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• Vehicle catches fire on Highway 25

  19-08-2017 23:58 via montrealgazette.com
  A vehicle caught fire on Highway 25-S on Montreal’s south shore Saturday afternoon, according to the Sûreté du Québec.
  The SQ said they were notified about the incident on Charron Island around 2:30 p.m. The reason for the fire is still unknown. The driver was transported to a hospital for minor injuries.
  Highway 25’s right lane was closed for circulation earlier Saturday afternoon but is now re-opened.Fin de l'événement sur A-25 Sud île charro
  
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• St-Lazare student shocked by terror attack in Barcelona

  19-08-2017 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Jasmine Vega returned home from the best summer of her life the day before a van drove into a crowd on Las Ramblas, a popular pedestrian boulevard in Barcelona, killing 13 and injuring about 100.
  “It’s the hot spot. Everybody goes there,” said Vega, a 20-year-old John Abbott College student who spends summers in Barcelona, where her parents lived before moving to Canada about 20 years ago.
  Little did the St-Lazare resident dream when she arrived in Montreal on Wednesday that, l
  
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• Four Impact players selected for Team Canada training camp

  19-08-2017 22:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Impact forward Anthony Jackson-Hamel, midfielders Samuel Piette and David Choinière and goalkeeper James Pantemis have been selected by Team Canada to partake in their training camp on Aug. 28.
  The camp will conclude with a friendly game against Jamaica on Sept. 2 in Toronto.
  Jackson-Hamel, 24, first dawned the red and white jersey in a friendly match against Mauritania on Oct. 6, 2016. He also played in three CONCACAF Gold Cup games in May with the national team. In seven games
  
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• NDG baseball diamond renamed in honour of legendary volunteer

  19-08-2017 22:41 via globalnews.ca
  There are volunteers, and then there are people like NDG's Lionel Geller.
  
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• Montreal commemorates 75th anniversary of Dieppe with ceremony, plaque

  19-08-2017 21:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre and representatives of the federal government, Indigenous groups and the Canadian Armed Forces gathered Saturday for a special commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the ill-fated Dieppe Raid.
  The ceremony took place at Dieppe Park, formerly known as Cité-du-Havre Park, on a snippet of land jutting into the St. Lawrence River.
  “The Canadian veterans deserve all the recognition for their services,” Sherry Romanado, Parliamentary Secretary to
  
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• Quebec City police aware of the possibility of violence

  19-08-2017 21:26 via montrealgazette.com
  A protest by far-right groups against the arrival of asylum-seekers will be met by an anti-racist counter-demonstration in Quebec City on Sunday afternoon.
  Several extremist groups will demonstrate against the “scourge of illegal immigration” and in support of the RCMP, claiming that the federal police “lack the resources to do their job effectively to ensure the safety of our nation. ”
  Over the past few weeks, thousands of asylum-seekers have entered Canada via irregular
  
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• Montreal police searching for missing man, 77

  19-08-2017 20:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are looking for a 77-year-old man who has been missing since Friday.
  Hernan Rodriguez was last seen on his way to the Boulevard Shopping Centre near Jean-Talon St. and Pie-IX Blvd. around 4 p.m, police said. 
  Hernan Rodriguez. Photo courtesy of Montreal police.
  His family is worried about his safety. They say it is unlike him to leave without informing them of his whereabouts. Police were told that Rodriguez, who stands at five-foot-nine and weighs 180 pounds, may be experie
  
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• Milette, Methot score synchro bronze at trampoline World Cup

  19-08-2017 20:43 via cbc.ca
  Sarah Milette and Sophiane Methot of Quebec captured bronze in the women's synchronized final at the trampoline World Cup in Minsk, Belarus on Saturday.
  
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• Walking tours celebrate 375 years of Montreal architecture

  19-08-2017 19:42 via montrealgazette.com
  From its origins as a missionary outpost to its current incarnation as a city of festivals, Montreal’s many phases are reflected in its built environment.
  Now, you can learn all about that evolution in a series of eight walking tours offered by Heritage Montreal.
  ArchitecTours, celebrating 375 years of history, are being held every Saturday and Sunday from August through October.
  “At Heritage Montreal we’re really lucky to have a large team of volunteer guides that come from ma
  
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• 77-year-old missing man found safe

  19-08-2017 19:35 via cbc.ca
  Hernan Rodriguez, 77, has been found after he went missing form Le Boulevard shopping centre near Jean-Talon Street and Pie-IX Boulevard Friday afternoon.
  
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• Can Quebecers help solve New Hampshire cold case?

  19-08-2017 19:19 via globalnews.ca
  Investigators believe that the prime suspect in a decades-old quadruple homicide may have had ties to Quebec.
  
