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• Quebec's finance minister says next budget will support small business

  23-11-2017 23:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Supporting small and medium-sized businesses will be one of the main goals of Quebec’s next provincial budget, Finance Minister Carlos Leitão told the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal on Thursday.
  “It’s particularly important for us to have a vibrant small-business sector. In that respect, taxation is an important obstacle, sometimes,” Leitão told reporters after a speech that was primarily focused on the government’s fall ec
  
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• Alouettes linebacker Kyries Hebert donating his brain for CTE research

  23-11-2017 23:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Kyries Hebert believes it has been two seasons since he last suffered a concussion. And the veteran Alouettes linebacker, remembering the symptoms he has experienced, hopes there’s no more head trauma in his future.
  “I remember lying in bed and looking one way — and the room spinning. Looking the other way and the room’s shaking. Closing my eyes and seeing thunder and lightning bolts. That was crazy and nerve-racking,” Hebert told the Montreal Gazette. “I do a
  
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• Fighting racism-based bullying in schools

  23-11-2017 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  Something needs to be done about racially-fueled bullying in Montreal’s schools, according to CRARR. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, the organization says the Quebec government isn’t doing enough to address the issue.
  
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• Quebec Auditor General Report looks at education

  23-11-2017 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec’s Auditor General Report was released Thursday, focusing on school board funding. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Finding a cure to childhood cancer

  23-11-2017 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  Researchers at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, Sainte-Justine, are taking part in a $16-million initiative to accelerate research breakthroughs in pediatric cancer treatment to hopefully find a cure. Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports.
  
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• Montreal police fail to address racial profiling, report says

  23-11-2017 23:25 via cbc.ca
  A new report shows Montreal police have failed to achieve many of the objectives they themselves set in a plan to address racial profiling.
  
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• Casino de Montréal temporarily closed because of broken aqueduct

  23-11-2017 23:25 via montrealgazette.com
  The Casino de Montréal has temporarily closed its doors.
  The closure is related to a broken aqueduct on the edge of Ile Notre-Dame.
  In a statement posted on Twitter, the casino said it was waiting for further information from the relevant authorities.
  It is not yet clear at what time the casino’s doors will reopen. 
  En raison d’un bris d’aqueduc survenu en périphérie de l’île Notre-Dame, nous avons pris la décision de fermer momentan
  
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• Meet the longest-serving Montreal councillors

  23-11-2017 23:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Michèle D. Biron and Dominic Perri may be harbouring the best-kept secret in Montreal politics.
  They are the longest-serving councillors among Montreal’s 103 politicians, beating councillor Marvin Rotrand, who claims he owns that title, by one week.
  Perri and Biron were first elected in St-Léonard and St-Laurent, respectively, on Nov. 7, 1982, when the two present-day boroughs were independent suburbs.
  Since the mergers, Perri has served as a city councillor on Montreal city
  
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• Update: Evenko suspends ticket sales to Formula E race

  23-11-2017 23:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Evenko has quietly suspended the sale of tickets to next year’s Formula E race.
  The move on Thursday came hours after Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante said she was surprised to hear that Evenko was already selling tickets to a July 28-29 race in the same controversial downtown location as this year’s event. 
  After complaints from downtown residents and business owners, Plante pledged during the election campaign to move the electric-car race to the site of the Formula One &m
  
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• Children with disabilities need more help

  23-11-2017 23:04 via globalnews.ca
  A Montreal lawyer is arguing the government needs to review its rules because many families that have children with severe disabilities are falling through the cracks. Global’s Anne Leclair reports.
  
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• Auditor-general says Quebec lost millions in bungled sale of buildings

  23-11-2017 23:01 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – The government’s real-estate arm broke the most elementary rules of sane management in selling three government buildings at a discount in 2008, Quebec’s auditor-general says.
  In a blistering report tabled in the National Assembly Thursday, Guylaine Leclerc said the Société immobilière du Québec (SIQ) completely bungled the sales, which took place in the years when Jean Charest was premier of Quebec.
  In its haste to sell off the real estate
  
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• Checking In: Plunge Beach Hotel channels retro Lauderdale

  23-11-2017 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Plunge Beach Hotel is calling all free spirits to its new digs in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Fla.
  This adorable establishment is the result of the merger and modernization of three 1950s hotels, so it swings with retro décor, bright open spaces and a keen young staff.
  The Florida sun and spirit radiate while guests bask in the heat on the Atlantic oceanfront and around two swimming pools. When the Backflip Beach Bar fired up for happy hour, I fully expected Frankie Avalon or Dion to break int
  
