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• Driver in hospital after car slams into NDG elementary school

  09-06-2017 23:53 via cbc.ca
  
  A 80-year-old woman is in hospital after her car slammed into a school building early Friday afternoon in the city's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood.
  
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• Quebec aims to protect youth, address sexual exploitation

  09-06-2017 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  
  The government tabled amendments Friday to a bill aimed to stop teen runaways from group homes, as well as to prevent underage sexual exploitation.
  
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• Mitchell Brownstein announces plans to run for re-election

  09-06-2017 23:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  On Friday morning, current mayor of Cote St. Luc, Mitchell Brownstein, announced that he was putting in his candidacy to run for another term as mayor of the city.
  
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• Montreal police target hotels to help reduce sexual exploitation

  09-06-2017 23:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  The SPVM is in the midst of a two week operation to protect women, especially underage girls, from sexual exploitation. Paola Samuel has more on this special operation launched in the midst of Grand Prix festivities.
  
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• Georges St-Pierre says UFC comeback is about living without regrets

  09-06-2017 23:37 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The children swarmed the champ, offering up scraps of paper, baseball caps or shirt sleeves for him to autograph as he made his way across the room.
  Most of these kids probably weren’t yet born when Georges St-Pierre became a world champion fighter in 2007, but that hardly seemed to matter Friday. Instead of going to class that morning, the fifth-graders at École Montcalm got to hang out with a star athlete.
  “I’m a kid in a grown man’s body,” says St-Pie
  
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• Police 'neutralize' suspicious package found on Ile Ste. Hélène, yellow line resumes

  09-06-2017 23:35 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Service has resumed on the metro’s yellow line to Île St. Hélène and the Grand Prix racetrack, about an hour after Montreal police in the area found a suspicious package forcing the suspension of service and stranding hundreds of people. 
  Police on patrol around 3:30 p.m. Friday found the package near the Jean Drapeau métro station and the Biosphere – this as Grand Prix activities were underway on the nearby Gilles Villeneuve Circuit.
  A polic
  
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• Beaconsfield bike path delays leaves mayor questioning contract-awarding process

  09-06-2017 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  Construction on the Elm Avenue bike path in Beaconsfield was supposed to be finished in December and now the mayor, unhappy with the delays is arguing the process of awarding contracts need to be revisited. Tim Sargeant explains.
  
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• Police operation forces partial shutdown of Montreal metro line, amidst Grand Prix festivities

  09-06-2017 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  The metro linking Montreal to Île Ste-Hélène was briefly shut down Friday afternoon after police on patrol located a suspicious package near the Montreal Biosphere. As Global’s Gloria Henriquez reports, the incident happened as thousands of tourists and race car enthusiasts were on the island for Grand Prix festivities.
  
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• Quebec murder suspect set free due to trial delays to be deported within weeks

  09-06-2017 23:20 via cbc.ca
  
  Canada's Immigration Department says Sivaloganathan Thanabalasingham is expected to be sent back to Sri Lanka in the next two weeks.
  
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• For only $3,999,995 this Pagani Huayra can be yours

  09-06-2017 23:10 via montrealgazette.com
  
  There are always a lot of beautiful automobiles cruising around downtown Montreal during the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, but this one should win the prize for coolest car.
  It’s a 2016 Pagani Huayra and it is on display as part of the Crescent St. Festival Grand Prix. It’s also for sale if you want to buy it. The price: $3,999,995.
  Talk about sticker shock.
  What do you get when you spend almost $4 million for a sports car that looks like a mix between the Batmobile and something out
  
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• Côte-St-Luc Mayor Mitchell Brownstein to run again

  09-06-2017 23:06 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Côte-St-Luc Mayor Mitchell Brownstein announced Friday morning during a press conference he will be running again for mayor in the coming municipal by-election in November.
  Last year, the former Côte-St-Luc councilman won unopposed, but could face more opposition this year. Former mayor of Côte-St-Luc Robert Libman is considering returning to municipal politics. He will announce his decision within the next week and half.
  Libman was voted mayor in 1998 and was responsible for m
  
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• Plans to rebuild Ristorante Linguini on hold, for now

  09-06-2017 23:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  Plans to rebuild Ristorante Linguini have been put on hold for now.
  
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• Reconciliation in the classroom: Students and senior citizens learn Indigenous history together

  09-06-2017 22:54 via cbc.ca
  
  Lisa Howell's grade 5/6 class at Pierre Elliott Trudeau elementary school in Gatineau, Quebec, isn't exactly typical. About six years ago, she developed what's now called the senior buddies program, which brings senior citizens into the classroom.
  
