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• Adam Cohen a little overwhelmed by task of overseeing Leonard tribute

  18-09-2017 23:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Adam Cohen, like his father, Leonard Cohen, has a way with words, and he has a remarkably poetic way of talking about everyday life. But when asked during an interview Monday morning what the year since his dad’s death has been like, Adam doesn’t beat around the bush when trying to describe his life since Cohen Sr. died last Nov. 7.
  “It’s been terrible,” said Adam Cohen in a chat at the Musée d’art contemporain. “I’ve been irritable. They do
  
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• 5 Montrealers turn 100

  18-09-2017 23:49 via globalnews.ca
  Not one, but five seniors at Manoir de Casson in Montreal are celebrating their 100th birthdays. Global’s Anne Leclair meet the centenarians to share their stories.
  
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• Painted lady butterflies invade Quebec

  18-09-2017 23:43 via globalnews.ca
  The painted ladies are invading! Global’s Felicia Parrillo heads to the Montreal Insectarium to find out more about the colourful butterflies everyone is talking about.
  
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• Leonard Cohen tribute concert in Montreal

  18-09-2017 23:40 via globalnews.ca
  Musical icon and Montrealer Leonard Cohen is being celebrated, almost one year after his passing, with a tribute concert at the Bell Centre. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• Is DDO mayor Ed Janiszewski running again?

  18-09-2017 23:38 via globalnews.ca
  Residents in DDO are wondering if longtime mayor Ed Janiszewski will be throwing his hat into the ring for a 10th term. Global’s Dan Spector has the answer.
  
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• More corruption allegations for Quebec Liberals

  18-09-2017 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  There are more allegations of corruption in Quebec’s Liberal government, as the fall session begins at the National Assembly. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Dollard-des-Ormeaux has a mayoral race underway

  18-09-2017 23:34 via montrealgazette.com
  So far, there is a trio of candidates running for mayor in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, though potential candidates have until Oct. 6 to file their nomination papers for the Nov. 5 municipal election. 
  On Monday, Mayor Ed Janiszewski confirmed he is seeking re-election. He was first elected as a councillor in 1978 and then for his first term as mayor in 1984. He said he wanted to run again because “I still have ideas.” One priority for Janiszewski is to see De Salaberry Blvd. extended t
  
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• Painted lady butterflies experience remarkable migration to Montreal area

  18-09-2017 23:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The thousands of orange butterflies being spotted all over Montreal are simply on a rest stop as they make their way down south.
  And 99 per cent of them are painted ladies and not the monarch butterfly, said Maxim Larrivée of the Montreal Insectarium.
  There has been some confusion over what type of butterflies were being spotted because of the colour patterns, but there are clear differences between painted ladies and monarchs, said Stephanie Boucher, curator at McGill University’s
  
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• Montreal woman crochets for the homeless

  18-09-2017 23:03 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Sep 18: A West Island woman is using her passion for crocheting to help hundreds of homeless people. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, she’s using unexpected materials to bring her creations to life.
  
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• Police search for suspects after break-ins in Hampstead, Montreal West

  18-09-2017 22:54 via cbc.ca
  Montreal police are asking for the public’s help in finding suspects associated with about 20 break-ins and robberies in Hampstead and Montreal West in recent months.
  
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• Montreal elections 2017: Ed Janiszewski running for mayor of DDO again

  18-09-2017 22:07 via globalnews.ca
  Ed Janiszewski has announced he will be seeking a 10th term as mayor of Dollard-des-Ormeaux.
  
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• English CEGEPs react after PQ proposes to cut funding

  18-09-2017 21:56 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Sep 18: Director general of Dawson College, Richard Filion, talks to Global News senior anchor Jamie Orchard to discuss the Parti Québécois’ (PQ) proposal to cut funding to English CEGEPs, if elected.
  
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• Painted lady butterflies invade southern Quebec

  18-09-2017 21:51 via globalnews.ca
  Painted lady butterflies have invaded southern Quebec.
  
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• ‘Great Conversations’ with Peter Anthony Holder

  18-09-2017 21:41 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Sep 18: Montreal broadcaster Peter Anthony Holder, has just released his book,”Great Conversations.” As he tells Global News senior anchor Jamie Orchard, it features some of his favourite interviews.
  
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• Are humans to blame for the crazy weather?

  18-09-2017 21:41 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Sep 18: Top climate scientist Damon Matthews of Concordia University tells Global News senior anchor Jamie Orchard about the recent intense weather, and whether human activity can be blamed.
  
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• Montreal man comes home to find condo trashed after renting on HomeAway

  18-09-2017 21:24 via globalnews.ca
  A Montreal man is speaking out after he says his condo was damaged after renting it on HomeAway.
  
