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• Pipers play last song as Ogilvy nixes decades-old tradition

  27-09-2017 23:56 via cbc.ca
  The skirling of bagpipes resonated for the last time through the five floors of downtown Montreal's Ogilvy department store as a longstanding tradition came to an end on Wednesday.
  
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• Anglos in exile: Will Quebecers who left ever come back?

  27-09-2017 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec premier Philippe Couillard has been urging “exiled” Anglophones to come home – but is it genuine, or a move to get more votes in the 2018 provincial elections? Global’s Anne Leclair finds out what English speakers who have left Quebec think.
  
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• Shrinebowl 2017 gets underway

  27-09-2017 23:49 via globalnews.ca
  The 31st Shrinebowl is raising money for the Montreal Shriners Hospital. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, it’s Concordia University versus Sherbrooke University this year.
  
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• Quebec fights back after Bombardier slapped with 219% duty

  27-09-2017 23:49 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec premier Philippe Couillard came out swinging after the U.S. Department of Commerce announced it would be slapping a 219 per cent duty on the sale of Bombardier C-Series jets to Delta Airlines. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Netflix to commit $500M over 5 years on new Canadian productions: sources

  27-09-2017 23:43 via cbc.ca
  Internet streaming service Netflix will spend at least half a billion dollars over the next five years to fund Canadian productions, CBC News has learned.
  
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• P.K. Subban says he would 'never' protest during national anthem

  27-09-2017 23:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Former Montreal Canadiens star P.K. Subban told the audience at a fundraiser in Nashville that he’d never kneel during pre-game anthems, Yahoo! Sports reports. 
  His comments were made on Tuesday at Zanies Comedy Club in Nashville, just days after Donald Trump criticized players who have been protesting police brutality and revoked the Golden State Warriors’ invitation to visit the White House as NBA champions. 
  Trump’s statement provoked an uproar in pro football and
  
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• No more bagpipers at Ogilvy

  27-09-2017 23:24 via globalnews.ca
  A 72-year tradition at Ogilvy is about to come to an end. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, the department store’s bagpipers played their last tune after parent company Holt Renfrew decided they were no longer needed.
  
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• MUHC fraud trial set for Jan. 8, 2019 — six years after arrests

  27-09-2017 23:15 via montrealgazette.com
  In what is shaping up to be one of the longest judicial proceedings in the province’s history, a Quebec Court judge on Wednesday set Jan. 8, 2019, as the start date for the so-called fraud trial of the McGill University Health Centre — more than six years after some of the accused were arrested.
  Already, one of the defence lawyers is planning to argue before the court on Nov. 15 that his client has faced unreasonably lengthy delays, and therefore, the charges against him should be st
  
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• Court authorizes new class action against Catholic congregation in Quebec

  27-09-2017 22:33 via globalnews.ca
  The decision overturns a 2015 Superior Court of Quebec ruling rejecting the class action request.
  
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• 31st Shrinebowl raises money for Shriners Hospital, battles bullying

  27-09-2017 22:01 via globalnews.ca
  The Shrinebowl football game is raising money for the Montreal Shriners Hospital.
  
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• Surprise, Montrealers: German retailer ranks Montreal as 13th best city in the world to drive in

  27-09-2017 21:55 via cbc.ca
  Calgary is the best Canadian city to drive in, according to a global ranking system devised by a German auto parts retailer.
  
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• As Uber threatens to leave, Montreal-born Téo plans to triple fleet to 350 taxis

  27-09-2017 21:49 via montrealgazette.com
  With Uber threatening to pack up and leave Quebec, Alexandre Taillefer is planning a major expansion of his Téo all-electric taxi service.
  On Wednesday, the entrepreneur who founded Téo in 2015, said he will more than triple the number of vehicles in the Téo fleet. It will have 350 cars within 18 months, up from the current 110 cars.
  He said the plan was already in the works before Uber’s threat, but he sees a greater opportunity now that Uber will either leave th
  
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• Man hit by vehicle on Highway 20 in Dorval

  27-09-2017 21:46 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 27: A man is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle on Highway 20 in Dorval. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, the driver fled the scene.
  
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• P.K. Subban says he'll 'never kneel' during U.S. anthem

  27-09-2017 21:41 via cbc.ca
  Nashville Predators defenceman P.K. Subban says he will not join athletes who kneel or otherwise protest during the U.S. national anthem. Yahoo Sports first reported Subban's comments, which were confirmed by the team in an email to The Canadian Press.
  
