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• Ottawa appoints two new judges to the Quebec Superior Court

  18-07-2017 23:56 via montrealgazette.com
  
  OTTAWA — Two new judges — Marie-Paule Gagnon and Mario Longpré — have been appointed to the Quebec Superior Court by the federal government.
  Gagnon will join Superior Court judges in Quebec City. The former practitioner in banking law will replace Judge Bernard Godbout, who chose to become a supernumerary judge starting on June 18, 2017, according to a statement released Tuesday by the federal Department of Justice. 
  Longpré will be a judge in Montreal. He wa
  
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• Pointe-Claire welcomes beehives

  18-07-2017 23:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  There’s a new Queen Bee in town! Beehives have been installed on the roof of the Pointe-Claire public library to promote biodiversity in the city. Global’s Gloria Henriquez reports.
  
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• Engineering firm WSP Global acquires Chilean company

  18-07-2017 23:38 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Quebec engineering firm WSP Global (TSX: WSP) will double its work in Latin America after acquiring Chilean firm Poch, it was announced on Tuesday.
  The amount of the transaction hasn’t be released, but Mona Nazie, an analyst with Laurentian Bank Securities, estimates it was about $50 million. 
  Founded in Santiago in 1989, Poch employs 540 people in Chili, with offices in Colombia, Peru and Mexico. It generates about $55 million annually.
  As of March 31, the Quebec firm employed 750 pe
  
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• Champlain Bridge construction ramping up

  18-07-2017 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  More closures, detours and traffic are expected with construction on the new Champlain Bridge ramping up in the fall. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• Roussillon police seek public assistance in finding missing teen

  18-07-2017 23:34 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Régie intermunicipale de police Roussillon is asking for the public’s help in finding a 15-year-old boy who left a house in Ste-Catherine on Monday.
  Sunny Pelletier left his house at around 5:25 p.m. and was last seen wearing a dark blue t-shirt, dark blue capris and grey shoes, police say. 
  Pelletier weighs 79 kilograms and is 1.8 metres tall. He has brown eyes and black hair, which is shaved on the sides and worn in a bun on the top of his head. 
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• Archeologists sift through ruins of Montreal's Pompeii

  18-07-2017 23:31 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Louise Pothier describes it as Montreal’s Pompeii.
  “In Pompeii, the eruption of Vesuvius froze the city completely in time; here, a fire froze the building in time,” said the Pointe-à-Callière Museum’s chief archeologist on Tuesday.
  Pothier was standing over a 1.5-metre deep pit where workers using trowels, buckets and backhoes were digging around the foundations of a building that burned down during a riot on April 25, 1849. 
  An English-speaking m
  
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• Fountain beside Montreal City Hall doesn't work 2 weeks after $13M ... - CBC.ca

  18-07-2017 22:27 via cbc.ca
  
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• Fountain beside Montreal City Hall doesn't work 2 weeks after $13M upgrade

  18-07-2017 22:25 via cbc.ca
  
  A $13-million fountain outside Montreal's city hall has stopped working, two weeks after being inaugurated.
  
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• New one-way street frustrates Saint-Henri drivers

  18-07-2017 22:10 via globalnews.ca
  
  People in Saint-Henri are upset now that traffic on Rose-de-Lima Street can only go in one direction.
  
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• New Champlain Bridge forces road closures on Nuns’ Island

  18-07-2017 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  More closures, detours and traffic are expected with construction on the new Champlain Bridge ramping up in the fall.
  
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• Brick wall collapses on two workers in Outremont

  18-07-2017 21:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  The workers were found beneath the collapsed wall and transported to hospital.
  
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• Virtual reality exhibit in Montreal blurs line between man and machine

  18-07-2017 21:20 via montrealgazette.com
  
  I was a lizard fleeing a dinosaur.
  I was a dancing robot surrounded by apes. I was a cell that witnessed the cosmos exploding to life. I was a London rioter fighting the police and losing.
  These computer-generated hallucinations are part of the Lucid Realities exposition at Montreal’s Phi Centre. The expo is a collection of pieces that blur the lines between art, film, video games and, well, reality itself.
  To experience most of the installations, visitors have to wear a pair of virtual re
  
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• Herb boxes line Montreal’s river-to-mountain walkway

  18-07-2017 21:13 via globalnews.ca
  
  Tue, Jul 18: The City of Montreal’s new River Mountain Walkway is lining the city with herb boxes. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Ex-ski coach Bertrand Charest to appeal sex-crime convictions

  18-07-2017 20:58 via cbc.ca
  
  A former high-performance Canadian ski coach, convicted of 37 sex-related charges involving the exploitation and sexual assault of girls and young women he was coaching, is appealing the verdict.
  
