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• NDG woman fighting to keep city from cutting trees on her property

  13-10-2017 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  An NDG woman is fighting to keep a Maple on her property from being cut down by the city. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, the city has already removed one tree from her yard saying it was unhealthy and a safety hazard because of its proximity to hydro lines.
  
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• Quebec floods: Pierrefonds home torn down

  13-10-2017 23:48 via globalnews.ca
  It’s been five months since the spring floods in Quebec and many victims are still dealing with the aftermath. As Global’s Phil Carpenter reports, one Pierrefonds family is moving forward, but it hasn’t been easy.
  
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• 5 Montreal stories you must read this week: October 13

  13-10-2017 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  From Couillard's cabinet shuffle and appointment of an Anglo affairs minister, to a West Island woman making quilts for foster children, here are the biggest stories Global News covered in Montreal this week.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Alex Galchenyuk becomes 'ball of confusion' with Canadiens

  13-10-2017 23:36 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens did not bring out their famous torch during the pre-game ceremonies for the home opener Tuesday night at the Bell Centre.
  You know, “from failing hands” and all that stuff going back to the Canadiens’ glory days.
  Former Canadien Chris Nilan thinks that was a mistake.
  “I’d take the torch and light (Alex Galchenyuk’s) ass on fire … that’s what I’d do,” Nilan said on this week’s HI/O Show on the Montreal Gazette’
  
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• Montreal elections 2017: Combating voter apathy

  13-10-2017 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  Turnout for municipal elections is typically low, but as Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports, Election Montreal is hoping an advertising blitz will help change that.
  
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• NDG woman fighting to save her maple tree

  13-10-2017 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  An NDG woman is fighting to keep a Maple on her property from being cut down by the city.
  
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• Montreal elections 2017: Are parties making unrealistic promises?

  13-10-2017 23:29 via globalnews.ca
  Justine McIntyre, leader of Vrai Changement pour Montreal, is accusing other parties of trying to sway voters by making unrealistic campaign promises. Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Health minister’s son arrested in connection with Montreal hit-and-run

  13-10-2017 23:29 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette confirmed his son was arrested Friday morning in Montreal. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, the 23-year-old could face several charges in connection with a hit-and-run collision involving a cyclist.
  
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• Update: Montreal police arrest Gaétan Barrette's son in connection with Plateau hit and run

  13-10-2017 21:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec health minister Gaétan Barrette confirmed Friday morning that his 23-year-old son Geoffroy had been arrested hours earlier by Montreal police in connection with a hit and run in the Plateau Mont Royal.
  The younger Barrette was arrested at his home around 5:10 a.m. Friday and was questioned by police Friday morning before being released from custody on a promise to appear in court.
  Montreal police say they will recommend the office of criminal prosecutions file charges of hit and ru
  
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• Quebec City police officer accused of running over cyclist was backing up at 44 km/h, court hears

  13-10-2017 21:00 via cbc.ca
  The police cruiser that hit and killed Guy Blouin in 2014 was backing up in a one-way street at 44 kilometres an hour, according to the first witness at the trial of Quebec City police officer Simon Beaulieu.
  
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• Quebec City cop accused of running over cyclist was backing up at 44 km/h, court hears

  13-10-2017 21:00 via cbc.ca
  The police cruiser that hit and killed Guy Blouin in 2014 was backing up in a one-way street at 44 kilometres an hour, the first witness testified at the trial of Quebec City police officer Simon Beaulieu.
  
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• Update: Searchers find body of woman who fell from bridge into St-Lawrence

  13-10-2017 20:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Searchers have found the body of a 27-year-old woman who fell Friday morning from a rail bridge linking Kahnawake and Montreal.
  “Her body was discovered by a Sûreté du Québec helicopter down-river by the Jacques Cartier Bridge,” the Kahnawake Mohawk Peacekeepers said in a statement Friday. “As this is an ongoing investigation, no other details are being released.”
  First responders from Montreal, Kahnawake and Châteauguay as well as the SQ we
  
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• Uber blinks as Quebec stands firm on training demands