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• Quebec Court of Appeal allows man to pursue religious orders in class-action suit

  27-09-2017 21:40 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec Court of Appeal delivered a decision on Tuesday that will allow a man to pursue a class-action lawsuit against two Montreal-based religious organizations. The man alleges he was the victim of sexual abuse decades ago at the hands of a priest who served at St. Joseph’s Oratory and a religious brother who was his elementary school teacher. 
  The decision allows the plaintiff (whose identity is protected by a publication ban) to pursue legal action against the Oratoire Saint-Jo
  
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• Next municipal election will be referendum on baseball, Plante pledges

  27-09-2017 21:35 via montrealgazette.com
  It might seem early to talk about the 2021 municipal election, but Valérie Plante doesn’t think so.
  The mayoral hopeful made a pledge Wednesday that the next municipal election will have a question on the ballot asking Montrealers if they want to contribute public funds to the return of a professional baseball team.
  Plante, the leader of Projet Montréal, said her opponent has been negotiating behind closed doors with Major League Baseball for a team to return to Montreal, aft
  
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• U.S. political situation 'a little scary,' Habs' Mike McCarron says

  27-09-2017 21:02 via montrealgazette.com
  No NHL players have taken a knee during the playing of the U.S. national anthem, but that could change soon.
  Joel Ward, a black forward with the San Jose Sharks, told the San Jose Mercury News on Tuesday that he might follow players in the NFL and kneel during the anthem before games this season as a protest over social and racial injustice in the United States under President Donald Trump.
  “It’s definitely something I wouldn’t cross out,” Ward, a 36-year-old wh
  
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• Defendant in MUHC fraud trial seeks to have charges tossed

  27-09-2017 20:53 via cbc.ca
  Yohann Elbaz, one of five men facing charges in what one investigator called "the biggest case of corruption fraud in Canadian history," is seeking to have his case thrown out, citing the Jordan ruling which limits trial delays.
  
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• Montreal elections: The real 'winner' in this poll is indecision

  27-09-2017 20:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal mayoral candidates Denis Coderre and Valérie Plante are running neck and neck among decided voters, a Mainstreet/Qc125 survey suggests.
  But the real “winner” in the poll is indecision, with 41 per cent of respondents saying they have yet to make up their mind over who will get their vote in the Nov. 5 municipal election.
  The survey of 500 respondents conducted Sept. 20-22 found that incumbent Coderre had the support of 30 per cent of decided voters while Plante of Pro
  
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• Opinion: Canada needs to get ready for driverless vehicles

  27-09-2017 20:38 via montrealgazette.com
  The next revolution in transportation is around the corner and unless Canada accelerates, other jurisdictions will zoom by in the fast lane.
  Autonomous vehicles are ready to hit our roads and streets. To demonstrate the pressing need for action, last week senators swapped their parliamentary shuttle bus for a few laps around Parliament Hill in a driverless, steering-wheel-free bus. Rolling at a reduced speed of 10 km/h (the model can currently reach 30 km/h), the shiny red vehicle rang its very
  
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• Kevin Tierney: Lifetime achievement Oscar for Donald Sutherland is long overdue

  27-09-2017 20:30 via montrealgazette.com
  When the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced recently that Donald Sutherland would be the recipient of an Honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement, some of us felt a little like we did when Tim Raines was finally elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame: justified.
  Neither Raines nor Sutherland are Montrealers in the true sense of the word, but we continue to think of them as local heroes.
  Sutherland was one of the Expos’ biggest fans, a familiar f
  
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• No more bagpipers at downtown Montreal Ogilvy department store

  27-09-2017 19:49 via globalnews.ca
  A 72-year tradition at Ogilvy is about to come to an end.
  
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• Montreal elections 2017: Mayoral candidates debate on Focus Montreal

  27-09-2017 19:40 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal's municipal elections are underway. Have a question for the candidates in your riding? Let us know and we'll ask!
  
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• Metro eyes possible merger with Quebec-based pharmacy chain Jean Coutu Group

  27-09-2017 19:31 via globalnews.ca
  Metro announced Wednesday the pair are discussing a deal in which it would acquire Jean Coutu at a price of $24.50 per share, to be paid 75 per cent in cash and 25 per cent in shares.
  
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• No public money for a baseball stadium — unless Montrealers agree, Projet Montréal vows

  27-09-2017 19:21 via cbc.ca
  Projet Montréal Leader Valérie Plante says "not a penny" of public money will be spent on a new baseball stadium before the city's residents are consulted in a referendum — four years from now.
  
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• Montreal elections 2017: Questions from CDN–NDG residents

  27-09-2017 19:20 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 27: Municipal election campaigns are underway, and residents in the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough have a few things they want to ask the mayoral candidates.
  
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• Update: 'Quebec has been attacked' with Bombardier tariffs, Couillard says

  27-09-2017 19:17 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – A furious Premier Philippe Couillard has lashed out at news the United States has placed a 220-per-cent duty on imports of Bombardier’s CSeries, warning if Boeing wants a war, it’s got one now.
  And he called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to keep up the hard line with Boeing as it tries to sell its Hornet fighter planes to Canada at the same time as taking extreme steps to quash a competitor.
  As things stand, the premier said from now on Boeing products should not ev
  
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• Montreal elections 2017: Questions from Côte Saint-Luc residents

  27-09-2017 19:17 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 27: Residents in Côte Saint-Luc have a lot of questions for the mayoral candidates, leading up to the 2017 Montreal elections.
  
