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• SQ targets texting and driving

  29-11-2017 23:58 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec provincial police are teaming up with the SAAQ to target people who text and drive. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Alouettes courting DeVone Claybrooks to be their next head coach - Montreal Gazette

  29-11-2017 23:54
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  Alouettes courting DeVone Claybrooks to be their next head coach
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  Calgary's defensive coordinator has been an assistant there for six years and says he's the man to turn things around in Montreal. Herb Zurkowsky, Montreal Gazette More from Herb Zurkowsky, Montreal Gazette. Published on: November 29, 2017 | Last ...
  
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• Alouettes courting DeVone Claybrooks to be their next head coach

  29-11-2017 23:54 via montrealgazette.com
  DeVone Claybrooks is the defensive coordinator of the Calgary Stampeders, who have reached the Grey Cup the last two seasons. And he’s under contract to the team in 2018. In other words, he has a good thing going.
  “I have the greatest gig in the Canadian Football League, the greatest bosses. I’m in the best situation and I’m in no hurry to leave. I don’t have my bags packed,” Claybrooks told the Montreal Gazette Wednesday afternoon. “I’m working on
  
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• Solar panels, rooftop gardens on Candiac housing development will pay for themselves: developer

  29-11-2017 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
  In what’s being called the first project of its kind in Quebec, a new housing development in Candiac is being equipped with rooftop gardens and solar panels that, the developer says, will generate a profit for residents.
  The project consists of 148 new townhouses. Half of them will have rooftop solar panels, the other half will get rooftop gardens.
  All the produce grown in the rooftop gardens will be organic, said Nicolas Ste-Marie, the president of La Shop Agricole, the company that
  
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• Cold? Take a free coat, says Vaudreuil thrift store

  29-11-2017 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  A Vaudreuil-Dorion thrift store is doing what it can to take care of the impoverished and homeless in its neighbourhood. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, the store’s owners have started an initiative to offer free coats to those in need.
  
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• Liveblog: Ottawa at Canadiens

  29-11-2017 23:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Revenge is a dish best served cold. 
  It will be a chilly minus-2 in Montreal Wednesday evening when the Ottawa Senators visit the Bell Centre.
  It was a balmy plus-11 when the Canadiens played in Kanata on Oct. 30.
  But when the final siren sounded, one of the league’s best defencemen was minus-6.
  No, not Brandon Davidson. He was plus-1 in the Canadiens’ 8-3 stomping of the home team.
  By shocking contrast, perennial Norris Trophy candidate Erik Karlsson was on the ice for a mind-b
  
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• Woman charged with impaired driving causing death on Jacques-Bizard Bridge

  29-11-2017 23:34 via montrealgazette.com
  A 25-year-old woman from Île-Perrot faces six criminal charges in connection with a fatal head-on collision near the Jacques-Bizard Bridge that cut short the life of a father of two earlier this year. 
  Among the charges Marie-Michele Benjamin faces is impaired driving causing the death of Robert Albert. She is also charged with one count of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death, a Criminal Code offence that carries a maximum life sentence upon conviction.
  Albert, a 60-y
  
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• Leonard Cohen fills dance card for Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal

  29-11-2017 23:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Among the many gifts Leonard Cohen left to the world, naming one of his songs Dance Me to the End of Love is the one that keeps on giving, at least to dance companies.
  A few years ago, a haunting Cohen-based show, somewhat cryptically called Dance Me to the End On/Off Love, visited the Centaur Theatre, courtesy of the Danish company Granhoj Dans. Les Grands Ballets close their season next year with their annual Soirée des étoiles, which is subheaded with the song’s title. And
  
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• Witness to mosque shooting wants Immigration Quebec to know he and son are victims, too

  29-11-2017 23:21 via cbc.ca
  A father of six who witnessed the fatal shooting at the Quebec mosque on Jan. 29 wants Quebec immigration authorities to extend the same privileges it's offering other victims of the shooting and fast-track his brother's permanent residency in Canada.
  
