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• Tierney: Weinstein crisis demands all men examine their conscience

  17-10-2017 23:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Look at almost any “evil” you choose — violence, rape, pornography, perversion, serial killing, mass murder — the list goes on and on, and it’s always the same perpetrator: a male.
  No one in contemporary times embodies this malevolence more than Harvey Weinstein, the now suitably disgraced Mr. Piggy of show business. Alas, he is not alone.
  I suspect that for all of his life, he has had major personality problems, ones he managed for some time to disguise. But with t
  
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• Montreal cyclist killed, American could face charges

  17-10-2017 23:56 via globalnews.ca
  A 59-year-old California man could face charges after a Montreal cyclist was struck and killed on the Camilien-Houde Parkway. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Quebec debates religious neutrality bill

  17-10-2017 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec’s so-called religious neutrality bill is now in the final rounds of debate. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, Bill 62 has been roundly criticized for unfairly targeting Muslim women.
  
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• Montreal councillor to refrain from saying ‘rape’ during debates

  17-10-2017 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal city councillor Jeremy Searle says he will refrain from using the word “rape” in future council debates after receiving backlash. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• LaSalle man who killed wife was able to tell right from wrong, psychiatrist tells jury

  17-10-2017 23:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Two psychiatrists called as witnesses in the murder trial of Ahmad Nehme do not agree on whether the accused was able to distinguish the difference between right and wrong when he stabbed his wife, Catherine de Boucherville, to death five years ago. 
  Paul-Andreé Lafleur, a psychiatrist based at the Philippe Pinel Institute, was called as a witness by the Crown on Tuesday after the jury hearing the trial at the Montreal courthouse had heard from another psychiatrist, Joel Watts, a wit
  
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• Montreal Chinatown garden looks for new home

  17-10-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  A vibrant garden on the grounds of Montreal’s Chinese Hospital is looking for a new home because the courtyard is being developed into an outdoor space. Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports.
  
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• Construction cuts water for Lachine residents

  17-10-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Lachine residents are furious over construction work right where the borough meets the Town of Montreal West. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Deep Trouble: the North Atlantic right whale in peril

  17-10-2017 23:22 via cbc.ca
  Deep Trouble follows the journalist who interviewed scientists and others trying to solve the puzzle of a deadly summer for the endangered North Atlantic right whale.
  
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• West Island Community Calendar for the week of Oct. 18

  17-10-2017 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Galleries and exhibitions
  Galerie de la ville, 12001 de Salaberry Blvd. in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, presents the exhibition Lattices and Interstices — featuring assembled works by various local artists, starting Sunday and continuing to Nov. 19. Vernissage on Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m. Call 514-684-1012, Local 298.
  The Stewart Hall Art Gallery, 176 Lakeshore Rd. in Pointe-Claire, presents the exhibition The Art That Inhabits Us — 50 Years of the Art Rental and Sales Services — featuri
  
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• Montreal woman heads to Peru to search for missing son

  17-10-2017 22:53 via cbc.ca
  A Montreal woman flew to Peru on Tuesday to look for her son, who she said nobody has heard from since he boarded a bus to go on a short trek more than two weeks ago.
  
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• Jean Fortier drops out of race for Montreal mayor: reports

  17-10-2017 22:46 via globalnews.ca
  Jean Fortier has reportedly dropped out of the race for Montreal mayor, and has put his support behind Valérie Plante.
  
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• Meanwhile in Russia, it's all coming up Andrei Markov

  17-10-2017 22:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The Habs are having a rough start this season, and as any reasonable person does while suffering through a breakup, it’s time to check an ex’s social media.
  Andrei Markov is thriving in Russia. 
  Ak Bars, the team he signed with in July, is leading the KHL’s eastern conference despite having played the fewest games.
  Markov has registered 4 goals and 10 assists in 20 games. He has averaged 20 minutes and 46 seconds of ice time while appearing in all of Ak Bars’ ga
  
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• Inuit, First Nations sign 'historic' pact to protect Quebec caribou

  17-10-2017 22:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s northern Indigenous communities are facing a crisis that threatens their traditional way of life.
  The population of the province’s two largest caribou herds has dwindled by over 90 per cent in the past 20 years.
  In an attempt to preserve the caribou — a food source that’s sustained life in the north for millennia — seven Inuit and First Nations groups met in Montreal Tuesday to sign an conservation agreement.
  “We’re using the words ‘histor
  
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• Father of fallen Quebec police officer says son's killer should have never had access to guns

  17-10-2017 21:45 via cbc.ca
  The father of Thierry LeRoux, the police officer killed in Lac Simon, Que., in 2016, is urging Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale to restrict access to guns for those with serious mental illness and create other safeguards for responding officers.
  
