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• Hundreds gather in Montreal for 3rd annual March for Humanity - Globalnews.ca

  27-05-2017 23:22 via globalnews.ca
  
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  WATCH ABOVE: Hundreds gathered on the streets of Montreal Saturday for the third annual March for Humanity and Genocide Prevention. As Global's Matt Grillo reports, the aim of the march is to promote peace amongst different communities.
  
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• Hundreds gather in Montreal for 3rd annual March for Humanity

  27-05-2017 23:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  Hundreds came together in Montreal for the third annual March for Humanity and Genocide Prevention.
  
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• Montreal police open homicide investigation after man found dead in Anjou apartment

  27-05-2017 22:58 via cbc.ca
  
  Montreal police say a suspicious death that occurred yesterday in the borough of Anjou is a homicide. When officers arrived at the apartment they found a 30-year-old man who had been shot in the upper body.
  
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  27-05-2017 22:45
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• Boil water advisory issued for small sector of Sud-Ouest borough

  27-05-2017 22:42 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Sud-Ouest borough issued a boil water advisory Saturday for residents living on a stretch of Biencourt and Drake streets.
  
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• Group stages protest to save green space in Plateau Mont Royal

  27-05-2017 22:35 via montrealgazette.com
  
  It might appear as a postage stamp on a map of Plateau-Mont-Royal, but to many people in the neighbourhood surrounding it Notman garden is a big deal.
  It is barely noticeable to passersby, but the tiny green space at the corner of Milton and Clark Sts. has withstood the test of time despite being a literal stone’s throw away from the hustle and bustle of the intersection of St-Laurent Blvd. and Sherbrooke St. A group trying to preserve the space (the Citizens Movement for the Preserva
  
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• Andrew Scheer elected new Conservative leader

  27-05-2017 22:17 via cbc.ca
  
  Saskatchewan MP Andrew Scheer has been elected the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, earning enough down-ballot support to overcome strong early numbers by presumptive front-runner Maxime Bernier at the convention in Toronto.
  
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• Art work installed on former St-Laurent Blvd. landmark

  27-05-2017 22:11 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A new piece of art was unveiled Saturday on a busy stretch of the Main in Montreal.
  The work by Canadian Aaron Li-Hill was installed on the former site of Berson et Fils funeral monuments, a manufacturer and distributor of tombstones located between St-Cuthbert and Napoleon Sts.
  The art work was sponsored by the Société de développement du boulevard St-Laurent (SDBSL), which said the semi-permanent work will remain in place over the summer.
  The work was commissioned by
  
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• ‘We all have to pitch in’: Volunteers gather in Pierrefonds for big cleanup

  27-05-2017 21:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  Around 200 volunteers hit the streets of Pierrefonds, looking to help residents affected by the flooding.
  
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• Kirkland school salvaging old bikes to change lives in developing countries

  27-05-2017 21:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  While organizers hoped to collect many bicycles, the goal of the bike drive was to raise awareness about how simple actions can have a lasting impact.
  
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• Quebec construction unions accuse employer group of negotiating in bad faith

  27-05-2017 20:51 via cbc.ca
  
  The alliance of Quebec construction unions plans to take their employers to court, arguing they are negotiating in bad faith as the labour conflict drags on.
  
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• 'Every minute counts': Quebec recalls MNAs to end province-wide construction strike

  27-05-2017 20:51 via cbc.ca
  
  The Quebec government is officially recalling the National Assembly and plans to table back-to-work legislation Monday as construction labour conflict drags on.
  
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• Kayaking death of Bromont director general an accident, coroner rules

  27-05-2017 20:39 via cbc.ca
  
  An investigation into the fatal kayaking accident of Bromont's director general has led a Quebec coroner to rule the death as accidental.
  
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• Toddler dies after hit-and-run collision in south shore Saint-Constant

  27-05-2017 20:07 via globalnews.ca
  
  A two-year-old boy has died following a hit-and-run collision in a residential neighbourhood in the South Shore community of Saint-Constant.
  
