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• Competing Grand Prix events causes stir

  25-05-2017 23:54 via globalnews.ca
  
  Every year, Peel and Crescent streets come alive to celebrate the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal. But, as Global’s Elysia Bryan-Baynes reports, an F1-sponsored event is being held at Dorchester Park to celebrate the race’s 50th anniversary and that could split party-goers.
  
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• Quebec construction worker strike enters second day

  25-05-2017 23:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  Construction workers in Quebec are on strike for a second day as they try to come to an agreement with their employers about protecting work schedules and overtime. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• Canada to host 2018 G7 meeting in small Quebec town

  25-05-2017 22:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  Canada will play host to next year's meeting of G7 leaders at a remote luxury resort in the Charlevoix region of Quebec, The Canadian Press has learned.
  
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• Saint-Henri vandalism leaves residents scared

  25-05-2017 22:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  Residents and businesses in Saint-Henri are scared after recent acts of vandalism. As Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports, an anarchist group is claiming responsibility.
  
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• Actresses go in search of Nelly Arcan at Festival TransAmériques

  25-05-2017 22:12 via montrealgazette.com
  
  With an eye to the 375th celebrations, the annual mustering of cutting-edge international performance known as Festival TransAmériques began on Thursday with 100% Montreal, a tribute to the city and its people, and continued Friday with Pôle sud, a piece of documentary theatre focusing on the Centre-Sud neighbourhood. (Both shows can still be seen over the weekend.)
  What promises to be one of the standout shows of the festival, a reprise of La fureur de ce que je pense, or The Fury
  
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• Impact larger than life

  25-05-2017 22:11 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A Montreal Impact mural is unveiled on the side of a building at St-Laurent and René-Lévesque Blvds. on Thursday as part of the fifth edition of the Montreal Mural Festival, which runs from June 8-18. Marco Paradiso, right, was the winner of the MLS club’s mural design contest, while artist Shawn Davis rendered Paradiso’s bleu-blanc-noir vision. About 20 murals will be unveiled this year, adding to a colourful route from the Quartier des spectacles t
  
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• Sex offender Hugo Chaloux re-arrested for sexual assault

  25-05-2017 22:08 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Hugo Chaloux, sentenced in St-Jérôme to two years in prison in 2012 for sexually assaulting 11 minors, was re-arrested and charged this month with sexual assault – this time in Ste-Julie on the South Shore.
  Chaloux, now 26, allegedly lured women on social media, using the pseudonym Xavier Grelier.
  The Sûreté du Québec could not say yesterday how many women he allegedly assaulted, but said more charges could be laid if other victims step forward. Any informa
  
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• Restaurant review: Monkland Tavern an institution inside and out

  25-05-2017 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Monkland Tavern
  ★★ out of ★★★★
  $$$
  5555 Monkland Ave. (Corner of Old Orchard Ave.)
  Phone: 514-486-5768
  Open: Dinner daily, 5 to 11 p.m.
  Website: monklandtavern.com
  Licensed: Yes
  Wheelchair access: Yes
  Reservations: Not accepted 
  Cards: All major
  Vegetarian friendly: Yes
  Parking: On surrounding streets
  Price range: Starters $14-$24, main courses $22-$34, desserts $10-$11.
  There is a wonderful feeling familiar to us Montrealers that comes with that fir
  
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• Courtney Edgar

  25-05-2017 21:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  Courtney Edgar is a Global News intern in Montreal.
  
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• Man turns himself in to police after dog found buried alive

  25-05-2017 21:44 via cbc.ca
  
  The Sûreté du Québec say a man in his 40s turned himself in to a station in Rouville in the Montérégie.
  
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• COMMENTARY: C2MTL looks to the future

  25-05-2017 21:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  Day Two of C2MTL, taking place at Arsenal on 2020 William St. in Montreal’s Little Burgundy neighbourhood, focused on the innovative creations to come – and the understanding that the future, in fact, is already here. Robots, bio plastics, the philosophical experiences of digital art; we are at a crossroads between our industrial past and digital future...
  
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• Missing Children’s Day: 1,000 tiny steps for missing kids

  25-05-2017 21:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  In honour of National Children’s Day, 1,000 daycare kids are marching in the streets of Montreal.
  
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• Beaconsfield bike path construction stopped for strike

  25-05-2017 21:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  Quebec’s construction industry strike has halted work on projects across the island, including on a long delayed bike path in Beaconsfield. Global’s Matt Grillo reports.
  
