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• 2 men charged in fatal downtown Montreal stabbing

  26-05-2017 23:59 via cbc.ca
  
  Two men have been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of a 23-year-old man in downtown Montreal earlier this week.
  
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• Quebec construction strike: Unions, employers’ groups back at bargaining table

  26-05-2017 23:57 via montrealgazette.com
  
  By Lia Levesque
  An alliance of construction trade unions and employers’ groups returned to the bargaining table Friday as Quebec’s construction strike kept work sites quiet for a third day.
  The negotiations resumed with a provincially appointed conciliator at the table, one day after Premier Philippe Couillard signalled he would begin the process of adopting back-to-work legislation Monday if there is no agreement.
  About 175,000 workers launched the unlimited general strike on Wednes
  
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• For their birthday, Dionne quints want protection for children

  26-05-2017 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
  
  ST-BRUNO-DE-MONTARVILLE — Cécile and Annette Dionne have just two items on their wish list as they get set to celebrate their 83rd birthday Sunday.
  The surviving Dionne quintuplets would like various levels of government to ensure their soon-to-be-relocated birthplace in North Bay, Ont., has a consistent source of funding once it is moved.
  And in a rare interview, the sisters said they’d also like to see Canada do more to prevent child abuse.
  The identical sisters were bo
  
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• Plan for memorial park at Montreal's Black Rock in jeopardy

  26-05-2017 23:43 via cbc.ca
  
  For years, members of the Irish community have been working to create a commemorative park at the Black Rock, a monument to the thousands of typhoid victims buried there in a mass grave. Now Hydro-Québec has bought the site.
  
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• Editorial: Fixing the MUHC

  26-05-2017 23:36 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The uncertain status of the McGill University Health Centre is causing anxiety, both within the venerable hospital network and among the community it serves.
  The administration is grappling with cuts to services and programs to meet its budget. It claims the MUHC is being underfunded based on a 10-year-old plan that doesn’t take into account present-day patient volumes. 
  Health Minister Gaétan Barrette says the MUHC suffers from a”p
  
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• Lloyd Barker: Roller-coaster week for Impact

  26-05-2017 23:25 via montrealgazette.com
  
  In a span of four days, the Montreal Impact basked in the emotional high that accompanies a big victory and suffered the disappointment of a narrow defeat.
  The Impact dismantled the Portland Timbers 4-1 at Saputo Stadium on Saturday with Ignacio Piatti leading the way with two goals in the convincing win. But the Timbers certainly didn’t help their cause. Hard tackling midfielder Diego Chara was shown a straight red card in the 18th minute for throwing his forearm into the face o
  
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• Monday we talk the Conservative party's new leader with insider Neil Drabkin. macleans.ca/politics/in-be…

  26-05-2017 23:11
  Monday we talk the Conservative party's new leader with insider Neil Drabkin. macleans.ca/politics/in-be…
  
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• Dorval residents concerned about new massage parlour

  26-05-2017 22:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  Residents in Dorval say they’re concerned after hearing about a new massage parlour in their neighbourhood. Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports.
  
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• Health Canada approves new supervised consumption sites in B.C. and Montreal

  26-05-2017 22:24 via cbc.ca
  
  Health Canada has approved plans to create four new supervised consumption sites in British Columbia and Quebec to help combat the ongoing overdose crisis gripping the country.
  
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• Quebec floods: L’Anse-à-l’Orme Road still closed

  26-05-2017 22:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  L’Anse-à-l’Orme Road between Kirkland and Pierrefonds-Roxboro is still closed following the intense flooding in Quebec. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, the area news to be inspected before it reopens.
  
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• Alouettes betting QB Darian Durant can help change club's fortunes

  26-05-2017 22:13 via montrealgazette.com
  
  As Canadian Football League teams prepare for the start of training camp this weekend, every player is optimistic this is the season he’ll drink from the chalice of Earl Grey, who donated the trophy in 1909, when he was Canada’s governor general.
  That would include Alouettes players, who haven’t reached the Canadian Football League’s championship game, or won it, since 2010. Montreal hasn’t reached the postseason since 2014, which is quite an accompli
  
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• Adult-only massage parlour causing controversy in Montreal

  26-05-2017 21:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  An adult massage parlour in Dorval Village has many residents and business owners upset, saying the establishment isn't welcome in a family-friendly area.
  
