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• Brake issues force Montreal's Lance Stroll out of Monaco GP

  28-05-2017 23:51 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Lance Stroll was once more beleaguered by brake issues on Sunday and was forced to retire from the Monaco Grand Prix on the 72nd lap. 
  After a collision between McLaren-Honda driver Jenson Button and Sauber driver Pascal Wehrlein on the 61st lap, Stroll was heard complaining about brake issues on the Williams radio.
  Stroll, who was 15th and last among the remaining the drivers, decided to lift his foot off the brakes and make a pit stop to put an end to his race.
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• Bixi unveils Montreal-inspired bikes for city's 375th anniversary

  28-05-2017 23:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Bixi riders may notice their bike got a Montreal makeover over the weekend.
  
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• Bagels and orange cones: 375 Montreal-inspired Bixi designs unveiled

  28-05-2017 23:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Bixi riders may notice their bike got a Montreal makeover over the weekend.
  
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• Flour recall warning expanded because of bacteria contamination

  28-05-2017 22:51 via montrealgazette.com
  
  More flour products are now being pulled from grocery store shelves after another case of infection was detected in Quebec.
  The food recall warning issued on May 11 was updated this week to include additional products.
  The latest food recall warnings were triggered by Canadian Food Inspection Agency findings during its food safety investigation into this outbreak.
  As of Friday, Ardent Mills is recalling several varieties of Robin Hood and Creative Baker flour from stores acro
  
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• QS's Nadeau-Dubois is confident, but won't take Gouin constituency for granted

  28-05-2017 22:31 via montrealgazette.com
  
  MONTREAL — The constituency of Gouin has twice elected a Québec solidaire representative, and the party’s candidate, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, says nothing will be taken for granted in view of the by-election taking place Monday evening.
  The ex-student leader, whom former MP Françoise David chose as her successor, said he led this campaign with confidence, because the citizens of Gouin know his party well.
  In the Gouin constituency, Québec solidaire has been in powe
  
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• Mixed reactions to Bernier's leadership defeat in his home riding of Beauce

  28-05-2017 22:00 via cbc.ca
  
  While many didn't support Maxime Bernier's campaign for leader of the Conservative Party, others were let down by his narrow defeat.
  
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• 'It's Quebec that took him out of there': Mixed reactions to Bernier's defeat in Beauce

  28-05-2017 22:00 via cbc.ca
  
  While many didn't support Maxime Bernier's campaign for leader of the Conservative Party, others were let down by his narrow defeat.
  
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• As tick season hits, Lyme disease patients say they need better care

  28-05-2017 22:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Lyme disease patients in Montreal say they can't get the treatment they need here and are turning to one doctor in Calgary and doctors in the U.S.
  
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• This week on Focus Montreal: May 27

  28-05-2017 21:47 via globalnews.ca
  
  This week on Focus Montreal, hear from Pina Arcomone of the Missing Children's Network as we mark International Missing Children's Day, meet local photographer François Brunelle whose doppleganger project is spreading around the world and extremism expert André Gagné discusses the impact of terrorism in the wake of the Manchester attack.
  
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• Montreal Comic Arts Festival takes place at Lafontaine Park

  28-05-2017 21:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  Fans of graphic novels and comic books were in for a treat at the sixth annual Comic Arts Festival in Montreal's Lafontaine Park over the weekend.
  
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• Associations make final offers to construction workers as back-to-work legislation looms

  28-05-2017 21:34 via montrealgazette.com
  
  An association representing construction industry employers in the institutional, commercial and industrial sectors submitted its final offer to the Alliance syndicale, the union representing construction workers in the province in those sectors, on Sunday afternoon. 
  The union has until 4 p.m. to accept or be forced back to work with special legislation, the Association de la construction du Québec (ACQ) said in a press release on Sunday after it made its final offer.
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• Quebec construction strike: unions reject ACQ offer despite threat of back-to-work legislation

  28-05-2017 20:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  Striking construction workers have until four p.m. Sunday to accept a last-minute deal by the Quebec construction association.
  
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• Quebec construction strike: ACQ tables final offer as threat of back-to-work legislation looms

  28-05-2017 20:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  Striking construction workers have until four p.m. Sunday to accept a last-minute deal by the Quebec construction association.
  
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• Focus Montreal: International Missing Children’s Day

  28-05-2017 20:23 via globalnews.ca
  
  Sun, May 28: Pina Arcamone from the Missing Children’s Network joins senior anchor Jamie Orchard to discuss her work and the importance of setting aside a day for missing children.
  
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• Focus Montreal: Ancient doppelganger?