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• Gabrielle Shonk's album reflects bicultural heritage

  27-09-2017 19:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Many Montreal music fans got their introduction to Gabrielle Shonk at the k.d. lang concert at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier in early September, when the 29-year-old Quebec City singer-songwriter captivated the packed hall with her acoustic opening set.
  “It was amazing,” Shonk said in a recent interview at a vegetarian restaurant on St-Denis St. “It’s funny, because I didn’t really think of it ahead of time for some reason. It was a busy week, so I didn’t have time
  
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• Metro, Jean Coutu in talks to merge companies

  27-09-2017 19:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Metro Inc. (TSX:MRU) says it is “engaged in exclusive discussions” regarding a merger with Quebec-based pharmacy chain Jean Coutu Group (TSX:PJC.A).
  Metro announced Wednesday the pair are discussing a deal in which it would acquire Jean Coutu at a price of $24.50 per share, to be paid 75 per cent in cash and 25 per cent in shares.
  This price was established in “the course of negotiations” between the two firms ahead of a non-binding letter of intent dated Aug. 22, Metro a
  
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• Quebec premier calls for boycott of Boeing after Bombardier slapped with 219% duty

  27-09-2017 18:52 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's premier came out swinging against Boeing, following news the U.S. Department of Commerce is slapping a 219 per cent duty on the sale of Bombardier C-Series jets to Delta Airlines.
  
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• France leaves door open for Bombardier to join Siemens Alstom

  27-09-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  France is open to the possibility of expanding the rail combination between Siemens AG and Alstom SA to include Bombardier Inc., the Montreal trainmaker left on the sidelines of talks to create an industry champion to take on China.
  “If we can expand this global rail champion even more, to make it even more powerful faced with China and the U.S., then so much the better,” French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told reporters at a press conference in Paris Wednesday.
  The French a
  
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• Chance of severe thunderstorms, tornado in Montreal

  27-09-2017 17:59 via globalnews.ca
  After several days of heat, Montreal is facing the chance of severe thunderstorms and possibly even a tornado.
  
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• Montreal police on the lookout for homicide suspect

  27-09-2017 17:54 via globalnews.ca
  A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for 27-year-old Régino Magloire.
  
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• Hunting may be legal in West Island park, but residents worry about public safety

  27-09-2017 17:54 via cbc.ca
  Hunting is legal on the island of Montreal, and some hunters have taken to stalking deer in the l’Anse-à-l’Orme nature park.
  
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• Boeing/Bombardier trade war could have ramifications for Belfast economy

  27-09-2017 17:37 via globalnews.ca
  Yards from what is left of the giant Belfast shipyard that built the Titanic, the last remaining jewel in Northern Ireland’s industrial crown – a cutting-edge Bombardier wing factory – is in danger of being crushed by a far-off trade war. Hayley Dunne, director of public affairs for Bombardier’s Ireland operations, said any blow to...
  
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• Valcartier vet with prosthetic leg wins silver medal at Invictus Games

  27-09-2017 17:31 via cbc.ca
  Étienne Aubé's golf swing won him a silver medal at the Invictus Games, an accomplishment the Canadian military veteran credits to his state-of-the-art prosthetic leg.
  
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• Retired Valcartier combat engineer with prosthetic leg wins silver medal at Invictus Games

  27-09-2017 17:31 via cbc.ca
  Étienne Aubé's golf swing won him a silver medal at the Invictus Games, an accomplishment the Canadian military veteran credits to his state-of-the-art prosthetic leg.
  
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• Montreal police search for suspect in 2014 Plateau homicide

  27-09-2017 17:23 via cbc.ca
  Montreal police are seeking the public's help in finding the main suspect in a deadly 2014 shooting at a bar on Parc Avenue in the Plateau-Mont-Royal.
  
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• Shawn Phillips releases new album

  27-09-2017 17:16 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 27: Singer/songwriter Shawn Phillips joins Laura Casella to talk about his longtime popularity in Quebec and his latest album, “Continuance.”
  
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• Severe thunderstorm watch issued at tail end of heat wave

  27-09-2017 17:07 via montrealgazette.com
  The good news is the extreme heat warning Montrealers woke up to on Wednesday morning will probably be lifted Wednesday afternoon.
  The bad news is we’ll probably have to endure a severe thunderstorm before we get there.
  The cooler temperatures expected later Wednesday are forecast to push a string of thunderstorms ahead of them before they get here.
  Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm watch at a little before 10 a.m. Wednesday for the areas of Châteauguay—La Prairie
  
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