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• An apology from the Montreal Gazette

  27-11-2017 23:56 via montrealgazette.com
  On Sunday night, Montreal Gazette sports reporter Herb Zurkowsky posted sexist, disparaging tweets about Shania Twain, who was the featured performer at the half-time show at the Grey Cup in Ottawa. Zurkowsky subsequently deleted the tweets and posted an apology on Twitter. The Montreal Gazette would like to publicly apologize to Ms. Twain, its readers and anyone else who came across Zurkowsky’s tweets. His tweets deserve the widespread condemnation they have received and do not reflect th
  
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• Laval School Board confirms knives confiscated from student

  27-11-2017 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  The Laval School Board has confirmed that two knives were found at Père-Vimont elementary school and that a student has been suspended indefinitely. Global’s Felicia Parrillo speaks to a concerned parent whose child attends the school.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Brendan Gallagher a big hit with kids at Shriners hospital

  27-11-2017 23:33 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens’ Brendan Gallagher admits he was feeling sorry for himself two years ago after his left hand was shattered by a slapshot from the New York Islanders’ Johnny Boychuk during a game at the Bell Centre.
  Then Gallagher went to visit kids at Montreal’s Shriners Hospital for Children with his mother, who was in town to help him during recovery from hand surgery.
  “I might have been feeling sorry for myself and thinking I’m not going to play hockey for a while,
  
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• Westmount dog receives wheelchair from neighbour

  27-11-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  A dog in Westmount has been gifted a wheelchair that helps her walk.
  
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• ‘Marry out, move out’ Kahnawake rule challenged in Longueuil courthouse

  27-11-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Several natives living in the South Shore community of Kahnawake are challenging a decades old local rule.
  
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• Impact to play friendly in Las Vegas

  27-11-2017 23:25 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Impact will play a friendly match against the Las Vegas Lights, of the United Soccer League (USL), on Feb. 10, at Cashman Field in downtown Las Vegas.
  The Impact will be the first Major League Soccer (MLS) club and opponent to face the Lights FC. The Vancouver Whitecaps and D.C. United will follow suit the next two weeks in February.
  Las Vegas will enter the USL in 2018 helmed by José Luis Sanchez Sola, who was head coach of Chivas USA in 2013 in the MLS and also several club
  
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• Celine Cooper: It is not women's job to reproduce the Quebec nation

  27-11-2017 23:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Over the weekend, Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault announced that, if elected next year, his government would put more money into the wallets of parents wishing to have a second or third child. He argued that a baby boom is the key not only to stimulating the economy, but also to preserving Quebec’s identity, one based on a common language, culture and values. 
  Where to begin? 
  Look, I get it. Quebec faces a demographic challenge.&
  
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• The doggie wheels that keeps on giving

  27-11-2017 23:11 via globalnews.ca
  Pudge the Puggle, a partially paralyzed dog in Westmount, is getting a new lease on life thanks to a dog wheelchair. As Global’s Matt Grillo reports, the wheelchair is courtesy of another couple whose dog Jett went through a similar situation.
  
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• Court challenge begins over Kahnawake’s ‘marry out, move out’ law

  27-11-2017 23:11 via globalnews.ca
  Court proceedings began Monday in Longueuil over Kahnawake’s controversial “marry out move out” rule which forces Indigenous residents who marry non-Indigenous residents to move out of the community. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, some families are fighting back with a lawsuit.
  
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• Opinion: Finding win-win solutions for small businesses, teen workers

  27-11-2017 23:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Teenagers have always gotten a bad rap. These days, we accuse them of being lazy, phone-obsessed and distracted. Our own parents had similar concerns about us. In every generation, it seems, adults just forget. We forget the struggles we had to find a way to fit in, to find a job, to please or defy authority. Over time, what remains are memories of a successful transition into adulthood.
  As parents, forgetting is not such a bad thing. When we see our teenagers slipping, we nudge (push?) them bac
  
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• Office cleaners across Quebec threaten to walk off job

  27-11-2017 22:56 via cbc.ca
  Cleaners who quietly toil through the night in office buildings, schools and movie theatres in Montreal, Trois-Rivières and Gatineau are threatening to strike if they don't reach a new collective agreement by midnight Tuesday.
  
