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• Five things to look forward to at the 40th Montreal Highland Games

  03-08-2017 23:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Haggis, hammer throwing and highland dancing — all that and more is coming up at this year’s Montreal Highland Games.
  The event is celebrating its 40th anniversary this Sunday on the Douglas Mental Health University Institute grounds in Verdun, and organizers wanted to do something special not only for their event’s anniversary, but for Canada’s 150th and Montreal’s 375th.The event celebrates Scottish culture, but anyone is welcome and encouraged to join the party.H
  
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• North Hatley’s English community flourishing

  03-08-2017 23:40 via globalnews.ca
  While English communities in rural Quebec seem to be disappearing, others are finding ways to survive and flourish. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, North Hatley in the Eastern Townships is hoping bilingual francophones will keep the English language alive.
  
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• Kirkland construction causes difficulty for drivers

  03-08-2017 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  The intersection of Brunswick and Saint-Charles Boulevard is being dug up. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, that’s causing traffic headache for commuters.
  
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• Olympic Stadium opens doors to asylum seekers

  03-08-2017 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal’s Olympic Stadium is housing asylum seekers after the number of people crossing at the U.S. border spiked in recent months. As Global’s Sarah Volstad reports, Quebec’s government is explaining why it made this decision.
  
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• Temporary border set up at Lacolle

  03-08-2017 23:32 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec is seeing an influx of asylum seekers who are leaving the U.S. in droves. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, a temporary border has been opened at the Lacolle crossing.
  
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• Opinion: Kimberly Gloade's plight points to broader Quebec health care injustices

  03-08-2017 23:25 via montrealgazette.com
  “They who have put out the people’s eyes, reproach them of their blindness.”
  — attributed to John Milton, 1642
  The McGill University Health Centre has made headlines again, after failing to observe basic standards of decency in its response to a very sick person. Coroner Jacques Ramsay’s recent report details how Kimberly Gloade, a Mi’kmaq woman, was asked to pay a fee (over $1000!) for an emergency room visit in February 2016 because she did not have her Medi
  
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• 1 in 5 sausages tested across Canada contained different meat than labelled, study finds

  03-08-2017 23:22 via cbc.ca
  About 20 per cent of sausages sampled from grocery stores across Canada contained meats that weren't on the label, according to a federally funded study.
  
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• Q&A: Behind the scenes at L'International des Feux Loto-Québec

  03-08-2017 22:54 via montrealgazette.com
  On the eve of the grand finale of L’International des Feux Loto-Québec — or the International Fireworks Competition — the popular event’s technical director, Paul Csukassy, took time out from preparing for the last show to take us behind the scenes.
  The finale, which takes place on Saturday night at La Ronde, will be set to the music of classic 1970s Quebec band Harmonium and the solo work of Serge Fiori, the band’s frontman.
  Montreal Gazette: How long h
  
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• Would-be refugees fleeing Donald Trump policy may not fare better in Canada

  03-08-2017 22:12 via globalnews.ca
  Haitians who came to Canada, rather than the U.S., following the 2010 earthquake have already been subject to deportation for almost three years.
  
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• RCMP boosts presence at Lacolle border to accommodate surge of asylum seekers

  03-08-2017 22:03 via globalnews.ca
  Dozens of asylum-seekers are crossing the Lacolle Canada-U.S. border illegally.
  
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• Seeking refugee status: The process explained step by step

  03-08-2017 21:49 via montrealgazette.com
  The number of asylum seekers crossing into Quebec seeking refugee status has tripled in the last two weeks, according to the province’s immigration minister, Kathleen Weil. Now that they’re here, how do the 150 individuals entering Quebec per day proceed?
  Interview with an official
  Once an individual has made their way into Canada — about 6,505 claimants entered Quebec between January and June this year — they are screened by a Canadian Border Services Agency agent, a RCM
  
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• Update: Andy Murray confirms he is withdrawing from Rogers Cup

  03-08-2017 21:42 via montrealgazette.com
  World No. 1 Andy Murray is withdrawing from the Rogers Cup, becoming the third player in the top six of the ATP rankings to do so over last two days.
  Tennis Canada announced Murray’s withdrawal Thursday, hours after No. 6 and Wimbledon finalist Marin Cilic pulled out and a day after No. 4 Stan Wawrinka announced he would not be participating because of a knee injury.
  Murray said he needs more time to recover from a hip injury. This is the second consecutive year that Murray will miss Canad
  
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• World No. 1 Andy Murray latest to pull out of Rogers Cup

  03-08-2017 21:35 via cbc.ca
  World No. 1 Andy Murray is withdrawing from the Rogers Cup, becoming the third player in the top six of the ATP rankings to do so over last two days.
  
