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• Passenger charged after flight forced back to Montreal under F-15 escort - Montreal Gazette

  07-07-2017 23:45 via montrealgazette.com
  
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  A 39-year-old man was arrested on Friday after a Sunwing Airlines flight bound for Cuba was forced to return to Montreal's Trudeau International Airport under a fighter jet escort. Charalabos Nassios was arraigned by videoconference in a Montreal ...
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• Valois Village condo project gets mixed reviews

  07-07-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  Pointe-Claire residents are torn on whether or not they approve of the new condo project in Valois Village. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, some say the buildings don’t fit with the look of the area, while others welcome the upgrade.
  
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• P.K. Subban was at Andrei Markov's wedding, and now we're crying

  07-07-2017 22:50 via montrealgazette.com
  
  This is probably not the news about longtime Montreal Canadiens defenceman and free agent Andrei Markov you were waiting for. 
  Nevertheless, there is Andrei Markov news, and it involves his marriage to Sonya Sonechka. 
  While that couple’s relationship was the main subject of their nuptial, the occasion was also marked by the reunion of Markov and his former Habs teammate, P.K. Subban.
  After the ceremony, Subban took to social media to express his best wishes for the new
  
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• Dorval puts its gardens on display this weekend

  07-07-2017 22:37 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Time to tidy up the garden. Dorval is entered in the national Communities in Bloom contest, and the judges are coming to town for a look from July 9 to 11.
  The city is asking residents and businesses to tidy up their gardens in preparation for the visit.
  Dorval is competing in the 15,001-50,000 population category. The city is up against Amherstburg, Cobourg, Leamington and Orangeville in Ontario and Mission, B.C.
  Communities in Bloom is a non-profit organization dedicated to “fostering ci
  
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• Canada’s provinces and metropolitan areas ranked by job creation

  07-07-2017 22:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  If you're job-hunting, Quebec is the place to be
  
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• What the Puck: It's status quo for Habs and that's not good enough

  07-07-2017 22:32 via montrealgazette.com
  
  If you’re a Habs fan, there’s only one question you should be mulling over: Are your Montreal Canadiens a better team after the madness of draft day/free agency wheeling-and-dealing compared with the squad that started the season last October?
  I’d say they’re at best the same and more likely a little weaker. The Kool-Aid-swilling, pro-Marc Bergevin types will, of course, start nattering on about how Montreal won the Atlantic Division and ended the season with an impressiv
  
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• Beating at reserve playground reopens discussion about lack of ambulances

  07-07-2017 22:25 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Ghislain Picard, the chief of the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador (AFNQL), said communities like Manawan, a reserve 250 kilometres north of Montreal, need better access to ambulance services.
  “Once a service is defined as an essential service, the community should have access,” he said on Friday.
  His comments come in light of an incident in the Atikamekw community in Manawan on Tuesday. Chief Constant Awashish of the Atikamekw Nation Council said two young broth
  
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• Car strikes two elderly pedestrians on crosswalk in Montreal-North

  07-07-2017 22:20 via montrealgazette.com
  
  An elderly woman was seriously injured when a car struck her and a second pedestrian as they crossed a busy intersection in Montreal-North Friday afternoon, according to police.
  According to witnesses, a 78-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man, were walking on d’Amos St. where it crosses Lacordaire Blvd. at about 12:45 p.m. The motorist had been driving eastward on d’Amos St. and was turning north onto Lacordaire Blvd. when the car struck the pedestrians on the crosswalk, police
  
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• Jay Baruchel, Corey Hart among special guests at Just for Laughs Intervention gala

  07-07-2017 21:57 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The previously announced Montreal: An Intervention Gala, which will close the 2017 edition of the Montreal Just for Laughs comedy festival on July 31, will feature a series of special guests, including Jay Baruchel, Corey Hart and Brittany LeBorgne. 
  Montreal-born actor, screenwriter and director Jay Baruchel hosted a gala solo in 2013. He is known for his roles in Goon, Million Dollar Baby, The Trotsky and the animated film series How to Train Your Dragon. Baruchel is also an inv
  
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• Why are people walking around Montreal in red body paint?

