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• Vandalism at Côte-St-Luc synagogue not motivated by anti-Semitism: Jewish groups

  05-06-2020 21:33 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The recent vandalism at a small synagogue in Côte-St-Luc was not motivated by anti-Semitism, Jewish groups said on Friday. Read More
  
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• Coronavirus live updates: Montreal reports 125 new cases, 31 more deaths

  05-06-2020 20:48 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Welcome to today’s live coronavirus pandemic coverage. Check this post throughout the day on Friday, June 5. Questions/comments? [email protected] Read More
  
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• Masks, signs and noisemakers – how to protest safely on Sunday

  05-06-2020 20:34 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Masks, signs and noisemakers — there are ways to protest safely during a pandemic, public health officials say. Read More
  
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• Ugo Fredette will 'be dead' if parole eligibility is set at 50 years

  05-06-2020 20:17 via montrealgazette.com
  
  If Ugo Fredette has no hope of parole for 50 years he will very likely die in prison, the convicted murderer's lawyer argued in a St-Jérôme courtroom on Friday. Read More
  
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• ‘There’s soul searching at the top,’ Jennings says of systemic bias and the police

  05-06-2020 20:05 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal’s chief of police will not say whether systemic racism exists in the department despite claims from his highest ranking commander that racial profiling is a problem within the force. Read More
  
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• Macpherson: Under Legault, the discrimination that cannot be named

  05-06-2020 19:54 via montrealgazette.com
  
  During last Sunday’s anti-racism demonstration in Montreal, Premier François Legault took to Twitter to comment. Read More
  
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• Minister insists environment won't take a hit in economic relaunch

  05-06-2020 19:36 via montrealgazette.com
  
  QUEBEC – Benoit Charette is denying his ministry has sold out the environment in the name of jump-starting the struggling Quebec economy after the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
  
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• Coronavirus live updates: Canada adds 289,600 jobs, with Quebec leading the way

  05-06-2020 19:09 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Welcome to today’s live coronavirus pandemic coverage. Check this post throughout the day on Friday, June 5. Questions/comments? [email protected] Read More
  
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• Montreal police to unveil new policy on street checks amid calls for change

  05-06-2020 18:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  The policy comes after an independent report found there is systemic bias when it comes to Montreal police street checks.
  
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• 48% of Quebec workforce suffering from psychological stress: survey

  05-06-2020 18:23 via montrealgazette.com
  
  About half of Quebec workers are suffering from high psychological stress, suggests an online survey conducted six weeks after COVID-19 sparked a province-wide state of emergency. Read More
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: June 5, 2020

  05-06-2020 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Every week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings. Read More
  
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• Quebec sees 50 new deaths as province works to keep coronavirus crisis at bay

  05-06-2020 17:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  Quebec continues to record the highest number of cases and deaths attributable to the novel coronavirus.
  
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• Montreal police chief won’t say whether systemic racism exists in his department

  05-06-2020 17:51 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal’s chief of police will not say whether systemic racism exists in the department despite claims, from his highest ranking commander, that racial profiling persists within the force. Read More
  
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• Coronavirus live updates: Ottawa to provide aid to disabled; $14B to help provinces reopen safely

  05-06-2020 17:47 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Welcome to today’s live coronavirus pandemic coverage. Check this post throughout the day on Friday, June 5. Questions/comments? [email protected] Read More
  
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• Montreal police vow action on street checks as calls for change grow

  05-06-2020 17:44 via cbc.ca
  
  Amid growing calls for reforms, Montreal police Chief Sylvain Caron held a news conference Friday to stress the SPVM is committed to eliminate racial profiling within its ranks.
  
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• Montreal police chief asks to walk with protesters Sunday as SPVM vows action on street checks

  05-06-2020 17:44 via cbc.ca
  
  Amid growing calls for reforms, Montreal police Chief Sylvain Caron held a news conference Friday to stress the SPVM is committed to eliminating any practice of racial profiling.
  
