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• Canadiens owner Geoff Molson pleased with GM's offseason moves - Montreal Gazette

  31-08-2017 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
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  Canadiens owner Geoff Molson pleased with GM's offseason moves
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  Geoff Molson, Marc Bergevin and Claude Julien prior to the start of the Max Pacioretty golf tournament in Laval on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. Pierre Obendrauf / Montreal Gazette. Share Adjust Comment Print. After finishing with the best record in the ...and more »
  
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• Video: @Alithedietitian shares healthy Back-To-School lunches that make the grade! https://t.co/aDnblWdaYc

  31-08-2017 23:51
  
  Video: @Alithedietitian shares healthy Back-To-School lunches that make the grade! https://t.co/aDnblWdaYc
  
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• LaSalle suspect in drone drug delivery to jail to have bail hearing Friday

  31-08-2017 23:41 via montrealgazette.com
  A LaSalle resident who is alleged to be the first person in Quebec caught delivering drugs to a detention centre using a drone is scheduled to have a bail hearing on Friday. 
  Tyree Virgo, 46, was arrested on Aug. 3, reportedly after an off-duty guard at the Montreal Detention Centre who was walking on a nearby bike path spotted a drone as it flew across the Rivière des Prairies and headed toward the jail. He informed staff at the detention centre and saw a man who appeared to be hand
  
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• Costa Labos, high-ranking Montreal police officer, suspended

  31-08-2017 23:40 via cbc.ca
  Montreal police Chief Philippe Pichet has relieved one of his top officers of his duties after receiving information from provincial police.
  
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• Traffic chaos around Willingdon School

  31-08-2017 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  Parents near Willingdon School in NDG are annoyed about road work in the area, saying it should have been done before classes started. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports.
  
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• PQ rejects violence after mosque president’s car set on fire

  31-08-2017 23:20 via globalnews.ca
  Opposition leaders in Quebec are being accused of fuelling extreme right views in Quebec. Parti Quebecois leader Jean-François Lisée is speaking out against violence directed at the Muslim community.
  
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• Montreal police rescue baby from fire

  31-08-2017 23:19 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal police rescued a baby from a fire in Montreal’s Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough. As Global’s Matt Grillo reports, police say the child was trapped alone in a second-storey apartment.
  
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• Quebec doctors should work to see more patients: Barrette

  31-08-2017 23:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec physicians with private practices should be responsible for computerizing their practice in order to be more effective and available to more patients, Quebec Minister of Health and Social Services Gaétan Barrette said Thursday. 
  The statement came following an investigation by the Canadian Medical Association, which La Presse reported about on Thursday. It found that Quebec doctors, within the same number of hours, see fewer patients per week than their colleagues do in other
  
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• Quebec to use photo-radar fines for road-safety projects

  31-08-2017 23:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Millions of dollars made from photo-radar fines will finance road-safety projects,  Transport Minister Laurent Lessard announced on Thursday.
  The news came as he announced the $30-million Financial Assistance Program of the Road Safety Fund, and called for project applications. 
  Organizations wishing to submit a road safety project idea to the government have until Nov. 30 to do so. Each organization can receive up to $350,000.
  A committee composed of seven members, including represent
  
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• Analysis: Lisée confident as two-day PQ caucus meeting wraps up

  31-08-2017 22:50 via montrealgazette.com
  ST-EUSTACHE — Jean-François Lisée says he’s sure he has won over the party membership with his plan to put a sovereignty referendum on ice and not slap new restrictions on access to the English CEGEP system.
  But the Parti Québécois leader is open to other measures and fully expects members to dabble with ideas designed to reinforce the status of French in Quebec without “nitpicking” or attacking the English-speaking community.
  “I thought
  
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• Quebec man sentenced to 16 months for damaging, robbing 65 pay phones

  31-08-2017 22:26 via globalnews.ca
  Police say $6,000 was stolen and damage was estimated at $109,000.
  
