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• Italy's Ulissi takes Montreal WorldTour cycling grand prix in sprint finish

  10-09-2017 23:37 via cbc.ca
  Diego Ulissi of Team Emirates won a six-man final sprint ahead of Movistar rider Jesus Herrada Lopez to win the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal on Sunday afternoon.
  
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• Climate change shaping investments by Quebec's largest pension fund

  10-09-2017 23:17 via montrealgazette.com
  The spectre of climate change is increasingly shaping investment decisions at Quebec’s largest pension fund.
  The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, is starting to introduce the idea of “carbon budgets” to its investment teams, said Michael Sabia, its president and CEO. Those “budgets” are a specific amount of carbon dioxide that will be emitted as a result of investment decisions.
  “You have a risk budget, you have a carbon bu
  
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• "Our patience has run out." Quebec flood victims feel abandoned by government

  10-09-2017 23:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Anger. Disappointment. Abandoned. Frustrated. Fatigued. Forgotten.
  Those are some of the words victims of this spring’s flooding across Quebec used to describe how they felt as they gathered outside the office of Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux in Kirkland on Sunday.
  Organized by a group of West Island flood victims, the rally brought together people from across the province, including Gatineau, Pointe-Calumet, St-André-d’Argenteuil, Rigaud, Île-Perrot, Lava
  
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• World-class cycling race draws crowd in Montreal - Globalnews.ca

  10-09-2017 22:59 via globalnews.ca
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  World-class cycling race draws crowd in Montreal
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  WATCH ABOVE: Montrealers came out to cheer for their favourite riders Sunday at the 8th annual Grand Prix Cylcliste. As Global's Matt Grillo reports, the best cyclists in the world took part in the UCI World Tour event.
  Italy's Ulissi takes Montreal WorldTour cycling grand prix in sprint finishCBC.ca
  Diego Ulissi earns huge victory at GP Cycliste de MontrealCanadian Cycling Magazine (blog)
  Grand Prix Cycliste de Montre
  
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• TIFF 2017: François Girard traces Montreal's Indigenous roots in Hochelaga, terre des âmes

  10-09-2017 22:15 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — Don’t tell the Toronto International Film Festival, but it didn’t actually get the world première of François Girard’s Hochelaga, terre des âmes, Saturday night.
  The film had a hometown, invite-only première at Place des Arts, on Wednesday, as well as a pair of public screenings at the Imperial. But again, shhh, not so loud.
  “We’re trying to keep it quiet, here,” Girard said, sitting on a patio on the 17th floor of To
  
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• TIFF 2017: François Girard traces Montreal's Indigenous roots in Hochelaga, terre des âmes - Montreal Gazette

  10-09-2017 22:12 via montrealgazette.com
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  TIFF 2017: François Girard traces Montreal's Indigenous roots in Hochelaga, terre des âmes
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  "That's what the film talks about," François Girard says, "looking at whoever has occupied that land, and then the connection between them.” Peter McCabe / MONTREAL GAZETTE. Share Adjust Comment Print. TORONTO — Don't tell the Toronto International ...and more »
  
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• Quebec driver caught going 180 km/h in 100 km/h zone

  10-09-2017 22:06 via globalnews.ca
  A Quebec driver was fined over $1,500 after he was caught going 180 kilometres per hour ina 100 km/h zone.
  
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• Quebec flood victims feeling abandoned after government aid slow to come

  10-09-2017 22:03 via cbc.ca
  Some Quebec residents who were affected by spring flooding are expressing frustration with the government's response to the disaster.
  
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• Parti Québécois wants to overhaul funding for English CEGEPs, but not extend Bill 101

  10-09-2017 21:19 via cbc.ca
  The Parti Québécois wants to curb the abundance of francophone students choosing to study in English by overhauling the way English-language CEGEPS are funded.
  
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• Parti Québécois wants to cut funding for English CEGEPs, but not extend Bill 101

  10-09-2017 21:19 via cbc.ca
  The Parti Québécois plans to curb the abundance of francophone students choosing to study in English by curtailing funding for English-language CEGEPS if it forms the next provincial government under leader Jean-François Lisée.
  
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• Parti Québécois eyes defunding English CEGEPs, stops short of pledging to extend Bill 101

  10-09-2017 21:19 via cbc.ca
  The Parti Québécois has come up with a plan to curb the abundance of francophone students choosing to study in English — by threatening to curtail funding for English-language CEGEPs.
  
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• ‘You have no idea how we’ve lived’: Quebec flood victims rally

  10-09-2017 21:15 via globalnews.ca
  Flood victims across the province gathered in Kirkland on Sunday to rally against what they call the provincial government's slow compensation program.
  
