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• Quebec Liberal tax cuts leave opposition parties unconvinced

  22-11-2017 23:38 via globalnews.ca
  Question period was full of insults and mockery at the National Assembly over the Liberals’ economic update, as the opposition accused the government of trying to pull the wool over voters’ eyes. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Will Valérie Plante repeal Montreal pit bull ban?

  22-11-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal mayor Valérie Plante says addressing the city’s pit bull ban will be one of her top priorities as she takes office. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports.
  
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• Tomorrow on @BTMontreal: Dr. Sabrine Manoli has everything you need to know about cold and flu viruses. https://t.co/EWswBFQQuH

  22-11-2017 23:30
  
  Tomorrow on @BTMontreal: Dr. Sabrine Manoli has everything you need to know about cold and flu viruses. https://t.co/EWswBFQQuH
  
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• Water to flow from faucets tonight for 50 NDG residents

  22-11-2017 23:23 via cbc.ca
  After an aging water pipe broke last Thursday, residents of a Girouard Street apartment building near the corner of Sherbrooke Street West were left without water for nearly a week.
  
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• Canada rejecting 90% of asylum claims filed by Haitians - CTV News

  22-11-2017 23:22
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  OTTAWA -- The majority of asylum seekers who have crossed illegally into Canada so far this year were Haitian and so far, only 10 per cent of their claims have been accepted, newly released data showed Wednesday. Since February, the Immigration and ...and more »
  
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• New Montreal comedy festival competing with JFL

  22-11-2017 23:08 via globalnews.ca
  The new Festival du Rire de Montréal, organized by mostly francophone comedians, is hoping to compete with Just For Laughs. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, the festival got a boost when it announced it was teaming up with JFL co-founder Andy Nulman.
  
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• Valérie Plante promises more transparency at city hall

  22-11-2017 23:04 via cbc.ca
  Montreal's newly elected mayor promises her administration will be transparent and friendly after her executive committee held its first sitting since last week's swearing-in.
  
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• Montreal weightlifter trains for 2020 Olympics

  22-11-2017 23:04 via globalnews.ca
  National weightlifting champion (75 kg) Kristel Ngarlem is taking part in the World Championships. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, the young Montreal athlete is treating it as a qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
  
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• A heavy task: 21-year-old Montrealer trains for Weightlifting World Championships

  22-11-2017 23:03 via globalnews.ca
  Kristel Ngarlem is training for the Weightlifting World Championships.
  
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• Hackers only needed a phone number to track this Quebec MP's cellphone

  22-11-2017 23:00 via cbc.ca
  A CBC/Radio-Canada demonstration shows just how easy it is for hackers halfway across the world to spy on a Canadian MP’s phone calls and track his movements.
  
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• Hackers only needed a phone number to track this MP's cellphone

  22-11-2017 23:00 via cbc.ca
  A CBC/Radio-Canada demonstration shows just how easy it is for hackers halfway across the world to spy on a Canadian MP’s phone calls and track his movements.
  
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• Montreal Gazette Christmas Fund 2017: Divorce leaves immigrant mother in tough position

  22-11-2017 22:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Just months after arriving from Algeria in 2015, Karima became pregnant with her second child. But soon, marital troubles brought on challenges she could not expect.
  “He completely, completely changed,” she said of her ex-husband. “He filed for divorce. I was five months pregnant.”
  After giving birth to their child, Karima said she hoped the father would change his mind, but he has not. Now, with a 15-month-old and seven-year-old, the single mother struggles to provide fo
  
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• P.K. Subban, Alexei Emelin reunited on Predators' blue line

  22-11-2017 22:50 via montrealgazette.com
  NASHVILLE — The No. 1 defence pair for the Nashville Predators has a familiar look for Canadiens fans.
  With Ryan Ellis on the shelf after a knee injury, Nashville head coach Peter Laviolette has reunited P.K. Subban and Alexei Emelin.
  “They’ve been great,” said Laviolette. “They play against other teams’ top lines. Sometimes we switch it up because we have (Mattias) Ekholm and (Roman) Josi, and we know Ek can play with Subban. But we had a little bit of histor
  
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• Quebec passes motion against Ottawa’s directive allowing knives on planes

  22-11-2017 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  Transport Canada recently announced that knife blades up to six centimetres will be allowed on domestic and most international flights.
  