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• City council reappoints Marvin Rotrand to STM board

  27-11-2017 22:49 via globalnews.ca
  After being fired as vice chair of the city's transit authority board in June by former mayor Denis Coderre, Marvin Rotrand was reappointed on Monday.
  
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• Jesse Galganov: Missing Montrealer's family hires elite Israeli search-and-rescue team

  27-11-2017 22:40 via montrealgazette.com
  After spending several weeks in Peru co-ordinating the search for her missing son, Jesse Galganov’s mother has hired a renowned Israeli search-and-rescue company that has experience locating missing people in remote places around the world.
  “We determined that they had the best track record at locating people in difficult terrain,” Alisa Clamen told the Montreal Gazette on Monday. “They have conducted these missions before, specifically in Peru. In 22 years, there is
  
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• Brownstein: Addition of Nulman to new comedy fest leads to some head-scratching

  27-11-2017 22:26 via montrealgazette.com
  We can’t get enough comedy in this town. But the recent creation of the Festival du rire de Montréal was not entirely born out of a desire to spread more mirth around the city, but rather because of the allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against Gilbert Rozon, the Just for Laughs/Juste pour rire founder, president and chief shareholder.
  Rozon has since departed, and the festival is seeking a buyer for his shares.
  The upstart Festival du rire was founded by 50 of Quebec&rsq
  
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• Tomorrow on @BTMontreal: Top holiday picks from @Chatelaine_Qc! https://t.co/Bsi0zVzNJJ

  27-11-2017 22:01
  
  Tomorrow on @BTMontreal: Top holiday picks from @Chatelaine_Qc! https://t.co/Bsi0zVzNJJ
  
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• Plateau music venue Divan Orange to shut next spring

  27-11-2017 21:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Saying it is beset with financial pressures, Divan Orange — the St-Laurent Blvd. music venue that estimates it has hosted 10,000 acts over its 13 years — has announced it intends to close its doors in the spring of 2018.
  In a Facebook post Sunday night, organizers said their “financial situation is untenable” and they are unable to continue to operate under “such precarious conditions.”
  They urged all levels of governments to do more to support local musi
  
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• Christmas Fund: Newly immigrated family struggles with work

  27-11-2017 21:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Harriet and her family have been in Quebec for three months.
  She is a nurse, but since coming here from Cameroon, she has gone back to school to become a certified caregiver.
  “I came here to work, naturally,” she said, adding that her line of work has captivated her. She said she was able to start working as a nurse, thanks to all of her papers being in order, just two weeks after arriving in Quebec. But “then the work stopped,” she said.
  Her priority has since shifted to
  
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• Father of Longueuil teen who committed suicide wants stricter anti-bullying measures

  27-11-2017 21:03 via montrealgazette.com
  The father of a Quebec teen who committed suicide last week after years of alleged incessant bullying wants stricter measures for how schools deal with intimidation.
  Martin Dufour said his 15-year-old son Simon was bullied in primary school, with the taunting extending into his time in secondary school.
  Dufour said he spoke with administrators over the years but that nothing ultimately helped his son.
  “What I would like to see is a provincial guideline for every school that they should, th
  
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• Meeting between Plante, Formula E officials delayed

  27-11-2017 20:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealers will have to wait to learn the fate of Montreal’s next Formula E race.
  Mayor Valérie Plante, who has vowed to move the event from downtown Montreal to Parc Jean-Drapeau’s Gilles-Villeneuve racetrack, was supposed to meet race organizers early this week.
  But on Monday, at her first city council meeting as mayor, Plante said that encounter will only come at some point before Christmas. She was scheduled to meet with Montréal c’est é
  
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• Montreal opposition names Anglo affairs, Indigenous reconciliation critics to shadow cabinet

  27-11-2017 20:01 via cbc.ca
  The city's official opposition, still called Équipe Denis Coderre, has named critics to key municipal portfolios just in time for the first council meeting of Valérie Plante's mandate.
  
