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• Officials promising to finish Batshaw homes for at-risk youth in Beaconsfield by fall 2018

  04-10-2017 23:48 via globalnews.ca
  A spokesperson for the West Island Public Health Agency says Batshaw will be delivered by Fall 2018.
  
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• Montreal elections 2017: Jean Fortier on why he wants to be mayor

  04-10-2017 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  Global News Montreal Senior Anchor Jamie Orchard speaks to Montreal mayoral candidate Jean Fortier about his campaign and what he wants to do for the city.
  
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• Tomorrow on #BTMTL: Blogger @ByAngelaPrice joins us in the BT kitchen to whip up some hockey season snacks! https://t.co/ZGKXWieZWX

  04-10-2017 23:30
  
  Tomorrow on #BTMTL: Blogger @ByAngelaPricejoins us in the BT kitchen to whip up some hockey season snacks! https://t.co/ZGKXWieZWX
  
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• Construction on Batshaw buildings in Beaconsfield

  04-10-2017 23:14 via globalnews.ca
  New buildings that were supposed to open in Beaconsfield to house troubled teens have stood empty for over a year, but it seems there’s now a plan to get things up and running. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• Woman dead, SQ officer shot near Montreal

  04-10-2017 23:13 via globalnews.ca
  One woman is dead and a Quebec provincial police officer is in hospital after being shot at a home in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Tomorrow on #BTMTL: City health expert Bryce Wylde @WyldeOnHealth gives us tips on how to stay healthy during the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-10-2017 23:00
  Tomorrow on #BTMTL: City health expert Bryce Wylde @WyldeOnHealthgives us tips on how to stay healthy during the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Quebec port business at risk without new icebreakers, documents warn

  04-10-2017 23:00 via cbc.ca
  If the federal government doesn’t quickly update its icebreaker fleet it could face considerable economic problems, including the port of Montreal losing container service to competitors in the U.S., according to internal documents viewed by Radio-Canada.
  
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• As SQ investigates, TVA suspends Luc Lavoie over "hunting separatists" comment

  04-10-2017 22:43 via montrealgazette.com
  TVA says commentator Luc Lavoie will not return to the network until the Sûreté du Québec looks into complaints about his desire to “hunt separatists.”
  The Parti Québécois has denounced the comment, which also caused an uproar on social media, with some calling for a boycott of TVA and Videotron, a sister company that provides cable and Internet service.
  TVA and Videotron are owned by Quebecor. The company’s chief executive is former PQ leader
  
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• UPDATED: Quebec wants bigger chunk of federal marijuana excise tax

  04-10-2017 22:41 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – Left holding the bag on the costs of implementing the policy, Quebec says it wants more than 50 per cent of potential cannabis excise tax revenues.
  “It won’t be 50-50,” Quebec Finance Minister Carlos Laitão told reporters on his way out of a cabinet meeting. “This is just the opening shot. It will not be that at the end of the day.”
  A cautious Leitão refused to say what level of revenue will satisfy Quebec, noting that the actual price p
  
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• Montreal elections: Coderre, Plante to debate in English Oct. 23

  04-10-2017 22:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Incumbent mayor Denis Coderre and challenger Valérie Plante of Projet Montréal will face off in the only English-language debate of the municipal election campaign Oct. 23.
  The debate, presented by the Montreal Gazette, CTV Montreal and CJAD 800, will take place at Oscar Peterson Hall on the Loyola Campus of Concordia University at 7 p.m. The sole French-language mayoral debate, hosted by the Chambre de commerce du Montréal métropolitain, takes place on Oct. 19.
  
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• Montreal elections: Projet Montréal vows to transform pool, parking lot into Mount Royal paradise

  04-10-2017 22:13 via montrealgazette.com
  It has been sitting empty for four years, but a little-known outdoor pool near the Royal Victoria Hospital should become a haven for families living downtown, Projet Montréal says.
   “We’ve already promised to green the mountain by planting trees, and this morning we are pledging to make it more of a family environment,” Projet Montréal leader Valérie Plante said at the Peel St. entrance to Mount Royal Park on Wednesday morning. “We want to make a
  
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• Montreal’s new French-language superhospital preps for major patient transfer

  04-10-2017 22:09 via globalnews.ca
  Saint-Luc Hospital is the first of three hospitals to be incorporated into the new hospital.
  
