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• Montrealer with MS calling on Health Canada to approve breakthrough drug Ocrevus

  13-06-2017 23:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  A promising new intravenous medication has hit the market in the United States but there's no word on if and when it will become available in Canada.
  
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• Coderre defends decision to fire Rotrand

  13-06-2017 23:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre stood by his decision Tuesday to fire long-time city councillor Marvin Rotrand from his position as vice-chair of the city’s transit authority. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• Should my toddler Skype with grandma? Experts talk balancing screen time with family time

  13-06-2017 23:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Canadian Paediatric Society recommends no screen time for children under two years old. So, what does that mean for families who connect with relatives via video chat?
  
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• Edgewater students pay it forward with donation to West Island Palliative Care Residence

  13-06-2017 23:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  Pincourt students pay it forward thanks to Greater Montreal Day.
  
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• Expos great Tim Raines celebrates Montreal’s love of baseball

  13-06-2017 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Former Montreal Expos legend Tim Raines was in Montreal Tuesday to celebrate the history of the sport in the city. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, Montreal may be without a MLB team, but the city’s love affair with the sport is far from over.
  
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• Advocacy groups question BEI transparency

  13-06-2017 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Bureau of Independent Investigations was created as a police watchdog group one year ago but as Global’s Elysia Bryan-Baynes reports, some advocacy organizations are sounding the alarm on issues of transparency.
  
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• Alma group home slated for closure

  13-06-2017 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Maison Bergeron, is a group home in Alma, built four years ago for people with severe disabilities. The home is slated for closure July 1, unless the Quebec government provides financial assistance to keep the home open. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• MS patient urging Health Canada to approve new drug

  13-06-2017 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Montreal man is going public with his fight to urge Health Canada to approve a promising new drug to help treat multiple sclerosis. As Global’s Anne Leclair reports, Health Canada claims Ocrevus, the medication, is currently under review.
  
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• Parent worried about pedestrian safety near Pierrefonds school

  13-06-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  Parents of students at Saint-Gérard Elementary School are calling for increased safety measures in front of the school on Pierrefonds Boulevard, after two students were struck by a car Monday afternoon. Felicia Parrillo reports.
  
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• CETA could cause $1.5 billion in losses for Quebec cheesemakers, UPA says

  13-06-2017 22:52 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Quebec cheesemakers face $1.5 billion in losses due to new tariff rules that accompany a trade agreement between Canada and Europe, according to the Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA).
  The opposition Parti Québécois does not think the National Assembly should support the deal, called the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement, until Ottawa has increased the financial compensation promised to cheesemakers.
  Quebec must build a better balance of power with Ottawa on this issue, and
  
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• Value of taxi permits shows sharp decline

  13-06-2017 22:37 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The ride-hailing application Uber appears to have taken a huge chunk out of the investment of thousands of taxi drivers in the province, new figures released to the Montreal Gazette show.
  The average sale of taxi permits, calculated by the Commission des Transports du Québec, dipped in value by tens of thousands of dollars in the span of a year, the largest decrease on record since 1999.
  First issued by the Quebec government decades ago as a way to control the supply of cabs, taxi pe
  
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• Traditional Chinese medicine could help treat cardiac diseases: study

  13-06-2017 22:31 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM, may help treat patients with cardiac diseases, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 
  Researchers analyzed a random set of studies conducted over the last 10 years on the use of traditional Chinese medicine in treating such illnesses as hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, atherosclerosis and chronic heart failure. 
  All the studies concluded that traditional Chinese medicine performed as the rese
  
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• Proulx increases food aid funding in high schools

  13-06-2017 22:22 via montrealgazette.com
  
  QUEBEC — Education Minister Sébastien Proulx switched gears on Tuesday, announcing his intention to increase the budgetary allocation for food aid in high schools. 
  Last week, Proulx defended the provincial government’s decision to adjust funding because of changes to the index that helps determine which schools are in need of food assistance. 
  Certain schools that were previously considered underprivileged no longer are and, therefore, don’t necessarily need s
  
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• Parents call for safety measures at Pierrefonds school after two girls struck by car

  13-06-2017 21:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  Parents are calling for increased safety measures at a Pierrefonds school after two children were hit by a car.
  