  07-07-2017 21:50 via montrealgazette.com
  
  You may have seen them: A group of men and women wearing nothing but underwear and shoes, clad from head to toe in red body paint, and wheeling around a red suitcase. 
  You may then have done the obvious and rational thing and wondered why on earth anyone might do such a thing.
  You may even have wondered if these strange apparitions were a spin-off of the Blue Man Group or the creations of someone who enjoyed the body paint scene in Goldfinger but forgot that the painted woman in question di
  
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• Update: Passenger on flight forced back to Montreal to appear in court

  07-07-2017 21:41 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A 39-year-old man was arrested on Friday after a Sunwing Airlines flight bound for Cuba was forced to return to Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport under a fighter jet escort.
  Charalabos Nassios was arraigned by videoconference in a Montreal courtroom on charges that included assault, uttering threats and committing an act of violence against a person that is likely to endanger the safety of an aircraft.
  Nassios, who lives in Laval, was also charged with breaking a court-imposed condi
  
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• Two Quebec boys victim of alleged playground beating

  07-07-2017 20:42 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police and social services are investigating the incident.
  
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• Pointe-Claire’s Valois Village condo project gets mixed reaction

  07-07-2017 20:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Pointe-Claire residents are torn on whether or not they approve of the new condo project in Valois Village.
  
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• Just for Laughs: Netflix and standup comedy's symbiotic relationship

  07-07-2017 19:45 via montrealgazette.com
  
  It’s a marriage made in standup heaven: Netflix and comedy in general, and Netflix and the Just for Laughs festival in particular.
  Talk about a symbiotic relationship. Netflix and comedy feed on one another seamlessly and equally.
  Netflix specials help spike attendance at live comedy events — like Just for Laughs — by raising awareness about standups, both established and on the rise. And live comedy events provide Netflix with the opportunity to shoot and stream specials by st
  
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• Just for Laughs: Judd Apatow stays humble in his standup

  07-07-2017 19:45 via montrealgazette.com
  
  One of the major plot points in the new romantic comedy The Big Sick has a struggling Chicago-based standup trying to impress a talent scout from the Montreal comedy festival. The comedian, played by the hilarious Kumail Nanjiani, is unsuccessful in winning over fest scout Bob (a not so thinly veiled Robbie Praw, former Just for Laughs programming chief), largely because his girlfriend is big-time sick.
  Irony abounds here. Nanjiani has performed several times at JFL. So has the film’s prod
  
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• West Island commuters seeing red over left-turn only sign

  07-07-2017 19:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  An age-old traffic pattern on a quiet street in DDO is causing quite a stir as West Island commuters trying to avoid St-Jean Boulevard construction say they are being caught in a ticket trap.
  
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• Quebec man charged with murder in 2000 slaying of Indigenous girl

  07-07-2017 19:22 via cbc.ca
  
  A 33-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in a 17-year-old cold case involving the death of a teenage Indigenous girl from the Lac-Rapide First Nation.
  
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• Quebec man arrested in 2000 slaying of Indigenous girl

  07-07-2017 19:22 via cbc.ca
  
  Quebec provincial police say they have made an arrest in a 17-year-old cold case involving the death of a teenage Indigenous girl from the Lac-Rapide First Nation.
  
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• Social Notes: Red Cross brings the light; big-hearted hospital ball

  07-07-2017 19:04 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Noties, as the adage goes, time flies when you’re having fun — and I’ve been having a lot of fun this social season! Which is why it feels like we just got underway. But as another wise maxim proclaims, all good things must come to an end — even this stellar season. And so, we bid adieu once again until fall befalls us, with a supersized summer closer featuring still more eventastics. Enjoy!
  Bringing the light: Today’s farewell festivities kick off with one of the s
  
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• Barker: Two-week break a welcome respite for weary Impact

  07-07-2017 19:01 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Teams never want to play poorly, especially in a game that precedes an extended mid-season break. But that’s exactly what the Montreal Impact did in Houston on Wednesday night as they head into a two-week break while the CONCACAF Gold Cup is being played.
  The Impact lost 3-1 to the Dynamo and never looked in contention to get anything from the match. It was a complete change of events from the team’s convincing performance against D.C. United last Saturday at Saputo Stadium, where th
  
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• NDP leadership campaign drops online ad featuring Roch Voisine – repor

  07-07-2017 18:59 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The campaign organization of NDP leadership hopeful Jagmeet Singh has pulled an online video featuring the music of New Brunswick singer Roch Voisine after the artist objected to its use, the Journal de Montreal reported Friday.
  In the ad, Singh, recalls how Voisine’s music helped him learn to speak French when growing up in the 1990s, a step Singh says he took in solidarity with francophone Quebecers.
  However the ad was quickly pulled after Voisine objected, saying he has never allowed hi
  
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• Gatineau woman convicted of assessing dyslexia without licence

  07-07-2017 18:52 via cbc.ca
  
  A woman who operates a dyslexia centre in Ottawa has been convicted in Quebec of assessing mental disorders without the proper medical qualifications.
  