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• Jean Fortier drops out of Montreal mayoral race

  17-10-2017 21:41 via cbc.ca
  The candidate for Coalition Montréal was up against incumbent mayor Denis Coderre and Projet Montréal's Valérie Plante.
  
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• Montreal election: Fortier to endorse rival Projet Montréal's Plante for mayor - Montreal Gazette

  17-10-2017 21:24 via montrealgazette.com
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  Montreal election: Fortier to endorse rival Projet Montréal's Plante for mayor
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  Montreal mayoral candidate Jean Fortier is set to announce he is endorsing Projet Montréal's Valérie Plante for mayor, the Montreal Gazette has learned. Fortier, who launched his campaign in late September as an alternative to incumbent Denis Coderre ...
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• Green Chinatown Montreal looking for new home to plant roots

  17-10-2017 21:23 via globalnews.ca
  Green Chinatown Montreal needs a new space for its garden after being asked to move from their current location at the Montreal Chinese Hospital.
  
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• Fortier to suspend mayoral campaign, endorse Projet Montréal's Plante

  17-10-2017 21:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal mayoral candidate Jean Fortier is set to announce he is suspending his campaign and will endorse Projet Montréal’s Valérie Plante for mayor, the Montreal Gazette has learned.
  Fortier, who launched his campaign in late September as a third option to incumbent Denis Coderre and main challenger Plante, will remain on the ballot as mayoral candidate for Coalition Montréal, sources told the newspaper.
  However, he is expected to make the unusual move of announcing h
  
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• Dan Delmar: Vision Zero and the politics of road deaths

  17-10-2017 21:14 via montrealgazette.com
  This month, 18-year-old cyclist Clément Ouimet died after being struck by an SUV on Camillien-Houde Way. The road over Mount Royal has been described for years as an occasionally hazardous “autoroute,” particularly by cyclists.
  In the wake of tragedies like these, elected officials of all stripes feel the need to restate their road safety policies. Though it might seem self-serving when such events occur in the weeks before a municipal election, politicians must respond to pub
  
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• Couillard defends Bombardier/Airbus deal as opposition decries loss for Quebec

  17-10-2017 21:08 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Conceding Quebec might have been aiming too high in believing Bombardier could take on the world alone, Premier Philippe Couillard says bringing in a “strategic partner” was the right thing to do to save jobs and the industry.
  One day after rival Airbus bought a majority share in Bombardier’s CSeries and with the opposition claiming Quebec sold off one of its industrial gems for a song, Couillard chose to look on the bright side in the face of what he said is the
  
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• Kramberger: West Island hospice marks 15th year

  17-10-2017 21:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Saying goodbye to a terminally ill family member or friend is never easy, which is why the West Island Palliative Care Residence has been a blessing since it opened in Kirkland 15 years ago.
  The hospice provides end-of-life care, with dignity, for West Islanders in a homelike environment within their own community. 
  Teresa Dellar was a social worker at the Lakeshore General Hospital when she spotted a need for a palliative care residence and took on the project. She said she
  
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• Fentanyl deaths: Coalition lashes out against 'systemic barriers' as overdoses soar in Montreal

  17-10-2017 20:35 via montrealgazette.com
  With overdose deaths soaring from drugs contaminated with fentanyl, why not invest immediately in harm-reduction methods that are known to work, asks Jean François Mary.
  “Are (political and health) authorities waiting for a magic number of dead?” said the director of a provincial association for the promotion of drug users’ health, the Association québécoise pour la promotion de la santé des personnes utilisatrices de drogues (AQPSUD). “Let&rsq
  
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• Canada's first Parliament: Artifacts relate high, low point in Montreal's history

  17-10-2017 20:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Elegant plates and serving dishes, a mound of oyster shells, a rusty razor, and the pièces de résistance: two copper alloy handstamps bearing the official seals of Parliament.
  Laid out on a table in the middle of an archeological dig in Old Montreal on Tuesday morning, the artifacts help relate a chapter that was both a high and a low point of Montreal’s history.
  The items — from Canada’s first permanent Parliament building, burned down during an April 25, 18
  
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• West Island Cancer Wellness Centre fundraiser breaks $1-million mark

  17-10-2017 19:52 via montrealgazette.com
  A golf tournament to benefit the West Island Cancer Wellness Centre in Kirkland raised $271,000 last month and once that money was added to the coffers, the total raised for the outreach centre over the last seven years now sits at $1.1 million.
  More than 200 golfers gathered at the Saint-Raphaël Golf Club in Île-Bizard to support the centre Sept. 19. Since opening in 2009, the West Island Cancer Wellness Centre has helped thousands of people with cancer and their loved ones to live f
  
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• Surprise construction leaves Lachine residents without water

  17-10-2017 19:50 via globalnews.ca
  Lachine residents are fuming after unannounced construction cut off access and water.
  
