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• Châteauguay wants to repeal pit bull bylaw

  11-07-2017 23:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  Châteauguay has banned pit bulls since the 1980s, but now the city is repealing the ban. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, officials insist breed-specific legislation doesn’t work.
  
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• Concerns about care as MUHC independent board members resign

  11-07-2017 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  Concerns are growing over the future of the MUHC after a mass resignation of the board’s independent members. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, union leaders say it’s a sign of bad relation that’s having a negative impact on patient care.
  
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• Quebec floods: Residents want compensation

  11-07-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  It’s been two months since the floods in Quebec that destroyed thousands of homes. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, residents who are now homeless say they’re tired of waiting for the government to handle their compensation claims.
  
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• Cop pulls woman from car at flooded Montreal underpass

  11-07-2017 22:54 via globalnews.ca
  
  I walked on the sidewalk towards it to see if anyone was inside," recounts Bealieu."That's when I saw a woman inside panicking."
  
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• 1 woman dead, 1 in hospital with botulism after eating whale meat in Inukjuak

  11-07-2017 22:39 via cbc.ca
  
  The director of public health for the Nunavik region has confirmed one woman died and her daughter is recovering from botulism believed to come from beluga.
  
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• Sun Youth offering $3K reward for help locating hit-and-run suspect

  11-07-2017 22:38 via cbc.ca
  
  Police are circulating new information about a vehicle they believe was involved in a June 24 incident that left a Florida man in critical condition.
  
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• Reward offered for information in suspected hit-and-run incident

  11-07-2017 22:11 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Sun Youth is offering a reward up to $3,000 for anyone who can help provide information or identify a suspect wanted in a suspected hit-and-run incident on June 24. 
  The suspect was driving a black Infiniti G37 from 2009 to 2013 with chrome rims.
  In a surveillance video provided by the Montreal police, the driver is seen talking to someone — identified as a 30-year-old male tourist from Florida — for a few minutes in a parking lot near St-Laurent Blvd. and de Maisonneuve St.
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• Good people make bad decisions in Much Ado About Nothing

  11-07-2017 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Shakespeare sat down to write Much Ado About Nothing in 1598. The play about mischief, misunderstandings, love lost and found, shame and forgiveness is set against a societal backdrop where gender inequality wasn’t just accepted, it was praised in song.
  Some things never change.
  Repercussion Theatre’s touring Shakespeare-in-the-Park production of Much Ado About Nothing debuts in Baie-d’Urfé, Thursday, July 13. Five of the company’s 29 performances are in the West I
  
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• Duncan: Explosion of mosquitos invades the Off-Island

  11-07-2017 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Mosquitos, moustiques, bibites, call them what you want in any language of choice, is there any doubt that these flying bloodsuckers reign as the most common nuisance and backyard irritant this year?
  Having hatched and emerged in record numbers as a result of this spring and summer’s incredibly wet weather thus far, expletives and loud skin slapping can be heard across the Off-Island and province as we swat and cover ourselves in a variety of bug repellents.
  In our neighbourhood, the mosqu
  
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• Update: Thirteen plead guilty in Laval collusion probe

  11-07-2017 21:54 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A Laval courtroom echoed to more than a dozen admissions of guilt on Tuesday as 13 accused who were arrested during an investigation of collusion in local municipal contracts acknowledged their wrongdoings.
  The accused included former engineers and ex-construction company owners who had been involved in contracts with the city of Laval. All of them were among the 37 persons arrested during Projet Honorer, a police probe of a system of collusion in municipal contracts between 1996 and 2010. And o
  
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• 13 men plead guilty in Laval corruption cases

  11-07-2017 21:51 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Thirteen people have pleaded guilty in a fraud scheme involving the awarding of municipal contracts in Laval.
  Read the full updated story here.
  Trials for the accused, who were charged after police arrested nearly 40 persons including then-Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt in 2013, were scheduled to begin this autumn. The sentence recommendation for reputed ringleader Claude Deguise is 30 months.
  Vaillancourt has already pleaded guilty to the charges against him and was sentenced to six years
  
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• Quebec floods: Victims fed up of waiting for compensation

  11-07-2017 21:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Quebec flood victims are upset with the provincial government because of long wait times for compensation.
  
