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• Settlement reached in Quebec woman’s ‘rat salad’ case

  17-07-2017 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Terrebonne woman who found a decomposed rat carcass in her salad has reached a settlement with the restaurant.
  
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• Mailman delivers hope to Montrealer fighting cancer

  17-07-2017 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Mailman Franco Frenna is delivering messages of hope to Lindsey Finkelstein, a blogger who shares her story of fighting breast cancer alongside her mother. Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports.
  
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• Quebec Muslim cemetery referendum rejected

  17-07-2017 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  The residents of Saint-Apollinaire, near Quebec City, have rejected a proposal to establish the area’s first Muslim-run cemetery. Global’s Raquel Fletcher finds out what the Muslim community plans to do now.
  
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• Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue development lawsuit

  17-07-2017 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  Developers are suing Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue for the right to build 140 single-family homes in the city. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• Dog not on leash leads to Montreal woman’s arrest

  17-07-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Montreal woman is outraged after she received a fine for failing to put her Chihuahua on a leash. As Global’s Anne Leclair reports, she misled police by incorrectly identifying herself, which led to her arrest.
  
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• Woman dies after car struck at train crossing

  17-07-2017 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A female motorist died Monday morning after her SUV was struck by a freight train at a level crossing in the municipality of St-Télesphore.
  The incident occurred at around 3 a.m. on Highway 325. Provincial police think the motorist’s speed was a factor in the accident, but are trying to determine whether the driver, who was in her 30s, was unable to brake in time to avoid the train or attempted to beat the train at the crossing.
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• Gas leak closes streets in Mercier borough

  17-07-2017 23:11 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A gas leak that began around 11:50 a.m. shut down two streets in Montreal’s Mercier borough Monday afternoon.
  Repair work has forced the closure of Cadillac St. between de Marseille St. and Hochelaga St.
  Pierre-De Courbertin Ave., where the gas leak is located, is also closed in both directions between De Quesne St. and Bossuet St. Montreal police officers are in the area directing traffic.
  The SPVM said the streets is expected to be reopened around 11 p.m.
   
  
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• Business owners decry Notre-Dame St. closure; Coderre adjusts timeline

  17-07-2017 23:07 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Business owners on and around Notre-Dame St. West are expressing anger at the short notice given about a road closure on the commercial strip.
  On July 12, the city of Montreal announced that Notre-Dame St. would be closed between Vinet and St-Martin Sts. as of July 17 for a period of six weeks due to roadwork.
  Business owner Patrice Demers, who runs Patrice Pâtissier near the Atwater Market, took to Twitter on July 15 to call out the city and the Sud-Ouest borough, saying he received
  
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• Als' Beaulieu making the most of his opportunities

  17-07-2017 23:06 via montrealgazette.com
  
  There are two things a Canadian Football League fullback requires — patience and a lack of ego.
  “You don’t get the ball so often. When you do, you need to make something out of it. If you don’t, you won’t get the ball no more,” the Alouettes’ Jean-Christophe Beaulieu said Monday, following practice at Olympic Stadium.
  “You need to be patient. You play in the shadow of everybody else. But I like the way they use me.”
  Quietly, the 6-foot-3, 220
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Unleashed chihuahua leads to criminal charges for Montreal dog owner

  17-07-2017 23:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Montreal business owner is outraged after getting arrested and fined for failing to put her chihuahua on a leash.
  
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• Charges against 11 alleged Montreal Mafia members withdrawn - CBC.ca

  17-07-2017 22:36 via cbc.ca
  
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  The final 11 people still facing charges in relation to a police operation targeting alleged Montreal Mafia members have had their charges stayed. A judge approved the request Monday, which came from the Crown. The accused were arrested as part of ...
  Montreal Mafia: Project Clemenza screeches to a halt as cases stayedMontreal Gazetteall 6 news articles »
  
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• Charges against 11 alleged Montreal Mafia members withdrawn

  17-07-2017 22:33 via cbc.ca
  
  The final 11 people still facing charges in relation to a police operation targeting alleged Montreal Mafia members have had their charges stayed.
  
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• Developers suing Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue for right to build homes

  17-07-2017 22:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  The promoters are seeking more than $35 million in damages in a lawsuit that was filed earlier this month.
  
