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• Before he beat Rafael Nadal, Denis Shapovalov was his mascot

  11-08-2017 23:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Kids, they grow up so fast.
  Eighteen-year-old Canadian Denis Shapovalov defeated top-seeded Rafael Nadal in the Rogers Cup on Thursday night. 
  That, however, was not the first time the two players had met on the court. 
  On July 24, 2008, in Toronto, Shapovalov served as one of the mascots for Rafael Nadal’s third-round Rogers Cup match against Igor Andreev of Russia. The world-conquering Spaniard shook his hand and posed for a picture.
  In footage of the encounter, Nadal’s f
  
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• Everyone loves an ice cream truck

  11-08-2017 23:50 via globalnews.ca
  Some people may have only seen ice cream trucks on television, but there`s one in Montreal. Felicia Parillo discovered the romance behind this disappearing business.
  
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• Denis Shapovalov's meteoric rise has come after low point in February

  11-08-2017 23:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Denis Shapovalov’s tennis career hit a low point in February when he was playing Kyle Edmund in the deciding rubber in Canada’s Davis Cup tie against Britain.
  Edmund won the first two sets and, when the British player took a 2-1 lead in the third set, a frustrated Shapovalov picked up a ball and took a wild swing. The ball hit umpire Arnaud Gabas in the eye and the teenager from Richmond Hill, Ont., was defaulted, handing the tie to Britain.
  For Martin Laurendeau, who serves in a dua
  
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• Teen phenom Denis Shapovalov continues historic run at Rogers Cup

  11-08-2017 23:40 via cbc.ca
  Canada's Denis Shapovalov advanced to the Rogers Cup semifinals with a 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over France's Adrian Mannarino on Friday night.
  
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• Wikimania Montreal

  11-08-2017 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  The founder of Wikipedia and one thousand Wikimaniacs are in Montreal for the website`s annual convention. Matt Grillo attended the opening event.
  
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• Clintons at Hovey Manor

  11-08-2017 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  The tiny village of North Hatley is busy preparing to host one of the best known families in the United States. President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, their daughter Chlesea Clinton and her two children will be spending the week at Hovey Manor. As Sarah Volstad reports the visit has the entire Eastern...
  
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• Red Cross in Lacolle

  11-08-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  The Red Cross and Canada Border Services are struggling to keep up with the steady stream of asylum seekers crossing into Quebec from the United States. Billy Shields reports from Lacolle.
  
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• Pickrell’s mobile ice-cream truck scooping up customers for almost 15 years

  11-08-2017 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Pickrell's mobile ice-cream service has been catering Montreal public and corporate events for almost 15 years.
  
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• Authorities in Quebec town puzzled by stolen 2,000-pound bell

  11-08-2017 23:25 via montrealgazette.com
  ST-RAYMOND, Que. — Officials in a town northwest of Quebec City say they’re puzzled as to how someone managed to steal the town’s 2,000-pound bell.
  St-Raymond spokeswoman Geneviève Faucher said the bell has been owned by the town since 1904 and was used to alert residents when there was a fire.
  When the town hall was rebuilt, the bell was relocated and used as a monument in front of the new city hall and fire hall.
  Officials noticed Monday that it was missing and believe
  
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• MUHC oncologist 'frightened' new surgery booking system jeopardizes patients

  11-08-2017 23:10 via cbc.ca
  Dr. Lucy Gilbert, a surgeon and the director of gynecologic oncology at the MUHC, says the centralized booking system in place at the Montreal General Hospital, slated to be expanded to the Glen site on Monday, will lead to mistakes in patient care.
  
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• Border services overwhelmed as Haitians continue to seek asylum in Quebec

  11-08-2017 23:06 via globalnews.ca
  Conditions are difficult for asylum seekers at the Canada-US border as a steady stream of people seeking refugee status cross illegally into Quebec.
  
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• Discover Little Italy's treasures in our video walking tour

  11-08-2017 22:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s Italian community has a rich tradition in the city.
  Italians came to the Montreal in two waves: in the early 1900s and in the years after the Second World War. Italians left their mark on the city, notably as builders of homes and roads, cooks and entrepreneurs.
  It was the second wave of immigrants that started businesses that have become Montreal institutions, like Caffè Italia and the Milano Supermarket. That wave also saw the arrival of the Saputo family, which built a
  
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• Spring floods, now drought: Bees, crops suffering on Quebec's parched east coast

  11-08-2017 22:49 via cbc.ca
  Farmers on the Gaspé Peninsula and neighbouring Lower Saint-Lawrence say less rain than normal means streams are running dry, crops are stunted and dairy producers may not be able to grow enough hay to feed their animals.
  
