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• PQ caucus talks asylum seekers in Saint-Eustache

  30-08-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée argues the Quebec Liberal government isn’t being transparent about how they’re paying to accommodate the growing number of asylum seekers coming into the province. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Air Transat defends its actions at stranded passenger inquiry

  30-08-2017 23:31 via cbc.ca
  Air Transat says it was focused on avoiding logistical and financial challenges the night passengers aboard two of its flights ended up stranded on the tarmac of the Ottawa International Airport for hours.
  
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• Air Transat defends actions at stranded passenger inquiry

  30-08-2017 23:31 via cbc.ca
  Air Transat says it was focused on avoiding logistical and financial challenges the night passengers aboard two of its flights ended up stranded on the tarmac of the Ottawa International Airport for hours.
  
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• Nutrition plan for kindergarten students

  30-08-2017 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  The English Montreal School Board is welcoming kindergarten students to class for the first time with a message to eat healthy. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports.
  
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• English textbooks, teacher guides not ready for Quebec's financial literacy course, teachers say

  30-08-2017 23:00 via cbc.ca
  Students are back in class, but teachers say they are still waiting for English-language textbooks and instructor guides for Quebec's new financial literacy course.
  
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• Quebec floods: Cartierville seniors waiting for inspector

  30-08-2017 22:50 via globalnews.ca
  A couple in their 70s is still living in a hotel after the intense Quebec spring floods. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, they are still waiting for an inspector to evaluate their property.
  
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• Cirque Éloize performs in Montreal

  30-08-2017 22:44 via globalnews.ca
  Performers with Cirque Éloize are going around Montreal to promote their show, Saloon. Global’s Jonah Aspler was there to catch all the action.
  
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• Haitian family finds sanctuary in empty Montreal North apartment

  30-08-2017 22:34 via montrealgazette.com
  There’s nowhere to sit in Joanne Clotaire’s apartment in Montreal North.
  There are no chairs, there’s no fridge or stove, no kitchen table, and the sofa is missing all of its cushions.
  “I have to get rid of it,” she says. “Then there will be nothing.”
  Her entire life lays scattered across the one double bed, a gift from the local church, where she and her two boys sleep.
  A blue file folder, tucked in amid assorted T-shirts and toys and a bottle of b
  
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• 'Never did I intervene': Frank Zampino testifies in his own defence at fraud trial

  30-08-2017 22:33 via cbc.ca
  Frank Zampino, the former second-in-command at Montreal City Hall, continued testifying in his own defence Wednesday at his trial on fraud, conspiracy and breach of trust charges tied to the Faubourg-Contrecoeur land deal.
  
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• Allison Hanes: Ready or not, the horrors of climate change are upon us

  30-08-2017 22:24 via montrealgazette.com
  The havoc Hurricane Harvey has wrought on Houston may seem like a distant catastrophe to Montrealers, but it should be a wake-up call that the long-predicted hazards of climate change are now on our doorstep.
  Here at home, the spring flooding in Quebec, including parts of the island of Montreal, the microburst that ravaged Notre-Dame-de-Grâce a week ago, the tornados that touched down in Lachute and the crummy summer weather that featured frequent heavy thunderstorms are far less extreme,
  
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• TV show explores 'culture through food' at Montreal restaurants

  30-08-2017 22:18 via montrealgazette.com
  The concept of Resto Mundo couldn’t be simpler — or more appealing.
  Host Jay Walker takes viewers on a tour of Montreal’s vibrant multi-cultural reality via profiles of some of the city’s more intriguing restaurants.
  “The idea of this show is to discover culture through food,” Walker said in an interview this week at Café Bazin on Victoria Ave. in Westmount.
  The second season of Resto Mundo debuts on the Zeste network on Wednesday at 6 p.m. and runs wee
  
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• Head of Quebec City mosque latest target in apparent string of hate crimes

  30-08-2017 22:03 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec City mosque where six men were killed in January says the building and its president have been the objects of two different hate crimes since the beginning of the month.
  A car belonging to the president of the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec was set on fire on Aug. 6. A few days later, excrement was thrown at the doors of the mosque, according to a statement published Wednesday by the mosque on its Facebook page.
  “This hate crime targeting our president is the latest in a long
  
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• After Montreal storm, musician to transform fallen tree into custom-made guitar

  30-08-2017 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  Adam Clarke couldn't help but notice a fallen tree as he was navigating through debris from the Montreal micro-burst to get to a jam session.
  
