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• Plante, Coderre arm in arm to honour veterans on Remembrance Day

  12-11-2017 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  After weeks of campaigning against each other in the race for Montreal mayor, Denis Coderre and Valérie Plante locked arms Saturday to honour the memory of Canada’s fallen soldiers.
  The former rivals laid a wreath at Place du Canada while the Black Watch pipe and drum band played on in the biting November cold. Coderre appeared sullen in one of his last public outings as mayor.
  For Plante, who was elected last Sunday, the ceremony was a chance to absorb the weight of her new office.
  
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• Pat Hickey: Bettman takes another slapshot at Canadian taxpayers

  12-11-2017 23:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Never let it be said that concussion-denier Gary Bettman doesn’t care about hockey in Canada.
  The commissioner was in Sweden on the weekend to watch a pair of games between the Ottawa Senators and the Colorado Avalanche, and he questioned the viability of the Ottawa franchise unless it gets a new downtown arena.
  Bettman has made similar comments about the future of the Calgary Flames, who are also looking for a new facility. In both cases, the teams are expecting taxpayers to contribute to
  
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• Carabins coach laments what could have been after Dunsmore Cup loss to Rouge et Or

  12-11-2017 23:06 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — It has long been the lament of losing football coaches to complain about the officiating — occasionally with just cause.
  And so it came as no surprise when Danny Maciocia — with justification, we might add — protested a helmet-to-helmet hit on Khalil Kerr late in the first half of Saturday’s Dunsmore Cup final that went unpenalized. That the transgressor, Laval safety Kevin McGee, was a repeat offender, added salt to the wound.
  Kerr, who had just
  
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• Jack Todd: Brother, can you spare another quarter (billion) for Big Owe?

  12-11-2017 23:03 via montrealgazette.com
  The Big Owe is the gift that keeps on taking.
  Got a spare dollar? If you do, the Olympic Stadium would be only too happy to swallow it for you.
  From its inception in the early 1970s well into the new millennium, it has been a clown stadium, an ugly, ruinously expensive concrete stain on this city, a money-gorging rat-hole down which whole generations of weak-kneed, jelly-spined politicians have happily poured our hard-earned tax dollars.
  It is civic folly taken to its illogical extreme, madness
  
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• This week on Focus Montreal: Nov. 11

  12-11-2017 22:38
  This week on Focus Montreal: Hear from Projet Montreal VP Jimmy Zoubris on Valérie Plante’s historic win, catch up with the people behind the giant new Leonard Cohen mural in downtown Montreal and MNA Rita de Santis grants her first interview since being dropped from cabinet last month
  
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• Stu Cowan: Why were Canadiens fans booing Nathan Beaulieu?

  12-11-2017 22:31 via montrealgazette.com
  You can add Nathan Beaulieu’s name to the long list of former Canadiens players to get booed by Montreal fans on their return to the city with a different team.
  Beaulieu played his first game at the Bell Centre Saturday night since being traded to the Buffalo Sabres during the off-season and played a key role in Max Pacioretty’s overtime goal that gave the Canadiens a 2-1 win — but it wasn’t Beaulieu’s fault. Beaulieu was trying to make a pass when his stick snapped
  
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• Take out the winter coats and boots! https://t.co/WOyzAZ69h8

  12-11-2017 22:30
  
  Take out the winter coats and boots! https://t.co/WOyzAZ69h8
  
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• Thousands march in family-friendly anti-racism protest

  12-11-2017 22:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Montreal streets Sunday afternoon to denounce the extreme right, racism and the Quebec government’s religious neutrality law, which forces veiled women to show their faces to receive public services.
  The anti-racism protest, called the Grande Manifestation contre la haine et le racisme, or, Large Demonstration Against Hate and Racism, is began at 2 p.m. at Place Émilie-Gamelin.
  About 160 organizations, including student
  
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• Focus Montreal: Rita de Santis

  12-11-2017 21:58
  Sun, Nov 12: MNA Rita de Santis joins National Assembly correspondent Raquel Fletcher for her first sit-down interview since being dropped from the Liberal caucus last month.
  
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• Focus Montreal: Leonard Cohen memorialized in mural

  12-11-2017 21:45
  Sun, Nov 12: MU’s Elizabeth-Ann Doyle joins senior anchor Jamie Orchard to share her experience as one of 15 painters who worked on a massive Leonard Cohen mural recently unveiled in Montreal.
  