  13-10-2017 20:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s newly minted transport minister laid down the law to Uber on Friday morning, granting a slight concession on police checks for drivers but maintaining a contentious demand that the service’s drivers undergo a 35-hour training program.
  And within hours of that statement’s being made, the ride hailing service had quickly rethought its pledge to halt operations in Quebec as of Oct. 14.
  “With the recent nomination of André Fortin at the Transport ministry, we
  
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• Don Macpherson: Philippe Couillard shuffles, and misdeals

  13-10-2017 20:45 via montrealgazette.com
  So, it was mainly Kathleen Weil’s fault that the Liberals lost the Louis-Hébert byelection. At least that’s the impression you might get from Premier Philippe Couillard’s emergency cabinet shuffle this week.
  The shuffle was hastily improvised in response to the rout of the governing Liberals at the hands of the Coalition Avenir Québec party in Louis-Hébert nine days earlier; it was immediately after the byelection that rumours of an early shuffle began to c
  
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• Inside the CFL: CTE concerns weigh on former Alouette Tom Hipsz

  13-10-2017 20:43 via montrealgazette.com
  During the course of his six-year Canadian Football League career, defensive-lineman Tom Hipsz underwent eight surgeries. He suffered a torn bicep, blew out his shoulder twice and was finally forced to retire before the 2002 season when he ruptured an Achilles tendon.
  “In the morning, it takes a little while to get the body going. I can’t play pick-up basketball, my body wouldn’t co-operate,” said Hipsz, 45, who spent three full seasons with the Alouettes during the late
  
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• Train derails on Mille Îles River bridge

  13-10-2017 20:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Four empty cars from a derailed freight train plunged into the Mille Îles River Thursday night in Laval.
  The derailment happened at about 9 p.m. near the entrance to the Sophie-Masson Bridge, which connects Laval and Terrebonne.
  The Terrebonne fire department said there were no injuries in the derailment and that the freight cars which usually carry cement were empty at the time of the accident.
  Division fire chief Eric Harnois said the 107-car train belongs to the Quebec-Gatineau Railway
  
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• What the Puck: Canadiens fans see red as Habs stagger into season

  13-10-2017 20:31 via montrealgazette.com
  The fans are mad as hell and now we’ll see if they’re not going to take it anymore.
  I coined the phrase “the Bergevin resistance” a few months back to describe those of us who believe that the Montreal Canadiens simply can’t make any progress as long as Marc Bergevin is the team’s general manager and at the time, it was hardly a majority opinion. Now, it’s not such a marginal point of view.
  Fans are fed up. They lived through the 2015-16 season, when the
  
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• Maple Leafs at Canadiens: Five things you should know

  13-10-2017 20:24 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens have won 14 straight games over Toronto since 2014. Here are five things you should know about the Canadiens-Maple Leafs game at the Bell Centre Saturday (7 p.m., CBC, TVA Sports, TSN 690 Radio).
  The loneliest number: As Three Dog Night reminded us, that would be one and that’s the number of goals the Canadiens have averaged over their first four games. That’s not going to win many games unless the goaltenders come up with a shutout and that isn’t happening. The C
  
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• Ava vs. Ava: Festival du nouveau cinéma screens wrong film

  13-10-2017 19:20 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s not like they didn’t see it coming.
  Organizers of the Festival du nouveau cinéma knew they had an accident waiting to happen with the programming of two films titled Ava this year, one by French filmmaker Léa Mysius and the other by Iranian Montrealer Sadaf Foroughi.
  Both are first features by female directors, and both are coming-of-age tales featuring teenage female protagonists.The coincidence caused confusion at La Presse on Saturday, when Nathalie Petrowski&rs
  
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• Coderre says it's time to end 'Ferrandez effect' on Plateau businesses

  13-10-2017 19:10 via montrealgazette.com
  In what can only be described as hostile territory, Denis Coderre said it is time to end the “Ferrandez effect” on businesses in the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough.
  Coderre met reporters as he walked down St-Denis St. with several candidates from his team Friday morning, touting his plan to improve local business.
  He pledged to give a tax break to businesses on major commercial arteries during long periods of reconstruction. St-Denis St. underwent a year-long reconstruction between Marie
  
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• Randy Tshilumba planned on stabbing woman at Maxi, Crown says in closing arguments

  13-10-2017 18:50 via cbc.ca
  The Crown prosecutor has wrapped up the closing arguments in the trial of Randy Tshilumba by telling the jury that he knew exactly what he was doing in the stabbing death of Clémence Beaulieu-Patry in April 2016.
  