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• Coronavirus live updates: Ottawa to provide $600 in aid to disabled, offers $14 billion to help provinces reopen safely

  05-06-2020 17:40 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Welcome to today’s live coronavirus pandemic coverage. Check this post throughout the day on Friday, June 5. Questions/comments? [email protected] Read More
  
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• The Right Chemistry: Why being passed by a jogger is low risk

  05-06-2020 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Molecules are very small. So small that every breath we take contains about 2.4 times 10 to the 22nd power of them. The vast majority of these are oxygen and nitrogen, with lesser amounts of argon and carbon dioxide. When random mixing in the atmosphere is accounted for, we can calculate that every breath we take contains some molecules that have once been exhaled by Albert Einstein, Napoleon or Jesus. Read More
  
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• Montreal's residential real estate market shrank in May, but prices did not

  05-06-2020 17:07 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal’s residential real estate market shrank for a second straight month in May, though prices continued to climb despite the health-related lockdown. Read More
  
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• More drivers are out on Quebec roads — and so are speed traps

  05-06-2020 16:55 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Quebec police forces on Friday launched a week-long campaign to target speeders and dangerous drivers on the province's highways. Read More
  
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• Coronavirus live updates: Masks, signs and noisemakers – how to protest safely in a pandemic

  05-06-2020 16:51 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Welcome to today’s live coronavirus pandemic coverage. Check this post throughout the day on Friday, June 5. Questions/comments? [email protected] Read More
  
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• Weekend traffic: Closures on Highway 40 and Turcot Interchange 

  05-06-2020 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Here is a list of the major roadway closures scheduled for this weekend. Read More
  
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• While you were sleeping: Quebec facing cancer care crisis

  05-06-2020 15:36 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Play ball! That was the word from the Quebec government Thursday as Isabelle Charest, a former Olympic athlete who is now minister responsible for sports, announced that supervised team sports such as soccer and baseball can resume on Monday. The key word for the return of the sports will be “gradual.” Read more. Read More
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: June 5, 2020

  05-06-2020 15:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Friday, June 5, 2020.
  
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• Coronavirus live updates: Trudeau to offer premiers billions to help reopen the economy safely

  05-06-2020 15:12 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Welcome to today’s live coronavirus pandemic coverage. Check this post throughout the day on Friday, June 5. Questions/comments? [email protected] Read More
  
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• SQ to begin cracking down on speeding

  05-06-2020 15:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  You should mind your speed while you’re on the road this weekend: police are cracking down on speeders. Global’s Brayden Jagger Haines reports from the foot of the Jacques-Cartier Bridge.
  
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• Quebec police crack down on speeding as drivers flout limits during coronavirus lockdown

  05-06-2020 15:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  The police operation will last until June 11.
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: June 5, 2020

  05-06-2020 14:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Friday, June 5, 2020.
  
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• Weekend Entertainment: drive-in theatres and art museums

  05-06-2020 14:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  After weeks of weekend entertainment items exclusively at home, this weekend sees some options that can take you – safely – out of the house. Entertainment columnist Jay Walker joins Global’s Kim Sullivan.
  
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• Montreal plays digital host to World Environment Day

  05-06-2020 14:05 via globalnews.ca
  
  Montreal’s Space for Life and the UN’s biological diversity secretariat are hosting World Environment Day – from afar, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Space for Life director Charles-Mathieu Brunelle tells Global’s Kim Sullivan what’s in store for the event.
  
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• Keeping accessibility in mind amid the pandemic

  05-06-2020 14:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  During disabled-accessibility week, many are pointing out that existing issues with accessibility have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Regroupement québécois du parrainage civique Vice President Julie Vachon joins Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Fundraising to keep the Lighthouse alive

  05-06-2020 14:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  During the COVID-19 crisis, the Lighthouse is Quebec’s only pediatric palliative care resource in operation, and with their fundraisers cancelled, the organization has launched an emergency campaign to keep providing their essential services for free. Lighthouse’s clinical nurse supervisor joins Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Coronavirus: Bombardier to cut 2,500 jobs, mostly in Canada

  05-06-2020 13:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  Bombardier says the jobs will be eliminated "progressively throughout 2020."
  
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• Bombardier says it will cut 2,500 aviation jobs over COVID-19 impacts

  05-06-2020 13:23 via globalnews.ca
  
  The transportation firm said the majority of the reductions will impact manufacturing operations in Canada and will take place progressively throughout the year.
  