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• Focus Montreal: Projet Montréal and Valérie Plante’s historic win

  12-11-2017 21:38
  Sun, Nov 12: Projet Montréal vice-president Jimmy Zoubris joins senior anchor Jamie Orchard to talk about the party’s priorities and give some insight into the campaign that saw Valérie Plante oust incumbent Denis Coderre.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Why were Canadiens fans booing Nathan Beaulieu? - Montreal Gazette

  12-11-2017 21:28
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  Stu Cowan: Why were Canadiens fans booing Nathan Beaulieu?
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  It might be the greatest honour new Buffalo Sabres defenceman has ever received at the Bell Centre. Stu Cowan, Montreal Gazette More from Stu Cowan, Montreal Gazette. Published on: November 12, 2017 | Last Updated: November 12, 2017 4:31 PM EST.
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• Activists deface statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in downtown Montreal

  12-11-2017 21:13
  A group has claimed responsibility for defacing a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald overnight in Montreal's Place du Canada.
  
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• TOMORROW on #BTMTL: No meat, no problem! Registered dietitian and founder of YUMiBOX Zoey Li joins us for Meatless… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-11-2017 21:01
  TOMORROW on #BTMTL: No meat, no problem! Registered dietitian and founder of YUMiBOX Zoey Li joins us for Meatless… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Montreal demonstration protests racism, face-covering law

  12-11-2017 21:00 via cbc.ca
  In Montreal, thousands of protesters took to the streets today to denounce systemic hatred and racism in a massive demonstration.
  
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• Massive Montreal demonstration protests racism, face-covering law

  12-11-2017 21:00 via cbc.ca
  In Montreal, hundreds of protesters took to the streets today to denounce systemic hatred and racism in a massive demonstration.
  
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• Anti-racism protest kicks off in Montreal

  12-11-2017 21:00 via cbc.ca
  In Montreal, hundreds of protesters are taking to the streets today to denounce systemic hatred and racism in a massive demonstration.
  
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• TOMORROW: Montreal's Kids for Kids gala raises money for fighting little hero cancer patients on Sarah's Floor. Wat… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-11-2017 20:01
  TOMORROW: Montreal's Kids for Kids gala raises money for fighting little hero cancer patients on Sarah's Floor. Wat… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The life and death of Anthony Griffin and how he changed a city

  12-11-2017 20:00 via cbc.ca
  This week, for the 30th anniversary of Anthony Griffin's death, CBC Montreal launched a series exploring how the fatal police shooting galvanized Montreal's black community.
  
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• The death of Anthony Griffin and how he changed a city

  12-11-2017 20:00 via cbc.ca
  This week, for the 30th anniversary of Anthony Griffin's death, CBC Montreal launched a series exploring how the fatal police shooting galvanized Montreal's black community.
  
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• Sir John A. Macdonald statue vandalized in Montreal by activists

  12-11-2017 19:30
  Montreal activists spray-painted a statue of the first prime minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald.
  
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• John A. Macdonald statue vandalized in Montreal by activists

  12-11-2017 19:30
  Montreal activists spray painted at statue of the first prime minister of Canada, John A. Macdonald.
  
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• 'Anti-racist' group takes credit for spray-painting John A. Macdonald statue

  12-11-2017 19:17 via montrealgazette.com
  An anonymous group of “anti-colonial anti-racists” have taken credit for spray-painting the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in Place du Canada early Sunday.
  The group filmed themselves dousing the statue with red paint and posted the footage to a popular Montreal anarchist website. In a communiqué published beneath the video, the group says they targeted Canada’s first prime minister because he was a “white supremacist.”
  “He directly contributed to the
  
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• Canadian men sprint to gold at long track World Cup

  12-11-2017 19:09 via cbc.ca
  Canada stood at the top of the podium after their effort in the men's team sprint while Ted-Jan Bloemen and Ivanie Blondin also added to Canada's medal count at the long track speed skating World Cup season opener in Heerenveen, Netherlands on Sunday.
  
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• TOMORROW ON #BTMTL: Paula Toledo talks positive change for people touched by mental illness. Watch live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-11-2017 19:01
  TOMORROW ON #BTMTL: Paula Toledo talks positive change for people touched by mental illness.Watch live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• One person dead after vehicle flips into Richelieu River

  12-11-2017 18:52
  A 38-year-old woman is dead after she lost control of her vehicle coming out of a slight curve. The vehcile then hit a hydro pole before landing upside down in the Richelieu River.
  