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• Tomorrow on @BTMontreal: Leader of the Conservative Party @AndrewScheer reveals what his Canada would look like if… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-11-2017 22:30
  Tomorrow on @BTMontreal: Leader of the Conservative Party @AndrewScheer reveals what his Canada would look like if… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Transport Canada decision to allow blades on planes incurs wrath of Quebec politicians

  22-11-2017 22:25 via cbc.ca
  In a nearly unanimous vote, Quebec’s lawmakers have passed a motion asking Transport Canada to reverse its decision to allow finger-length blades onto most of the country’s airplanes.
  
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• Analyze This: Canadiens' Shea Weber at his best alongside Victor Mete

  22-11-2017 22:21 via montrealgazette.com
  When the Canadiens traded P.K. Subban to the Nashville Predators for Shea Weber in a blockbuster deal on June 29, 2016, the word on the street was that they had acquired a rock-steady defenceman who would solidify the blue line and become an imposing presence on the team.
  To his credit, Weber has played well throughout his tenure in Montreal. His strength lies in denying controlled entries into the defensive zone, as well as using his heavy shot to terrorize goalies on the power play.
  Given that
  
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• Quebec oppositions say Liberal tax refunds came from spending cuts

  22-11-2017 22:20 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's Liberals boasted about their economic update and the tax cuts, but opposition parties say the government is trying to pull the wool over voters' eyes.
  
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• Andy Nulman talks joining the new Festival du Rire de Montréal

  22-11-2017 21:57 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Nov 22: Andy Nulman, a key architect of Just for Laughs, explains why he joined the new Festival du Rire de Montréal.
  
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• 'There you have it': Railway expert concludes more handbrakes would have prevented Lac-Mégantic tragedy

  22-11-2017 20:58 via cbc.ca
  Railway accident investigator Steven Callaghan has concluded double the number of handbrakes should have been applied to the 74-car fuel train left parked for the night in Nantes, Que., 12 kilometres up the track from Lac-Mégantic.
  
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• PK Subban, Alexei Emelin reunited on Predators' blue line - Montreal Gazette

  22-11-2017 20:37
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  PK Subban, Alexei Emelin reunited on Predators' blue line
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  Laviolette said Subban has been a key player since he arrived from Montreal in the blockbuster 2016 trade that sent Shea Weber to the Canadiens. Pat Hickey, Montreal Gazette More from Pat Hickey, Montreal Gazette. Published on: November 22, 2017 ...
  Montreal Canadiens: All eyes are on Shea Weber, but Jerabek can playA Winning Habitall 24 news articles »
  
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• Environmental group demands more public consultations on REM - CTV News

  22-11-2017 20:04
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  Environmental group demands more public consultations on REM
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  Montreal's much-hyped light rail system is facing a legal challenge from an environmental group that claims the province skirted the law and held inadequate public consultations on the project. In a court filing Coalition Climat Montreal claimed the ...and more »
  
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• Christmas trees arrive at Atwater Market

  22-11-2017 19:59 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Nov 22: With one month to go until the holidays, Christmas trees are already up for sale at the Atwater Market. Global’s Matt Grillo reports.
  
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• Quebec youth court judge blames Batshaw agency for children living in bug-infested foster home

  22-11-2017 19:54 via cbc.ca
  A Quebec youth court judge is slamming the youth protection agency that serves English-speaking Montrealers for ignoring a woman's concerns about her children's neglect and the unsanitary conditions in which they were living in a foster home for a decade.
  
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• Christmas trees in abundance at Montreal’s Atwater Market

  22-11-2017 19:46 via globalnews.ca
  With one month to go until the holidays, Christmas trees are already up for sale at the Atwater Market.
  
