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• Canadiens give defenceman Victor Mete a longer look at rookie camp

  12-09-2017 23:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Defenceman Victor Mete earned a reprieve Tuesday when the Canadiens trimmed their rookie camp roster in preparation for the start of the main training camp on Friday.
   The Canadiens sent seven players back to their junior teams and Mete will eventually join them. But first the Canadiens’ brass wants to look at him in at least one exhibition. That will provide the team and Mete with a measuring stick of how he shapes up against players who are bigger and stronger.
  The 19-year-old from
  
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• Teenage girl struck by train in Pierrefonds-Roxboro

  12-09-2017 23:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Police are investigating after a teenage girl was struck by a train in Pierrefonds-Roxboro Tuesday afternoon. The girl was injured but her life is not considered in danger.
  Police are on the scene to determine what happened, Montreal police spokesperson Daniel Lacoursière said.
  Because the accident involved a train, it still has to be determined whether the case will be handled by the Montreal police force or by officers with CN or CP, Lacoursière said. 
  More details to come.
  
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• Montreal family confronts seller of explosive hoverboard

  12-09-2017 23:43 via globalnews.ca
  A Montreal family has confronted the person that sold them a hoverboard that exploded while their 10-year-old daughter was riding it in Montreal’s Plateau borough. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Public consultation on racism to be held mostly in private

  12-09-2017 23:41 via montrealgazette.com
  With less than a month to go before its expected start date, potential participants are questioning whether Quebec’s inquiry into systemic racism will be as transparent and open as the government promised.
  Announced in July, the public consultation is supposed to explore systemic discrimination and racism in Quebec. The hearings were presented as an opportunity to find “concrete and lasting solutions” to these issues by inviting all Quebecers to take part.
  But the Quebec Human
  
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• Quebec floods: Meetings between victims, government promised

  12-09-2017 23:20 via globalnews.ca
  The aftermath of the spring floods in Quebec continues as the provincial government announced new measures in the hopes of helping victims. Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports.
  
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• Quebec flooding: Nothing concrete in new measures, victims say

  12-09-2017 23:20 via montrealgazette.com
  A series of news measures aimed at speeding up the processing of financial aid for victims of last spring’s flooding in Quebec received a lukewarm reception on Tuesday.
  Quebec Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux announced four new steps that he hopes will make the process move faster, and while victims still living in gutted homes welcomed the move, they say they have heard this before.
  “I am happy that they want to put effort into improving the measure, but there is nothing real
  
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• Quebec gives $20M to add classrooms in NDG

  12-09-2017 23:19 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec is injecting 20 million dollars to create more classroom space in NDG French-language schools. As Global’s Elysia Bryan-Baynes reports, the move is to make more space for thousands of new immigrant students.
  
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• 33 years on, Dollard mayor's future hangs in the balance

  12-09-2017 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Will he or won’t he seek re-election? Dollard-des-Ormeaux Mayor Ed Janiszewski, who turns 84 this fall, has been serving continuously on council since 1978, initially as a councillor before being elected mayor in 1984 when he replaced Gerry Weiner, who made a successful jump to federal politics.
  To put Janiszewski’s term as mayor in perspective (which includes one term as a borough mayor after Dollard was forced into the Montreal mega-city in 2002), Prime Minister Justin Trudeau&rsqu
  
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• Jury picked for trial of Montreal teens facing terror charges

  12-09-2017 22:35 via cbc.ca
  Twelve jurors and two alternates have been selected in the case of a young Montreal couple —​ Sabrine Djermane and El Mahdi Jamali. They were teenagers when they were charged with terrorism-related offences in 2015.
  
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• Jury picked for trial of Montreal couple facing terror charges

  12-09-2017 22:35 via cbc.ca
  Twelve jurors and two alternates have been selected in the case of a young Montreal couple —​ Sabrine Djermane and El Mahdi Jamali. They were teenagers when they were charged with terrorism-related offences in 2015.
  
