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• Solar eclipse: Where to watch and how to stay safe

  09-08-2017 23:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Heads up: For the first time since 2000, a partial solar eclipse will grace the skies over Montreal.
  On Aug. 21, a total eclipse of the sun will occur over the United States, while Canada will experience a partial eclipse.
  For sky-gazers in Montreal, 58 per cent of the sun will be covered, according to Kelly Lepo, co-ordinator for the McGill Space Institute and staff facilitator for AstroMcGill, which, among other things, seeks to increase public awareness of  astronomy.
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• Registries for children’s birthday parties

  09-08-2017 23:43 via globalnews.ca
  Registries are a new birthday party trend that are creating controversy in the parenting world. Global’s Felicia Parrillo explains.
  
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• TIFF 2017: Nguyen, Obomsawin, Côté lead Quebec contingent

  09-08-2017 23:34 via montrealgazette.com
  No sign yet of Denis Villeneuve or Xavier Dolan. And so Kim Nguyen leads the Canadian contingent announced by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on Wednesday, along with new features by Alanis Obmsawin and Denis Côté.
  Villeneuve’s Blade Runner reboot Blade Runner 2049 and Dolan’s star-studded English-language debut The Life and Death of John F. Donovan are both hotly anticipated, and will surely be part of the TIFF lineup, but will likely be announced with mo
  
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• Quebec mayor convicted of sexual assault steps down, 2 years later

  09-08-2017 23:33 via cbc.ca
  Two years after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting one of his employees, the mayor of a coastal Quebec village has stepped down.
  
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• Beaconsfield happy about Angell Woods ruling

  09-08-2017 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  Beaconsfield Mayor Georges Bourelle says he’s happy about the outcome of a legal dispute concerning the Angell Woods green space. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Canadian Army welcome asylum seekers at Lacolle border

  09-08-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  More shelters are opening to accommodate asylum seekers arriving in Quebec. As Global’s Phil Carpenter reports, the Canadian Army is setting up camp at the Lacolle Canada-U.S. border.
  
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• Green spaces the focus of Laval's new urban development plan

  09-08-2017 23:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval is favouring the creation and preservation of green spaces in their new 20-year urban development plan.
  The Schéma d’aménagement et de développement révisé details the city’s next steps for achieving the goals set out in their strategic vision document released two years ago. The plan, which will guide all urban development decisions for the next two decades, was approved by city council Tuesday night. 
  Under the plan, Bois
  
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• Why a visit from the Haitian government has Quebec immigration lawyers worried

  09-08-2017 22:50 via cbc.ca
  A visit by Haitian government representatives to Montreal as thousands of people from the country seek asylum here is raising alarm among Quebec immigration lawyers.
  
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• Fanny Britt's Hunting Houses finds a real estate agent on the brink

  09-08-2017 22:12 via montrealgazette.com
  If art is meant to imitate life, it’s often pretty selective in what it chooses to mimic. Do a bit of innocent eavesdropping in your neighbourhood bistro and take note of what people are talking about. If it’s not Trump or the weather, there’s a good chance it’s real estate and the vagaries thereof. So why aren’t people writing novels about houses and their prices?
  Well, now someone has — or at the very least used the subject as both a rich metaphor and a hand
  
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• Salary increases in Quebec the highest in Canada: survey

  09-08-2017 22:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Wages are rising faster in Quebec than in any other province, and Quebec is expected to continue leading the country in 2018, according to a survey conducted by the Toronto-based human resources company Morneau Shepell.
  Average salaries in Quebec are expected to grow by 2.6 per cent, as a percentage of payroll, in 2018, according to the survey, which was released on Wednesday.
  That’s compared to a national average of 2.3 per cent.
  British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador are expected
  
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• Man, 47, charged with attempted murder following Mount Royal stabbing

  09-08-2017 21:59 via cbc.ca
  A 47-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with an apparent random stabbing Monday night on Mount Royal.
  
