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• Message of hope: Chances of breast cancer survival now 87%, forum hears

  03-06-2017 23:41 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The most renowned experts in the field of breast cancer research are gathering in Montreal on Saturday for the first annual forum of the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation.
  They will be discussing the most recent medical and scientific advances, as well as prevention.
  Nano-robotics, artificial intelligence, immunotherapy and state of the art treatment options will be among the themes and issues covered throughout the day.
  One out of nine women in Quebec is diagnosed with breast cancer every year.
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• After 60 years in business, Cartierville’s Nettoyeur Bel-Tone shuts down due to construction

  03-06-2017 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  Robin Girard says he's hanging up the towel because of construction just outside his shop.
  
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• Man, 27, found guilty of 2nd-degree murder in brother's death

  03-06-2017 23:18 via cbc.ca
  
  A 27-year-old Matane man has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his brother. In 2009 Toby Carrier, then 19, attacked his family in their home with a kitchen knife.
  
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• Weather update: It was a wet May, but summer's on its way

  03-06-2017 22:58 via montrealgazette.com
  
  We might not have broken any records, but you’re not wrong in thinking it was a crummy month of May.
  The total rainfall in Quebec was 113.9 mm, which doesn’t come near the record of 173.4 mm, established in May 2006, but it’s well above the climate normal average of 81.2 mm for May from 1981 to 2010.
  “We’re on the higher end of the spectrum,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Michèle Fleury, adding it didn’t help “it was quite grey.&rdqu
  
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• Toddler struck by car in Gatineau in critical condition

  03-06-2017 22:12 via cbc.ca
  
  A two-year-old boy is fighting for his life after he was hit by a car in Gatineau Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Enter to win tickets to @baywatchmovie! Starring @ZacEfron & @TheRock! btmontreal.ca/contests/win-t…

  03-06-2017 22:10
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• 25K cyclists to take over city streets for ever popular Tour de L’Île

  03-06-2017 22:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  While the tour is immensely popular with proponents of active modes of transportation, it can be difficult for motorists to get around, with several roads closed for the event.
  
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• Jennifer Campbell's Social Notes: June 3, 2017: Never Apart benefits from the Wiggle phenomenon

  03-06-2017 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The sun was out, the air was balmy (at last) and I was on my way to a local hair emporium to try on wigs in a variety of lengths, styles and hues, the more outrageous the better. I finally settled on an electric red bob that brought back fond memories of Viv in the epic Cinderella flick Pretty Woman. Who knows, maybe I too would have a Prince Gere in my near future?Admittedly though, the outta-the-comfort zone purchase was not man-based. Rather … it was WIGGLE-based! 
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• Fédération des commissions scolaires to elect new president Saturday

  03-06-2017 19:53 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Fédération des commissions scolaires du Québec is electing a new president on Saturday, following its convention in Laval Friday.
  Three men and one woman are running to succeed Josée Bouchard, who has held the position for eight years.
  Those running for the presidency include Miville Boudreault, president of the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l’Île, Richard Flibotte, president of the Commission scolaire de St-Hyacinthe, Alain Fortier, president of
  
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• Mining project in caribou habitat fails to get green light from Quebec environment agency

  03-06-2017 19:19 via cbc.ca
  
  The Quebec government plans to move the threatened caribou in question to a zoo in Saint-Félicien, despite criticism from environmental groups.
  
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• Police searching for "armed and dangerous" suspect in N.D.G. shooting

  03-06-2017 19:15 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal police are searching for a suspect they believe is responsible for the fatal shooting at a Notre-Dame-de-Grâce strip club on May 24. 
  Frederick Silva, 36, was allegedly driving the SUV that fled the scene of the incident at Cabaret Les Amazones, on St-Jacques St. Four other people were passengers in the vehicle. 
  A 28-year-old man was shot and killed in the altercation between two groups that began inside the bar and ended outside around 2:40 a.m. that Wednesday.
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• Canada-wide warrant issued for man wanted in connection with NDG homicide

  03-06-2017 18:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police have identified a suspect wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old man on May 24, in the parking lot of the Cabaret Les Amazones in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
  
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• "We feel exiled in Canada:" Health Minister Barrette

  03-06-2017 18:48 via montrealgazette.com
  
  TROIS-RIVIÈRES — Faced with radio silence from the rest of the country and criticism at home, Quebec’s Liberals are defending their choice to re-launch the constitutional debate.
  And nobody appreciated Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s snap dismissal of the subject without even having read Quebec’s proposal, which actually calls for dialogue first and no immediate negotiations on the taboo subject.
  “I found it unfortunate,” Health Minister Gaétan B
  
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• Search for Maïté Viens called off

  03-06-2017 18:22 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Sûreté du Québec called off the search for Maïté Viens Saturday morning in one of the basins of the Jean-Larose falls where they believe her body may be, saying it has become too dangerous to continue digging.  
  Viens, 21, disappeared May 21 while out hiking around the falls, near Mont St-Anne, some 42 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.
  In the last two weeks, the SQ has sent out divers and other teams to search for the young woman from the Îles-de
  
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• Quebec public engineers strike paralyzes 250 worksites across province

  03-06-2017 18:00 via cbc.ca
  
  An ongoing strike by Quebec government engineers has paralyzed 250 worksites across the province, according to numbers obtained by Radio-Canada.
  