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• A Century Songbook celebrates a hundred years of Montreal’s Jewish community

  23-11-2017 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The wonderfully vitriolic black comedy Bad Jews ends its reprise run at the Segal Studio this weekend. Meanwhile, a far more benign dispatch from within the Jewish community is setting up on Segal’s main space.
  A Century Songbook, a celebration in music, dance and poetry of a hundred years of Jewish life in Montreal, is the latest show from The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre. For the last couple of years, the celebrated company created by the late, great Dora Wasserman half a century ago,
  
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• Canadian researchers team up to find a cure to childhood cancer

  23-11-2017 21:26 via globalnews.ca
  Researchers will sequence tumours at the molecular level to amass information that is then analyzed at one of three labs in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.
  
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• Villeray parents decry condo plans next to overcrowded school

  23-11-2017 21:21 via cbc.ca
  A developer wants to build condos next to École Hélène-Boullé in the Villeray neighbourhood, but parents fear it will overwhelm the already overcrowded school.
  
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• Schools are failing to deal with racist attacks, parents allege

  23-11-2017 21:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Erik Tran says his 16-year-old daughter with Asiatic features was bullied by the white girls at her West Island school, but when she spoke back to her aggressors, it was she who was suddenly expelled after 12 years at the school.
  Stanley Charles said his 18-year-old black son was accused of selling drugs because a director was suspicious about the way he shook hands with another black student at his Terrebonne school. When his son deemed a body search by the school’s assistant director was
  
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• Update: Formula E organizer says Coderre withheld details of ticket sales

  23-11-2017 21:07 via montrealgazette.com
  The Formula E fiasco shows there’s an urgent need to rein in the power of the mayor and executive committee, says a longtime city councillor.
  Snowdon councillor Marvin Rotrand was reacting to news it was the office of then-mayor Denis Coderre that ordered a lid on releasing details of ticket sales for the July 29-30 event, and not the event promoter, as Coderre had claimed.
  Rotrand said this shows there is too much power centred on the city’s mayor and executive committee, and not en
  
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• Opinion: Educate youth so no one will have to say #metoo

  23-11-2017 20:46 via montrealgazette.com
  The #metoo movement has ignited flames around the world. With fire comes both heat and light: heat for those who have trespassed and light to show us a better way forward. This is good. Nefarious deeds should be revealed and perpetrators should be punished. The next step is to work toward preventative measures. 
  The negative exposure of perpetrators from all strata and walks of life will undoubtedly act as a deterrent for some. However our over-crowded jails are proof that the fear of being
  
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• Overnight construction leaves Montreal residents frustrated

  23-11-2017 20:41 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Nov 23: Construction on a portion of Peel Street, as well as Jean d’Estrées Street, has some residents dealing with a lack of sleep. Global’s Matt Grillo reports.
  
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• Montrealer explores Quebec’s north/south divide in Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik

  23-11-2017 20:36 via montrealgazette.com
  “I was young, I came from the suburbs, I was looking for a bit of adventure. And I was just in awe of the place.”
  Carolyn Marie Souaid is talking about a youthful decision that led via a long path to her new novel, the first extended work of fiction for a writer with seven poetry collections to her credit. The place that filled her with such awe was northern Quebec.
  Born in Montreal, the child of “parents whose parents were from the Middle East,” Souaid grew up on the Sou
  
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• RCMP facing sexual harassment, discrimination claims from roughly 1,100 women

  23-11-2017 20:32 via globalnews.ca
  Global News has learned that as many as 1,100 women have begun the process of opening sexual harassment or discrimination claims against the RCMP. In total, 353 women have finalized and submitted sexual harassment, discrimination or intimidation claims against the RCMP since the process started in August. As many as 780 additional women have opened...
  
