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• Parti Quebecois charges real price tag of electric train network is being hidden from the public

  06-06-2017 23:47 via globalnews.ca
  
  The REM electric train network sparked a heated exchange at a public hearing in Quebec City Tuesday. The Parti Quebecois (PQ) accused executives behind the train plan of hiding the real price tag.   READ MORE: New bill would prevent Montreal property owners from contesting expropriation for light rail   The PQ wants to know...
  
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• Man acquitted on charge he harassed prosecutor during Youth Court trial of jihadist

  06-06-2017 23:47 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A Montreal man, charged with intimidating a prosecutor while she was involved in a Youth Court case involving terrorism charges, was acquitted by a Quebec Court judge on Tuesday because there was no proof, beyond a reasonable doubt, he intended to frighten the lawyer. 
  Samy Nefka Bahri, 28, was arrested and charged with intimidation in September 2015, shortly after his behaviour during the Youth Court trial of a teenage boy who robbed a convenience store caught the attention of courthouse c
  
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• Police looking for other victims of child predator

  06-06-2017 23:40 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A 57-year-old Montreal man is facing charges of forcible confinement and sexual intercourse with two young girls.
  Gerardo Segovia of Montreal North was arrested by police May 28 and appeared in Quebec Court the following day.
  The girls are 9 and 10 years old. Police suspect there may be other victims.
  On the afternoon of May 28, police say the two girls went to a convenience store on Amiens St. in Montreal North.
  Since they had no money, they left the store. A discussion then began with the susp
  
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• Montreal’s electric train project under fire

  06-06-2017 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Parti Québécois is accusing Quebec’s Pension Fund of hiding how much Montreal’s proposed electric train project will cost taxpayers. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Agreement reached to build Cavendish extension, Blue Bonnets housing

  06-06-2017 23:26 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The city and province reached a deal to both develop the former Blue Bonnets site, and extend Cavendish Blvd.
  Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre and Finance Minister Carlos Leitão announced Tuesday the province will cede the former horse-racing track near Jean-Talon St. and Décarie Expressway that the city initially sold to the province in the 1990s.
  On Tuesday, Leitão said the government is handing over the land to the city. The city pays nothing up front, but must give the provi
  
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• Jean Talon Market to have four pedestrian days a week this summer

  06-06-2017 23:20 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montrealers who like to walk through the Jean Talon Market will have more time to do so this summer. 
  Previously a two-day affair, the market will soon be walkable for pedestrians four days a week  — Thursday through Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  From June 8 to Oct. 15, including Labour Day and Thanksgiving, Montrealers will be able to stroll through the market with no reason to worry about vehicles, which are strictly prohibited. 
  The market has two underground parking lot
  
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• Quebec floods: Report highlights health issues affecting flood victims

  06-06-2017 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  
  Montreal’s public health director released a report Tuesday morning which showing that almost 70 per cent of flood victims are suffering from mental health issues. Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports.
  
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• Montreal floods caused mental, physical problems for those affected – report

  06-06-2017 23:13 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal’s spring floods created mental health problems for 67 per cent of those affected by rising water levels, while 35 per cent saw their physical well being decline, a study by the city’s public health department and published Tuesday suggests.
  The mental stress endured by flood victims included bouts of anxiety, sleep disorders and a deterioration of their ability to concentrate. And those problems were even more acute among those forced to evacuate their homes.
  The study, over
  
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• Stroll calm ahead of Canadian Grand Prix debut

  06-06-2017 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  If Lance Stroll is nervous about his Formula One home debut, he sure is good at hiding it.
  The Montreal-born rookie — all of 18 years old — was the picture of poise Tuesday under the glare of television lights as he met with local reporters ahead of his highly anticipated appearance at this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
  Dressed in jeans, ankle-high sneakers and a crisp team Williams top, Stroll spoke calmly and eloquently about his good fortune of
  
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• Pierrefonds-Roxboro flood victims speak their mind at meeting

  06-06-2017 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Pierrefonds-Roxboro flood victims filled the council room at the borough hall, Monday. They wanted their stories heard and they asked for help.
  Borough mayor Jim Beis and councillors listened to close to two hours of testimonies, primarily from residents of 5th Ave. N. in Roxboro and Des Maçons St. in Pierrefonds. Both areas were devastated by the flooding which hit with unprecedented force in early May.
  The material damage left in the wake of receding waters is enormous — the struc
  
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• Former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum granted parole after two months

  06-06-2017 22:43 via globalnews.ca
  
  Former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum has been granted parole after serving one-sixth of his one-year sentence on corruption-related charges.
  
