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• Quebec floods: Terrasse-Vaudreuil residents meet

  09-11-2017 23:59 via globalnews.ca
  Terrasse-Vaudreuil residents affected by the intense spring floods have an opportunity to meet with officials to talk about what they can do to speed up flood relief. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• John Abbott College remembers war veterans

  09-11-2017 23:59 via globalnews.ca
  Veterans of all ages who have served in wars and conflicts around the world are being honoured at a Remembrance Day ceremony at John Abbott College. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports.
  
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• Brownstein: Filmmaker checks into New York Public Library in Ex Libris

  09-11-2017 23:56 via montrealgazette.com
  The prevailing policy at most libraries is that “silence is golden.” Ex Libris — The New York Public Library, the 41st documentary by the legendary Frederick Wiseman, eschews this rule. It is a talkie in the inimitable style of its 87-year-old director.
  The doc — which screens at the 20th Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) Nov. 19 at Cineplex Quartier Latin — turns out to be the ultimate tribute to libraries, one of the most democratic of institution
  
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• Couple finds love through Leonard Cohen

  09-11-2017 23:55 via globalnews.ca
  Leonard Cohen’s music has long been credited for bringing people together. Global’s Gloria Henriquez speaks with a couple who found love and healing through the renowned singer-songwriter’s music.
  
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• Quebec passes law to rein in illegal schools, track home-schooled children

  09-11-2017 23:51 via cbc.ca
  The newly adopted bill 144, passed in reaction to clandestine Hasidic Jewish schools, increases the province's ability to track children being educated outside the Quebec school system.
  
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• Contrecoeur trial: Catania questioned on ties to Zampino, Trépanier

  09-11-2017 23:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Construction entrepreneur Paolo Catania’s Christmas parties were always well attended. He held them annually and spared few expenses; full limousine and town car services were offered for most guests. 
  According to notes from his agenda, both former Union Montreal party fundraiser Bernard Trépanier and Frank Zampino, the former Montreal executive committee chairman, had been invited to them in the years surrounding the 2007 Faubourg Contrecoeur land deal.
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• Quebec pharmacists to carry fentanyl antidote naloxone

  09-11-2017 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  Starting Friday, all of quebec's 1,900 pharmacies will be stocked with naloxone, a drug that can reverse a fentanyl overdose.
  
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• Liveblog: Minnesota at Canadiens

  09-11-2017 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Revenge is a dish best served cold.
  It will be a chilly 7 degrees in Montreal when the Canadiens play host to Minnesota Thursday evening.
  The atmosphere inside the building is likely to be warmer as the suddenly-hot Canadiens – winners of there straight and five of their last six – play host to the only team that’s beaten them lately.
  A week ago at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, the Wild scored twice within 10 seconds in the first period en route to a 4-0 lead and a 6-3 wi
  
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• 'This is not a trick': Plante denies budget shortfall news is ploy to lower voter expectations

  09-11-2017 23:15 via montrealgazette.com
  She was sporting a pink jacket Thursday, but things were looking less rosy for Montreal’s mayor-elect after learning of a $358-million budgetary shortfall.
  By law, the mayor of Montreal is not permitted to table a budget with a deficit, so Plante’s first order of business will be to chop seven per cent of the city’s $5.2-billion budget. Speaking to reporters Thursday morning during a visit to Mile End bicycle accessory-maker SmartHalo, Plante said she was disappointed
  
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• Stu Cowan: Canadiens' Charlie Lindgren keeps memories of IceCaps alive

  09-11-2017 22:58 via montrealgazette.com
  The St. John’s IceCaps no longer exist, but the memory of the AHL club has been living on through Canadiens goalie Charlie Lindgren.
  The IceCaps were the Canadiens’ top farm team for two years before the franchise moved from Newfoundland to Laval after last season and was renamed the Rocket. Lindgren played 48 games with the IceCaps last season, posting a 24-18-1 record with a 2.56 goals-against average and .914 save percentage.
  Lindgren started this season in Laval, but was called u
  
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• Leonard Cohen’s music brings couple together to love and heal

  09-11-2017 22:35 via globalnews.ca
  Denis Shackle credits Leonard Cohen's songs with healing his broken heart.
  
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• Tmrw on #BTMTL: What are the latest @HasbroNews must-haves this holiday season? @nadiastar has the answer! Your kid… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 22:30
  Tmrw on #BTMTL: What are the latest @HasbroNews must-haves this holiday season? @nadiastar has the answer! Your kid… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Montreal mayor-elect Valérie Plante says Coderre left 'huge' budget shortfall

  09-11-2017 22:04 via cbc.ca
  Mayor-elect Valérie Plante says the previous Coderre administration left behind a nasty surprise at city hall — an unexpected $358-million budget shortfall.
  