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• A season with The Stingers: Win and you're in

  17-10-2017 19:50 via montrealgazette.com
  As their time on the pitch nears its end, the women of Concordia University’s rugby team grapple with the thought of life after elite sports.
  “Being a student athlete has been my identity for five years,” said Frédérique Rajotte, who played her last home game as a Stinger last week. “After that, it’s a big question mark. It’s like: ‘Who am I gonna be?'”
  The team got the win they needed against Bishop’s University last Thursday t
  
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• Quebec provincial police investigate suspicious death of newborn

  17-10-2017 19:15 via cbc.ca
  Officials at a local hospital alerted Deux-Montagnes police to the death Sunday afternoon, and they transferred the investigation to the SQ.
  
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• Montreal mother desperately searching for son in Peru

  17-10-2017 19:01 via globalnews.ca
  Alisa Clamen is heading to Lima, Peru to look for her son, Jesse Galganov who has been missing for three weeks.
  
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• No criminal charges in cyclist's death on Mount Royal

  17-10-2017 18:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police on Tuesday revised their statement that a charge of criminal negligence causing death will be laid after an 18-year-old cyclist died after striking a vehicle making an illegal U-turn, saying the investigation has yet to be completed.
  Earlier Tuesday, police said a 59-year-old resident of California met with investigators earlier this week and had signed a promise to appear in court at a later date.
  A spokesperson for the Montreal police public relations department said the e
  
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• Bombardier deal with Airbus brings mix of relief, new questions for Quebec workers

  17-10-2017 18:35 via cbc.ca
  Bombardier’s decision to sell a majority stake in its CSeries passenger jet to European aerospace giant Airbus is being met with “mixed feelings” by a representative for workers at the Montreal-based company.
  
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• Montreal election: Nearly 40% fewer candidates than in 2013

  17-10-2017 18:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Next month’s municipal election will see nearly 40 per cent fewer candidates vying for votes than in the 2013 election, Montreal’s chief electoral officer announced on Tuesday.
  In a statement, Yves Saindon noted that a total of 298 candidacies had been filed for the 103 elected offices in Montreal’s city and borough councils. Four years earlier, 485 candidates were running for the same number of offices.
  Saindon’s inventory of those candidacies found there were eight pers
  
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• Less traffic, more green space, bigger homes drive Montrealers to suburbs

  17-10-2017 18:21 via cbc.ca
  Daybreak's Shari Okeke met families to ask them what made them decide to stay in Montreal or to move to the suburbs.
  
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• Are you Canadian woman? You might be better off in Victoria than Montreal

  17-10-2017 18:11 via montrealgazette.com
  In a list of the 25 best Canadian cities to be a woman, Montreal doesn’t show up till No. 15, while Victoria is at the top of the list despite its slightly worsening wage gap.
  Other Quebec cities in the study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives ranked higher than Montreal, including Gatineau right behind Victoria; Quebec City at No. 6; and Sherbrooke in 8th place.
  “Cities in Quebec tend to outperform the rest of Canada, particularly in the economic sphere,” said the
  
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• Stu Cowan: Price not sweating despite Habs' disappointing start to season

  17-10-2017 17:54 via montrealgazette.com
  SAN JOSE — Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin has reason to be sweating into his fancy suits these days.
  Bergevin’s team is off to a disappointing 1-3-1 start heading into Tuesday’s game against the Sharks in San Jose (10:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690), a place where the Canadiens haven’t won a game since 1999. 
  Mark Streit, the 39-year-old defenceman Bergevin signed this summer to help fill the void left by Andrei Markov, was put on waivers after playing on
  
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• Shares of Bombardier up more than 20% after CSeries deal with Airbus

  17-10-2017 17:50 via globalnews.ca
  Bombardier shares were up 53 cents at $2.89 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
  
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• Watch our fun with the Raving Rabbid here: btmontreal.ca/videos/montrea… twitter.com/KidConMTL/stat…

  17-10-2017 17:46
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• U.S. indicts 5 from Quebec, Chinese in major drug trafficking case

  17-10-2017 17:37 via cbc.ca
  Five Canadians — along with three U.S. residents and two Chinese nationals — are indicted by the U.S. Justice Department on charges of making and selling highly addictive fentanyl to Americans over the internet.
  
