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• Homeowners suing City of Montreal for $7M over contaminated land

  01-11-2017 23:50 via globalnews.ca
  Residents call it a health hazard since recent testing shows dangerously high levels of biogas emissions.
  
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• Global News at 5:30: Nov 1

  01-11-2017 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  The Wednesday, November 1, 2017 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
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• Peter Simons urges Quebec to amend tax code, says it’s an ’emergency’

  01-11-2017 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  One of Quebec's biggest entrepreneurs, Peter Simons, the president of Simons department store supports a private member's bill to fix unfair tax laws that could be devastating to local business.
  
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• Some Montreal residents enraged over ‘Weedmaps’ billboards

  01-11-2017 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  Have you noticed billboards around Montreal for Weedmaps?
  
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• Montreal election: Mayoral candidates name picks for key positions

  01-11-2017 23:19 via montrealgazette.com
  Both Montreal mayoral candidates have made their picks to head the city’s top decision-making body.
  On Monday, incumbent mayor Denis Coderre said if he is elected, he will appoint Harout Chitilian, running for re-election in Ahuntsic-Cartierville and the outgoing vice-president of the executive committee, to be the chairperson of his executive committee. Coderre made the announcement during a live broadcast on his party’s Facebook page from an undisclosed location.
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• Stu Cowan: Canadiens could use confidence boost from Carey Price

  01-11-2017 23:17 via montrealgazette.com
  The Merriam-Webster dictionary describes confidence as “a feeling or consciousness of one’s powers or of reliance on one’s circumstances” and “faith or belief that one will act in a right, proper, or effective way.”
  It could also include: “the ability to put a hockey puck in the net.”
  At least that’s what Canadiens coach Claude Julien believes.
  After the Canadiens beat the Senators 8-3 Monday night in Ottawa, Julien said: “You can&rsquo
  
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• Weedmaps billboards take a hit in Montreal

  01-11-2017 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Nov 1: Weedmaps reviews marijuana dispensaries and pot strains, but the company’s Montreal-area billboards are creating a negative buzz among residents. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, the signs are now being weeded out.
  
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• Quebec could start regulating e-commerce

  01-11-2017 23:11 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Nov 1: Quebec Soldaire’s Amir Khadir wants to regulate e-commerce in the province, including asking companies to pay local taxes. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, if it passes, it’ll be a first in Canada.
  
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• Montreal Plateau built homes on garbage dump

  01-11-2017 23:11 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Nov 1: Some residents in Montreal’s Plateau are raising a stink after finding out that their homes were built on top of a former garbage disposal site. Global’s Anne Leclair reports.
  
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• Montreal election: Denis Coderre on mobility, arrogance and Montreal's shine - Montreal Gazette

  01-11-2017 23:07 via montrealgazette.com
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  Montreal election: Denis Coderre on mobility, arrogance and Montreal's shine
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  With four days to go to the municipal elections, the man once considered a shoo-in to be re-elected mayor of Montreal has found himself in a tight race with upstart Projet Montréal Leader Valérie Plante, according to two recent polls. Denis Coderre sat ...
  Coderre making 'important announcement' on Facebook at 3 p.m. ...CTV News
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• Montreal election: Denis Coderre on mobility, arrogance and Montreal's shine

  01-11-2017 23:06 via montrealgazette.com
  With four days to go to the municipal elections, the man once considered a shoe-in to be re-elected mayor of Montreal has found himself in a tight race with upstart Projet Montréal Leader Valérie Plante, according to two recent polls.
  Denis Coderre sat down with the Montreal Gazette’s editorial board Wednesday to discuss the city’s traffic, keeping families on the island, the difference between “arrogance” and “determination” and how he says his
  
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• Canadiens at Minnesota Wild: Five things you should know

  01-11-2017 23:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Canadiens-Minnesota Wild game in St. Paul Thursday (8 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).
  Offensive juggernaut: The Canadiens are coming off an 8-3 win in Ottawa Monday and they are no longer the lowest-scoring team in the NHL. Montreal has scored 18 goals in its last four games and ranks 27th in the NHL with 2.5 goals a game. The Canadiens have won two consecutive games for the first time this season and have won three of their last four to improve to
  
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• Brian Wilde: Can the Habs make a comeback?

