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• Review: Subtle touches in Opéra de Montréal's traditional Tosca

  17-09-2017 23:18 via montrealgazette.com
  As one of the perennials of the opera repertoire, Tosca reminds us anew of some telling detail with every responsible performance. Saturday at Place des Arts, we could appreciate the hypocrisy as well as the villainy of Scarpia, who for a moment or two distracts even the upright actress of the title with his suave manner.
  It took an authoritative blend of focused tone and polished phrasing from the Canadian baritone Gregory Dahl, an Opéra de Montréal regular, to convey this nuance
  
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• Redblacks 29, Alouettes 11: Coaching shakeup changes little for declining Als

  17-09-2017 23:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Before the Alouettes’ dynamic offence even got on the field Sunday afternoon, they already trailed by eight points.
  And things seemingly went downhill from there. So much for last Wednesday’s front-office purge that saw both head coach Jacques Chapdelaine and defensive co-ordinator Noel Thorpe fired.
  The Ottawa Redblacks took the opening possession and engineered a 15-play, 85-yard drive to open the scoring — yes, an unheard-of 15-play drive in the Canadian Football League.
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• It's a bird, it's a plane, no it's not Superman: It's another CF-18 flyover at Molson Stadium

  17-09-2017 22:41 via montrealgazette.com
  On Sunday, the Montreal Alouettes-Ottawa Redblacks CFL game will have a little something extra for the fans. But be ready around game time. It probably will be over in a few seconds.
  In honour of the Canadian Armed Forces, two CF-18 aircraft will twice overfly Molson Stadium. It’s is a nod to the history of the Ottawa team that was named after the 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron, the first French-Canadian Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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• Hockey fever takes over Montreal at Canadiens annual preseason scrimmage

  17-09-2017 21:22 via globalnews.ca
  Hockey fever is alive and well in Montreal, judging by the number of fans who showed up for some preseason fun with the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre on Sunday.
  
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• West Island woman crochets plastic bags into mats for homeless

  17-09-2017 21:12 via globalnews.ca
  A West Island woman collects plastic bags so she can re-purposes them into pillows and mats for the homeless.
  
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• 'My heart always flutters': Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue joins fight to preserve monarch butterflies

  17-09-2017 21:00 via cbc.ca
  In the last 20 years, the monarch butterfly population has plummeted by 90 per cent, often due to pesticides, loss of habitat and pollution.
  
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• Father of boy who was subject of Amber Alert taken to hospital

  17-09-2017 20:59 via montrealgazette.com
  A man who was arrested after police found his six-year-old son, who had been the subject of an Amber Alert, has been taken to hospital.
  The boy vanished from St-Eustache on Thursday and his father was apprehended in Ontario nearly 24 hours later. By then, the body of the boy’s mother had also been discovered in the family home.
  Ontario Provincial Police say the man suffered injuries that required medical assessment and he was sent to hospital Saturday.
  The man appeared by videolink earlier
  
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• Update: Police seeking potential witness in search for Yvon Lacasse

  17-09-2017 20:58 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec is asking the public’s assistance in locating a missing 71-year-old Lachute man who owned one of the vehicles driven in the abduction of a six-year-old boy on Thursday. It was one of the longest Amber Alerts in Quebec history.
  Yvon Lacasse owned the grey Honda CR-V in which the boy was found safe on Friday. A 41-year-old man was arrested at the same time by Ontario Provincial Police. It was the third vehicle used by the 41-year-old since the ab
  
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• CF-18 flyby this afternoon above Percival Molson Stadium twitter.com/mtlalouettes/s…

  17-09-2017 20:32
  CF-18 flyby this afternoon above Percival Molson Stadium twitter.com/mtlalouettes/s…
  
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• CHUM opens doors for official inauguration of its downtown hospital complex

  17-09-2017 20:11 via montrealgazette.com
  After a year of construction delays, the new French-language hospital held its official inauguration Sunday, taking journalists and politicians for a grand tour of the modern facility, exactly three weeks before the first batch of patients are to be transferred there.
  On Oct. 8, about 160 to 170 patients will be moved through a corridor from St-Luc Hospital on René-Lévesque Blvd. to three, 25-storey buildings on St-Denis St. and Viger Ave. The move will be gradual, with the last pa
  
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• Alouettes' revamp continues with addition of 2 coaches

  17-09-2017 19:37 via cbc.ca
  The Montreal Alouettes added two coaches to their staff on Sunday, bringing in Kit Lathrop as their defensive line coach and Ken Miller as an offensive consultant.
  