  28-05-2017 20:18 via globalnews.ca
  
  Sun, May 28: Photographer François Brunelle joins senior anchor Jamie Orchard to talk about his latest project called ‘My 2,000-Year-Old Double’, which focuses on matching ancient works of art with their present-day, real-life doppelgangers.
  
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• Focus Montreal: Terrorism and its impact

  28-05-2017 20:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  Sun, May 28: Concordia University associate professor and extremism expert André Gagné joins senior anchor Jamie Orchard to talk about the impact of terrorism on communities in the wake of the Manchester stadium bombing.
  
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• Celine Cooper: Vanguard brings global wisdom on urbanism to Montreal

  28-05-2017 20:08 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Bâtiment 7 is a hulking, 90,000 square-foot former industrial building in Pointe-St-Charles. It is also an unlikely symbol of Montreal’s urban renewal and the challenges that some communities are facing along the way. 
  Originally constructed by Canadian National Railway, the building has sat vacant since transport company Alstom shuttered its operations there in 2003. Property owner Groupe Mach — which purchased the site for one dollar a
  
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• La Ronde says goodbye to La Pitoune

  28-05-2017 19:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  After 50 years, La Ronde announced its iconic log ride known as La Pitoune, would not be open for the 2017 season after having reached the end of its useful life.
  
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• Most Airbnb hosts not registered in Quebec, one year after law took effect

  28-05-2017 19:07 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The majority of Quebecers who list their properties on Airbnb and other home rental websites are not registering with the province, just over a year since it implemented a law regulating them, new data suggests.
  The province’s Tourism Department says it issued 967 permits for rental hosts out of 2,244 applications in the year since the law took effect on April 15, 2016.
  There were 19,400 Airbnb hosts in Quebec in 2016, according to the company’s data, and that doesn’t include p
  
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• Opinion: What corporations should have to tell Canada's taxman

  28-05-2017 19:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Multinational corporations routinely use tax avoidance strategies to defer tax to future years, and to eliminate tax altogether by shifting profits from Canada and other high-tax jurisdictions to offshore tax havens.
  A taxpayer has the right to reduce its tax to the minimum allowed by law. Still, Canadian corporations should be prepared to both disclose and defend their strategies before the Canada Revenue Agency. A recent court decision makes it less likely that they will be required to do eith
  
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• Most Airbnb hosts not registered in Quebec, 1 year after law took effect

  28-05-2017 18:52 via cbc.ca
  
  The majority of Quebecers who list their properties on Airbnb and other home rental websites are not registering with the province, just over a year since it implemented a law regulating them, new data suggests.
  
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• Montrealers react: La Ronde attraction Pitoune at end of its ride

  28-05-2017 18:51 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Pitoune, one of La Ronde amusement park’s oldest attractions, has reached the end of its ride.
  After 50 years in existence, the log-style water ride will not reopen for the 2017 season.The Pitoune was built in 1967, the same year La Ronde opened, and is one of the few original rides left at the amusement park. It was inaugurated during Expo 67.
  Many Montrealers are sad to see the ride go. @lianacauzo WHAT rip la pitoune— Celia (@celiapennimpede) May 28, 2017@DenisCoderre On
  
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• Flour recall warning expanded due to bacteria contamination

  28-05-2017 18:30 via montrealgazette.com
  
  New flour products are now being pulled from grocery store shelves after another case of infection was detected in Quebec.
  The food recall warning issued on May 11, 2017 was updated this week to include additional products.
  The latest food recall warnings were triggered by Canadian Food Inspection Agency findings during its food safety investigation into this outbreak.
  As of May 26, Ardent Mills is recalling several varieties of Robin Hood and Creative Baker flour from stores acro
  
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• Teen in hospital after east-end brawl

  28-05-2017 17:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  An 18-year-old male is recovering in hospital after a fight broke out early Sunday morning at the intersection of Notre-Dame Street and 6th Avenue in Pointe-aux-Trembles.
  
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• 2 teens injured at NDG house party

  28-05-2017 17:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Two teens were injured Saturday night after a fight broke out at a house party inside an apartment building near the intersection of Walkley and Someled avenues in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough.
  
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• Police seize car connected to hit-and-run death of toddler

  28-05-2017 17:27 via cbc.ca
  
  Police are still trying to find the driver of a car that struck a boy early Saturday morning in Saint-Constant.
  