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• Justin Trudeau's wax sculpture unveiled at Montreal's Grevin wax museum - Globalnews.ca

  22-11-2017 19:35
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  Justin Trudeau's wax sculpture unveiled at Montreal's Grevin wax museum
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  Instead of having to elbow through a crowd of fawning denizens to get a snapshot of Justin Trudeau, fans of the 23rd prime minister can now take their time for a selfie with their favourite world leader – almost. READ MORE: Irish leader shows off socks ...
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• Premier Couillard ready to revisit Sklavounos's exclusion from Liberal caucus

  22-11-2017 19:22 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – Premier Philippe Couillard says he’s ready to sit down and talk to Lauier-Dorion MNA Gerry Sklavounos about his future.
  One day after allowing Liberal Guy Ouellette back into caucus pending the results of a police investigation in which he was arrested, Couillard said he’s willing to discuss with Sklavounos who last year faced allegations of sexual assault.
  Couillard said he wants to “clarify” things with Sklavounos, who was kicked out of the Liberal caucus
  
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• Daily opioid prescriptions in Quebec almost half the Canadian average: new report

  22-11-2017 19:14 via cbc.ca
  Doctors have been prescribing more opioids overall, but giving individual patients fewer doses at one time, a new report says.
  
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• LGBTQ cinema alive and well at 30th Image + Nation film festival

  22-11-2017 19:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Pride comes with the territory as Montreal’s Image + Nation film festival marks 30 years of bringing LGBTQ stories to the big screen, Thursday through Dec. 3.
  “These things make you sit down and reflect,” Image + Nation executive director Charlie Boudreau said over coffee with programming director Katharine Setzer.
  “It made us come up with this,” she continued, pointing to the festival program.
  “You need a round number to say these things. I’m a pop cult
  
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• Montreal's ugly Christmas tree returns - CTV News

  22-11-2017 18:52
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  Montreal's ugly Christmas tree returns
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  Montreal's infamous ugly Christmas tree of 2016 -- one that generated headlines and social media posts around the world because of its awkward appearance -- is the inspiration behind an entire village this holiday season. A new "ugly" tree is being ...and more »
  
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• Probe into death of Mount Royal cyclist submitted to Crown

  22-11-2017 18:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police have submitted their investigation report into the death of a cyclist on Mount Royal to the provincial Crown prosecutors office.
  Clément Ouimet, 18, died Oct. 4 after being struck by a car on Camillien-Houde Way. Police say the driver made an illegal U-turn. 
  The Crown’s office will decide whether charges will be laid in connection with the death.
  
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• Investigation into death of young Montreal cyclist handed over to Crown

  22-11-2017 18:31 via cbc.ca
  Montreal police say they have recently handed over the investigation into the death of Clément Ouimet to Quebec's Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions (DPCP).
  
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• Canadiens promote Laval Rocket defenceman Jakub Jerabek

  22-11-2017 18:27 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens promoted defenceman Jakub Jerabek from the American Hockey League’s Laval Rocket on Wednesday.
  The native of Plzen, Czech Republic, has one goal, 10 assists, a plus-10 rating and 16 penalty minutes in 17 games with Laval this season.
  Acquired by the Canadiens in May, the 5-foot-11, 200-pound blue-liner will join the team in Nashville, where the Canadiens face the Predators Wednesday at 8 p.m.Jerabek played in the Kontinental Hockey League last season, when he had five g
  
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• More asylum seekers could be on their way - @ImCoraMacDonald reports https://t.co/7YI0Mg2KuV

  22-11-2017 18:24
  
  More asylum seekers could be on their way - @ImCoraMacDonald reports https://t.co/7YI0Mg2KuV
  
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• Turning a blind eye to crack houses? @Tinatenneriello follows up on a CityNews exclusive, speaks to social workers… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-11-2017 18:22
  Turning a blind eye to crack houses? @Tinatenneriello follows up on a CityNews exclusive, speaks to social workers… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Batshaw neglected children's needs, judge rules

  22-11-2017 18:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Batshaw Youth and Family Centres has had its knuckles rapped for keeping two neglected children in a dirty foster home that that bed bugs, cockroaches and an absent foster mother.
  The foster mother was often out in the evening, the children had to occasionally fend for themselves at suppertime and there was insufficient homework help, according to a judgment by Quebec Court Judge Annie Savard.
  Youth protection had removed the children from their biological mother’s home several years earli
  
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• Apple buys Montreal AR company Vrvana for $30M https://t.co/zaenuTm90N