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• What you need to know about the special law that could end Quebec's construction strike

  25-05-2017 21:20 via cbc.ca
  
  Premier Philippe Couillard signalled his government could introduce legislation as early as Monday to put an end to the strike. Here's a primer on back-to-work legislation.
  
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• Last surviving Dionne quintuplets hope to preserve childhood home

  25-05-2017 21:04 via cbc.ca
  
  The last surviving Dionne quintuplets, once a wonder of the world and a major tourist draw, are fighting to preserve the house where they were born, hoping it stands as a symbol of their struggles and those of other children who suffered abuse.
  
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• Arthur Kaptainis: Which is the grand finale? A Beethovenian debate

  25-05-2017 21:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The main event of the Montreal Chamber Music Festival is a traversal in six concerts by the Dover Quartet of Beethoven’s 17 works for string quartet. Or should that be 16 with a kicker?
  One might suppose the matter can be easily settled, but the standard count of 17 has been challenged by a tendency to play the fearsome Grosse Fuge Op. 133 as a finale to Op. 130.
  This is how Beethoven originally wrote Op. 130 and how the six-movement work was first performed on March 21, 1826. Contemporary
  
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• Montreal’s Bachelorette @VanessaGrimaldi is back in town btmontreal.ca/videos/montrea… and launching her own foundation btmontreal.ca/videos/vanessa…

  25-05-2017 20:57
  Montreal’s Bachelorette @VanessaGrimaldi is back in town btmontreal.ca/videos/montrea… and launching her own foundation btmontreal.ca/videos/vanessa…
  
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• Pina Rizzi murder trial: Jury sees footage of body dragged into shed

  25-05-2017 20:50 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Jean-Philippe Tremblay appeared to have his legal strategy all laid out just one hour after confessing to a homicide during a police interrogation. 
  His sometimes disturbing confession to having killed Montrealer Pina Rizzi on Aug. 2, 2009, was recorded during an interrogation, in March 2013, during which Montreal police Det. Sgt. Gilles Lafrance somehow caused Tremblay to snap and open up emotionally. The jury in Tremblay’s first-degree murder trial watched the end of the interrogati
  
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• We're caught in the middle of 'political bickering,' MUHC patients complain

  25-05-2017 20:18 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The patients of the McGill University Health Centre say they’re caught in the middle of a political war between Health Minister Gaétan Barette and MUHC senior administrators over the institution’s funding and its ultimate fate.
  The Central Users Committee of the MUHC held a news conference Thursday during which patients shared their horror stories about the impact of budget cuts on their health.
  “Unfortunately, every day we are seeing the harm caused to users,” Pie
  
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• New on-the-job training program targets newly arrived immigrants

  25-05-2017 19:26 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A new employment program aims to train newly arrived immigrants to Montreal and get them hired in their fields of study.
  The program, launched by the city of Montreal and the provincial government as a pilot project, works with the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal and four large corporations to help integrate immigrants into the workforce.
  The program will allow the companies to hire 12 to 15 employees each, giving them training and then paid work for between 30 and 52 weeks. Th
  
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• C2 Montreal: Cirque du Soleil's Guy Laliberté launches entertainment company

  25-05-2017 19:13 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Co-founders Alexandre Amancio and Guy Laliberté are looking to hire 150 employees for Reflector Entertainment, a multiplatform company that was launched Thursday during the sixth annual C2 Montreal business conference. 
  Reflector Entertainment will create and distribute movies, TV shows, video games, books and comic books.
  Laliberté and Amancio – former creative director of Assassin’s Creed video games Revelations and Unity – are working with U
  
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• Pointe-Claire councillor Aldo Iermieri to run for mayor

  25-05-2017 19:07 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Pointe-Claire District 4 councillor Aldo Iermieri is running for mayor. The councillor for Cedar Park Heights announced his candidacy less than one week after Mayor Morris Trudeau announced he would not seek re-election. The municipal elections are Nov. 5.
  Iermieri was first elected to council in a by-election in 1997.
  The long-standing tradition in Pointe-Claire is for a member of council to take the next step and run for mayor after the mayor steps down.
  Trudeau told the Montrea
  
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• Montreal Museums Day hosts special edition to celebrate city’s 375th anniversary

  25-05-2017 19:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  Sunday is free museum day in Montreal with 43 participating venues to choose from.
  