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• Quebec-born F1 rookie Lance Stroll providing buzz for Montreal Grand Prix

  06-06-2017 22:12 via cbc.ca
  
  Ticket sales have jumped by more than 10 per cent for the Montreal Grand Prix, and credit is going to the presence of 18-year-old Canadian rookie driver Lance Stroll.
  
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• “Both teams are strong, but I’m rooting for the Montreal Canadiens” - Geoff Molson on if he’s going for #PK and the… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  06-06-2017 21:53
  “Both teams are strong, but I’m rooting for the Montreal Canadiens” - Geoff Molson on if he’s going for #PK and the… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Police seek additional victims of Montreal-North man accused of sexual touching of a child

  06-06-2017 21:39 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police have reason to believe that Gerardo Segovia, 57, accused of sexual touching and confinement could have other victims.
  
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• “We want to hear about hope,” says Francois Legault as we get ready for #Obama speech https://t.co/Q1QiFppp52

  06-06-2017 21:36
  
  “We want to hear about hope,” says Francois Legault as we get ready for #Obama speech https://t.co/Q1QiFppp52
  
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• Mayor @DenisCoderre taking in President Obama’s talk tonight https://t.co/mmd96sa6xh

  06-06-2017 21:32
  
  Mayor @DenisCoderre taking in President Obama’s talk tonight https://t.co/mmd96sa6xh
  
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• More Quebecers have the travel bug this year: survey

  06-06-2017 21:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  According to a recently published travel survey, people in Quebec are more keen on travelling this summer than they were last year.
  
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• Former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum gets parole

  06-06-2017 21:23 via cbc.ca
  
  Former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum has been granted parole, two months after he began serving a one-year jail sentence on corruption-related offences. He told the provincial parole board he has no plans to return to public office.
  
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• “Tonight all over the world the news will talk about what President Obama said here in Montreal” - Michel Leblanc,… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  06-06-2017 21:15
  “Tonight all over the world the news will talk about what President Obama said here in Montreal” - Michel Leblanc,… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Uber fires 20 employees after harassment probe

  06-06-2017 21:03 via cbc.ca
  
  Uber Technologies Inc told staff on Tuesday that it had fired 20 employees following an internal investigation into harassment and related claims by law firm Perkins Coie, a person familiar with the matter said.
  
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• Province officially returns Hippodrome site to Montreal

  06-06-2017 21:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The deal was made official at a ceremony attended by Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, Quebec Finance Minister Carlos Leitao and Russell Copeman, mayor of the Côte-des-Neiges—​Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough.
  
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• As Grand Prix approaches, Montreal hotels vigilant about sexual exploitation

  06-06-2017 20:50 via cbc.ca
  
  With Grand Prix weekend just around the corner, Montreal hotel staff are trying to play an active role in preventing sexual exploitation.
  
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• SQ arrest 19 in connection with cannabis production operation

  06-06-2017 19:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  Provincial police arrested 19 people in a series of drug raids carried out in the Montérégie and Centre du Québec regions Tuesday morning.
  
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• At least 2,458 Canadians died from opioid-related overdoses in 2016: PHAC

  06-06-2017 19:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  At least 2,458 Canadians died in 2016 from opioid related ovderdoses, but that number could rise.
  
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• Quebec floods: Majority of flood victims experiencing anxiety, mental health issues, survey says

  06-06-2017 19:16 via globalnews.ca
  
   “Our survey shows that almost 70 per cent of respondents reported having suffered from anxiety, sleep disturbances or concentration problems since the floods.” 
  