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• Climate change may encourage invasive species in Quebec, scientist warns

  11-08-2017 22:32 via cbc.ca
  The Nature Conservancy of Canada has released a list of country’s top 10 invasive species, which conservation biologist Dan Kraus says affects everything from insects and songbirds to cattle and crops.
  
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• Wikipedia conference comes to Montreal for first time

  11-08-2017 21:58 via globalnews.ca
  The 13th annual Wikipedia conference has come to Montreal for the first time.
  
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• As many as 1,200 asylum seekers wait to be processed at Lacolle border crossing

  11-08-2017 21:27 via cbc.ca
  With waves of migrants fleeing the U.S., the Canadian Border Services Agency says that as many as 1,200 asylum seekers are waiting to be processed at the border crossing in Lacolle, Que.
  
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• Federal action to protect right whales encouraging, say environmental groups

  11-08-2017 21:00 via cbc.ca
  The Canadian Wildlife Federation and World Wildlife Fund both have words of praise for action taken Friday by the federal government to protect endangered right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
  
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• Q&A: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales doesn't believe in a post-truth world

  11-08-2017 20:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was in Montreal for the annual Wikimania conference from Aug. 9 to 13, a gathering hundreds of Wikipedia contributors and enthusiasts from around the world.
  It was the first time the conference was held in Canada, and the first time a French-speaking city was chosen.
  He sat down for an interview with the Montreal Gazette.
  Montreal Gazette: In the conference’s keynote address, a speaker was talking about the post-truth world. This is a phrase we often hear
  
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• StatsCan: Computer error led to 2016 census results on Anglophone population in Quebec

  11-08-2017 20:43 via globalnews.ca
  Statistics Canada says it is correcting recently released census data about the number of English speakers in some smaller Quebec communities.
  
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• Wikipedia founder kicks off Montreal Wikimania by urging net neutrality

  11-08-2017 20:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says the free online encyclopedia has emerged as a trusted source of information in an era of fake news.
  Wales says that as traditional media outlets have declined and lost the trust of the public, Wikipedia has stepped up to fill the gap.
  His comments were made this morning in Montreal during a panel discussion at the opening of the annual Wikimania conference.
  The three-day conference is gathering about 1,000 people for a series of training sessions, presentations
  
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• Statistics Canada to revise language results in Quebec

  11-08-2017 20:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Statistics Canada has issued a statement acknowledging errors in the 2016 Census on language and saying they will be corrected in the next week.
  Jack Jedwab, president of the Association for Canadian Studies, wrote to the agency Wednesday raising concerns about results on anglophones in remote regions of Quebec and asking for a formal investigation 
  Statistics Canada is blaming an error in a computer program for the fact that 61,000 people were misclassified in the latest tranche of census
  
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• Police are looking for 14-year-old Vanessa Rodriguez-Fernandez

  11-08-2017 20:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Longueuil police are asking for help in finding 14-year-old Vanessa Rodriguez-Fernandez.
  Anyone who has information about Rodriquez-Fernandez is asked to call 911 immediately, as her health and safety could be in danger.  
  She was last seen Aug. 9 in Brossard. Police say she could be in the Greater Montreal area or in the Toronto area.
  According to a press release from the Longueuil police department, Rodriquez-Fernandez is five feet tall and weighs 100 pounds. She has brown eyes and long,
  
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• StatsCan blames computer error for spike in number of English speakers in Quebec

  11-08-2017 20:08 via cbc.ca
  Statistics Canada is blaming a computer error for 2016 census results that indicated a surprising increase in the number of English-speaking people in Quebec.
  
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• Oops! StatsCan says it was wrong about number of English speakers in Quebec

  11-08-2017 20:08 via cbc.ca
  Statistics Canada is blaming a computer error for 2016 census results that indicated a surprising increase in the number of English-speaking people in Quebec.
  
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• Around the World in 80 Days, Economy Class

  11-08-2017 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The world is getting smaller thanks to miraculous technological advances; after all, as one character marvels in this fast-moving take on Jules Verne’s 1870s classic, Around the World in 80 Days, information can travel from England to Australia in only a matter of days.
  This co-production between young people’s theatre company Geordie Productions, Hudson Village Theatre and Theatre Lac Brome shrinks Verne’s world to even smaller proportions, thanks largely to Brit playwright To
  
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• Family of Ontario man missing in Quebec concerned for his safety

  11-08-2017 19:38 via montrealgazette.com
  The family of an 84-year-old Ontario man who went missing on his way to an event in Quebec are concerned for his well-being.
  Walter Allan left his home in Tobermory, Ont. on July 18 on his way to a money collectors convention in Boucherville.
  Has has not been heard from since and was last seen on July 21 in Ste-Brigide-d’Iberville, which is about 60 kilometres outside Montreal.
  Allan is described by police as 5-foot-8, 150-160 lbs. with white hair and a full white beard.
  His family sa
  
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• Cooling off on a hot summer day in the St. Lawrence River

  11-08-2017 18:31 via globalnews.ca
  Donning orange life-jackets, 375 Montrealers jumped into the St. Lawrence River Friday morning for the 13th annual Big Splash in the Old Port of Montreal.
  