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• Father of slain Quebec officer Thierry LeRoux asking feds for stricter gun rules

  17-10-2017 17:33 via globalnews.ca
  The rookie officer had been on the job for just six months with the Lac-Simon police department.
  
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• Leonard Cohen art exhibit to be paired with concert series

  17-10-2017 17:32 via montrealgazette.com
  The Musée d’art contemporain has announced a series of concerts based on iconic Leonard Cohen albums that will accompany the museum’s exhibition about the Montreal singer.
  Titled Leonard Cohen — Une brèche en toute chose / A Crack in Everything, the exhibit will be on display at the museum from Nov. 9 until April 9, 2018.
  There will be five concerts — one for each month of the exhibit — starting on Nov. 30. The concerts are being done in coll
  
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• Is the race for Montreal mayor tighter than most people think? btmontreal.ca/videos/municip…

  17-10-2017 17:21
  Is the race for Montreal mayor tighter than most people think?btmontreal.ca/videos/municip…
  
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• Video: @PartageESPOIR's Fiona Crossling talks End Poverty Day and the upcoming "Share the Puck" fundraiser btmontreal.ca/videos/end-pov…

  17-10-2017 17:20
  Video: @PartageESPOIR's Fiona Crossling talks End Poverty Day and the upcoming "Share the Puck" fundraiser btmontreal.ca/videos/end-pov…
  
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• Montreal Kidcon return this weekend! btmontreal.ca/videos/montrea…

  17-10-2017 17:17
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• Six O'Clock Solution: Lamb T-bones

  17-10-2017 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Chefs’ cookbooks are more often found on the coffee table than in the kitchen: Most of us don’t have sous-chefs to chop vegetables or make sauces, and essential techniques are only loosely described.
  But The Okanagan Table, by Rod Butters (Figure 1 Publishing, $37.95), is an exception. A feast for the eyes, it is user-friendly for any reasonably experienced home cook. Butters, the chef at RauDZ Regional Table in Kelowna, B.C., advises reaping the rewards of your own region.
  
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• Duncan: Are you for or against getting a flu shot?

  17-10-2017 16:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Why in this day and age there remains so much controversy about vaccinations is a mystery to me.
  After all, immunization and vaccination have saved millions of lives since their introduction. Vaccines have virtually wiped out, or reduced dramatically, a number of major killers, such as small pox, polio and measles. 
  The flu shot is another story. Despite life-saving medical achievements and evolving versions of preventive vaccines, the mere mention of getting an annual preventive flu shot i
  
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• Indigenous woman's experience at Val-d'Or hospital recognized as discrimination by Quebec inquiry

  17-10-2017 16:44 via cbc.ca
  The treatment of a 39-year-old Indigenous woman recovering from a miscarriage at a Val-d'Or hospital has been recognized as a case of discrimination by the former judge presiding over the inquiry.
  
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• SQ investigate 'suspicious' death of newborn in Deux-Montagnes

  17-10-2017 16:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec has launched an investigation into the death on Sunday of a newborn in Deux-Montagnes.
  Hospital officials notified local police of the death and by Sunday evening, members of the SQ’s major crimes squad had taken over the case.
  An SQ spokesperson said that since then, crime scene technicians had visited the home of the child’s mother and several witnesses have been interviewed.
  At the moment, the infant’s death is being treated as &ldquo
  
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• Just For Laughs teams up with Felix & Paul to produce VR series

  17-10-2017 16:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Two of the city’s hottest cultural outfits have teamed up with Google to develop a new comedy series.
  The Just For Laughs comedy festival has partnered with Felix & Paul Studios, one of the world’s leading virtual-reality producers, to make The Confessional, a seven-episode VR comedy series that will be available on Daydream, Google’s VR platform, and on YouTube for those not using the Daydream headsets.
  The series was shot at the Plateau theatre Usine C during this year&rs
  
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• Bombardier shares jump as much as 26% on CSeries deal with Airbus

  17-10-2017 16:01 via cbc.ca
  Bombardier shares jump as much as 26 per cent in Toronto in the first trading opportunity since news emerged Monday evening that the company had signed a partnership with rival Airbus to make and market its CSeries jets.
  
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• Bombardier jump as much as 26% on CSeries deal with Airbus

  17-10-2017 16:01 via cbc.ca
  Bombardier shares jump as much as 26 per cent in Toronto in the first trading opportunity since news emerged Monday evening that the company had signed a partnership with rival Airbus to make and market its CSeries jets.
  
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• Travel: Discover the Pacific West Coast

  17-10-2017 15:30 via globalnews.ca
  Seattle and San Francisco are the focus of this week’s travel segment as Lifestyle and Travel writer Catherine Maisonneuve joins Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan.
  
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