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• Five alleged pickpockets arrested in Montreal area

  27-06-2017 23:53 via cbc.ca
  
  Five people have been arrested for allegedly stealing wallets and committing fraud in the greater Montreal area.
  
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• 5 alleged pickpockets arrested in Montreal area

  27-06-2017 23:53 via cbc.ca
  
  Five people have been arrested for allegedly stealing wallets and committing fraud in the greater Montreal area. Police say the robberies happened in restaurants, food courts and malls.
  
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• Premier holds Quebec-U.S. trade relations roundtable

  27-06-2017 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  The U.S. is Quebec’s biggest trade partner, with 70 per cent of exports heading south of the border. Some wonder if things will change now that Donald Trump is president.
  
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• Dorval residents try disc golf

  27-06-2017 23:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Dorval inaugurated its first ever disc golf course at Windsor Park, combining golf and Frisbees. Global’s Dan Spector finds out the best tips and tricks on how to play the sport.
  
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• Exploring the history of baseball in Montreal

  27-06-2017 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  A new exhibition on the history of baseball is being unveiled as part of Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations. As Global’s Matt Grillo reports, about 120 pieces of memorabilia will be on display.
  
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• Quebec-U.S. relations questioned

  27-06-2017 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  The U.S. is Quebec’s biggest trade partner, with 70 per cent of exports heading south of the border. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, some wonder if things will change now that Donald Trump is president
  
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• Quebec floods: Pierrefonds residents want compensation

  27-06-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  Residents on des Maçons Street in Pierrefonds-Roxboro argue they are not getting much cooperating from the provincial government when it comes to compensation after the heavy spring flooding that affected much of Quebec.
  
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• Quebecers share images of hail falling across the province

  27-06-2017 22:45 via cbc.ca
  
  Rain set in across Quebec Tuesday but in some areas unseasonable hail fell too and residents were quick to pick up their phones and film it.
  
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• Hail in June? Quebecers share their snaps from across the province

  27-06-2017 22:45 via cbc.ca
  
  Rain set in across Quebec Tuesday but in some areas unseasonable hail fell too and residents were quick to pick up their phones and film it.
  
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• Lakeshore General Hospital Foundation golf benefit brings in the bucks

  27-06-2017 21:59 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Lakeshore General Hospital Foundation’s 20th annual golf tournament raised $157,000 during a day-long event at the Elm Ridge Country Club in Île-Bizard, June 19.
  Event co-chairs Renée Yardley and David Cescon welcomed the more than 200 golfers who gathered for brunch, golf, cocktails and a gourmet meal. During the golf tournament, golfers were served culinary treats supplied by sponsors including Bistro Pointe-Claire, Bâton Rouge DDO, 40 Westt and La Diperie.
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• Three dead in separate accidents over St-Jean weekend

  27-06-2017 21:52 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Three people lost their lives in three separate accidents over St-Jean-Baptiste weekend, between June 22 and 25, according to a press release from the Sûreté du Québec. They said the number of accidents is down from last year, which saw four collisions resulting in two deaths during the same period. 
  As Canada Day weekend approaches, the SQ is reminding drivers to plan their routes carefully, wear seat belts, avoid distractions and respect the speed limit. They are also
  
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• How do you maintain a 50-year friendship? 6 pro tips from Expo 67 staffers

  27-06-2017 21:39 via cbc.ca
  
  The former hosts and hostesses of the Ontario Pavillion have been friends for five decades and counting. They share their secrets with Canada 150 staff and volunteers.
  
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• Young people getting interested in buying vacation properties: Re/Max

  27-06-2017 21:35 via montrealgazette.com
  
  More young people are buying vacation properties in the Laurentians, says François Villiet, the general director of three Re/Max franchises in the region.
  “I think millennials like leisure activities more than other generations,” he says.
  While he still sees baby boomers buying second homes, he says he’s seeing more and more young families buying in the region, or planning to buy in the future. 
  It appears to be having an effect on the market.
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• Quebec floods: Pierrefonds-Roxboro residents want answers from government

  27-06-2017 21:18 via globalnews.ca
  
  Homeowners say they're left staring at the damage to their properties.
  
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• Opinion: Indigenous suicide crisis requires action on many fronts

  27-06-2017 21:09 via montrealgazette.com
  
  In the report it released last week titled Breaking Point: The Suicide Crisis in Indigenous Communities, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs provides 28 recommendations to address the issue.
  Such attention is welcome, considering that indigenous peoples suffer from one of the highest suicide rates in the world; one that is six to 11 times higher than the general population.
  Indeed, there have been numerous suicide crises in indigenous communities across Can
  
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• Montreal south shore hit with hail, heavy rain

  27-06-2017 20:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  The forecast calls for a risk of a severe thunderstorm.
  