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• Man captured in Amber Alert charged with murder of son's mother

  18-09-2017 21:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Ugo Fredette, who was captured by police in Ontario during Friday’s Amber Alert, faces a charge of second-degree murder in the death of his son’s mother.
  Véronique Barbe was found dead in her home St-Eustache on Sept. 14 and an Amber Alert was issued that night for her missing six-year-old son. 
  Fredette is in hospital in Ottawa, where he was taken after a suicide attempt in prison over the weekend. He is to be moved to Quebec when his health allows. The son is in the cus
  
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• Two Canadians die in head-on car crash in Connecticut

  18-09-2017 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  Two 66-year-old Quebecers have died in a head-on crash in Farmington Connecticut.
  
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• Terror trial: Officers say they found bomb ingredients in shopping bag

  18-09-2017 20:57 via montrealgazette.com
  When RCMP officers raided El Mahdi Jamali’s family home in April of 2015, they found what was described Monday as some of the required ingredients to build a homemade bomb.
  Stuffed in the bottom corner of a closet in Jamali’s bedroom, inside a white Armani Exchange shopping bag, was a Dollarama bag containing a box of assorted hardware nails, two nine-volt batteries, four AA batteries, a tube of superglue and a roll of duct tape.
  A receipt found in the bag, dated Feb. 4, 2015, s
  
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• How not to carry wood: Laval driver fined for improperly loaded car

  18-09-2017 20:13 via montrealgazette.com
  A Laval motorist was stopped last Wednesday when police officers noticed he was driving with 16-foot-long pieces of lumber protruding from his passenger windows.
  Rather than placing the wood through his trunk and into the passenger compartment of his Honda Accord, the driver rolled down the rear windows and put the long pieces of wood across the doors. They were protruding several feet from either side of the vehicle when he was stopped on St-Martin Blvd. W.
  The driver, in his 40s, was going onl
  
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• Suspect in Quebec Amber Alert charged with killing boy’s mother

  18-09-2017 19:36 via globalnews.ca
  A 41-year-old man who was the subject of an Amber Alert involving his six-year-old boy has been charged in the slaying of the child's mother.
  
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• Anne-France Goldwater announces support for Projet Montréal's Valérie Plante

  18-09-2017 19:15 via cbc.ca
  Prominent Montreal lawyer Anne-France Goldwater, who was considering running for mayor last year, announced her support for Projet Montréal leader Valérie Plante early Monday.
  
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• Montreal’s only cereal bar set to open in Saint-Henri

  18-09-2017 19:11 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal is about to get what the owner says is its only cereal bar -- one of just a few operating in Canada.
  
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• Cereal bar takes Saint-Henri

  18-09-2017 19:05 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Sep 18: Montreal is about to get what the owner says is its only cereal bar — one of just a few operating in Canada. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Opinion: Quebec systemic discrimination and racism hearings should be open

  18-09-2017 18:24 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec inquiry on systemic discrimination and racism has yet to begin hearings, but what’s already apparent is that the Couillard government does not want the exercise to be transparent.
  When the consultation was announced in July, all Quebecers were urged to participate, with the hearings being touted as an occasion to find tangible and permanent solutions to the issues at hand. Now we learn that Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil and the Quebec Human Rights Commission have indic
  
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• Jewish General Hospital unveils new heart centre

  18-09-2017 18:24 via montrealgazette.com
  The Jewish General Hospital inaugurated a multidisciplinary heart centre on Monday that is expected to make pioneering advances in the field of cardiac imaging after receiving the largest single donation in its history.
  The Azrieli Foundation has donated $26 million to the centre named in honour of the late Montreal philanthropist David Azrieli. The largest previous donation to the Jewish General was $20 million to establish the Segway Centre.
  Health Minister Gaétan Barrette, who tou
  
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• Police looking for break-in suspects in Hampstead, Montreal West

  18-09-2017 18:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are seeking to identify suspects in connection with about 20 break-ins between June 3 and Sept. 7 in Montreal West and Hampstead.
  Police say the thieves work as a team, with one standing guard while another goes to ring the doorbell of a house. When nobody answers, one of the suspects goes to the back of the house to break in. He then goes to the front door to let his partner in. 
  The suspects are mainly stealing jewelry.
  The suspects are said to be between 18 and 23 years o
  
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• Daily Download - We find out why Google's parent company is looking to invest heavily in Lyft. https://t.co/wS3jxGf0Zz

  18-09-2017 18:05
  
  Daily Download - We find out why Google's parent company is looking to invest heavily in Lyft. https://t.co/wS3jxGf0Zz
  
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• Fournier denies police union chief Francoeur's corruption allegations

  18-09-2017 18:04 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Liberal House leader Jean-Marc Fournier is flatly denying allegations he was one of the two politicians targeted by a police investigation that Montreal police union chief Yves Francoeur alleges was blocked for political reasons.
  In a series of media interviews Monday, Fournier said the allegations made by Francoeur are “completely inaccurate,” and he is ready at any time to meet with the Sûreté du Québec to clear up any doubt.
  “I am frustrate
  
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• Maison Godefroi: the Cadillac of Montreal fashion

  18-09-2017 17:53 via globalnews.ca
  Maison Godefroi is a Montreal leather accessories company selling off the web and out of the trunk of their vintage Caddy.
  