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• Police search for suspect after man shot in Montreal North

  03-06-2017 17:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Montreal police are investigating after a 33-year-old man was shot in Montreal North Friday evening.
  
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• Police investigating after man shot in Montreal North

  03-06-2017 17:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Montreal police are investigating after a 33-year-old man was shot in Montreal North Friday evening.
  
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• Stories from the trenches: adapting a Cree way of life in the wake of a mega-project

  03-06-2017 17:11 via cbc.ca
  
  Quebec Hydro and Cree of Northern Quebec look for ways to help some cope with changes on the land thanks to hydro-electric projects.
  
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• Quebec floods: Why disaster will strike again

  03-06-2017 17:01 via montrealgazette.com
  
  At 4 a.m. on Feb. 28, 2010, as residents slept in La Faute-sur-Mer in western France, the 80-year-old seawall built to protect their town collapsed and the ocean came pouring in.
  Whipped up by 160-km/h storm winds, the waters of the frigid Atlantic surged into the dozens of homes built in a below-sea-level bowl near the beach, killing 29 mostly older residents trapped in one-storey bungalows.
  Hundreds of survivors perched on their roofs for hours in the biting rain, awaiting rescue.
  In the after
  
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• Montreal police issue Canada-wide warrant for suspect in fatal NDG shooting

  03-06-2017 16:59 via cbc.ca
  
  Frederick Silva, 36, is considered armed and dangerous by Montreal police.
  
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• Montreal police identify suspect in fatal NDG shooting

  03-06-2017 16:59 via cbc.ca
  
  Frederick Silva, 36, is considered armed and dangerous by Montreal police.
  
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• Bill Clinton and Jean Chrétien to hold October summit in Montreal

  03-06-2017 16:24 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Former U.S. president Bill Clinton and former prime minister Jean Chrétien will hold a summit in Montreal on October 4 to underline the importance and strength of the friendship between Canada and the U.S., just as that relationship has become strained with the arrival of Donald Trump in Washington.
  According to La Presse, the meeting between these two leaders, which will be open to the public, is part of a series of meetings organized by the Canadian American Business Council between for
  
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• Ban Marc-Yvan Coté from Quebec Liberal Party, CAQ tells Premier Couillard

  03-06-2017 16:02 via montrealgazette.com
  
  While the Quebec Liberal Party meets for its general council in Trois-Rivières on Saturday, the opposition Coalition Avenir Québec is urging Premier Philippe Couillard to ban former cabinet minister Marc-Yvan Côté from the party.
  CAQ deputy house leader Éric Caire said Couillard must show Marc-Yvan Côté the door, the way former Prime Minister Paul Martin and his Quebec lieutenant Jean Lapierre did in 2005.
  Caire said that over the past week, Quebece
  
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• $55 million Lotto Max jackpot won in Quebec

  03-06-2017 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  On Friday night, the $55 million Lotto Max jackpot found a home in Quebec.
  The ticket was purchased near Sherbrooke. The winning combination was 11, 12, 25, 28, 33, 41 and 43. 
  The identities of the winners remain unclear.
  So far, there have been 17 lottery winners in Quebec. Last January, a family spread out in St-Césaire and Bromont were the winners of the $60 million jackpot. Then, a month later in February, two Quebecers were also the lucky recipients of another $60 million lotte
  
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• Engineers' strike paralyzes 250 construction sites across Quebec

  03-06-2017 15:48 via montrealgazette.com
  
  QUEBEC CITY — A strike by Quebec government engineers has paralyzed more than 250 construction sites across the province, according to information from the provincial Transport department obtained by Radio-Canada.
  Engineers are required to be present on construction sites to monitor and inspect work.
  On Wednesday, the union representing engineers and the Treasury Board met for negotiations. Treasury Board President Pierre Moreau made it clear the government will not let the conflict drag o
  
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• Quebec ticket claims Friday night's $55M Lotto Max jackpot

  03-06-2017 15:13 via cbc.ca
  
  A ticket sold in Quebec claimed the $55 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Two ex-political figures will reunite to show that friendship matters

  03-06-2017 15:09 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Also: Fishing is free this weekend and cheesecake factory signs can’t always be trusted.
  Friendship conquers all: “Opposites attract” couldn’t be any more false for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Donald Trump. That’s why ex-president Bill Clinton and ex-prime minister Jean Chrétien will meet in Montreal on October 4 to highlight the importance of maintaining good relations between the U.S. and Canada.  The meeting between Clinton a
  
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• Iraqi-Canadian mom, daughters paint new picture of Arab communities

  03-06-2017 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The collective art exhibit, called Generation, combines the voices of three women: a mother and her two daughters.
  