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• St-Apollinaire cemetery referendum result not binding: Julius Grey

  17-07-2017 22:14 via montrealgazette.com
  A civil-rights lawyer says Quebec City Muslims would probably win a court victory if they contested a weekend referendum that narrowly rejected a cemetery for the community.
  “Referendums are not binding when it comes to fundamental rights,” said Julius Grey, noting the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled “it doesn’t matter what the majority thinks of our freedom of expression and religion.”
  On Sunday, residents of St-Apollinaire rejected, by a vote of 19 to 16, a plan
  
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• Warrant issued for imam accused of promoting hatred in Montreal sermon

  17-07-2017 21:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  An arrest warrant has been issued for a Jordanian imam who is accused of giving a sermon last December denigrating Jews.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Montreal letter carrier delivers messages of hope to breast cancer blogger

  17-07-2017 21:23 via globalnews.ca
  
  A letter carrier in Côte Saint-Luc is making a big difference in a very small way.
  
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• Police seek man alleged to have committed indecent act in St-Hyacinthe

  17-07-2017 21:21 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Police seek man alleged to have committed an indecent act in St-Hyacinthe.
  The Sûreté du Québec is searching for a man who they say committed an indecent act in a restaurant in St-Hyacinthe on May 27.
  They allege that the man, between the ages of 45 and 50, undressed himself in a Subway restaurant on St-Louis Ave. around 1:45 p.m.
  At the time, the SQ says that he was wearing blue jeans, a dark jacket and a dark baseball cap and wearing thin-framed glasses. He was driving a be
  
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• Universal Music's Canada 150 compilation has some Quebecers crying foul

  17-07-2017 21:16 via cbc.ca
  
  Universal Music Canada's 6-disc celebration of Canadian music is drawing ire because it includes no French songs. Céline Dion is featured on it, but it's one of her English songs.
  
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• The Montreal Highland Games are celebrating their 40th - The Suburban Newspaper

  17-07-2017 21:13 via thesuburban.com
  
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  The Montreal Highland Games are celebrating their 40th
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  The Montreal Highland Games recently announced that they are returning to the green grounds of the Douglas Hospital in Verdun to celebrate their 40th anniversary on Sunday, August 6 with full Highland pageantry, in collaboration with Principal Sponsors ...
  
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• New $50M promenade links Mount Royal to the Old Port - CBC.ca

  17-07-2017 21:11 via cbc.ca
  
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  The city of Montreal has unveiled a new promenade as part of its 375th anniversary that will allow people to walk from Mount Royal to the St. Lawrence River at the Old Port. The 3.8-kilometre walkway "traces traces the pedestrian link between Montreal ...
  Allison Hanes: Pedestrian corridor is beautiful, but expensiveMontreal Gazetteall 3 news articles »
  
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• New $50M promenade links Mount Royal to the Old Port

  17-07-2017 21:08 via cbc.ca
  
  The city of Montreal has unveiled a new promenade as part of its 375th anniversary that will allow people to walk from Mount Royal to the St. Lawrence River at the Old Port, but the Opposition isn't impressed.
  
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• Celine Cooper: The Muslim-cemetery vote and the challenges of diversity

  17-07-2017 21:02 via montrealgazette.com
  
  On Sunday, a small group of residents of St-Apollinaire, Que. voted against a proposed Muslim-run cemetery in their town. 
  After the accommodation “crises” that led to the 2007-08 Bouchard-Taylor Commission and the 2013-14 debate over the proposed Quebec Charter of Values, this is the latest case of tensions arising between those in favour of “religious accommodation” and proponents of secularism. It won’t be the last. 
  Unfortunately, it’s also
  
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• Singer Elijah Picard-Hervieux's Innu language at the heart of his music

  17-07-2017 20:54 via cbc.ca
  
  For Elijah Picard-Hervieux, music has been the path to everything — his language, his culture, his voice. It's now taking the 18 year-old singer-songwriter to the North American Indigenous Games.
  