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• Editorial: Shield law to help journalists protect sources is essential

  13-06-2017 21:25 via montrealgazette.com
  
  It is no exaggeration to say that journalists’ ability to keep their sources confidential is essential to the proper functioning of our democracy. 
  Whistleblowers are much less likely to share information about nefarious deeds if they have reason to fear for their jobs, or even their lives, if their identity is revealed. Without help from insiders, journalists would never have been able to uncover any number of abuses, or highlight situations calling for corrective action. If such mat
  
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• Anglophones outside Montreal in peril, Couillard government says

  13-06-2017 21:24 via montrealgazette.com
  
  QUEBEC — The Couillard government says it is concerned about the future of the fragile English-speaking community in regions other than Montreal and wants the federal government to do more to help stop the decline.
  English-speakers living in these regions are getting older, are often isolated and increasingly spread thin to the point the very viability of their communities and institutions are in danger, Quebec’s Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Jean-Marc Fournier writes in a lette
  
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• Quebec watchdog group questioned for lack of transparency

  13-06-2017 21:15 via globalnews.ca
  
  One year after the Bureau of Independent Investigations (BEI), was created as a police watch dog group, some advocacy organizations are sounding the alarm on its transparency problems.
  
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• Sunken fire hydrant has Vaudreuil residents puzzled

  13-06-2017 20:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  Tue, Jun 13: A barely exposed fire hydrant in a patch of grass in Vaudreuil has some residents concerned. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Montreal firefighters to stage fundraising blitz for flood victims - Globalnews.ca

  13-06-2017 20:47 via globalnews.ca
  
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  David Samuelson throws debris from his flooded house onto a pile on his driveway in the Pierrefonds borough of Montreal Sunday, May 14, 2017. Montreal firefighters announced a fundraising blitz to help victims dealing with the aftermath of May's ...
  
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• Montreal firefighters to stage fundraising blitz for flood victims

  13-06-2017 20:47 via globalnews.ca
  
  Montreal firefighters announced Tuesday they will be holding a fundraising blitz across the island to help residents affected by the recent floods.
  
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• Three deaths at nudist camp probably the result of a 'love triangle,' SQ says

  13-06-2017 20:25 via montrealgazette.com
  
  An apparent murder suicide Monday at a Drummondville-area nudist campground seems to have been the result of a “love triangle” gone wrong, provincial police said Tuesday.
  The Sûreté du Québec were called to the Adam et Ève campground in Ste-Brigitte-des-Saults Monday afternoon after three bodies “bearing marks of violence” were discovered at the site. The three were officially identified Tuesday as Suzanne Gareau, 50, Rodrigue Tremblay
  
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• Increased outflow from Cornwall dam will quicken current in St. Lawrence River

  13-06-2017 20:18 via cbc.ca
  
  Boaters should be wary of the "extreme conditions" caused by the increased outflow from the Moses-Saunders Dam, the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board said on its Facebook page.
  
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• Sunken fire hydrant in Vaudreuil has residents puzzled

  13-06-2017 20:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  A sunken fire hydrant has residents of Vaudreuil amused and concerned at the same time, wondering how this sort of landscaping mistake could have happen.
  
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• Dan Delmar: Why the PQ’s diversity plans will continue to fail

  13-06-2017 20:12 via montrealgazette.com
  
  If there were any doubt that Quebec’s sovereignty movement remains largely rooted in ethnocentrism, many Parti Québécois members reminded the province this past weekend that they are unwilling to take concrete steps to change that.
  Former PQ leadership candidate Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, a progressive lawyer and youth advocate, was tasked by leader Jean-François Lisée last year with pursuing strategies to increase party membership among minority communities
  
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• Montreal gets a sad sixth place in Amazon's ranking of Quebec book buyers

  13-06-2017 19:39 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Is it because we’re spending all our time at Montreal 375 festivities? Or our endless parade of Montreal summer festivals? Whatever the reason, Montreal needs to hit the books! According to Amazon’s annual survey of Quebec’s top page-turning communities, Brossard buys the most books, beating Montreal by a long shot.
  When it comes to English-language printed books bought by Quebec residents on amazon.ca and ebooks for Kindle, Brossard is No. 1, followed by Sherbrooke,&
  
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• Montreal police seek potential victims of man charged with child luring

  13-06-2017 19:38 via cbc.ca
  
  Philippe Truchon was arrested May 31 and is now charged with luring children, making death threats and criminal harassment.
  