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• Montreal wants Michael Applebaum to reimburse $160K allowance

  18-07-2017 20:52 via cbc.ca
  
  The city of Montreal wants former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum to reimburse the $160,000 he was paid out when he resigned in 2013.
  
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• Heroin smuggler will have psychiatric evaluation in Montreal before sentencing

  18-07-2017 20:51 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A woman who was recently convicted by a jury of smuggling more than seven kilograms of heroin through Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport will undergo a psychiatric evaluation before she is sentenced. 
  Serena Narinesingh, 28, was found guilty on June 29 on the two charges she faced throughout her trial at the Montreal courthouse. It took the jury less than five hours of deliberation to convict the Vancouver resident of heroin smuggling and possession with the intent to traffick.
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• American fugitive accused of millions in Medicaid fraud detained in Montreal

  18-07-2017 20:39 via montrealgazette.com
  
  An American fugitive accused of defrauding Connecticut’s Medicaid program of $4 million was arrested at Montreal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport Thursday.
  Ramil Mansourov, 47, and his colleague Bharat Patel, who ran a private, family medical practice in Connecticut, were charged with writing prescriptions for such drugs as oxycodone outside the scope of legitimate medical practice, health care fraud, and money laundering. Patel remains in Connecticut, where he was arrest
  
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• Dan Delmar: Just for Laughs Nasty Show is good for democracy

  18-07-2017 20:33 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Artistic freedom is essential to all healthy societies. Just for Laughs, the international comedy empire that began as a local festival, features one show in particular that brazenly tests the limits of artistic expression and, in so doing, contributes to the vitality of democracy.
  Beginning with the premise that the Nasty Show is democracy exemplified may seem strange, but consider that, from the court jester centuries ago to this month’s annual comedy confab (the largest in the worl
  
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• More than 15 police officers searching thru the woods at a nature park in Brossard today. Searching for clues in ov… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  18-07-2017 19:34
  More than 15 police officers searching thru the woods at a nature park in Brossard today. Searching for clues in ov… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Pointe-Claire welcomes beehives on top of public library

  18-07-2017 19:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  There's a new queen bee in Pointe-Claire.
  
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• Herb boxes line river-to-mountain urban walkway in Montreal

  18-07-2017 19:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  Herb boxes are lining downtown Montreal from the mountain to the Saint Lawrence River.
  
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• Inspection launched after catheter allegedly found in ice cream

  18-07-2017 19:06 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed Tuesday it will inspect the facilities of one of Quebec’s most popular ice cream producers after a Trois-Rivières family said they found a catheter in one of its products on Sunday.
  The federal inspection of Laiterie de Coaticook follows reports Monday that an intravenous catheter — a plastic link between an intravenous line and the patient’s body — was actually bitten down on by a family member during a weekend
  
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• 'Anchors aweigh': Dozens of tall ships on display in Quebec City

  18-07-2017 19:05 via cbc.ca
  
  Nearly 40 tall ships that have sailed across the Atlantic Ocean will be moored in the Quebec City region until Sunday. As part of the 2017 Tall Ships Regatta, the ships are sailing Canadian waters to honour the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation.
  
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• Update: Police comb woods in Brossard for clues in shooting deaths

  18-07-2017 19:02 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Longueuil police are searching a sprawling greenspace Tuesday in the wake of the discovery of two bodies near the front gates of a municipal park.
  A passerby walking on Chemin des Prairies in Brossard’s Centre de pleine air — an outdoor recreational area — called 911 about 10:50 p.m. Monday after making the gruesome discovery — two men, both of them the victims of gunshot wounds.
  The bodies were found near a vehicle that belonged to one of the victims. The men, 21 and 23,
  
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• Where does P.K. Subban fall on Sports Illustrated's list of fashionable athletes?