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• Alouettes' coaching changes not enough to spark offence

  17-09-2017 19:37 via cbc.ca
  Diontae Spencer returned a missed field goal for a touchdown as the visiting Ottawa Redblacks defeated the Montreal Alouettes 29-11 on Sunday to take top spot in the CFL's East Division.
  
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• CF-18 flybys happening at 1pm over Percival-Molson Stadium for the @MTLAlouettes game! https://t.co/MDGv9NsfeB

  17-09-2017 18:00
  
  CF-18 flybys happening at 1pm over Percival-Molson Stadium for the @MTLAlouettes game! https://t.co/MDGv9NsfeB
  
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• SQ seek important witness in connection with disappearance of Yvon Lacasse

  17-09-2017 17:37 via globalnews.ca
  The SQ is asking for the public's help in locating a motorcyclist who is being described as an important witness in connection with the disappearance of 71-year-old Yvon Lacasse.
  
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• Important witness comes forward in connection with disappearance of Yvon Lacasse

  17-09-2017 17:37 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec provincial police have confirmed that a motorcyclist, deemed an important witness in connection with the disappearance of 71-year-old Yvon Lacasse, has been located.
  
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• 'I won't give up': Syrian woman creates doll to help kids raised in conflict

  17-09-2017 16:56 via cbc.ca
  After spending five years through the Syrian crisis, Micheline Youssef is hoping to make a doll especially for children living through war.
  
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• Lewis Hamilton wins Singapore GP, Montreal's Lance Stroll finishes 8th

  17-09-2017 16:44 via montrealgazette.com
  SINGAPORE – Lewis Hamilton profited from the chaos to win the Singapore Grand Prix and extend his championship lead on Sunday, while title rival Sebastian Vettel lost huge ground after crashing out on the first lap.
  Montreal rookie Lance Stroll finished eighth.
  Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo prevented a Mercedes 1-2 by finishing ahead of Valtteri Bottas, who placed third.
  Vettel can have little complaint as he seemed to cause the first-turn mayhem, despite starting from pole position. T
  
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• Jazz legend Oliver Jones gives another 'last' performance after community centre renamed in his honour

  17-09-2017 16:02 via cbc.ca
  Oliver Jones has performed around the world for the past 77 years — from Canada, to Nigeria, to Barbados — but he's never away from Little Burgundy for long.
  
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• ICYMI: Chef V & Rosemount student Samantha made poached pears in the BT kitchen. Samantha wowed us with her singing! ow.ly/uVIO30fbCCG

  17-09-2017 16:01
  ICYMI: Chef V & Rosemount student Samantha made poached pears in the BT kitchen. Samantha wowed us with her singing! ow.ly/uVIO30fbCCG
  
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• It's a bird, it's a plane, no it's not superman: It's another CF-18 flyover Molson Stadium

  17-09-2017 15:49 via montrealgazette.com
  On Sunday the Montreal Alouettes-Ottawa Redblacks CFL game will have a little something extra for the fans. But be ready around game time. It probably will be over in a few seconds.
  In honour of the Canadian Armed Forces, two CF-18 aircraft will overfly Molson Stadium twice. The flyover is a nod to the history of the Ottawa team who was named after the 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron, the first French-Canadian Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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• Fitness: How do you beat the post-marathon muscle blues?

  17-09-2017 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  So all-consuming is the task of training for and running 42 kilometres, most runners don’t think about the hours and days post race. Yet it’s well documented that the discomfort associated with running a marathon doesn’t disappear after crossing the finish line. In fact, most runners are still feeling the effects days later.
  Achy muscles, stiff joints and a loss of strength are all by-products of pushing your body beyond what it’s used to doing. Officially termed exercise
  
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• Fighting virtual fires prepares métro drivers for real emergencies

  17-09-2017 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  There’s a loud pop, and flames start shooting out of the back of the métro.
  The métro operator uses the loudspeaker to tell people to evacuate the train, and a current of air blows in the faces of passengers, to direct smoke away from them.
  After the passengers leave, the métro operator grabs a hose that is attached to the wall and sprays it in the direction of the flames.
  That’s the drill that has been worked out hundreds of times at the Société de
  
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• Witness comes forward as search continues for missing Quebec man linked to Amber Alert

  17-09-2017 14:57 via cbc.ca
  Provincial police say an important witness has come forward during their search for Yvon Lacasse, the missing 71-year-old man linked to a Quebec Amber Alert case.
  