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• Closing of Ville-Marie Expressway exit expected to exacerbate N.D.G. traffic

  09-06-2017 22:53 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A Notre-Dame-de-Grâce city councillor is calling on Montreal’s transit agency to increase bus service as Transport Quebec prepares to close the Ville-Marie Expressway’s St-Jacques St. exit for up to 18 months.
  Transport Quebec says it will close the exit late this year or early in 2018.
  That is expected to exacerbate traffic in N.D.G., particularly around the Vendôme métro station, which will be in the midst of a $76.5-million expansion during roughly the
  
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• Quebec proposes new rules to prevent group home runaways

  09-06-2017 22:51 via cbc.ca
  
  The Quebec government is proposing a new set of rules to give youth centres and group home workers more power to stop teenagers and children in their care from running away.
  
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• Lloyd Barker: Dzemaili-Piatti partnership blossoms in timely fashion for Impact

  09-06-2017 22:50 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The fact that Impact all-star defender Laurent Ciman delayed his departure to join his Belgian teammates in Brussels on Monday for a friendly against the Czech Republic should explain the importance of Montreal’s game against the New York Red Bulls on Saturday.
  Fullback Ambroise Oyongo was also in no rush to join Cameroon for their June 4-8 camp ahead of their game against Morocco. With Impact coach Mauro Biello’s strongest team — at the moment — intact, the Impact d
  
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• Pointing and shopping with the @amazonca app https://t.co/aBrdDma31A

  09-06-2017 22:14
  
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• Police operation forces shutdown of Montreal metro line, amidst Grand Prix festivities

  09-06-2017 22:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  The incident happened as thousands of tourists and race car enthusiasts were on the island for Grand Prix festivities.
  
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• Federal government moves to give Quebec data from scrapped gun registry

  09-06-2017 21:41 via cbc.ca
  
  The federal government has tabled a bill that could finally give the province of Quebec data from the federal gun registry that was scrapped by the Conservatives five years ago.
  
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• Beaconsfield mayor wants contract-awarding process revisited after bike path construction delays

  09-06-2017 21:23 via globalnews.ca
  
  Construction on the Elm Avenue bike path in Beaconsfield was supposed to be finished in December and now the mayor, unhappy with the delays is arguing the process of awarding contracts need to be revisited.
  
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• 5 Montreal stories you must read this week: June 9

  09-06-2017 20:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  From a warm embrace caught on camera, to fast cars rolling into town for the Canadian Grand Prix, here are the top five stories Global News covered in Montreal this week.
  
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• Opinion: Let's stop fighting old Bill 101 battles and focus on present ones

  09-06-2017 20:12 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Robert Libman’s June 6 opinion piece “Quebec anglos, Bill 101 and Yosemite Sam” is centred on the old angryphone argument that our community is marginalized because of Bill 101. His statement “This transformation to minority status was a shock to the psyche of a proud and historic English community” says it all: The generation of anglos that abandoned Quebec in the 1970s and 1980s either by leaving or by staying and acting as if it were Anglo Hell on Earth still can
  
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• Free dental clinic for those in need

  09-06-2017 20:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  Fri, Jun 9: A dental clinic in L’Île-Perrot shut down for the day on Friday so it could offer free services to those who wouldn’t normally be able to afford dental care.
  
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• Closure of Ville-Marie Expressway exit expected to exacerbate N.D.G. traffic

  09-06-2017 20:01 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A Notre-Dame-de-Grâce city councillor is calling on Montreal’s transit agency to increase bus service as Transport Quebec prepares to close the Ville-Marie Expressway’s St-Jacques St. exit for up to 18 months.
  Transport Quebec says it will close the exit late this year or early in 2018.
  That is expected to exacerbate traffic in N.D.G., particularly around the Vendôme métro station, which will be in the midst of a $76.5-million expansion during roughly the
  
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• Writer to watch: Durga Chew-Bose grows from N.D.G. kid to world-class essayist

  09-06-2017 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  After 13 years away, Durga Chew-Bose is back in the city where she grew up. But for the buzzed-about writer who has quickly achieved a standing as one of the most original essayists working today, it has been a low-key homecoming.
  “I feel like I need to properly get to know this city again,” said the 31-year-old.
  Asked how much she felt Montreal had changed since she left on a journey that took in New Mexico, England and New York, she replied: “I wouldn’t know, because I
  
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• Montreal cops crack down on sex crimes during Grand Prix with 14 arrests so far

  09-06-2017 19:12 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal police have already carried out 14 arrests in connection with soliciting minors for sex over the past week, and will pursue their crackdown over the course of Montreal’s Grand Prix weekend.
  According to preliminary statistics from the force, 334 people have tried by various means since last week to solicit sex services from minors. Investigations continue, and more charges may be filed.
  Inspector Michel Leduc of the Montreal police department’s major crimes division said tha
  
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• Buchignani: Canadian Grand Prix set for Lance Stroll, Ferrari