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• Nearly 2,500 asylum-seekers housed in Montreal, government figures show

  11-08-2017 18:28 via montrealgazette.com
  There were 2,440 asylum-seekers temporarily housed in Montreal as of Thursday, according to the most recent statistics released by the government on Friday.
  The Quebec government’s immigration department website has been compiling daily statistics as the flow of asylum-seekers continues across the border from the U.S.
  On Wednesday, 156 more people were temporarily housed, while 334 others left the shelters either voluntarily or with the help of aid groups.
  Since July, 700 people who are aw
  
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• City workers accidentally destroyed artwork dedicated to missing and murdered Indigenous women

  11-08-2017 18:10 via cbc.ca
  A City of Montreal employee mistakenly destroyed earlier this week an Indigenous totem meant to be part of the First Peoples' Festival, sparking anger on social media.
  
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• Denis Shapovalov: 5 things to know about rising star

  11-08-2017 18:09 via cbc.ca
  Canadian teen tennis sensation Denis Shapovalov had the biggest win of his young career on Thursday night when he upset top-seeded Spaniard Rafael Nadal in the round of 16 at the Rogers Cup. Here are five things to help Canadian tennis fans get to know the budding star a little better.
  
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• Air Transat offers $400 to passengers of flight stranded for hours in Ottawa

  11-08-2017 18:03 via cbc.ca
  Air Transat is offering hundreds of dollars in compensation to passengers of a redirected flight that was stuck on the tarmac at the Ottawa airport for six hours last month.
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: Aug. 11, 2017

  11-08-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Under $18: Everyday drinking
  Pinot Noir 2016, Bicicleta, Cono Sur, Chile red, $11.10, SAQ # 13284401. Better than the 2015. It’s a touch richer and less oak-ridden. There is a toasty/smoky backdrop to the ripe red fruits, which adds spice on the finish. Not the purest pinot out there, but at this price it’s a great deal, and a perfect accompaniment to lighter fare on the grill. Residual sugar: 4.4 g/L. Grape variety: pinot noir. Serve at: 15 C. Drink now. Food pairing idea: 
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw: These wines will add some sparkle to your summer

  11-08-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Part of my job in this column is to break all of you of familiar habits. Not that they are necessarily bad, but I just want to expose you to new wines, food pairings and even situations in which you might not think of drinking a certain style of wine.OK, fine — I really want you all to drink like me.
  My summer has included some excellent dinners. And whether it was a tête-à-tête or with a number of friends, if there is a common thread, it’s that nearly all of those
  
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• Stratford and Shaw: Two more reasons to call Montreal a festival city

  11-08-2017 17:45 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s true that the Shaw and Stratford festivals are geographically in Ontario, and linguistically in the English-speaking worlds of George Bernard and the Bard. But both festivals have been linked to Montreal at least since the early ’60s, when the National Theatre School opened its doors. Almost immediately there began a two-way traffic of graduates heading for the festivals, and festival artists coming in the opposite direction to teach at the NTS, which continues to this day.
  A qu
  
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• P.K. Subban now has one million Twitter followers

  11-08-2017 17:43 via montrealgazette.com
  P.K. Subban has once again become a millionaire.
  This time, however, it has everything to do with his popular Twitter account. 
  Early Wednesday morning, he became the first active, Canadian-born NHL player to reach the 1,000,000 follower landmark on Twitter. 
  Such a large Twitter following is a rarity for a hockey player. Carey Price leads current Habs players with 362,000 followers. 
  Paul Bissonnette, who last played in the NHL in 2014, was the first Canadian hockey player to rea
  
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• TV series Employable Me advocates for inclusivity in the workplace

  11-08-2017 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Unemployment for the disabled in Canada is high. 
  In 2011, a study by Statistics Canada found that 49 per cent of Canadians in the job market who reported having a disability were employed, compared with 79 per cent of Canadians without a disability.
  A new documentary television series from Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) hopes to change that picture. 
  Employable Me is based on a 2016 series of the same name broadcast by the BBC. Like the series in the United Kingdom, the Canadian edi
  