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• 'We're searching with hope': Quebec man still missing after his truck connected to Amber Alert

  17-09-2017 14:57 via cbc.ca
  Police are asking volunteers to help them search for missing 71-year-old Yvon Lacasse, meanwhile the man found driving Lacasse's vehicle Friday is still in hospital after sustaining injuries while in custody for his involvement in an Amber Alert case.
  
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• Search for missing Yvon Lacasse resumes, father in Amber Alert case still in hospital

  17-09-2017 14:57 via cbc.ca
  Police are asking volunteers to help them search for missing 71-year-old Yvon Lacasse, meanwhile the man found driving Lacasse's vehicle Friday is still in hospital after sustaining injuries while in custody for his involvement in an Amber Alert case.
  
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• Search for missing man connected to Amber Alert continues as police urge witness to come forward

  17-09-2017 14:57 via cbc.ca
  Quebec provincial police are asking for the public's help in finding another important witness in connection with a Quebec Amber Alert case.
  
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• No sign of missing man connected to Amber Alert as police urge witness to come forward

  17-09-2017 14:57 via cbc.ca
  Quebec provincial police are asking for the public's help in finding another important witness in connection with a Quebec Amber Alert case.
  
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• While you were sleeping: French journalist back home after being detained, Serbia’s leader attends gay pride march for first time and more

  17-09-2017 14:37 via montrealgazette.com
  French journalist back home after being detained in Turkey: A French journalist who was detained for 51 days in Turkey on charges of aiding a terror group has returned to France, saying his sudden release came as a surprise. Loup Bureau, a 27 year-old freelance journalist, was arrested in southeastern Turkey on July 26 while reporting on Kurds living near the Iraqi border. He was freed Friday, the day after French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian met with Turkish President Recep Tay
  
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• Cozy Laurentians cabin features LEED efficiency with retro styling

  17-09-2017 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The environment and family are two causes that are linked and worth nurturing. This fact is what prompted Hershey and Renée Gillman to build their magnificent Laurentian lakeside retreat.
  LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a grading system that rates the environmental performance of a building.  It is used to measure whether a house meets the highest international rating standards in construction related to health and the environment. This state of the art home u
  
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• Pincourt seniors will soon have Meals-on-Wheels service

  17-09-2017 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Pincourt will soon have a Meals-on-Wheels service operating in the community.
  A home-delivery service of homemade meals will be available to seniors beginning in October, the town announced.
  The service is also available to people “with loss of autonomy, or those with temporary or permanent limitations.”
  Meals include soup, a main course and dessert. The meals cost $6 and are delivered on Mondays and Wednesdays, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
  People aged 70 and over who are registered fo
  
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• Quebec filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée wins 1st Emmy Award for Big Little Lies

  17-09-2017 13:00 via cbc.ca
  Jean-Marc Vallée has become a coveted director and producer in Hollywood.
  
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• Quebec filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée set to achieve new heights with 1st Emmy nomination

  17-09-2017 13:00 via cbc.ca
  His current project, working as director and executive producer HBO's Big Little Lies, has garnered him an Emmy nomination.
  
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• How Quebec filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée could win his 1st Emmy Award tonight

  17-09-2017 13:00 via cbc.ca
  His current project, working as director and executive producer HBO's Big Little Lies, has garnered him an Emmy nomination.
  
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• Disappearance of right whales from winter breeding grounds a mystery for scientists

  17-09-2017 13:00 via cbc.ca
  Scientists are at a loss to explain one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.
  
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• From the archives: Despair, guns (and murder?)

  17-09-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  This story was first published on Sept. 17, 2006, in the Montreal Gazette.
  “Official announcement of the new conditions of trading was made yesterday on the Montreal Stock Exchange.”
  The Gazette, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 1931
  On Sept. 21, 1931, in the depths of the Great Depression, Britain freed the pound from its ties to the gold standard. The action would lead, however indirectly, 10 months later to one of the enduring mysteries of St. James St., then the financial heart of Canada. It i
  
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• CF-18 jets took to the skies above Alouettes' game today

  17-09-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Montrealers were treated to another round of noisy bright red jets whirling above the Percival Molson Memorial Stadium today.
  