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• Construction on Beaconsfield bike path halted during worker strike

  25-05-2017 18:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Quebec construction workers strike has forced work on the Elm Avenue bike path to be delayed.
  
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• Why is the Canadian Grand Prix a hub for human trafficking?

  25-05-2017 18:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  Almost all sex trafficking victims are women and girls - some as young as 14-years-old - who are forced to perform sex acts 365 days a year.
  
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• Update: Iermieri has since announced that he will run for mayor

  25-05-2017 17:39 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Political aspirations and declarations are sparking debate and speculation in the West Island and Off-Island in the run-up to the Nov. 5 civic elections.
  Even before a single ballot is cast, Pointe-Claire residents know they will have a new mayor because Morris Trudeau has announced that he won’t seek re-election. Trudeau served as a councillor for 15 years before being elected mayor in 2013. He was preceded in the mayor’s office by Bill McMurc
  
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• Montreal Museums Day

  25-05-2017 17:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  “Montreal founder Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve” joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about this year’s Montreal Museums Day as part of Montreal’s 375th anniversary.
  
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• Fire heavily damages Chomedey massage parlour

  25-05-2017 17:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  A two-storey commercial building housing a massage parlour on des Laurentides Boulevard in Laval’s Chomedey district, was heavily damaged after an early morning fire Thursday.
  
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• Montreal police seek help in homicide from nearly a year ago

  25-05-2017 17:06 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal police are asking the public to help solve a homicide in Ahuntsic-Cartierville from last June.
  Police say they are looking for a grey Nissan Altima with tinted windows, and its driver.
  Angelo D’Onofrio, 72, was gunned down around 4 p.m. on June 2, 2016, near the Sinatra Café (previously known as the Hillside Café) on Fleury St. East, near André-Jobin St.
  D’Onofrio was transported to a hospital where he died an hour later, police said. 
  
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• Quebec construction strike: Marches planned across the province

  25-05-2017 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Various marches will take place across Quebec in support of the province’s construction strike as it enters Day 2.
  About 175,000 workers launched the unlimited general strike on Wednesday, crippling activity on such major projects as the Champlain Bridge and the CHUM superhospital.
  It is not immediately clear whether the two sides will resume negotiations Thursday, after Labour Minister Dominique Vien asked them to give her a schedule of new meetings.The one positive thing about the
  
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• Flipping for Chinese crêpes on Westminster Ave.

  25-05-2017 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The owners of a popular new Chinese street food restaurant picked an unlikely commercial stretch for their business: Westminster Ave. in Montreal West. Although rarely lacking in foot traffic, the area is less bustling than, say, the food markets in northern China where the aptly named Montreal Chinese Crêpes and Dumplings drew its inspiration. It’s not even as natural a fit as our Chinatown or the Chinese food-filled Concordia ghetto.
  Nevertheless, this hole in the wa
  
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• Happy National Wine Day! ca.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/02…

  25-05-2017 16:58
  Happy National Wine Day! ca.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/02…
  
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• Charges against police in Montreal North death a step in right direction, activists say

  25-05-2017 16:57 via cbc.ca
  
  Community activists in Montreal North are hailing the charges laid against a police officer in the death of Bony Jean-Pierre as a small step in the right direction.
  
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• Seinfeld in conversation: 'Funny is hard enough'

  25-05-2017 16:50 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The last time Jerry Seinfeld performed at Just for Laughs was in 1989. He was pretty much an unknown comic at the time, although buzz was he could soon break out in a TV series, starring and co-created by him, to debut later in the year.
  Skeptics in the trade, however, had their doubts, because this was to be a partially improvised show much ado about nothing with another co-creator (Larry David) and actors (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards and Seinfeld) few had ever heard
  
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• P.K. Subban on goal celebrations: 'Can I not enjoy playing in the NHL?'

  25-05-2017 16:40 via montrealgazette.com
  
  P.K. Subban will celebrate his athletic success any way he wants – and he’s not afraid to say so.PK Subban on his often-criticized goal celebrations. His story coming Sunday pic.twitter.com/HBAeoPG92O
  — E:60 (@E60) May 24, 2017
  The former Montreal Canadien-turned-Nashville Predator recently responded to criticism that his goal celebrations were selfish and disrespectful.
  “Can I not enjoy playing in the NHL?” Subban said.Subban at it again pic.twitter.com/tlRqXzmquk
  
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• Supreme Court to look at constitutionality of victim surcharges in case of Quebec man

  25-05-2017 16:33 via cbc.ca
  
  The Supreme Court of Canada will look at whether it's unconstitutional to make a poor person convicted of a crime pay a surcharge that helps victims.
  
