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• Focus is on rum at Taste of the Caribbean Festival

  20-06-2017 23:43 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Five days of food, music and rum from the Caribbean islands are coming to the Old Port this week for Taste of the Caribbean, a free outdoor festival.
  From Wednesday to Sunday, June 25, the public will be offered food from at least 15 Caribbean countries, according to Cezar Brumeanu, a co-organizer of the event. But this year, the focus is on rum.
  “Being that there’s no rum festival in Canada at all — we have beer fest, wine fest, we have everybody-and-their-grandmother-fest, bu
  
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• Laval towing company target of Montreal police raids

  20-06-2017 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  
  Some 100 officers were involved in a Montreal police operation Tuesday morning, targeting a Laval tow truck company. As Paola Samuel reports, police seized several tow trucks and arrested seven individuals.
  
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• Metropolis World Congress

  20-06-2017 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  Mayors from cities across the world were in Montreal for the Metropolis World Congress. As Global’s Gloria Henriquez reports, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was invited to take part Tuesday, in a panel discussion on the role of cities as drivers of change and partners of national governments.
  
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• Laurent Duvernay-Tardif helps schoolchildren find balanced lifestyle

  20-06-2017 23:33 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Marco Scandella is in limbo as he awaits the expansion draft for the Vegas Golden Knights, but the veteran defenceman is certain about one thing. 
  “No matter what happens, I know I’ll be playing in the NHL next season,” Scandella said. “It might be in Vegas or Minnesota or Montreal or someplace else.”
  Scandella, 27, spent most of the past seven seasons with the Minnesota Wild, but he was not among the 11 players who were protected during the weekend. While the
  
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• Duvernay-Tardiff strikes again

  20-06-2017 23:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  Montreal’s Laurent Duvernay-Tardif — the NFL-playing, doctor in training — was once again giving back to the community. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, Duvernay-Tardif and his foundation held a sports-themed end-of-the-year bash for 150 Grade 6 students.
  
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• Employees of Montreal towing company arrested

  20-06-2017 23:29 via cbc.ca
  
  Montreal police said the company would seize vehicles that were parked illegally on private or commercial properties and keep them until owners paid them immediately by cash or credit, and that's theft.
  
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• West Island man arrested during floods reflects on his experience

  20-06-2017 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alain Furlano, who was arrested and charged with obstruction while trying to fix a dike near his Pierrefonds-Roxboro home during the recent floods, spoke out about his experience Tuesday. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, though his legal battle is done, his fight is far from over.
  
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• Luka Magnotta is getting married: report

  20-06-2017 23:24 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Notorious killer Luka Magnotta has found love in prison, TVA reports.
  Magnotta, who is serving a life-sentence for the first-degree murder of international student Lin Jun in 2012, is planning to get married on June 26 to Anthony Jolin, another inmate.
  The marriage will take place at Pont-Cartier prison where they are both detained. His mother, Anna Yourkin, will be Magnotta’s witness.
  In 2015, Magnotta caught the media’s attention once more after he signed up for an inmate dating we
  
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• Montreal Catholic Church will fingerprint all priests working with children

  20-06-2017 23:08 via cbc.ca
  
  A year after it announced a pilot project to bar priests, volunteers and all those involved in faith education from being alone with children, the Catholic Church of Montreal now says all churches will be bound by the same rules by 2020.
  
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• Unsafe, rundown playground to be replaced in remote Cree community

  20-06-2017 23:07 via cbc.ca
  
  After several years of delays and a petition by frustrated parents, the band council in the James Bay Cree community of Whapmagoostui says it's now committed to building a new playground for the community's children.
  
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• Three men plead guilty to drug-related charges in Project Mastiff

  20-06-2017 23:07 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Three men, including one who admitted he was the manager of a cocaine-trafficking network in eastern Montreal, will be sentenced in the coming months after they pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges related to a case involving the alleged heads of criminal organizations in Montreal. 
  José McCarthy, 40, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four charges related to Project Mastiff, one part of an investigation that produced the arrests of four dozen people in November 2015. The charges in McCart
  
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• Canadian man smuggled guns via US-Canada border library: prosecutors

  20-06-2017 22:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  U.S. prosecutors say a Montreal man smuggled about 100 handguns into Canada, including some that an accomplice had hidden in a library that straddles the border between Vermont and Quebec.
  
