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• Projet Montréal candidate accuses parties of systemic racism, threatens legal action

  04-12-2017 23:53 via montrealgazette.com
  A former Projet Montréal candidate is promising to launch a legal battle against the city and its political parties in Quebec Superior Court, accusing them of maintaining a policy of systemic racism.
  Balarama Holness, who ran unsuccessfully to become borough mayor of Montreal North for Projet Montréal in the Nov. 5 municipal elections, is also starting a petition to force Montreal to open a public consultation on the issue. The lack of individuals from ethnocultural communities ele
  
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• New Montreal bridge currently being built had 2000 defects: report - CTV News

  04-12-2017 23:52
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  New Montreal bridge currently being built had 2000 defects: report
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  MONTREAL -- The federal transport minister offered reassurances Monday a new Montreal bridge will be safe despite a published report that some 2,000 defects have been found in parts manufactured by a Spanish company. "It's in good hands," Marc Garneau ...
  Champlain Bridge update: 'Rigorous oversight' cited after reports of 2000 repairsMontreal Gazette
  Montreal's New Champlain Bridge Is A Total DisasterMTL Blog
  
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• Sexual misconduct in Quebec legislature not uncommon

  04-12-2017 23:48 via globalnews.ca
  About two-thirds of Quebec’s female politicians say they’ve experience some kind of sexual misconduct while at work at the National Assembly. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Vaudreuil-Soulanges MRC unveils new image.

  04-12-2017 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Two Off-Island business and community organizations unveiled new logos last week.
  The business association, previously known as Centre local de développement (CLD), changed its name to become “Development Vaudreuil-Soulanges” (DEV).
  The Vaudreuil-Soulanges Municipalité régionale de comté (MRC) also unveiled its new image.
  The Vaudreuil-Soulanges MRC has a new logo.
  “The MRC has chosen a vibrant and dynamic logo in the shades of green and blue that ha
  
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• Allison Hanes: Fund fertility treatment, but not to boost population

  04-12-2017 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Not long ago, Quebec had one of the top publicly funded fertility treatment programs in North America, covering up to three rounds of in vitro fertilization for couples unable to conceive on their own.
  That is until two years ago, when IVF coverage was gutted and replaced with a limited tax credit by the cost-cutting Liberal government.
  But with an election on the horizon, the Coalition Avenir Québec is looking to bring back public coverage of IVF. Leading in the latest opinion polls
  
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• Stu Cowan: Habs' Jordie Benn scores one for stay-at-home defencemen

  04-12-2017 23:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Which one of these four NHL defenceman has the most goals this season: San Jose’s Brent Burns, Tampa Bay’s Victor Hedman, Ottawa’s Erik Karlsson … or the Canadiens’ Jordie Benn?
  The first three were finalists for the Norris Trophy last season, but the correct answer is Benn.
  The Sharks’ Burns, who won the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s top defenceman, had one goal going into Monday night’s game against the Washington Capitals, while the Lightning&rsqu
  
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• U.S. SEC files charges against Quebec cryptocurrency firm

  04-12-2017 23:07 via cbc.ca
  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against a Quebec firm that deals in a cryptocurrency called PlexCoin.
  
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• Doubts raised over Plante's pledge to add 300 hybrid buses

  04-12-2017 22:57 via montrealgazette.com
  The feasibility of newly elected Mayor Valérie Plante and her Projet Montréal party’s promise to add 300 hybrid buses to the city’s public transit fleet, touted by Plante during the election campaign as her “No. 1 priority,” is coming under increased scrutiny.
  Opposition critics note that Projet’s estimates for the cost of the buses alone, which run in the range of $750,000 each, is $225 million. Additional costs that were not noted, however, could bri
  
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• Champlain Bridge update: Strict quality standards being met, director says after defect reports

  04-12-2017 22:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Despite reports of shoddy materials being shipped, Daniel Genest, the director of co-ordination for the new Champlain Bridge, said every piece meets strict standards of quality.
  With 361 days to go before the new $4.2-billion bridge is due to be handed over to the federal government, Genest spent Monday meeting reporters to respond to a report in the Journal de Montréal stating that incomplete or missing welds, misaligned holes on steel parts and cracked or porous metal plates h
  