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• Opinion: Free speech concern seems all too selective

  23-11-2017 20:31 via montrealgazette.com
  You say you care about free speech, but do you?
  Wilfrid Laurier University recently came under fire for disciplining one of its teaching assistants over her showing of a video on the gender-pronouns debate. Recently, Dalhousie University also began disciplinary measures against one of its students for her harsh criticism of the Canada 150 celebrations.
  Views published in the media on the Laurier University case have almost universally been in support of the student, on the grounds of free s
  
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• Adidas manager’s comments on French usage 'unacceptable': Couillard

  23-11-2017 20:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard has criticized the manager of an Adidas store who reportedly told a Montreal crowd he would say a few words in French at an event to accommodate the city’s francophone media.
  The manager’s statements, if true, are unacceptable and regrettable in a French-speaking province, Philippe Couillard said in the National Assembly Thursday.
  “I will say very firmly that if the words we read this morning were pronounced, they are unacceptable,” he sa
  
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• Overnight construction in Ville-Marie borough leaves residents frustrated

  23-11-2017 20:25 via globalnews.ca
  Residents in the Ville-Marie borough are frustrated with overnight construction.
  
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• Montreal named 2018's top budget travel destination

  23-11-2017 20:17 via montrealgazette.com
  The brain trust at Forbes has declared the “year of the island” will soon be upon us and Montreal will be the top budget travel destination for 2018.
  Sure, the island comment was made in reference to “islas in Panama to cheap archipelagos in the South Pacific,” but Montreal is an island and also No. 1. 
  Montreal appears to have made the list curated by a panel of “experts” because of its favourable exchange rate for Americans and “strong French infl
  
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• Pedophile who 'ruined the lives of many children' to be sentenced in December

  23-11-2017 19:57 via montrealgazette.com
  A man who once served as the director general of the city of Lorraine for more than two decades will be sentenced in December for having sexually abused four boys, including at least a couple during a time when he worked for the city. 
  Roger Lepage, 76, of Lévis, is facing the possibility of an overall five-year prison term followed by five years of close surveillance as a long-term offender when Quebec Court Judge Pierre Labelle delivers his decision in December. The sentence was pa
  
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• Western's juggernaut offence meets its biggest test against Laval at Vanier Cup

  23-11-2017 19:52 via cbc.ca
  The Western Mustangs have put up staggering numbers during their remarkable U Sports football season. The only thing standing in the way of their perfect season are the reigning Vanier Cup champions from Laval.
  
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• Our dams are stronger than the Habs' blue line: Hydro-Québec

  23-11-2017 19:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Hydro-Québec has heard your jokes about the lumbering shambles better known as the Montreal Canadiens and would like you to know its infrastructure is far less prone to breakdowns than your hometown hockey team. 
  That, at least, is the message the utility appears to be sending out on social media.
  It all started last night, roughly when the Habs lost to the Nashville Predators (the current home of P.K. Subban, in case you hadn’t heard).
  “The Habs are like an old dam: It&r
  
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• Ottawa-based priest from Quebec suspended in wake of sex abuse lawsuit

  23-11-2017 19:19 via globalnews.ca
  The alleged abuse took place in an area of the school reserved for religious members of the congregation.
  
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• Philippe Couillard denounces Adidas manager’s comments on French language

  23-11-2017 19:14 via globalnews.ca
  Philippe Couillard said the manager's statements, if true, are unacceptable and regrettable.
  
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• Tech innovations helping refugees in Montreal at @RefugeeMtl btmontreal.ca/videos/tech-in…

  23-11-2017 18:47
  Tech innovations helping refugees in Montreal at @RefugeeMtl btmontreal.ca/videos/tech-in…
  
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• Video: @AndrewScheer on the battle between deep policy talk and grabbing attention on social media - Full intervie… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-11-2017 18:41
  Video: @AndrewScheer on the battle between deep policy talk and grabbing attention on social media - Fullintervie… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The impact of tax breaks for Quebecers btmontreal.ca/videos/the-imp…

  23-11-2017 18:09
  The impact of tax breaks for Quebecers btmontreal.ca/videos/the-imp…
  
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• Mom Talk with @CVDmtl: Cold and flu viruses - when to worry youtube.com/watch?v=1qOUV1…

  23-11-2017 17:58
  Mom Talk with @CVDmtl: Cold and flu viruses - when to worry youtube.com/watch?v=1qOUV1…
  
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• Update: Formula E organizer says Coderre withheld number of tickets sold

  23-11-2017 17:56 via montrealgazette.com
  The main organizer of Montreal’s Formula E race said it was former mayor Denis Coderre who elected to withhold the number of tickets sold during the event.
  It was the choice of the mayor’s office – on the suggestion of event promoter Evenko – to not unveil the ticket sales, Sylvain Vincent, the director of Montréal c’est électrique — the non-profit organization set up by the city to run the race, told the Journal de Montréal.
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• Auditor-general says Quebec lost millions in bungled sale of three buildings