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• What the Puck: A plea for a reasonable debate amongst Habs fans

  03-08-2017 21:34 via montrealgazette.com
  I love the passion of the Habs debate, but this is crazy. I feel like there’s a level of bitterness to the discussion of the Canadiens this summer that’s unprecedented and, honestly, most of that anger is coming from the fans in the pro-Bergevin camp.
  They simply cannot accept any criticism of Habs general manager Marc Bergevin or his team. It is downright bizarre.
  I have been a journalist for a very long time, mostly writing about arts and culture. Yet, I have never seen anything li
  
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• The birth of our cool: Montreal’s creativity is fuelled by nightlife

  03-08-2017 21:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s famed nightlife scene has more than partying on its mind these days.
  Creative collectives are forming and thriving throughout the city, made up of musicians, visual artists, clothing designers, entrepreneurs, venue operators and more. It’s in this nocturnal arena where famous DJs cut their teeth, influential brands find their earliest adopters and cultural barriers are broken down. It’s where Montreal’s coolness is birthed.
  While Artgang, Moonshine, Never Apart
  
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• Refugees in Quebec: Unmarked ditch is now a reception centre

  03-08-2017 20:58 via montrealgazette.com
  The scene greeting asylum seekers at a popular illegal border crossing point in Quebec on Thursday was vastly changed from that of a few months earlier.
  What used to be an unmarked ditch monitored by one or two RCMP patrol cars had turned into a makeshift reception centre in response to the surging number of asylum seekers crossing the border at Hemmingford in the last two weeks.
  Folding chairs and bottles of water were available for border crossers in a large white tent as they waited to board
  
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• Influx of Haitian refugees taxes Quebec shelters, immigration minister says - Montreal Gazette

  03-08-2017 20:58 via montrealgazette.com
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  Influx of Haitian refugees taxes Quebec shelters, immigration minister says
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  Montreal has set aside at least 10 locations as temporary welcoming centres, ranging from the YMCA residences typically used, to the student residences at the Université du Québec à Montréal, the Salvation Army, a Notre-Dame-de-Grâce community centre, ...
  Montreal's Olympic Stadium to be used as shelter for asylum seekersCTV News
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• Influx of Haitian refugees taxes Quebec shelters, immigration minister says

  03-08-2017 20:58 via montrealgazette.com
  The number of asylum seekers crossing the border from the United States into Quebec tripled in the last two weeks, going from 50 a day to 150 and putting a strain on the province’s temporary housing shelters, Quebec Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil said Thursday.
  “We have the experience to deal with this type of situation,” she said, the day after the surge made national headlines when provincial authorities were forced to enlist Montreal’s Olympic Stadium as a temporar
  
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• Why are thousands of Haitians streaming into Canada from the U.S.?

  03-08-2017 20:33 via cbc.ca
  U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened not to renew the temporary protection status given to more than 50,000 Haitians after the 2010 earthquake, prompting the influx of asylum seekers into Canada. But many don't know they could still face deportation here.
  
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• Why are 1000s of Haitians streaming into Canada from the U.S.?

  03-08-2017 20:33 via cbc.ca
  U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened not to renew the temporary protection status given to more than 50,000 Haitians after the 2010 earthquake, prompting the influx into Canada. But many don't know they could still face deportation here.
  
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• Quebec ignores our suggestions about electric vehicle mandate: automaker

  03-08-2017 20:33 via montrealgazette.com
  One of the automakers that will be most affected by Quebec’s new zero emissions vehicle mandate has expressed disappointment with the way the provincial government has proceeded in the matter.
  “We are disappointed,” said Sandra Lemaitre, director of public relations for Mazda Canada. “We have been working on reducing greenhouse gases and building efficient technology to address the situation on our own terms.”
  Mazda, along with Subaru, has no vehicles in its current
  
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• Alouettes football camp changed a future player's life

  03-08-2017 20:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Alouettes players Seydou Junior Haidara and Frederic Plesius attend the Nos Jeunes à Coeur football camp at Calixa-Lavallée High School in Montreal on Wednesday August 2nd 2017.
  “They were teaching me a game that I fell in love with,” says Alouettes’ wide receiver Haidara.
  Video by Allen McInnis / Montreal Gazette.
  
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• Parsifal is coming to the Lanaudière Festival. Got some time?