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• Singer Bernard Adamus cancels Quebec fall tour

  09-08-2017 21:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Bernard Adamus announced Wednesday morning on his Facebook page that his fall tour has been cancelled.
  He was set to perform in Montreal at Club Soda on Dec. 9. 
  The singer said he is extremely tired and that he feels an urgent need to recharge.The tour, titled “En threesome, svp!”, was to include 30 performances across the province.
  The singer-songwriter said the decision was difficult to make, but that it was “necessary.”
  “It is high time for me to step back
  
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• Montreal graffiti art festival Under Pressure kicks off on Wednesday

  09-08-2017 21:42 via montrealgazette.com
  The latest edition of Under Pressure, Montreal’s annual celebration of graffiti art and culture, begins on Wednesday.
  The festival, which is now in its 22nd year, has established itself as the longest-running festival of its kind in the world. Nevertheless, “underdog” is the theme for this year’s edition.
  “We are all underdogs, and that doesn’t prevent us from accomplishing great things,” festival coordinator Melissa Proietti said in a statement. 
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• SQ officer accused of lacking compassion for stranding airport-bound family

  09-08-2017 21:41 via montrealgazette.com
  A Brossard resident is offended by the treatment he says he received from a Sûreté du Québec police officer who pulled him over on Sunday, criticizing the officer for lacking compassion and handling the situation in a dogmatic way.
  On Sunday afternoon, David Warren, 49, was driving his younger brother Craig and his five-year-old niece, Ruby, to the Montreal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. They had been visiting from Scotland and had a 5:35 p.m. flight to c
  
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• Air Transat blames 'factors beyond our control' for stranded Ottawa passenger saga

  09-08-2017 21:37 via cbc.ca
  The airline that left passengers stranded on the Ottawa airport's runway for hours last week says it tried its best to get its two planes back in the air — but workers failed to give its planes proper refuelling priority.
  
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• Montreal moves to rechristen street named after Nazi sympathizer

  09-08-2017 21:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Four months after saying it intended to follow through on the name change, the city of Montreal announced Wednesday it will rechristen a north-end street named after Alexis Carrel (1873-1944), a French physician whose research earned him a Nobel Prize but whose support for eugenics – and the Nazi regime that practised it – has seen his name excised from a series of memorials here and in France.
  Alexis-Carrel Ave. has existed in what is now the borough of Rivières-des-Prairies&
  
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• Piette eligible to play for Impact as paperwork issues resolved

  09-08-2017 21:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Samuel Piette will be eligible to play for the Montreal Impact this Saturday when the blue, white and black face off against the Philadelphia Union in Philadelphia. 
  The Impact received Piette’s international transfer certificate on Wednesday after announcing his acquisition last Thursday.Certificat de transfert international de Piette : ✅
  Et Neymar lui?
  Piette's International transfer certificate: ✅
  What about Neymar?#IMFC
  — Impact de Montréal (@impactmontrea
  
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• Author Louise Penny to play host to Clintons in Eastern Townships

  09-08-2017 21:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Mystery novelist Louise Penny will play host to the Clinton family during the mid-August vacation in the Eastern Townships, La Tribune reports. 
  Former U.S. president Bill Clinton, wife Hillary — the former Secretary of State and presidential candidate — daughter Chelsea and two grandchildren are to arrive in Quebec on Sunday.
  They are to stay at Manoir Hovey in North Hatley until Aug. 19 – Bill’s 71st birthday.
  The luxury inn has inspired the setting in some of
  
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• Quebecer sentenced after defrauding a man with cystic fibrosis of $125,000

  09-08-2017 21:20 via montrealgazette.com
  GRANBY – A Quebec blogger has been sentenced to 18 months house arrest for swindling a man with cystic fibrosis of $125,000.
  In June 2014, a judge found Patrick Vaillancourt guilty of defrauding Louis-Philippe Pesant in 2007.
  Quebec court Judge Conrad Chapdelaine, who heard the case, handed down the sentence Monday.
  Granby La Voix de l’Est reported that Vaillancourt, 36, promoted a product he told Pesant would improve his condition.
  He also told him any money he invested would be use
  
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• End of an era for Laurie Brown and CBC Radio 2's The Signal

  09-08-2017 21:13 via montrealgazette.com
  “It’s a very hard transition for people to make, from daytime to nighttime. It’s a sort of retreat back into yourself.”
  Laurie Brown would know. As host of CBC Radio 2’s dreamy late-night music show The Signal, she has been helping listeners make that transition for the past decade, telling stories and playing songs that drift through the Canadian ether from 10 to midnight, six nights a week, seeping into that grey area between go-go-go and time to go to sleep.
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• Canadian teen Shapovalov scores big win at Rogers Cup

  09-08-2017 20:12 via cbc.ca
  Canadian teenager Denis Shapovalov downed former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro on a gusty Wednesday at the men's Rogers Cup.
  