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• Financial assistance to help treat ash trees on private properties

  12-09-2017 22:33 via montrealgazette.com
  A grant from Tree Canada, partnered with Telus and U-Haul, is helping Beaconsfield residents fight the encroaching emerald ash borer.
  The ash borer has been devastating ash trees since it was first detected in North America in 2002. It was first detected on the island of Montreal in 2011. Municipalities throughout the West Island have launched treatment programs to rid yards and public property from the invasive beetle.
  The $28,000 grant given to Beaconsfield will help defray the cost for h
  
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• Baie-d'Urfé farm brings youth back to the garden

  12-09-2017 22:33 via montrealgazette.com
  With fall approaching, the volunteers from the Fritz Farm Youth Gardening Association (FFYGA) are busy harvesting another crop from its lush public garden in Baie-d’Urfé.
  Now in its fourth year, the community volunteer organization is dedicated to donating its organic, pesticide free crops to local food banks or charities in the West Island.
  Everything from freshly-picked tomatoes, egg plant, beans and zucchini will soon find their way to the Meals on Wheels branch in Ste-Anne-de-Be
  
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• As legalization approaches, Kahnawake prepares to make its own cannabis rules

  12-09-2017 22:09 via cbc.ca
  The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake has imposed a moratorium on the production, distribution and sale of cannabis on its territory, as the community wrestles with how to deal with the federal government's legalization of marijuana next July.
  
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• Montreal officials, CN Rail hold disaster simulation

  12-09-2017 21:50 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Sep 12: The Montreal fire department and CN Rail participated in a joint hazardous material simulation at the Taschereau railyards. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Quebec premier’s chief of staff, Jean-Louis Dufresne, resigns

  12-09-2017 21:49 via globalnews.ca
  There's been a shake up in the Quebec premier's cabinet as Philippe Couillard's chief of staff, Jean-Louis Dufresne, has quit.
  
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• Highway 10 reopened near Shefford, Que., following toxic chemical spill

  12-09-2017 21:36 via cbc.ca
  Highway 10 is completely reopened near Shefford, about 90 kilometres east of Montreal, after an accident caused a tanker truck to spill its load of the toxic and flammable chemical styrene.
  
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• Highway 10 near Shefford, Que., closed after chemical spill

  12-09-2017 21:36 via cbc.ca
  Highway 10 is closed in both directions near Shefford, about 90 kilometres east of Montreal, after an accident caused a tanker truck to spill its load of the toxic and flammable chemical Styrene.
  
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• Montreal officials, CN Rail hold joint disaster simulation

  12-09-2017 21:33 via globalnews.ca
  Fire and rail officials held a HAZMAT simulation in case of disaster, four years after the massive Lac-Megantic explosion.
  
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• Nathalie Normandeau fraud trial likely to begin in early 2018

  12-09-2017 21:16 via globalnews.ca
  The fraud-related trial of ex-deputy Quebec premier Nathalie Normandeau and five co-accused will likely be held in early 2018.
  
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• Trial begins in Montreal for two youths charged with terrorism-related offences

  12-09-2017 20:49 via globalnews.ca
  El Mahdi Jamali and Sabrine Djermane each face four charges.
  
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• Canoe.ca says data for one million users hacked

  12-09-2017 20:32 via cbc.ca
  News and entertainment website Canoe.ca says some of its databases containing the personal information of about one million users from 1996 to 2008 has been hacked.
  
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• Police spying: Quebecor wants BEI involved in possible investigations

  12-09-2017 19:43 via montrealgazette.com
  A commission of inquiry into the protection of journalistic sources resumed sitting Tuesday, and heard a request from media chain Quebecor and newspaper Le Devoir that any inquiry into allegations of criminal acts by a police officer be conducted by an independent body.
  A body like the independent investigations office, or BEI, could conduct the investigation instead of the department of internal affairs or a police service, suggested attorney Julie Carlesso.
  “The BEI was established as a
  
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• Dan Delmar: Jean-François Lisée clips the wings of PQ language hawks

  12-09-2017 19:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Attitudes on language in Quebec are shifting. The party that has been most successful in positioning itself as defender of the French language is now well out of step with the public. It signalled this past weekend it won’t be going on the offensive.
  Language policy (or lack thereof) resulting from this Parti Québécois convention in particular is significant, most notably because of timing: This year, Quebecers have been inundated with media content and events commemorating f
  
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• Opinion: Building First Nations' economic self-reliance

  12-09-2017 19:30 via montrealgazette.com
  With the splitting of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) into two departments, a move announced by the Trudeau Liberals in August, there’ll be one department in charge of negotiations with First Nation communities and another in charge of service delivery. And it will presumably become easier for the negotiating department to focus on signing an increased number of self-governing arrangements with more bands under the Indian Act.
  Subsequently, the economic future of First Nation
  
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• NDG schools get $20M from Quebec to add classrooms for new immigrants, refugees

  12-09-2017 19:29 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec is injecting $20 million to create more classrooms at two schools in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
  
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• 2 men arrested in connection with last month's Quebec City protests

  12-09-2017 19:27 via cbc.ca
  The two men, 19 and 20, could face charges of armed assault and assault causing bodily harm and are expected to appear later today in a Quebec City courtroom.
  