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• Tomorrow's high is 8 Celcius. Perfect day to have an ice cream! https://t.co/p9MtnJvqrS

  04-12-2017 22:45
  
  Tomorrow's high is 8 Celcius. Perfect day to have an ice cream! https://t.co/p9MtnJvqrS
  
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• MISSING TEEN: 15-year-old Nathalie Wilson. She could be in the Montreal region. Seen her? Call 911 https://t.co/Gghg5EWNu9

  04-12-2017 22:37
  
  MISSING TEEN: 15-year-old Nathalie Wilson. She could be in the Montreal region. Seen her? Call 911 https://t.co/Gghg5EWNu9
  
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• Petition demands ingredients be translated into English on locally prepared food at IGA

  04-12-2017 22:35 via globalnews.ca
  A petition is circulating calling on Sobeys to make sure pre-packaged food products in the Greater Montreal area has its ingredients listed in both English and French.
  
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• 'Inappropriate, humiliating': Liberal MP accuses Conservative of unwanted sexual remarks

  04-12-2017 22:13 via cbc.ca
  A Liberal MP has called out a Conservative MP for making "humiliating and unwanted" sexual remarks that caused her great stress in the workplace.
  
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• New trial ordered for Laval woman found guilty in 2013 of killing two daughters

  04-12-2017 21:55 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for a Adele Sorella, the Laval woman who was found guilty in 2013 of killing her two daughters.
  
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• Liberal MP accuses Conservative James Bezan of ‘humiliating’ sexual comments

  04-12-2017 21:47 via globalnews.ca
  A Liberal MP says she was subjected to "inappropriate, humiliating and unwanted comments" made by Conservative MP James Bezan last spring.
  
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• Coyote sightings near Montreal elementary school - Globalnews.ca

  04-12-2017 21:33
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  Coyote sightings near Montreal elementary school
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  WATCH: There have been several sightings of at least one coyote near an elementary school in Montreal's Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough. Global's Matt Grillo reports. X. - A A +. Listen. There have been several sightings of at least one coyote near Saint ...
  
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• Caisse to invest more than US$400M to acquire minority stake in insurer Hyperion

  04-12-2017 21:33 via globalnews.ca
  Management and employees will remain the largest shareholder group.
  
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• Coyote sightings near Montreal elementary school

  04-12-2017 21:29 via globalnews.ca
  A coyote has been spotted near a Montreal elementary school.
  
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• 2,000 defects found on Montreal’s new Champlain Bridge: report

  04-12-2017 21:24 via globalnews.ca
  A spokesman says all the problems are being ironed out and the $4.2-billion bridge will be delivered on time in about one year.
  
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• Appeals court orders new trial for Montreal woman convicted of killing daughters - Montreal Gazette

  04-12-2017 21:23
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  Appeals court orders new trial for Montreal woman convicted of killing daughters
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  Adele Sorella walks to court in her trial in the deaths of her two daughters with lawyer Guy Poupart at the Palais de Justice de Laval in Laval on May 29, 2013. John Kenney / Montreal Gazette. Share Adjust Comment Print. The Quebec Court of Appeal has ...and more »
  
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• Appeals court orders new trial of woman convicted of killing daughters

  04-12-2017 21:13 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec Court of Appeal has overturned a jury’s verdict in which Adele Sorella, the wife of a known Mafia leader, was found guilty of murdering her two young daughters. 
  In doing so, the appellate court has ordered a new trial for Sorella, who was found guilty on June 24, 2013, of killing her daughters, ages 8 and 9, on March 31 ,2009. Sorella was accused of using an oxygen tent to kill both girls while her husband, Giuseppe De Vito, was on the lam on drug-smuggling charges. 
  