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• Randy Tshilumba not criminally responsible for murder of Clémence Beaulieu-Patry, defence says

  13-10-2017 18:50 via cbc.ca
  The lawyer for 21-year-old Randy Tshilumba has wrapped up his closing arguments asking the jury to find his client not criminally responsible in connection with the death of Clémence Beaulieu-Patry.
  
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• Quebec government resumes talks with Uber

  13-10-2017 18:47 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Oct 13: Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard announced Thursday that his newly appointed transport minister, André Fortin, would be holding talks with the ride-hailing company Uber.
  
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• Search underway for woman in St. Lawrence River near Kahnawake

  13-10-2017 18:26 via globalnews.ca
  A search and rescue operation is underway for a 29-year-old woman who fell from a bridge into the St. Lawrence River.
  
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• Wines of the Week: Oct. 14, 2017

  13-10-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Under $16 
  Dão blanc 2016, Meia Encosta, Portugal white, $10.45, SAQ #12332301. Good white for  $10? Here’s one. Not the most exuberant in terms of aromatics, but such a comfy texture with notes of pear and apple and a bit of  spice on the finish. Works great at the table. Residual sugar: 3.4 g/l. Grape varieties: malvasia fina, encruzado, bical, fernao pires. Serve at 8C. Drink now. Food-pairing ideas: Thai curries with coconut milk, Indian-style shrimp curry.
  $16-$2
  
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• It's not always about wine: Favourite hard drinks

  13-10-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I may be known as the “wine guy,” but I love hard alcohols. My favourite? While I have a preference for whisky, especially rye, a fair amount of tequila is being drunk “chez nous.” I like to drink mine straight up with a single ice cube.
  But like an adult Mikey, I’ll drink, or at least taste, anything. Here are some of my recent favourites.
  Tequila, Blanco, Siempre, Mexico spirit, $62, SAQ #13351619. Superb sipping Tequila. You can taste the agave, with some extra s
  
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• Fall colours: Laurentians a popular destination for leaf-peeping day trippers

  13-10-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Ghislain Parizeau of Croisières Alouette in Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, about 100 km north of Montreal in the Laurentians, has a question for passengers boarding one of his boats for a cruise of Lac des Sables and a view of the splendid fall foliage: Have they noticed, he asks, the red maple leaf in the centre of the Canadian flag?
  As the days shorten and the nights lengthen, many of Quebec’s trees don their autumn palette of oranges and golds as well as the reds that evoke the flag&rsquo
  
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• Family of murder victim can sue City of Montreal, Supreme Court rules

  13-10-2017 17:48 via cbc.ca
  The family of a woman murdered by her estranged husband has been granted leave by Canada's top court to sue the City of Montreal for alleged police inaction in her death.
  
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• Montreal police arrest Gaétan Barrette's son in connection with Plateau hit and run

  13-10-2017 17:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec health minister Gaétan Barrette confirmed Friday morning that his 23-year-old son Geoffroy had been arrested hours earlier by Montreal police in connection with a hit and run in the Plateau Mont Royal.
  Police arrested the younger Barrette at his home at about 5:10 a.m., five hours after a white SUV collided with a 27-year-old cyclist on Rachel St. near St. Dominique St. According to witnesses at the scene, the vehicle then executed a U-turn and left the site of the collis
  
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• Arrest made in homicide of 14-year-old victim in Inukjuak, Que.

  13-10-2017 17:41 via cbc.ca
  Provincial police have arrested a 17-year-old in connection with the death of 14-year-old back in July, 2017, in the northern Quebec village of Inukjuak.
  