  01-11-2017 23:03 via globalnews.ca
  With the Montreal Canadiens taking a much-needed break ahead of Thursday’s game, Global News hockey analyst Brian Wilde discusses what the team needs to do to win.
  
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• Tomorrow on #BTMTL: Author, teacher and speaker @bramlevinson will discuss his upcoming show at the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-11-2017 23:01
  Tomorrow on #BTMTL: Author, teacher and speaker @bramlevinson will discuss his upcoming show at the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Allison Hanes: Coderre wants to keep the good times rolling

  01-11-2017 22:59 via montrealgazette.com
  If you’re happy with the way things are going in Montreal, stick with Denis Coderre.
  That’s the message the incumbent mayor kept returning to during a meeting with the Montreal Gazette editorial board Wednesday. And it’s the message he wants to leave with Montrealers before they head to the ballot box on Sunday to decide between himself and Projet Montréal Leader Valérie Plante.
  Montreal has come a long way in the last four years, to be sure. When Coderre arrived
  
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• Opinion: Yes, you can be fat and fit, but that's not the whole story

  01-11-2017 22:39 via montrealgazette.com
  A question that often comes up is whether you can be both fat and fit. The short answer to that question is yes. You can be both fat and fit in the same way that you can be both blond and left handed. Fatness and fitness denote two separate things.
  Being fat, or, more scientifically, being obese, refers to having excess visceral fat coating your internal organs. It is widely felt that visceral fat is more dangerous than the subcutaneous fat that is stored in a layer under your skin.
  Fitness refe
  
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• Montreal artist John Little's street scenes are steeped in nostalgia

  01-11-2017 22:39 via montrealgazette.com
  John Little has always kept a low public profile — for decades he has been one of the more reluctant stars of Montreal’s art community.
  Throughout his 65-year career, the modest, self-effacing painter has refused to grant interviews or allow reproductions of his work to be published. Instead, he has been rendering Montreal’s urban landscape in a signature style that blends nostalgic whimsy with gritty realism.
  “He prefers to let his canvases speak for themselves,” s
  
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• Alouettes' Kyries Hebert receives two nominations for CFL awards

  01-11-2017 22:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Perhaps it’s bittersweet that Kyries Hebert is having a career season for the Alouettes — not only at age 37, but for a losing team that has established franchise records for futility.
  It came as no surprise Wednesday, when the veteran linebacker was named a double nominee, as both Montreal’s most outstanding player and best defensive player, as the Canadian Football League announced its recipients from the first round of voting. The players were selected by members from the Fo
  
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• The budget, taxes and debt after 4 years of Coderre

  01-11-2017 22:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Five billion dollars. That’s the approximate size of Montreal’s city budget and its net debt.
  When it comes to money, the Denis Coderre administration promised to control city expenses, invest in infrastructure and limit property tax increases to the rate of inflation.
  “I think we did a very good job,” said Pierre Desrochers, the chair of city council’s executive committee and the architect of budgetary policy under Coderre.
  City spending — and the city&r
  
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• Asbestos forces school closure in Amqui

  01-11-2017 22:27 via cbc.ca
  The recent discovery of asbestos is forcing a school board in the Lower St.Lawrence to relocate the majority of its students.
  
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• Tomorrow on #BTMTL: Amanda Shaw Yagoup is here to discuss everything you need to know about homeschooling your chil… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-11-2017 22:01
  Tomorrow on #BTMTL: Amanda Shaw Yagoup is here to discuss everything you need to know about homeschooling your chil… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• As Mayor Jean Tremblay bows out, those vying for his office weigh in on Promotion Saguenay

  01-11-2017 21:58 via cbc.ca
  After 20 years as mayor, Jean Tremblay is retiring. For the four candidates seeking his job, a key campaign issue is what each would do with the paramunicipal agency Promotion Saguenay and its less-than-transparent finances.
  