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• Seniors at Hampstead retirement home will move to Jewish General during renovations

  26-05-2017 21:44 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Nearly 70 seniors living at the Henri-Bradet retirement home are moving out Sunday to make way for major renovations on the building.
  Residents of the Hampstead facility will be transferred to the Jewish General Hospital for the next 12 to 18 months, according to the CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal.
  To make the transition easier, some staff members at Henri-Bradet will join them for the course of their stay at the Jewish General.
  
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• Quebec floods: L’Anse-à-L’Orme Road still closed to traffic, pending inspection

  26-05-2017 21:43 via globalnews.ca
  
  Local officials said they are well aware of the demands to open the road.
  
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• Ottawa approves 3 supervised injection sites for B.C., 1 in Montreal ... - The Globe and Mail

  26-05-2017 21:26 via theglobeandmail.com
  
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  The federal government has approved four more supervised-injection sites – three in the Vancouver region and one in Montreal – in its latest effort to combat an ...
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• Times have changed around cultural appropriation, but has the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts? - The Globe and Mail

  26-05-2017 21:16 via theglobeandmail.com
  
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  Times have changed around cultural appropriation, but has the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts?
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  In Of Montreal, Robert Everett-Green writes weekly about the people, places and events that make Montreal a distinctive cultural capital. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts's 2011 retrospective of work by French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier was a ...
  
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• Quebec teen sentenced to 6 months in plot to kill fellow classmates

  26-05-2017 21:13 via cbc.ca
  
  The 14-year-old, who pleaded guilty in April, will be on probation for two years and do 180 hours of community service after he's released from detention. His 16-year-old accomplice was found not guilty because of a mental disorder earlier this year.
  
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• 5 Montreal stories you must read this week: May 26

  26-05-2017 19:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  From a zero-waste initiative to protect the environment and striking construction workers, here are the top five stories Global News covered in Montreal this week.
  
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• Quebec construction strike: Little to show for at bargaining table on Day 3

  26-05-2017 19:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  There is little progress to report at the table as Quebec's construction strike enters Day 3.
  
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• Comedy Nest making a move down the 401 – to expand

  26-05-2017 19:30 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Comedy Nest is spreading its wings – all the way to suburban Toronto. It does our civic pride well knowing that a Montreal business can expand and establish a beachfront down the 401 – as opposed to the more usual scenario where a Toronto-based company sets up operations here.
  The national Yuk Yuk’s comedy chain, based in Toronto, has set up satellite clubs here over the years, but they have never lasted very long. Comedy Nest proprietors David Acer and Phil Shuchat are now
  
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• What Marc Bergevin can learn from the Predators success story

  26-05-2017 19:25 via montrealgazette.com
  
  There are thousands of Montrealers who are pumped that the Nashville Predators are in the Stanley Cup final.
  But I’d bet any amount of money that Marc Bergevin is not one of them. In fact, you can safely assume that the snappily-attired Canadiens general manager couldn’t be less pleased to see the Preds four games away from potentially lifting Lord Stanley’s cherished chalice.
  No this isn’t yet another column rating the P.K. Subban/Shea Weber trade. That horse has le
  
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• Kirkland arson suspect sought after garbage fire

  26-05-2017 19:25 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal police are looking for a suspect who allegedly committed arson by setting a fire to garbage placed at the entrance of a private residence in Kirkland.
  At around 4:40 pm on Wednesday, May 10, police say the suspect was seen using a lighter to set fire to some garbage bags at a residence on Rue du Curé-Trottier, just west of St-Charles Blvd.
  The female suspect wore black leggings, a gray jacket, a dark pink three-quarter length coat and black rain boots.
   Police say she i
  
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• Don Macpherson: Saving the Parti Québécois from itself

  26-05-2017 19:24 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Not since “the night of the long knives” in the 1981 constitutional negotiations, when an alliance between René Lévesque and other premiers broke down, have Quebec sovereignists felt so betrayed. Only this time, they feel betrayed by other sovereignists.
  For the past week, Péquistes and sympathetic commentators have been fulminating against the supposed treachery of Québec solidaire at its policy convention last weekend in rejecting a tentative agreement a
  
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• Despite the trade, P.K. Subban's dad will be a Habs fan for life

  26-05-2017 19:14 via cbc.ca
  
  Karl Subban said he has been a fan of the Montreal Canadiens, the team that gave his son P.K. a shot in the NHL but also traded him away last year, for almost five decades. That kind of devotion, he said, is hard to shake.
  
