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• Quebec’s transport ministry lacks expertise: auditor general

  14-06-2017 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Quebec's auditor general has raised more concerns about the transport ministry. She said contracts are not fairly distributed - small firms are often excluded and cost estimates are not properly conducted.
  
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• Montreal police arrested 21 people during Grand Prix operation

  14-06-2017 22:44 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal police arrested 21 people as part of an operation during a two-week period that included the Montreal Grand Prix.
  Last year, during a similar operation, Montreal police reported ten arrests.
  Not all arrests were specifically related to the car race last weekend, but they were made while the event was happening, Michel Bourque, commander of the major and economic crimes division, said Wednesday.
  Last week, before the start of the Grand Prix, police said they had arrested 14 people w
  
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• Special moments from the life of legendary CFL coach Don Matthews

  14-06-2017 22:36 via cbc.ca
  
  Don Matthews, the Hall of Famer who died Wednesday at the age of 77, was one of the most prolific coaches in CFL history with 231 wins and 10 Grey Cups on his resume.
  
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• Folk Fest pays tribute to Penny Lang, Willie Nelson

  14-06-2017 22:32 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Most of the shows at the Folk Fest sur le canal are free outdoor concerts taking place at the Centennial Esplanade on the Lachine Canal near the corner of St-Patrick and Pitt Sts. But there are also two indoor concerts (at a cost of $20) paying tribute to a pair of folk music giants.
  Ain’t Life Sweet: A Tribute to Penny Lang takes place on Thursday, June 15 at 8 p.m. at the Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay (6052 Monk Blvd.) with an eclectic group of artists playing the songs of the late, g
  
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• Sarah Harmer: Two free shows at Folk Fest sur le canal

  14-06-2017 22:31 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Whatever happened to Sarah Harmer?
  In the first decade of this century, she was one of the country’s more acclaimed singer-songwriters, winning over fans and critics with her rootsy ultra-personal songs. Her 2005 album I’m a Mountain was among the 10 finalists for the inaugural Polaris Music Prize in 2006 and it was also nominated for three Juno Awards the following year.
  Her fifth album, Oh Little Fire, also nabbed three Juno nominations and garnered all kinds of enthused critical r
  
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• Mock car crash by Laval police teaches speeders to slow down

  14-06-2017 22:19 via globalnews.ca
  
  In an effort to scare people into slowing down, the parking lot of the Chomedey Club Entrepot on Curé-Labelle boulevard, was turned into a mock car crash.
  
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• West Island mother upset about iSaute waiver

  14-06-2017 22:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  A West Island mother cancelled her daughter's birthday party at iSaute, after she was told she had to agree to a photography clause in their waiver.
  
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• Montreal filmmaker Christian Duguay on a roll in France

  14-06-2017 22:02 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Christian Duguay has had quite the singular career.
  On the phone this week from the Greek island of Santorini, where he was scouting locations for a TV commercial shoot, the Montreal filmmaker talked of the long, strange trip it has been for him, going from making Montreal-shot indie sci-fi and action films like Screamers and The Assignment in the 1990s to directing major movies in France in recent years.
  Duguay has made three straight French films that have pulled in more than one million movie
  
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• Former Montreal Alouettes head coach Don Matthews has passed away. twitter.com/mtlalouettes/s…

  14-06-2017 22:00
  Former Montreal Alouettes head coach Don Matthews has passed away. twitter.com/mtlalouettes/s…
  
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• David Novek a star in his own right

  14-06-2017 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  It’s strange how life gets caught up in particular memories of particular experiences long after they are over.
  I sometimes still get a flash on Sunday night of “school tomorrow.” In May, it’s lilacs and in June it’s graduation — saying goodbye to the old and reflecting on what one has learned.
  In that spirit, though it has been a while since I graduated from anything, I would like to salute one of my mentors, David Novek.
  Novek, who is now retired and living
  
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• Cornwall-area dam maintains high water levels in St. Lawrence River

  14-06-2017 21:58 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Water from Lake Ontario will continue to flow into the St. Lawrence River at a greater rate than normal for at least another week, according to the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board.
  The high outflow has been going on since May 23 to address high water levels in Ontario, and provide relief to residents along the shorelines of Lake Ontario, according to a statement from the board. Water flows from Lake Ontario to the St. Lawrence River through a power dam near Cornwall that
  
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• In last appearance as Cree leader, Matthew Coon Come appeals for respect of Indigenous rights

  14-06-2017 21:52 via cbc.ca
  
  Matthew Coon Come used his last public appearance as leader of Quebec's Cree Nation to issue a moving plea for the government to ensure basic human rights for Indigenous people.
  