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• Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante defends linguistic, cultural mix of executive committee

  27-11-2017 20:01 via cbc.ca
  The city's official opposition questioned Montreal's new mayor on what priority she is giving anglophones and racial and cultural minorities as city council met for the first time since Plante's election on Nov. 5.
  
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• First city council meeting with Valérie Plante as mayor

  27-11-2017 19:56 via montrealgazette.com
  The newly elected members of Montreal city council are meeting Monday at their first city council meeting.
  Mayor Valérie Plante began by saying the council should acknowledge at the beginning of each meeting that it is taking place on unceded Aboriginal territory.
  Plante made history Nov. 5 when she was elected as the city’s first female mayor. More history was made Monday when downtown city councillor Cathy Wong officially became the city council speaker. She is the first woman to
  
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• Quebec father wants stricter anti-bullying measures following son’s death

  27-11-2017 19:29 via globalnews.ca
  The father of a Quebec teen who committed suicide last week after alleged incessant bullying wants stricter provincial guidelines for how schools deal with intimidation.
  
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• Lino Matteo gets 5 years for Ponzi scheme at Mount Real

  27-11-2017 19:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Lino Matteo is going to jail — again.
  The former CEO of Mount Real Corp. was handed the maximum possible jail term on Monday morning after he was found guilty in September of having violated 270 counts of Quebec’s Securities Act.
  Quebec Court Judge Hélène Morin agreed with the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), the provincial securities regulator, that Matteo deserved a five-year prison term.
  Matteo, 55, arrived in court with a backpack and wore a beig
  
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• Game Day: Canadiens cancel morning skate before facing Blue Jackets

  27-11-2017 19:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens cancelled their scheduled morning skate Monday in Brossard before facing the Columbus Blue Jackets at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690). 
  That means there was no news on whether Canadiens defenceman Shea Weber will return to the lineup after missing the last three games with a lower-body injury or whether defenceman David Schlemko will make his season debut after recovering from a broken hand. Coach Claude Julien was scheduled to meet with the media at 4:45
  
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• Équipe Denis Coderre names shadow cabinet at Montreal city hall - Montreal Gazette

  27-11-2017 18:57
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  Équipe Denis Coderre names shadow cabinet at Montreal city hall
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  The soon-to-be renamed Équipe Denis Coderre — now the official opposition party at Montreal's city hall — named its shadow cabinet and spokespersons Monday, touting itself as a party of deep experience as compared to Projet Montréal, the newly ...
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• Équipe Denis Coderre names its shadow cabinet

  27-11-2017 18:57 via montrealgazette.com
  The soon-to-be renamed Équipe Denis Coderre — now the official opposition party at Montreal’s city hall — named its shadow cabinet and spokespersons Monday, touting itself as a party of deep experience as compared to Projet Montréal, the newly elected ruling party.
  “It’s an honour to be able to have such an incredible team, one that finds the balance between experience and new blood, one where we’re able to hit ground running on many of the issue
  
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• Game Day: Canadiens cancel morning skate before facing Blue Jackets - Montreal Gazette

  27-11-2017 18:45
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  Game Day: Canadiens cancel morning skate before facing Blue Jackets
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  That means there was no news on whether Shea Weber will return to the lineup after missing the last three games with a lower-body injury. Stu Cowan, Montreal Gazette More from Stu Cowan, Montreal Gazette. Published on: November 27, 2017 | Last ...
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• Renters rule in Montreal, spending an average $835 monthly on housing - Montreal Gazette

  27-11-2017 18:28
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  Renters rule in Montreal, spending an average $835 monthly on housing
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  Two-thirds of Montrealers rent rather than own. Rent is highest in Outremont ($1,269) and lowest in Villeray—St-Michel—Parc-Ex ($742). Andy Riga, Montreal Gazette More from Andy Riga, Montreal Gazette. Published on: November 27, 2017 | Last Updated: ...and more »
  