  18-07-2017 18:43 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Did he plan that? Fashion industry savants say P.K. Subban’s fashion sense matches his athletic ability — they’re both outstanding.
  The Nashville Predators defenceman was rated the 15th most fashionable in Sports Illustrated’s July 24 issue, which offers its list of the 50 best-dressed athletes. 
  “My style is true to who I am and definitely different than everyone else’s style,” the former Montreal Canadien said in an interview with Sports Illustrat
  
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• Wall collapses on 2 workers in Outremont

  18-07-2017 18:38 via cbc.ca
  
  A wall collapsed on two workers in an Outremont alleyway Tuesday around noon. The provincial workplace health and safety board is investigating.
  
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• Hearing delayed for man accused in Pointe-aux-Trembles shooting spree

  18-07-2017 18:27 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The preliminary hearing of Frédérick Gingras, who is charged with two counts of first-degree murder following a violent crime spree last December, was delayed on Tuesday because the accused is having mental health problems.
  Gingras’s lawyer, Kaven Morasse, told a judge that his client’s medication was changed recently and he wasn’t stable enough to participate in the preliminary hearing.
  The two-day hearing has been rescheduled for Nov. 20 and 30.
  Gingras, 22, was
  
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• BT Influencer Series: We speak to @ThierryLindor https://t.co/g6kudPkvQP

  18-07-2017 17:44
  
  BT Influencer Series: We speak to @ThierryLindor https://t.co/g6kudPkvQP
  
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• More rain meant fewer forest fires in Quebec this spring

  18-07-2017 17:19 via cbc.ca
  
  As forest fires continue to rage on British Columbia, the relentless rain in Quebec has made for the least forest fires in the province in a decade.
  
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• Free Wifi users agree to scrub toilets https://t.co/9FxyZ05U1d

  18-07-2017 17:05
  
  Free Wifi users agree to scrub toilets https://t.co/9FxyZ05U1d
  
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• Six O’Clock Solution: Grilled salmon with tomato-basil relish

  18-07-2017 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A favourite fish, grilled and served with a fresh tomato relish, is the suggestion from a new cookbook called Fresh Fish: A Fearless Guide to Grilling, Shucking, Searing, Poaching and Roasting Seafood, by experienced East Coast fisherwoman Jennifer Trainer Thompson (Storey Publishing, $19.95 paperback).Leaf through this copiously illustrated book and you may well feel you have travelled the New England coast, enjoying lobster, fish chowder, some grilled squid or steamed clams. The author shares
  
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• Montreal going the wrong way on one-way street: Notre-Dame merchants

  18-07-2017 16:26 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Businesses on Notre-Dame St. W. already affected by construction work that began this spring, now must cope with changes to a major side street.
  Merchants on the popular commercial strip met Monday to call out the Sud-Ouest borough and the city of Montreal for what they say is a decision that could hurt their businesses.
  The debate concerns Rose-de-Lima St., which is just west of Atwater Ave. and connects Notre-Dame to St-Jacques St. and the Ville-Marie Expressway. It had been a two-wa
  
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• Video: @viallnicholas28 talks wedding bells with fiancée @VanessaGrimaldi https://t.co/iVeH6Af1nD

  18-07-2017 16:00
  
  Video: @viallnicholas28 talks wedding bells with fiancée @VanessaGrimaldi https://t.co/iVeH6Af1nD
  
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• River-Mountain Walkway features public garden

  18-07-2017 15:39 via globalnews.ca
  
  The newly inaugurated River-Mountain Walkway has three types of herbs: lavender, chives and parsley. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• RAMQ medicare cards will be produced by SAAQ in 2018

  18-07-2017 15:39 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec (RAMQ) has announced that by 2018 it will soon use the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) to produce its health insurance cards.The RAMQ says it produces 2.3 million cards every year. Its production system’s service contract will soon end.The demand for cards will drop by half in 2018, as medicare cards become valid for eight years instead of four.
  The RAMQ says the decision means
  
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• Quebec DJ Domeno launches new single

  18-07-2017 15:39 via globalnews.ca
  
  Quebec DJ Domeno joins Global’s Andrea Howick and Kim Sullivan to talk about his career and new single “Lies”.
  
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• Beach bag essentials

  18-07-2017 15:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  Fashion and beauty expert Lisa Kisber joins Global’s Andrea Howick with all the essentials you can stuff into your beach bag to enjoy a day in the sun.
  