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• Kevin Tierney: It's time Montreal paid tribute to Sam Gesser

  27-06-2017 20:12 via montrealgazette.com
  
  When I was growing up in the 1960s and exploring a whole new world — culture — Place des Arts seemed like the centre of the universe.
  No one I knew had ever been there, at least not until I went to university, and my ignorance only added to its magic. I still remember the first time I saw the building. It was like a believer seeing a church. I wanted to be part of that.
  Not on stage, but in the audience; I wanted to see and hear and enjoy. The newspapers advertised various events, ma
  
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• Montreal pharmaceutical startup raises $89 million in venture capital

  27-06-2017 20:01 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Repare Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical startup based in Montreal and Boston, has raised $89.66 million in venture capital to fund the development of new cancer treatments.
  With the funding, “we are financed to achieve our goal of testing our multiple new, precision oncology therapeutics in a clinical setting,” Lloyd M. Segal, the company’s CEO, said in a release.
  Repare is developing drugs, which are currently in preclinical development, that use a concept called
  
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• Struggling after funding cut, CDN-NDG outreach group gets $50K from Quebec

  27-06-2017 19:57 via cbc.ca
  
  The Quebec government is reinvesting $50,000 in a sexual exploitation prevention program run by Prévention CDN-NDG, after the organization's funding was cut in 2015.
  
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• Randy Chevrier retires a Calgary Stampeder

  27-06-2017 19:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  Longtime long-snapper Randy Chevrier has retired a Calgary Stampeder.
  
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• Weedon, tiny Quebec town with apropos name, hopes to become cannabis capital

  27-06-2017 19:34 via cbc.ca
  
  The project is expected to cost $200 million and create 200 jobs in the town, where the mayor says the economy is sagging.
  
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• Weedon, tiny Quebec town with an apropos name, hopes to become a cannabis capital

  27-06-2017 19:34 via cbc.ca
  
  A major marijuana production facility is expected to cost $200 million and create at least 200 jobs in the town of Weedon, Que., where the mayor says the economy could use a boost.
  
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• Softball tonight! Come by Hampstead and say hi! https://t.co/UspVzuJDAS

  27-06-2017 19:15
  
  Softball tonight! Come by Hampstead and say hi! https://t.co/UspVzuJDAS
  
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• TOMORROW: Find out why @HaileeSteinfeld isn’t like #MostGirls - catch her intv with @joannevrakas https://t.co/uu44Ao9X1a

  27-06-2017 19:01
  
  TOMORROW: Find out why @HaileeSteinfeldisn’t like #MostGirls - catch her intv with @joannevrakas https://t.co/uu44Ao9X1a
  
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• Jazz fest: Ambrose Akinmusire protests eloquently through his horn

  27-06-2017 19:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Ambrose Akinmusire’s life in music began in the church. No, he is not an R&B vocalist who got his start in a gospel choir, but rather a world-class trumpeter-composer deftly sidestepping his coronation as the new voice of jazz on his instrument of choice.
  Choice is the operative word, because to hear Akinmusire tell it, he could have been a pianist or a drummer.
  “I got into music through the black Baptist Church,” said the born-and-bred Oakland native, reached at home on a
  
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• Dan Delmar: Go ahead and appropriate poutine. Please

  27-06-2017 18:55 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Debate surrounding the cultural appropriation of poutine by the rest of Canada seems absurd but calls attention to a related problem: not so much the “Canadization” of a popular junk food but what could be described as the “poutinization” of Québécois cuisine.
  “Consumers of the dish must understand,” wrote Nicolas Fabien-Ouellet, a Montrealer whose University of Vermont thesis has received significant media attention, “that it has been
  
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• Repaving busy N.D.G. street to cause traffic headaches in July

  27-06-2017 18:53 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A busy stretch of Monkland Ave. in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce will be closed to traffic for nearly a month starting next week, while the local borough repaves the road.
  The borough plans to dig up and repave the road between Decarie Blvd. and Marcil Ave. starting on July 3. 
  During the construction, traffic will be closed in both directions, bus routes will be detoured and, in some cases, only local residents will be able to use the adjacent streets. Parking will be restricted in the constru
  
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• Jazz fest: Robert Glasper takes teamwork cues from Miles Davis

  27-06-2017 18:49 via montrealgazette.com
  
  For a pair of Miles Davis-related projects — the soundtrack to Don Cheadle biopic Miles Ahead and the collaborative, oeuvre-reinterpreting Everything’s Beautiful — American jazz keyboardist Robert Glasper had access to a treasure trove of Davis recording sessions not readily available to the public.
  Once both were finished and Glasper returned to his namesake quartet to record a follow-up to the breakthrough albums Black Radio 1 and 2, Davis’ influence continued to loom l
  
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• Former Quebec customs officer sentenced to 11 years for cocaine smuggling

  27-06-2017 18:40 via cbc.ca
  
  Stefanie McClelland was convicted over a 2014 incident at the Lacolle border crossing, when she let 182 kilograms of cocaine through.
  