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• PQ leader still insists Trudeau responsible for influx of refugees

  30-08-2017 21:36 via cbc.ca
  Jean-François Lisée, the leader of the Parti Québécois, is doubling down on his comments about the prime minister and would-be refugees despite criticism from high-ranking members of his own party.
  
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• Montreal lawyer accused of obstructing justice 'acted in good faith,' attorney claims

  30-08-2017 21:35 via montrealgazette.com
  What kind of a lawyer agrees to meet with a complete stranger and hand her an envelope, with no knowledge of its contents, and never questions whether he might be breaking the law?
  That is the question prosecutor Jennifer Morin put to Quebec Court Judge Marc-André Dagenais on Wednesday while wrapping up her closing arguments in the trial of Montreal lawyer Dimitrios Strapatsas. The 43-year-old attorney is charged with obstructing justice for allegedly helping convicted murderer John Boula
  
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• Byelection to be held in Quebec City riding of Louis-Hébert on Oct. 2

  30-08-2017 21:26 via globalnews.ca
  A provincial byelection will be held in the Quebec City riding of Louis-Hébert on Oct. 2.
  
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• Passengers in Air Transat tarmac delays describe harrowing conditions

  30-08-2017 21:15 via montrealgazette.com
  OTTAWA — Passengers trapped aboard two Air Transat jets described hours on end of sweltering heat, a lack of water and the stench of vomit earlier this summer as a federal agency began hearings Wednesday into how their ordeal happened in the first place.
  Witnesses described seeing flight attendants outside on the Ottawa tarmac taking selfies alongside one stranded plane amid widespread confusion over the July 31 delays — six hours in one case, five in the other — as well as fin
  
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• ‘Very little action’: Quebec flood victims in Cartierville desperate for answers

  30-08-2017 21:12 via globalnews.ca
  An elderly couple in Cartierville, whose home was destroyed by the spring floods, are desperate for a response from the provincial government.
  
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• Arrest of suspected Longueuil crack dealer nets drugs, weapons and cash

  30-08-2017 21:01 via montrealgazette.com
  The arrest by Longueuil police Tuesday of a suspected crack dealer has led to the seizure of cash, cocaine and a small arsenal from a home in the borough of Brossard.
  Police said Wednesday morning they had arrested the 25-year-old suspect, who is known to police, on Tuesday afternoon.
  A subsequent raid at an address on Perrier St. in Brossard netted a loaded .32 calibre pistol, several 9 mm ammunition magazines, a Taser, a set of iron knuckles, bags of crack, cocaine and $54,000.
  Police say the
  
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• Opinion: Bill 101’s track record is one of quiet evolution

  30-08-2017 20:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Bill 101’s adoption 40 years ago marked a milestone in Quebec language politics. To better understand its significance, we must see it as part of a longer continuum. History, nuance and context will best serve as our lenses.
  The Charter of the French Language did not make French the sole official language of Quebec. Premier Robert Bourassa did that in 1974, with Bill 22. He was, in turn, building off Union Nationale premier Jean-Jacques Bertrand’s Bill 63. That 1969 law sought to est
  
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• Biodôme veterinarians unsuccessful in bid to save lost baby seal

  30-08-2017 20:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Hundreds of kilometres from home, a lost and injured baby seal floundered around Verdun and the Old Port for days before it could be rescued on Tuesday.
  But the common seal, only a few months old, was too badly injured to be saved and was euthanized, said Emiko Wong, a Biodôme veterinarian who helped examine the seal at the Montreal zoo and aquarium.
  “Both sides of his lower jaw were fractured and it wasn’t recent — we could smell infection,” Wong told the Montreal
  
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• Quebec City mosque says president’s car deliberately set on fire

  30-08-2017 20:52 via globalnews.ca
  It states the car was a total loss and that the fire also spread to the hedge of the home.
  
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• PQ leader won’t apologize for comments about asylum seekers

  30-08-2017 20:37 via globalnews.ca
  PQ leader Jean-François Lisée found himself in the hot seat for comments he made about asylum seekers coming into Quebec.
  