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• Quebec Floods: Man arrested after trying to save his street speaks out

  20-06-2017 21:50 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alain Furlano, who was arrested and charged with obstruction while trying to fix a dike near his Pierrefonds-Roxboro home during the recent floods, speaks out about his experience.
  
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• Montreal's Taste of the Caribbean Festival is coming up

  20-06-2017 21:32 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Five days of food, music and rum from the Caribbean islands are coming to the Old Port this week for Taste of the Caribbean, a free outdoor festival.
  From June 21 to 25, attendees will be exposed to food from at least 15 Caribbean countries, according to co-organizer of the event, Cezar Brumeanu. But, this year, the focus is on rum.
  “Being that there’s no rum festival in Canada at all — we have beer fest, wine fest, we have everybody-and-their-grandmother-fest, but we don&rsquo
  
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• Uber's new tipping function could come to Canada by the end of the year

  20-06-2017 21:28 via cbc.ca
  
  In an announcement to U.S. Uber drivers, the ride-hailing service says it will roll out a tipping function for its app in all U.S. cities by the end of July.
  
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• Editor's notebook: Bringing some of Montreal's finest minds to our Opinion pages

  20-06-2017 21:20 via montrealgazette.com
  
  When it comes to intellectual capital, Montreal has a head start over most other places in North America. We are home to a half-dozen universities, and we have the highest proportion of post-secondary students of any city on the continent.
  Last February, we were named the world’s best city for students in annual rankings by higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds. 
  That gives Montreal a leg up in a world where innovation is key to a thriving economy. And it is one of the rea
  
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• English-speaking immigrant entrepreneurs face additional barriers

  20-06-2017 21:10 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A new study suggests that English-speaking immigrants to Quebec have a harder time starting businesses than other groups — even though immigrants are more interested in starting businesses than people born in the province.
  Forty-three per cent of English-speaking immigrants surveyed who currently own a business said they were discouraged by the entrepreneurial landscape in Quebec, according to the survey released by Youth Employment Services and the Association for Canadian Studies.&n
  
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• No legal marijuana till 21, emergency medical specialists say

  20-06-2017 21:09 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Before marijuana is legalized, the Quebec government needs to seriously considers implementing a minimum legal age of 21 to purchase pot, says the Association des spécialistes en médecine d’urgence du Québec, ASMUQ.
  In a statement issued Tuesday, the association said that everyday, people are brought to Quebec emergency rooms with marijuana-induced psychosis. They have also noted increases in asthma and hyperemesis, a severe form of nausea and vomiting. 
  This
  
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• Quebec Innu seek control of fishing club frequented by wealthy Americans

  20-06-2017 21:02 via cbc.ca
  
  The Innu First Nation of Uashat mak Mani-Utenam is confronting an elite American fishing club over possession of the best salmon fishing spot on the Moisie River.
  
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• TOMORROW: We kickoff our #BTCanada150 series with long-time community leader and volunteer Gemma Raeburn-Baynes! https://t.co/QN2CMtVWwf

  20-06-2017 21:00
  
  TOMORROW: We kickoff our #BTCanada150 series with long-time community leader and volunteer Gemma Raeburn-Baynes! https://t.co/QN2CMtVWwf
  
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• CTV Montreal lays off sportscasters, dropping local segments

  20-06-2017 20:47 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Brian Wilde, Randy Tieman and Sean Coleman are the latest casualties in CTV’s nationwide restructuring of its local news operations.
  The sportscasters are being laid off as the CTV outlet in Montreal drops the local sports segments.
  If Montreal follows the lead of other CTV stations across the country, there will be sports content supplied by TSN.
  “It’s the nature of business,” Wilde said. “I’m sure I’ll  land somewhere.”
  The decision wasn&rsq
  
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• N.D.G. shooting: Concordia lowers flags on campus in honour of slain student

  20-06-2017 20:37 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Flags at Concordia University were lowered to half-mast on Tuesday in memory of Daniel Somoza-Gildea.
  The Geography, Planning and Environment student passed away on May 24 after getting shot during an altercation outside the Cabaret les Amazones in N.D.G.. Tuesday would have been his birthday.
  Under Concordia policy, all flags on campus are to be lowered to mark the death of current faculty members, students, members of the university’s Board of Governors, or individuals with emeritus desi
  
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• Police raids target Laval tow truck company

  20-06-2017 20:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  Montreal police arrested seven people and seized seven tow trucks in raids conducted Tuesday morning in the Greater Montreal Area.
  