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• Tomorrow on #BTMTL: @Andrea_Buckett keeps it simple in the kitchen this holiday season! Her delicious platter recip… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 22:01
  Tomorrow on #BTMTL: @Andrea_Buckett keeps it simple in the kitchen this holiday season! Her delicious platter recip… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The insider's guide to MAC's Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything

  09-11-2017 22:00 via cbc.ca
  The Leonard Cohen exhibition is now open at Montreal's Musée d'art contemporain. To help visitors get the most out of the exhibition's interactive works and esoteric offerings, here's a quick guide.
  
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• Quebec OKs new roof for Big O

  09-11-2017 21:52 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec government has given the go-ahead to replace the dilapidated roof of Montreal's Olympic Stadium, Radio-Canada has learned.
  
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• F-word no longer taboo on French language broadcasts

  09-11-2017 21:50 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) ruled that a Montreal radio station did not violate any rules by airing two clips of celebrities using the F-word as part of public speeches.
  
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• Tomorrow on #BTMTL: Rabbi Asher Jacobson shares stories of his mother's altruistic life, which inspired the play "Q… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 21:30
  Tomorrow on #BTMTL: Rabbi Asher Jacobson shares stories of his mother's altruistic life, which inspired the play "Q… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The Bell Fund empowers cancer patients at the MUHC

  09-11-2017 20:48 via globalnews.ca
  Judy Martin founded The Bell Fund to help cancer patients.
  
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• Not right now, Valérie Plante says of a Bergeron-Projet Montréal reunion

  09-11-2017 20:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Valérie Plante said there are no immediate jobs available for her former boss, who was singing the mayor-elect’s praises on Montreal airwaves Thursday morning.
  Richard Bergeron, the leader of Projet Montréal in the 2013 election, was defeated in last Sunday’s election. He had run under the banner of Équipe Denis Coderre. On Thursday, Bergeron was interviewed on several morning radio shows and said he’d be happy to return to the party he founded in 2004.&nbs
  
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• Montrealers brave cold for Pharrell-endorsed kicks

  09-11-2017 20:38 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Nov 9: Montrealers are lining up for days for Pharrell-endorsed sneakers. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Tripping the light fluorescent: Montreal's Stars grow up

  09-11-2017 20:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Stars are a far cry from Metallica, but Montreal’s purest of indie-pop bands now shares one thing in common with the iconic heavy metal act: in April 2016, the members of Stars went into group therapy.
  “We were in a room about this size, in a circle, with a mediator — a therapist — and we put it all on the table,” multi-instrumentalist Evan Cranley said last week, sitting with partner/bandmate Amy Millan and their newborn son, Bo, in the family’s converte
  
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• RCMP announces major drug and gun trafficking bust in Ontario with links to organized crime

  09-11-2017 20:32 via globalnews.ca
  The RCMP have arrested nine people across the GTA and Quebec on Thursday in relation to a three-year-long drug and gun trafficking probe.
  
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• Tomorrow on #BTMTL: Cpl. Ron Diano of the Canadian Air Force discusses the importance of Remembrance Day and honour… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 20:30
  Tomorrow on #BTMTL: Cpl. Ron Diano of the Canadian Air Force discusses the importance of Remembrance Day and honour… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Montrealers ‘happy’ to brave cold for days for Pharrell-endorsed Adidas kicks

  09-11-2017 20:20 via globalnews.ca
  The shoes come in four colours and have different words printed on top.
  
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• Laval contracts amounted to little, Antonio Accurso trial told

  09-11-2017 19:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval municipal contracts awarded to companies owned by construction entrepreneur Antonio Accurso represented a tiny part of their combined revenues, a jury was told on Thursday.
  Accurso is alleged to have taken part in a system of collusion and kickbacks arranged by former Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt.
  Steve Caissy, an accountant who worked at Simard Beaudry Inc. (while working for an accounting firm from 2003 to 2009) and was later hired by the company itself, testified Thursday that work d
  
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• Update: Ex-PQ leader André Boisclair released after arrest