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• New Beurling Academy crosswalk

  30-08-2017 19:18 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Aug 30: New crosswalks have been put up around Verdun’s Beurling Academy, but residents wonder if it’s enough to keep students safe. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Montreal's’s Eugenie Bouchard eliminated in first round of U.S. Open

  30-08-2017 19:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard has been eliminated from the first round of the U.S. Open, falling 7-6 (2), 6-1 to Russia’s Evgeniya Rodina.
  Facing double match point, Bouchard sent a backhand into the net as her record dropped to 12-17 on the season.
  Bouchard, ranked 76th in the world, has failed to make it past the second round of her last eight tournaments, starting with a second-round exit at the French Open.
  On Wednesday, the Westmount native made 46 unforced errors, compared to 18 fo
  
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• New Beurling Academy crosswalk relieves many, but doubts still linger

  30-08-2017 19:12 via globalnews.ca
  New crosswalks have been put up around Verdun's Beurling Academy, but residents wonder if it's enough to keep students safe.
  
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• U.S. Open: Shapovalov's string of stunners continues, takes out Tsonga

  30-08-2017 19:06 via cbc.ca
  Canada's Denis Shapovalov advanced into the third round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday night after a 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (3) victory over eighth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France. The 18-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., will next face Kyle Edmund of Britain.
  
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• U.S. Open: Maria Sharapova's redemption tour moves into round 3

  30-08-2017 19:06 via cbc.ca
  Russia's Evgeniya Rodina pulled away after a close first set to beat Canada's Eugenie Bouchard 7-6 (2), 6-1 in the first match completed on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
  
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• U.S. Open: Eugenie Bouchard makes another early exit

  30-08-2017 19:06 via cbc.ca
  Russia's Evgeniya Rodina pulled away after a close first set to beat Canada's Eugenie Bouchard 7-6 (2), 6-1 in the first match completed on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
  
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• Torched car belongs to president of Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec

  30-08-2017 18:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec City mosque where six men were killed in January says the building and its president have been the object of two different hate crimes since the beginning of the month.
  A car belonging to the president of the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec was set on fire on Aug. 6. A few days later, excrement was thrown at the doors of the mosque, according to a statement published Wednesday by the mosque on its Facebook page.
  “This hate crime targeting our president is the latest in a long
  
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• Quebec City hospital employees suspended after helping dog in hot car

  30-08-2017 18:48 via globalnews.ca
  Employees brought the dog into an air-conditioned office for about four hours and gave it water.
  
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• Montreal activist Jaggi Singh seeks bail conditions in English

  30-08-2017 18:47 via cbc.ca
  Montreal civil rights activist Jaggi Singh, who faces obstruction and impersonation charges in connection with an anti-far right protest, will be back in municipal court in Quebec City this afternoon.
  
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• Montreal activist Jaggi Singh freed with conditions

  30-08-2017 18:47 via cbc.ca
  Montreal civil rights activist Jaggi Singh, who faces obstruction and impersonation charges in connection with an anti-far right protest, will be back in municipal court in Quebec City this afternoon.
  
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• 'What's happening in Quebec City?': Car belonging to head of mosque torched

  30-08-2017 18:30 via cbc.ca
  A car belonging to the head of a Quebec City mosque was torched around 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 6 outside Mohamed Labidi's home.
  
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• Car belonging to head of Quebec City mosque torched

  30-08-2017 18:30 via cbc.ca
  A car belonging to the head of a Quebec City mosque was torched around 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 6 outside Mohamed Labidi's home.
  
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• Lunch box hacks: @cookingwithv sneaks healthy options into your child's lunches https://t.co/Yq0s4ArBaR

  30-08-2017 18:19
  
  Lunch box hacks: @cookingwithv sneaks healthy options into your child's lunches https://t.co/Yq0s4ArBaR
  
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• Quebec City hospital employees suspended after rescuing dog in hot car

  30-08-2017 18:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Four Quebec City hospital employees have been suspended after coming to the aid of a dog stuck in a hot car this summer.
  The incident occurred in early July at Quebec City’s L’Enfant-Jesus Hospital.
  Employees brought the dog into an air-conditioned office for about four hours and gave it water.
  Two separate unions that represent the four employees say their members received suspensions ranging between three and eight days.
  Both unions say they are grieving the suspensions, which they
  
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• Opinion: Confessions of a former high school teacher

  30-08-2017 18:01 via montrealgazette.com
  After 20 years of teaching high school and CEGEP, I retired at the end of June 2017. Here are a few random observations for the start of the new school year, gleaned from my experiences in the classroom.
  Students: Kids are kids. I have taught some whom I will never forget: intelligent, caring, well-mannered people. Too many of them seem to deal with a level of anxiety I don’t recall from my own childhood. Maybe that’s the result of a world that is changing at an inexorably hectic pac
  
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• Urban cool: Megative makes itself at home at Mile Ex End Musique Montréal