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• Quebec taxi industry gives up on government committee

  20-06-2017 20:30 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Tired of being ignored, the Quebec taxi industry announced Tuesday it has split ways with the government committee that is supposed to develop a program to help the industry modernize.
  The committee was nothing but a diversion attempt by the government, said industry spokeperson Guy Chevrette at a press conference in Montreal.Chevrette says the committee only met for four hours in six months.
  The committee was established in December 2016 with a variety of mandates. It was to make recommendation
  
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• NASA finds 10 new potentially habitable ‘Earth-like’ worlds

  20-06-2017 20:30 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Astronomers using the Kepler space telescope have detected 219 possible new exoplanets in our galaxy, including 10 relatively small, rocky and possibly habitable planets similar to our own, NASA has announced.
  These are the last additions to the catalog of exoplanets compiled during the first phase of the Kepler mission, when the space telescope scanned some 200,000 stars in the Cygnus constellation in an effort to find worlds beyond our own. The official catalog now contains 4,034 total “
  
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• Montreal police pants: Camouflage protest started almost three years ago

  20-06-2017 20:22 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal police officers’ pants pressure tactic is on hold, at least until Friday.
  Here’s a timeline of the protest, which began almost three years ago.
   July 4, 2014
  Montreal police announce they will don red baseball caps and combat pants as the first stage in an escalating series of pressure tactics to protest proposed reforms to their pension plans. Their union says the reforms proposed under Quebec’s Bill 3 will cost the average police officer $114 a week or $6,000 a
  
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• Front door of house blocked during burglary

  20-06-2017 20:16 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal Police Station 3 serving Pierrefonds-Roxboro and Île-Bizard-Ste-Geneviève
  A man arrived home in Pierrefonds late evening to find his door had been blocked from the inside, June 16. Montreal Police Const. Daniel Maheu said police arrived at the house on Monk Street and were waved over to the side of the house by the homeowner who was waiting outside. He had entered by the damaged patio door at the back of the house only long enough to grab the phone and call 911. The patio d
  
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• Alberta cottages priciest in Canada, at over $800K: Royal LePage

  20-06-2017 19:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  But in New Brunswick you can snatch a lakefront property for less then $100,000
  
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• Water-main break in Longueuil devastates artist’s home

  20-06-2017 19:15 via globalnews.ca
  
  A water main break shut down power and water for some Longueuil residents, but it devastated a local artist who was just starting to gain international recognition.
  
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• Montreal mayor condemns U.S. withdrawal from climate change pact

  20-06-2017 18:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  In his opening address to the Metropolis World Congress in Montreal Tuesday morning, Mayor Denis Coderre criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement.
  
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• Longueuil artist loses life’s work

  20-06-2017 18:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  Tue, Jun 20: A water-main break Tuesday morning was devastating for one Longueuil resident who lost her life’s work. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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  20-06-2017 18:41
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• Thanks for stopping by @ShawnHook - come back soon! https://t.co/i3uqGuhrdA

  20-06-2017 18:20
  
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• More construction coming to Highway 40’s Île-aux-Tourtes Bridge

  20-06-2017 18:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  Starting next Monday, repair work will begin on the Île-aux-Tourtes Bridge on Highway 40 connecting Vaudreuil-Dorion and Senneville.
  
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• Alexandre Coderre, facing fraud charges, enters therapy program

  20-06-2017 18:14 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre’s 21-year-old son has entered a therapy program while he faces five criminal charges alleging he took part in credit card fraud and obstructing justice. 
  Alexandre Coderre’s lawyer, Conrad Lord, made the announcement during a brief hearing at the Montreal courthouse on Tuesday. The hearing was supposed to be used as a date for Coderre to announce whether he wishes for his case to be heard before a judge alone or before a jury. Instead, Lord asked tha
  
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• Montreal parents want safe-injection site moved from near elementary school