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• Kevin Tierney: Monique Simard is a champion of Quebec culture

  04-10-2017 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The expression goes: If you are the smartest person in the room, you should change rooms.
  If that were true, Monique Simard, president and executive director of the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles du Québec (SODEC), would lead a lonely life.
  She doesn’t. Instead, she oversees every major cultural issue in Quebec to fulfil SODEC’s mandate to champion cultural enterprises across the province, as well as promoting those enterprises in the
  
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• Quebec passes unanimous motion condemning Spain’s ‘authoritarianism’ over Catalonia

  04-10-2017 21:58 via globalnews.ca
  The motion also called for Spain and its restive Catalonia region to engage in dialogue.
  
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• Global Montreal visits Cégep de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu

  04-10-2017 21:58 via globalnews.ca
  Videojournalist David Sedell presented at Cégep de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu as part of the advanced-level English course’s media unit.
  
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• Denis Coderre pledges to study ‘wet shelter’ for homeless alcoholics

  04-10-2017 21:45 via globalnews.ca
  A wet shelter would focus on harm reduction similar to safe injection sites for drug users now operating in the city.
  
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• Montreal Olympic Park unveils plaza honouring gymnast Nadia Comaneci

  04-10-2017 21:42 via montrealgazette.com
  A plaza named after Nadia Comaneci, the Romanian gymnast and runaway star of Montreal’s 1976 Olympic Games, was inaugurated at the Olympic Park on Wednesday.
  Place Nadia Comaneci occupies the area formerly known as the Place des vainqueurs, between the Biodôme and the Olympic Stadium’s tower. It has recently undergone a $1.4 million renovation. 
  The unveiling of Place Nadia Comaneci comes as the World Gymnastic Championships take place at the Olympic Stadium through Oct. 8
  
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• Pat Hickey: Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin expects more offence this season

  04-10-2017 21:41 via montrealgazette.com
  With another NHL season underway, general manager Marc Bergevin said there’s little margin for error as the Canadiens pursue a playoff berth.
  “When I started scouting, I’d pull out the schedule and say there’s a stretch where we should be able to get some points,” said Bergevin. “Those days are long gone. There are no easy games anymore.
  “Obviously (goaltender Carey Price) is a big part of our team, but we need 20 guys pulling together every night,&rdquo
  
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• Laval city council meeting held Wednesday as blue-collar workers stage quieter protest

  04-10-2017 21:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval’s city council managed to hold its monthly meeting Wednesday afternoon, a day after the session was suspended because of a loud protest by hundreds of blue-collar workers.
  On Wednesday morning, the city sent the workers’ union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, a legal letter demanding that its members “exercise their freedom of expression in such a way that the council meeting can be held, with democracy and the law respected.”
  In the end, though dozens of bl
  
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• Quebec government to review format of controversial systemic racism consultations

  04-10-2017 21:39 via globalnews.ca
  pposition parties have said the process amounts to putting Quebecers on trial.
  
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• Evacuation of downtown Trois-Rivières over, packages found to be harmless

  04-10-2017 21:29 via cbc.ca
  Hundreds of employees and residents were asked to leave the town's main street, home to numerous restaurants and other businesses, while police investigated.
  
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• Fashion for a cause with @RipTheRunwayMTL btmontreal.ca/videos/6th-edi…

  04-10-2017 21:25
  Fashion for a cause with @RipTheRunwayMTL btmontreal.ca/videos/6th-edi…
  
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• Men on trial for Lac-Mégantic disaster 'co-operated entirely with police,' jury hears

  04-10-2017 21:00 via cbc.ca
  A provincial police investigator sent to Lac-Mégantic after the fatal train wreck says the conductor of the runaway train, Thomas Harding, and the railway's operations manager, Jean Demaitre, went out of their way to help police in the hours after the 2013 tragedy.
  
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• What's your favourite apple? Chef Natalia Machado from @AtelierArgentin reveals hers! btmontreal.ca/videos/thanksg…

  04-10-2017 20:55
  What's your favourite apple? Chef Natalia Machado from @AtelierArgentin reveals hers! btmontreal.ca/videos/thanksg…
  
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• The show must go on: Emotional Céline Dion returns to Vegas stage after 'nightmare' shooting

  04-10-2017 20:51 via cbc.ca
  A sombre Céline Dion returned to her Las Vegas residency Tuesday night, less than 48 hours after the deadly shooting that saw 58 people killed and more than 500 injured just a few kilometres down the road.
  