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• Montreal to take Michael Applebaum to court to recoup $160,000

  18-07-2017 15:17 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum is refusing to give up the $160,000 transition payment he received from the city prior to his conviction for fraud and breach of trust, La Presse reported Tuesday.
  Applebaum received the payment, which is to allow city politicians to re-transition to private life, after he resigned from office following his arrest in 2013 on corruption charges.
  Last May, city hall’s legal department began proceedings aimed at getting the money back. However, in docu
  
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• While you were sleeping: Drake inspires, hearts heal and Trudeau tours

  18-07-2017 15:10 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Good morning, 
  Get ready for a “mainly sunny” day in Montreal.
  Here is some news you might have missed while you were sleeping or you know – living your life yesterday evening and night.
  A Montrealer has became the first Canadian patient to get a medical heart implant called a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D).  Charlie Fidelman filed this story last night. Patient Maurice Des Alliers, 67, says he’s thrilled to feel like a young man again.
  
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• Saint-Henri merchants condemn plan to make Rose-de-Lima Street one-way

  18-07-2017 15:04 via cbc.ca
  
  Rose-de-Lima Street in Montreal’s Saint-Henri neighbourhood is set to become one-way and the move is proving controversial in the neighbourhood for how it might impact businesses.
  
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• Denis Coderre, Southwest borough mayor in Twitter feud over Rose-de-Lima Street becoming one-way

  18-07-2017 15:04 via cbc.ca
  
  Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre tweeted Tuesday afternoon that the city would not approve changes to Rose-de-Lima Street, neutralizing arguments that had arisen in Saint-Henri over converting a stretch of the street to only allow one-way traffic.
  
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• Denis Coderre says Rose-de-Lima Street won't become one-way

  18-07-2017 15:04 via cbc.ca
  
  Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre tweeted Tuesday afternoon that the city would not approve changes to Rose-de-Lima Street, neutralizing arguments that had arisen in Saint-Henri over converting a stretch of the street to only allow one-way traffic.
  
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• Video: @MissWattson with tips on how to can your own food https://t.co/yoYWSbTb8P

  18-07-2017 15:03
  
  Video: @MissWattson with tips on how to can your own food https://t.co/yoYWSbTb8P
  
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• City Hall opposition assails "boring" Promenade Fleuve-Montagne https://t.co/f8MwZJIDon

  18-07-2017 14:51
  
  City Hall opposition assails "boring" Promenade Fleuve-Montagne https://t.co/f8MwZJIDon
  
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• Police investigate deadly double shooting in Brossard

  18-07-2017 14:44 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Longueuil police erected a massive crime scene early Tuesday in the wake of the discovery of two bodies late Monday night.
  A passerby walking on Chemin des Prairies in Brossard’s Centre de pleine air — an outdoor recreational area — called 911 about 10:50 p.m. Monday after making the gruesome discovery — two men, both of them the victims of gunshot wounds.
  Both were taken to hospital where they were declared dead.
  Details on the shootings were scarce Tuesday morning, poli
  
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• Shakespeare in a West Island park

  18-07-2017 14:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  Join Global’s Andrea Howick as she talks to Repercussion Theatre Artistic Director Amanda Kellock and actor Dean Patrick Fleming about Shakespeare In The Park’s “Much Ado About Nothing” appearing this week in 3 West Island parks.
  
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• #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your 90-second news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/lJwVvT7upv

  18-07-2017 14:35
  
  #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your 90-second news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/lJwVvT7upv
  
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• Boil water advisory issued for Repentigny and environs

  18-07-2017 14:33 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The city of Repentigny is telling its own citizens as well as those in Le Gardeur and the Carrefour des fleurs de Lachenaie/Terrebonne to boil their tap water for at least one minute before consuming it and that the order is in effect until further notice.
  The advisory covers territory served by the Repentigny water distribution network, and notes that tap water can only be used for dish washing, laundry and baths or showers. Parents are urged to ensure their infants do not swallow any wate
  
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• Applying dynamic stretching techniques

  18-07-2017 14:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  Global’s Kim Sullivan learns dynamic stretching technique from fitness expert Kenny Spracklin.
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Tuesday, July 18

  18-07-2017 14:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  Andrea Howick has the Global News Morning headlines for Tuesday, July 18.
  
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