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• Allison Hanes: Symbols of hope

  13-09-2017 23:59 via montrealgazette.com
  If there is a lasting legacy to Montreal’s 375th birthday extravaganza, let it be the new era of acknowledgment and respect for they city’s Indigenous people, heralded Tuesday amid much fanfare by Mayor Denis Coderre.
  That would be a positive direction for Montreal to head in the future, and a constructive way to mark the history of a place that spans — not 375 years as all the signs and memorabilia proclaim — but millennia.
  What is today the island of Montreal was once k
  
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• Police arrest suspect in two armed robberies committed 10 minutes apart

  13-09-2017 23:42 via montrealgazette.com
  A 19-year-old man was in police custody Wednesday in the wake of a pair of armed robberies committed in Longueuil Tuesday night.
  The first robbery occurred at a store on Bellerose St. in the city’s Vieux Longueuil district around 10 p.m. , during which an employee suffered non-life-threatening injuries as the suspect emptied the contents of the cash register.
  Ten minutes later on Goyette St., a block away, a second robbery occurred, allegedly by the same suspect, who fled the scene while p
  
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• Dorval’s McConnell Woods purchase offer rejected

  13-09-2017 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Dorval’s offer to purchase McConnell Woods for $15.1 million was rejected by the land owner. Global’s Tim Sargeant finds out why.
  
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• Montreal teen victim of hit-and-run outside school

  13-09-2017 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  A teen is speaking out after being the victim of a hit-and-run outside Riverdale High School in Montreal’s Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Quebec floods: Businesses are suffering

  13-09-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Business owners in Montreal’s West Island say they are suffering after the intense spring floods that hit parts of Quebec. Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports.
  
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• A night of comedy and music in a sizzling show on the Plateau to support the Children’s Wish Foundation

  13-09-2017 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  Funnyman Lawrence Corber, a well-known comedian and Shaw employee will perform his slapstick comedy act and host the show. Lawrence has appeared on stages across Canada, including the 2016 edition of the Young Guns of Comedy. Sylphir Soulafy Jazz Singer will warm you up. And, end the night with Funky band – Vinyl Hero, a...
  
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• Breakfast and Show

  13-09-2017 22:50 via globalnews.ca
  Breakfast followed by the Petit voilier show, a freestyle theatre and clown show offered in French. Passes available.
  
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• Halloween Pumpkin Decorating Contest

  13-09-2017 22:44 via globalnews.ca
  Have fun at home decorating your pumpkin inspired by one of Alice in Wonderland’s characters. In person registration as of October 20.
  
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• Life-saving drug for opioid overdoses to be offered for free in Quebec pharmacies

  13-09-2017 22:38 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec government has announced that naloxone, the drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, will now be free and accessible in pharmacies across the province in an effort to prevent a full-blown fentanyl crisis.
  
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• Family Chess Night

  13-09-2017 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  Discover chess with Ron Moore from the Chess & Math Association. Activity for players of all ages.
  
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• TIFF 2017: Kim Nguyen finds romance in surveillance with Eye on Juliet

  13-09-2017 22:05 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — Kim Nguyen arrived at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on a high Sunday. The Montreal filmmaker’s latest feature, Eye on Juliet, had just been awarded the FEDEORA (Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean) prize for best film at Venice Days, a sidebar of the Venice Film Festival.
  “I was especially happy and relieved,” Nguyen said Tuesday afternoon, as he prepared for the movie’s North American première that evening. &
  
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• City adds First Nations symbol to flag, to rename street as part of reconciliation plan

  13-09-2017 22:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal is making two symbolic changes in a bid to reconcile with Indigenous Peoples, but a First Nations chief says concrete measures will have to follow.
  On Wednesday, the city added a symbol representing First Nations — a white pine — to its flag and coat of arms, and announced it will rename a street commemorating British general Jeffrey Amherst, who advocated the use of smallpox-infected blankets as a weapon against Indigenous Peoples.
  Mayor Denis Coderre said the changes are p
  
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• Quebec household income lags behind rest of country: StatsCan

  13-09-2017 21:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s median household income growth was among the lowest in the country over the past 10 years, according to census figures made public Wednesday.
  Average household revenue in Quebec was $59,822 in 2015, an increase of almost nine per cent since 2005 but quite overshadowed by the 36.5-per-cent jump recorded by Saskatchewan, where average household revenue stood at $75,412 in 2015.
  In fact, Quebec came in second to last in the country for household income. Its average is only $475 highe
  
