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• Dieuseul Jean convicted in death of girlfriend 22 years after slaying

  30-11-2017 23:59 via montrealgazette.com
  It took more than two decades, but justice finally caught up with Dieuseul Jean. 
  Dieuseul Jean
  A jury in its third day of deliberation at the Montreal courthouse emerged with a verdict on Thursday and, through its foreperson, announced they came to a unanimous decision and found the 56-year-old man guilty of second-degree murder in the Dec. 25, 1995 death of 42-year-old Juthlande Pierre. 
  Pierre and Jean were a couple back in 1995, but were having problems during the holiday season. T
  
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• Highway 15 reopened after worksite crane incident

  30-11-2017 23:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Northbound Highway 15 reopened between Highway 10 (Bonaventure Expressway) and the Turcot Interchange after being shut down Thursday morning when a crane nearly lost its load while dismantling an access ramp.
  The closure lasted for close to an hour, ending at 10:15 a.m. 
  “Nothing fell,” said Transport Quebec spokesperson Sarah Bensadoun, referring to news reports suggesting the closure occurred after a steel beam fell from a Turcot construction site above the street on northboun
  
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• Montreal school boards slam province's handling of school fee debate

  30-11-2017 23:48 via cbc.ca
  School boards that serve the island of Montreal held a joint news conference Thursday, asking the education minister to give them more time to figure out what they can charge for, in the wake of a class-action suit over extra fees.
  
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• Controversial pro-gun rally to be held at sugar shack near Quebec City

  30-11-2017 23:45 via cbc.ca
  A pro-gun lobby that was criticized for planning a rally at a memorial site for the 14 women killed at École Polytechnique has a new location for the event: a sugar shack.
  
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• Allison Hanes: 'Bonjour-Hi' is just good customer service

  30-11-2017 23:32 via montrealgazette.com
  The bustling boutiques of Montreal’s Ste-Catherine St. seemed a world away from the National Assembly Thursday, where how retail employees greet customers was the hot-button topic.
  While holiday shoppers went about their merry business, the government and the Opposition raged about the ubiquitous “Bonjour-Hi” being an “irritant” that undermines the predominance of French in Quebec and represents a dangerous slide into bilingualism.
  Yet an unscientific survey of stor
  
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• The @EnglishMTL School Board inaugurates new first-class vocational centre in St-Leonard. Story by @DomenicFazioli. https://t.co/g0NxZI6xSr

  30-11-2017 23:17
  
  The @EnglishMTL School Board inaugurates new first-class vocational centre in St-Leonard. Story by @DomenicFazioli. https://t.co/g0NxZI6xSr
  
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• UPAC No. 2 quits over role in alleged share purchases

  30-11-2017 22:19
  The second-in-command at Quebec's anti-corruption unit is stepping down.
  
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• Projet Montréal accused of flip-flopping on 'electoral paving' pledge

  30-11-2017 21:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Projet Montréal is being accused of political flip-flopping after approving more than $15 million in road-repair contracts that fall under a paving program the party long criticized as a waste of money and “electoral paving” when it was in the opposition.
  On Wednesday, the city’s executive committee, now controlled by Projet Montréal, approved three road-paving contracts in the boroughs of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Outremont, St-L&eacu
  
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• Dorval overpass partially opens after years of delays

  30-11-2017 20:51
  After years of delays, a portion of the overpass linking Highway 20 to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport opened Thursday.
  
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• Air Transat failed passengers stuck on 2 flights at Ottawa airport, agency decides

  30-11-2017 20:31 via cbc.ca
  The Canadian Transportation Agency has ruled Air Transat broke its agreement with passengers when it left them in two planes stranded on the tarmac at Ottawa International Airport last summer.
  
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• Tomorrow: @emlambropoulos talks about helping families in need during the holidays https://t.co/qMsa7CXmjA

  30-11-2017 20:28
  
  Tomorrow: @emlambropoulos talks about helping families in need during the holidays https://t.co/qMsa7CXmjA
  
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• 'Construction sites charter' would protect citizens, Montreal opposition says

  30-11-2017 20:26 via montrealgazette.com
  With more than 700 construction projects planned for Montreal in 2018, the official opposition at city hall is calling on the city to create a “construction sites charter” that would clearly outline the rights of citizens and small businesses affected. 
  For each site, a public listing would be posted showing how long the work is expected to last; measures that should be in place to ensure pedestrian and cyclist safety and universal accessibility; measures to reduce irritants lik
  
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• Update: Highway 15 reopened after worksite crane incident

  30-11-2017 20:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Northbound Highway 15 reopened between Highway 10 (Bonaventure Expressway) and the Turcot Interchange after being shut down Thursday morning when a crane nearly lost its load while dismantling an access ramp.
  The closure lasted for close to an hour, ending at 10:15 a.m. 
  “Nothing fell,” said Transport Quebec spokesperson Sarah Bensadoun, referring to news reports suggesting the closure occurred after a steel beam fell from a Turcot construction site above the street on northboun
  
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• Liberals lag in gun control promises, mass shooting survivors say

  30-11-2017 20:06
  "Most Canadians would be shocked to learn that most of the guns used in recent shootings in the United States are available for private ownership in Canada.”
  
