Montreal news

• Rillette, hummus, fermented garlic recalled by Ministry of Agriculture

  02-08-2017 23:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is warning against consuming certain brands of rillette, hummus, terrine and fermented garlic.
  From Robin Marché on Wellington St., the house duck rillette and duck terrine should be avoided if they were sold before Aug. 1, as well as the hummus, if it was sold before that date and not kept in a refrigerator. The hummus and rillette were packaged in glass jars, and the terrine was sold in vacuum plastic packs. All three bore the l
  
  Read more

• Transportation agency demands answers after stranded airline passengers call 911

  02-08-2017 23:56 via cbc.ca
  The Canadian Transportation Agency is demanding Air Transat explain why passengers on two of its planes diverted to Ottawa on Monday ended up being stranded inside the aircraft for hours — long enough for a pair of flyers to call 911.
  
  Read more

• Record number of road projects in CDN-NDG

  02-08-2017 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  A record number of roadwork projects are underway in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, it’s become one of the hardest places to get around.
  
  Read more

• Pointe-Claire allows family’s naturalized garden

  02-08-2017 23:38 via globalnews.ca
  A Pointe-Claire family has won a fight against the city over a naturalized garden, with bushes and grass as tall as the house on their front lawn. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Montreal’s Benny Pool rules infuriate parents

  02-08-2017 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  A rule at Benny Pool in NDG is insisting parents not bring their opposite-sex children into the change rooms with them. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, this comes after people were told nudity would not be tolerated in the locker rooms.
  
  Read more

• Anglos dwindling in Thetford Mines

  02-08-2017 23:32 via globalnews.ca
  Just one per cent of the population of Thetford Mines identifies as being anglophone –a big difference from the once thriving community when the asbestos mine provided many with work. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
  Read more

• Water main break closes Sainte-Catherine Street at Atwater Avenue

  02-08-2017 23:22 via cbc.ca
  Ste-Catherine Street West is closed between Atwater Avenue and Wood Avenue while a City of Westmount work crew tries to find and stop the break.
  
  Read more

• Water main break closes part of Ste-Catherine Street in Westmount

  02-08-2017 23:22 via cbc.ca
  Ste-Catherine Street West is closed between Atwater and Wood avenues as excavation work continues after a water main broke.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Just like Sears Canada: 30% of similar pension plans in Ont., Que. underfunded

  02-08-2017 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  The struggling retailer can't keep up with its pension payments. It's a scenario that will 'absolutely' happen again, experts say.
  
  Read more

• Longueuil police searching for suspect in car chase

  02-08-2017 23:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Police are investigating a speeding incident that resulted in a car chase early Saturday. 
  Around 3:30 a.m., Longueuil police spotted a speeding car on Montarville Blvd. near Highway 132 in Boucherville. After police tried to stop the car at the intersection, it sped away, leading the police to chase the vehicle down the street. 
  Due to security measures, the chase was called off. 
  Police later located the suspected vehicle, a brown Bentley Continental from 2008, which will g
  
  Read more

• Police investigating after one-year-old severely burned in Shawinigan

  02-08-2017 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A one-year-old girl from Shawinigan is being treated at the Ste-Justine Hospital after she was injured with serious burns on her hands.
  She is in stable condition, but her hands could bear permanent injuries, according to Annie Thibodeau of the Sûreté du Québec, which is investigating the events. Thibodeau added it is unclear how long the baby will stay at Ste-Justine. 
  The incident took place in the early evening on Saturday, in a duplex on 11e Ave. in the Grand-M&egrav
  
  Read more

• Acquisitions drive 20 per cent revenue increase for Montreal's Stingray

  02-08-2017 22:58 via montrealgazette.com
  A series of acquisitions helped drive an almost 20 per cent increase in quarterly revenue for Montreal-based Stingray Digital Group (TSX: RAY.A, RAY.B).
  The results for the three-month period that ended on June 30, which were released on Wednesday, come two days after the company announced it had purchased two Australian companies that sell background music and other media services to retailers; deals worth a total of just under $11 million.
  Acquisitions play a major role in the company’s
  
  Read more

• Sailing around the world a chance to fulfill lifelong dream, Quebecer says

  02-08-2017 22:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Simon DuBois is keenly aware of the dangers of sailing on the open ocean.
  He saw it first-hand in May when he helped rescue a group of six Canadian businessmen from a sinking ship near Bermuda during the Antigua-to-Bermuda race.
  Despite that, DuBois is about to embark on the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, an 11-month sailing adventure that will take him around the world. 
  While the rescue at sea was an emotional experience, it also helped set DuBois’s mind at ease about his upcom
  