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• 'I just need my brother': Mosque shooting witness wants Immigration Quebec to know he and son are victims, too

  29-11-2017 23:21 via cbc.ca
  A father of six who witnessed the fatal shooting at the Quebec mosque on Jan. 29 wants Quebec immigration authorities to extend the same privileges it's offering other victims of the shooting and fast-track his brother's permanent residency in Canada.
  
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• Are you cold? Vaudreuil thrift store owners set up free coat rack

  29-11-2017 22:02 via globalnews.ca
  A couple who owns a thrift shop in Vaudreuil-Dorion has set up a rack so those in need can take a free winter coat.
  
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• Tomorrow on @BTMontreal: We get a sneak peek of what’s coming at the @LAAutoShow! https://t.co/8U65Kb7yaB

  29-11-2017 22:00
  
  Tomorrow on @BTMontreal: We get a sneak peek of what’s coming at the @LAAutoShow! https://t.co/8U65Kb7yaB
  
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• Canadian astronaut planning new experiments for upcoming mission

  29-11-2017 21:50 via globalnews.ca
  He will also test a new instrument known as a bio-analyzer.
  
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• Analyze This: Losing Shea Weber changes complexion of Canadiens

  29-11-2017 21:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Losing Shea Weber to a lower body injury was a big blow to the Canadiens’ defence. Not only is Weber the team’s best defenceman but he was logging more than 25 minutes a night while playing on the power-play and penalty-killing units as well as being on the ice during important even-strength situations.
  The effects of losing Weber are clear. Despite earning five of a possible eight points in his absence heading into Wednesday’s home game against the Ottawa Senators, the Canadie
  
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• NDG murder suspect now wanted for attempted murder in Lachenaie

  29-11-2017 21:27 via cbc.ca
  Quebec provincial police said Wednesday they now believe Frédérick Silva, a man already wanted in connection with a murder in Montreal in May, was also involved in the attempted murder of an organized crime figure in Lachenaie last February.
  
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• Tomorrow on @BTMontreal: Singer-songwriter @florence_k! https://t.co/jEIAypzcty

  29-11-2017 21:01
  
  Tomorrow on @BTMontreal: Singer-songwriter @florence_k! https://t.co/jEIAypzcty
  
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• Rash of break-ins has T.M.R. on alert

  29-11-2017 20:57 via montrealgazette.com
  The Town of Mount Royal has sent a letter to residents this week saying it has taken steps to reduce break-ins after a rash of burglaries during the past few months unsettled residents.
  Brazen thieves have been stealing jewelry and other items from the master bedrooms of homes, even while security alarms are sounding.
  An increase in the number of break-ins means that 911 operators now treat any report of a theft or alarm in T.M.R. “as an emergency and priority,” the town says in the
  
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• Police want your help to find Frédérick Silva, from Quebec 'most wanted' list

  29-11-2017 20:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec provincial and Montreal police are requesting the public’s help in locating Frédérick Silva, a suspect in Montreal’s 10th homicide of 2017 last May, and now also wanted in relation to an attempted homicide in Lachenaie in February. 
  He is considered armed and dangerous and is on the list of Quebec’s most-wanted criminals.
  Police believe Silva, along with 10 other individuals, entered a restaurant in Lachenaie, just north of Laval, at about 9 p.m. on Tu
  
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• Opinion: Canada needs a national post-market drug surveillance system

  29-11-2017 20:32 via montrealgazette.com
  If you take prescription medications, what conditions do you take them for? Are they working? Have you experienced any negative side-effects?
  Answers to these critical health questions aren’t well documented for most Canadians. Yet the answers would provide the crucial information needed to ensure our medications are safe and worth taking.
  Before prescription drugs are approved in Canada, they are tested under controlled conditions on relatively small numbers of patients with selective cha
  
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• The Habs are in the playoffs — if you only count moustaches

  29-11-2017 20:19 via montrealgazette.com
  If the season ended today, your hometown Montreal Canadiens would be in the playoffs — the moustache playoffs, that is.
  The NHL has been compiling Movember Rankings, which track donations for men’s health causes in connection with each team, and with a day left the Habs are in fourth place. 
  The Canadiens had set out to raise $1,909, and have already surpassed that target with $4,711 raised.
  The other teams in the NHL’s Movember standings are all currently in actual playof
  
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• Tractor driver dies after Highway 1 collision east of Winnipeg

  29-11-2017 20:09 via globalnews.ca
  A weekend crash on the Trans-Canada east of Winnipeg claimed the life of a 51-year-old man.
  