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• 'We do not intend to give up' dream to have a cemetery: Quebec Muslims

  17-07-2017 20:40 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Bitter after narrowly losing a referendum, Quebec City’s biggest mosque says it has not abandoned the dream of creating a Muslim cemetery.
  “We do not intend to give up,” the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec said in a statement posted on its Facebook page Monday, a day after residents of St-Apollinaire rejected, by a vote of 19 to 16, a plan to create what would have been the region’s first Muslim-owned cemetery.
  Muslims “bitterly note” that it took j
  
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• Opinion: New Quebec history curriculum is a chance to teach key lessons

  17-07-2017 20:40 via montrealgazette.com
  
  In this year of “important” anniversaries, history is a little bit more on the minds of the general public than usual. Beyond the speeches and other commemorations that will inevitably recede from public consciousness, there is another reflection on history about to be enacted, with more permanent effects than any particular anniversary — the latest reform of the Quebec high school history curriculum.
  The new curriculum has been picked over by critics and supporters rather thor
  
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• Montreal lawyers asks court to expedite refugee status for 'Snowden's Guardian Angels'

  17-07-2017 20:20 via montrealgazette.com
  
   OTTAWA — A group of lawyers are hoping the courts will force the federal government to speed up refugee applications for three families who helped hide NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong.
  The lawyers have asked a Federal Court judge to order Ottawa to live up to its obligations to protect refugees, and process the families’ claims immediately.
  Lawyer Michael Simkin says there are fears the families could be arrested any day, making it more difficult to have them rese
  
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• Final 11 accused in Quebec mob bust see charges stayed by judge

  17-07-2017 20:15 via globalnews.ca
  
  They were charged after a series of busts against organized crime that led to dozens of arrests.
  
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• Montreal lawyers asks court to expedite refugee status for 'Snowden's Guardian Angels' - Montreal Gazette

  17-07-2017 19:57 via montrealgazette.com
  
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  Lawyers Marc-André Séguin, left, and Michael Simkin speak during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, July 17, 2017, about their effoerts on behalf of 'Snowden's Guardian Angels.' Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press. Share Adjust ...and more »
  
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• Chinese property buyers increasingly attracted to Montreal real estate

  17-07-2017 19:56 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal is now attracting more interest than Vancouver on China’s most popular international property website, Juwai.com.
  So far this year, there have been more searches for Montreal on the site than for any other Canadian city except Toronto, according to a report released by Juwai.com. 
  It’s a change that appears to have taken place in recent months — in 2016, Montreal ranked third, after Vancouver, among Canadian cities searched for on the site.  
  That increa
  
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• Beyond Beautiful: James Blunt on his new sound, Ed Sheeran and modesty

  17-07-2017 19:55 via montrealgazette.com
  
  When James Blunt heralded the arrival of his fifth album, The Afterlove, his announcement suggested self-promotion and self-effacement don’t have to be at odds with each other.
  “If you thought 2016 was bad,” he tweeted in December, “I’m releasing an album in 2017.”
  Not for the first time, Blunt confirmed he had read his reviews, was aware of the vitriol he attracted through the ubiquity of his lovelorn 2005 breakthrough single You’re Beautiful, and would
  
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• DDO construction: de Salaberry Boulevard roadwork

  17-07-2017 19:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  Mon, Jul 17: Road work on de Salaberry Boulevard in DDO is causing delays for commuters. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Work on de Salaberry Boulevard joins list of DDO construction

  17-07-2017 19:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  DDO residents are angry now that de Salaberry Boulevard is under construction - another obstacle as traffic woes become an issue on Saint-Jean Boulevard.
  
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• Watch the new trailer for Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049

  17-07-2017 19:14 via montrealgazette.com
  
  “Every leap of civilization was built off the backs of slaves. Replicants are the future but I can only make so many.”
  Take a peek into a futuristic Los Angeles with the new trailer for Blade Runner 2049, from director Denis Villeneuve and executive producer Ridley Scott.
  Ryan Gosling plays K, an LAPD officer on a mission to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford reprising his role from the original 1982 film), the Blade Runner who has been missing for 30 years.Blade Runner 2049 hits theat
  
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• Police investigate brazen robberies at cottages in the Laurentians

  17-07-2017 19:03 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Cottagers at a lake near Ste-Adèle are setting up a neighbourhood watch program and installing security cameras after thieves cleaned out several homes on Lac Pilon.
  At least eight homes have been targeted in the past month. Some cottages were almost completely emptied as thieves made off with appliances, televisions, electronics, beds, dishes, cutlery and tools.
  In one case, thieves made themselves at home in one residence, cooking food and helping themselves to the liquor cabinet before
  
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• Toronto now officially a buyers’ market, amid nationwide home sales slump: CREA report

  17-07-2017 19:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  Home prices, meanwhile, were virtually flat compared to a year ago.
  