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• Montreal Canadiens prospect Michael McNiven named CHL goalie of the year

  27-05-2017 19:29 via montrealgazette.com
  
   
  Michael, McNiven, a prospect to the Montreal Canadiens, has been named the goalie of the year by the Canadian Hockey League. 
  This title, announced Saturday afternoon, is the second bit of good news for McNiven this month, coming after being named goalie of the year in the Ontario Hockey League as well. 
  The 19 year old has played in 54 games with the Owen Sound Attack, with a record of 41-9-2-2, including six shutouts.
  McNiven’s performance helped the Attack to 49 wi
  
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• Boy, 2, dies after hit-and-run in Saint-Constant

  27-05-2017 19:20 via cbc.ca
  
  A boy, 2, died Saturday morning after a hit-and-run in Saint-Constant on Montreal's South Shore.
  
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• City and Montreal police Brotherhood plan weekend contract negotiation

  27-05-2017 17:56 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A spokesperson for the Montreal police Brotherhood has confirmed that the union and the city have been involved in contract negotiations since Tuesday and plan to continue the process throughout the weekend. 
  The union, which represents more than 4,500 members, has been involve in lengthy disputes over a few issues in recent years, most notably over changes to pensions. Negotiations fell apart in December 2014 when the provincial government introduced Bill 15, adopting legislation that woul
  
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• Vaudreuil-Dorion SPCA has five days to find new location

  27-05-2017 17:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  With its lease expiring on Wednesday, the SPCA Ouest de L'Ile is looking for a new location -- fast.
  
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• Montreal police investigating city’s 11th homicide of 2017

  27-05-2017 17:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  Montreal police are investigating the shooting death of a 30-year-old man in Anjou Friday afternoon.
  
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• Outremont fire being investigated by arson squad

  27-05-2017 17:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  Montreal police are investigating an overnight fire that took place in a mixed-use building in Outremont.
  
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• Police investigating mob ties in Anjou murder

  27-05-2017 17:03 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A suspicious death in Anjou has been declared Montreal’s 11th homicide for 2017.
  A 30-year-old man was found shot to death in his Anjou apartment Friday. A report in La Presse said the man had ties to the Lebanese mafia and Italian organized crime.
  Police came upon the victim around 4:30 p.m. after a woman found his body and called 911. By the time they arrived at the apartment on Roi-René Blvd., he’d already died from his injuries: a gunshot wound to “the upper body,&rd
  
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• Tentative agreement gives SQ officers 17.5% raise over 7 years

  27-05-2017 16:51 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The tentative agreement reached this week between the Quebec Government and the union representing members of the Sûreté du Québec calls for 17.5 per cent raises in salaries over the next seven years. 
  In return, the Association des policiers du Québec, the union that represents SQ officers, has agreed it members will progressively increase their contributions to their pensions, with a plan to bring them up to parity with the employer in 2022. This is according to
  
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• A bottle of white for you, a dollar to Montreal food banks

  27-05-2017 16:33 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) is holding its seventh annual food bank campaign this weekend, donating $1 to the Banques alimentaires du Québec (BAQ) for every bottle of white wine sold at its outlets. 
  Last year, the SAQ campaign, plus donations from patrons, raised $700,000 for the food bank. Approximately $3 million has been raised over the last six years.
  For more than 25 years, the Réseau des aliments du Québec has been
  
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• More flour products added to growing list of national flour recall

  27-05-2017 16:12 via cbc.ca
  
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has added more brands to its recall list of flour and flour-based products, over further fears of E. coli contamination.
  
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• Even more flour brands added to growing list of national flour recall

  27-05-2017 16:12 via cbc.ca
  
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency's, CFIA, has added more brands to its recall list of flour and flour based products, over further fears of E.coli contamination.
  
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• Check your pantry: more flour brands added to national flour recall list

  27-05-2017 16:12 via cbc.ca
  
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has added more brands to its recall list of flour and flour-based products, over further fears of E. coli contamination.
  