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• Montreal police seek public's help finding missing young woman

  12-11-2017 18:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are seeking the public’s help in the search for young woman who has been missing since Thursday.
  Aya Rbah, 16, hasn’t been seen since catching a bus after leaving her home in St-Léonard, police said in a statement Sunday.
  She could be in Montreal but also in Toronto or elsewhere in Ontario.
  Aya is described as 165 cm tall, and weighing 68 kg. 
  All information concerning the teenager can be communicated anonymously to Info-Crime Montréal, at 514
  
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• Cowansville Penitentiary under lockdown after contraband found

  12-11-2017 18:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Cowansville Penitentiary is under lockdown until further notice, with detainees confined to their cells.
  The medium-security prison in the Montérégie region launched a general search Friday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. after finding some drugs and contraband items. All visits to the prison have cancelled until further notice.
  These “safety measures” were implemented because of a security threat to detainees, guards and the public, Line Dumais, responsible for communications f
  
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• John A. Macdonald statue vandalized in Montreal

  12-11-2017 18:12 via cbc.ca
  An anonymous group claimed responsibility for the vandalism, saying Canada's first prime minister was a "colonialist" who "contributed to the genocide of Indigenous peoples."
  
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• John A. Macdonald statue vandalized in downtown Montreal

  12-11-2017 18:12 via cbc.ca
  The John A. Macdonald monument at Place du Canada in downtown Montreal was vandalized with what appears to be paint on Saturday night or early Sunday morning.
  
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• Thumbs up to the @MTLAlouettes for their logo redesign for Remembrance Day! https://t.co/Ns9AwtN4D9

  12-11-2017 18:08
  
  Thumbs up to the @MTLAlouettes for their logo redesign for Remembrance Day! https://t.co/Ns9AwtN4D9
  
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• The @CanadiensMTL honoured military veterans last night by wearing special "camo" jerseys during the pre-game skate. https://t.co/UhKR7OjFNk

  12-11-2017 18:06
  
  The @CanadiensMTL honoured military veterans last night by wearing special "camo" jerseys during the pre-game skate. https://t.co/UhKR7OjFNk
  
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• ICYMI: @Ricardocuisinenever ceases to amaze with his sophisticated and savoury dishes. Find his canapé recipes here: ow.ly/4uqB30gukwR

  12-11-2017 16:02
  ICYMI: @Ricardocuisinenever ceases to amaze with his sophisticated and savoury dishes. Find his canapé recipes here: ow.ly/4uqB30gukwR
  
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• Awareness campaign: no comments on weight this week

  12-11-2017 16:01 via montrealgazette.com
  ÉquiLibre will be launching its annual awareness campaign, “Weight? No comment!” on Monday.
  From November 13 to 17, ÉquiLibre will be raising awareness about why it’s never appropriate to comment on someone’s weight — whether gain or loss — the prevalence of such comments in society and their negative consequences.
  As part of this initiative, the organization has developed an awareness tool and a learning workshop to implement practical tips. The
  
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• Westmount, NDG to hold Remembrance Day ceremonies today

  12-11-2017 15:29 via cbc.ca
  Citizens still have a chance to pay their respects to veterans, past and present, during Sunday's events.
  
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• Westmount, NDG hold Remembrance Day ceremonies

  12-11-2017 15:29 via cbc.ca
  Citizens paid their respects to veterans, past and present, during Sunday's events.
  
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• Woman dies after car plunges into river east of Montreal

  12-11-2017 15:19 via montrealgazette.com
  A woman, 38, died in a freak accident early Sunday morning in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, 50 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
  The victim’s car slammed into a Hydro pole and then swerved off the road just before 2 a.m., plunging upside-down in the Richelieu River.
  Neighbours called police after hearing a loud a bang; their electricity had cut off following the impact with the Hydro pole.
  A Sûreté du Québec officer first on the scene jumped into the murky rive
  
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• While you were sleeping: a fatal crash, a title match and India pride

  12-11-2017 15:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Crash kills driver, severs hydro pole east of Montreal. Police are investigating the cause of a late night collision that sent a car careening into the Richelieu River around 1:45 a.m. Sunday. The car was travelling along a country road in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu when its driver lost control and slammed into a Hydro-Québec pole — fatally wounding her. Police say the impact with severed the pole but wasn’t enough to stop the vehicle, which plunged into the river. That&
  
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• Fitness: What we learned from The Biggest Loser

  12-11-2017 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Biggest Loser was more than a reality TV show. It was a petri dish for the study of obesity, in particular how diet and exercise impact weight loss.
  The show was created with a TV audience in mind, but the research community is the biggest winner — benefitting from 17 seasons worth of contestants from which to gather data.
  So far, over a dozen studies have used the popular TV show, which debuted in 2005, to analyze the physiological and psycho-social aspects of rapid and/or significant
  
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• Kim Boutin golden again at short track World Cup in Shanghai

  12-11-2017 14:08 via cbc.ca
  Canada's Kim Boutin tallied her second individual gold medal of the season at a short track speed skating World Cup event in Shanghai, China, on Sunday.
  