  Read more

• Drug use at Osheaga: Tips to surviving the trip

  02-08-2017 22:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal hospitals are bracing for the next edition of Osheaga, the massive party/festival that last year attracted more than 135,000 attendees, including a few who ended their party in crisis at a hospital emergency room.
  Held outdoors at Jean-Drapeau Park, the three-day event features indie, electro, pop, folk, rock and hip hop music that’s often fuelled by alcohol and a mix of drugs that slip past security at the entrance. 
  Health officials say they are taking precautions, suc
  
  Read more

• Hells Angels no longer vendors at Quebec agricultural fair

  02-08-2017 22:08 via globalnews.ca
  The number 81 refers to the position of the letters H and A in the alphabet.
  
  Read more

• Quebec family visiting New Brunswick loses prized possessions after trailer stolen

  02-08-2017 22:04 via globalnews.ca
  Besides their stolen trailer, the couple's most prized possession was their daughter's plush toy, and a log book they kept from their trip through the United States.
  
  Read more

• Montreal mother told toddler son not allowed in pool change room

  02-08-2017 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  A new rule at Benny Pool in NDG is insisting parents not bring their opposite-sex children into the change rooms with them.
  
  Read more

• Ailing Stan Wawrinka won't play Rogers Cup

  02-08-2017 21:27 via cbc.ca
  World No. 4 Stan Wawrinka is pulling out of the upcoming Rogers Cup in Montreal due to a knee injury that he says has been bothering him all season.
  
  Read more

• Opinion: Rogers Cup a time to reflect on elegance, democracy of tennis

  02-08-2017 21:08 via montrealgazette.com
  In a 2006 essay titled Roger Federer as Religious Experience, novelist David Foster Wallace noted that there “are times, as you watch the young Swiss play, when the jaw drops and eyes protrude and sounds are made that bring spouses in from other rooms to see if you’re O.K.”
  At 35, the legendary Federer isn’t all that young these days. But he is still among the world’s best male tennis players, and will be competing for the Rogers Cup Aug, 4-12 at Montreal’s Un
  
  Read more

• Kanesatake Mohawks call for federal government to intervene in land dispute

  02-08-2017 20:58 via cbc.ca
  Frustration continues to mount in Kanesatake, Que., where residents of the Mohawk community are once again rallying to protect a stand of trees known as The Pines from encroaching development.
  
  Read more

• Hells Angels can't have a booth at the St-Hyacinthe fair

  02-08-2017 20:41 via montrealgazette.com
  ST-HYACINTHE — The management of a Quebec agricultural fair is admitting it made a mistake in allowing a group associated with the Hells Angels to sell products at the site.
  Fair director Francois Brouillard says the “Support 81 Montreal” group has left the St-Hyacinthe exposition at the request of management.
  The number 81 refers to the position of the letters H and A in the alphabet.
  The group had been operating a kiosk that sold clothing and other merchandise, much of it in
  
  Read more

• Opinion: To lower Quebec's drop-out rate, make school more challenging

  02-08-2017 20:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Just after the school year wound up in June, Gazette columnist Allison Hanes assigned some summer-vacation homework: to think about how to reinvigorate Quebec’s education system.
  So, I’ve been thinking. And I’ve come to the conclusion that the solution to the province’s chronic high drop-out rates lies neither in offering students remuneration (as businessman Mitch Garber proposed earlier this year) nor in eliminating standardized, province-wide final exams, as James
  
  Read more

• 'We're close to the limit': Big O becomes a shelter as refugees flow from U.S.

  02-08-2017 19:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, the site of sporting events, rock concerts and trade shows, has assumed a new vocation: refugee shelter.
  The east-end stadium is in the process of setting up beds for hundreds of refugee claimants, many of them Haitians fleeing the United States for fear their temporary resident status in that country will be revoked.
  The reports come as figures compiled by the Canadian Border Services Agency indicate Quebec has become Canada’s main entry point for refugee
  
  Read more

• Quebec firefighters relieve colleagues fighting B.C. forest fires

  02-08-2017 19:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec is sending relief and reinforcements to authorities battling forest fires in British Columbia.
  Two new detachments of firefighters will be deployed from this province to assist in the B.C. operation and will relieve 43 of their colleagues who are due to return to Quebec on Thursday.
  Meanwhile, four water bombers from Quebec flew to Kamloops last weekend.
  The reinforcements and equipment will be added to those already deployed by SOPFEU, Quebec’s forest firefighting agency, in B.C.
  M
  