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• 17-year-old charged with 1st-degree murder in death of 14-year-old in northern Quebec

  13-10-2017 17:41 via cbc.ca
  A 17-year-old has been charged with first-degree murder, sexual assault and illegal confinement in the death of a 14-year-old in July 2017, in the northern Quebec village of Inukjuak.
  
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• VIDEO: @Val_Plante makes her case for top job at City Hall btmontreal.ca/videos/valerie…

  13-10-2017 17:36
  VIDEO: @Val_Plante makes her case for top job at City Hall btmontreal.ca/videos/valerie…
  
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• Montreal entertainment: DeadMau5 at the Bell Centre, 2017 Fire Prevention Week Open House

  13-10-2017 17:32 via globalnews.ca
  Entertainment columnist Jay Walker joins Global’s Kim Sullivan to talk about the 2017 Fire Prevention Week Open House, Halloween activities in Laval and the DeadMau5 concert at the Bell Centre.
  
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• Tshilumba has long history of mental illness, lawyer stresses

  13-10-2017 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Randy Tshilumba suffered from a mental illness long before he killed Clémence Beaulieu-Patry, the accused’s lawyer told a jury at the start of his closing arguments at the Montreal courthouse on Friday. 
  “How does (Tshilumba) find himself sitting inside an aquarium before you now, charged with first-degree murder,” defence lawyer Philippe Larochelle asked the seven men and five women who will decide whether Tshilumba, 21, was able to distinguish right from wrong whe
  
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• The Right Chemistry: Can blood transfusions be rejuvenating?

  13-10-2017 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  He played chess with Lenin. He wrote science fiction novels. He published articles about science, economics and politics. He was a medical officer on the front in the First World War. He persuaded Stalin to fund the world’s first establishment for blood transfusion research. He was Dr. Alexander Bogdanov.
  By 1926, differences in blood types had been known for a couple of decades, making transfusions possible by crossmatching blood between donors and recipients. The addition of sodium citra
  
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• It's Friday, so enjoy this story about Pandas! https://t.co/Ojp4fVDVC8

  13-10-2017 17:25
  
  It's Friday, so enjoy this story about Pandas! https://t.co/Ojp4fVDVC8
  
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• Weekend traffic update Oct. 13 to 16: Ramp closures on the Turcot and beyond

  13-10-2017 17:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s your look at road closures for the weekend of Oct. 13 to 16:
  Turcot Interchange
  Four ramps will be completely closed from 11:59 p.m. on Friday until 5 a.m. on Monday:
  The Highway 15 south ramp and the Highway 20 east ramp for the 720 east downtown will be closed. The entrances from the Notre-Dame and Cathédrale St. entrances to the 720 east in the Ville-Marie Tunnel will be open.
  The Highway 720 west ramp for the 20 west to the airport, and the 720 west ra
  
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• Montreal girl rewarded with big surprise for paying it forward

  13-10-2017 17:06 via globalnews.ca
  Eight-year-old Cameron Jaquith sits down with Global’s Laura Casella to talk about her remarkable contributions to the Montreal Children’s Hospital and receives a huge Scotiabank surprise.
  
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• Community Events: Happening Skate & Culture Street

  13-10-2017 17:01 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has Montreal’s community events for Friday, October 13.
  
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• Pink Floyd's Roger Waters: What Montrealers really want

  13-10-2017 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealers love their Floyd. As in Pink Floyd. In fact, they can’t seem to get enough of this pioneering British art-rock band, even though Pink Floyd hasn’t existed as an active group for quite some time.
  If you doubt that, please take note that Roger Waters — one of the founding members of Floyd and the chap who is generally considered to be the driving creative force behind the band — is coming to town for three — count ’em, three — concerts at the B
  
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• High court rules murder victim's family can sue the city of Montreal

  13-10-2017 16:59 via montrealgazette.com
  A lawsuit seeking $665,000 and launched by the family of murder victim Maria Altagracia Dorval against the city of Montreal for negligence on the part of its police officers has been given leave to proceed by the Supreme Court of Canada.
  The family of Dorval, a young mother murdered by her ex-husband in 2010, contend that the Montreal police department should have provided protection to her after she filed numerous complaints of conjugal violence with them prior to being murdered.
  When the lawsu
  
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