  03-08-2017 20:15 via montrealgazette.com
  The Lanaudière Festival concludes its 2017 season with a Bühnenweihfestspiel. You might want to dress accordingly.
  Or simply arrive in a devotional frame of mind. Wagner’s Parsifal — subtitled by the composer as a “festival play for the consecration of the stage” — is a solemn undertaking.
  And substantial. Given in concert and uncut, the opera will run more than five hours with two intermissions (after the first of which, in Bayreuth at least, applause i
  
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• Anglos in Quebec: Bilingualism holds steady in the Eastern Townships

  03-08-2017 19:20 via globalnews.ca
  While some English communities are fast disappearing, others in rural Quebec are finding ways to survive and flourish.
  
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• ICYMI: Beach volleyball centre ransacked by thieves btmontreal.ca/videos/beach-v…

  03-08-2017 19:09
  ICYMI: Beach volleyball centre ransacked by thieves btmontreal.ca/videos/beach-v…
  
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• New series from @titocurtis and @Mathysc wants to bridge the gap between Quebec's Two Solitudes https://t.co/fjQVopU2jk

  03-08-2017 19:08
  
  New series from @titocurtis and @Mathysc wants to bridge the gap between Quebec's Two Solitudes https://t.co/fjQVopU2jk
  
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• Mom Talk with @CVDmtl: What to do when you don't feel like parenting your kids btmontreal.ca/videos/mom-tal…

  03-08-2017 19:08
  Mom Talk with @CVDmtl: What to do when you don't feel like parenting your kids btmontreal.ca/videos/mom-tal…
  
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• ‘Tip That Cap’ a nod to Expos Hall-of-Famer Tim Raines

  03-08-2017 18:30 via globalnews.ca
  Local rapper Annakin Slayd, celebrated the induction of Expos' legend Tim Raines into the Hall of Fame over the weekend, the best way he knows how - with a musical tribute.
  
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• Former Quebec cabinet minister Jacques Daoust dead at 69

  03-08-2017 18:04 via globalnews.ca
  Former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister Jacques Daoust has died.
  
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• First Saks Off 5th store in Montreal region opens at Galeries d'Anjou

  03-08-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  With customers already lined-up outside the store, the first Saks Off 5th location in the Montreal region opened at the Galeries d’Anjou on Thursday morning.
  The 30,000 square-foot store is billed as a “luxury off-price” retailer and its branding references luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue. Both Saks off 5th and Saks Fifth Avenue are owned by the Hudson’s Bay Company. Saks Off 5th stores carry some Saks Fifth Avenue-branded items, however the brand
  
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• Quebec housing asylum seekers in Olympic Stadium, dealing with 150 requests a day

  03-08-2017 17:54 via globalnews.ca
  Many of those arriving were of Haitian descent.
  
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• Wimbledon finalist Cilic to miss Rogers Cup, Murray expected to drop out

  03-08-2017 17:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Wimbledon finalist Marin Cilic will miss the Rogers Cup next week in Montreal due to an adductor injury.
  Cilic announced Thursday that “until the very last moment I was hoping that improvement concerning my injury will be good enough, but I am forced to withdraw.”
  The sixth-ranked Croat says he suffered the injury at Wimbledon where he lost to Roger Federer in straight sets in the final.
  Federer is playing in Montreal but his Swiss compatriot Stan Wawrinka withdrew Wednesday with a k
  
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• 150 refugees a day in Quebec: 'We are in control of the situation'

  03-08-2017 17:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s immigration minister says the number of people seeking asylum in the province has tripled in the last two weeks.
  Kathleen Weil says there were roughly 50 requests a day between July 1 and July 19 but that the number has since surged to 150 a day.Public health minister Lucie Charlebois: We are in control of the situation and taking necessary measures
  — Rene Bruemmer (@ReneBruemmer) August 3, 2017
  Weil told a news conference in Montreal this morning the spike is putting a lot
  
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• A lifetime of classic films at Outremont Theatre

  03-08-2017 17:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Roland Smith recalls the exact date he got his start in the movie business: July 14, 1963. That’s the day he walked into the Empire Theatre on Ogilvy Ave., in Park Extension, to complain that a segment was missing from a print of Michelangelo Antonioni’s I Vinti, shown as part of a double bill with La Notte. Fifteen minutes later, he had a new job.
  Three years later, Smith opened the Verdi Cinema, on St-Laurent Blvd. between Fairmount and St-Viateur; and in 1971 he began work at the
  
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• Man in Inukjuak, Quebec, dies after being struck by ATV, released from health centre

  03-08-2017 17:30 via cbc.ca
  A man in Inukjuak, Que., was sent to the local health centre last week after he was hit by an off-road vehicle. He was treated for minor injuries, released and then died the next day.
  