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• Opinion: New statistics on income and language shatter old stereotypes

  13-09-2017 21:46 via montrealgazette.com
  There was a time in our history when French Canadians perceived themselves as condemned to be hewers of wood and drawers of water. They had a saying, “Nous sommes nés pour un petit pain,” we are born for a small crust of bread. But those days are now folklore.
  When the Parti Québécois, back in 1977, announced in a white paper the radical Charter of the French Language, it justified the restrictions to be imposed on English in part by the relative poverty of Frenc
  
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• Montreal Canadiens announce training camp roster - Habs Eyes on the Prize (blog)

  13-09-2017 21:43 via habseyesontheprize.com
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  Montreal Canadiens announce training camp roster
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  It will be the first chance to see many new players, including several dark horse players who can shake up the depth chart including NHL rookie Jakub Jerabek and NHL veterans Ales Hemsky and Eric Gelinas. Of the group of players, 16 players carry over ...
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• Quebec floods: Pierrefonds businesses still struggling

  13-09-2017 21:33 via globalnews.ca
  Businesses owners in Pierrefonds-Roxboro are struggling after the spring floods destroyed their stores.
  
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• Get a sneak peek of Crystal, Cirque du Soleil's new touring show on ice

  13-09-2017 21:20 via cbc.ca
  Cirque du Soleil's new touring show, Crystal, takes place on that most Canadian of places: the ice. Catch a sneak peek of the new show.
  
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• Opioid, fentanyl overdose drug to be widely available in Quebec

  13-09-2017 20:53 via montrealgazette.com
  VAL-D’OR — The Quebec government will make available free of charge an opioid overdose counter-effect drug, naloxone, as it struggles to avert the same kind of drug crisis rocking other provinces.
  For the first time, not only will the drug be available to first responders such as ambulance drivers, but police and firefighters will start carrying it to be ready to act readily to save lives.
  And citizens who believe someone they know may be in danger of overdosing will be able to obtai
  
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• McGill prof's research on slavery ads aims to broaden understanding of history

  13-09-2017 20:25 via cbc.ca
  'I've never yet had one Canadian student enter [my] class knowing that slavery transpired in Canada,' says researcher.
  
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• Summer 2017 in Montreal - saving the best for last - The Suburban Newspaper (blog)

  13-09-2017 20:19 via thesuburban.com
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  Summer 2017 in Montreal - saving the best for last
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  A spectacular sunset in Montreal on Monday, September 11. Warm and dry weather is forecast to end summer 2017. Stephen Balena. It took the entire season, but Montreal is finally seeing some perfect summer weather. Strong high pressure centered over ...
  
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• 'Intangible' Now On Display At Bill Reid Gallery https://t.co/SryrW1Bpa7

  13-09-2017 19:58
  
  'Intangible' Now On Display At Bill Reid Gallery https://t.co/SryrW1Bpa7
  
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• Montreal couple on trial for terror responded to Daesh propaganda, prosecutor says - Toronto Star

  13-09-2017 19:53 via thestar.com
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  Montreal couple on trial for terror responded to Daesh propaganda, prosecutor says
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  El Mahdi Jamali, 20, pictured, and Sabrine Djermane, 21, are facing four charges, including trying to leave the country to join a terrorist group and possession of an explosive substance. (LA PRESSE PHOTO). By Allan Woods Quebec Bureau. Wed., Sept.
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• Montreal to strike name of British general Amherst from city map

  13-09-2017 19:36 via globalnews.ca
  Amherst Street is named after the British general who supported giving smallpox-laced blankets to the Indigenous people.
  
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• Pierrefonds residents call for change after accident

  13-09-2017 19:19 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 13: Montrealers are calling for additional safety features at commuter rail stations after a recent accident. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Train accident has Pierrefonds residents calling for additional rail safety

  13-09-2017 19:18 via globalnews.ca
  A commuter rail accident has shocked Montrealers, who are calling for additional safety features at commuter rail stations.
  