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• Montreal police looking for more victims of alleged internet predator

  13-06-2017 19:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  Montreal police are looking for victims of an alleged internet predator in the wake of the arrest of a man.
  
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• Montreal police searching for victims in online harassment case

  13-06-2017 19:07 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal police are looking for potential victims of a man they say lured teenage girls online and threatened them for nude photos.
  Philippe Truchon was arrested May 31 and charged with luring minors, uttering death threats and criminal harassment related to five female victims aged 14 to 17. 
  Police say that Truchon attracted his victims on Facebook by offering them jobs as models or bartenders in boutiques and bars that he claimed to own and then requested nude photos. Police say he used
  
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• Police dog tracks down alleged thief in Dorval

  13-06-2017 18:48 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal Police Station 5 serving Dorval, Île-Dorval and Pointe-Claire
  Police received a call that three men were seen pulling at car-door handles on a residential street in Dorval, just after midnight, June 13. Officers obtained a detailed description of the trio and were able to track down two of the three. A police dog was brought in to track down the third man who was found hiding in the neighbourhood.
  Montreal Police Const. Catherine Legault said the young men, all Dorval residents, w
  
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• Some bud with your beer? Couche-Tard mulls the sale of legal marijuana

  13-06-2017 18:10 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Alimentation Couche-Tard – which oversees a network of 2,000 convenience stores from the Maritimes to western Canada – appears to be interested in selling legal marijuana from its outlets. And the Quebec-based chain has hired a lobbyist to ensure it has a place in whatever distribution model the province government finally adopts.
  A recent entry in Quebec’s registry of lobbyists shows the presence of the firm Tact Intelligence-conseil. The services of Marie-Eve Bédard ha
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: Roasted chili basil lime tofu bowls

  13-06-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Cookbook author Laura Wright offers this combination of foods for a bowl. It’s one of more than 125 vegan recipes in The First Mess Cookbook (Penguin, $35). The title refers to the first spring crops of favourite vegetables. This recipe is a combination of vegetables we are treated to year-round: broccoli and sprouts.
  Wright was raised in southern Ontario, where her parents grew vegetables and ran a food market. She has produced an exceptional, beautifully illustrated book of easy dis
  
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• Police reported 169 hate crimes in Montreal in 2015: StatsCan

  13-06-2017 17:58 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal had the 11th highest rate of hate crimes in Canada in 2015 and experienced the second-highest year-over-year increase in hate crimes of any major Canadian city, according to a new report by Statistics Canada.
  “The number of hate crimes in Montreal was attributable to 33 more reported incidents targeting a religion,” said StatsCan in the report released Tuesday.
  Police reported 169 hate crimes in Montreal in 2015, up from 130 in 2014. Edmonton saw the high
  
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• Former Expos great Gary Carter added to Grévin Wax Museum

  13-06-2017 17:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  On Tuesday, the Grévin wax museum in Montreal will unveil the figure of Expos great Gary Carter.
  
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• Critics decry lack of transparency of BEI, Quebec's year-old police watchdog

  13-06-2017 17:56 via montrealgazette.com
  
  One year after Quebec established the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI) to look into deaths and serious injuries at the hands of police, civil rights organizations are decrying its lack of transparency, and questioning whether the agency is, in fact, independent.
  Based on the first incident that the bureau investigated – the SQ fatal shooting of a man barricaded in his home in the Saguenay last summer, after which the public prosecutions department decided not
  
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• Jacques Villeneuve calls Lance Stroll one of the worst F1 rookies ever

  13-06-2017 17:52 via cbc.ca
  
  Formula One champion Jacques Villeneuve didn't mince words when critiquing the rookie season of fellow Canadian Lance Stroll.
  