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• Inukjuak, Que., man hit by ATV dies shortly after discharge from hospital

  03-08-2017 17:30 via cbc.ca
  A man in Inukjuak, Que., was sent to the local health centre last week after he was hit by an off-road vehicle. He died the next day in Puvirnituq, Que.
  
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• Dick Pound: NHL's decision to bar players from Olympics is short-sighted and unfair

  03-08-2017 17:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Canada has, perhaps, a unique perspective on ice hockey. If we did not invent the game, we certainly contributed to its development into a global sport. We have, to mix sporting metaphors, punched well above our weight for decades. We fielded two of the original six teams in the National Hockey League and have continued to be important in the North American context of the NHL. Our men’s team has won the last two Olympic tournaments and our women have won the last four. We have hosted two e
  
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• Jacques Daoust, former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister, dies at 69

  03-08-2017 17:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Jacques Daoust, the Verdun native and former Liberal cabinet minister who found himself at the centre of a string of political controversies in office, died Thursday, a little over a week after suffering a stroke.
  He was 69 years old.
  A business and banking executive executive for most of his adult life, Daoust entered politics in 2014 after heading Investment Quebec, the province’s business development agency, for the previous seven years.
  Daoust was elected in the riding of Verdun under
  
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• Drug use at Osheaga: Tips for surviving the trip

  03-08-2017 16:47 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
  
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• Record number of road work in NDG

  03-08-2017 16:40 via globalnews.ca
  A record number of road projects is making it difficult to get around in NDG.
  
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• Aldo buys shoe and accessories business Camuto Group

  03-08-2017 16:34 via cbc.ca
  Canadian shoe company Aldo has agreed to purchase the footwear and accessories business Camuto Group for an undisclosed sum.
  
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• Former Liberal cabinet minister Jacques Daoust has died: Reports

  03-08-2017 16:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Former provincial Liberal cabinet minister Jacques Daoust has died, according to several news reports.
  Daoust died from complications related to a stroke he suffered late last month. He was 69.
  Daoust was elected to the National Assembly in 2014 and became Transport minister in January 2016. In August, dogged for weeks by allegations he didn’t reveal all he knew about the sale of hardware giant Rona to American interests in 2015, Daoust handed in his resignation as minister.
  More to come.&
  
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• Former Liberal cabinet minister Jacques Daoust dies

  03-08-2017 16:17 via cbc.ca
  Former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister Jacques Daoust has died, according to his family.
  
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• Ryan Playground’s Osheaga must-haves

  03-08-2017 16:14 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal DJ Ryan Playground joins Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan to talk about her Osheaga must-haves and her latest single, “Prolongation.”
  
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• Montreal’s 1st dragon boat day fundraiser

  03-08-2017 16:07 via globalnews.ca
  Dragon Boat Day organizer Sandra MacGregor sits down with Global’s Kim Sullivan to talk about the fundraiser on Lachine Canal.
  
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• Eggs: A staple in the kitchen

  03-08-2017 16:04 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal chef and Egg Farmers of Canada ambassador Patrice Demers shows Global’s Laura Casella two egg-inspired recipes to prove eggs are always in season.
  
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• Kevin Tierney: Quebec movies have a dubbing problem

  03-08-2017 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  One of the unheralded cultural battles Quebec wages with the American film studios and their distribution networks involves dubbing.
  English speakers are generally unfamiliar with dubbed entertainment material, essentially movies that have been lip-synched into various languages.
  Being the benefactors of cultural imperialism, we enjoy the privilege of our language and consume mostly English-language entertainment. Should we find ourselves in front of a dub, we end up spending much of our time ex
  
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• Five things to do in Montreal this weekend: August 5 and 6

  03-08-2017 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada is forecasting showers during the day on Saturday and a mix of sun and clouds for the rest of the weekend.
  Here are some suggestions to make the most of August’s first weekend.
  1001 Pots
  The ceramic arts in all their glories are here and available for you to see in Val-David. The 1001 Pots exhibition features dozens of ceramic artists who prove that pottery is far more diverse and vibrant than you might imagine.Osheaga
  It’s finally here. Osheaga is once again upon
  
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• Meet Team Quebec’s youngest water polo player

  03-08-2017 15:50 via globalnews.ca
  Jessica Beauchemin, Team Quebec’s 13-year-old water polo player, sits down with Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan to talk about being the youngest person to ever make the team.
  
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• Feds, province confident they can handle influx of asylum seekers in Quebec

  03-08-2017 15:42 via cbc.ca
  Despite a spike in the number of asylum seekers illegally crossing into Quebec in recent months, government officials believe they are equipped to handle the influx.
  
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