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• CF-18 jets to fly above stadium before Alouettes' game today

  17-09-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Montrealers should be prepared for another round of noisy bright red jets whirling above the Percival Molson Memorial Stadium today.
  
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• CF-18 jets take to the skies above Alouettes game

  17-09-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Montrealers were treated to another round of noisy bright red jets whirling above the Percival Molson Memorial Stadium today.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Beautiful night turns ugly for Impact at Saputo Stadium

  17-09-2017 05:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Oh, to have been a fly inside Joey Saputo’s car during his ride home from Saputo Stadium Saturday night.
  The Impact owner must not be a happy man.
  Furious, in fact.
  The stage was set up perfectly for the Impact on an absolutely gorgeous, late-summer night in front of a sellout crowd of 20,801. During the national anthems, two fathers a couple of rows in front of the press box were standing with their young sons sitting on their shoulders. It was the type of summer night when longtime
  
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• Danladi caps Minnesota comeback in upset 3-2 win over fading Impact

  17-09-2017 05:54 via globalnews.ca
  Substitute Abu Danladi scored in the 89th minute as Minnesota United dealt the Montreal Impact's playoff hopes a body blow with a 3-2 victory before a sellout crowd of 20,801 at Saputo Stadium on Saturday night.
  
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• Danladi caps Minnesota comeback in 3-2 win over fading Impact

  17-09-2017 03:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Substitute Abu Danladi scored in the 89th minute as Minnesota United dealt the Montreal Impact’s playoff hopes a body blow with a 3-2 victory before a sellout crowd of 20,801 at Saputo Stadium on Saturday night.
  Blerim Dzemaili put Montreal ahead 2-1 in the 55th minute, but Christain Ramirez responded in the 68th and Danladi got the game-winner as he stepped around Laurent Ciman and beat Evan Bush with a blast from the right side.
  Patrice Bernier had the opening goal for Montreal (10-12-6)
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened in Montreal on Sept. 16

  17-09-2017 03:39 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal:
  Weekend Read: Vietnam Revisited
  More than four decades after the fall of Saigon, the most ambitious attempt ever made to capture the story on film is coming to PBS. Gazette columnist Jack Todd reveals his connection with the 18-hour documentary — and recalls his life-changing decision to desert the U.S. Army and flee to Canada.  Like some nightmarish, protean beast that refuses to be caged, the Vietnam War comes snarling back at
  
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• Man dies, another is in critical condition after accident near Mont-Laurier

  17-09-2017 03:01 via montrealgazette.com
  One man died and another is in critical condition in hospital after a serious accident on Route 309 near Mont-Laurier in the Laurentians.
  The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) received a call shortly after 6 a.m. Saturday after a car hit an electrical pole on the regional highway, known as Chemin de la Lièvre Sud.
  Investigators with the SQ were sent to the scene, where traces of skidding were visible.
  Sergeant Claude Denis said police are investigating different hypotheses, such a
  
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• A friend speaks out about Quebec man who sparked Amber Alert

  17-09-2017 02:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Stéphan Parent, a filmmaker who worked with the man arrested in Ontario for the kidnapping of a six-year-old boy, and who knew the man and his wife well, said no one could have predicted the tragic events even if everyone in their entourage hoped their unhealthy relationship would end.
  The day before the boy’s mother was killed, Parent spoke to the father whose actions sparked an Amber Alert that had police in two provinces on his trail.
  “He was going to couples therapy. The n
  
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• Montrealers protest violence against Rohingya Muslims

  17-09-2017 00:56 via globalnews.ca
  Dozens gathered in downtown Montreal Sunday afternoon to draw attention to the plight of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports they’re urging Canadians to step up and do more to help.
  
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• Montrealers bid final farewell to Gretta Chambers

  17-09-2017 00:55 via globalnews.ca
  Montrealers said goodbye to a well-known trailblazer Saturday. Gretta Chambers – the first female chancellor at McGill University – was laid to rest Saturday and as Global Phil Carpenter reports, her memory crosses a political divide.
  
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• Former McGill chancellor Gretta Chambers laid to rest

  17-09-2017 00:46 via globalnews.ca
  Gretta Chambers was a trailblazer, becoming McGill University's first female chancellor, a post she held from 1991 to 1999.
  
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