  23-11-2017 17:55 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – The government’s real-estate arm broke the most elementary rules of sane management in selling off, at a discount, three government buildings in 2008, Quebec’s auditor-general says.
  In a blistering report tabled in the National Assembly Thursday, Guylaine Leclerc said the Société immobilière du Québec (SIQ) failed to listen to readily available advice and ignored warnings about the long-term financial impact of its decisions in selling off t
  
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• Video: Ahead of his show at Corona Theatre, @ScottHelman performs "PDA" on BT Montreal youtube.com/watch?v=79rUoJ…

  23-11-2017 17:47
  Video: Ahead of his show at Corona Theatre, @ScottHelman performs "PDA" on BT Montreal youtube.com/watch?v=79rUoJ…
  
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• Update: Man fatally struck by commuter train near St-Bruno station

  23-11-2017 17:45 via montrealgazette.com
  A man in his 30s has died after being hit by a train near the St-Bruno station of the Réseau de transport métropolitain’s St-Hilaire commuter line.
  The incident happened around 6:15 a.m. Thursday just after the train left the St-Bruno station toward St-Hilaire.
  The incident took place on tracks across the highway from the Promenades St-Bruno shopping complex.
  Service was cancelled on the line, and the RTM sent buses to pick up stranded passengers.
  As of 9 a.m., police an
  
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• Youth movement: @AndrewScheer says it's an interesting time in Canadian politics - Full interview at… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-11-2017 17:31
  Youth movement: @AndrewScheer says it's an interesting time in Canadian politics - Full interview at… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Social Notes: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts goes west for Museum Ball

  23-11-2017 17:23 via montrealgazette.com
  The fall season is in full swing, Noties, and if the recent 57th annual Museum Ball of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (organized by the foundation and presented under the distinguished co-presidency of Pierre Pomerleau, president/CEO Pomerleau, François-Charles Sirois, president/CEO Telesystem, and Kim Thomassin, executive vice-president, legal affairs and secretariat, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec) is any indication of the season’s sizzle, you’d
  
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• Sale of Quebec government buildings cost millions, lacked 'basic prudence,' auditor general says

  23-11-2017 17:09 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's auditor general is blasting the provincial agency tasked with handling government-owned properties for striking a losing deal when it sold three buildings in exchange for long-term leases.
  
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• Image + nation film festival

  23-11-2017 17:08 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal film director Arshad Khan joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about his film “Abu” and the Image+Nation film festival.
  
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• Construction causes sleepless nights for Downtown Montrealer

  23-11-2017 17:08 via globalnews.ca
  Overnight road work in Ville-Marie causes disruptions for a local resident.
  
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• Entertaining during the holidays

  23-11-2017 16:50 via globalnews.ca
  Global décor expert Karl Lohnes joins Laura Casella on Global News Morning to talk about entertaining during the holidays.
  
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• Community Events: Défilé des rêves

  23-11-2017 16:50 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has Montreal’s community events for Thursday, November 23.
  
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• Mohawk Girls wraps production

  23-11-2017 16:37 via globalnews.ca
  “Mohawk Girls” actor Brittany Leborgne joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about the fifth and final season of the award-winning series which has just wrapped production.
  
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• Longueuil police perform ‘important’ drug busts Thursday morning

  23-11-2017 16:23 via globalnews.ca
  Over 100 Longueuil police officers were involved in drug busts Thursday morning, multiple arrests were made.
  
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• New Trudeau wax sculpture unveiled in Montreal

  23-11-2017 16:03 via globalnews.ca
  Wax museum shows off its latest addition: a sculpture of Prime Minister Trudeau for all your selfie-taking needs
  
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• Multiple drug busts in Longueuil police operation Thursday morning

  23-11-2017 16:00 via globalnews.ca
  Over 100 Longueuil police officers were involved in drug busts throughout the city.
  
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• Five things to do in Montreal this weekend: Nov. 24-26

  23-11-2017 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Holiday season events continue to make their presence felt in the city, but this weekend also brings with it a range of cultural events. It offers something for everyone.
  Read on for five ways to make the most of your weekend.
  Le Marché de Noël chez Maison Pepin
  Head to Old Montreal for this Christmas market, where there will also be craft lessons. You can, for instance, learn how to make pine crowns or Christmas ornaments. The market runs from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Friday and Satu
  
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