rsquo
  
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• Gazette Christmas Fund: Migraines leave man struggling with self-worth

  04-12-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  For a long time, Raoul struggled with the question “What do you do?”
  He explained that he, like many others, often found self-worth in his work. So when he struggled to hold down a job due to chronic migraines so severe he required hospitalization, Raoul said he spent a lot of his time looking for another source of pride.
  About three years ago, Raoul said he took a writing workshop at a community centre for people with mental health issues. It was then, he said, that he was “st
  
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• Brownstein: Student-run job agency defies skeptics

  04-12-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Even he was skeptical that putting together a group of 17-year-olds in a room over their break last summer would achieve little more than create a party atmosphere with next to no productivity. That’s what his elders were also telling Jackson Labell, when he set out to start an employment agency with fellow high-schoolers.
  The idea was to find jobs for at-risk youth as well as adults who had slipped through the system. Well and good, but where does a group of well-intentioned students with
  
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• McGill's latest Rhodes Scholar an advocate for foster youth

  04-12-2018 06:01 via montrealgazette.com
  The McGill University student awarded a Rhodes Scholarship this year struggled in high school.
  Arisha Khan, 22, will be travelling to the University of Oxford in England next fall to take her masters and then PhD as a recipient of one of world’s most prestigious scholarships, given to those “with the potential to make a difference for good in the world.”
  But as a teenager shuttled in and out of the child welfare system, Khan remembers thinking life wasn’t worth it. Ultima
  
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• Impact won't play spring games at Olympic Stadium in 2019

  04-12-2018 04:50 via montrealgazette.com
  For the first time since 2011, the Montreal Impact will play all their home games next season at Saputo Stadium.
  As in previous seasons, the team will begin the Major League Soccer season on the road before its home opener. Previously, the team would play a game in March at Olympic Stadium before opening Saputo Stadium in late April. In 2019, that April game will be their first home game.
  Richard Legendre, executive vice-president of the Impact, explained that many fans have wanted for a long ti
  
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• Innu blockade lifted at Romaine hydroelectric complex

  04-12-2018 04:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Work is returning to normal at the Romaine hydroelectric complex project on the North Shore after an agreement was reached between Hydro-Québec and the Nutashkuan Innu band council.
  Hydro-Québec reported that the agreement will allow the creation of jobs for the Innu community through contracts that will be issued in the coming years. The details of the deal will not be published for several more weeks.
  The reopening of the sole access road after a blockade of several days wil
  
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• McGill's latest Rhodes Scholar nearly didn't finish high school

  04-12-2018 03:01 via montrealgazette.com
  The McGill University student awarded a Rhodes Scholarship this year nearly failed out of high school numerous times.
  Arisha Khan, 22, will be travelling to the University of Oxford in England next fall to take her masters and then PhD as a recipient of one of world’s most prestigious scholarships, given to those “with the potential to make a difference for good in the world.”
  But as a teenager shuttled from foster family to group home, Khan remembers thinking life wasn’t
  
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• Glenmount negotiations back on, C.D.N.-N.D.G. mayor says

  04-12-2018 02:22 via montrealgazette.com
  A day and a half after an agreement between the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Town of Mount Royal over the neighbourhood of Glenmount apparently fell through, C.D.N.-N.D.G. borough mayor Sue Montgomery wrote on Monday that talks are back on.
  “I have a meeting Thursday with (T.M.R. mayor) Philippe Roy and I am hoping for a transparent and fair agreement that will be favourable for all. Thank you,” Montgomery wrote on her Facebook page about two h
  
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• Engineering gender imbalance didn't intimidate White Rose Scholarship winner Viviane Aubin

  04-12-2018 02:15 via montrealgazette.com
  At an awards ceremony on Monday, a survivor of the horrific shooting that left 14 women dead at the Université de Montréal’s engineering school on Dec. 6, 1989, brought many in the audience to tears as she addressed this year’s winner of the Order of the White Rose Scholarship.
  Created in 2014 to honour the victims and to encourage women to excel at engineering, the $30,000 scholarship is awarded each year to a female Canadian engineering student who wishes to pursue gr
  
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• Canadiens prospect Nick Suzuki invited to Team Canada junior camp

  04-12-2018 01:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Nick Suzuki couldn’t crack the Canadiens’ roster this season, but there’s a good chance he’ll make Team Canada for the World Junior Hockey Championship, which begins Dec. 26 in Vancouver and Victoria.
  Suzuki was among the players invited Monday to Team Canada’s selection camp for the tournament. Josh Brook, another Canadiens prospect, was also invited to the camp. A third Canadiens prospect, Jesse Ylönen, was invited to Team Finland’s selection camp
  
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• #ICYMI: Justifying boxing, end of the world (as we know it), filthy phones

  04-12-2018 01:51 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  One of the doctors who worked the boxing match Saturday night in Quebec City that left Adonis Stevenson hospitalized in an induced coma said he and his colleagues are at a loss to medically justify the sport.
  Read more here: Knockout that left Montreal boxer in coma prompts questions in medical community
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  Famed British naturalist Sir David Attenborough issued a dire warning Monday at the clim
  
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• Analysis: Quebec's prudent economic update leaves critics saying 'Is that all there is?'

  04-12-2018 01:46 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – It’s just a start. Please stand by.
  Despite record budgetary surpluses — $1.65 billion for 2018-2019 — and enough campaign promises for two elections, the Coalition Avenir Québec government Monday chose to play it cautious in its economic update.
  It’s true, as Finance Minister Eric Girard said, an update is not a 400-page annual budget jammed with measures for all sectors and lobbies of Quebec society.
  But with the hype and expectations so high and a
  
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• Informant testifies he 'knew right away' suspect was Septimus Neverson

  04-12-2018 00:58 via montrealgazette.com
  A man who became an informant for the Montreal police while investigators were trying to track down Septimus Neverson took the stand on Monday in the accused’s murder trial.
  Jonathan Rogers, 53, revealed that he will be paid a total of $100,000 to $110,000 when Neverson’s trial at the Montreal courthouse comes to an end. He has already been paid $65,000 and his contract with the Montreal police calls for him to be paid either $35,000 or $45,000 when the trial ends.
  Neverson, 56, is o
  
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• Open Door shelter eases into new quarters on Park Ave.

  04-12-2018 00:29 via montrealgazette.com
  A stillness hung over The Open Door as volunteers prepared to serve lunch for the first time since the shelter moved to its new home last week.
  About a dozen homeless people slept on matts in the church basement, some drank coffee by the new kitchen but there wasn’t much life in the place on Monday morning.
  That’s when “Hawk” came in from the snowstorm, put down his guitar case and wandered over to a dusty piano. He was joined by Stanley, who’d just come off the str
  
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• Adele Sorella trial: Jury questions grandmother's testimony

  04-12-2018 00:08 via montrealgazette.com
  LAVAL — A key witness’s challenging testimony continued in Adele Sorella’s murder trial on Monday, as the grandmother of the two victims took the stand for a fourth day.
  Sorella, 52, is on trial on first-degree murder charges alleging she killed her two daughters, Amanda, 9, and Sabrina, 8, on March 31, 2009.
  Her mother, Teresa Di Cesare, started testifying last Monday. But her time before the jury has been interrupted on several occasions for legal arguments and disc
  
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