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• Are you ready for Moving Day? Some tips and tricks to make the transition easier

  27-06-2017 18:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  Moving soon? Check out these handy tips to help you get organized for the big day.
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: An appealing summer dish

  27-06-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  This warm main-course salad makes an appealing summer supper, with vegetables bolstered by crisp-fried Spanish sausages. You can cook the sausages whole on the barbecue, then dice them.The recipe is from a fine new cookbook called Feast: Recipes and Stories From a Canadian Road Trip (Appetite by Random House, $35), by Lindsay Anderson and Dana VanVeller, and was obtained from Saskatoon-born Calgary food writer Dan Clapson. Use olive oil if you can’t get camelina oil — a delicately fl
  
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• Five arrested in Laval restaurant robbery investigation

  27-06-2017 17:56 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Police have arrested five people who allegedly stole easily accessible wallets, then quickly used the credit cards to ring up thousands of dollars in charges.
  In many cases, the wallets were taken from coats and purses hanging on the backs of chairs in restaurants, according to the Laval police department, which said it is dealing with “a wave of thefts in several restaurants in Laval.”
  More than 50 police officers took part in the June 21 operation, targeting five addresses in Laval
  
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• Thing to do in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa for Canada's 150th btmontreal.ca/videos/travel-…

  27-06-2017 17:55
  Thing to do in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa for Canada's 150th btmontreal.ca/videos/travel-…
  
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• Quebec's youth-protection service failed child who died: Commission

  27-06-2017 17:41 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Quebec’s Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission found serious shortcomings in the process of protecting a Saguenay—Lac-St-Jean child who died after his case was reported to the Direction de la protection de la jeunesse (DPJ), the province’s youth-protection service.
  There were problems at all stages of the process, the commission said in a statement Tuesday.
  Its investigation focused on the DPJ’s risk assessment, file prioritization, wait times and the lack of inte
  
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• Fête nationale parade organizers in Montreal apologize for float pushed by black teenagers - Toronto Star

  27-06-2017 17:39 via thestar.com
  
  Toronto Star
  Fête nationale parade organizers in Montreal apologize for float pushed by black teenagers
  Toronto Star
  Footage of the float from Saturday's parade was posted on social media and prompted some people to link the images to slavery and criticize a lack of diversity in the parade. Organizers of the Fete nationale parade are apologizing to people who were ...and more »
  
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• Montreal drag queen, 8, makes a splash in LGBTQ community

  27-06-2017 17:34 via montrealgazette.com
  
  An eight-year-old boy is garnering attention for something he loves to do — performing in drag.
  Lactatia (given name: Nemis Quinn Mélançon Golden) has been a drag queen since age seven – but he’s been dressing in girls’ clothes since he was three, he says in a video interview on the Facebook page of LGBT in the city.
  Lactatia started catching the LGBTQ community’s eye during the Montreal edition of Werq the World, a tour featuring alumni from RuPa
  
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• Border guard sentenced to 11 years in prison for cocaine smuggling

  27-06-2017 17:31 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Border guard Stefanie McClelland has received an 11-year sentence for having let 182 kilograms of cocaine across the Lacolle border.
  The father of the 40-year-old Canada Border Services Agency officer collapsed in the courtroom at the St-Jean-sur-Richelieu courthouse after the Superior Court Justice André Vincent read from his decision.
  As special constables rushed to the man’s aid a woman who knows him well said he has a heart condition and requires medication. An ambulance ha
  
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• Canadian sperm donors don’t get paid, so why would they donate?

  27-06-2017 17:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  The sperm bank in Canada is so small, clinics are recruiting from the U.S., where donors are compensated.
  
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• BT Montreal Influencer @ashkan Karbasfroushan btmontreal.ca/videos/bt-mont…

  27-06-2017 17:05
  BT Montreal Influencer @ashkan Karbasfroushan btmontreal.ca/videos/bt-mont…
  
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• VIDEO: @LefevrePianist shares the importance of classical music ahead of the Lanaudière Festival btmontreal.ca/videos/40th-an…

  27-06-2017 17:00
  VIDEO: @LefevrePianist shares the importance of classical music ahead of the Lanaudière Festival btmontreal.ca/videos/40th-an…
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Tuesday, June 27

  27-06-2017 16:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Tuesday, June 27.
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Tuesday, June 27

  27-06-2017 16:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Tuesday, June 27.
  
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• Community Events: Fundraiser for special needs program

  27-06-2017 16:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Tue, Jun 27: Laura Casella has Montreal’s community events for Tuesday, June 27.
  
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• Community Events: Fitness Funding

  27-06-2017 16:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Tue, Jun 27: Laura Casella has Montreal’s community events for Tuesday, June 27.
  
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• Toxic algae may have caused the deaths of 6 right whales in St. Lawrence

  27-06-2017 16:10 via cbc.ca
  
  Experts hope to conduct at least two or three necropsies and says other reasons could include collisions with vessels or entanglement in fishing gear.
  
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