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• Opinion: Quebecers need better access to public physiotherapy, OT

  14-06-2017 21:50 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Access to public outpatient physiotherapy and occupational therapy services is inadequate and underfunded in Quebec.
  People lucky enough to have supplemental private insurance coverage or who can pay for these services will receive them in the private sector; but for many, these services are out of reach.
  Our system is primarily focused on acute care, and there, for the most part, appears to do a reasonably good job. However, a large segment of our population with chronic disease languish on wai
  
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• Montreal home prices keep looking up, analysts say

  14-06-2017 21:48 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The resale price of houses in the Montreal area rose in May for the third straight month, matching a peak set last summer, according to a report released on Wednesday.
  “The improvement in the market has now been sustained for over a year and a half, this bodes well for the price trends in the coming months.” says Marc Pinsonneault, principal economist at National Bank. He says future year-over-year price increases in the five per cent range wouldn’t be surprising. 
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• Montrealers challenge medically assisted death laws

  14-06-2017 21:46 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Two incurably ill Montrealers announced Wednesday they’re taking legal action to challenge the constitutionality of the Canadian and Quebec laws on medical aid in dying.
  Jean Truchon and Nicole Gladu filed an action in Quebec Superior Court on Tuesday, arguing the eligibility requirements for physician-assisted death are too restrictive and violate their rights to the procedure.
  At a news conference alongside their lawyer, Jean-Pierre Ménard, they explained they suffer from degenera
  
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• Don Matthews dead at 77: CFL coach remembered as ‘one of a kind’

  14-06-2017 21:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Don Matthews, who died Wednesday at the age of 77, was one of the most prolific coaches in CFL history with 231 wins and 10 Grey Cups on his resume.
  
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• Legendary CFL coach Don Matthews dead at age 77

  14-06-2017 20:51 via cbc.ca
  
  Don Matthews, one of the CFL's most prolific coaches and known simply as "The Don," has died. The larger-than-life character with 231 wins and 10 Grey Cups on his resume was 77.
  
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• Quebec's sudden interest in rural Anglos comes after years of negative policies, group says

  14-06-2017 20:40 via cbc.ca
  
  After years of accusing the Quebec government of contributing to the "marginalization" of rural Anglos, the Townshippers Association was surprised to learn this week that the province was taking up their cause with Ottawa.
  
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• Christian Duguay on a roll in French

  14-06-2017 20:39 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Christian Duguay has had quite the singular career.
  On the phone this week from the Greek island of Santorini, where he was scouting locations for a TV commercial shoot, the Montreal filmmaker talked of the long, strange trip it has been for him, going from making Montreal-shot indie sci-fi and action films like Screamers and The Assignment in the 1990s to directing major movies in France in recent years.
  Duguay has made three straight French films that have pulled in more than one million movie
  
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• Montrealers capture creation of Leonard Cohen mural, stroke by stroke

  14-06-2017 20:01 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Fans of Montreal’s late great Leonard Cohen are not content to sit and wait for his latest story to unfold, documenting the creation of a mural of his likeness almost stroke for stroke. 
  The legendary musician’s likeness is being constructed just off the Main in a nine-storey mural, the work of Kevin Ledo, as part of the fifth Mural International Public Art Festival. 
  As it goes up, it appears Ledo’s mural is already winning over Montrealers in a way the cit
  
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• Quebec gives public engineers final offer, hints at back-to-work legislation

  14-06-2017 19:44 via cbc.ca
  
  Treasury Board President Pierre Moreau said that while he is happy that government engineers have at least temporarily returned to work, he wants to reach an agreement as soon as possible.
  
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• 11th annual Men’s Health Awareness Day tomorrow @cusm_muhc https://t.co/klqEErUDzV

  14-06-2017 19:40
  
  11th annual Men’s Health Awareness Day tomorrow @cusm_muhc https://t.co/klqEErUDzV
  
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• Montreal’s first adult daycare set to open

  14-06-2017 19:39 via globalnews.ca
  
  An adult daycare is set to open in Montreal's east end. Far from being a place aimed at weekend fun, it's targeting corporate clients.
  