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• Arson is suspected in late-night blaze on Van Horne

  27-05-2017 15:35 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Montreal arson squad has been called in to investigate a fire that occurred Friday night in an apartment building near Van Horne Ave. and Durocher Ave.
  Alerted by a call to 911 shortly after midnight Friday, police arrived to find firefighters already on the scene. After the blaze was extinguished, an investigation revealed what appeared to be multiple sources of the fire and evidence of incendiary materials. 
  The building is being guarded by police until arson investigators arrive Satu
  
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• Update: Suspicious death in Anjou is Montreal's 11th homicide in 2017

  27-05-2017 15:34 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A suspicious death in Anjou has been declared Montreal’s 11th homicide for 2017.
  A 30-year-old man was found shot to death in his Anjou apartment Friday. A report in La Presse said the man had ties to the Lebanese mafia and Italian organized crime.
  Police came upon the victim around 4:30 p.m. after a woman found his body and called 911. By the time they arrived at the apartment on Roi-René Blvd., he’d already died from his injuries: a gunshot wound to “the upper body,&rd
  
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• Walk the historic walk on St-Paul St. in Old Montreal today

  27-05-2017 15:30 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The city of Montreal is celebrating the history and architecture of one of its timeless streets in Old Montreal on Saturday. 
  Several free activities are part of the festivities which begin at 11 a.m. at 350 St-Paul St. E. in front of Marché Bonsecours with Quebec singer Michel Faubert taking part. A conference on the street’s archaeological history, examining the work of Bénigne Basset, a 17th century royal notary, who lived in Montreal. 
  Other events include guide
  
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• Walk the historic walk on St-Paul St. in Old Montreal today - Montreal Gazette

  27-05-2017 15:24 via montrealgazette.com
  
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  Walk the historic walk on St-Paul St. in Old Montreal today
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  The city of Montreal is celebrating the history and architecture of one of its timeless streets in Old Montreal on Saturday. Several free activities are part of the festivities which begin at 11 a.m. at 350 St-Paul St. E. in front of Marché Bonsecours ...
  
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• Pointe-Saint-Charles residents celebrate as community group gets keys to Bâtiment 7

  27-05-2017 14:57 via cbc.ca
  
  A community garden, a bistro, a co-op grocery store and other initiatives are planned for the space, organizers say.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Palestinian hunger strike ends as Ramadan starts, Pope recognizes Coptic martyrs

  27-05-2017 14:19 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Here’s a roundup from the overnight news desk.
  Palestinians end hunger strike: Israel prison service spokeswoman Nicole Englander said the inmates declared an end to the 40-day strike Saturday morning, the first day of the month-long Muslim holiday of Ramadan, after reaching a compromise with Israel for additional family visits. She said it came after Israel reached a deal with the Palestinian Authority and the Red Cross for prisoners to receive a second family visit each per mon
  
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• Village café in Cascapédia-Saint-Jules sees business surge with detour due to closed bridge

  27-05-2017 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A popular café and convenience store run by a mother and daughter in tiny Cascapédia-Saint-Jules is attracting many new customers who find themselves taking the road less travelled over the Grand Cascapédia River.
  
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• Crisis on campus: Universities struggle with students in distress

  27-05-2017 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  One Monday morning in March, a lonely and homesick 19-year-old undergrad took his own life in residence at the University of Waterloo, Ont.
  “I can’t believe this is real,” his 16-year-old brother wrote the next day in an agitated social media post filled with grievances against the school.
  “My brother is gone and I’ll never be able to tell him I love him ever again.”
  As the post grimly noted, his brother was the second “brilliant min
  
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• Police investigating mob ties in Anjou murder - Montreal Gazette

  27-05-2017 13:34 via montrealgazette.com
  
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  Police investigating mob ties in Anjou murder
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  A 30-year-old man was found shot to death in his Anjou apartment Friday. A report in La Presse said the man had ties to the Lebanese mafia and Italian organized crime. Police came upon the victim around 4:30 p.m. after a woman found his body and called ...
  Police investigate after man found dead in Anjou apartmentCTV Newsall 2 news articles »
  
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• Shelter: Fitness expert exercises restraint in Plateau condo

  27-05-2017 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Jason Boivin grew up on the West Island, but when it was time for him to go to McGill University, he moved into town.
  During his student years, he lived in a number of Montreal neighbourhoods, including the McGill Ghetto and Mile End. Boivin graduated with a BA in Civil Engineering, but he ended up becoming a personal trainer at his alma mater, as well as running his own company — JB Fitness and Swimming — whose slogan, appropriately enough given his expertise, is “En
  
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• Suspicious death in Anjou is Montreal's 11th homicide in 2017 - Montreal Gazette