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• What’s open and closed on Labour Day

  31-08-2017 22:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s a partial list of what’s open and closed on Labour Day:
  Federal and provincial government offices will be closed.
  Most city of Montreal offices will be closed, including borough offices, Accès Montréal and other points of service. The municipal courthouse on Gosford St. will also be closed. City of Montreal boroughs will maintain regular garbage and recycling pickups, but some specialized pickups will be cancelled or postponed.
  The city’s ecocentres will ma
  
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• P.K. Subban happy to be back in Montreal

  31-08-2017 22:14 via montrealgazette.com
  P.K. Subban is no longer a Montreal Canadien, but he says there is nothing bittersweet about returning to the city where he spent the first six seasons of his National Hockey League career.
  “In my life there are going to be changes along the way and there will be many more,” said Subban, talking to reporters just before the Eh Gala, a fundraising event for the P.K. Subban Foundation held Wednesday evening at the Montreal Science Centre at the Old Port.
  “It was a big change in m
  
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• TVA Sports continues to lose money despite NHL broadcasting rights

  31-08-2017 22:06 via montrealgazette.com
  TVA Sports is still far from profitable, even after a second season as the official French broadcaster of the National Hockey League. The network did manage to reduce its losses in 2016, though.For the period that ended Aug. 31, 2016, the network’s pre-tax net loss was $33.1 million, down 15.5 per cent from the previous year, according to data released on Thursday by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
  However, TVA Sports revenues edged down 0.2 per
  
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• Frank Zampino defends decision to speed up Faubourg-Contrecoeur land deal

  31-08-2017 22:06 via cbc.ca
  Frank Zampino, the one-time chair of Montreal's executive committee who's on trial for fraud, conspiracy and breach of trust, defended his role as part of the "big machine" that is Montreal.
  
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• Restaurant review: Miel offers sweet simplicity from a rising star

  31-08-2017 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Miel
  ★★★ out of ★★★★
  $$$
  Address: 2194 Centre St. (Near de Laprairie St.)
  Phone: 438-381-3838
  Open: Tues.-Fri. noon to 2:30 p.m.; Tues.-Sat. 6 to 11 p.m.
  Wheelchair access: No
  Reservations: Essential
  Vegetarian friendly: Yes
  Cards: Major cards
  Licensed: Yes
  Parking: On the street 
  Price range: Small plates $10-$25; dessert $8.
  The road to chefdom is similar to that of many professions where a leader is required. Be it symphony conduct
  
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• Le Burger Week: set for a sizzling sixth edition

  31-08-2017 21:50 via montrealgazette.com
  The scent of Le Burger Week beef sizzling on Montreal grills will soon perfume about 40 of the city’s restaurants, cafés and eateries. The sixth edition of Montreal’s Le Burger Week begins Sept. 1 and runs until Sept 7th.
  As usual, a variety of Montreal restaurants will serve specialty burgers at a reduced price in competition to win titles like “Voted Best,” “Most Outrageous,” “Healthiest Burger,” and “Judge’s choice.”
  The
  
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• North side of NDG Park to reopen after devastating Montreal storm

  31-08-2017 21:42 via globalnews.ca
  The northern part of NDG Park will reopen this weekend after a microburst devastated parts of Montreal.
  
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• Katia Luciani talks keeping Matthew Schreindorfer’s memory alive

  31-08-2017 21:38 via globalnews.ca
  Six months after Matthew Schreindorfer lost his hard fought battle with cancer, his wife, Katia Luciani, is still working to honour his life.
  
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• Canada’s fisheries department and Alexandra Cousteau team up to explore the Gulf of St. Lawrence

  31-08-2017 21:23 via globalnews.ca
  The expedition took nearly a year and a half to plan and the hard work of agencies across Canada.
  
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• CBSA, RCMP raid Eastern Townships restaurants in hunt for illegal foreign workers

  31-08-2017 20:45 via cbc.ca
  Authorities have arrested two people in a raid on Guacamole Y Tequila restaurants in Sherbrooke and Magog, in an apparent crackdown on undocumented foreign workers.
  
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• Quebec City pressed to ramp up fight against anti-Muslim attacks

  31-08-2017 20:28 via cbc.ca
  Quebec City is being urged to pour more resources into investigating anti-Muslim attacks, in the wake of the recent firebombing of a car belonging to the leader of a local mosque.
  
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• Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Park to partially reopen this weekend

  31-08-2017 19:57 via cbc.ca
  Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Park will partially reopen after a powerful storm last week left a path of destruction in its wake.
  
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• Impact's Ignacio Piatti named MLS player of the month

  31-08-2017 19:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Impact midfielder Ignacio Piatti has been named Major League Soccer’s player of the month for August.
  Piatti scored seven goals, including two game-winners, and added an assist in five games in August, including a four-game winning streak.
  The Argentine recorded back-to-back braces in a 3-0 win against Chicago on Aug. 16 and a 3-1 victory over Real Salt Lake on Aug. 19, and is tied for second in MLS with four multi-goal games.
  Montreal’s successful August has seen the Impact
  
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• Breakdown on Vaudreuil-Hudson RTM line strands West Island passengers

  31-08-2017 19:37 via globalnews.ca
  Passengers were walking back to the Lucien-l'Allier station on the railroad tracks in the dark.
  