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• David Rodrigue is celebrating 25 years at @ZooEcomuseum btmontreal.ca/videos/celebra…

  04-10-2017 20:25
  David Rodrigue is celebrating 25 years at @ZooEcomuseum btmontreal.ca/videos/celebra…
  
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• Quebec TV personality out of a job after saying he'd like to 'hunt separatists'

  04-10-2017 20:21 via cbc.ca
  Political analyst Luc Lavoie has been pulled from the airwaves, his employer says, while police look into a comment he made during an on-air discussion about the legality of hunting squirrels in Quebec.
  
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• Quebec truckers face charges after allegedly trying to bring 11 people over border

  04-10-2017 20:03 via globalnews.ca
  The truckers were stopped at the Ambassador Bridge crossing into Ontario while carrying a load of produce.
  
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• Meet Montreal power couple Victoria and Olivier Kult btmontreal.ca/videos/keeping…

  04-10-2017 19:55
  Meet Montreal power couple Victoria and Olivier Kult btmontreal.ca/videos/keeping…
  
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• Quebec wants Netflix to pay provincial sales tax

  04-10-2017 19:49 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's National Assembly has unanimously backed a motion requiring all foreign web-based companies to collect the QST. Peter Simons, president of the retail giant Simons, agrees it's only fair and sensible.
  
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• The new @NHL season begins today! Who better to preview the #Habs season than Sportsnet's @RealKyper?! btmontreal.ca/videos/new-nhl…

  04-10-2017 19:25
  The new @NHL season begins today! Who better to preview the #Habs season than Sportsnet's @RealKyper?! btmontreal.ca/videos/new-nhl…
  
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• Montreal elections 2017: Mayor Denis Coderre reflects on last four years

  04-10-2017 19:14 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal mayor Denis Coderre joined Global's Jamie Orchard to discuss his hopes for re-election.
  
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• Projet Montréal vows to transform pool, parking lot into Mount Royal paradise

  04-10-2017 19:10 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s been closed for four years, but a little-known outdoor pool behind the Royal Victoria Hospital should become a haven for families in the summer, Projet Montréal says.
   “We’ve already promised to green the mountain by planting trees and this morning, we are pledging to make it more of a family environment,” Valérie Plante said. “We want to make a park where, right now, there is a parking lot.”
  Plante said her party will negotiate with Mc
  
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• Montreal wants in on marijuana tax, Coderre reminds Quebec, feds

  04-10-2017 19:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Less than a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Ottawa was prepared to split a $1 excise tax on legal marijuana with the provinces, Mayor Denis Coderre on Wednesday reiterated his demand that Montreal is entitled to its share of any revenue.
  “I understand that Prime Minister Trudeau was talking about the issue of marijuana,” Coderre said during a meeting of the city’s executive committee. “That there could be a tax, we’re talking $1, and it would be (s
  
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• Terror trial: Jury shown search history on computer in arrested couple's condo

  04-10-2017 19:09 via montrealgazette.com
  “What does the RCMP do?”
  That is the question typed into an Internet search engine on a computer seized by police at the Montreal condo rented by Sabrine Djermane and El Mahdi Jamali after they were arrested, in April 2015, by the Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams (led by the RCMP) on terrorism charges. 
  RCMP Corporal Maryse Robert told the jury hearing the couple’s trial at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday that her analysis of the computer showed someone
  
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• Bill Clinton and Jean Chrétien join up for talk in Montreal today

  04-10-2017 19:00 via cbc.ca
  Follow a live blog here starting shortly before 5 p.m. between the former U.S. president and former Canadian prime minister.
  
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• Quebec premier casts doubt on future of consultations on systemic racism

  04-10-2017 18:36 via cbc.ca
  The Couillard government will reconsider the province’s consultations on systemic racism, after some of his MNAs said the controversy surrounding them contributed to their party’s painful byelection defeat in Louis-Hébert Monday.
  