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• BEI investigates after police shoot machete-wielding man in Lévis

  10-09-2017 20:25 via globalnews.ca
  A team of eight investigators with Quebec's Bureau of independent investigations (BEI) was dispatched to Lévis on Sunday morning after police shot a machete-wielding man.
  
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• Police operation over at Quebec City airport after suspicious package found

  10-09-2017 20:11 via cbc.ca
  The security measures taken at Quebec City's Jean Lesage International Airport are over after a suspicious package Sunday morning led to a police operation and evacuation of the airport's security zone.
  
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• Hall of fame defenceman Pierre Pilote passes away at age 85

  10-09-2017 20:03 via cbc.ca
  Former Blackhawks defenceman Pierre Pilote, who won a Stanley Cup with Chicago in 1961, has died. He was 85. The Blackhawks said in a statement Sunday that Pilote had died Saturday night.
  
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• Interactive theatre show lets kids challenge classic fairy tale plot

  10-09-2017 19:50 via cbc.ca
  Two Montreal theatre professionals are staging an interactive fairy tale for kids and offering workshops in interactive theatre at the Arts Alive festival this weekend and next.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Leo's Boys were the pride of Point St. Charles

  10-09-2017 19:41 via montrealgazette.com
  They were Leo’s Boys and they were the pride of Point St. Charles.
  There was a time in “The Point” when you couldn’t walk more than a few feet without running into a kid wearing a green jacket with the Leo’s Boys crest. 
  Leo’s Boys started out in 1952 with two teams and 30 kids, but at its peak had 110 teams with almost 1,000 kids participating in hockey, baseball, football and boxing. Every one of those kids got a green Leo’s Boys jacket — an
  
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• Parti Québécois says ban on religious symbols is for authority figures

  10-09-2017 19:10 via montrealgazette.com
  The Parti Québécois scrambled into damage control Sunday after delegates at its policy convention appeared to vote for a return to the party’s old idea of banning all religious symbols in the civil service.
  Moments after news emerged that a motion saying civil servants should display total religious neutrality on the job sailed through the plenary at the party’s policy convention, Taschereau MNA Agnès Maltais, the PQ’s critic on the secularism file, ar
  
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• A sunny Sunday! Enjoy it while it lasts! https://t.co/86VWqTpLL6

  10-09-2017 18:37
  
  A sunny Sunday! Enjoy it while it lasts! https://t.co/86VWqTpLL6
  
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• Lisée keeps PQ moderate on language at policy convention - Montreal Gazette

  10-09-2017 18:34 via montrealgazette.com
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  Lisée keeps PQ moderate on language at policy convention
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  The party, said Taschereau MNA Agnès Maltais, is not returning to the ill-fated charter of values which would have banned all religious symbols. Philip Authier, Montreal Gazette More from Philip Authier, Montreal Gazette. Published on: September 10 ...
  
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• Former journalist and McGill University chancellor Gretta Chambers dies at 90

  10-09-2017 18:23 via globalnews.ca
  Gretta Chambers, a noted journalist and McGill University's first female chancellor, has died at the age of 90.
  
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• Montreal's Momenta focuses on fact and illusion in photography - The Globe and Mail

  10-09-2017 18:00 via theglobeandmail.com
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  Montreal's Momenta focuses on fact and illusion in photography
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  That formula sounds rather like the one put forward by the Biennale de Montréal, the much larger art festival that flamed out last winter after its second edition. But the latter event intensified very fast and was by most accounts overcentralized and ...
  
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• Police shoot machete-wielding man in Lévis

  10-09-2017 17:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI) is investigating after police shot a machete-wielding man in Lévis early Sunday morning.
  According to early information gathered by the bureau, the Lévis police service received a call around 3:20 a.m. about a 27-year-old man who seemed to be in distress. 
  On arrival, police noticed the man was carrying a machete. Officers asked the man to drop it, the BEI said, but he advanced toward them instead, threat
  
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• Parti Québécois members still want a ban on religious symbols

  10-09-2017 17:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec civil servants should display total religious neutrality on the job, which means wearing no symbols or attire, the Parti Québécois policy convention has decided.
  Returning to a theme which got the party in trouble the last time and cost it votes in the 2014 election, delegates Sunday endorsed a motion to extend rules covering bureaucratic political neutrality to including “religious neutrality.”
  The motion passed almost unanimously following a passionate pitch by
  
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• While you were sleeping: Category 4 Hurricane Irma begins its assault on Florida and more

  10-09-2017 17:10 via montrealgazette.com
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Announcing itself with roaring 130 mph winds, Hurricane Irma plowed into the mostly emptied-out Florida Keys early Sunday for the start of what could be a slow, ruinous march up the state’s west coast toward the heavily populated Tampa-St. Petersburg area.
  “Pray, pray for everybody in Florida,” Gov. Rick Scott said on “Fox News Sunday.”
  With an estimated 127,000 huddling in shelters statewide, the storm lashed the low-lying string of isl
  
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• PQ votes for motion to decrease funding to English CEGEPs

  10-09-2017 17:10 via globalnews.ca
  The Parti Québécois (PQ) has adopted a controversial motion to decrease funding to English CEGEPs at a party convention in Montreal Sunday morning.
  