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• Montreal Museums Day: Free admission, transport, fun

  28-05-2017 16:30 via montrealgazette.com
  
  It’s that time of year again – Montreal’s annual Museums Day is upon us.Forty-three participating museums, galleries and exhibition halls will be open to the public for free on Sunday.
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  Montreal Museums Day: Proof that the best things in life are freeThis year features seven new participants, including the Montreal Firefighters Museum and the Rock’n Roll Museum.
  Montreal Museum Day is in its 30th year of existence, while the city honours its 375th. As part of
  
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• Exhibitions, crafts and free admission: It's Montreal Museums Day

  28-05-2017 16:13 via cbc.ca
  
  Every year, locals and tourists are invited to more than 30 art galleries, museums and cinemas from Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue to Hochelaga.
  
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• Racetrack driver killed in Drummondville crash

  28-05-2017 15:51 via montrealgazette.com
  
  MONTREAL — A driver died on Saturday night in a stock car race at Autodrome Drummond racetrack in Drummondville.In a statement released Saturday night, Autodrome officials confirmed Guy Ouellette’s death. The driver died in a serious accident during the final of the Sportsman category.Ouellette was struck by another vehicle and the impact weighed several tonnes.Rescue forceps were used to remove the victim from the crash site.Organizers ended the evening of races right away.
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• Squeaky Wheels: Plan to improve safety at Montreal West doesn't include overpass

  28-05-2017 15:22 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Q: The Agence métropolitaine de transport put a new parking lot in Lachine and constructed a ramp stretching hundreds of metres to the new “temporary” du Canal station on the Candiac line, presumably so commuters could avoid a level crossing. Why is not the same courtesy provided at Montreal West station, Vaudreuil (fastest growing community in Quebec) and Park on St-Jerome line? These have all been around for over 100 years and each one has several fold the number o
  
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• Quebec construction workers and employers still without deal as deadline looms

  28-05-2017 15:12 via cbc.ca
  
  Construction companies and the unions representing construction workers have only one more day to reach a deal before the province steps in with back-to-work legislation.
  
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• No deal between Quebec unions, construction companies as talks break down

  28-05-2017 15:12 via cbc.ca
  
  Negotiations have officially stalled between Quebec construction companies and the unions representing workers as the deadline to strike a deal looms.
  
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• Fitness: Women who lack time don't have to lack exercise

  28-05-2017 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  It’s a rare study that focuses solely on the habits of female exercisers: in an effort to find out more about the women who meet the Australian guidelines for physical activity (150 to 300 minutes of exercise a week), as well as those who don’t, a group of Brisbane-based researchers scoured the records of over 15,000 women. 
  The subjects were part of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health, which collected data through surveys completed every three ye
  
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• Man injured in Pointe-aux-Trembles

  28-05-2017 14:35 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A man was injured in an assault Sunday morning around 2:30 a.m. according to Montreal police. 
  Police responded to a 911 call about an assault at Notre-Dame St. and 6 Ave. in the Pointe-aux-Trembles borough around that time.
  A fight had broken out among multiple people. In the commotion, an 18-year-old man was injured in the lower part of his body. Police initially thought the injury could have been a gunshot wound, but this was not the case. 
  After taking refuge in a nearby build
  
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• While you were sleeping: New CPC leader, Alicia Keys awarded, Gregg Allman remembered

  28-05-2017 14:09 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Conservative Party of Canada has a new leader.After a tight race with longtime frontrunner Maxime Bernier on Saturday, Andrew Scheer won with 50.95 per cent of the available points – Bernier posted 49.05 per cent after leading all 12 of the previous ballots. Scheer is a social conservative and former House of Commons Speaker seen by some as a pragmatic, mainstream echo of Stephen Harper.
  “I’m here to tell you there is renewed hope for Canada, starting today,” Sch
  
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• Laurentians log cabin a perfect mix of seclusion and easy road access

  28-05-2017 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  “Everything comes to him who waits.”
   The owner of the Scandinavian style log home featured in this article was very particular when he was scouting locations for land. He wanted a secluded spot with no neighbours in sight, yet it had to be close to a main thoroughfare for easy access. He also required a flat terrain to build his cabin and a sizeable piece of land with a private road — a tall order indeed! An existing private road was essential for him, beca
  
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• So long, Pitoune: La Ronde's classic log ride shuts down

  28-05-2017 13:44 via cbc.ca
  
  La Ronde's Pitoune, the classic log ride whose splash-filled turns and photo finish captured the hearts of Montrealers, is no longer.
  
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• Those other Montreal holidays

  28-05-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Of the thousands of scenes Sarah Lolley's grandmother Mona Barry painted in the course of her long and storied life in Montreal, there is one that Lolley loves most of all. Here's the last installment from the CBC/QWF 2017 writer-in-residence.
  