  22-11-2017 18:13
  
  Apple buys Montreal AR company Vrvana for $30M https://t.co/zaenuTm90N
  
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• Video: @cookingwithv shows you how to entertain for the holidays with brunch btmontreal.ca/videos/enterta…

  22-11-2017 18:10
  Video: @cookingwithv shows you how to entertain for the holidays with brunch btmontreal.ca/videos/enterta…
  
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• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau comes to @GrevinMontreal btmontreal.ca/videos/prime-m…

  22-11-2017 18:10
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• Concert review: Jay Z proves he's rap's greatest showman - Montreal Gazette

  22-11-2017 17:06
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  Concert review: Jay Z proves he's rap's greatest showman
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  Jay Z performs at the Bell Centre in Montreal Tuesday November 21, 2017. John Mahoney / Montreal Gazette. Share Adjust Comment Print. It was the sort of rap show your non-rap loving acquaintances would've appreciated. Resurgent New York rap elder ...and more »
  
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• All visitors to Montreal city hall (even Joe Biden) must now sign in - Montreal Gazette

  22-11-2017 16:58
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  All visitors to Montreal city hall (even Joe Biden) must now sign in
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  “I have always said our administration will be about mobility, and the (Société de transport de Montréal) is the main organ that we work with, so it will be important to review their budget and look at their priorities, and we have already started to ...
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• Fourth safe-injection site opens in Montreal

  22-11-2017 16:28 via montrealgazette.com
  A new safe-injection site has opened in Montreal, bringing to four the number of sites in the city.
  Public Health Minister Lucie Charlebois made the announcement Wednesday.
  The site is operated by the community organization Spectre de Rue and the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal.
  Two other safe-injection sites, operated by CACTUS Montreal and Dopamine, opened this year. There is also a mobile unit that offers safe-injection services, operated by Anonyme.
  Plans for the
  
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• Overnight fire forces evacuation of building in Laval

  22-11-2017 16:23 via globalnews.ca
  About 30 residents were evacuated from the building after a four-alarm fire engulfed a Laval apartment building.
  
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• All visitors to city hall (even Joe Biden) must now sign in

  22-11-2017 16:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante said one of her first acts in her mandate will be to make city hall more transparent.
  Addressing the first executive-committee meeting of her mandate Wednesday morning, Plante said all visitors to city hall for business with elected officials will once again have to sign a register.
  The measure had been abolished in the last few moths of Denis Coderre’s mandate.
  In the next few days, Plante said, she will make public details of her agenda. 
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• Andy Nulman joins Festival du rire de Montréal organization

  22-11-2017 16:15 via montrealgazette.com
  One of the cofounders of the Just for Laughs festival has been hired by a rival comedy festival.
  Andy Nulman announced Wednesday morning he is joining the Festival du rire de Montréal as a consultant. The new festival was set up in the wake of sexual assault and misconduct allegations facing Gilbert Rozon, the president and principal shareholder of Montreal’s Just for Laughs festival. The festival is looking for a buyer of Rozon’s shares.
  The new festival, founded by 50 Q
  
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• Montreal comedy festival organized by Quebec comics competing with JFL

  22-11-2017 16:00 via globalnews.ca
  The festival hopes to hold its first edition in 2018.
  
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• Quebec's finance minister on austerity, tax cuts and marijuana as a 'dangerous substance'

  22-11-2017 15:54 via cbc.ca
  Carlos Leitão says the tax cuts announced in the province's economic update are more than a re-election ploy. They are, he said, the result of "strict, rigorous spending rules" in the first years of the Liberal government's mandate.
  
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• Adam Dahan sings Lose My Love

  22-11-2017 15:38 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal R&B/pop artist Adam Dahan joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about his career and sing his latest single, Lose My Love.
  
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• Introducing technology to your kids

  22-11-2017 15:27 via globalnews.ca
  Life coach Erica Diamond joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about how and when to introduce technology to your children.
  
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• Laval apartment building evacuated after 4-alarm fire

  22-11-2017 15:18 via globalnews.ca
  An overnight four-alarm fire on Ampère Avenue in Laval-des-Rapides forced the evacuation of an eleven-unit apartment building. Nobody was injured in the blaze.
  
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