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• Motorcyclist dies after colliding with car in Lac-Mégantic

  10-09-2017 16:33 via montrealgazette.com
  A 42-year-old man died after his motorcycle collided with a car, at about 10:30 p.m. on Saturday in Lac-Mégantic, in the Eastern Townships.
  The crash occurred on Agnes St. According to initial findings by the Sûreté du Québec, the motorcycle appears to have deviated from its lane into oncoming traffic, crashing into a vehicle.
  The man was taken to a hospital where his death was confirmed.
  Excessive speed might be a factor according to police.
  
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• Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal means Sunday road closures, detours

  10-09-2017 16:19 via cbc.ca
  Twenty teams will compete, lapping the 12-kilometre circuit more than a dozen times.
  
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• Cyclist Grand Prix will mean Sunday road closures, detours

  10-09-2017 16:19 via cbc.ca
  Twenty teams will compete, lapping the 12-kilometre circuit more than a dozen times.
  
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• Former MNA Sam Hamad's political attaché to run for Liberals in Louis-Hébert riding

  10-09-2017 16:02 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – The political attaché of former MNA Sam Hamad, Ihssane El Ghernati, has been chosen by the Liberal Party to run in the Oct. 2 byelection in Louis-Hébert riding.
  She will replace Éric Tétrault, who had to withdraw from the race due to allegations of harassment and intimidation at work.
  El Ghernati, aged 51 and of Moroccan origin, immigrated to Quebec more than 20 years ago.
  One of El Ghernati’s opponent  is Geneviève Guilbault, whose ca
  
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• ICYMI: Fraida & Carole from LUNGevity told us about the upcoming fundraiser for lung cancer awareness. Head to btmontreal.ca for more info!

  10-09-2017 16:00
  ICYMI: Fraida & Carole from LUNGevity told us about the upcoming fundraiser for lung cancer awareness. Head to btmontreal.ca for more info!
  
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• Montrealers escaping Hurricane Irma arrive at airport, shaken and relieved

  10-09-2017 15:00 via cbc.ca
  Dozens waited anxiously for their loved ones as planes with tourists escaping Hurricane Irma touched down in Montreal, Saturday.
  
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• Korf: Montreal should import some useful customs - Montreal Gazette

  10-09-2017 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
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  Korf: Montreal should import some useful customs
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  Korf: The City of Montreal's reputation as the city of the orange cone has spread to the West Island. Albert Kramberger, The Gazette. Share Adjust Comment Print. It was Aug. 31; the date of my long-awaited and carefully planned trip to Spain, and the ...
  
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• Korf: Montreal should import some useful customs

  10-09-2017 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It was Aug. 31; the date of my long-awaited and carefully planned trip to Spain, and the dictionary word of the day was Elysium — “any place or state of perfect happiness.”  How appropriate.
  We called the cab early, as it is difficult for people to access our street due to road work in Pointe-Claire. On the ride to the airport, the taxi driver complained almost non-stop about construction. I share his frustration. The City of Montreal’s reputation as the city of the
  
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• Fitness: Does school keep our kids slimmer and healthier?

  10-09-2017 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  As much as children enjoy the carefree months of summer, those lazy, hazy days often mean less sleep, fewer fruits and veggies and more time spent in front of a screen. And while parents have also been known to rejoice in the annual break from the routine that dictates much of family life during the school year, several studies note that children have a tendency to return to the classroom in poorer physical condition and with accelerated weight gain compared to the months spent in school. This t
  
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• Sudbury, Ont., man dies in Gatineau parachute mishap

  10-09-2017 14:23 via cbc.ca
  A 27-year-old man is dead after a parachuting mishap near the Gatineau Airport.
  
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• Gatineau man, 27, dies in parachuting incident

  10-09-2017 14:23 via cbc.ca
  A 27-year-old man is dead after a parachuting incident near the Gatineau Airport.
  
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• 27-year-old parachutist dies in jump mishap in Gatineau

  10-09-2017 14:22 via montrealgazette.com
  GATINEAU – A 27-year-old parachutist lost his life during a jump on Saturday in Gatineau, in the Outaouais region.
  The victim, who was experienced, appeared to have technical problems before crashing into the backyard of a residence on Proulx Road, a few kilometres north of the Gatineau-Ottawa Executive Airport.
  The man participated in a weekend of jumps as part of the 3rd edition of the Rockstar Boogie, an annual event where participants can perform jumps by making different unconventiona
  
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• Machete-wielding man shot by police in Lévis

  10-09-2017 14:05 via cbc.ca
  The 27-year-old was said to be wielding a machete and threatening police. The bureau says the suspect advanced instead of dropping the weapon so they fired.
  