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• Montreal tourism spending up 10% in 2017

  12-09-2017 19:24 via cbc.ca
  Despite some poor weather at the start of the summer, tourist spending in Montreal is up 10 per cent in this 375th anniversary year, Tourism Montreal says.
  
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• Suspect dies in Mascouche crash that ended police chase

  12-09-2017 19:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s independent investigations unit (BEI) is investigating a police chase that began in Terrebonne early Tuesday and ended in Mascouche when the pursued vehicle crashed into a tree and one suspect dead and another injured.
  Information garnered thus far by the BEI shows the chase began at 4:05 a.m., when Terrebonne police intercepted a convoy of three vehicles, one of them stolen, on Highway 640 in Terrebonne.
  Police gave chase and were able to intercept one of the three vehicles, a se
  
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• Couillard changes chief of staff; Dufresne is out in top office shakeup

  12-09-2017 18:40 via montrealgazette.com
  One year from the next election, Premier Philippe Couillard has changed his chief of staff as part of a shakeup in the government’s senior ranks.
  Jean-Louis Dufresne, who has been with Couillard since the start of the Liberal’s 2014 mandate, has resigned and will be replaced by Jean-Pascal Bernier, 38, who had been Dufresne’s second-in-command on the bridge.
  Couillard announced the news in a statement issued Tuesday.
  Couillard had nothing by praise for Dufresne, a personal frie
  
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• Quebec floods: New measures put in place to help flood victims

  12-09-2017 18:37 via globalnews.ca
  The Quebec government has announced new measures in hopes of helping flood victims.
  
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• Live in Canada but own property in Irma-hit areas? Here's how to handle insurance

  12-09-2017 18:27 via cbc.ca
  Insurance bureaus north and south of the border say Canadians who own property in U.S. areas hit by Irma need to get on the phone and learn whether their homes have been damaged.
  
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• Quebec to spend $20.6 million adding CSDM classrooms in N.D.G.

  12-09-2017 18:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec will spend $20.6 million expanding the number of Commission scolaire de Montréal classrooms in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
  The announcement was made Tuesday morning by Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil, who represents N.D.G. in the National Assembly.
  The CSDM says its schools in the area are bursting at the seams.
  Of the allotted sum, $12.6 million will go to renovating a building that the CSDM is taking over from Centennial Academy, a private school. The CSDM had been renting the
  
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• 691 Canadians rescued from Irma-hit Caribbean countries, Foreign Affairs minister says

  12-09-2017 18:22 via cbc.ca
  Most of the Canadians who were in Caribbean countries devastated by Hurricane Irma have now returned home, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says.
  
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• Jean-François Lisée tries to explain PQ's controversial new CEGEP policy

  12-09-2017 18:18 via cbc.ca
  In an interview with Daybreak's Mike Finnerty, the PQ leader defended the policy, criticized by anglophones and many francophones who opt for an English CEGEP to improve their fluency in their second language.
  
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• Victor Mete hangs on as Canadiens cut seven juniors from rookie camp

  12-09-2017 18:10 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens did some house cleaning Tuesday as they sent seven of the eight junior players in their rookie camp back to their CHL clubs.
  The lone survivor was London Knights defenceman Victor Mete. He looked good as part of the top defence pair with Noah Juulsen during last weekend’s rookie tournament in Toronto. He’ll probably see action in at least one of the Canadiens’ eight exhibition games before going back to London.
  Gone are Alexandre Alain (Blainville-Boisbriand), Wil
  
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• Update: Suspect dies in Mascouche crash that ended police chase

  12-09-2017 18:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s independent investigations unit (BEI) is investigating a police chase that began in Terrebonne early Tuesday and ended in Mascouche when the pursued vehicle crashed into a tree and one suspect dead and another injured.
  Information garnered thus far by the BEI shows the chase began at 4:05 a.m., when Terrebonne police intercepted a convoy of three vehicles, one of them stolen, on Highway 640 in Terrebonne.
  Police gave chase and were able to intercept one of the three vehicles, a se
  
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• 'We need to act now': Quebec flood victims promised more help