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• Concussed Valerie Maltais withdraws from Olympic selection tournament

  19-08-2017 19:08 via montrealgazette.com
  A concussion forced Quebec’s Valerie Maltais withdrew from the competition to select Canada’s 2018 short-track speed skating team on Saturday.
  She suffered the injury during a fall in the semifinal round of the second 500-metre event on Wednesday, which left her with moderate concussive symptoms.
  The selection tournament is being held at Maurice Richard Arena in Montreal.
  In order to participate in the upcoming Winter Olympics, she must now ask Speed Skating Canada for a by
  
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• Patrick Watson on his love for this city, his neighbours and Montréal Symphonique

  19-08-2017 19:00 via cbc.ca
  Patrick Watson didn't give away too much about his performance at Montréal Symphonique. Here's what we do know: he'll be alone at the piano, without his band — not a usual thing.
  
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• Patrick Watson on his love for Montreal, his neighbours and tonight's free concert

  19-08-2017 19:00 via cbc.ca
  Patrick Watson didn't give away too much about his performance at Montréal Symphonique. Here's what we do know: he'll be alone at the piano, without his band — not a usual thing.
  
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• Quebec senator defends membership in anti-immigration Facebook groups

  19-08-2017 18:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Conservative senator Pierre-Hugue Boisvenu says he will remain a member of two controversial Facebook groups. One of the groups is often visited by members of La Meute while the other is associated with Marine Le Pen’s Alliance of Patriots.
  Boisvenu, who is from Quebec, said that he followed the first group, which is associated with La Meute, out of curiosity and to see what people are talking about. As for the group associated with Le Pen, he said that the anti-immigration label shou
  
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• Laval thieves bungle getaway, leave behind suitcases stuffed with stolen goods

  19-08-2017 17:52 via globalnews.ca
  Police have recovered hundreds of thousands dollars worth of stolen goods, after a bungled getaway following a break and enter at The Bay store at the Carrefour Laval.
  
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• Thieves break into the Bay in Laval, lose most of their loot escaping

  19-08-2017 17:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Thieves who stole luxury items reportedly worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Hudson’s Bay Company store at Carrefour Laval overnight lost most of their loot while trying to flee the scene.
  At least 15 suitcases containing jewels, perfume, beauty products, and other items, were found in the shopping centre’s parking lot.
  It appears that the suspects failed to properly close the back of the cube truck they were using as a getaway vehicle. 
  Police were alerted to the rob
  
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• Laval police investigate Hudson's Bay robbery

  19-08-2017 16:56 via cbc.ca
  Police say a number of high-value items were stolen, but that the suspects weren't able to make off with everything as they fled the scene.
  
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• Montreal commemorating Dieppe Raid on Saturday

  19-08-2017 16:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre and representatives of the federal government, Indigenous groups and the Canadian Armed Forces will gather Saturday for a special commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the ill-fated Dieppe Raid.
  The ceremony will take place at Dieppe Park, formerly known as Cité-du-Havre Park, on a snippet of land jutting into the St. Lawrence River, from 2 to 4:30 p.m.
  In August 1942, 916 Canadians died in the Dieppe Raid, an ill-conceived Allied attack on G
  
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• Montreal to commemorate 75th anniversary of Dieppe raid

  19-08-2017 16:27 via cbc.ca
  The ceremony will include an artillery salute, the performing of the Last Post followed by two minutes of silence.
  
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• Court refuses injunction to prevent asylum-seekers from entering Quebec

  19-08-2017 16:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Superior Court has dismissed an injunction filed by a Montreal doctor to close unauthorized entry points at the American border to prevent new asylum-seekers from entering Quebec.
  On Friday, Judge Michel Yergeau rejected the request for an injunction filed by Dr. Paul Clifford Blais, La Presse reported.
  The judge noted he was reluctant to intervene in what is essentially a political debate, saying “the court cannot substitute itself for leaders who are responsible for applying the l
  
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• Thieves break into Bay store in Carrefour Laval

  19-08-2017 15:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police are looking for thieves who broke into The Bay store in Carrefour Laval store overnight.
  Police were alerted by a call to 911 at 3:30 a.m. on Saturday.
  Lieutenant Genevieve Villemure told La Presse canadienne that investigators are seeking several suspects who reportedly fled in a cube truck.
  Police erected a large security perimeter around the crime scene. A forensic team was expected later Saturday to gather evidence.
  Police refused to give further details.
   
  
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• While you were sleeping: Bannon isn't only one leaving the Trumpsphere

  19-08-2017 14:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Happy Saturday!
  While Montreal weather will likely be cloudy today, that doesn’t mean your news sense has to follow suit. To help you you gain a crystal clear sense of whats going on in the world, here are some stories you might have missed while you were sleeping.  
  Alouettes’ Nik Lewis has been pushing toward noticeable records
   Lewis, the Alouettes’ slotback has been approaching CFL catch and yard records. 
  Montreal Alouettes slotback Nik Lewis (8) hurdles Win
  
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• Community rallies to replace beloved Gaspé theatre destroyed by fire

  19-08-2017 14:38 via cbc.ca
  Following the fire people were swept up in a frenzy of support from performers, politicians, and fans from as far as France.
  