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• Students know — but don't always follow — train-crossing safety rules

  13-09-2017 19:18 via montrealgazette.com
  The day before a 17-year-old girl was severely injured after being struck by a train in Roxboro, officials at Royal West Academy had spent time during an assembly discussing train safety. About 450 of the school’s 900 students take the train.
  Hundreds of students use the Montreal West train station, which is adjacent to a busy intersection, and administrators often remind them not to dash for a train if the barrier is down. 
  “They told us to not cross when the lights are fl
  
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• Dragon-boat benefit for cancer patients breaks half-million mark

  13-09-2017 19:01 via montrealgazette.com
  More than $500,000 was raised at the 12th edition of the Dragon Boat Race & Festival in Lachine, Sept. 9.
  The money goes to the Cedars Cancer Foundation CanSupport program, which offers practical and psychological assistance to cancer patients at the McGill University Health Centre.
  Around 1,000 participants and spectators gathered at Parc Père-Marquette for the Saturday event, which was organized by the FL Fuller Landau firm.
  The event began modestly in 2006 with six boats participat
  
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• Montreal real estate prices dip in August, still up from last year

  13-09-2017 18:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Housing prices in Montreal were down in August, when compared with the month before, but remain higher than they were in August 2016.
  The Teranet-National Bank National House Price Index, which tracks the resale price of houses, condos and townhouses, was down 0.09 per cent in August, when compared with July. 
  However, the index was up 3.96 per cent over the year before.
  The slight dip is a regular fluctuation and unlikely to start a trend, said Marc Pinsonneault, a senior ec
  
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• Montreal couple had bomb-making materials, planned to fight with ISIS, court hears

  13-09-2017 18:55 via cbc.ca
  A Montreal couple on trial for terrorism-related charges was found with bomb-making materials and preparing to go to Syria to fight with ISIS at the time they were arrested, a Quebec Crown prosecutor said Wednesday.
  
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• Shakeup was necessary to develop 'different style,' Premier Couillard says

  13-09-2017 18:41 via montrealgazette.com
  VAL-D’OR — Premier Philippe Couillard says he wants to give his government a “different style,” for the remainder of its mandate.
  One day after his chief of staff Jean-Louis Dufresne stepped down after taking heat for a series of Liberal fumbles, Couillard said Dufresne had to go in order to shake things up.
  He insisted the bungled attempt to run Éric Tétrault in the Louis-Hébert byelection, which was Dufrense’s idea, was not the only deciding f
  
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• Addiction centre launches fentanyl information campaign

  13-09-2017 18:24 via montrealgazette.com
  The arrival of fentanyl in Quebec has compelled the province’s Addiction Prevention Centre (APC) to launch an information campaign detailing the deadly effects of the opiate.
  The centre began distribution on Wednesday of 20,000 brochures detailing the drug’s effects and what steps to take in case of an overdose.
  APC director Anne Elizabeth Lapointe hopes the campaign will be used by street workers, anti-addiction organizations and others as a tool that could help save lives.
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• 'They answered that call': Prosecutor lays out timeline as couple's terror trial starts

  13-09-2017 18:14 via montrealgazette.com
  The trial of two young Montrealers who are alleged to have made plans to leave Canada to join ISIL while also preparing to build a bomb began Wednesday morning at the Montreal courthouse. 
  Federal prosecutor Lyne Décarie did not mince words in her opening statement to the jury that will hear the trial. From the beginning she said the young couple, Sabrine Djermane and El Mahdi Jamali, both students at CEGEP De Maisonneuve at the time of their arrests, were preparing to join the terro
  
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• A killer high: Addicted to fentanyl - We speak to Dr. Zack from @cusm_muhc btmontreal.ca/videos/a-kille…

  13-09-2017 18:13
  A killer high: Addicted to fentanyl - We speak to Dr. Zack from @cusm_muhc btmontreal.ca/videos/a-kille…
  
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• Montreal's new flag includes representation of Indigenous peoples

  13-09-2017 18:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal is posing two gestures in a bid to reconcile with Indigenous peoples.
  The city has added a symbol representing First Nations — a white pine — to its flag and coat of arms, and Mayor Denis Coderre has vowed to rename a street that commemorates an 18th-century British general who advocated the use of small-pox-infected blankets as a weapon during an indigenous rebellion in 1763.
  The announcements were made on Wednesday, on the 10th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration
  
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• Five Things to Know about Katy Perry’s Witness: The Tour

  13-09-2017 18:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Thanks to a reshuffling of dates, Montreal will now play host to the first concert on American pop superstar Katy Perry’s latest world tour on Sept. 19. Witness: The Tour was originally supposed to begin in Columbus, Ohio, on Sept. 7, with Montreal and Quebec City shows set for Sept. 9 and 10, respectively, but the 32-year-old singer took to her Instagram account to inform the masses that “unavoidable production delays” were to blame for the tour being slightly pushed back.
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• Crown says Montreal youth intent on waging jihad in Middle East

  13-09-2017 17:57 via globalnews.ca
  The Crown says a young Montreal couple was intent on answering the call from the Islamic State.
  