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• Police arrest 9 suspects in connection with Montreal drug-trafficking ring

  06-06-2017 18:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  Montreal police said they have arrested nine people in connection to a heroin trafficking ring, after a series of raids that took place last May.
  
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• AFN's Quebec and Labrador chief tells Viens inquiry 'systemic discrimination' must be addressed

  06-06-2017 18:55 via cbc.ca
  
  Quebec and Labrador Assembly of First Nations Chief Ghislain Picard told the inquiry looking into discrimination against Indigenous people that Quebec has a “two-tier” system: one for the majority, another for the Aboriginal minority.
  
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• Rain, rain, go away! ☔️ ☔️ ☔️ Tonight's softball game between City TV & the Jewish General Hospital/McGill Memory Clinic has been postponed.

  06-06-2017 18:46
  Rain, rain, go away! ☔️ ☔️ ☔️ Tonight's softball game between City TV & the Jewish General Hospital/McGill Memory Clinic has been postponed.
  
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• Woman from Vancouver on trial in Montreal for heroin smuggling

  06-06-2017 18:40 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A jury at the Montreal courthouse has begun hearing evidence in a case against a Vancouver woman charged with trying to smuggle more than seven kilograms of heroin into Canada through the airport in Dorval. 
   
  During the Crown’s opening statement on Tuesday, prosecutor Anne-Marie Manoukiane told the jury that Serena Khavita Narinesingh, 28, left Rwanda on a flight on July 16, 2015 and arrived at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Dorval the following day. ‎Her it
  
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• Quebec City's Jacynthe Carrier on top 5 shortlist for Sobey Art Award

  06-06-2017 18:25 via cbc.ca
  
  Women dominate the field of this year's Sobey Art Award short list, announced Tuesday, holding four of the five short list spots.
  
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• Grilled Sardines: A warming stew from Newfoundland

  06-06-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Two energetic food sleuths have travelled Canada coast to coast, asking questions, following up leads to the best local cooks, food stores, farms and restaurants, and writing what turned out to be an outstanding storybook about their adventures.
  Called Feast: Recipes & Stories from a Canadian Road Trip (Appetite by Random House, $35), Vancouver bloggers Lindsay Anderson and Dana VanVeller determined there is no one Canadian cuisine, for there is fresh, local food in every region of the count
  
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• Lakeshore Players close season with dark comedy

  06-06-2017 17:59 via montrealgazette.com
  
  To borrow heavily from the late Harper Lee, you can choose your friends, but you sure as heck can’t choose your family, so you might as well give it the best go you can give.
  Lakeshore Players Dorval closes its season with a play which elevates family dysfunction to a whole new level.
  Crimes of the Heart opens at Lakeshore Academy in Lachine on Thursday, June 8.
  The play, written by American playwright Beth Henley, is about three sisters who gather at the family home in Mississippi after t
  
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• 26th annual @hopitalchildren Pedal for Kids fundraiser starts next week btmontreal.ca/videos/26th-an…

  06-06-2017 17:46
  26th annual @hopitalchildren Pedal for Kids fundraiser starts next week btmontreal.ca/videos/26th-an…
  
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• Check out this Summer's hottest toys with @toysruscanada Chief Play Officer @emileburbidge btmontreal.ca/videos/this-su…

  06-06-2017 17:15
  Check out this Summer's hottest toys with @toysruscanada Chief Play Officer @emileburbidge btmontreal.ca/videos/this-su…
  
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• Passports and electronics stolen from apartment in Île-Bizard

  06-06-2017 17:10 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal Police Station 3 serving Île-Bizard-Ste-Genviève 
  A couple spent the night away and returned to their apartment in Île-Bizard to find some personal belongings had been moved around and others were gone. Montreal Police Const. Daniel Maheu said the break-in on Louis-Roch Street took place sometime between 9 p.m. June 3 and 1 p.m. June 4. The couple has no idea how the apartment was accessed because there was no sign of forced entry. Cash and two Canadian passports
  
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• Flood post-mortem will be thorough and objective, says Pierrefonds-Roxboro mayor

  06-06-2017 17:06 via cbc.ca
  
  Pierrefonds-Roxboro Mayor Jim Beis discussed the borough’s planned review of its flood response on the heels of a tense borough council meeting the previous evening that heard from angry homeowners.
  