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• Montrealer was one of the victims of Times Square collision

  26-05-2017 19:03 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A Montrealer remained in a coma Friday as one of the victims of a fatal collision with a speeding car in Times Square on May 18.
  Elena Avetisian was in New York to attend the wedding of her cousin Anna Avetisian when she was among the victims to be struck by a speeding car on 7th Ave. Alyssa Elsman, an 18-year-old tourist from Portage, Michigan, was the sole person killed in the crash, but Avetisian is still fighting for her life, according to Anna.
  “I write this with t
  
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• Under the Big Top with Cirque du Soleil’s Brandon Livanos

  26-05-2017 18:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  Ever wondered what it's like being in the circus?
  
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• Visionary Montreal librarian Eleanor London dies

  26-05-2017 18:29 via montrealgazette.com
  
  There was no library, no books, and no staff when Eleanor London was first interviewed for the position of chief librarian for Côte-St-Luc.
  “When I got the job in 1965, I asked ‘where’s the library?’ And they said ‘there is no library — yet.’ I started with some pencils, a telephone and a desk,” London told the Montreal Gazette in 1994.
  Côte-St-Luc’s founding librarian died Thursday at age 79. A very private person,
  
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• Montreal police seek suspect after garbage-bag fire set

  26-05-2017 18:17 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Montreal Police arson squad is looking for a suspect in a fire two weeks ago in front of a West Island home.
  On May 10 at around 4:40 p.m., a young woman about 20 years of age was seen using a lighter to set garbage bags on fire in the entrance of the home on Curé-Trottier St. in Kirkland. The suspect was slim, of medium height, with a pale complexion and dyed red hair. She wore black leggings, a gray jacket, a dark pink three-quarter coat and black rain boots.
  Police are asking
  
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• Guitar teacher robbed banks because he owed money to criminals, trial hears

  26-05-2017 18:09 via montrealgazette.com
  
  An accomplished musician who robbed banks in Montreal while he taught guitar lessons carried out his crimes, in part, because he was under a great deal of stress, a Quebec Court judge was told Friday morning.
  The comment was made by Tiziana Costi, a forensic psychologist who evaluated Mark Steven Vandendool, 35, for his sentence hearing. The Crown has requested that he be sentenced to a 12-year prison term for the 12 armed robberies he carried out in 2015 and 2016 in municipalities like Kirkland
  
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• VIDEO: @DJJojoFlores shares his top music picks and F1 festivities btmontreal.ca/videos/dj-jojo…

  26-05-2017 18:07
  VIDEO: @DJJojoFlores shares his top music picks and F1 festivities btmontreal.ca/videos/dj-jojo…
  
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• Rosé-coloured glasses: 18 pink drinks for under $18

  26-05-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Since I started writing this column in 2007, I haven’t really done rosé guides, opting instead to add a Rosé of the Week to the Wines of the Week beginning in 2010. But I have received a number of requests for a list of inexpensive rosés. So far in 2017, I have tasted more than 70 pink wines, most of them under the $18 barrier. So here’s a list of my favourites that you can bookmark.Almost half of the pink wines available this summer are
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: May 26, 2017

  26-05-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Under $18: Everyday drinking
  Luberon 2016, La Vieille Ferme, France white, $13, SAQ # 298505. Once again, a study in nuance and texture. This wine could not be further removed from the hyper-acidic, super-aromatic whites that are all the rage these days. This is about pear and peaches, a solid mineral streak and a rich, comforting finish. Serve this on the warmer side, or you simply won’t get what I am talking about. Residual sugar: 1.2 g/L. Grape varieties: bourboulenc, grenache blan
  
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• Olympian Mikaël Kingsbury, mayor Denis Coderre have breakfast with Lachine students

  26-05-2017 17:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  Students from École Jardin-des-Saints-Anges in Lachine were joined by Olympian Mikaël Kingsbury and Montreal mayor Denis Coderre for breakfast before school.
  
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• Viva Las Vegas

  26-05-2017 17:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  Travel journalist Catherine Maisonneuve joins Global’s Laura Casella and guest co-host Brandon Livanos to talk about travelling to Las Vegas two ways — with your girlfriends, or with your family.
  
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• BBQ sauce and rub secrets with Chef Erica! btmontreal.ca/videos/bbq-sau…

  26-05-2017 17:49
  BBQ sauce and rub secrets with Chef Erica! btmontreal.ca/videos/bbq-sau…
  
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• Our @CVDmtl takes the @MakeAWishQuebec Rope for Hope challenge https://t.co/mtF72ZzjOg

  26-05-2017 17:44
  
  Our @CVDmtl takes the @MakeAWishQuebec Rope for Hope challenge https://t.co/mtF72ZzjOg
  
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• Weekend entertainment

  26-05-2017 17:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  Cirque du Soleil acrobat Brandon Livanos joins Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Casella to talk about weekend entertainment.
  