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• Biocyclette fuels its gardening service with pedal power

  03-06-2017 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  It’s a novel green concept. Starting small, powered by bicycle. A gardening service that gets around on two wheels.
  That was the idea behind Biocyclette, a company started by Annie McLaughlin, 23, and Konstantinos (a.k.a. Dean) Hirtle-Kattou, 24, in 2014. With a trailer loaded with gardening equipment hooked up to an electric bike, Biocyclette caters to a clientele in Montreal West – a close-knit community where McLaughlin and Hirtle-Kathou first got their start, helping their n
  
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• The Week in Review: Construction strike, child abuse, Constitution, Karla Homolka, Ubisoft

  03-06-2017 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Construction strike: Quebec tables back-to-work legislation
  In reluctantly tabling back-to-work legislation that puts the construction strike on ice for now, the provincial government has managed to please almost nobody in the dispute and has set the stage for a possibly nasty showdown in the future. “The owners asked for this (bill) and they got their gift today,” said Michel Trépanier, spokesperson for L’alliance syndicale de la construction, representing 175,000
  
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• N.D.G.'s Incredible Edibles: Sidewalk gardens sprout for fifth season

  03-06-2017 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Volunteer gardeners in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce have a dream — to see the city “dripping with food.”
  After four years of planting vegetables and herbs in sidewalk gardens on Sherbrooke St. W. and Monkland Ave., the people behind the Incredible Edibles project hope to get closer to that dream this summer by expanding their gardens throughout the neighbourhood.
  The five sidewalk gardens on the bustling N.D.G. arteries allow residents to harvest peas, basil, calendula, arugu
  
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• Freed: Trump gives world leaders an unfair shake

  03-06-2017 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Donald Trump is taking on world leaders in genuine hand-to-hand combat.
  Across the globe, prime ministers and presidents are being coached by their strategists on how to handle the Trump handshake.
  Trump likes to seize peoples’ palms in a bone-crunching grip, then drag them into his personal territory in a rip-your-arm-off wrestling move.
  His latest duel was with French President François Macron, who outlasted Trump in a marathon white-knuckle squeeze session, as reporters gaped.
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• Man, 33, taken to hospital after shooting in Montreal North

  03-06-2017 12:54 via cbc.ca
  
  Police responded to 911 calls about the shooting just after 9:30 p.m. on the corner of Prieur Street and Oscar Avenue.
  
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• What the Puck: Canadiens need to solve the Alex Galchenyuk enigma - Montreal Gazette

  03-06-2017 12:01 via montrealgazette.com
  
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  What the Puck: Canadiens need to solve the Alex Galchenyuk enigma
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  Montreal Canadiens centre Alex Galchenyuk (27) during during warmup prior to NHL action in Montreal on Oct. 18, 2016 against Pittsburgh Penguins. Pierre Obendrauf / Montreal Gazette. Share Adjust Comment Print. Marc Bergevin has lots on his plate this ...and more »
  
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• Will Marc Bergevin sign Galchenyuk to a long-term contract?

  03-06-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Marc Bergevin has lots on his plate this summer. Carey Price’s contract is up at the end of next season, but most of us figure he’ll try to re-sign the greatest-goalie-who’s-never-won-anything-in-the-playoffs this summer because the Canadiens’ general manager won’t want that issue hanging like a dark cloud over the team all season. You don’t want to be hearing endless media chatter about whether or not Price is going to sign with the Habs, which would be just
  
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• Opinion: 'We are Quebecers, and this is our way of being Canadian'

  03-06-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The government of Quebec has released a document that will mark the history of Quebec and Canada: the Policy on Quebec Affirmation and Canadian Relations. The policy reflects an ongoing historical continuity and is supported by our trajectory as a nation over more than 400 years; it reflects our vision of a 21st century Canada that recognizes collective diversity and a plurality of ways of belonging. Our aspirations and specificity are an essential component in the Canadian identity.
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• From the archives: Tragedy's cause stumped even Conan Doyle