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• Psychological abuse the most common form of domestic violence in Quebec – report

  06-06-2017 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The most common form of domestic violence in the province is psychological, according to a report published by the Institut de la statistique du Québec on Tuesday.
  The institute noted that in 2014, psychological violence had affected nearly 12 per cent of people who were in a couple, or had been in contact with a former spouse over the previous five years.
  The ISQ also addressed criminal harassment, and physical, economic and sexual violence.
  Sexual violence was only reported in 0.5 per c
  
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• MURAL Festival kicks off June 8 btmontreal.ca/videos/mural-f…

  06-06-2017 16:47
  MURAL Festival kicks off June 8 btmontreal.ca/videos/mural-f…
  
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• HomeSense and Marshalls grand opening at Marché Central btmontreal.ca/videos/homesen…

  06-06-2017 16:46
  HomeSense and Marshalls grand opening at Marché Central btmontreal.ca/videos/homesen…
  
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• Catching up with rising star @CameronBrodeur btmontreal.ca/videos/catchin…

  06-06-2017 16:46
  Catching up with rising star @CameronBrodeur btmontreal.ca/videos/catchin…
  
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• Top Canadian travel destinations

  06-06-2017 16:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  Air Canada En Route Magazine Editor-in-Chief Jean-Francois Légaré joins Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan to talk about 3 top Canadian travel destinations.
  
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• No Obama tickets? No problem — how to hear the speech (for free)

  06-06-2017 16:39 via montrealgazette.com
  
  While 6,000 business leaders, politicians and ordinary Montrealers lucky enough to score tickets to Barack Obama’s speech to the Board of Trade of Montreal will be able to attend the event in person Tuesday afternoon, interest in what the former U.S. president has to say extends, to say the least, beyond the walls of the Palais des Congrès in Old Montreal.
  And that interest can be satisfied by several news networks that have decided to carry the Obama speech live. CNN, the U.S. cabl
  
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• Quebec City woman tearfully asks for her home to be spared from demolition

  06-06-2017 16:35 via cbc.ca
  
  The city wants to tear down Joelyn Lake's home, where she's lived for 30 years with her husband, in order to carry out a plan to prevent flooding near the flood-prone Lorette River.
  
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• Blood drive honours Matthew Schreindorfer https://t.co/o1giMyem25

  06-06-2017 16:32
  
  Blood drive honours Matthew Schreindorfer https://t.co/o1giMyem25
  
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• New online campaign targets sexual exploitation during the Grand Prix

  06-06-2017 16:28 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A few days before Grand Prix weekend, a group fighting sexual exploitation has launched a new online awareness campaign to fight the practice.
  The goal of the campaign is to raise awareness among tourists and the general public about the devastating consequences of sexual exploitation.
  The online video, called “Buying Sex is not a Game,” uses sarcasm to explain the dark reality of young people who are exploited sexually.
  Human rights groups and the police contend that there is a
  
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• Quick ab finisher workout

  06-06-2017 16:23 via globalnews.ca
  
  Fitness expert Jenn Rochon joins Global’s Kim Sullivan with a quick ab finisher workout that is sure to give you killer abs.
  
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• Montreal man charged in homicide of Ottawa man

  06-06-2017 16:21 via cbc.ca
  
  Two men have been charged after a third man suffering from a life-threatening injury was dropped off at a hospital in Alexandria, Ont., and later died.
  
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• Community Events: Unpaspourlaviecom

  06-06-2017 16:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  Laura Casella has Montreal’s community events for Tuesday, June 6.
  
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• Brunch in the city

  06-06-2017 16:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  Daniele-Jocelyne Otou and Stephanie Arthur from Brunch in the City join Global’s Laura Casella to talk about Montreal’s largest annual fashion networking event which will be held at a surprise location this coming weekend.
  
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