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• Tomorrow on @BTMontreal: @emlambropoulos talks about helping families in need during the holidays. https://t.co/Tq7kBov55B

  30-11-2017 20:01
  
  Tomorrow on @BTMontreal: @emlambropoulos talks about helping families in need during the holidays. https://t.co/Tq7kBov55B
  
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• Quebec passes motion for store clerks to stop saying ‘bonjour, hi’

  30-11-2017 20:01
  The PQ says too many people are speaking both French and English to customers.
  
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• Brownstein: Cannes Lions winners are an easy sell

  30-11-2017 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  As enduring Christmas traditions go in this city, there’s little doubt that one of the most popular would seem to go against the religious sanctity of the season: the latest batch of award-winning commercials from the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
  But then again, Montrealers always tend to march to the beat of their own little drummer person. How else to explain the fact we now also celebrate having the ugliest, albeit noble, Christmas tree trying to spread its
  
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• Quebec lawmakers call on businesses to simply say, 'Bonjour'

  30-11-2017 19:45 via cbc.ca
  Quebec politicians have passed a unanimous motion calling on businesses to greet their customers with a simple, warm "bonjour," rather than the "bonjour/hi" often heard in Montreal's shops and restaurants.
  
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• Update: Quebecers invited to say au revoir to 'bonjour-hi'

  30-11-2017 19:25 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The National Assembly is formally asking Quebec’s merchants to “warmly” greet their clients with the word “Bonjour,” and drop the old standard “Bonjour-hi.”
  A resolution to that effect, sponsored by the Parti Québécois, sailed through the legislature Thursday morning following a short debate over semantics.
  The vote was 111 for and no opposition, which means the Liberals, Coalition Avenir Québec and Québec solid
  
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• Game Day: Canadiens' Jonathan Drouin won't be in lineup against Red Wings

  30-11-2017 19:21 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens will be looking to win their fourth straight game when they take on the Red Wings Thursday night in Detroit (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690) but they will have to do it without Jonathan Drouin.
  Drouin, who scored on a penalty shot in the Canadiens’ 2-1 win over the Ottawa Senators Wednesday night at the Bell Centre, didn’t travel to Detroit after the game with the team because of a lower-body injury. The Canadiens called up Daniel Carr from the AHL’s Laval Ro
  
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• Video: @florence_k opens up about mental health issues https://t.co/FxFw5L6mgI

  30-11-2017 18:53
  
  Video: @florence_k opens up about mental health issues https://t.co/FxFw5L6mgI
  
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• ‘I need to bring my son home’: The search for Jesse Galganov missing in Peru continues

  30-11-2017 18:52
  Alisa Clamen joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about the extensive search for her son, Jesse Galganov, who’s been missing in Peru for two months.
  
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• ‘I let him down:’ Quebec father speaks about son’s death

  30-11-2017 18:52
  Thu, Nov 30: Martin Dufour, father of Quebec teen Simon Dufour, who died after alleged incessant bullying, remembers his son and pushes for better anti-bullying mesaures in schools.
  
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• Green tech on display at the Los Angeles Auto Show - We speak to @PetrinaGentile live from L.A. https://t.co/WuRoPMaZgI

  30-11-2017 18:47
  
  Green tech on display at the Los Angeles Auto Show - We speak to @PetrinaGentile live from L.A. https://t.co/WuRoPMaZgI
  
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• All about the poke bowl btmontreal.ca/videos/all-abo…

  30-11-2017 18:47
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• Suicide pact at Anjou high school was a prank, official says

  30-11-2017 18:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Three Anjou high-school students have been suspended after they circulated a fake suicide-pact invitation that collected 62 signatures from fellow students on Tuesday.
  Luc Plante, executive director of Collège d’Anjou, said the incident occurred at lunchtime, when about 350 Grade 9, 10 and 11 students were seated together. Three sheets inviting young people to sign the suicide pact, which was to take place on Jan. 30, began to circulate and collected 62 signatures.
  Lunch supervisors
  
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• UPAC second-in-command resigns after reportedly touting stocks in controversial firm

  30-11-2017 18:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Marcel Forget, second-in-command of the province’s anti-corruption squad (UPAC), has resigned in the wake of a news report saying he recommended investments to fellow officers while serving as a member of the Sûreté du Québec.
  Forget’s departure was announced in a statement by UPAC chief Robert Lafrenière Thursday morning, soon after Quebec Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux publicly urged Forget to consider his future on the squad.
  The resignation fol
  