  12-09-2017 17:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux admitted Tuesday that the government needs to do more to aid the victims of last spring’s floods.
  In the wake of complaints from municipalities and victims over the slow pace of processing claims, Coiteux, flanked by Pierrefonds-Roxboro Mayor Jim Beis, announced new measures that he hopes will speed up the process.
  One of those steps includes meeting with all flood victims still waiting for funds, individually in their communities.
  Coiteux sai
  
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• Terror trial: Potential jurors asked about impartiality toward Muslim suspects

  12-09-2017 17:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Jury selection has begun at the Montreal courthouse in the trial of a young couple who face terror-related charges, including an accusation they planned to leave Canada to commit terrorist act.
  Early Tuesday morning, Superior Court Justice Marc David, the judge who will preside over the case, told the pool of roughly 150 potential jurors to expect the trial, of  Sabrine Djermane and El Mahdi Jamali, to last 10 weeks. 
  He also said they will hear from at least 31 witnesses. 
  David
  
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• Canada Jetlines to offer sub-$100 base fares, eventually serve Montreal

  12-09-2017 17:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Aspiring ultra-low-cost carrier Canada Jetlines Ltd. will fly out of Hamilton and Waterloo when it launches next summer and offer customers a base fare below $100, its chief executive said Monday.
  Jetlines chief executive Stan Gadek revealed new details for the company’s plans in the race to launch Canada’s first ultra-low-cost carrier at a press conference Monday, announcing that it had reached an agreement with the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport and was in the midst o
  
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• Police spying: Chamberland Commission to hear from Québecor, Quebec Bar

  12-09-2017 17:14 via montrealgazette.com
  A commission of inquiry into the protection of journalistic sources resumed sitting Tuesday, expecting presentations from the Quebec Bar, the province’s office criminal prosecutions, media chain Québecor and the French-language daily newspaper Le Devoir.
  The commission was created in the wake of the controversy created after revelations that investigations within police departments into who was leaking information to the media included the surreptitious monitoring of journalists&rsq
  
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• TIFF 2017: Iranian Montrealer Sadaf Foroughi makes waves with first feature Ava

  12-09-2017 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — A bright-eyed, beaming woman walked up to me on Thursday afternoon, the first day of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and said hello like we were old friends.
  I feigned recognition while chatting with her and her companion for a few moments, before finally giving in.
  “Sorry, but where do I know you from?” I asked.
  “Yoga class,” she replied.
  Ah, yes, it was all coming back to me. As things go in yoga, the woman and I had exchanged friendly no
  
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• NDG residents won't be able to vote down Concordia project after all

  12-09-2017 17:00 via cbc.ca
  They were hoping to block Concordia University's plan to extend its science complex by building on a soccer field, but now the group is facing a significant obstacle — the law.
  
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  12-09-2017 16:52
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• Battle continues between Taxis and Uber btmontreal.ca/videos/battle-…

  12-09-2017 16:41
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• Quebec City police make two arrests stemming from anti-fascist demonstration

  12-09-2017 16:38 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec City police say they've arrested two people in connection with a demonstration that saw protesters clash with riot police.
  
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• Community Round-Up with The Suburban's @berylwajsman btmontreal.ca/videos/communi…

  12-09-2017 16:23
  Community Round-Up with The Suburban's @berylwajsmanbtmontreal.ca/videos/communi…
  
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• Catching-up with @KARLWOLFs btmontreal.ca/videos/catchin…

  12-09-2017 16:19
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• Car crashes into tree during police chase, killing 1

  12-09-2017 16:18 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's police watchdog is investigating after an 18-year-old was fatally injured during a police operation in Mascouche early this morning.
  
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• Canada, U.K. step up pressure on Boeing to resolve dispute over Bombardier

  12-09-2017 16:02 via cbc.ca
  British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa on Monday as Canadian officials try to resolve a potentially damaging trade dispute over passenger jets with U.S. aerospace manufacturer Boeing.
  
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• Suspect critically injured in crash that ended police chase

  12-09-2017 15:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s independent investigations unit (BEI) is investigating a police chase that began in Terrebonne early Tuesday and ended in Mascouche with the pursued vehicle crashed into a tree and two suspects injured — one of them critically.
  Information garnered thus far by the BEI shows the chase began at 4:05 a.m., when Terrebonne police intercepted a convoy of three vehicles, one of them stolen, on Highway 640 in Terrebonne.
  Police gave chase and were able to intercept one of the three
  
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