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• Big win for Shapovalov, painful loss for Raonic at Rogers Cup

  09-08-2017 20:12 via cbc.ca
  Canadian teenager Denis Shapovalov downed former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro on a gusty Wednesday at the men's Rogers Cup, while veteran Milos Raonic was bounced in his opening match.
  
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• Air Transat takes aim at Ottawa’s proposed passenger bill of rights after tarmac delays

  09-08-2017 20:02 via globalnews.ca
  Jean-Francois Lemay made the comment in a response last week to the Canadian Transportation Agency about an incident July 31 in which two Air Transat planes sat for hours on an Ottawa tarmac.
  
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• Quebec blogger sentenced after defrauding a man with cystic fibrosis

  09-08-2017 19:39 via globalnews.ca
  A judge found Patrick Vaillancourt guilty of defrauding Louis-Philippe Pesant in 2007.
  
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• Laval clamps down on multi-storey condo construction

  09-08-2017 19:32 via cbc.ca
  Mayor Marc Demers aims to restrict construction of towers over six floors on 82 per cent of the city's territory.
  
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• Roger’s Cup 2017 kicks off

  09-08-2017 19:09 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Aug 9: The Roger’s Cup tennis tournament is about to kick off. Global’s Tim Sargeant heads to open practice day to check out all the festivities.
  
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• Roger Federer celebrates 36th birthday at Rogers Cup

  09-08-2017 19:09 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Aug 9: Roger Federer is celebrating his birthday the only way a tennis star would know how – on the court. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• Parc Safari has two cheetah cubs

  09-08-2017 19:09 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Aug 9: Two cheetah cubs, born in captivity at Parc Safari, are making history in Quebec. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Parc Safari unveils Quebec’s first cheetahs bred in captivity

  09-08-2017 18:57 via globalnews.ca
  The first cheetah cubs born in captivity in Quebec are set for public viewing next month.
  
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• Environmentalists protest against oil and gas exploration in the Gaspé

  09-08-2017 18:57 via montrealgazette.com
  GASPÉ — Environmentalists protesting oil and gas development in the Gaspé region have set up along a forest road leading to Junex’s Galt well No. 4.
  Environmental groups in the Gaspésie are supporting these protesters, some of whom are wearing masks during the protest.
  Environment Vert Plus spokesperson Pascal Bergeron said he considers the actions taken by this group, which wishes to remain anonymous, to be justified. 
  He says that environmentalists have us
  
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• Former Royal Victoria Hospital to shelter migrants

  09-08-2017 18:42 via montrealgazette.com
  About 700 people are currently put up on chairs, benches or sleeping on the floor of the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle  border station for up to three days as Canada Border Services struggles to keep pace with the influx of migrants from the U.S.
  At a news conference Wednesday, federal, provincial and municipal government representatives outlined the efforts being made on different fronts to house the newcomers, most of whom are Haitians who had been living in the U.S. but who fear being deported b
  
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• The new norm? Registries for children’s birthday parties

  09-08-2017 18:36 via globalnews.ca
  A new birthday party trend is creating controversy between parents.
  
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• About 100 soldiers to help with the crush of asylum seekers at Quebec border

  09-08-2017 18:35 via montrealgazette.com
  SAINT-BERNARD-DE-LACOLLE — About 100 Canadian Forces personnel have been called in to help deal with the crush of asylum seekers crossing into Quebec from the United States.
  They will help the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency as well as other partners.
  The soldiers are setting up tents in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle to accommodate close to 500 people.
  The Forces said in a statement today that all but a few of the soldiers will return to their home base once the site is completed.
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• Ballou Tabla apologizes for skipping Impact practice to press transfer demand

  09-08-2017 18:29 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal Impact midfielder Ballou Tabla has apologized after not showing up for practice.
  