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• Sales and Listings Rebound in the Montreal CMA in May - GlobeNewswire

  05-06-2020 13:03 via globenewswire.com
  
  Sales and Listings Rebound in the Montreal CMA in May  GlobeNewswire
  
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• Bombardier to lay off 2,500 workers as demand for business jets drops amid pandemic

  05-06-2020 12:50 via cbc.ca
  
  Bombardier will lay off 2,500 workers as the company struggles to keep its operations afloat amid dwindling demand for business jets during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  
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• Bombardier to lay off 2,500 workers amid COVID-19 sales loss

  05-06-2020 12:50 via cbc.ca
  
  Bombardier will lay off 2,500 workers throughout the year as the company struggles to keep its operations afloat amid the pandemic. 
  
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• Bombardier to lay off 2,500 aviation workers amid COVID-19 struggles

  05-06-2020 12:50 via cbc.ca
  
  Bombardier will lay off 2,500 aviation workers throughout the year as the company struggles to keep its operations afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  
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• Montreal opposition calls out Plante for closing hundreds of kilometres to traffic - CBC.ca

  05-06-2020 12:13 via cbc.ca
  
  Montreal opposition calls out Plante for closing hundreds of kilometres to traffic  CBC.ca
  
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• Montreal opposition calls out Plante for closing hundreds of kilometres to traffic

  05-06-2020 12:13 via cbc.ca
  
  Ensemble Montréal says these types of disruptions to parking and traffic should be carefully studied by urban planners and discussed with the citizens and business owners before being put into action.
  
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• Opinion: Let us reconcile cities with nature

  05-06-2020 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  As we celebrate World Environment Day June 5, many of us isolated at home, the COVID-19 pandemic provides a sobering opportunity to reflect on our relationship with nature. Read More
  
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• Montreal weather: Hot and humid, with rain later in the day

  05-06-2020 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  It's a bit of a mixed bag today, and it will be hot. Read More
  
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• How the Montreal Heart Institute has kept out COVID-19 and kept right on performing surgeries - CBC.ca

  05-06-2020 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  How the Montreal Heart Institute has kept out COVID-19 and kept right on performing surgeries  CBC.ca
  
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• How the Montreal Heart Institute has kept out COVID-19 and kept right on performing surgeries

  05-06-2020 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  In mid-March, as hospitals across Quebec scrambled to cancel surgeries, all but shutting down their operating rooms to free up beds for COVID-19 patients, the Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal came up with a very different plan.
  
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• Violent arrest of young black man by Laval police surfaces as calls renewed for police reform

  05-06-2020 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A disturbing video of Laval police pulling a black man out of a car by his hair last week has surfaced, as protests denouncing police violence and systemic racism are leading to renewed calls for police reform in the U.S. and Canada.
  
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• Violent arrest of young black man by Laval police leads to yet more calls for police reform

  05-06-2020 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A shocking video of Laval police pulling a black man out of a car by his hair last week has surfaced, as protests denouncing police violence and systemic racism are leading to renewed calls for police reform in the U.S. and here in Canada.
  
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• 'Polite racism' infects Canada says Olympian who was on front lines of Oka protests 30 years ago

  05-06-2020 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Protesters standing face-to-face with armed officers from the national guard – Canadian Olympian Waneek Horn-Miller has been there, and is reminding Canadians how real racism is in this country.
  
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• Laval police arrest of young black man deemed 'gratuitous assault,' as calls renewed for police reform

  05-06-2020 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A disturbing video of Laval police pulling a black man out of a car by his hair last week has surfaced, as protests denouncing police violence and systemic racism are leading to renewed calls for police reform in the U.S. and Canada.
  
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• Horn-Miller wary of parallels between current global protests and Oka Crisis

  05-06-2020 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Protesters standing face-to-face with armed officers from the national guard. Canadian Olympian Waneek Horn-Miller has been there before and is reminding Canadians how real racism is in this country.
  
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• Canadian Olympian Horn-Miller wary of parallels between current global protests and Oka Crisis protests

  05-06-2020 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Protesters standing face-to-face with armed officers from the national guard – Canadian Olympian Waneek Horn-Miller has been there, and is reminding Canadians how real racism is in this country.
  
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