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• In Quebec, more anglophones are choosing French universities

  19-08-2017 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  As an anglophone Montrealer who attended English schools throughout her academic career and rated her French fluency as merely “OK,” enrolling at the Université de Montréal to obtain her law degree was not Serena Trifiro’s first choice.
  After passing the notoriously difficult Quebec bar exam on her first try and quickly finding work in her field, however, she has come to see the move as a minor godsend.
  “At the end of the day, I’m so happy it happened,
  
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• Shelter: Modern Ville-Marie penthouse showcases favourite antiques

  19-08-2017 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Cynthia Weston and Harvey Horowitz are a retired couple in their 60s. Weston, who hails from Chicago, was a professor at McGill University, while Horowitz, a Montrealer, was a management consultant. When they were working, they lived for many years in a “lovely old home” in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, but in 2015, they traded that in for a modern penthouse in the Golden Square Mile.
  Their reason for moving was partly because of a change of lifestyle (they spend much of the winter at t
  
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• Outdoor vintage sale pops up near Atwater Market

  19-08-2017 13:16 via cbc.ca
  Saturday's event will include all the vendors from Marché Underground plus local artisans.
  
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• Josh Freed: Great Chair Affair wreaking havoc on the Main in Montreal

  19-08-2017 13:14 via montrealgazette.com
  The city is waging chair warfare on the Main.
  One of the street’s most famous shops, Vieille Europe, has put some plastic chairs out on the sidewalk for many summers. They’re tucked under its awning, so passersby can hide from the sun, or more likely the rain, this summer.
  But city inspectors have recently walloped the gourmet grocery with two $475 tickets, for having illegal terrasses. The store’s normally easygoing co-owner, Paulo Raimundo, refuses to back down — he&rsq
  
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• Week in review: A two-way Liberal-CAQ race according to poll, CP and city at odds over railway crossings and more

  19-08-2017 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Review of the top stories from the past week:
  Canadian government, others discouraging Haitians in U.S. from seeking asylum here
  There has been one topic on Marleine Bastien’s Sunday morning radio show in Miami for the last four weeks: Canada. 
  As hundreds of Haitians continue to stream into Quebec through irregular border crossings every day, still more, at home in Miami, are asking themselves whether they should risk being deported when their legal status in the U.S. expires in Janu
  
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• From the archives: Death sentence united community

  19-08-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  This story was first published on Aug. 24, 2013, in the Montreal Gazette.
  Just who said precisely what to whom would have been hard enough at the time to determine, and today, more than a century later, is an impossible task. But when it was all over, one man lay dead and another was behind bars, facing a charge of murder.
  Antonio Giaccone had immigrated from Italy about a decade before and was living on Rue Notre-Dame, not far from where Maison Radio-Canada now stands. Some sources suggest he w
  
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• Dieppe: 584 Fusiliers Mont-Royal went in, 125 got out

  19-08-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  For the 584 mainly French-Canadian soldiers of the Fusiliers Mont-Royal, Dieppe was something of a homecoming given the French port's historical ties to Quebec. The events of Aug. 19, 1942, however, would forever alter the town's significance to Canadian history, and the men of the FMR.
  
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• Montreal in 19 neighbourhoods: Villeray St.

  19-08-2017 06:00 via montrealgazette.com
  This series of maps explores different neighbourhoods in Montreal’s 19 boroughs. We’ll be featuring one map per week until September 9.For information on La Grande Tournée, visit 375mtl.com.
  This map was created by Content Works, Postmedia’s commercial content division, on behalf of Alive 375.
  
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• Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk to headline Jackalope action sports festival in Montreal

  19-08-2017 04:57 via globalnews.ca
  The festival, now in its sixth year, is expected to attract over 20,000 and features adrenaline-pumping sports such as rock climbing, freestyle motocross, slacklining and fixed-gear bike racing.
  
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• 'It disgusts me': Politicians condemn far-right rally planned in Quebec City this weekend

  19-08-2017 04:17 via cbc.ca
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard has expressed concern about a demonstration, planned for Sunday in Quebec City, organized by a far-right group opposed to the arrival of asylum seekers.
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened in Montreal on Aug. 18

  19-08-2017 04:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal:
  Parole board deems Montreal Mafia leader a walking target, revokes release
  Francesco Del Balso is convinced the armed men who stormed into his home in May did so with the intention to kill him. 
  The man who was proven to be one of the leaders of the Rizzuto organization during a police investigation that ended in 2006 told the Parole Board of Canada on Friday that, late in the morning of May 6, one of the men who entered his home poin
  
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• Security increased for Montreal Pride parade in wake of global attacks

  19-08-2017 03:00 via globalnews.ca
  Following terrorist attacks around the world, organizers of Montreal's Pride parade are taking extra precautions.
  