  03-06-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  This story was first published on June 5, 2005, in the Montreal Gazette.
  “Even though tired from a strenuous day devoted to sightseeing and travel in two countries, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle still radiated an atmosphere of genial good nature around him at Bonaventure Station last night.”
  Gazette, Thursday, June 4, 1914
  Gladly or otherwise, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was having to suffer fools. Here the famous writer was, stepping down from the train for a brief, one-day stay in Montreal, an
  
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• Children of sin: Quebec and Irish orphans share stories of abuse under care of Catholic Church

  03-06-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A Canadian composer connects two groups of survivors separated by an ocean and by language but linked by their so-called "illegitimate" births — Quebec's Duplessis Orphans and Irish survivors of Mother and Baby Homes.
  
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• Junior hockey's biggest fight isn't on the ice — it's in the courtroom

  03-06-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  You could argue that even at the age of 10, growing up on opposite ends of the country, Lukas Walter and Spencer Abraham had almost identical stories.
  
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• Former candidates for bilingualism post criticize nomination process as harmful, divisive

  03-06-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  After losing their bid to become Canada’s next bilingualism watchdog, former candidates say the government’s nomination process has divided the country’s official language minority communities and undermines the office of the official languages commissioner.
  
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• Banana Boat Sunscreen under fire as Health Canada gets more claims it caused burns

  03-06-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Health Canada received 26 complaints about bad reactions to Banana Boat sunscreen in May. At least 14 of them involve claims using the sunscreen resulted in burned or blistered skin.
  
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• Montreal in 19 neighbourhoods: On the waterfront in Old Lachine

  03-06-2017 06:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  This series of maps explores different neighbourhoods in Montreal’s 19 boroughs. We’ll be featuring one map per week until September 9.For information on La Grande Tournée, visit 375mtl.com.
  This map was created by Content Works, Postmedia’s commercial content division, on behalf of Alive 375.
  
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• Man wounded in Montreal North shooting

  03-06-2017 05:36 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A man was the victim of an attempted murder at 9:30 p.m. on Friday in Montreal North.After 911 calls about a shooting, Montreal police responded to Prieur St., near Oscar Ave.When they arrived at the scene, they discovered a man in his early 30s who was allegedly hit by at least one projectile in the upper body.The man was transported to hospital and was conscious.An investigation is underway and no suspects have been arrested.
  
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• Thousands of cyclists brave the rain for Montreal's annual Tour la Nuit

  03-06-2017 03:29 via cbc.ca
  
  In spite of the wet, cool weather, thousands of people took part in the city's 19th annual Tour la Nuit cycling event through the streets of Montreal.
  
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• Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre offers pardon for literary outlaws

  03-06-2017 03:05 via montrealgazette.com
  
  For the next three weeks, Montreal’s libraries are offering outlaw readers a chance to wipe the slate clean.
  If you have an overdue book in your possession — be it days, months, years or decades past the deadline — you can return it to the library without incurring late fees. That’s right, for just this one brief moment in time, the library is giving you a chance at absolution.
  Provided the book remains in good condition, they’ll take it back no questions asked.
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• Alouettes training camp: Donald Unamba happy for another chance at CFL

  03-06-2017 03:02 via montrealgazette.com
  
  LENNOXVILLE — There likely are few steps lower on the ladder than the Indoor Football League, where players earn $250 per game — win or lose, how’s that for incentive — but have their housing and meals provided.
  It’s where Donald Unamba, a defensive-back at training camp with the Alouettes, found himself last winter, specifically with the Salt Lake franchise. But were it not for that stint, combined with a little assistance from Southern Arkansas alumnus Nik Lewis,
  
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• Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre offers pardon for literary outlaws - Montreal Gazette

  03-06-2017 02:31 via montrealgazette.com
  
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  Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre offers pardon for literary outlaws
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  Montreal has a network of 45 libraries in its 19 boroughs — boasting a collection that includes about 4.3 million documents. Phil Carpenter / Montreal Gazette. Share Adjust Comment Print. For the next three weeks, Montreal's libraries are offering ...
  
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• Benoît Dutrizac ousted from his 98.5 FM talk show

  03-06-2017 02:19 via montrealgazette.com
  
  After nine years behind the mic at 98.5 FM’s lunch hour show, Benoît Dutrizac is being pulled from the air.
  The station’s management announced Friday they had ended the straight-talking radio host’s contract.
  Dutrizac had hosted the show since September 2008, when his predecessor, Gilles Proulx, retired. Between 2007 and 2008, he also hosted a weekend show on the same station.
  A new show will be slotted into Dutrizac’s old spot as of mid-August. Mathieu Beaumont, a
  
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