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• 2 Quebecers identified as victims in Connecticut crash

  18-09-2017 17:44 via cbc.ca
  Local police on Monday identified the victims of a car crash in Farmington, Conn., last week as 66-year-old Réjean St. Pierre and 66-year-old Benoit Boislard. Both are from Quebec, but their hometowns are unknown.
  
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• Can’t Mess It Up! Cooking salmon to perfection btmontreal.ca/videos/cant-me…

  18-09-2017 17:17
  Can’t Mess It Up! Cooking salmon to perfection btmontreal.ca/videos/cant-me…
  
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• Ugo Fredette, suspect in Quebec Amber Alert, accused of second-degree murder in woman's death

  18-09-2017 17:12 via cbc.ca
  Ugo Fredette, arrested after a six-year-old Quebec boy went missing and Véronique Barbe was killed in Saint-Eustache last Thursday, has been charged with second degree murder.
  
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• Ugo Fredette, suspect in Quebec Amber Alert, accused of 2nd-degree murder in woman's death

  18-09-2017 17:12 via cbc.ca
  Ugo Fredette, arrested after a six-year-old Quebec boy went missing, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend Véronique Barbe, who was killed in Saint-Eustache last Thursday.
  
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• Montreal actor Frank Schorpion talks his 'crooked cop' role on @badbloodseries btmontreal.ca/videos/montrea…

  18-09-2017 17:12
  Montreal actor Frank Schorpion talks his 'crooked cop' role on @badbloodseries btmontreal.ca/videos/montrea…
  
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• Loved her on BT? Stream @CatClyde on Apple Music itunes.apple.com/ca/album/ivory… or Spotify open.spotify.com/artist/7oRT0oC… itunes.apple.com/ca/album/ivory…

  18-09-2017 17:11
  Loved her on BT? Stream @CatClyde on Apple Music itunes.apple.com/ca/album/ivory… or Spotify open.spotify.com/artist/7oRT0oC… itunes.apple.com/ca/album/ivory…
  
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• Search resumes for missing motorist who disappeared during Amber Alert

  18-09-2017 17:09 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec resumed its search Monday morning for Yvon Lacasse, a 71-year-old man who has been missing since his car was stolen at a highway rest area in Lachute during last Friday’s Amber Alert.
  Police suspect the father of the child who was the object of the alert made off with Lacasse’s 2006 Honda CRV.
  On Monday, police trained in search techniques were deployed along Highway 117 between Mont-Tremblant in the Laurentians and Rouyn-Noranda in Abitibi-T&
  
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• She's opening for Sixto Rodriguez tonight - Check out @CatClyde's intimate and acoustic performance from today's BT: youtube.com/watch?v=gJ9d3u…

  18-09-2017 17:07
  She's opening for Sixto Rodriguez tonight - Check out @CatClyde's intimate and acoustic performance from today's BT: youtube.com/watch?v=gJ9d3u…
  
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• Byelections to be held in October in Tory-held ridings in Quebec and Alberta

  18-09-2017 16:56 via globalnews.ca
  The votes in Sturgeon River-Parkland, Alta., and Lac-Saint-Jean, Que., will be held on Monday, Oct. 23.
  
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• Montreal police search for witness after Pointe-Saint-Charles stabbing victim dies

  18-09-2017 15:56 via cbc.ca
  A 26-year-old man was found covered in blood in the entrance of an apartment building on Mullins Street just before 2 a.m Monday, police said. His death is the 17th homicide on Montreal island in 2017.
  
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• Man found bloodied in Pointe-Saint-Charles apartment entryway dies in hospital

  18-09-2017 15:56 via cbc.ca
  Police say the 26-year-old victim was taken to hospital in critical condition with injuries that appeared to be caused by a sharp object or knife. He later died.
  
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• Charges dismissed against former Montreal blue collar union president

  18-09-2017 15:37 via montrealgazette.com
  A former president of Montreal’s blue collar union is calling for an end to the trusteeship of her local after charges of assault and intimidation against her have been dropped.
  In a statement made public Sunday, Chantal Racette, ex-head of Local 301 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), said a decision last Wednesday by the Crown not to proceed against her showed that “despite erroneous allegations easily leaked to the media” investigators had not been “duped
  
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• Drumming his way to celebrity

  18-09-2017 15:32 via globalnews.ca
  Celebrity drummer and percussionist Dahov joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about developing his career and a new line of his own percussion instruments.
  
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• Separating fact from fiction when you’re pregnant

  18-09-2017 15:21 via globalnews.ca
  Global News medical Expert Dr. Mitch Shulman joins Laura Casella to talk about a healthy lifestyle for women when they’re expecting: what to avoid and what’s acceptable.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Monday, September 18

  18-09-2017 15:18 via globalnews.ca
  Gloria Henriquez has Montreal’s weather forecast for Monday, September 18.
  
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