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• Raise $2k for cancer research and I’ll shave my head, store manager tells employees

  01-11-2017 21:36 via globalnews.ca
  A West Island company raised $2,500 for breast cancer -- and the manager shaved his head for the cause.
  
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• Montreal election: Mayoral candidates name picks for key positions - Montreal Gazette

  01-11-2017 21:06 via montrealgazette.com
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  Trained at École Polytechnique de Montréal as an engineer specializing in telecommunications, Chitilian, 37, worked at Ericsson in Montreal before he was first elected as a councillor in 2009. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, he was the vice-president of the ...and more »
  
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• Tomorrow on #BTMTL: Montreal band @wearemonroe will be here to talk about their music and upcoming show at… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-11-2017 21:01
  Tomorrow on #BTMTL: Montreal band @wearemonroe will be here to talk about their music and upcoming show at… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• How historians helped recreate ancient Egypt in Assassin's Creed: Origins

  01-11-2017 20:02 via cbc.ca
  An Egyptologist explains how she studied things as large as civilizations and as small as grains of sand to make sure Ubisoft's latest historical-fiction romp got every detail right.
  
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• Tomorrow on #BTMTL: Natalie Choquette and 12-year-old liver disease patient Thierry Olsthoorn will discuss the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-11-2017 20:01
  Tomorrow on #BTMTL: Natalie Choquette and 12-year-old liver disease patient Thierry Olsthoorn will discuss the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Update: Coderre defends Formula E, says Montreal will learn from experience

  01-11-2017 19:50 via montrealgazette.com
  The elusive number is in: 20,000.
  That’s the number of tickets given for free to Montreal’s Formula E race in July.
  That represents 44 per cent of the 45,000 tickets used that weekend, Montreal c’est electrique (MCE), the non-profit organization that oversaw the race, said in a statement Wednesday.
  However, more than 20,000 people received free tickets, because of the 25,000 sold, some were purchased by event “partners and sponsors,” who then gave them away.
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• 'She tried to stab me,' man accused in death of wife tells court

  01-11-2017 19:35 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal resident on trial for the murder of his wife a decade ago claims the victim provoked the attack by calling his mother and sister whores during a heated argument. 
  While on the witness stand in his second-degree murder trial on Wednesday, Harinder Singh Cheema, 38, testified is his own defence in his trial where he is charged with the second-degree murder of his wife, Gurpreet Kaur, on Dec. 24, 2007. Kaur was stabbed 14 times inside the couple’s apartment on Deguire St. in t
  
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• Analyze This: Canadiens might have finally found their No. 1 centre

  01-11-2017 19:30 via montrealgazette.com
  When Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin sent blue-chip prospect Mikhail Sergachev to the Tampa Bay Lightning during the summer in exchange for forward Jonathan Drouin, the expectations for the young Quebecer were sky high.
  Although Drouin was the team’s first potential francophone star in a long while, the Ste-Agathe native hadn’t quite established himself as an offensive threat with the Lightning during even-strength play.
  Of his 21 goals last season, nine came during the power
  
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• Three tricks to help your baby learn to talk

  01-11-2017 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  Speech pathologist Jennifer Benedik helps parents develop their child's vocabulary.
  
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• Premier says with UPAC probe still underway, public must wait for answers about Guy Ouellette's arrest

  01-11-2017 19:23 via cbc.ca
  Philippe Couillard said for the time being, he doesn't believe anyone will get any more answers about why a sitting MNA was arrested by Quebec's anti-corruption unit (UPAC) last week.
  