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• Renters rule in Montreal, spending an average $835 monthly on housing

  27-11-2017 18:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal is a city of renters.
  Almost two-thirds of people who live in the city rent rather than own their homes, spending an average of $835 on housing, including rent, electricity and heat, according to new analysis of 2016 census data.
  Rent is highest in Outremont — $1,269. But Westmount homeowners spend the most on housing: $2,304, including mortgage, real-estate taxes, condo fees, electricity and heating.
  Here are some more statistics from the analysis by the city of Montreal’s
  
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• Montrealer among those stuck in Bali as Mount Agung erupts

  27-11-2017 18:22 via cbc.ca
  Some Canadians are trapped in Bali after Indonesian authorities ordered 100,000 people to flee an erupting volcano that prompted the closure of the international airport.
  
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• School to review procedures in response to bullying following death of Longueuil teenager

  27-11-2017 18:20 via cbc.ca
  The principal of André-Laurendeau high school, attended by a teenager who was struck and killed by a train Friday, says while the school has plans in place to deal with bullying, it will be reviewing its procedures.
  
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• School to review bullying protocol following death of Longueuil teenager

  27-11-2017 18:20 via cbc.ca
  The principal of André-Laurendeau high school, attended by a teenager who was struck and killed by a train Friday, says while the school has plans in place to deal with bullying, it will be reviewing its procedures.
  
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• Mile End Chronicles captures an iconic Montreal neighbourhood https://t.co/9x6KG8rr9H

  27-11-2017 18:13
  
  Mile End Chronicles captures an iconic Montreal neighbourhood https://t.co/9x6KG8rr9H
  
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• Quebec filmmaking duo release new sci-fi thriller “Radius” btmontreal.ca/videos/quebec-…

  27-11-2017 18:11
  Quebec filmmaking duo release new sci-fi thriller “Radius” btmontreal.ca/videos/quebec-…
  
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• Pedestrian killed in collision with school bus in Saint-Eustache

  27-11-2017 17:54 via globalnews.ca
  Police said it happened at the intersection of 25 Avenue and Chemin de la Grande-Côte at around 6:10 a.m. 
  
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• Lino Matteo gets 5 years for role in Mount Real scheme

  27-11-2017 17:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Lino Matteo is going to jail — again.
  The former CEO of Mount Real Corp. was handed the maximum possible jail term on Monday morning after he was found guilty in September of having violated 270 counts of Quebec’s Securities Act.
  Quebec Court Judge Hélène Morin agreed with the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), the provincial securities regulator, that Matteo deserved a five-year prison term.
  Matteo, 55, arrived in court with a backpack and wore a beig
  
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• While you were sleeping: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle to wed

  27-11-2017 17:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Britain’s royal palace says Prince Harry and actress Meghan Markle are engaged and will marry in the spring of 2018.
  The announcement came Monday from the office of Harry’s father, Prince Charles.
  The announcement says the couple became engaged earlier this month. It says 36-year-old Markle has met Queen Elizabeth II, and Harry also has received the blessing of Markle’s parents.
  Harry, 33, is fifth in line to the British throne.
  Baby boom at Florida zoo with arrivals of 2 giraf
  
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• Lino Matteo gets 5 years for Ponzi scheme at Mount Real - Montreal Gazette

  27-11-2017 17:36
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  Lino Matteo gets 5 years for Ponzi scheme at Mount Real
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  The former CEO is given the maximum jail term after he was found guilty in September of violating 270 counts of Quebec's Securities Act. Jason Magder, Montreal Gazette More from Jason Magder, Montreal Gazette. Published on: November 27, 2017 | Last ...
  Mount Real fraudster Lino Matteo sentenced to five yearsCTV Newsall 2 news articles »
  
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• New mortgage rules and Airbnb regulations could have huge repercussions on Montreal real estate market - We speak t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-11-2017 17:22
  New mortgage rules and Airbnb regulations could have huge repercussions on Montreal real estate market - We speak t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Teen dies after being struck by school bus in St-Eustache

  27-11-2017 17:20 via montrealgazette.com
  A 17-year-old girl has died after she was struck by a school bus in St-Eustache. 
  Reports say the incident occurred at about 6:10 a.m. Monday on Grande Côte Rd. near 25th Ave.
  Local and provincial police have set up a perimeter to try and establish the cause of the accident.
  This story will be updated.
  