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• New bike path construction causes traffic confusion

  25-05-2017 16:10 via globalnews.ca
  
  The construction of a $1.6 million bike path is underway on Elm Avenue in Beaconsfield. But as Global’s Matt Grillo reports, some residents are upset, saying navigating in the area has become confusing.
  
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• Movie review: Baywatch

  25-05-2017 16:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  Movie columnist Eric Cohen joins Global’s Laura Casella with his take on the new Baywatch movie, starring Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron.
  
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• Fly around the world in a real simulator

  25-05-2017 16:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  Aerosim’s flight instructor, Marc-Antoine Haddad, teaches Global’s Kim Sullivan how to fly and about flight therapy.
  
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• Mini-pilot summer camp

  25-05-2017 16:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  Global’s Kim Sullivan talks with Marc-Antoine Haddad about Aerosim, one of Canada’s only professional grade flight simulator open to the public.
  
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• Striking Quebec construction workers march for family time

  25-05-2017 15:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  Construction workers entering their second day of a general province-wide strike are marching in defence of "the great social cause of work-life balance."
  
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• Montreal's Tembec target of $807M US friendly takeover offer by Florida company

  25-05-2017 15:47 via cbc.ca
  
  Montreal-based lumber, paper and pulp producer Tembec has received an $807 million US offer to take over the company from Florida-based conglomerate Rayonier Advanced Materials.
  
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• MISSING MAN: 24-year-old Daniel Condrea from Laval. Seen him? Call 911. https://t.co/NpBVfn2yGp

  25-05-2017 14:38
  
  MISSING MAN: 24-year-old Daniel Condrea from Laval. Seen him? Call 911. https://t.co/NpBVfn2yGp
  
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• #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your 90-second news, weather & traffic update at 8:30! https://t.co/wv10NkG3gn

  25-05-2017 14:34
  
  #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your 90-second news, weather & traffic update at 8:30! https://t.co/wv10NkG3gn
  
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• Fire ravages Laval auto parts shop

  25-05-2017 13:55 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A used auto parts store in Laval caught fire early Thursday.
  The fire broke out about 1:30 a.m. and spread quickly at Recyclage Laval, on Gélinas St. near Laurentides Blvd. in the Laval-des-Rapides sector. There was extensive damage.
  No one was injured in the blaze, but firefighters were not able to determine the cause. Investigators have not discounted the possibility the fire was criminally set.
   
  
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• COMING UP: @VanessaGrimaldi tells us about her foundation @No_Better_You - stream us live btmontreal.ca https://t.co/O3pMklZmH7

  25-05-2017 13:45
  
  COMING UP: @VanessaGrimaldi tells us about her foundation @No_Better_You - stream us live btmontreal.ca https://t.co/O3pMklZmH7
  
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• Graco child seats recalled because webbing might not hold kids in a crash

  25-05-2017 13:43 via globalnews.ca
  
  Graco is recalling 1,393"My Ride 65" convertible car seats after the harness webbing failed to meet Canadian standards for break strength.
  
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• Black Rock memorial park: Montreal's Irish community feels betrayed

  25-05-2017 13:33 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Mayor Denis Coderre promised Wednesday to work out a compromise with Hydro-Québec on a proposed memorial for 6,000 Irish immigrants who died in Montreal after fleeing the Great Famine of 1847.
  “We’re in solution mode,” he said at a meeting of the city’s executive committee.
  While vague on specifics, Coderre said the city is looking at “a series of options” to solve the impasse over a proposed memorial park near the Victoria Bridge. He added that he has
  
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• While you were sleeping: The school and bear-claw edition

  25-05-2017 13:19 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Here’s our roundup of the best and brightest stories this morning.
  A squeeze in the classroom: The C.D.N.-N.D.G. borough council has approved the demolition of a vacant school on Somerled Ave. with a larger facility slated to replace the derelict building by the fall of 2019. The $13-million building will have eight more classrooms for a total of 20 and a double gym. Still, the new École Sainte-Catherine-de-Sienne is not the cure-all for overcrowding in N.D.G. schools, according to
  
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• #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your 90-second news, weather & traffic update at 7:15! https://t.co/DIoYPhswSi

  25-05-2017 13:18
  
  #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your 90-second news, weather & traffic update at 7:15! https://t.co/DIoYPhswSi
  
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