  09-11-2017 19:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Former Parti-Québécois leader André Boisclair has been arrested in Quebec City and could face charges of impaired driving, intimidation and refusing a blood alcohol test in connection with a road accident.
  Quebec City police say they arrested a 51-year-old man at 12:35 a.m. Thursday after a car ran into a lamp post on St-Joseph St. in the Saint-Roch neighbourhood of the provincial capital. 
  Officers on the scene arrested the motorist for impaired driving and took him in
  
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• 'We'll find the missing money,' Plante says of $358-million shortfall

  09-11-2017 19:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Even as it waited to be officially sworn in, the city administration of Valérie Plante was already facing its first, fiscal challenge — a $358-million budgetary shortfall.Speaking to reporters Thursday morning during a visit to a Mile End startup called SmartHalo, Plante said she was very disappointed to learn about the shortfall, which she discovered in the wake of post-election meetings with city manager Alain Marcoux.
  “It is huge,” Plante said of the shortfall. &
  
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• Game Day: Jonathan Drouin on the ice for Canadiens' morning skate

  09-11-2017 19:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Jonathan Drouin and Andrew Shaw — who both missed practice on Wednesday for therapy — were back on the ice for Thursday’s optional morning skate in Brossard before the Canadiens faced the Minnesota Wild at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690).
  Drouin missed the third period of the Canadiens’ 3-2 win over the Vegas Golden Knights Tuesday night at the Bell Centre after suffering an upper-body injury believed to be to his hand. 
  Drouin said after Thursd
  
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• Équipe Denis Coderre has new leader but party name stays for now

  09-11-2017 19:20 via cbc.ca
  Lionel Perez will guide Équipe Denis Coderre through a transition period — and help come up with a new name for the party.
  
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• Molson-Coors buys Le Trou du diable microbrewery

  09-11-2017 19:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The consumer craze for microbrewery beers continues to put pressure on the big brewers.
  The Six Pints ​​division, set up by Molson Coors to develop the specialty beer market, announced Thursday that it has acquired Shawinigan’s Le Trou du diable microbrewery.
  The agreement allows the microbrewery to continue its operations independently and, in the short term, the microbrewery will continue to process the sale and distribution of its products internally with the retailers with
  
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• 'Romantic triangle' behind Montreal murder attempt, police say

  09-11-2017 19:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police have turned to the public to help track down a 21-year-old suspect in a murder attempt on Oct. 30.
  Sergei Klenovski is being sought on a warrant in the attack on a 27-year-old man in his Papineau Ave. apartment in Plateau-Mont-Royal.
  Police say the incident occurred at about 1 a.m., when Klenovski and a second suspect rang the doorbell of the victim. The victim looked through the peep hole and, not seeing anyone, opened the door. The two men then emerged from either side, stabbed
  
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• Former PQ leader André Boisclair arrested in Quebec City after midnight car crash

  09-11-2017 18:17 via cbc.ca
  Quebec City police are not identifying the suspect but have confirmed that a 51-year-old man was detained after crashing into a lamppost and could face charges of impaired driving, refusal to take a breathalyzer test, obstructing justice and intimidation of a police officer.
  
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• With opioid overdoses on rise, naloxone to be offered for free in Quebec

  09-11-2017 18:10 via cbc.ca
  In order to prevent a full-blown fentanyl crisis, the life-saving naloxone will be available free of charge across 1,900 Quebec pharmacies as of Friday.
  
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• Here comes Santa Claus…to a Montreal mall on Remembrance Day and people aren’t happy

  09-11-2017 18:06 via globalnews.ca
  The mall's management has been lambasted online.
  
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• The opioid crisis: Quebec expands free naloxone antidote program

  09-11-2017 17:10 via montrealgazette.com
  In response to the fentanyl crisis that’s taken a toll on Vancouver and other parts of Canada, Quebec confirmed it will be expanding its free antidote program, effective Friday.
  Health Minister Gaétan Barrette and Public Health Minister Lucie Charlebois said that naloxone, a life-saving drug that counters opioid overdoses, will be made widely available at 1,900 community pharmacies. Naloxone will be distributed freely to anyone age 14 and older. No prescription will be required
  
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• New Centaur boss steps up with classic Hitchcock spoof The 39 Steps

  09-11-2017 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s been described as the birth of escapist entertainment, but just how escapist is a story about ostensibly patriotic men colluding with a foreign power to bring down democracy?
  Thankfully, Patrick Barlow’s zany stage version of Alfred Hitchcock’s droll adaptation of John Buchan’s grim spy thriller — The 39 Steps — has enough gags per minute to offer a much-needed breather from reality.
  Whatever stresses come with the new job, Centaur’s artistic direct
  