  20-06-2017 18:02 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A group of parents at a downtown Montreal elementary school say a safe-injection site in their neighbourhood should be moved.
  In September, Spectre de Rue, an intervention centre for drug users, will begin operating a supervised injection site. It is at the corner of Ontario St. and Visitation Ave., about 200 metres from the Marguerite-Bourgeoys elementary school.
  The parents are circulating a petition calling for the site to be moved at least a few hundred metres farther away from the school.
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• Six O'Clock Solution: Halloumi salad

  20-06-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Comfort food is part of many world cuisines, and a new cookbook called Home and Away (Arsenal Pulp Press, $24.95) is a satisfying source for easy, comforting dishes from countries near and far.
  Written by Randy and Darcy Shore, a pair of food-loving travellers from British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, the book offers a most digestible crash course on cuisines from home and Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South America.
  Recipes were collected on many trips, from chefs, shopkeepers and coo
  
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• Police suspect towing company extorted seniors

  20-06-2017 17:48 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Seven individuals were arrested on Tuesday morning in connection with allegations of fraud, conspiracy, extortion, and one case of assault with a weapon at Laval towing company, Accès Remorquage.
  Police suspect the company was preying on vulnerable citizens, including the elderly and those who are sick, by towing from parking lots of medical centres.
  Inspector André Durocher with the Montreal police explained that the investigation began last fall when citizens filed complaints abo
  
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• Aboriginal Day: Daniel Lanois stands by 'native and aboriginal compadres'

  20-06-2017 17:45 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Daniel Lanois is not the first person one might think of to include as part of APTN’s Aboriginal Day Live celebrations, but he’s not entirely out of his element.
  “I have aboriginal blood on both sides of the family,” the veteran singer/guitarist/producer said by phone from his Toronto studio last week. “It’s pretty watered down, Micmac and Algonquin. A lot of people say that (they’re part native), but with the French in Canada, it’s normal —
  
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• STM employs "honour system," allows boarding buses from all doors

  20-06-2017 17:04 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal commuters who hold unlimited — meaning weekly, monthly, four-month or yearly — passes are now able to board city buses from both the front and back doors, with certain restrictions.
  The new “honour system” allows passengers to board 13 articulated bus lines — those that use longer buses connected by an accordion-style section — from all doors at stops located at metro stations between 5 a.m. and 7 p.m. only. 
  The program, which the STM started te
  
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• Supervised injection sites open in Montreal — one of them is mobile

  20-06-2017 16:50 via globalnews.ca
  
  For the first time in Montreal drug users now have access to supervised injection sites.
  
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• Stay in line on St-Jean-Baptiste, South Shore police say

  20-06-2017 16:49 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Police on Montreal’s South Shore want to remind citizens to follow the rules on St-Jean-Baptiste.
  The Régie intermunicipale de police Richelieu-Saint-Laurent is asking people to keep their alcohol intake in check, especially in public places, and to maintain public order.
  In urban areas, fireworks are forbidden without a permit, and risk causing a fire or injury, the police noted.
  The Régie also said that, in the event of an evacuation, it’s best for the public to calml
  
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• Dan Delmar: Memo to anglo progressives: Even friendly nationalism excludes

  20-06-2017 16:40 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Progressive anglophone nationalists are a small but curious Quebec constituency; some are even sympathetic to the sovereignist cause.
  Why spare any enthusiasm for nationalism when nationalist polices by definition exclude minority views, at least on occasion?
  Quebec’s sovereignty movement could be seen as a logical progression from the brand of nationalism outlined during the Quiet Revolution, itself the logical result of inequalities institutionalized by the former anglo ruling class. The
  
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• Montreal police back in full uniform as union suspends pressure tactic for the week

  20-06-2017 16:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Montreal police officers to temporarily wear their standard uniforms as pension talks with the city continue.
  
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• Trump's 'nonsense' will strengthen resolve to fight climate change at local level, Coderre says

  20-06-2017 16:08 via cbc.ca
  
  Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre took a shot at U.S. President Donald Trump as he kicked off a gathering of mayors from around the world, vowing that municipal leaders will band together to fight climate change.
  
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• Trump's 'nonsense' has only strengthened resolve to fight climate change at local level, Coderre says

  20-06-2017 16:08 via cbc.ca
  
  Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre took a shot at U.S. President Donald Trump as he kicked off a gathering of mayors from around the world, vowing that municipal leaders will band together to fight climate change.
  
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