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• Possible love triangle behind apparent double-murder suicide at Quebec nudist campsite: police

  13-06-2017 17:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police investigating the death of three people at a nudist campsite near Drummondville, believe a love triangle may have linked the three victims.
  
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• Montreal Canadiens Expansion Draft Preview - Sportsnet.ca

  13-06-2017 17:16 via sportsnet.ca
  
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  Vegas Golden Knights general manager George McPhee talks about the advantages of starting from scratch how the young athletes these days are so mature for their age, and how his franchise is looking for more than just talented players. Eric Engels June ...
  
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• 'No purge' of City Hall rivals, Denis Coderre claims after high-profile firings

  13-06-2017 17:02 via cbc.ca
  
  Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre is denying he's purging his political opponents from key municipal positions ahead of the November elections.
  
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• Marvin Rotrand says he was fired from STM after 16 years as deputy chair

  13-06-2017 17:02 via cbc.ca
  
  The Notre-Dame-de-Grâce city councillor says he was told his election as leader of Coalition Montréal made Mayor Denis Coderre uncomfortable.
  
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• Rise in Montreal hate crimes just 'tip of the iceberg,' activist says

  13-06-2017 16:56 via cbc.ca
  
  Overall, 39 more incidents were reported in Montreal in 2015, for a total of 169, making for a 29 per cent increase over the previous year. Only Edmonton and Winnipeg saw higher percentage increases, according to Statistics Canada.
  
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• Hate crimes climb by 29% in Montreal, StatsCan says

  13-06-2017 16:56 via cbc.ca
  
  Montreal was among the Canadian cities to see the sharpest rise in hate crimes in 2015, with the increase largely due to an uptick in reported incidents targeting the Muslim population, according to Statistics Canada.
  
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• ICYMI: More lottery millionaires in Quebec in 2017 btmontreal.ca/videos/more-lo…

  13-06-2017 16:42
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• Singer @serenaryder searches for Utopia in Montreal btmontreal.ca/videos/serena-…

  13-06-2017 16:24
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• PQ struggles to modernize party btmontreal.ca/videos/pq-stru…

  13-06-2017 16:22
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• Gary Carter statue comes to @GrevinMontreal btmontreal.ca/videos/gary-ca…

  13-06-2017 16:14
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• Chef @ChrisCooking helps us celebrate Italian Heritage Month through food btmontreal.ca/videos/celebra…

  13-06-2017 16:07
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• Montreal firefighters to hold fundraising blitz for local flood victims

  13-06-2017 16:04 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The city of Montreal’s 2,400 firefighters have organized a day long fundraising campaign aimed at providing support for those residents who saw their homes damaged during last months flooding.
  The campaign will see firefighters deployed in major thoroughfares throughout the island of Montreal on June 19 as part of a fundraising blitz. While no particular fundraising goal has been set, organizers are relying upon “the proverbial generosity” of Montrealers to help them out.
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• Overnight fire leaves 93-year-old man dead

  13-06-2017 15:58 via montrealgazette.com
  
  An overnight fire in a family home in Alma in the Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean region has left one man dead.
  The body of the victim, a 93-year-old man, was discovered in the wake of the blaze, which broke out at about 3 a.m.
  Four other persons living in the home were able to escape the flames. The major crimes unit of the Sûreté du Québec has been assigned to determine the cause of the fire.
   
  
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• Quebecor sells 7 wireless licenses to Shaw for $430 million

  13-06-2017 15:47 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Quebecor Media has sold seven wireless spectrum licenses to Shaw Communications for $430 million, the company announced Tuesday.
  The move allows Shaw to use a portion of Quebecor’s bandwidth for broadcasting purposes.
  These licenses are located in the 2,500 MHz and 700 MHz bands held by Vidéotron outside Quebec.
  This transaction is subject to regulatory approvals, including from the Canadian competition bureau, and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.
  In a statement,
  
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• Police reported 169 hate crimes in Montreal in 2015: StatsCan - Montreal Gazette

  13-06-2017 15:27 via montrealgazette.com
  
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