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• Habs' prospects, Part I: Charlie Lindgren tops deep goaltending corps

  14-06-2017 19:21 via montrealgazette.com
  
  With the Canadiens preparing to select a new crop of prospects at the NHL entry draft, June 23-24 in Chicago, we look at five prospects ready to make an impact in the NHL. No. 5 is goaltender Charlie Lindgren.
  It’s a limited sample size but Charlie Lindgren, 23, has shown that he can play in the NHL. The free-agent goaltender from St. Cloud State University is 3-0 over two seasons in the bigs with a 1.65 goals-against average and a .943 save percentage.
  The challenge for the Canadiens is f
  
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• Cover up: Montreal police cadets threaten topless woman with $1,000 fine

  14-06-2017 19:21 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Jessica Sallay-Carrington’s sunny afternoon in the park last Wednesday was a solitary event until two Montreal police cadets arrived on the scene.
  Their issue, Sallay-Carrington says, was her nipples; the real issue, she says, is a sexist double-standard.
  “They said if a police officer had found me in the park topless, then that officer could have given me a $1,000 ticket under the Indecent Acts,” she told CTV Montreal.
  Section 173 of the Criminal Code affects anyone “who
  
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• Montreal police appoint first female deputy chief in the force's history

  14-06-2017 19:13 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Simonetta Barth, a 28-year Montreal police veteran whose career has spanned street patrols to bringing the department’s operations online has been named deputy director, chief of operations — a posting that essentially makes her second in command of the force.
  Montreal police announced Wednesday that Barth, who has been a manager within the department since 2004, will assume her duties Sept. 11, and in doing so become the first woman in the department’s history to attain the ra
  
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• Montrealers file legal action contesting restrictions on medical aid in dying

  14-06-2017 18:47 via globalnews.ca
  
  Two incurably ill Montrealers are taking legal action to challenge the constitutionality of the Canadian and Quebec laws on medical aid in dying, arguing they are too restrictive.
  
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• Street gang member linked to Mafia pleads guilty to drug charges

  14-06-2017 18:25 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A 35-year-old street gang member became the third person to plead guilty in Project Magot, a police investigation that resulted in the arrests of several alleged leaders of criminal organizations in Montreal, including the son of now-deceased Mob boss Vito Rizzuto. 
  Wesley (Calypsie) Jean-Mary was among the dozens of people arrested in November 2015, along with alleged Montreal Mafia leaders Leonardo Rizzuto, 48, and Stefano Sollecito, 49, following a probe into cocaine trafficking in Montr
  
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• 2 Montrealers with degenerative diseases challenge medically assisted dying law

  14-06-2017 18:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Two Montrealers with degenerative diseases are challenging both Canada's and Quebec's medically assisted dying laws.
  
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• Pincourt students pay it forward

  14-06-2017 17:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  Wed, Jun 14: Erica Lamothe’s Grade 5 students at Edgewater School in Pincourt, presented their prize-winning Greater Montreal Day money to the West Island Palliative Care Residence on Tuesday afternoon.
  
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• Transport Quebec has lost control over contracts: auditor-general

  14-06-2017 17:57 via montrealgazette.com
  
  QUEBEC — Transport Quebec’s heavy reliance on outside construction and engineering firms has resulted in a lack of control over the way it spends public money, the auditor-general said.
  In a long-awaited report on the way the ministry operates, following allegations of “serious irregularities” by a former independent consultant, auditor-general Guylaine Leclerc raises a series of red flags about management, but does not identify any wrongdoing.
  Yet, Leclerc said the
  
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• Adult daycare set to open in Montreal

  14-06-2017 17:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  Adults looking to reduce stress can now do so at an adult daycare, which will open on Thursday. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• After the flooding, Pierrefonds residents coping with unwanted rodent house guests

  14-06-2017 17:52 via cbc.ca
  
  Pierrefonds resident Michael McGregor lives near the area that flooded this spring. When he recently noticed things in his kitchen were being displaced, he thought mice may have settled in. Then he found two foot-long rats.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Wednesday, June 14

  14-06-2017 17:47 via globalnews.ca
  
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Wednesday, June 14.
  
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• Emerald ash borer could decimate Mount Royal trees, Projet Montréal says

  14-06-2017 17:44 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Thousands of ash trees on Mount Royal are at risk of succumbing to the emerald ash borer, which would decimate the green canopy of one of the city’s most famous and visible landmarks, opposition party Projet Montréal charged Wednesday.
  Saying the invasive species has already been detected on the wooded sections of the mountain, roughly half of which are in part made up of ash trees, Projet Montréal said the city needs to start initiatives to ensure the beetle can’t rava
  
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• Places to take dad this Father’s Day btmontreal.ca/videos/places-…

  14-06-2017 17:42
  Places to take dad this Father’s Day btmontreal.ca/videos/places-…
  
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• Best reads for the summer

  14-06-2017 17:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  Parenting expert Erica Diamond joins Laura Casella to talk about her favourite reads for the summer.
  