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• Bilingual workplaces more common in Quebec, census shows

  29-11-2017 20:03 via montrealgazette.com
  As the use of French as the predominant language in the workplace drops slightly, bilingual workplaces are becoming more common in Quebec, according to census data compiled by Statistics Canada.
  And part of that trend can be attributed to a drop in the province’s francophone demographic, although anglophones and allophones remain more likely to speak or write predominantly in French in their workplace.
  Even though the regular use of French in the workplace has remained stable since 2006, o
  
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• Accurso loses bid for stay of proceedings in Mascouche corruption trial

  29-11-2017 19:59 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected construction entrepreneur Antonio Accurso’s request to have a stay of proceedings placed on charges he faces in an upcoming trial alleging he was involved in municipal corruption in Mascouche. 
  Accurso tried to argue he has waited too long, since 2012, for a trial in the case where he is charged with fraud, conspiracy, corruption and breach of trust. Jury selection is scheduled to begin early in January. 
  Earlier this year, Accurso filed
  
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• Laval Italian bakery reopens after fire

  29-11-2017 19:50 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Nov 29: It was a sweet day for Tony and Mary Cerone as, for the first time in almost a year, they opened the doors to their Italian bakery, Patisserie Boulangerie Vimont. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, the bakery was victim to a fire back in January.
  
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• Laval Italian bakery reopens after January fire

  29-11-2017 19:40 via globalnews.ca
  After being caught in the crossfire of an act of arson, an Italian bakery in Laval has reopened, to the joy of cannoli aficionados in the Vimont neighbourhood.
  
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• Quebec MNA apologizes for using N-word in front of students

  29-11-2017 19:35 via cbc.ca
  The PQ MNA for Abitibi-Ouest, François Gendron, 73, used the derogatory term for black people last month while he was visiting a Quebec City school.
  
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• Opinion: New figures on language of work in Quebec point to strengths

  29-11-2017 19:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Good news or bad news? Statistics Canada released Wednesday its most recent data on language of work in Canada, derived from the 2016 census. The take-home message on the condition of French, always a preoccupation in this province, is, as usual, mixed.
  Across Canada, the number of people working mostly in French in 2016 increased by 277,015 over the number in 2006. In Canada outside Quebec, the increase was of 15,825. In Quebec, the increase was of 261,890. That was the good news.
  But, in
  
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• Skier Erik Guay's World Cup season on hold due to back injury

  29-11-2017 19:23 via cbc.ca
  Erik Guay's injured back will keep him out of World Cup alpine skiing races for a second straight week, Alpine Canada told The Canadian Press in an email Wednesday.
  
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• Montreal's Leonard Cohen comes home - CBC.ca

  29-11-2017 19:14
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  Montreal's Leonard Cohen comes home
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  The news of Leonard Cohen's death broke on the evening of Nov. 10, 2016. Within minutes, the pilgrimage began. Alone and in couples, walking hand in hand, people gathered at the doorstep of Cohen's Plateau-Mont-Royal home. Some lit candles. Others ...
  So long, Montreal: Leonard Cohen's classmate on McGill and the musicianTimes Higher Education (THE)all 7 news articles »
  
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• Quebec MNA François Gendron apologizes for using N-word in front of students

  29-11-2017 18:28 via globalnews.ca
  François Gendron used the derogatory term last month while he was visiting a Quebec City school.
  