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• The Price is Right: Ryan Belz @weatherman7 sets Plinko record with $31,500 payday btmontreal.ca/videos/the-pri…

  26-05-2017 17:37
  The Price is Right: Ryan Belz @weatherman7 sets Plinko record with $31,500 payday btmontreal.ca/videos/the-pri…
  
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• Catering to the circus stars

  26-05-2017 17:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  Agnus Dei president David Carrier joins Global’s Laura Casella and guest co-host Brandon Livanos to sample some of the extraordinary food they prepare for the VIP tent at the Cirque du Soleil’s Volta installation in the Old Port of Montreal.
  
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• Visionary Montreal librarian Eleanor London dies | Montreal Gazette - Montreal Gazette

  26-05-2017 17:06 via montrealgazette.com
  
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  There was no library, no books, and no staff when Eleanor London was first interviewed for the position of chief librarian for Côte-St-Luc. “When I got the job in ...and more »
  
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• Visionary Montreal librarian Eleanor London dies - Montreal Gazette

  26-05-2017 17:06 via montrealgazette.com
  
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  Visionary Montreal librarian Eleanor London dies
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  There was no library, no books, and no staff when Eleanor London was first interviewed for the position of chief librarian for Côte-St-Luc. “When I got the job in 1965, I asked 'where's the library?' And they said 'there is no library — yet.' I ...and more »
  
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• Montrealers mark International Missing Children’s Day https://t.co/URRSvt1jZV

  26-05-2017 17:06
  
  Montrealers mark International Missing Children’s Day https://t.co/URRSvt1jZV
  
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• Conservatives return to the scene of Stephen Harper's last stand to pick a new leader

  26-05-2017 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The year-long campaign to replace Stephen Harper has not quite amounted to a repudiation of his time in office. And the return of Conservatives to Etobicoke in suburban Toronto this weekend, this time to crown Harper's successor, offers an opportunity to measure what has changed, and what hasn't.​
  
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• Scholarships to celebrate Montreal’s 375th

  26-05-2017 16:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  Franz Benjamin, Fonds 1804 co-founder and Montreal city council speaker joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about their upcoming gala, where they will present 375 scholarships to school children and young adults, as part of Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations.
  
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• Cirque du Soleil’s Volta

  26-05-2017 16:50 via globalnews.ca
  
  Cirque du Soleil acrobat Brandon Livanos joins Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan to talk about his career and Cirque’s latest show, Volta.
  
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• Car theft stopped in incredible fashion https://t.co/QAQdJDwdFm

  26-05-2017 16:49
  
  Car theft stopped in incredible fashion https://t.co/QAQdJDwdFm
  
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• Olympian serves up breakfast at Lachine school

  26-05-2017 16:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Breakfast Club of Canada is a charity that helps feed children to nurture their potential. As Global’s Matt Grillo reports, Friday couldn’t have gotten off to a better start at Jardin-des-Saints-Anges school in Lachine where Olympic silver medallist, Mikaël Kingsbury was serving up breakfast with a healthy dose of inspiration.
  
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• Voters in Maxime Bernier's hometown say they like the man more than the Conservatives

  26-05-2017 15:58 via montrealgazette.com
  
  SAINT-GEORGES — In Beauce, a region of rolling hills, entrepreneurs and pickup trucks south of Quebec City, locals say they vote for the candidate, not the political party.
  Since 2006, the various towns along the Chaudière River have been represented federally by the Tories’ Maxime Bernier, considered in some circles to be the front-runner to become the next Conservative leader when voting results are announced Saturday.
  In Bernier’s hometown of Saint-Georges &
  
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• Les Beaucerons will vote for the man, not the party

  26-05-2017 15:58 via montrealgazette.com
  
  SAINT-GEORGES — In Beauce, a region of rolling hills, entrepreneurs and pickup trucks south of Quebec City, locals say they vote for the candidate, not the political party.
  Since 2006, the various towns along the Chaudière River have been represented federally by the Tories’ Maxime Bernier, considered in some circles to be the front-runner to become the next Conservative leader when voting results are announced Saturday.
  In Bernier’s hometown of Saint-Georges &
  
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• Community Events: Bal En Blanc

  26-05-2017 15:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  Laura Casella has Montreal’s community events for Friday, May 26.
  
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