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• Laval cancels council meeting due to loud blue-collar protest

  04-10-2017 18:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval city council will try again to hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday after the previous night’s session was called off because of a loud protest by blue-collar workers.
  Dozens of disgruntled workers, some of them blowing whistles and horns, held a protest outside Laval city council Tuesday evening, as riot police looked on. The protesters, who have been without a contract since January 2016, were also reportedly equipped with a public address system.
  Laval Mayor Marc Demers
  
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• NHL primer: What to watch for this season

  04-10-2017 18:23 via cbc.ca
  Can anyone stop Sidney Crosby and the Penguins from three-peating? Which Canadian teams will contend for the Cup? Where will John Tavares end up? These are just some of the burning questions we're pondering as the puck drops on the 2017-18 NHL season.
  
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• Construction firm on Montreal blacklist after deadlines ignored

  04-10-2017 18:18 via montrealgazette.com
  A construction firm contracted to work on public areas outside the Musée des Beaux-Arts and Concordia University last year has been placed on a blacklist for two years after it repeatedly missed deadlines, was unable to organize its work site or deal with sub-contractors, the city of Montreal announced Wednesday.
  Catalogna et Freres Ltd. will still be able to bid on city contracts for the next two years, but the city will have the power to ignore those bids — even if they are the lo
  
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• False alarm rattles John Abbott College as police respond to report of armed man

  04-10-2017 18:15 via montrealgazette.com
  What police are describing as “twisted information” led to a major police response at John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Wednesday morning.
  Police went to the West Island CEGEP after being told that a suicidal and possibly armed individual was on the campus and ordered a partial evacuation of the school as part of their search.
  However their investigation quickly found that the individual in question, who had uttered reportedly suicidal thoughts a week earlier, was not an
  
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• 'We have to be neutral': Canadian Forces warns members affiliated with radical groups

  04-10-2017 18:05 via cbc.ca
  The Canadian Armed Forces is warning its personnel to be wary of associating with groups on social media, including Quebec's largest and most prominent far-right group.
  
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• 'We have to be neutral': Canadian Forces warn members affiliated with radical groups

  04-10-2017 18:05 via cbc.ca
  The Canadian Armed Forces are warning their personnel to be wary of associating with groups on social media, including Quebec's largest and most prominent far-right group.
  
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• Jagmeet Singh names Quebec MP Guy Caron as parliamentary leader

  04-10-2017 17:54 via cbc.ca
  Despite a last-place finish during the leadership race, Quebec MP Guy Caron will be the NDP's point man in the House of Commons, new party leader Jagmeet Singh said today.
  
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• Quebec will rethink systemic racism hearings, Couillard says

  04-10-2017 17:53 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Stung by Monday’s electoral defeat, Premier Philippe Couillard says the government is rethinking the idea of holding hearings this fall into systemic racism.
  Conceding the controversial idea of the hearings was a factor in the Liberal’s electoral defeat Monday in the riding of Louis-Hébert, Couillard said he and the caucus will be discussing the process already set out.
  Couillard said the goal of fighting systemic racism remains. It’s how to get there that
  
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• Less than 50% of reported sexual assaults make it to court: StatsCan

  04-10-2017 17:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Less than half of sexual assault cases reported to police have actually been brought before the justice system, an analysis made public Tuesday by Statistics Canada suggests.
  A six-year study spanning 2009-2014 found that criminal charges were filed in only 41 per cent of sexual assault complaints made to Canadian police forces.
  Statistics Canada also notes that its analysis focuses only on those assaults reported to police by an alleged victim and deemed to be founded by authorities — 117
  
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• Murdoch Mysteries' Yannick Bisson raises a glass to the detective show's 11th season

  04-10-2017 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The second episode of Murdoch Mysteries’ 11th season, which aired Monday on CBC, must have sent shock waves through its community of aficionados — even more so than the season première, wherein beloved but jailed gumshoe William Murdoch had to prove his innocence against bogus murder charges.
  It seems the erudite and dashing detective has a major failing: he is mystified by the world of wine. The makers of the series uncorked a crackerjack episode in which a wealthy oenophile
  
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• Parti Québécois blasts TV commentator who suggested hunting separatists

  04-10-2017 17:19 via globalnews.ca
  Luc Lavoie has since apologized after the comments caused an uproar on social media.
  
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• Celine Dion donates proceeds from Las Vegas show to shooting victims’ families

  04-10-2017 16:55 via globalnews.ca
  “On Sunday we lost too many beautiful, innocent souls and many are still suffering," Celine Dion said.
  
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