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• Celine Cooper: Let's do our homework on school fees

  04-12-2017 20:51 via montrealgazette.com
  What constitutes a “free” public education in Quebec? And whose job is it to decide?
  Prompted by a class action lawsuit launched last year by a parent named Daisye Marcil, the current school fee debate taking place in this province is an important one that could very well have long-term consequences for the quality and accessibility of our public education system. 
  Marcil, a mother of two children who attend public school in the Saguenay region, is arguing that th
  
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• Champlain Bridge update: 'Rigorous oversight' cited after reports of 2,000 repairs

  04-12-2017 20:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Workers on the construction of the new $4.2-billion Champlain Bridge have already made 2,000 repairs to faulty material used to build the span’s supports, according to a news report Monday.
  The report in the Journal de Montréal lists incomplete or missing welds, misaligned holes on steel parts and cracked or porous metal plates as having been detected over the course of construction. Most of the problems are found with support beams from a firm identified in the report as Tecade, wh
  
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• Supreme Court to hear bid to reopen Churchill Falls deal with Hydro-Quebec

  04-12-2017 19:52 via cbc.ca
  The Supreme Court of Canada will be asked Tuesday to reopen a lopsided 1969 hydro deal that has so far generated $28 billion for Hydro-Quebec, versus about $2 billion for Newfoundland and Labrador.
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened in Montreal on Dec. 3

  04-12-2017 19:42 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal:
  Valérie Plante heads to Chicago, Paris on first international mission
  Montreal’s new mayor will be in Chicago on Monday and Tuesday to attend the annual North American Climate Summit, C40, joining other municipal leaders from the United States, Canada and Mexico. She will then fly to Paris on Wednesday to attend a conference organized by the International Economic Forum of the Americas, which brings together business lead
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Jonathan Drouin still out with a lower-body injury

  04-12-2017 19:37 via montrealgazette.com
  After enjoying a day off Sunday, the Canadiens were back on the ice Monday morning for practice in Brossard, but Jonathan Drouin didn’t take part.
  Drouin, who has missed the last two games with a lower-body injury, skated by himself on the second rink in Brossard before the team practised. When asked after practice if Drouin, who has 5-12-17 totals in 25 games, was progressing, coach Claude Julien said: “I think so. That’s what I’m being told … it’s prog
  
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• Opinion: A chance at real reconciliation

  04-12-2017 19:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Every single one of us has a role to play in reconciliation, and on Tuesday, it’s expected we will be given that opportunity.
  Greenpeace has been trying to do its part by embedding a commitment to Indigenous rights in all that we do. We are aware of the great potential for environmental justice as a result of meaningful alliances between environmentalists and Indigenous Peoples and that such alliances can strengthen our collective capacities to advance the regeneration and protection of th
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Jonathan Drouin still out with a lower-body injury - Montreal Gazette

  04-12-2017 19:22
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  Canadiens Notebook: Jonathan Drouin still out with a lower-body injury
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  Centre skates by himself before practice, while Jeff Petry takes a therapy day and Carey Price is named NHL's second star of the week. Stu Cowan, Montreal Gazette More from Stu Cowan, Montreal Gazette. Published on: December 4, 2017 | Last Updated ...and more »
  
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• Parole denied for man who killed 79-year-old woman in 2016 hit and run

  04-12-2017 19:16 via montrealgazette.com
  An Ontario man who pleaded guilty this past summer to reckless driving causing the death of a 79-year-old woman who was admired in Montreal’s Portuguese community was recently denied parole after admitting he has changed little since his arrest.
  Another thing that did not impress the Commission québécoise des liberations conditionnelles (CQLC) was how Steven Harley Pinnel, 34, now claims he has no recollection of having struck Zèlia Ponte Araujo on Sept. 20, 2016, whil
  
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• Quebec to examine bridge, tunnel options for linking Quebec City and Lévis

  04-12-2017 19:15 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec government is moving ahead with an exploratory study for a third link — either another bridge or a tunnel — between Quebec City and Lévis.
  
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• Flair Airlines ditches carry-on fees — temporarily

  04-12-2017 19:15 via globalnews.ca
  Flair Airlines, a discount airline based in Kelowna, is waiving the fee for carry-on baggage. But only for a month.
  
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• Quebec announces how budget's $36 million will support local newspapers

  04-12-2017 18:59 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec government announced on Monday just how it intends to spend more than $36 million to support the province’s written press.
  Speaking in Trois-Rivières on Monday, Culture and Communications minister Marie Montpetit, detailed how the $36.4 million will be spent over the next five years, describing the move as “historic assistance that no other government has made until now.”
  Written media have until Jan. 15 to apply for some of the $19.2 million allocated for the
  
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• Closing arguments begin for Montreal couple accused of terrorism-related offences

  04-12-2017 18:59 via cbc.ca
  Lawyers are delivering their closing statements in the trial of Sabrine Djermane and El Mahdi Jamali, a young Montreal couple accused of preparing to go to Syria to fight with ISIS.
  
