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• Mayoral candidates take to neighbourhoods with their campaigns - Montreal Gazette

  30-09-2017 23:38 via montrealgazette.com
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  Mayoral candidates take to neighbourhoods with their campaigns
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  Incumbent Denis Coderre and Project Montréal leader Valérie Plante spent part of their day in Montreal-North borough. Coderre had eight campaign events, including stops at a organization that feeds and offers activities to the poor, a shopping centre ...
  
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• Mayoral candidates take to neighbourhoods with their campaigns

  30-09-2017 23:38 via montrealgazette.com
  The main mayoral candidates and political parties in the Montreal municipal election fanned out into the neighbourhoods for a low-key Saturday on the hustings.
  Incumbent Denis Coderre and Project Montréal leader Valérie Plante spent part of their day in Montreal-North borough.
  Coderre had eight campaign events, including stops at a organization that feeds and offers activities to the poor, a shopping centre and a Muslim community centre in Montreal-North, his home borough. 
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• Southwest Detour festival celebrates beginning of the end of construction on Notre-Dame St.

  30-09-2017 23:36 via cbc.ca
  The Southwest borough is hosting a festival called Detour, complete with orange cone artwork, orange cone cartoon characters and giant inflatable bowling pins.
  
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• Aspiring pro basketball players test their skills at NBA Jr. clinic in Montreal

  30-09-2017 23:22 via globalnews.ca
  It was a special day for a group of young Quebec high school athletes, who spent Saturday honing their basketball skills and being tested at a highly competitive camp.
  
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• Verdun residents clean up alleyway after animals reported poisoned in borough

  30-09-2017 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  Residents in Verdun gathered in an alleyway to clean up and weed out dangerous items, after reports that animals were being poisoned in the borough.
  
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• Pro- and anti-immigration protesters face off in duelling rallies near Lacolle border

  30-09-2017 22:43 via globalnews.ca
  In Quebec, about 200 members of Storm Alliance traded insults across a police line with a group of pro-refugee protesters outside the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle border station.
  
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• 3 arrests in Montreal linked to fentanyl raids - CTV News

  30-09-2017 22:38 via montreal.ctvnews.ca
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  3 arrests in Montreal linked to fentanyl raids
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  Montreal police made three arrests after conducting two raids in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. It follows an investigation that began in August after there were several cases of overdoses related to fentanyl. According to police heroin and what appears to be ...
  Montreal police arrest three in investigation of fetanyl overdosesMontreal Gazette
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• Pro and anti-immigration protesters face-off at Quebec border station

  30-09-2017 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  Pro-and anti-immigration protesters faced off in duelling rallies outside the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle border station on Saturday.
  
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• Sears closing store at Fairview Pointe-Claire mall

  30-09-2017 22:13 via cbc.ca
  Sears Canada has announced that it's closing 10 more stores across the country, including the location at Fairview Mall in Pointe-Claire.
  
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• Quebec separatists among observers for Catalan independence vote

  30-09-2017 21:05 via montrealgazette.com
  As Catalonian separatists vowed Saturday to ignore a police ultimatum to disband their occupation of schools to be used in a vote seeking independence from Spain, a group of separatist politicians from Quebec were among the international observers. 
  The police deadline of 6 a.m. Sunday for the activists, parents and children to vacate the occupied Catalan schools is designed to prevent the vote from taking place, since the polls are supposed to open three hours later.
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• Trois-Rivières seniors' residence offers free room and board for student volunteers

  30-09-2017 20:57 via cbc.ca
  The Résidence les Marronniers is looking to host two students for free in exchange for 40 hours of volunteering a month.
  
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• Far-right group, counter-protestors face off at Lacolle border crossing

  30-09-2017 20:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Police separated pro-and anti-immigration demonstrators at the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle border crossing Saturday afternoon, after the two groups chanted slogans and hurled insults at each other.
  The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) website indicated the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle border crossing was temporarily closed.
  About 100 right-wing protestors and a similar number of counter-demonstrators, including members of the Montreal-based refugee-support group Solidarity Across Borders, gathered at
  
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• Protesters temporarily shut Lacolle border crossing to traffic - CTV News

  30-09-2017 20:51 via montreal.ctvnews.ca
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  Protesters temporarily shut Lacolle border crossing to traffic
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  Riot police at the Lacolle border are poised to intervene if a planned demonstration by two opposing organizations devolves into violence. Solidarity Across Borders, a migrant justice network, arrived early Saturday morning, lining up along a stretch ...
  Far-right group, counter-protestors face off at Lacolle border crossingMontreal Gazette
  Lacolle border reopened protests by anti-racist, far-right groups dwindleCB
  
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• Montreal artists, doctors come together to help 5-year-old Syrian refugee with cancer

  30-09-2017 20:29 via cbc.ca
  The Maksouds have three children in all: Joully (13), Eliana (10) and George (5). They are learning French and trying to integrate into Quebec culture, all the while dealing with George's illness.
  