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• MUHC board resignations leave '1st-class institution' facing leadership void

  11-07-2017 21:33 via cbc.ca
  
  Health Minister Gaétan Barrette's top-down management style is coming under scrutiny question following the resignation of 10 out of 19 board members at the McGill University Health Centre.
  
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• Concordia University to create new research centre on Loyola campus

  11-07-2017 21:33 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A new $52.75-million science centre will be built on Concordia University’s Loyola campus in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce thanks to funding from the federal and provincial governments.
  The centre, which the university is calling a research and innovation hub, will become the university’s new home for applied scientific research. Marc Garneau, federal minister of transportation, said the centre will focus on biomedical products, bio products and nano materials.
  The new hub will be an ext
  
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• Kirkland takes creative approach to launching first book-sharing box

  11-07-2017 21:29 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Kirkland has taken a creative approach to launching its first book-sharing box.
  The box, fashioned by carpenters from Kirkland’s public works department, is a miniature replica of the town’s heritage Lantier House, located at 11 Chemin Lantier. The box is installed near the house.
  Lantier House was built circa 1737. It now serves as a community centre.
  The concept of book-sharing has been steadily gaining in popularity. People are invited to leave a book and take a book from the box.
  
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• Quebec public security ministry bogged down with flood victim cases

  11-07-2017 21:24 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Quebec’s Department of Public Security is overwhelmed by the amount of work this spring’s floods have caused, and the analysis of the flood cases alone will only be completed in five weeks, according to Minister Martin Coiteux.
  Coiteux held a press conference Tuesday morning, the day after holding public consultations in 17 municipalities, some of which are home to frustrated flood victims.  
  The public security minister said he understands the frustration and impatience the vic
  
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• Venues in Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal named Canada’s Best Restroom finalists

  11-07-2017 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  This year, a Japanese pub in Edmonton, a mall in Toronto and a nightclub in Montreal are in the running to be crowned Cintas Canada's Best Restroom.
  
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• Mayors in Kirkland and Pierrefonds-Roxboro to seek re-election

  11-07-2017 19:35 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The latest news on the Nov. 5 civic elections.
  Kirkland
  Mayor Michel Gibson has announce he will seek a second term. 
  Gibson was first elected as a councillor in 1991. He ousted Mayor John Meaney in 2013. Meaney had served as mayor for close to 20 years. 
  In a prepared statement, Gibson listed his administrations accomplishments. Among them were keeping tax increases modest, securing $1 million in provincial funding to help defray the cost of modernizing the town’s arena and secu
  
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• Update: 13 men plead guilty in Laval corruption cases

  11-07-2017 19:21 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Thirteen people have pleaded guilty in a fraud scheme involving the awarding of municipal contracts in Laval.
  The eight businessmen and five engineers entered the guilty pleas in court Tuesday.
  Justice James Brunton told a courtroom packed with lawyers and clients that the charges against each of the accused would be read out. The accused would then be asked for their plea on each count.
  Trials for the accused, who were charged after police arrested nearly 40 persons including then-Laval mayor G
  
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• How to tell if your child has suffered a concussion

  11-07-2017 19:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  Summer means being outside - but could that lead to an increased risk of injury and concussions?
  
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• Homeowners promised flood inspection reports in next 5 weeks

  11-07-2017 19:03 via cbc.ca
  
  Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux says the Quebec government is ramping up efforts to inspect damaged homes and demystify the claims process for homeowners anxious to get repairs done.
  
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• Update: Montreal police renew search for man who fell into Rivière-des-Prairies

  11-07-2017 18:43 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal police said they will continue their search for Anoshan Nageswara, a young man who tripped and fell into the Rivière-des-Prairies, according to SPVM spokesperson Caroline Chèvrefils. 
  The Montreal firefighter nautical squad was raking the banks of the river around noon Tuesday, and had been doing so since about 9:30 a.m., according to Chèvrefils. 
  Police could not verify which other search procedures were going on Tuesday afternoon.
  While standing near the
  
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• Just for Laughs: Lilly Singh to host final gala at Place-des-Arts

  11-07-2017 18:31 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Canadian comedian, entertainer and YouTube sensation Lilly Singh will host Just for Laugh’s final gala, July 30 at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at Place-des-Arts.
  More than 11 million people subscribe to Singh’s YouTube channel where she is known as IISuperwomanII. In 2016 she made Forbes’s 2016 30 under 30: Hollywood and Entertainment list and her book How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life was recently published.
  Thanks to her YouTube personali
  
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• Herculito, missing Rhinoceros beetle, turns up at Toronto mail depot

  11-07-2017 18:24 via cbc.ca
  
  Canada Post has confirmed that Herculito is alive after the giant beetle was spotted in a mail depot in Toronto. Entomologist Tommy St-Laurent plans to drive there to rescue the bug that disappeared en route from Costa Rica. But now he has to contact the CBSA.
  