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• Analyze This: Canadiens might have finally found their No. 1 centre ... - Montreal Gazette

  01-11-2017 19:20 via montrealgazette.com
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  Analyze This: Canadiens might have finally found their No. 1 centre ...
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  Despite Mikhail Sergachev's excellent play with the Lightning, the Canadiens should have no regrets about trading for Jonathan Drouin.and more »
  
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• Giant demo in Montreal will denounce racism and other forms of hate

  01-11-2017 19:17 via montrealgazette.com
  A coalition of anti-racist groups is organizing a major demonstration against hate and racism that will take place in Montreal on Nov. 12.
  More than 125 groups are expected to take part in the demonstration to oppose racism, Islamophobia, colonialism, sexism and other forms of hate promoted by far-right groups.
  Organizers say they are alarmed by the rise in racist hate speech in Quebec. They claim that the Parti Québécois’s proposed charter of values, the election of U.S. Pre
  
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• Cyclist safety: An election issue

  01-11-2017 19:12 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Nov 1: Montreal commuters are being asked to consider cyclist safety when voting in the municipal elections. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Banner calls for Montrealers to consider cyclist safety when voting in municipal elections

  01-11-2017 18:56 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal commuters are being asked to consider cyclist safety when voting in the municipal elections.
  
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• Emergency water main repairs close part of Parc Avenue

  01-11-2017 18:32 via cbc.ca
  Parc Avenue between Van Horne Avenue and Bernard Street is closed to all traffic until further notice.
  
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• Couillard favours more UPAC oversight as Ouellette crisis simmers

  01-11-2017 18:19 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The Couillard government moved to quench the fire raging over who controls the police in Quebec, saying it is in favour of the idea of creating a surveillance committee to oversee the province’s anti-corruption unit.
  With even top Liberals saying they are not satisfied with the answers furnished by UPAC to justify its stunning arrest of a sitting member of the National Assembly, Guy Ouellette, six days ago Premier Philippe Couillard offered the committee.
  Similar committees
  
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• Just under half of Formula E tickets were giveaways

  01-11-2017 17:57 via cbc.ca
  After months of repeated requests, the organizers of Montreal's controversial Formula E electric car race have finally revealed how many of the 45,000 people who attended the event actually paid for their tickets — and how many received freebies.
  
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• Formula E attendance figures grossly inflated by freebies, organizer admits

  01-11-2017 17:57 via cbc.ca
  After months of repeated requests, the organizers of Montreal's controversial Formula E electric car race have finally revealed how many of the 45,000 people who attended the event actually paid for their tickets — and how many received freebies.
  
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• 20,000 of 45,000 Formula E tickets were given away, organizers say

  01-11-2017 17:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal c’est electrique (MCE), the non-profit organization that oversaw last July’s Formula E race, said in a statement Wednesday that 20,000 of the 45,000 tickets available for the event were given away to spectators.
  Questions over the number of tickets sold for the controversial event have dogged Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre in the months following the event.
  MCE notes the free tickets were distributed to various groups and local residents.
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• Refurbished Willow Inn is ready to receive, with new menu, fresh outlook

  01-11-2017 17:23 via montrealgazette.com
  The Willow Inn is back in business. Hudson’s popular destination for a drink with friends, a reunion with old buddies, or maybe a posh wedding has been closed for one year.
  New owners Patricia Wenzel and David Ades recently reopened the gracious white house as a gastro-pub, with a brand new menu designed by executive chef Shaun Hughes.
  Ades said the goal is to “elevate the Willow to a high standard of food, service and accommodations to allow our guests to truly benefit from our uniq
  
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• Video: Trick-or-treating at a Montreal seniors' home

  01-11-2017 17:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Les Petit Frères (Little Brothers) has been providing support to lonely seniors in Montreal for 55 years. Every Halloween, the centre opens its doors to trick-or-treaters.
  “This is a very special night for them,” said Joanne Parmenter from Les Petit Frères, adding that seeing the costumed kids helps the residents feel young again.
  Video by Dave Sidaway, Montreal Gazette
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