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• Gas leak in Saint-Eustache forces school closure

  27-11-2017 16:59 via globalnews.ca
  The leak has been capped, but St-Louis Street will be closed to traffic between St-Eustache Street and Arthur-Sauvé Boulevard for an undetermined period as crews fix the road.
  
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• Search for new head of MUHC still open, chairman says

  27-11-2017 16:52 via montrealgazette.com
  The newly appointed chairman of the McGill University Health Centre says the process to select the next head of the MUHC is still very much an open competition — despite revelations last week that a hospital executive from Vermont has been courted for the job.
  “We are only in the preliminary stages of a search process,” Peter Kruyt said in an internal statement to the MUHC community on Friday.
  Kruyt, whom Health Minister Gaétan Barrette tapped as chairman of the MUHC boa
  
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• Montreal family business brings fresh salads to vending machines - Montreal Gazette

  27-11-2017 16:29
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  Montreal family business brings fresh salads to vending machines
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  Ryan Hutman and his father, Aaron, are the founders of Portions. There are two machines at McGill University and one at Central Station. Jacob Serebrin, Montreal Gazette More from Jacob Serebrin, Montreal Gazette. Published on: November 27, 2017 | Last ...
  
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• Montreal family business brings fresh salads to vending machines

  27-11-2017 16:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Vending machines aren’t where most people look for fresh, healthy food, but one father and son duo are trying to change that.
  Ryan Hutman and his father, Aaron Hutman, are the founders of Portions, a Montreal-based company that’s selling jars of fresh salad in specially built vending machines.
  “We wanted to really provide an accessible solution for people on the go who want to just grab something healthy and tasty,” Ryan Hutman said.
  The company’s first machine
  
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• Montrealers line up in the street for nonna's traditional sauce - Montreal Gazette

  27-11-2017 16:24
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  Montrealers line up in the street for nonna's traditional sauce
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  People line up for a taste of gnocchi drenched in tomato sauce and Romano cheese, served in a white cardboard takeout container. Jason Magder, Montreal Gazette More from Jason Magder, Montreal Gazette. Published on: November 27, 2017 | Last ...
  
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• Montrealers line up in the street for nonna's traditional sauce

  27-11-2017 16:24 via montrealgazette.com
  It is a factory, a retail store and a takeout counter all crammed into 300 square feet on Fairmount Ave.
  With continuous lines at a nearby bagel store and a world-famous ice-cream shop, it seems unlikely that anyone would wait in line for pasta and sauce.
  But Trattoria Fine isn’t your typical store. 
  It sells La Salsa Della Nonna tomato sauce for $10 a jar. It also sells Gnocchi Della Nonna for $5. And if you’re lucky, you’ll even get to meet the genuine Italian nonna
  
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• Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir performs

  27-11-2017 16:18 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal’s Jubilation Gospel Choir joins Global’s Laura Casella for a preview of their concert at Place des Arts.
  
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• Woman critically injured in three-car crash near Quebec City

  27-11-2017 15:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Three persons are injured – one of them critically – in the wake of a three-car crash early Monday in St-Tite-des-Caps, near Quebec City.
  The cause of the incident, which occurred at about 7:40 a.m. on Highway 138, remains unknown.
  One woman suffered life threatening injuries while the two other victims suffered slight injuries.
  A provincial police accident investigator has been assigned to the scene to determine the circumstances behind the crash.
   
  
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• Ugly Christmas tree inspires holiday village - @TinaTenneriello reports https://t.co/ktbd8Hv9M7

  27-11-2017 15:36
  
  Ugly Christmas tree inspires holiday village - @TinaTenneriello reports https://t.co/ktbd8Hv9M7
  
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