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• Herculito, missing Rhinoceros beetle, may have turned up at Toronto mail depot, owner says

  11-07-2017 18:24 via cbc.ca
  
  If entomologist Tommy St-Laurent can confirm Herculito is alive and well and living in a Canada Post depot in Toronto, he plans to drive there to rescue the bug that disappeared en route from Costa Rica.
  
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• 'Socially isolated' seniors should sign up for daily wellness calls: coroner

  11-07-2017 18:22 via montrealgazette.com
  
  When Francine Pratte died in her Trois-Rivières home in October 2015, it took more than a month before anyone realized it.
  In a report issued Tuesday, Quebec Coroner Raynald Gauthier reported that the concierge of the building, who had been working there five years, did not even know the 65-year-old woman, who died of an acute coronary insufficiency.
  She was “socially isolated,” Gauthier wrote. Her family did not visit, and she received a call from one of her sons about once a
  
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• Two Solitudes: Kahnawake Pow Wow

  11-07-2017 18:17 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Catherine Mathys and I want to use journalism to bridge cultural divides.
  On this episode of Two Solitudes, we visited the Kahnawake Pow Wow — an event that began as a way to honour the Mohawk resistance to the Canadian Forces during the 1990 Oka Crisis.
  The Pow Wow also celebrates Indigenous culture and brings together people from Montreal and its suburbs with their Mohawk neighbours. It welcomes First Nations from across North America for a weekend of dancing, home cooking and fun.
  We al
  
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• Quebec breast cancer foundation plans multi-city yoga tour

  11-07-2017 18:04 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation is calling on the province’s yogis to band together in the name of beating cancer.
  On Aug. 26 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the organization will hold outdoor yoga classes in Montreal, Quebec, and Sherbrooke.
  The registration fee is $35 per person, or $30 if you sign up with a team.
  In Montreal, the event will be held in Mont-Royal Park.
  The foundation has invested more than $177,000 to offer free yoga workshops for people with breast cancer, it said in a state
  
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• Quebecer Guy Caron racks up endorsements before NDP leadership debate

  11-07-2017 18:02 via montrealgazette.com
  
  NDP leadership hopeful and Quebec MP Guy Caron will receive three endorsements Tuesday, in advance of the fifth leadership debate in Saskatoon.
  The endorsements will come from longtime Saskatchewan NDP MP Lorne Nystrom, former Quebec NDP MP Rosane Doré Lefebvre and Lia Storey-Gamble, co-chair of the New Democratic Youth of Canada.
  “What the NDP needs right now is someone who can bring the party together in every part of the country. Guy not only understands Quebec, but understands e
  
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• Another round of guilty pleas in Laval corruption scheme

  11-07-2017 17:34 via cbc.ca
  
  More than a dozen engineers and entrepreneurs have pleaded guilty to taking part in a massive corruption scandal involving public contracts in Laval.
  
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• Exploring the stigma of Mental Health in the Black Community: Director @iammisstrish8 on her documentary "One Shalt… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-07-2017 16:37
  Exploring the stigma of Mental Health in the Black Community: Director @iammisstrish8 on her documentary "One Shalt… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Is sugar the new fat? Dr. Zach Levine from @cusm_muhc with the skinny on sugar https://t.co/U0q9PtSGr3

  11-07-2017 16:32
  
  Is sugar the new fat? Dr. Zach Levine from @cusm_muhc with the skinny on sugar https://t.co/U0q9PtSGr3
  
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• Our BT Montreal Influencer series continues with @daniele_henkel https://t.co/UBeoKlHs1g

  11-07-2017 16:25
  
  Our BT Montreal Influencer series continues with @daniele_henkel https://t.co/UBeoKlHs1g
  
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• Just For Laughs: Vlad Caamano takes on the Ethnic Show

  11-07-2017 16:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Comedian Vlad Caamano joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about being part of this year’s Ethnic Show at Just For Laughs.
  