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• Olympian Hugo Barrette opens up on reasons for joining Ride to Conquer Cancer

  07-07-2017 18:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  Canadian Olympian and World Cup track cycling medalist Hugo Barrette will be joining over 1,000 cyclists — many of whom are cancer survivors — on a two-day journey from Montreal to Quebec City to raise funds for cancer research.
  
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• Montrealer charged in suspected compassion killing to be released on bail

  07-07-2017 18:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Montreal man charged with murdering his wife in a suspected compassion killing has been granted bail.
  
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• 5 Montreal stories you must read this week: July 7

  07-07-2017 18:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  From a boycott of Parc Safari to one parent's warning about ticks in NDG, here are the five biggest stories Global News covered in Montreal this week.
  
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• Montreal boxing referee Marlon Wright dies at age 51

  07-07-2017 18:22 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Marlon Wright, a Montreal professional boxing referee, died Thursday of cancer.
  He passed peacefully in his sleep at Sacré-Coeur Hospital, where he had been this week because he required full-time medical supervision, surrounded by his son and daughter.
  Wright was 51.
  In 2014 he learned he had melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Wright was advised last April by his oncologist he might have only six to eight months to live.
  Wright worked the final bout of his career last Feb. 24.
  
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• Nuits d’Afrique has brought the world home to Montreal

  07-07-2017 18:21 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Tiken Jah Fakoly was an aspiring reggae star when he arrived from Ivory Coast to headline an outdoor concert at the Festival International Nuits d’Afrique in 2000. In a well-told story, he was bedridden in a Montreal hotel room recuperating from malaria for three days before he “willed” himself onstage at Place Émilie-Gamelin.
  “That concert is the one that has most marked my career,” Fakoly told the Montreal Gazette in 2012.
  And so a legend was born.
  Las
  
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• Quebec leads Canada in employment gains

  07-07-2017 18:19 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The province of Quebec saw the largest employment gain in the country in June as employment rose in Canada by 45,300. 
  According to June’s labour force survey released Friday by Statistics Canada, there were 28,000 more people employed in Quebec in June keeping the province’s unemployment rate at a record low of 6.0 per cent compared to the national rate of 6.5 per cent.
  These record-low rates in Quebec have been trending in the province this year where employment
  
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• BT Summer Sizzle – Switch up taco night and make it a Steak taco https://t.co/FyzjtIYS21

  07-07-2017 18:03
  
  BT Summer Sizzle – Switch up taco night and make it a Steak taco https://t.co/FyzjtIYS21
  
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• 5 more come forward in Westmount sex abuse case

  07-07-2017 17:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  Five new victims have come forward in the Westmount sex abuse case.
  
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• McGill students perform at Montreal’s Jazz Festival

  07-07-2017 17:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  McGill student Simon Lévesque and other members of Fryr-Tùk join Global’s Laura Casella to talk about representing their university at the Jazz Festival.
  
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• 7th right whale found dead in Gulf of St. Lawrence

  07-07-2017 17:29 via cbc.ca
  
  The carcass of a seventh North Atlantic right whale has been found off the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, CBC's French-language service, Radio-Canada, reports.
  
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• Montreal man accused in death of wife with Alzheimer's disease granted bail

  07-07-2017 17:17 via cbc.ca
  
  In Facebook posts at the time of Jocelyne Lizotte's death in February, Lizotte's husband, 56-year-old Michel Cadotte, said he "gave in" to her wish to die.
  
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• We talk Star Trek captains, Habs, and comics with @BaruchelNDG ahead of @Mtlcommiccon https://t.co/GBcTeB8hbx

  07-07-2017 16:58
  
  We talk Star Trek captains, Habs, and comics with @BaruchelNDG ahead of @Mtlcommiccon https://t.co/GBcTeB8hbx
  
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• The post-interview interview: @TheGeneOkerlund gets reaction from @eliasmakos and @joannevrakas (Full Interview:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  07-07-2017 16:44
  The post-interview interview: @TheGeneOkerlund gets reaction from @eliasmakos and @joannevrakas (Full Interview:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Brothers, 3 and 5, recovering after beating in Manawan playground

  07-07-2017 16:44 via cbc.ca
  
  A three-year-old boy could be released from hospital later today as he recovers from a beating he and his five-year-old brother suffered earlier this week, allegedly by several other young children on the Atikamekw reserve at Manawan, Que.
  