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• Woman, 38, killed in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu car crash

  12-11-2017 13:23 via cbc.ca
  A 38-year-old woman is dead after losing control of her vehicle, crashing into a Hydro pole and landing in the Richelieu River, early Sunday morning.
  
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• Former NHLer Joé Juneau shut out of youth hockey program in Nunavik

  12-11-2017 13:00 via cbc.ca
  After working with young Inuit hockey players for the past 11 years, Joé Juneau is being dismissed from his role in Nunavik's minor hockey program as it undergoes structural changes.
  
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• Quebec drivers flock to change their winter tires before Dec. 15 deadline

  12-11-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  The warm weather earlier this fall may have kept people from changing their tires earlier, but with the Dec. 15 deadline looming, Quebecers are flocking to their local garage.
  
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• From the archives: Architect Ostell left his mark on Montreal

  12-11-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  This story was first published on Nov. 15, 2014, in the Montreal Gazette.It was something of a scoop. On Nov. 12, 1835, The Gazette and La Minerve announced the results of a competition to build a new custom house in the city. The stories named the winning architect, described the proposed building and included the site where it would be built. What made the story a scoop was that the final decision had still not been made public. Not until nearly a month later, on Dec. 5, did the House of Assem
  
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• Max Pacioretty scores in overtime, Canadiens edge Sabres 2-1

  12-11-2017 07:05
  Max Pacioretty scored 3:08 into overtime and minor league call-up Charlie Lindgren turned in another strong game in goal as the Canadiens downed the Buffalo Sabres 2-1 on Saturday night.
  
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• Montreal's Artur Beterbiev wins IBF title against Enrico Koelling

  12-11-2017 06:02 via montrealgazette.com
   FRESNO, Calif. — Artur Beterbiev (12-0, 12 KOs) of Montreal scored two knockdowns in the 12 and final round to stop Enrico Koelling (23-2, 6 KOs) for the vacant IBF light heavyweight world title on Saturday night. 
  Beterbiev did most of his damage in the last two rounds  landing heavy shots on Koelling, who was backing up.
  Koelling took a knee in the final minute of the 12 round from the constant pommelling. With nothing left in the tank, he went down for a second tim
  
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• Habs Game Report: Lindgren, Pacioretty dig in to get OT win over Sabres

  12-11-2017 05:44 via montrealgazette.com
  The bottom line: It’s going to take a bulldozer to move rookie goaltender Charlie Lindgren out of the Canadiens’ crease. The 23-year-old Minnesotan turned in another solid performance at the Bell Centre on Saturday and the Canadiens posted a 2-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres when Max Pacioretty scored at 3:08 of overtime. Since being called up from Laval after Carey Price suffered a lower-body injury, Lindgren has made four consecutive starts and has posted a 3-1-1 record. He has
  
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• In the Habs' Room: 'We're climbing our way back into this thing'

  12-11-2017 05:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Max Pacioretty said it’s one thing to get the bounces; it’s another thing to take advantage of them.
  A perfect example was Pacioretty’s overtime goal that gave the Canadiens a 2-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday night at the Bell Centre. Phillip Danault took advantage of a turnover and fed a pass to Pacioretty, who went to his backhand to beat Chad Johnson on a breakaway at 3:08.
  “They broke a stick and Phil was able to jump on it and create a turnover,” sai
  
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• New snow-making equipment allows Quebec ski hills to open early

  12-11-2017 04:35 via cbc.ca
  Just a little more than a month ago, Sommet Saint Sauveur's waterpark was open. Saturday, it was covered in a blanket of snow skiers and snowboarders were already gliding down.
  
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• About last night … Canadiens edge Sabres 2-1 in OT

  12-11-2017 04:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Feeling better about your Montreal Canadiens?
  For the second time this season, they needed extra time to beat the mighty Buffalo Sabres.
  In the season opener, Oct. 5 in Buffalo, Jonathan Drouin’s shootout goal secured a 3-2 win.
  Saturday night at the Bell Centre, Max Pacioretty was the hero, a few ticks past three minutes into overtime.
  Wait, did I crown the Captain as the hero?
  It was actually Charlie Lindgren who was the game’s first star.
  With his parents in the crowd, Lindgren ma
  
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