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• Canadian Army sets up tents at Lacolle border to welcome asylum seekers

  09-08-2017 18:27 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian Army is setting up camp at the Lacolle Canada-U.S. border to welcome asylum seekers.
  
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• Consultations on 'systemic racism' in Quebec dividing province's political left

  09-08-2017 18:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec is being widely criticized for its plan to launch public consultations on systemic racism, even by those who agree visible minorities face many structural barriers in the province.
  The debate has highlighted a deep divide among Quebec’s political left, with some people saying the consultations encourage an ideology of victimhood and demonize the province as inherently racist.
  Some civil rights activists argue the consultations are meaningless unless the government is finally prepare
  
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• WSP Global reports jump in second quarter profits

  09-08-2017 18:18 via montrealgazette.com
  WSP Global Group on Wednesday posted net income attributable to shareholders of $62.8 million or 61 cents per share in the second quarter, compared with $52.2 million or 52 cents per share a year earlier.
  Quarterly revenues increased 11.1 per cent to $1.7 billion.
  Adjusted net income improved 17 per cent to $65.5 million or 64 cents per share.
  Its backlog was$ 5.9 billion, representing 10.3 months of revenue, which is comparable to the first quarter of 2017.
  The WSP board of directors declared a
  
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• Survey suggests many people in the LGBT community are reluctant to come out

  09-08-2017 18:16 via globalnews.ca
  A new Canadian survey on the LGBT community shows many people are reluctant to come out.
  
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• SQ officer accused of lacking compassion after traffic stop

  09-08-2017 18:11 via montrealgazette.com
  A Brossard resident is offended by the treatment he says he received from a Sûreté du Québec police officer who pulled him over on Sunday, criticizing the officer for lacking compassion and handling the situation in a dogmatic way.
  On Sunday afternoon, David Warren, 49, was driving his younger brother Craig and his five-year-old niece, Ruby, to the Montreal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. They had been visiting from Scotland and had a 5:35 p.m. flight to c
  
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• Clinton family to vacation in Quebec’s Eastern Townships at 5-star inn: reports

  09-08-2017 17:53 via globalnews.ca
  Several sources are reporting that the Clinton family will be staying in Quebec at Manoir Hovey.
  
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• Opinion: Clean water for First Nations must be a national priority

  09-08-2017 17:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Three years ago, a study on the health effects of the Alberta oilsands reported worryingly high levels of arsenic, cadmium, mercury and selenium in wildlife of the Athabasca River region. Although members of the Mikisew Cree and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations communities that commissioned the study had low levels of consumption of traditional foods, 20 of the 94 participants had been diagnosed with some form of cancer, a strikingly high proportion. Many of them had either worked in the o
  
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• Streaming wars heat up as Letterman, Disney, and CBS get in the game btmontreal.ca/videos/streami…

  09-08-2017 17:24
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• Quebec's new latin-pop sensation btmontreal.ca/videos/quebecs…

  09-08-2017 17:23
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• For Canada's LGBT community, acceptance is still a work in progress, survey suggests

  09-08-2017 17:14 via cbc.ca
  While members of the LGBT community in Canada feel their sexual orientation is fairly well accepted among their families and friends, there is still work to do when it comes to accepting sexual and gender diversity on a societal level, according to a new survey.
  
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• Valener returns to profitability in third quarter results

  09-08-2017 17:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Valener announced Wednesday that its net income attributable to common shareholders was $1.8 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2017 compared to a net loss of $3.8 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2016.
  Valener is a widely held public company that serves as the investment vehicle to Gaz Métro.
  Valener reported adjusted net income attributable to common shareholders of $2.5 million for the third quarter, up $800,000 compared to 2016. This translates into an adjusted net in
  
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• Quebec jeweller makes unique rings out of breast milk

  09-08-2017 17:02 via globalnews.ca
  Karine Lajoie, a Quebec jeweller currently living in B.C., turns breast milk into unique pieces of jewelry.
  
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