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• Kevin Tierney: Cohen and cowboys — a tale of two Montreal museum shows

  30-11-2017 18:17 via montrealgazette.com
  In February 2017, I, along with thousands of others, received an email message about an upcoming celebration of the late Leonard Cohen at the Musée d’art contemporain.
  One of the installations in the exhibition A Crack in Everything would feature a group of men of a certain age, all of whom needed to be able to sing in tune and learn lyrics in order to record Cohen’s entire I’m Your Man album. Anyone who was interested was invited to apply.
  At the time we were on a beach
  
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• Quebec sci-fi thriller Radius evolved from a killer concept

  30-11-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A man stumbles from the wreckage of a crash, back out onto the main road. He flags down a car, the car almost runs him down, but pulls over. As he runs up to the vehicle, he notices the driver isn’t moving. She’s dead.
  He calls 911, but when asked to identify himself, the man can’t remember his name.
  Just a few minutes into Quebec directors Steeve Léonard and Caroline Labrèche’s absorbing second feature, Radius, they have us hooked. And they’re just ge
  
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• Arthur Kaptainis: Orchestre Métropolitain in cosmopolitan form

  30-11-2017 17:52 via montrealgazette.com
  DORTMUND, Germany — This was by no means the debut of Yannick Nézet-Séguin in the Dortmund Konzerthaus. The globe-trotting conductor is a popular figure in the former industrial hub of the Ruhr Valley, and indeed will return this season with both the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
  This was, however, most certainly the Dortmund debut of the Orchestre Métropolitain, not to mention the first performance by Montreal’s not-so-second orchestra
  
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• UPAC's second-in-command steps down amid stock allegations

  30-11-2017 17:45 via cbc.ca
  Marcel Forget, the commissioner in charge of corporate integrity audits in Quebec's anti-corruption unit (UPAC), has stepped down after reportedly trying to sell the stock of a controversial firm.
  
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• UPAC's second-in-command steps down amid allegations

  30-11-2017 17:45 via cbc.ca
  Marcel Forget, the commissioner in charge of corporate integrity audits in Quebec's anti-corruption unit (UPAC), has stepped down after reportedly trying to sell the stock of a controversial firm.
  
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• UPAC's 2nd-in-command steps down amid allegations he recommended dicey stock

  30-11-2017 17:45 via cbc.ca
  Marcel Forget, the commissioner in charge of corporate integrity audits at Quebec's anti-corruption unit (UPAC), has stepped down after reportedly trying to sell the stock of a controversial firm.
  
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• Montreal choreographer Daniel Léveillé awarded $25,000 dance prize

  30-11-2017 17:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal choreographer Daniel Léveillé is among this year’s winners of the annual Prix de la Danse de Montréal. The award was established in 2011 by Marie Chouinard, who attended the event Thursday.
  Léveillé received the Grand Prix, which comes with a cash prize of $25,000 sponsored by Québecor and the city of Montréal, for his support of the dance community, the longevity of his career and his unique works. Other winners were choreographer
  
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• U.S. student offers $5,000 reward for PhD data stolen in Montreal

  30-11-2017 17:37 via montrealgazette.com
  With the smash of an SUV window on Saturday, a thief or thieves made off with years of Neil Kohan’s work.
  The PhD student, visiting Montreal from Syracuse, N.Y., has spent years collecting and analyzing data related to wood-products engineering.
  He’s offering a $5,000 reward to anyone who returns the stolen thumb drives, laptops and handwritten notebook that contain his PhD work.
  On Saturday, around noon, he and his family packed up an Audi SUV and went to say goodbye to the aun
  
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• Mom Talk with @CVDmtl: Guilt and shame over miscarriage - We discuss with @WiseWomenCanada https://t.co/dDgyR2MLYs

  30-11-2017 17:33
  
  Mom Talk with @CVDmtl: Guilt and shame over miscarriage - We discuss with @WiseWomenCanada https://t.co/dDgyR2MLYs
  
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• Update: Parti Québécois motion would declare 'bonjour-hi' an irritant

  30-11-2017 17:08 via montrealgazette.com
  The Parti Québécois is to attempt to table a motion in the National Assembly Thursday declaring the phrase “bonjour-hi” an “irritant.”
  Triggered by new statistics showing a slight drop in the use of French as the predominant language in the workplace in Quebec, politicians were falling over backward on Wednesday to trash the common expression — a symbol of the province’s linguistic peace for years.
  There is no guarantee the motion will
  
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• Need some great gifts? Look up towards the stars for ideas! @TheStyleHouse shares gifts for every Zodiac sign https://t.co/LJmQumBmjl