  27-05-2017 13:26 via montrealgazette.com
  
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  Suspicious death in Anjou is Montreal's 11th homicide in 2017
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  A 30-year-old man was found shot to death in his Anjou apartment Friday. A report in La Presse said the man had ties to the Lebanese mafia and Italian organized crime. Police came upon the victim around 4:30 p.m. after a woman found his body and called ...
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• The Week in Review: Politics, health care, construction strike and more politics

  27-05-2017 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Couillard: PQ-QS merger an attempt to manipulate voters
  Plans to merge political parties, like the one mentioned by the Parti québécois and Québec solidaire, are all attempts to manipulate voters, according to Québec premier Philippe Couillard. “Every alliance scenario, in the end, it’s just smoke,” he said Monday in a press release on the subject of his trip in Israel. The comment comes one day after members of QS gathered in congress to reject the
  
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• Montreal arson squad investigate after fire in Outremont - CBC.ca

  27-05-2017 12:50 via cbc.ca
  
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  The Montreal police's arson squad is investigating a fire that occurred in Outremont, early Saturday morning. Police say that the building is a total loss. Both police and firefighters were dispatched to the scene after they received a 911 call just ...
  Arson is suspected in late-night blaze on Van HorneMontreal Gazette
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• Montreal arson squad investigate after fire in Outremont

  27-05-2017 12:47 via cbc.ca
  
  The Montreal police's arson squad is investigating a fire that occurred in Outremont, Saturday morning.
  
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• Josh Freed: Bill 101 badly hurt us, but it also accidentally saved Canada

  27-05-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Bill 101 — the most loaded term in the anglo-Quebec vocabulary, along with its cousin “referendum.”
  Bill 101 turns 40 this summer, but few anglos will be singing Bonne Fête and many will mourn.
  For decades the law aggravated, infuriated, exhausted and entertained us with its legal lunacies. Anglos resent and regret it, yet so do some sovereignists — because Bill 101 brought unpredictable consequences, even to those who created it.
  The “Char
  
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• From the archives: Governor-general's enthusiasm for Canadian culture gave a boost to what became the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

  27-05-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  This story was first published on May 27, 2007, in the Montreal Gazette
  “By eight o’clock, throngs of ladies and gentlemen, the elite of Montreal, came pouring in, the toilettes of many of the ladies being noticeable for their tasteful elegance.”
  Gazette, Tuesday, May 27, 1879
  It was one hot ticket among many that six-day stretch in Montreal. The governor-general, the marquess of Lorne, was paying an official visit to the city, and a highlight would come when he opened the new
  
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• Farmers in Maxime Bernier's riding vote against him for supply management 'lie'

  27-05-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Farmers in the Beauce hope their votes against Maxime Bernier will at least send a message to Conservative leadership candidate that they don't appreciate his reversal on the issue of supply management.
  
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• Centennial Academy may share space with EMSB until it finds a new home

  27-05-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Over the past six years, Angela Burgos has been concerned with a lot more than just providing quality education to her students at Centennial Academy – she has also been on the hunt for a new school building.
  Since 1976, the private high school has been renting space from the Commission scolaire de Montréal on Prud’homme Ave. in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
  But their 40-year lease is now up and the French school board needs its buildings to deal with a severe overcrowding proble
  
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• Anger, betrayal and pride: Views from the Beauce on Maxime Bernier's bid to lead Conservatives

  27-05-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Farmers in the Beauce hope their votes against Maxime Bernier will at least send a message to Conservative leadership candidate that they don't appreciate his reversal on the issue of supply management.
  
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• Trapped 'like a caged animal': Climate change taking toll on mental health of Inuit

  27-05-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The annual ice melt in Canada's North is occurring earlier and earlier, and some researchers say that and other climate-related changes are affecting the mental health of populations in Inuit communities. CBC's Sabrina Fabian reports from Rigolet, Labrador.
  
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• 5 things to watch for in today's Conservative leadership result

  27-05-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  After a year of campaigning, it's mostly all over but the counting for the 13 candidates in the Conservative leadership race. As the final few votes are cast in person and the tabulation machines set to work Saturday, here's what to watch for when the results are revealed at 5 p.m. ET.
  
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