  Read more

• CGI to cut 1,600 jobs, but bolster staff in some areas to answer client demands

  02-08-2017 19:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal technology-service provider CGI Group Inc. (TSE: GIB.A) said it’s cutting 1,600 jobs while hiring in other areas as it responds to clients’ accelerating demands to provide more online services.
  It will post a pretax expense of $165 million over the next year to account for the job cuts and “address under-utilized resources,” chief financial officer François Boulanger told analysts on a conference call Wednesday. The stock had its biggest intraday drop
  
  Read more

• Pointe-Claire allows controversial garden with bushes, grass taller than house

  02-08-2017 19:31 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Pointe-Claire has allowed a controversial garden to continue to grow.
  
  Read more

• Indigenous culture celebrated at 27th Présence autochtone festival

  02-08-2017 19:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Indigenous culture will be shared in many forms at the 27th Présence autochtone, a.k.a. the Montreal First Peoples Festival, which began Wednesday and runs through Aug. 9.
  The event’s cinema component features a sneak preview of the Indigenous rock documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, directed by Montrealers Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana.
  The movie premièred at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the world cinema documentary section&rsqu
  
  Read more

• Elissa Alarie's cross-country gamble pays off for Canadian rugby

  02-08-2017 19:13 via cbc.ca
  Elissa Alarie is back in the 15s game on the the eve of her second Women's Rugby World Cup. This gives Canada, along with fellow former sevens star Magali Harvey, two of the team's top strike runners.
  
  Read more

• Eight more municipalities added to Quebec flood relief program

  02-08-2017 18:52 via montrealgazette.com
  In the wake of floods that struck the province last spring, the provincial government announced Wednesday that eight more municipalities had been deemed eligible to benefit from Quebec’s flood relief program.
  Flooding victims in Baie-du-Febvre, Île-Dorval, Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Piedmont, Saguenay, Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, Sainte-Justine-de-Newton and Sorel-Tracy now qualify for financial aid specifically for damages suffered during the floods bet
  
  Read more

• Fourth-seeded Stan Wawrinka pulls out of Rogers Cup

  02-08-2017 18:42 via montrealgazette.com
  The world’s fourth-ranking tennis star won’t play the Rogers Cup when the tournament gets underway in Montreal on Saturday.
  Tennis Canada said Stan Wawrinka, 32, has pulled out of the tournament to nurse a knee injury he suffered at the Wimbledon tournament this month.
  The Swiss-born player posted on his Facebook feed that he was taking time off to recover from the injury. Wawrinka will also miss a tournament in Cincinnati set to take place after the Rogers Cup.
  Wawrinka, who made it
  
  Read more

• Acquisitions drive 20% increase for Montreal's Stingray

  02-08-2017 18:41 via montrealgazette.com
  A series of acquisitions helped drive an almost 20 per cent increase in quarterly revenue for Montreal-based Stingray Digital Group (TSX: RAY.A, RAY.B).
  The results for the three-month period that ended on June 30, which were released on Wednesday, come two days after the company announced it had purchased two Australian companies that sell background music and other media services to retailers; deals worth a total of just under $11 million.
  Acquisitions play a major role in the company’s
  
  Read more

• Anglophone population in Quebec rising despite language laws: 2016 census

  02-08-2017 17:58 via globalnews.ca
  A 2016 census shows that Quebec's anglophone population is on the rise.
  
  Read more

• Osheaga picks: beyond the headliners

  02-08-2017 17:55 via montrealgazette.com
  You know about Lorde, Muse and the Weeknd at the top of this year’s Osheaga bill, but if you’re trying to navigate the 100-plus other acts on the program, here are some suggestions from two of our music contributors.
  FRIDAY, AUG. 4
  Noname (3:25 p.m., Valley Stage). Chicago native Fatimah Warner mixes spoken word, rap and soul into a razor-sharp, head-bobbing mix on her debut album, Telefone. She caught the attention of one Lauryn Hill, for whom she opened on several dates. For fans o
  
  Read more

• Osheaga: Lorde grows up before our ears

  02-08-2017 17:55 via montrealgazette.com
  When Lorde took the stage at Osheaga 2014, the world stopped.
  The world of Osheaga, at least. It was early evening on Sunday, Aug. 3, the last of three sold-out days of bands, beers and bodies everywhere, bumping into you as you tried to make your way from one stage to the next, hit the porta-potty or just enjoy the moment.
  On stage, artists vied for attention. Coming up next were Brit-rock bad boys Arctic Monkeys, the epitome of laconic hipster cool, who knew a thing or two about arriving on a
  
  Read more

• With spike in asylum seekers, Montreal’s Olympic Stadium to be used as shelter

  02-08-2017 17:41 via globalnews.ca
  After a spike in the number of people crossing at the United States border, Montreal's Olympic Stadium will be housing asylum seekers.
  