  30-08-2017 17:57 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s not the most obvious spot for a festival. Or for anything, for that matter.
  The urban blight that is the Van Horne underpass is the kind of place where you wouldn’t want to be caught at night. Unless, say, you were getting down to some intoxicating sounds with a few thousand like-minded revellers.
  The Mile Ex End Musique Montréal festival isn’t the first event to repurpose this desolate, industrial setting — coming on the heels of the recent Osheaga Block Part
  
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• Contrecoeur fraud trial: Frank Zampino welcomes his day in court

  30-08-2017 17:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Frank Zampino, the former No. 2 man at Montreal’s city hall after the mayor, told the court Wednesday he was happy to finally have the chance to defend himself publicly five years after his arrest.
  In particular, he said, he wanted to clear up the widely reported assertion that the city sold a 38-hectare piece of land in east-end Montreal valued at $20 million for only $4.4 million to land developer Paolo Catania. In fact, he said, the land was only worth $4.4 million after the costs of la
  
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• Air Transat passengers describe 'deplorable' treatment at first day of inquiry

  30-08-2017 17:50 via cbc.ca
  Passengers stuck for hours aboard two Air Transat flights stranded on the tarmac at the Ottawa International Airport last month testified at a public hearing Wedneday that their treatment was "deplorable."
  
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• BT Montreal Influencer Corey Fleischer https://t.co/e5JvM8Uz1A

  30-08-2017 17:49
  
  BT Montreal Influencer Corey Fleischer https://t.co/e5JvM8Uz1A
  
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• Rigaud offers to help house stranded flood victims as cold weather approaches

  30-08-2017 17:48 via cbc.ca
  With the weather turning colder and delays in getting inspections from the government, the municipality of Rigaud announced Wednesday it will help families affected by the spring floods arrange medium and long-term housing solutions.
  
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• Rigaud offers housing solutions to flood victims as cold weather approaches

  30-08-2017 17:48 via cbc.ca
  With the weather turning colder and some owners of flooded homes still waiting for inspection reports, Rigaud announced Wednesday it will help those families arrange medium and long-term housing.
  
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• We take a look at your back to school photos at delve into the school-age diary of @CVDmtl https://t.co/xQOna9jSsb

  30-08-2017 17:32
  
  We take a look at your back to school photos at delve into the school-age diary of @CVDmtl https://t.co/xQOna9jSsb
  
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• Check out these back to school health tips from @cusm_muhc ER physician Dr. Zach Levine https://t.co/bDLWaOpvPg

  30-08-2017 17:32
  
  Check out these back to school health tips from @cusm_muhc ER physician Dr. Zach Levine https://t.co/bDLWaOpvPg
  
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• Activist Jaggi Singh charged with obstruction, giving fake name to cops

  30-08-2017 17:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Anti-globalization activist Jaggi Singh appeared in Quebec City municipal court Wednesday morning in connection with an anti-fascist demonstration on Aug. 20, but he was not granted an immediate release.
  He was formally charged with obstructing police work and providing a false name to police.
  Singh posted on Facebook after the protest that when asked to identify himself, he said he was Michel Goulet, former left-winger for the Quebec Nordiques, and his address was the hockey arena Le Colis&eacu
  
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• Biodôme veterinarians tried to save baby seal lost in Montreal's Old Port

  30-08-2017 17:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Hundreds of kilometres from home, a lost and injured baby seal floundered around Verdun and the Old Port for days before he could be rescued on Tuesday.
  But the common seal, only a few months old, was too badly injured to be saved and was euthanized, said Emiko Wong, a Biodôme veterinarian who helped examine the seal at the Montreal zoo and aquarium.
  “Both sides of his lower jaw were fractured and it wasn’t recent – we could smell infection,” Wong told the Montreal
  
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• Former Concordia student celebrates 'long-awaited victory' in ethnic profiling case

  30-08-2017 16:56 via cbc.ca
  Seven years after she claimed to be roughed up, handcuffed and detained in the back of a police cruiser, the City of Montreal and two of its police officers have been ordered to pay $45,000 to a woman of Arab origin in compensation for ethnic and social profiling.
  
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• Update: PQ’s Lisée deflects friendly fire over migrant comments

  30-08-2017 16:26 via montrealgazette.com
  SAINT-EUSTACHE — Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée is not backing down from his controversial comments on immigrants despite a friendly fire rebuke from his own ranks.
  Instead, he deflected the criticism and insisted the real guilty parties are Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Philippe Couillard for misleading Haitian asylum seekers into believing they would get a free ticket into Canada.
  “I am authentic,” Lisée said. “
  
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