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• Montreal Mafia: Project Clemenza screeches to a halt as cases stayed

  17-07-2017 18:59 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A lengthy investigation into drug trafficking networks related to the Montreal Mafia came to a screeching halt on Monday as the last eleven men charged in Project Clemenza saw a stay of proceedings placed on the drug smuggling charges filed against them only last year. 
  Included among the men who essentially saw their cases tossed out at the Montreal courthouse was Marco Pizzi, 47, a Montreal resident alleged to be an influential figure in the Montreal Mafia who was the target of an attempt
  
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• Here's how bad Montreal's asphalt gets in just 5 years

  17-07-2017 18:57 via cbc.ca
  
  Roads that were freshly paved in 2010 had deep fissures and tar patches by 2015. See how your street fared.
  
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• Generic drug deal to save Quebec more than $300 million yearly: Barrette

  17-07-2017 18:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  Quebec won't put out tenders for generic prescription drugs.
  
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• Quebec City-area Muslim cemetery project won’t be reintroduced: Mayor

  17-07-2017 17:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  A proposal to establish the Quebec City area's first Muslim-run cemetery was defeated in a referendum Sunday by a vote of 19 to 16.
  
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• St-Apollinaire mayor won't reopen debate over Muslim cemetery

  17-07-2017 17:44 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The mayor of St-Apollinaire says he has no intention of reopening the debate over a Muslim cemetery in his town any time soon.
  “For the moment, we have done our bit and we’re going to take a break, I hope for a long time, from the issue,” Bernard Ouellet, mayor of the town 45 kilometres southwest of Quebec City, told the Montreal Gazette.
  “I don’t want to put the population through something like this again soon.”
  The issue of opening a Muslim cemetery on land
  
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• Quebec boards of trade laud Barrette generic drug agreement

  17-07-2017 17:35 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The agreement reached between the Quebec government and the generic drug industry is not only good for the healthcare system, but also the economy, the Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec said Monday.
  Provincial Health Minister Gaétan Barrette announced on Sunday that more than $300 million would be saved annually on generic drugs thanks to a five-year deal reached with the Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association, and that those funds would be re-in
  
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• Hone your hockey skills with the SuperDeker btmontreal.ca/videos/hone-yo…

  17-07-2017 17:19
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• Canada's Abel, Citrini-Beaulieu take world diving silver

  17-07-2017 17:15 via cbc.ca
  
  Canada's Jennifer Abel and Melissa Citrini-Beaulieu took the silver medal in the women's three-metre synchronized diving event Monday at the world championships in Budapest, Hungary.
  
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• What’s the best way to deal with a problem neighbour? https://t.co/OreXdTJJMx

  17-07-2017 16:58
  
  What’s the best way to deal with a problem neighbour? https://t.co/OreXdTJJMx
  
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• B.C. fires: 40 Quebec firefighters to join fight in Kamloops

  17-07-2017 16:57 via montrealgazette.com
  
  As wildfires force tens of thousands from their homes across British Columbia, Quebec firefighters are getting ready to join the fight in Kamloops.
  Tuesday morning, 40 firefighters from Quebec’s Société de protection de forêts contre le feu will fly from Quebec City to B.C., arriving around 6:30 p.m., according to SOPFEU representative Catherine Morency.SOPFEU firefighters will work in B.C. for 14 days, she added. Before sending the personnel, SOPFEU evaluated Quebec we
  
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• Caroline Arnouk wants to solve Montreal's traffic woes with @technologiesopa btmontreal.ca/videos/carolin…

  17-07-2017 16:55
  Caroline Arnouk wants to solve Montreal's traffic woes with @technologiesopa btmontreal.ca/videos/carolin…
  
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• Montreal’s favourite Bachelorette @VanessaGrimaldi holds first fundraiser for “No Better You” foundation https://t.co/voBiQ842lY

  17-07-2017 16:13
  
  Montreal’s favourite Bachelorette @VanessaGrimaldi holds first fundraiser for “No Better You” foundation https://t.co/voBiQ842lY
  
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• The perfect vacation in the south of France

  17-07-2017 15:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  Travel writer Catherine Maisonneuve shares the perfect initerary for a trip to the South of France this summer with Global’s Andrea Howick.
  
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• DDO construction snarls morning commute

  17-07-2017 15:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  Road work on De Salaberry Boulevard is causing delays for commuters. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• How to avoid – or treat – insect bites and stings

  17-07-2017 15:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  Global News Medical expert Dr. Mitch Shulman joins Andrea Howick to talk about insect bites and stings : how to avoid them, and how to treat them if you get stung.
  
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