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• Quebec seizes three illegal Asian carp from Montreal businesses

  07-07-2017 16:39 via cbc.ca
  
  Some businesses and a hotel are facing charges and fines of nearly $2,000 for having grass carp.
  
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• Michel Cadotte, accused of killing his ailing wife, granted bail

  07-07-2017 16:32 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Michel Cadotte, a Montreal man charged with the murder of his ailing wife after her request for medical assistance in dying was denied, will be released on bail while awaiting his eventual trial. 
  Superior Court Justice Michel Pennou ruled Friday that despite the severity of the charge against Cadotte — second-degree murder — the circumstances and context of the case don’t warrant him being detained in the meantime. 
  Defence lawyers for Cadotte, 56, had
  
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• Syrian refugees face a tough job front in Montreal

  07-07-2017 16:22 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Over the last 2½ years, 9,867 Syrian refugees have arrived in Quebec, including 6,149 in Montreal.
  They have settled into their own homes and finished their paperwork as permanent residents. The kids are enrolled in school, and many of the adults have completed their government-mandated French classes.
  But how many have found jobs?
  It’s a difficult question to answer. Quebec is enjoying a robust job market. In June, 5.6 per cent of Quebecers were unemployed, the lowest level re
  
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• Police investigating fatal crash in Saint-Eustache

  07-07-2017 16:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  A 90-year-old woman is dead following a car crash in Saint-Eustache Thursday night.
  
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• "Oops I did it again!" - @joannevrakas announces she's pregnant live on BT https://t.co/1iJhK7yPA5

  07-07-2017 16:14
  
  "Oops I did it again!" - @joannevrakas announces she's pregnant live on BT https://t.co/1iJhK7yPA5
  
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• Vermont tries to lure Quebec tourists with poutine

  07-07-2017 16:08 via montrealgazette.com
  
  How does one attract Quebec tourists to Vermont? Apparently with poutine, if a recently released video from the Vermont Tourist Office is to be believed.
  The short promotional video was created to mark Canada’s 150th anniversary, described as a “special occasion” by tourism office spokesperson Steven Cook.The video begins with a personal invitation to visit from Vermont governor Phil Scott which is followed by a series of images of the state – including French-language na
  
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• Calling all superheroes to Comiccon

  07-07-2017 15:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  Meet some of Montreal’s coolest superheroes and cosplayers as Montreal Comiccon program director Cliff Caporale gives Global’s Kim Sullivan a sneak preview at the Palais des Congrès.
  
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• Jay Baruchel, Corey Hart to co-host Just for Laughs Intervention gala

  07-07-2017 15:38 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The previously announced Montreal: An Intervention Gala, which will close the 2017 edition of the Montreal Just for Laughs comedy festival on July 31, will be hosted by a series of special guests, including Jay Baruchel, Corey Hart, Brittany LeBorgne. 
  Montreal-born film and TV star Baruchel hosted a gala solo in 2013.
  Singer songwriter Hart celebrated his 52nd birthday with a show at the Bell Centre in 2014.
  “This sharp-tongued French kiss to our fair city features a hilarious l
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Friday, July 7

  07-07-2017 15:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Friday, July 7.
  
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• Ice cream for breakfast? Yes, please

  07-07-2017 15:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  You know it’s summer when ice cream and cookies are an option for breakfast. Chef Michael Dalla Libera from Dallarose joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk homemade ice cream and cookies.
  
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• Police arrest man wanted in connection with sexual assaults on Montreal metro

  07-07-2017 15:18 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police have arrested a 44-year-old man wanted in connection withthree separate sexual assaults on Montreal's metro.
  
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• Olympian Hugo Barrette rides to conquer cancer

  07-07-2017 15:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  Canadian Olympian Hugo Barrette and Marie-Hélène Laramée from the Jewish General Hospital join Global’s Laura Casella to talk about the Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer.
  
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• K-9 unit tracks down Brossard armed robbery suspect

  07-07-2017 15:13 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Longueuil police are crediting their canine unit with the capture of an armed robbery suspect in Brossard early Friday.
  Police said they received a 9-1-1 call at about 4:20 a.m. concerning a robbery that had occurred at a service station on Marie-Victorin Blvd. A suspect armed with a knife had entered the station and grabbed some items from station’s shelves before fleeing.
  Once on the scene, police deployed tracking dogs who soon found the suspect not far away from the site of the robbery
  
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• Canada adds 45,000 jobs in June, mainly part time

  07-07-2017 14:44 via cbc.ca
  
  Canada's economy added another 45,000 jobs in June, bumping the unemployment rate down to 6.5 per cent.
  
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