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• The Right Chemistry: Psychics bamboozle the gullible

  11-08-2017 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  “Take a look, absolutely nothing written on these!” I wave the two small slate boards about before binding them together with elastic bands, blank sides facing each other. Thus begins my presentation on “psychic phenomena.”
  Next, I ask a volunteer to “take a card, any card” and hold it in a way that nobody can possibly see it. I then call upon the spirits to do their thing and sure enough, when the slates are separated they are no longer blank! One has chalk m
  
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• Employable Me: Tourette's made my job search a high-wire act

  11-08-2017 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Melissa C. Water is a Montrealer with Tourette’s syndrome. The story of her search for a job is told on the television show Employable Me, whose Canadian edition makes its debut on AMI-tv on Friday, Aug. 11. Here is her first-person account of her job search.
  Having Tourette’s syndrome is like being a performer and losing your balance while walking a high wire. It’s unpredictable, and people watch in awe and trepidation. 
  I wore my tics on more than my skin. I wore them in
  
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• 5 Montreal stories you must read this week: August 11

  11-08-2017 17:08 via globalnews.ca
  From a temporary tent city to shelter asylum seekers crossing the Canada-U.S. border, to the search for a long lost brother, here are the top five stories Global News covered in Montreal this week.
  
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• 300 reasons to love Montreal

  11-08-2017 17:04 via globalnews.ca
  Claire Bouchard, author of “300 reasons to love Montreal,” sits down with Global’s Laura Casella to talk about discovering her city through the eyes of a tourist.
  
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• Laval development plan aims to protect green spaces, reduce number of highrises

  11-08-2017 16:51 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Laval is implementing a new development plan that will focus on revitalizing the downtown core and protecting existing green space.
  
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• Watchwords: Arcade Fire headline was an example of 'verbing'

  11-08-2017 16:30 via montrealgazette.com
  In July, the British newspaper The Guardian lavished four reviews and articles on the Montreal band Arcade Fire, who played a live concert in Manchester just before the release of their new album Everything Now. The headline of one of those articles stopped me in my tracks: “Did Arcade Fire just fake news themselves with a spoof gig dress code?” My eyebrows rose only a little at the last four words, all one-syllable nouns; headline writers often rely on shortcuts to deliver meaning i
  
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• Canada has a new tennis sensation

  11-08-2017 16:25 via globalnews.ca
  18 year old Denis Shapovalov defeats legend Rafael Nadal at the Rogers Cup
  
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• Weekend entertainment: Île Soniq

  11-08-2017 16:13 via globalnews.ca
  Entertainment columnist Jay Walker joins Global’s Kim Sullivan to talk about the Île Soniq music festival at Parc Jean-Drapeau.
  
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• Montreal’s Kamehameha snack bar

  11-08-2017 16:02 via globalnews.ca
  Dan Pham, co-owner of Hawaiian snack bar Kamehameha, joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about the restaurant’s cuisine, inspired by Oahu’s surfing culture.
  
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• Right whale deaths: Ottawa orders large vessels to slow down in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

  11-08-2017 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  POINTE-DU-CHENE, N.B. – The federal government says vessels of 20 metres or more in length will be ordered to slow down in the Gulf of St. Lawrence as it tries to protect right whales who frequent the waters.
  Ten of the endangered mammals have died in the gulf since early June with preliminary necropsy reports indicating the whales died of either entanglements with fishing gear, or from blunt trauma caused by ship collisions.
  Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Transport Minister Marc G
  
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• Best and worst of Montreal parks

  11-08-2017 15:51 via globalnews.ca
  Pointe-Claire blogger Christine Latreille sits down with Global’s Laura Casella to talk about her website, which reviews the city’s best and worst parks.
  
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• Does Quebec really need to ratchet up language laws? The BT panel debates btmontreal.ca/videos/does-qu…

  11-08-2017 15:25
  Does Quebec really need to ratchet up language laws? The BT panel debates btmontreal.ca/videos/does-qu…
  
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• Quebec officials seek help locating massive, stolen bell

  11-08-2017 15:23 via cbc.ca
  Officials in Saint-Raymond de Portneuf, about 60 kilometres northwest of Quebec City, don’t know how thieves managed to steal a heavy, historic bell but hope the public will help them find it.
  
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• Canada Pride celebration

  11-08-2017 15:16 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal Pride vice-president Jean-Sebastien Boudreault joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about the first edition of Canada Pride, marking Montreal’s 375th and Canada’s 150th celebrations.
  
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