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• Loyola Park baseball field in N.D.G. to be named after Lionel Geller

  19-08-2017 02:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Lionel Geller is a giver.
  He has dedicated 37 years of his life volunteering full-time for the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Minor Baseball League from 1976 to 2013.
  During that time, he formed a skating club for intellectually challenged children, coached and was an executive member of the N.D.G. Minor Hockey Association, and founded the Dawson’s women’s hockey program.
  Geller’s hard work and dedication to his community will be celebrated on Saturday at 11:45 a.m. when N.D.G. boro
  
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• City of Montreal apologizes to LGBTQ community for past police treatment

  19-08-2017 02:44 via globalnews.ca
  The mayor and the police chief say they hope the apology for past police raids on gay bars and other LGBTQ spaces can help foster more positive relations.
  
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• Montreal police apologize for raids on gay bars between '60s and '90s

  19-08-2017 02:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Just a few days after Canada Montreal Pride 2017 made a statement calling a Montreal police intervention “excessive,” police chief Philippe Pichet said sorry to the LGBTQ community.
  The public apology addressed the violent raids on gay bars that took place in the city from the 1960s to the 1990s. Some of the bars’ queer patrons would be put in jail, doors would be broken down and machine guns were used at some raids. 
  “These actions compromised the dignity of these p
  
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• Montreal motorcyclist using photography to share Canada 150 stories

  19-08-2017 02:09 via globalnews.ca
  A Montreal documentary photographer is making his way across Canada from one coast to the other on a motorcycle, inviting 150 Canadians to share, through a photograph, what represents their culture or identity.
  
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• Montreal police apologize for raids on gay bars between '60s and ... - Montreal Gazette

  19-08-2017 01:47 via montrealgazette.com
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  Montreal police apologize for raids on gay bars between '60s and ...
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  Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre formally apologized for raids targeting gay bars in the city between the 1960s and the 1990s on Friday.
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• Alouettes' Nik Lewis is 'a master' at knowing football, Darian Durant says

  19-08-2017 01:33 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — He has done it a yard at a time. Actually, 13.29 yards per catch. That has been Nik Lewis’s average over 14 Canadian Football League seasons. And, as the veteran slotback continues playing, the records continue falling.
  Lewis reached the century mark earlier this season, recording his 1,000 career catch. He sits at 1,014 heading into Saturday afternoon’s game against the Toronto Argonauts at BMO Field (4 p.m., TSN, RDS, TSN Radio 690), and requires only four catches t
  
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• Inuit throat singing, art and rock and roll at Montreal's Cabot Square

  19-08-2017 01:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Every summer, the Cabot Square Project promotes concerts and cultural events in west-downtown to create a space for Indigenous and non-Indigenous residents to connect.
  The Beatrice Deer Band played at Cabot Square on Friday, and soapstone carvers taught children how to make Inuit art. It was the last event of the season, but Nakuset, the project’s organizer, said the shows will be back next year.
  “It’s about co-habitation. It’s about people coming to the park and particip
  
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• Montreal Mafia leader deemed a walking target, release revoked

  19-08-2017 00:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Francesco Del Balso is convinced the armed men who stormed into his home in May did so with the intention to kill him. 
  The man who was proven to be one of the leaders of the Rizzuto organization during a police investigation that ended in 2006 told the Parole Board of Canada on Friday that, late in the morning of May 6, one of the men who entered his home pointed a firearm at his wife and then his eldest son and demanded to know where he was. 
  Although he and his family were the victi
  
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• Global News at 5:30: Aug 18

  19-08-2017 00:08 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, August 18, 2017 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
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• Many trans migrants want Montreal Pride to be more political

  19-08-2017 00:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Calling on the organization to return to its more political roots, a portion of Montreal’s LGBTQ community said it has become disenchanted with what it perceives as a lack of advocacy efforts from Montreal Pride. 
  Dalia Tourki, a trans woman from Tunisia who came to Montreal six years ago, said trans migrants and LGBTQ people of colour have felt abandoned by the organization as it has grown increasingly corporate.
  As it hosts the largest edition of its festivities this month, Tourki w
  
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• Stuart Milk, Harvey Milk's nephew, a grand marshal of Montreal's Pride parade

  19-08-2017 00:00 via cbc.ca
  LGBT rights activist Stuart Milk is one of the grand marshals at the Montreal Pride parade on Sunday. He is the nephew of Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay politicians in the U.S., who was assassinated in 1978.
  
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