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• Kids bike camp @Pedalheads comes to Montreal btmontreal.ca/videos/kids-bi…

  14-06-2017 17:31
  Kids bike camp @Pedalheads comes to Montreal btmontreal.ca/videos/kids-bi…
  
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• VIDEO: @zeeta shares great looks for dad this Father's Day! btmontreal.ca/videos/great-l…

  14-06-2017 17:30
  VIDEO: @zeeta shares great looks for dad this Father's Day! btmontreal.ca/videos/great-l…
  
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• West Island Blues Festival

  14-06-2017 17:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  Pierrefonds-Roxboro Mayor Jim Beis and DDO Council Member Errol Johnson join Global’s Kim Sullivan to talk about the upcoming West Island Blues festival.
  
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• Men’s health awareness day

  14-06-2017 17:07 via globalnews.ca
  
  Dr. Peter Chan from the Royal Victoria Hospital joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about Men’s Health Awareness Day and the importance of getting a prostate check-up.
  
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• Kirkland native is part of volatile mix on Orange Is the New Black

  14-06-2017 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Call it a comedy. Call it a drama. No matter. But no question, Orange Is the New Black features the finest ensemble of women ever assembled on a set. And not just the usual coterie of primarily attractive white women under the age of 40, but women of every age, of every colour, of every ethnicity, of every sexual orientation.
  Of course, it does help that this — OK — dramedy is set in an all-ladies slammer, where most of the guys in the series are guards, either inept or endowed with
  
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• Montreal home price index matches all-time high

  14-06-2017 16:31 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The re-sale price of houses in Montreal rose for the third straight month in May, matching a peak set last summer, according to a report released Wednesday.
  The Teranet-National Bank Composite House Price Index, which measures the selling price of single-family houses that have sold more than once, rose 1.07 per cent from April to May.
  It was up 1.67 per cent from the same period the year before.
  The index, which uses June 2005 as a base, reached 154.38 in May, suggesting that house prices have
  
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• Jackson 5 steal the spotlight at Montreal Grand Prix festivities

  14-06-2017 16:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  Wed, Jun 14: Global’s Laura Casella caught up with the iconic Jackson brothers who were in Montreal partaking in Grand Prix festivities.
  
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• Sûreté du Québec takes to the skies to nab drivers cutting in illegally

  14-06-2017 16:26 via cbc.ca
  
  Drivers have plenty of excuses when it comes to illegally cutting in when stuck in traffic, and the Sûreté du Québec has come up with a new way to nab them.
  
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• 2020 target in danger for new light-rail REM line, report says

  14-06-2017 16:11 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montrealers might need to wait even longer for the Réseau électrique métropolitain (REM), the proposed electric light-rail network previously set to start running in 2020, La Presse reports.Since it looks unlikely that Quebec’s National Assembly will be able to pass Bill 137 before the end of the session, on Friday, it will be difficult to reach the 2020 target, according to the report.“2020 est en danger,” said a source close to the file.
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• Classes, exams cancelled after Montreal school loses part of its wall

  14-06-2017 16:07 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A north-end high school found itself obliged to shut down Wednesday after a section of concrete on its rear exterior wall broke away and landed on the school grounds late Tuesday.
  In a message to parents and students on the website run by the École Secondaire Lucien Pagé, principal Isabelle Pagé wrote that the school was being shut down as engineers inspected and secured the site where the incident occurred.
  The shut down forces the school, located on St. Laurent Blvd. near
  
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• Thanks for stopping by @MayorBetsyPrice and @Mike_Rawlings - enjoy Montreal et merci! https://t.co/zBcAakftKO

  14-06-2017 16:00
  
  Thanks for stopping by @MayorBetsyPrice and @Mike_Rawlings - enjoy Montreal et merci! https://t.co/zBcAakftKO
  
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• Montreal Comiccon lands Jay Baruchel

  14-06-2017 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Actor-screenwriter-director Jay Baruchel is heading back to his hometown for an appearance at Montreal Comiccon on Sunday, July 9.
  Baruchel’s best known for his film credentials, among them roles in Goon, Million Dollar Baby, The Trotsky and the animated feature How to Train Your Dragon. But it’s his recent investment in Chapterhouse, a Canadian comic book publishing giant, that makes him a real draw for Comiccon fans. 
  Baruchel had this to say when he joined the team of writers
  
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• Dorval songwriter's latest EP fuses L.A. energy with a roots-rock soul

  14-06-2017 15:42 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Dale Boyle writes songs that tell stories and then sets them to a roots-rock rhythm. Last month, the Dorval-based singer and songwriter released Gasoline, a five-song EP recorded with veteran L.A. musicians Kenny Aronoff and James LoMenzo.
  Aronoff, a drummer, has toured with John Mellencamp and John Fogerty and recorded with a long-list of music superstars including Elton John, Ray Charles and the Rolling Stones. LoMenzo, a bassist, is primarily known as a heavy-metal musician, working with acts
  
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