  09-06-2017 19:12 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Fifty years of Grand Prix racing in Canada — in a nation that itself is celebrating its 150th anniversary and a city that is marking its 375th.
  Boy, that’s some birthday cake.
  Question is, will this weekend’s big race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve live up to the occasion?
  That’s impossible to say, of course. Anything can happen. Mother Nature, for one, has been known to rain on a good party.
  Putting aside unforeseen circumstances, though, it’s fair to say this: All t
  
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• Canadian Grand Prix: 'I love being here,' Lewis Hamilton says

  09-06-2017 19:03 via montrealgazette.com
  
  So it’s not just you. Even the world’s best race-car driver (arguably) sees something wonky in the way road traffic is managed in Montreal.
  In the lead-up to this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, three-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton was asked to reflect on his special relationship with this city over the last decade.
  It’s been a remarkable story. The 32-year-old Briton scored the first victory of his F1 career here, in 2007, and in the process became the first bla
  
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• Stewart Hall celebrates Canada's 150th birthday with cultural event

  09-06-2017 18:56 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Stewart Hall Cultural Centre in Pointe-Claire celebrates Canada’s 150th birthday with a multi-disciplinary cultural program, Sunday beginning at 1 p.m. The free event — called Geopoetics — features Canada-inspired art, music and performance art.
  Visitors will see 12 original paintings in the gallery and witness the unveiling of André Dubois’s public artwork Les ombres claires. Pianist Roman Zavada performs a jazz and classical program called Résonances b
  
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• What the Puck: What a great playoff run it's been for the Predators

  09-06-2017 18:50 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Before we get to the Montreal Canadiens, can we just take a minute to say how much fun this ride with the Nashville Predators has been? I know, I know, it wasn’t the greatest of nights for the Preds Thursday with the Penguins shredding them into teenie weenie pieces in Pittsburgh.
  But man oh man this has just been a blast of a playoffs for anyone who likes believability-stretching hockey drama. Here’s a team that struggled big time for the first half of the season and only slipped in
  
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• Montreal police issue nationwide warrant for man wanted in vicious assault

  09-06-2017 18:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police ask the public to call 9-1-1 if they have any information to help locate the suspect and caution that the suspect may be armed and dangerous.
  
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• Bombardier could be next Canadian company to be slapped with U.S. trade duties

  09-06-2017 18:25 via cbc.ca
  
  The U.S. International Trade Commission has voted to continue its investigation into the trade practices of Bombardier Inc.
  
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• Boeing's complaint against Bombardier proceeds; decision on duties expected next month

  09-06-2017 18:25 via cbc.ca
  
  The U.S. International Trade Commission has voted to continue its investigation into the trade practices of Bombardier Inc. The first of several decisions towards potential anti-dumping and countervailing duties is expected Monday.
  
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• Montreal police seek suspected pimp with gang ties during Grand Prix weekend

  09-06-2017 18:14 via cbc.ca
  
  Montreal police are seeking the public's help finding a "dangerous" suspect who they believe is in town for Grand Prix weekend. There is a Canada-wide warrant for Muhidiin Ahmed Farah's arrest.
  
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• Actor Anthony Lemke: From Marcus Boone to charity ambassador

  09-06-2017 18:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  Canadian actor Anthony Lemke joined Global News Morning as a guest host.
  
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• Wines of the week: June 10, 2017

  09-06-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Under $18: Everyday drinking
  Terras Do Sado 2015, Adega de Pegoes, Portugal white, $12.60, SAQ #10838801. Even better than the last vintage and $2 cheaper to boot. More focussed, drier and with a more perceptible minerality, with the same white-fleshed stone fruit, and delicate almond and spice notes. For a richer wine under $13, really hard to beat. Grape variety: chardonnay, arinto, antao vaz. Residual sugar: 4.2 g/l. Serve at 10-12C. Drink now. Food-pairing idea: Apéritif, seafood
  
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• Taking note of appellations is crucial to understanding wine

  09-06-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  It has been a familiar theme in this column since I started: Knowing the grape variety will tell you only a fraction of the story of wine.
  A cabernet sauvignon will almost always be a powerful wine in terms of flavour and tannin. A pinot noir will be more delicate and less tannic. But the devil is in the detail. Unless you know where the grapes were grown, you won’t have a very good idea what the wine is really about, how it will drink, and ultimately whether it will be what you are lookin
  
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• Fringe fest roundup: Shows deliver art on a shoestring

  09-06-2017 17:42 via montrealgazette.com
  
  And, they’re off: hundreds of performers taking to stages across the Main and beyond for the 27th edition of the Montreal Fringe festival, which runs till June 18. It seems apt that one of the first shows out of the gate centres on a man who spent much of his life struggling to make art on a shoestring.
  Orson Welles/Shylock (Black Theatre Workshop, 3680 Jeanne-Mance St., $8-$10) is a fast-paced docudrama that borrows from the News on the March sequence of Citizen Kane to chart the rapid ri
  