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• Montreal police ask for help finding missing teen girl - CBC.ca

  13-09-2017 17:49 via cbc.ca
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  Montreal police are asking for the public's help in locating a teenager they believe may be being held against her will. Sabrina Langlois, 16, was last seen between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Aug. 11 on Gouin Boulevard in Pierrefonds-Roxboro. Police say ...
  Girl in stable condition after collision with West Island trainCTV News
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• Dorval's $15.1 million offer for McConnell Woods not accepted

  13-09-2017 17:48 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Dorval will not be buying the McConnell Woods property.
  The $15.1 million offer the city made to acquire and preserve the McConnell Woods earlier this summer was not accepted by the seller.
  In a statement, the city said the “municipality received a written confirmation of the decision from the estate representative, which stipulates that the owner of this green space has decided to pursue other sale opportunities.”
  “We are deeply disappointed that our offer was not
  
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• Montreal police ask for help finding missing teen girl

  13-09-2017 17:47 via cbc.ca
  Montreal police are asking for the public's help in locating a teenager they believe may be being held against her will.
  
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• Dorval’s offer to purchase portion of McConnell Woods rejected

  13-09-2017 17:45 via globalnews.ca
  Dorval's offer of $15.1 million to purchase a portion of McConnell Woods has been rejected.
  
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• Montreal Alouettes fire head coach Chapdelaine, defence co-ordinator Thorpe

  13-09-2017 17:15 via globalnews.ca
  General manager Kavis Reed will serve as head coach until the end of the season.
  
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  13-09-2017 16:55
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• Video: @cookingwithv on teaching kids to cook and the art of eating btmontreal.ca/videos/teachin…

  13-09-2017 16:50
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• Montreal adds Iroquois symbol to flag, strips British general of street ... - CBC.ca

  13-09-2017 16:31 via cbc.ca
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  Montreal has added a white pine tree, a symbol of peace, to the centre of its coat of arms and city flag, in recognition of the contribution of Indigenous people to ...
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  Montreal's new flag includes representation of Indigenous peoplesMontreal Gazette
  'Goodbye Jeffery Amherst': Montreal is renaming a street named after a Briti
  
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• 'A different direction': Montreal Alouettes fire head coach Jacques Chapdelaine

  13-09-2017 16:17 via montrealgazette.com
  In a stunning turn of events, the Montreal Alouettes have fired head coach Jacques Chapdelaine and their defensive co-ordinator, Noel Thorpe.
  Chapdelaine confirmed his dismissal in a text message to the Montreal Gazette Wednesday morning.
  “I’m at home right now. I’ve been told they were going in a different direction,” Chapdelaine said. “You probably will get more info from the general manager.
  “I’m very much at peace with this situation.”
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• Montreal changes flag to honour Indigenous community

  13-09-2017 16:11 via globalnews.ca
  A new symbol has been added to the city of Montreal's flag to honour its Indigenous community.
  
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• Sanchez: Something had to give in Montreal - CFL.ca

  13-09-2017 15:59 via cfl.ca
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  Sanchez: Something had to give in Montreal
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  A move that surprised many but was a risk that general manager Kavis Reed and his staff felt they needed to take in order to right the ship in Montreal. “When you're the head coach and also the offensive coordinator and your team is in the bottom of ...
  
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• Divorce recovery workshop for women

  13-09-2017 15:59 via globalnews.ca
  Psychotherapist Vikki Stark joins Global’s Kim Sullivan to talk about “Jump Up,” a Montreal-based retreat for women recovering from divorce.
  
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• 17-year-old girl struck by train in Roxboro

  13-09-2017 15:59 via globalnews.ca
  A 17-year-old girl was hit by a train Tuesday afternoon at the Roxboro-Pierrefonds train station. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Fabrizio Cammarata sings at Pop Montreal

  13-09-2017 15:51 via globalnews.ca
  Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio Cammarata joins Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan to sing his new single “Long Shadows” and talk about his appearance at Pop Montreal.
  
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