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• Biologists work to save Quebec’s ‘most urban’ snake as construction booms 

  30-09-2017 20:02 via globalnews.ca
  Brown snakes aren't venomous and they serve an important role in urban ecosystems by feeding on common garden pests.
  
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• Pierrefonds development project comes under fire by public consultation body

  30-09-2017 19:31 via cbc.ca
  The OCPM published a report on Friday, criticizing the project’s lack of transparency in terms of planning, and pointing out an overall lack of public consensus.
  
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• Laval police investigating set of suspicious fires

  30-09-2017 18:41 via globalnews.ca
  Laval police are investigating two overnight fires that officials have described as suspicious.
  
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• 3 arrested in connection with fentanyl raids in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

  30-09-2017 18:35 via cbc.ca
  Police say heroin and what appears to be fentanyl was seized during the raids.
  
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• Ultranationalists and anti-racist groups converge on Lacolle border crossing

  30-09-2017 18:17 via cbc.ca
  A heavy police presence is marking the area around the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Que., border crossing Saturday morning as anti-racist and far-right groups gathered to protest.
  
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• Lacolle border reopened protests by anti-racist, far-right groups dwindle

  30-09-2017 18:17 via cbc.ca
  Riot police held protesters back from clashing near the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Que., border crossing Saturday morning as anti-racist and far-right groups gathered to protest.
  
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• Shelter: Westmount apartment features unique handiwork

  30-09-2017 17:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Laurence Charest grew up in Westmount, but instead of going to university in Montreal, she headed to Los Angeles, where she earned a master’s degree in film production at the New York Film Academy.
  While studying on the Los Angeles campus of the school, she met her film producer fiancé, Ethen Maharaj.
  When Charest came back to Montreal, she started a company renting drones to television and film-production units. Unfortunately, while there was a need for such a service, her company
  
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• Electoral race heating up in bustling off-island suburb of Vaudreuil-Dorion

  30-09-2017 17:09 via globalnews.ca
  Election issues in Vaudreuil-Dorion are heating up between incumbent mayor Guy Pilon and candidate Pierre Séguin. The most contentious issues include urban planning, real estate and construction of the new city hall.
  
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• Lewis Hamilton nabs Malaysian GP pole position, Lance Stroll 13th

  30-09-2017 16:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s Lance Stroll endured a disappointing qualifying session on  Sepang International Circuit and will start in 13th position at tomorrow’s Malaysian Grand Prix. 
  Lewis Hamilton took pole position with another brilliant drive under pressure on Saturday, while title rival Sebastian Vettel’s miserable luck continued as he quit early in qualifying after losing power on a straight.
  Having struggled in all three practice sessions, finishing no higher than fifth, Merc
  
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• Buy, sell, drive model trains in support of Sun Youth this weekend

  30-09-2017 16:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Sun Youth is holding its annual model train show on Saturday and Sunday to raise funds for its sports and recreation programs.With dozens of exhibitors, the show, taking up the three floors of Sun Youth’s offices, features a huge collection of model railroads that children can operate. New for this year are original model railroads from the 1920s through the 1960s that depict the history of model railroads from 1890 onward.
  You can also buy and sell trains and browse new and used book
  
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• Kim Boutin wins silver at short track World Cup opener

  30-09-2017 16:17 via cbc.ca
  Kim Boutin of Sherbrooke, Que., had a successful start to the season, earning silver in the 1500-metre at the short track speed skating World Cup opener in Budapest, Hungary, on Saturday.
  
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• Dissolution of Quebec's ASSÉ student union could begin this weekend

  30-09-2017 16:15 via montrealgazette.com
  One of the more radical student groups in Quebec’s 2012 Maple Spring protests is at risk of folding.
  The Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante, or ASSÉ, formerly led by Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, now a Québec solidaire MNA, represents some 70,000 students, at the college and university levels.
  One of its member associations, representing CÉGEP students in Sherbrooke, intends to propose that it be dissolved.
  In a general meeting earlier this mont
  
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• ICYMI: The MTL International Black Film Festival is back for its 13th ed.! It features 66 films from 25 countries. ow.ly/RBBZ30fuiZC

  30-09-2017 16:00
  ICYMI: The MTL International Black Film Festival is back for its 13th ed.! It features 66 films from 25 countries. ow.ly/RBBZ30fuiZC
  
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• Montreal's Olympic Stadium is a site with heritage value: study

  30-09-2017 15:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s Olympic Stadium is a site with heritage value according to a study commissioned by Quebec’s Régie des installations olympiques (RIO).
  The study concludes that the Olympic Park, which is home to the stadium, is worthy of such designation due to its historical, architectural, urban and symbolic value. 
  “This study serves as a framework for our decisions regarding the maintenance of these sites,” RIO president Michel Labrecque said. “It’s a
  
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• Montreal food inspectors recall fruit, nut products sold online - CTV News

  30-09-2017 15:16 via montreal.ctvnews.ca
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  Montreal food inspectors recall fruit, nut products sold online
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  Quebec's Ministry of Agriculture and food inspectors for the city of Montreal have issued a tandem warning about certain fruit and nut products purchased from a food coop in St. Leonard. Both institutions are cautioning consumers to dispose of a number ...
  