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• Montreal cops release photos of N.D.G. armed robbery suspect

  09-06-2017 17:36 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Saying they suspect he may be in Montreal for this weekend’s Grand Prix festivities, Montreal police have released photos and a physical description of a 31-year-old armed robbery suspect whom they allege also works as a pimp.
  Muhidiin Ahmed Farah, who is considered armed and dangerous, is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant in the wake of an armed robbery May 10 in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. 
  The armed robbery occurred about 4:25 a.m. when the v
  
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• Laval police arrest five in mail theft, credit card fraud case

  09-06-2017 17:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  On Friday, Laval police arrested five people in relation to mail theft and credit card fraud.
  
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• The Right Chemistry: Reviewing peer review

  09-06-2017 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Science can be defined as the process of gaining knowledge about the workings of the world through experiments and observation. Indeed, the word itself derives from “scientia,” the Latin term for knowledge.
  Sometimes simple observation is enough to impart knowledge. No extra experimentation is needed to determine that poison ivy can cause blisters, that chickens come from eggs or that the sun can burn the skin. But when it comes to launching satellites into orbit, developing new drug
  
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• My father's Chinese head tax certificate tells our family history

  09-06-2017 17:23 via cbc.ca
  
  For William Ging Wee Dere, this faded green certificate — dated 96 years ago today — is a glimpse into his father's life in Canada and China.
  
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• Quebec takes another step toward regulating illegal schools

  09-06-2017 17:20 via montrealgazette.com
  
  QUEBEC — The province will move to better patrol clandestine religious schools and to ensure children without citizenship or residence’s status or in precarious family situations have access to an education.
  Education Minister Sébastien Proulx Friday moved on a promise to toughen laws tracking students living on the fringe of the conventional education system to ensure they don’t fall through the cracks.
  Proulx tabled Bill 144 in the National Assembly which, if adopted,
  
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• Leonard Cohen looms large at Mural festival

  09-06-2017 17:17 via montrealgazette.com
  
  If you happen to be ambling up the Main over the next few weeks and notice, near the corner of Napoléon St., a man with a paint brush on a lift many metres up in the air, don’t call the cops. He’s not a random tagger. His presence is legit. He is a man on a mission. A mural mission.
  He is Montreal artist Kevin Ledo, and he will be creating a nine-storey-high likeness of Leonard Cohen on the south façade of the Cooper Building on St-Laurent Blvd. – just a few hundr
  
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• Police scrutinized reporters' phone logs for five years, spying inquiry hears

  09-06-2017 17:02 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A public inquiry examining journalists’ sources heard Friday that an investigation into who was leaking information from the Sûreté du Quebec to journalists about an organized crime probe was ended in 2015 because it had too many avenues to pursue.
  Retired SQ investigator Marcel Lagacé told the Chamberland Commission that so many people had become aware of details of Operation Diligence, the organized crime probe, that the internal search for leaks was overwhelmed with
  
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• Lakeshore Players Dorval kicks off final production of 52nd season

  09-06-2017 17:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Lakeshore Players Dorval kicked off their final production of their 52nd season on June 8.
  
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• Videotron sells unused Toronto-area wireless spectrum to Rogers for $184M

  09-06-2017 16:58 via cbc.ca
  
  Quebecor's Videotron unit is selling unused wireless spectrum in the Toronto area that it bought almost a decade ago to Rogers Communications for about $184 million.
  
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• Top 10 moments in Canadian Grand Prix history

  09-06-2017 16:54 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Canadian Grand Prix, which marks its 50th anniversary this year, has delivered more than its fair share of thrills and spills over the decades. Motorsport writer Jeff Pappone shares his top 10 memorable moments.
  1967: The ambulance chase
  The first Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport International Raceway in Bowmanville, Ont., was part of this country’s centennial celebrations.
  Reigning three-time world champion Jack Brabham almost missed the race after getting stuck in bumper-to-bumper traf
  
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• Île-Perrot dental clinic offers free services to those in need

  09-06-2017 16:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  A dental clinic in L'Île-Perrot shut down for the day so it could offer free services to those who wouldn't normally be able to afford dental care.
  
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• Sûreté du Québec plans speeding crackdown over Grand Prix weekend

  09-06-2017 16:49 via montrealgazette.com
  
  As tens of thousands of racing fans gather in Montreal in anticipation of Sunday’s high speed Grand Prix on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, the Sûreté du Québec announced on Friday the start of a province-wide crackdown on excessive speed on Quebec highways.
  The SQ warned that motorists can expect to see an increased police presence on the roads as the campaign continues through to June 15, and reminded drivers that excessive speed remains one of the main causes of accid
  
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