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• The ties that bind: dancing together weaves new bonds

  10-09-2017 14:00 via cbc.ca
  This is the fourth of Anna Asimakopulos's chronicles of the path to opening night of the Super Méga Continental on Friday, Sept. 15. She will be sharing her story and those of fellow dancers.
  
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• Back to Basics: The Little Homes Hamlet that Just Might

  10-09-2017 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Once upon a time, in a tiny hamlet about an hour north of Montreal, a developer had a big idea to make a small community of tiny homes.
  This may sound like the beginning of a fairy tale, but it’s reality for the director of development at Habitat Multi Générations, Claude Trépanier, and the residents of Les Hameaux de la Source, nestled on 165 bucolic acres, in Lantier. It’s also reality for the minimalist living communities joining the tiny house movement across
  
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• While you were sleeping: Category 4 Hurricane Irma begins assault on Florida Keys and more

  10-09-2017 13:48 via montrealgazette.com
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Hurricane Irma began its assault on Florida early Sunday with the storm’s northern eyewall reaching the lower Florida Keys as a powerful Category 4 storm.
  Irma lashed the area with maximum sustained winds near 130 mph (215 kph) and the U.S. National Hurricane Center said it was expected to remain a powerful storm as it moved through the Florida Keys and near the state’s west coast.
  As of 7 a.m. EDT Sunday, the hurricane was centred about 15 miles (25 kilo
  
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• Turtle Island Reads returns tonight: Discover the best in Canadian Indigenous writing

  10-09-2017 13:00 via cbc.ca
  Host Waubgeshig Rice is back, inviting this year's advocates to champion their chosen work of fiction by an Indigenous writer at a live public event on Sept. 20 at McGill's Tanna Schulich Hall.
  
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• Turtle Island Reads returns tomorrow: Discover the best in Canadian Indigenous writing

  10-09-2017 13:00 via cbc.ca
  Host Waubgeshig Rice is back, inviting this year's advocates to champion their chosen work of fiction by an Indigenous writer at a live public event on Sept. 20 at McGill's Tanna Schulich Hall.
  
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• Turtle Island Reads returns: Discover the best in Canadian Indigenous writing

  10-09-2017 13:00 via cbc.ca
  Host Waubgeshig Rice is back, inviting this year's advocates to champion their chosen work of fiction by an Indigenous writer at a live public event on Sept. 20 at McGill's Tanna Schulich Hall.
  
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• Take a tour of a galaxy not too far away

  10-09-2017 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Over the next few weeks our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is at its very best viewing to the naked eyes in the evening skies for the entire year. Around 9 p.m., the three brightest stars visible this time of the year shine nearly overhead and point the way to the beauty of this grand collection of stars.
  The stellar trio forms what is known as the Summer Triangle. Each corner’s bright star represents a starting point to an individual constellation. So you get a three for one deal! While not
  
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• From the archives: Sir John A. took a hit at election-rally bust-up

  10-09-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  This story was first published on Sept. 8, 2002, in the Montreal Gazette.
  The persistency and desperation of the disturbing element may be gathered from the fact that Mr. Fred Perry forced his way upon the platform and commenced to hustle those thereon. He was collared by one of those whose toes he had trampled upon and who hurled him from the platform in no very ceremonious manner.
  The Gazette, Monday, Sept. 9, 1878
  For a time, it shaped up as one of the rowdiest election meetings ever in a cit
  
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• After Zika and Ebola, Quebec doctor sets his sights on HIV vaccine

  10-09-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Gary Kobinger will be working on the development of a vaccine to prevent the spread of the HIV virus with his research team at Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases at Laval University in Quebec City.
  
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• Irma weakens as it tears through Florida, becomes Category 2 hurricane

  10-09-2017 11:13 via cbc.ca
  Hurricane Irma roared into Florida with 210 km/h winds Sunday for what could be a sustained assault on nearly the entire Sunshine State, flooding streets, knocking out power to more than 2.5 million homes and businesses and snapping construction cranes over the Miami skyline.
  
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• Irma tearing through Florida as Category 3 hurricane

  10-09-2017 11:13 via cbc.ca
  A monster Hurricane Irma roared into Florida with 210 km/h winds Sunday for what could be a sustained assault on nearly the entire Sunshine State, flooding streets, knocking out power to more than two million homes and businesses and snapping a construction crane over the Miami skyline.
  
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