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• Phishing scams texted to Montrealers pretend to be from city, SAAQ - CBC.ca

  30-09-2017 15:13 via cbc.ca
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  Phishing scams texted to Montrealers pretend to be from city, SAAQ
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  The City of Montreal and Quebec's automobile insurance board (SAAQ) are warning people that texts claiming to be from them may actually be lures from fraudsters. Both are telling people not to click on the link in texts appearing to be from them under ...
  
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• Wave of new phishing scams texted to Montrealers

  30-09-2017 15:12 via cbc.ca
  The City of Montreal and SAAQ are warning people that texts claiming to be from them may actually be lures from fraudsters.
  
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• Phishing scams texted to Montrealers pretend to be from city, SAAQ

  30-09-2017 15:12 via cbc.ca
  The City of Montreal and SAAQ are warning people that texts claiming to be from them may actually be lures from fraudsters.
  
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• Arson suspected in overnight fire in Laval

  30-09-2017 15:05 via montrealgazette.com
  An overnight fire at a hairdressing salon in Laval is being treated as suspected arson.
  Arson investigators were expected Saturday morning at the scene of the blaze at 1263 des Laurentides Blvd., said Lieutenant Michel Lamarre of Laval Police.
  The fire started Friday at 11:30 p.m. and heavily damaged the building in the Vimont neighborhood.
  No one was inside at the time of the fire.
  
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• The Week in Review: Costly exams, high-flying duties, invisible merger, red tape and legal pot

  30-09-2017 14:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Review of the top stories from the past week:
  Celine Cooper: Public high schools shouldn’t have costly entrance exams
  Like many parents with children in Grade 6 registered in Montreal’s English school system, I spent this past weekend shuttling around the island to a series of high school entrance exams and open houses.
  A group of us with kids in the same class embarked on this choosing-a-secondary-school adventure last year, when they were in Grade 5. Between us, we have done the to
  
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• Women of Quebec's far right come out of the shadows

  30-09-2017 14:06 via montrealgazette.com
  One is a hairdresser in Lévis who sometimes wears her Storm Alliance sweatshirt while clipping hair or dying it mermaid blue.
  A proud member of La Meute owns a restaurant in St-Paulin, in Mauricie, where she serves a $6.99 lunch special and karaoke on Saturday nights.
  Then there’s La Meute’s new secretary and accountant, from St-Jean-sur-Richelieu – the first woman to attend the group’s council meetings, even if it is just to take notes and pay the bills.
  The three
  
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• While you were sleeping: The Habs won a game and now anything's possible

  30-09-2017 13:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Also: Pandas! 
  Some said this day would never come. After an 0-6 start to the preseason, the Montreal Canadiens finally conjured a win. For those keeping score at home, it was 3-1 over the Florida Panthers at the Bell Centre. The new line of Paul Byron, Phillip Danault and Andrew Shaw accounted for all three Montreal goals. With the rending about the Habs never winning another game now over, we all return to the normal work of making Stanley Cup predictions. 
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• Shelter: Westmount apartment feature unique handiwork

  30-09-2017 13:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Laurence Charest grew up in Westmount, but instead of going to university in Montreal, she headed to Los Angeles, where she earned a master’s degree in film production at the New York Film Academy.
  While studying on the Los Angeles campus of the school, she met her film producer fiancé, Ethen Maharaj.
  When Charest came back to Montreal, she started a company renting drones to television and film-production units. Unfortunately, while there was a need for such a service, her company
  
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• Quebec mayors warn new rules for oil and gas exploration could imperil drinking water

  30-09-2017 13:00 via cbc.ca
  Quebec mayors and environmentalists say proposed new rules for oil and gas exploration and for pipelines fail to protect water sources — and they're urging the government to go back to the drawing board.
  
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• Habs' Torrey Mitchell living the dream playing for his hometown team

  30-09-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Torrey Mitchell has been fighting for his space on the ice for a long time. It started when he was a toddler in Greenfield Park and continues today as he aims to once again crack the opening night lineup for the Montreal Canadiens.
  
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• From the archives: Trafalgar school has long history

  30-09-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  This story was first published on Sept. 22, 2012, in the Montreal Gazette.
   “Yesterday, the Trafalgar Institute was informally opened for the reception of students,” The Gazette reported on Sept. 29, 1887. Alas, when the doors swung open, just one student was waiting to enter, a girl named Effie Baker.
  To be sure, a second girl arrived that evening from Toronto. A third enrolled before Christmas, and four more soon after.
  It was a hesitant beginning, but thus was born Trafalgar
  
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• Commentary: Louis-Hébert, the byelection that became a train wreck for two parties

  30-09-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – For sheer political antics and pratfalls, the byelection campaign in Louis-Hébert has been hard to beat.
  In fact, one theory about the rollercoaster campaign to replace Sam Hamad – who resigned in April under a cloud of ethical questions – has been that the whole thing was cursed from the get go.
  Sure, the race started in the conventional way in September. There was Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault holding an outdoor news conference
  
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