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• Six O’Clock Solution: Roasted vegetable and peach salad

  11-07-2017 15:52 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Early summer foods are celebrated in this colourful salad from a good-looking new cookbook for vegetarians and any who like imaginative recipes for vegetables.Called Vegetarian Any Day, it’s the work of sisters Patricia Green and Carolyn Hemming (Penguin, $32) who made their name with cookbooks about the ancient grain quinoa. Their more than 100 meatless recipes, illustrated by Toronto food photographer Ryan Szulc, make tempting reading and cooking. The authors — Patricia lives outsi
  
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• While you were sleeping: Ice ice baby, Canadian Catholic values, more

  11-07-2017 15:42 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Good morning,
  Based on a complete lack real evidence or knowledge but a lot of sincere hope, I have a feeling that today will be a lovely Tuesday. 
  Just like I have a feeling I’m taking full advantage of all the tax credits and benefits that are available to me in Quebec.
  Speaking of which – turns out, Quebecers are losing money because of a lack of tax knowledge. Uh oh!  You can find more information about that here. 
  In Montreal, this story is pro
  
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• Lawn Summer Nights for cystic fibrosis

  11-07-2017 15:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  Serena Trifiro tells Global’s Laura Casella about Lawn Summer Nights, a lawn bowling fundraiser benefiting Cystic Fibrosis Canada.
  
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• MMIWG inquiry to forge ahead despite resignation of key commissioner

  11-07-2017 15:17 via cbc.ca
  
  The long-awaited and problem-plagued inquiry into murdered and missing indigenous women and girls will forge ahead as planned in the wake of the sudden resignation of one of its commissioners, says Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett.
  
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• Missing and murdered inquiry to forge ahead despite resignation of key commissioner

  11-07-2017 15:17 via cbc.ca
  
  The long-awaited and problem-plagued inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls will forge ahead as planned following the sudden resignation of one of its commissioners, says Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett.
  
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• Fire extinguishers emptied in Quebec City social housing complex

  11-07-2017 15:16 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Quebec City police are investigating after fire extinguishers were deployed in a social housing complex on Monday evening.
  Many of the building’s fire extinguishers were emptied, and extinguishing powder was spread in the hallways, causing damage, police say.Residents of the building, which is near the Charlesbourg neighbourhood on Roses St., were unable to return to their homes until 9:15 p.m., as cleaning procedures went on. This was about three hours after the initial call for help was
  
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• A perfect tan, without the sun

  11-07-2017 15:10 via globalnews.ca
  
  Beauty and lifestyle blogger Caroline Ellie joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about how to achieve a perfect summer glow – without the sun.
  
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• Are you using your exercise equipment properly?

  11-07-2017 15:05 via globalnews.ca
  
  Fitness expert Tina Toner joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about how to properly use home exercise equipment.
  
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• Children could risk head injury, concussion when playing sports

  11-07-2017 15:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  What are the risks of children suffering head injuries or concussions while playing outdoor sports? Professor Isabelle Gagnon from McGill University joins Global’s Laura Casella to explain.
  
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• Update: Gatineau police make arrest in hit and run of cyclist

  11-07-2017 14:53 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A suspect was arrested by Gatineau police after a hit-and-run involving a cyclist Tuesday morning. 
  The victim, a man in his 40s, sustained serious injuries to his legs but his life is not deemed to be in danger.
  The incident occurred about 2:15 a.m. on Maloney Blvd. near Main St. The cyclist was struck from the rear by a vehicle and violently thrown to the ground.
  The suspect was arrested shortly after 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. He was detained at the police station and is awaiting interrogation.&
  
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• #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your 90-second news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/eS3DGwdAx3

  11-07-2017 14:35
  
  #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your 90-second news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/eS3DGwdAx3
  
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• Woman sexually assaulted by small town Quebec mayor says she is moving away

  11-07-2017 14:31 via cbc.ca
  
  Denis Lejeune, mayor of Baie-Trinité, Que., first sexually assaulted Caroline Lamarre six years ago while she was working as a secretary for the municipality. She will be compensated in exchange for agreeing to abandon her efforts to get her job back, but says she is leaving town for the sake of her children.
  
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