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• Anglo theatre for fall: Centaur and Segal face off with hockey shows

  31-08-2017 19:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Say the word “puck” to your average theatregoer, and chances are their thoughts will immediately go to a mischievous fairy in a Shakespeare play. That might change soon, though, with two major shows in this fall season dedicated to Canada’s favourite sport.
  The Segal Centre unveils its latest big musical, The Hockey Sweater, from Oct. 19 to Nov. 12. Based on the beloved short story by Roch Carrier, it centres on an ardent young Montreal Canadiens fan who, eagerly awaiting a Mau
  
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• Fewer asylum seekers crossing into Quebec illegally, CBSA says

  31-08-2017 19:26 via cbc.ca
  After an unprecedented spike in the number of asylum seekers crossing the border into Quebec illegally in early August, the Canada Border Services Agency says those numbers are now dropping.
  
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• Edward Murphy Elementary School's FAB 4 initiative - We're back to school with @EnglishMTL btmontreal.ca/videos/edward-…

  31-08-2017 19:23
  Edward Murphy Elementary School's FAB 4 initiative - We're back to school with @EnglishMTL btmontreal.ca/videos/edward-…
  
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• Montreal boxer Yves Ulysse faces Steve Claggett at MTelus on Oct. 27

  31-08-2017 19:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Eye of the Tiger Management (EOTTM) and Interbox announced Thursday that Montreal boxer Yves Ulysse will face Steve Claggett from Alberta in the main event at the MTelus, which used to be known as the Metropolis, on Oct. 27.
  Ulysse (14-0, nine KOs), who defeated Philippine boxer Ricky Sismundo last June, will be looking to build off that momentum in a 10 round super-lightweight bout against Claggett (25-4-1, 17 KOs). 
  On the undercard Simon Kean (10-0, nine KOs) will square off against Rand
  
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• Fire update: Mother of rescued baby is on her way home from Toronto

  31-08-2017 19:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The quick thinking and bravery of a squad of Montreal police officers are being credited with saving the life of a one-year-old girl found alone in a smoke-filled apartment in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve early Thursday.
  A 49-year-old woman who is said to be the babysitter has been arrested. The baby was treated in a hospital, and her life is not in danger.
  The rescue was began around 12:45 a.m. when police, who had been deployed to deal with a man who had barricaded himself in a nearby residence, hear
  
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• Mom Talk with @CVDmtl: Back to school sleep schedules https://t.co/kY7t1bQe2Q

  31-08-2017 19:03
  
  Mom Talk with @CVDmtl: Back to school sleep schedules https://t.co/kY7t1bQe2Q
  
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• Are you a student looking for new wheels? A parent in search of a compact? @PetrinaGentile shares five top picks f… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-08-2017 18:53
  Are you a student looking for new wheels? A parent in search of a compact?@PetrinaGentile shares five top picks f… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Back-to-school shopping with @amazonca https://t.co/WWSd4K7QoH

  31-08-2017 18:42
  
  Back-to-school shopping with @amazonca https://t.co/WWSd4K7QoH
  
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• RTM riders confused as train stops working

  31-08-2017 18:39 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Aug 31: West Island commuters were shocked after the 6:30 p.m. Vaudreuil-Hudson train stopped working. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, the RTM couldn’t get the train started again.
  
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• Bell tower at Quebec City's Saint-Sauveur Church on verge of collapse

  31-08-2017 18:32 via cbc.ca
  The teetering bell tower on the 150-year-old church has forced the closure of two streets and a schoolyard in Quebec City's Lowertown.
  