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• West Island seniors find relief in medical accompaniment service

  29-11-2017 18:00 via cbc.ca
  A medical accompaniment service in the West Island is a big hit among local seniors, including Linda Jones-Dion and her husband, Claude.
  
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• Yummy Christmas Cookies with pint-sized Chef Erica! https://t.co/rM0fmND8Zd

  29-11-2017 17:59
  
  Yummy Christmas Cookies with pint-sized Chef Erica! https://t.co/rM0fmND8Zd
  
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• T'Cha Dunlevy: Moment of truth for Emily Haines

  29-11-2017 17:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Time frame: mid-late ’90s. Emily Haines was a broke university student, studying electroacoustics at Concordia, sitting alone at long-gone downtown hot spot Jello Martini Lounge, nursing a drink she couldn’t afford, scribbling in her notebook while people partied heartily around her.
  “I was 20 or 21, completely unimpressed and mortified by society, ” she said last week, over tea in the more sophisticated surroundings of the Ritz-Carlton. “I was like, ‘This is
  
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• Montreal toddler can only eat peaches, family desperate for help - Globalnews.ca

  29-11-2017 17:58
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  Montreal toddler can only eat peaches, family desperate for help
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  Micah suffers from severe food allergies and can only eat peaches. His family is raising money to pay for his medical treatment. Caroline Sarah Masson. X. - A A +. Listen. At 23 months old, Micah Gabriel Masson Lopez has no idea what a pain-free life ...
  
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• Montreal toddler can only eat peaches, family desperate for help

  29-11-2017 17:57 via globalnews.ca
  Micah is underweight, bordering a major failure to thrive diagnosis, hospitalization and may need a feeding tube.
  
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• Must-have holiday beauty products https://t.co/3NU2w5CbXD

  29-11-2017 17:49
  
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• Two people dead following collision near Prescott involving 4 tractor-trailers

  29-11-2017 17:41 via globalnews.ca
  A 60-year-old truck driver from Quebec is facing charges in a deadly multi-vehicle crash on the 401.
  
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• Game Day: Canadiens cancel morning skate again before facing Senators

  29-11-2017 17:41 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens cancelled their morning skate before Monday’s game against the Columbus Blue Jackets and then went out and won 3-1 that night at the Bell Centre.
  So it’s not a shock that coach Claude Julien decided to cancel a scheduled morning skate in Brossard again on Wednesday before a game against the Ottawa Senators at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., SN, RDS, TVA Sports).
  The Canadiens and goalie Carey Price will be looking for their third straight victory when they face the Senators
  
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• Montreal, Laval to get 10 new ambulances; 12 more for rest of Quebec - Montreal Gazette

  29-11-2017 17:25
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  Montreal, Laval to get 10 new ambulances; 12 more for rest of Quebec
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  Hoping to boost ambulance response times, especially in Montreal, Health Minister Gaétan Barrette announced Quebec is investing $28.2 million for new vehicles. Aaron Derfel, Montreal Gazette More from Aaron Derfel, Montreal Gazette. Published on ...
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• Montreal, Laval to get 10 new ambulances; 12 more for rest of Quebec

  29-11-2017 17:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Hoping to boost ambulance response times, especially in the Montreal area, Health Minister Gaétan Barrette announced on Wednesday that the provincial government is investing $28.2 million to buy an additional 22 vehicles and expand coverage.
  Montreal and Laval will receive 10 more ambulances, Barrette said. This will translate into nearly 78,000 more hours of ambulance service in the metropolitan region.
  “Over the course of the last few months, we have made significant strides in ne
  
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• 'I regret using N-word,' veteran Quebec MNA François Gendron tells school

  29-11-2017 17:04 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — A veteran Parti Québécois MNA has apologized for using the “N-word” in front of a group of high school students.
  “We can’t use this expression in today’s context,” François Gendron, the dean of the legislature, told reporters Wednesday.
  “I apologized in writing for having used this expression which I regret using.”
  On Tuesday CTV news aired a report revealing the content of a letter sent to the National Assembly
  