  Read more

• Godspeed You! Black Emperor's new record Luciferian Towers is out Sept. 22

  02-08-2017 17:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s Godspeed You! Black Emperor is back with a new album next month.
  The long-running post rock ensemble will release Luciferian Towers Sept. 22 via Constellation Records.
  The album was recorded last winter in Montreal’s Hotel2Tango studio.
  In a statement on their label’s website, the band says the new album is informed by demands including “the total dismantling of the prison-industrial complex” and “an end to borders.”
  Godspeed You! Black E
  
  Read more

• Montrealers look to creative mornings with @Montreal_CM for inspiration https://t.co/EurtsH9POf

  02-08-2017 17:27
  
  Montrealers look to creative mornings with @Montreal_CM for inspiration https://t.co/EurtsH9POf
  
  Read more

• 40th Montreal Highland Games to kick off Sunday

  02-08-2017 17:14 via globalnews.ca
  The 40th annual Montreal Highland Games will kick off on Sunday.
  
  Read more

• More scandals for Donald Trump - We talk to @Concordia's Graham Dodds https://t.co/B88dV59zYJ

  02-08-2017 17:12
  
  More scandals for Donald Trump - We talk to @Concordia's Graham Dodds https://t.co/B88dV59zYJ
  
  Read more

• Dr. Oliver Jones Golf Tournament returns https://t.co/k1XNopAtlI

  02-08-2017 16:51
  
  Dr. Oliver Jones Golf Tournament returns https://t.co/k1XNopAtlI
  
  Read more

• SuperKid Ariana Ianniciello wins SuperFantastico

  02-08-2017 16:46 via globalnews.ca
  Ariana Ianniciello, 14, joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about winning the SuperFantastico singing competition and perform a song.
  
  Read more

• Montreal's Big O used to shelter Haitian refugees flowing from U.S. to Canada

  02-08-2017 16:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, the site of sporting events, rock concerts and trade shows, has reportedly assumed a new vocation: refugee shelter.
  Local reports say the east end stadium is in the process of setting up beds for hundreds of refugee claimants, many of them Haitians fleeing the United States for fear their temporary resident status in that country will be revoked.
  The reports come as figures compiled by the Canadian Border Services Agency indicate Quebec has become Canada’s
  
  Read more

• Census 2016: English is making gains in Quebec

  02-08-2017 16:37 via montrealgazette.com
  English is making gains in Quebec, according to results of the 2016 census on language, released Wednesday. Bilingualism across the country saw a modest shift upward — a rate that has barely budged over the last 15 years.
  The bilingualism rate in Canada reached 18 per cent in the 2016 census (up from 17.7 per cent in 2001), and two-thirds of the growth in the bilingual population was attributed to Quebec, even though the reported rate of bilingualism increased in most provinces and te
  
  Read more

• Anglos in Quebec: Disappearing from Thetford Mines?

  02-08-2017 16:25 via globalnews.ca
  Vibrant English communities across Quebec are now declining in population with 80 per cent of anglophones now living in Montreal.
  
  Read more

• ICYMI: Projet Montreal to make Formula-E race election issue btmontreal.ca/videos/projet-…

  02-08-2017 16:24
  ICYMI: Projet Montreal to make Formula-E race election issue btmontreal.ca/videos/projet-…
  
  Read more

• Yoga helps back-to-school stress

  02-08-2017 15:31 via globalnews.ca
  Life coach and parenting expert Erica Diamond shows Global’s Laura Casella four yoga poses that will help combat stress and anxiety generated by the back-to-school chaos.
  
  Read more

• Watch the Little League Baseball Canadian Championship final

  02-08-2017 15:31 via cbc.ca
  Watch live action from the Little League Baseball Canadian Championship in Medicine Hat, Alta., where the championship final will determine Canada's entry in the Little League Baseball World Series.
  
  Read more

• Olympic Stadium opened to temporarily house 'intense' surge of asylum seekers from U.S.

  02-08-2017 15:31 via cbc.ca
  Due to a surge of asylum seekers coming from the United States to Quebec, a temporary shelter has been opened at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal.
  
  Read more

Follow @MontrealCANews on Twitter!