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• The long way forward: Ultra-trail racing is gruelling but exhilarating

  31-08-2017 18:31 via montrealgazette.com
  One day in early spring, a little over a year ago, I exited my house and ran into my neighbour from three doors down. Chakib and I had never actually spoken before, besides perhaps a cordial hello.
  This time we stopped and talked. I asked him about the group of runners I had seen assembling on his steps for months, or maybe years. He said, “Why don’t you join us?”
  “Maybe,” I replied.
  Then I did what I always do before committing to what I sense will be a significant
  
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• Enter Michel Gondry's Home Movie Factory with a spotless mind

  31-08-2017 18:29 via montrealgazette.com
  It could have gone terribly wrong.
  I set out Wednesday morning on an unusual assignment: to make a movie with a group of complete strangers — nine fellow journalists, in fact — from start to finish, in just three hours.
  We were the first guinea pigs in the Montreal incarnation of Michel Gondry’s Home Movie Factory, which opens Friday and runs until Oct. 15, allowing six groups of 15 people per day to make movies of their own.
  The location: a converted industrial space in the Su
  
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• Wakefield hosts N.W.T. visitors in exchange over new park

  31-08-2017 18:00 via cbc.ca
  They're 3,000 kilometres apart and lie in two very different parts of Canada, but two small communities have formed an unlikely bond over a proposed national park reserve in the North.
  
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• Contrecoeur trial: Zampino says he had no input into mechanics of sale

  31-08-2017 17:59 via montrealgazette.com
  When it came to the 2007 sale of the city-owned Contrecoeur site to developer Paolo Catania, Frank Zampino testified Thursday he had no control or input into how the sale would take place, despite the fact Mayor Gérald Tremblay had mandated him to oversee the project.
  It was the city’s general manager, Claude Léger, who decided the city should transfer ownership of the land to it’s paramunicipal and independently run real-estate development agency to move the process fo
  
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• MLB turned down Montreal's offer to host Houston Astros, Texas Rangers

  31-08-2017 17:57 via cbc.ca
  The Astros were slated to begin the MLB series between their in-state rivals on Tuesday, but Hurricane Harvey forced the team to change plans. Montreal offered to host, but the games are being played in Florida instead.
  
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• Grounded: What's happened to the CFL's running game?

  31-08-2017 17:41 via cbc.ca
  The CFL has a great history of running backs: Normie Kwong, George Reed, Mike Pringle and Jon Corish to name a few. But times have certainly changed. The rushing carries per game in 2017 are at an historic low, and there seems to be no turning back.
  
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• Police officer challenged by Montrealer in park

  31-08-2017 17:24 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Aug 31: Montreal police officers Erick Denino and Valérie Guérin-Thériault were on duty when a young man came up and challenged them.
  
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• Parti Québécois's health plan has potential, nurses' union says

  31-08-2017 17:24 via montrealgazette.com
  SAINT-EUSTACHE — The Parti Québécois’s new health plan got the tacit accord of the province’s powerful nurse’s union Thursday but has been blasted as a recipe for chaos by the minister of health.
  “What I saw is very interesting,” Régine Laurent, president of the Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé (FIQ) said, arriving for a private meeting with the PQ caucus here.
  “These are ideas we have backed for sever
  
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• Police officer faces off with Montrealer who challenged him in park

  31-08-2017 17:06 via globalnews.ca
  Calisthenics is a form of urban street workout where individuals and groups perform gravity-defying exercises to improve balance, agility and co-ordination.
  
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• A different drummer: Claude Ranger's impact on Canadian jazz was deep. Then he disappeared.

  31-08-2017 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Jazz, by its very nature, is the music of the moment. Those who practice it at the highest level are spiritual kin to the Buddhist monks who painstakingly construct elaborate mandalas a grain of coloured sand at a time only to destroy them immediately on completion. It’s not about posterity, it’s about pure creation. But what happens, and what is really lost, when a great musician’s claim to posterity is in danger of disappearing completely? As a case study, few serve better th
  
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• Crumbling steeple of Quebec City church to be dismantled

  31-08-2017 16:53 via montrealgazette.com
  The steeple of a 19th-century church in Quebec City’s Lower Town will be dismantled Thursday as it has become clear the crumbling structure is in danger of collapse.
  A safety perimeter set up around the Église St-Sauveur on des Oblats Ave. extends to part of an elementary school located across the street.
  On Thursday, the steeple was being supported by a high-tension cable rigged to maintain the structure’s stability. The steeple will be dismantled in stages.
  The parish of&nbs
  
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• Update: Montreal cops used their own fire extinguishers in baby rescue

  31-08-2017 16:39 via montrealgazette.com
  The quick thinking and bravery of a squad of Montreal police officers are being credited with saving the life of a 12-month-old girl found alone in a smoke-filled apartment in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve early Thursday.
  The rescue, which saw a total of eight officers enter a three-storey apartment block on Dézéry St. so densely filled with smoke they had to crawl along the hallway floors to move, was triggered about 12:45 a.m., when police who had been deployed to deal with a man who had
  
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