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• War and Christmas: Mall criticized for Santa's Remembrance Day arrival

  09-11-2017 16:54 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal shopping mall is getting criticized for trotting out Santa Claus on Remembrance Day.
  Saint Nick arrives at Place Versailles on Saturday morning — about an hour before ceremonies are held to honour Canada’s war dead.
  The mall’s management has been lambasted online — with social media users calling on Santa’s visit to be rescheduled.
  But in response, the mall says it isn’t logistically possible to have Santa come another day.
  "You can't have a quiet,
  
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• Ousted in the election, Richard Bergeron seeks a job with the party he founded

  09-11-2017 16:28 via cbc.ca
  Richard Bergeron says he felt an overwhelming surge of pride watching the party he founded come to power. Now, he's angling for a job with Valérie Plante.
  
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• Update: PQ MNAs react cautiously to reports of arrest of ex-leader Boisclair

  09-11-2017 16:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Former Parti-Québécois leader André Boisclair is expected to face charges of impaired driving, refusing a blood alcohol test and intimidation in Quebec City Thursday afternoon, according to multiple news reports.
  Quebec City police, who are refusing to identify the suspect, arrested a 51-year-old man at 12:35 a.m. Thursday after a car ran into a lamp post on St-Joseph St. Officers on the scene arrested the motorist for impaired driving and took him to the police station
  
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• Comfort kits for newly-diagnosed cancer patients

  09-11-2017 16:13 via globalnews.ca
  The Bell Fund founder Judy Martin joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about their comfort kits for newly-diagnosed cancer patients and the upcoming Symphony for ‘The Bell’ benefit concert.
  
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• Mom Talk with @CVDmtl: Is your teen getting enough sleep? btmontreal.ca/videos/is-your…

  09-11-2017 16:06
  Mom Talk with @CVDmtl: Is your teen getting enough sleep? btmontreal.ca/videos/is-your…
  
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• Chef @Ricardocuisine on reimagining Quebec's schools - Full video and a recipe segment at btmontreal.ca/videos/ https://t.co/Aaw677uqOu

  09-11-2017 16:04
  
  Chef @Ricardocuisine on reimagining Quebec's schools - Full video and a recipe segment at btmontreal.ca/videos/ https://t.co/Aaw677uqOu
  
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• Five things to do in Montreal this weekend: Nov. 10-12

  09-11-2017 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The weather’s starting to cool off, but the good news is: there’s still plenty of fun to be had in the great indoors.
  Here are five suggestions to make the most of your weekend. 
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  The second weekend of Montreal’s festival of francophone cinema has no shortage of riches on offer. If you’re looking for something to watch on Saturday, try legendary director Claude Lelouch’s Chacun sa vie. Screening at 9:15 a.m. at the Imperial, it’s the director&rsq
  
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• Top holiday décor trends

  09-11-2017 15:53 via globalnews.ca
  Global News Morning decor expert Karl Lohnes joins Laura Casella to show this year’s holiday decor trends.
  
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• Montrealers line-up in near-freezing temperatures days ahead of shoe launch

  09-11-2017 15:53 via globalnews.ca
  Pharrell Williams’s line of adidas NMD Hu Trail shoes go on sale Saturday and people have been lined up outside of downtown Montreal’s OTH Boutique since Tuesday. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Ex-PQ leader André Boisclair arrested for suspected drunk driving: reports

  09-11-2017 15:53 via globalnews.ca
  Police have not confirmed that Boisclair is the person they arrested.
  
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• Wallenberg Lectureship with Canadian Supreme Court Justice Hon. Rosalie Abella

  09-11-2017 15:46 via globalnews.ca
  The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism invite you to join us at the Wallenberg Lectureship, to be delivered by Canadian Supreme Court Justice Hon. Rosalie Abella. Inaugurated in 1988 by Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel, the Wallenberg Lectureship commemorates the humanitarian legacy of Raoul...
  
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• AvH Christmas Bazaar

  09-11-2017 15:16 via globalnews.ca
  Come and enjoy the festive ambiance at the AvH Christmas Bazaar! Over 60 vendors will be selling handmade Christmas wreaths, decorations, handicrafts, books, gourmet treats, German specialties and much more.
  
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• The dating dilemmas that women face

  09-11-2017 14:51 via globalnews.ca
  Dating expert Kavita Ajwani and love coach Diana Eskander join Global’s Laura Casella to talk about a workshop for women that addresses their dating dilemmas.
  
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