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• In praise of Terrasse Day, and other unofficial Montreal holidays

  28-05-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  From Creaky Clothesline Day to Forgotten Festival Day, Sarah Lolley describes the unofficial holidays on her Montreal calendar, in her final installment as the CBC/QWF 2017 writer-in-residence.
  
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• From the archives: St. Patrick's Basilica property once home to Rocheblave mansion

  28-05-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  This story was first published on May 21, 2011, in the Montreal Gazette
  To Be Sold. That spacious and splendid Mansion, situated in Notre Dame Street, the property of William Bingham, Esquire, and now occupied by His Excellency the Governor General.
  Gazette, Saturday, May 20, 1843
  It was just one of many real estate advertisements in The Gazette that day. The immensely wealthy William Bingham, by then living in Paris, was selling his Montreal house on “terms of payment [that] will be made
  
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• Andrew Scheer's unlikely path to victory: Social conservatives and Quebec

  28-05-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Andrew Scheer's narrow victory over Maxime Bernier for the Conservative leadership can be chalked up to two factors: Bernier's underperformance in his home province of Quebec and a significant showing from social conservatives.
  
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• Woman's body found near Charron Island

  28-05-2017 05:02 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Sûreté du Québec has opened an investigation to identify the body of a woman found Saturday afternoon in the water near Charron Island on the South Shore of Montreal.The Longueuil fire department recovered the body.Police found no identification papers on the victim’s body. 
  
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• Police search for suspect after two-year-old boy dies in hit-and-run

  28-05-2017 04:19 via montrealgazette.com
  
  ST-CONSTANT — Police are searching for a suspect after a two-year-old boy was killed in a hit-and-run south of Montreal on Saturday morning.
  The incident occurred in St-Constant on Montreal’s South Shore.
  Police say they believe the child escaped his parents’ attention and got out of the backyard where he’d been playing.
  He was found unconscious on the street and later declared dead in hospital.
  The boy’s mother and another family member were also taken to
  
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• CBC Montreal, Quebec take home 4 national RTDNA journalism awards

  28-05-2017 04:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The RTDNA awards recognize journalistic excellence in individual reporting, as well as for programs and stations across radio, television and digital platforms.
  
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• Quebec construction strike negotiations hit snag

  28-05-2017 03:40 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Last-chance negotiations in the construction strike struck a pitfall Saturday afternoon with the filing of a complaint by the union, which deplores the “bad faith” of their counterparts.
  For its part, the Couillard government called members of the National Assembly to convene on Monday morning for the possible adoption of a special law. Negotiations have not broken off between the parties.
  Both the Trade Union Alliance and the Quebec Construction Association (QCA) ensured they wanted
  
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• Keys accepts humanitarian award from Amnesty International

  28-05-2017 02:50 via montrealgazette.com
  
  American music artist Alicia Keys said social activism is needed now more than ever under Donald Trump’s U.S. administration.
  At a press conference in Montreal, where Keys was awarded Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2017, the 15-time Grammy winner was asked if U.S. social activists felt they had an ally or foe in the White House.
  Keys deliberately took a long pause before answering the Trump question. Without mentioning the president’s name or a
  
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• Hydro-Québec to join annual trek to Irish Black Rock

  28-05-2017 02:48 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Irish of Montreal have doing the annual Walk to the Stone for over 150 years.
  They always will.
  It has been a deeply symbolic, even spiritual event for the Irish community to commemorate those who died after arriving in Montreal during the Great Famine of 1847. More than 6,000 dead are said to be buried beneath the imposing Black Rock, a tombstone like no other in Montreal.
  The Black Rock sits in the middle of Bridge St. and commemorates the Irish typhus victims who died in fever sheds soon
  
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• Alicia Keys, Canada's indigenous movement share human rights award

  28-05-2017 02:47 via cbc.ca
  
  American recording artist Alicia Keys is sharing a top humanitarian award with indigenous rights activists in Canada. They were given Amnesty International's "ambassador of conscience award."
  
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• Saskatchewan MP Andrew Scheer is the new leader of the Conservative Party, beating QC’s Maxime Bernier who led voti… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  28-05-2017 02:14
  Saskatchewan MP Andrew Scheer is the new leader of the Conservative Party, beating QC’s Maxime Bernier who led voti… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Volunteers lend flood victims a helping hand in Pierrefonds-Roxboro

  28-05-2017 01:52 via cbc.ca
  
  More than 200 volunteers gathered in Pierrefonds-Roxboro Saturday morning to help clean up the damage left behind by the major flooding.
  
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