  30-11-2017 17:04
  
  Need some great gifts? Look up towards the stars for ideas! @TheStyleHouse shares gifts for every Zodiac sign https://t.co/LJmQumBmjl
  
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• Tipsy drivers take note: Nez Rouge can take you home starting Friday

  30-11-2017 16:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Nez-Rouge kicks off its drive-a-drunk-home service on Friday in 100 Canadian cities, including 61 in Quebec.
  The service has two sponsors — Quebec’s automobile-insurance board and the Desjardins financial-services company.
  People who have had too much to drink can get a ride by calling 1-866-DESJARDINS (1-866-337-5273) or by using the Nez Rouge app, available on the App Store and via Google Play.
  Information is also available at OperationNezRouge.com or OperationRedNose.com.The servi
  
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• Lyric Theatre Singers gear up for Candlelight Christmas concert

  30-11-2017 16:45
  Bob Bachelor and the Lyric Theatre Singers join Global’s Laura Casella to talk about the upcoming Candlelight Christmas concert at the Loyola Chapel.
  
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• Legal marijuana: 59% of Quebecers want deadline extended, poll suggests

  30-11-2017 16:44 via montrealgazette.com
  While nearly two-thirds of Canadians support the legalization of recreational marijuana, nearly half of them — 47 per cent — think the federal government’s July 1, 2018, deadline should be pushed back, an Angus-Reid Institute survey suggests.
  In an online survey of 1,510 Canadian adults conducted Nov. 14-20, pollsters found that support for legalization stood at 65 per cent nationwide. But they also determined that apart from respondents on the east and west coasts of the
  
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• Court awards former Quebec paramedics $1.2M over subway scare

  30-11-2017 16:35 via cbc.ca
  Montreal's transit authority has been ordered to pay two former paramedics more than $1.2 million for a scare that left them unable to work.
  
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• Highway 15 N. re-opened from Bonaventure to Turcot after worksite crane fail

  30-11-2017 16:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Northbound Highway 15 has re-opened between Highway 10 (Bonaventure Expressway) and the Turcot interchange in the after being shut down in the wake of an earlier incident that saw a crane nearly lose its load while dismantling an access ramp.
  The closure lasted for close to an hour, ending at about 10:15 a.m.
  Earlier Thursday St-Patrick St. was shut down for nearly seven hours after a crane operator deposited a section of concrete on a bridge crossing the Lachine canal at about 1 a.m. when it be
  
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• Brian Wilde: Habs, Sens face off

  30-11-2017 16:29
  Global sports analyst Brian Wilde joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk the Montreal Canadiens’ game against the Ottawa Senators.
  
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• ‘Missing’ Montreal doctor ‘fears for his life’

  30-11-2017 16:18
  Thu, Nov 30: Security footage from Global News’ office in Halifax shows a man, who identified himself as missing Montreal doctor Trevor Wesson, telling Assignment Editor Richard Dooley he was afraid for his life because he had gotten involved in organized crime.
  
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• Court awards ex-Quebec paramedics $1.2 million over Metro scare

  30-11-2017 16:16
  The paramedics frantically moved to get out from under the car and only discovered later it was a false alarm.
  
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• Habs' Jonathan Drouin listed day-to-day with lower-body injury

  30-11-2017 16:07 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens announced Thursday that forward Jonathan Drouin did not travel with the team to Detroit. He is listed as day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
  Drouin had played Wednesday night against the Senators, scoring on a penalty shot in a 2-1 win.
  After the game, the Canadiens called up forward Daniel Carr from the Laval Rocket, and he will join the team in Detroit for Thursday night’s game against the Red Wings.
   
  
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• Five things to do in Montreal this weekend: Dec. 1-3

  30-11-2017 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s a new month, but the question of what to do with your weekend remains.
  Here, then, are five ideas for making the most of this time off:
  Souk @ Sat
  Take in a variety of craft offerings in a “loft-style space” organized by the Society for Arts and Technology. Perhaps a society member is selling the gift you’ve been looking for. 
  Being Human
  Take in some local choreography with the dance double bill from the dance company Tangente. It features Feral, a solo by Ingr
  
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• Énergir: Gaz Métro's new name reflects energy diversity

  30-11-2017 15:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Gaz Métro has changed its name to Énergir.
  The company says that while natural gas distribution accounted for almost all of its business 10 years ago, renewable electricity generation and distribution, as well as non-gas energy services, now make up almost 45 per cent of its assets.
  In addition to its natural gas distribution business, the company operates wind farms and this year purchased Standard Solar, a United States-based company specializing in the development of solar
  
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• Quebec elections 2018: Courting the Anglo vote

  30-11-2017 15:26
  Ipsos vice-president Sébastien Dallaire tells Global’s Laura Casella about the Liberals and CAQ fighting for the anglophone vote as the 2018 provincial election approaches.
  
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