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• How Montreal got its groove back with an ugly Christmas tree (Also the Big O is still giving us bad headlines) https://t.co/PqsPjDnmhb

  29-11-2017 17:01
  
  How Montreal got its groove back with an ugly Christmas tree (Also the Big O is still giving us bad headlines) https://t.co/PqsPjDnmhb
  
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• What darkness? Matt Berninger shines a light on The National's latest

  29-11-2017 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The National have always had a reputation for being a rather dark, melancholic band but that rep was taken to a new level with their seventh and latest album, Sleep Well Beast.
  Just look at the song titles. Nobody Else Will Be There. Day I Die. The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness. I’ll Still Destroy You. And the album, one of their best, plays like a sombre exploration of the gloomier sides of the emotional crises that comes when you hit your 40s and 50s.
  But after spending nearly an
  
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• Public hearing process starts for proposed Montreal East fuel terminal - Montreal Gazette

  29-11-2017 16:49
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  Public hearing process starts for proposed Montreal East fuel terminal
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  The project seeks to establish an aviation fuel terminal closer to airports in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa than the present site in Quebec City. Documentation detailing the project can be consulted at the Bibliothèque Micheline-Gagnon at 11370, Notre ...
  
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• Public hearing process starts for proposed Montreal East fuel terminal

  29-11-2017 16:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s office for public hearings on the environment — BAPE — has begun a series of information sessions on a proposal to establish an aviation fuel terminal in Montreal East.
  An information session will take place at 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 19 at the Salle Rosario-Toupindu in the Centre communautaire Roussin, 12125 Notre-Dame St. E. in Montreal.
  The information session will include a presentation by the developer in charge of the project and also allow citizens to obtain deta
  
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• How to live to 100: No ‘smoking, drinking, dope and needles’

  29-11-2017 16:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Clara Margaretha “Greta” Jacobs-Blain was born in her grandparents’ home in the Netherlands on a stormy night with gale-force winds so strong a window was blown in and power lines toppled. She was born at the stroke of midnight, Nov. 27, 1917.
  Surviving that storm was her first challenge. It set the tone.
  Blain celebrated her 100th birthday at Villa Beaurepaire in Beaconsfield, Monday. There were flowers, cake, birthday hugs and speeches. Nancy Jongh, her only niece, flew in fr
  
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• Christmas Fund 2017: Immigrant mother hopes for better life for kids

  29-11-2017 16:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Marcia, originally from Nicaragua, has a doctorate degree. But since immigrating to Montreal, she said she has taken to cleaning houses part-time to provide for her two daughters, ages 17 and 14, and her son, who is seven.
  “I don’t have money,” she said. “I only have enough to pay for housing, and to feed them.”
  Marcia said she’s not able to work full time because her son has a developmental disability and, as a result, she needs to be around to help him and t
  
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• Sustainable transport: Montreal trails Toronto, Vancouver

  29-11-2017 16:19 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal has some catching up to do with other major Canadian cities when it comes to using sustainable transportation, census figures suggest.
  According to Statistics Canada, fewer Montrealers use public transit, car pooling or active transportation such as walking or cycling to get to work when proportionally compared with Toronto and Vancouver.
  While more than one-third of Montrealers (38.1 per cent) use sustainable transportation to get to work, 42.5 per cent who do so in Toronto and 40.6 pe
  
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• Parents, put your phones down

  29-11-2017 15:50 via globalnews.ca
  Parenting expert Erica Diamond tells Global’s Laura Casella about parents who spend too much time on their smartphones and the negative impacts on their children.
  
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• McGill alumna Sheilah Martin appointed to Supreme Court of Canada

  29-11-2017 15:49 via montrealgazette.com
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed Alberta-based judge Sheilah Martin to the Supreme Court of Canada.
  Martin served on the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta in Calgary until June 2016 when she was appointed as a judge of the Courts of Appeal of Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
  Born and raised in Montreal, Martin was trained in both civil and common law before moving to Alberta to pursue her career as an educator, lawyer and judge.
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