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• Toy Tea moves to Montreal’s Ritz-Carlton for 26th edition

  04-12-2017 18:45 via globalnews.ca
  Toy Tea benefits Montreal children living in women's shelters through the holidays.
  
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• Museum of Fine Arts offers free access to Hornstein pavilion during the holidays

  04-12-2017 18:03 via montrealgazette.com
  In celebration of the first anniversary of the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is granting free access to the year-old gallery from Dec. 16 to Jan. 7.
  The pavilion houses more than 750 works of art ranging from the Middle Ages to today, over six floors. The promotion also includes access to the museum’s collections of Quebec, Canadian, contemporary international and decorative art.
  The museum is open throughout the holiday period except Dec.
  
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• Closing arguments in case of Montrealers charged with terror-related charges

  04-12-2017 17:50 via globalnews.ca
  Closing arguments are underway at the jury trial for two young Montrealers facing terror-related charges.
  
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• Video: @LidiaBastianich’s Celebrate Like an Italian https://t.co/2aEJS1apPp

  04-12-2017 17:48
  
  Video: @LidiaBastianich’s Celebrate Like an Italian https://t.co/2aEJS1apPp
  
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• Is this the worst poutine ever? https://t.co/rShtCWWoVD

  04-12-2017 17:00
  
  Is this the worst poutine ever? https://t.co/rShtCWWoVD
  
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• Ceremony on Mount Royal will honour victims of 1989 Polytechnique massacre

  04-12-2017 16:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Mayor Valérie Plante is inviting Montrealers to attend a ceremony on Wednesday commemorating the 14 women slain at École Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989.
  Organized by the city of Montreal, the Memoire committee and the Polytechnique, the ceremony will take place at 5 p.m. at the chalet on Mount Royal and will also be attended by Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, wife of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and by Quebec deputy premier Dominique Anglade.
  Twenty-eight years ago, Marc Lepine, 2
  
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• Bombardier to supply Airbus for new engine nacelle program for the A320neo

  04-12-2017 16:21 via globalnews.ca
  Bombardier is already a supplier to Airbus on a number of programs.
  
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• Cook like an Italian with Lidia Bastianich

  04-12-2017 16:02 via globalnews.ca
  World renowned chef Lidia Bastianich joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about her new cookbook, Celebrate like an Italian.
  
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• Update: Service resumes on métro's Orange Line after rush-hour shutdown

  04-12-2017 15:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Service resumed on the métro’s Orange Line by 9:50 a.m. The shutdown between Côte-Vertu and Lionel-Groulx stations was called for because of the presence of smoke in the system. It was down for about an hour.
  Service was also shut down on the Blue Line between Snowdon and Parc around 9:15 a.m., however trains were running again within minutes.
  Heavier ridership than usual between Lionel-Groulx and Montmorency because of this morning's métro service interruption. Expect
  
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• Eat this, not that: Food alternative for a healthy lifestyle

  04-12-2017 15:55 via globalnews.ca
  Registered dietitian Tracy Satov joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about food alternatives for a healthier lifestyle.
  
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• Toy Tea Choir charity drive

  04-12-2017 15:51 via globalnews.ca
  Toy Tea Drive co-chairs Erika Flores Ludwick, Paulina Flores Rutenberg and the Toy Tea Choir join Global’s Kim Sullivan to talk about the toy drive at Montreal’s Ritz-Carton Hotel.
  
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• Pot black market isn't expected to disappear even as marijuana becomes legal

  04-12-2017 15:48 via cbc.ca
  Canada's black market for recreational marijuana has seen significant changes in recent years. What does seem clear, however, is that the illegal market is unlikely to disappear in a puff of smoke come legalization day.
  
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• Geordie Productions ‘A Christmas Carol’ mixing gender roles

  04-12-2017 15:44 via globalnews.ca
  Geordie Productions’ “A Christmas Carol” cast members Justice Pepita Caprioloc and Dr. David Morris join Global’s Laura Casella to talk about Ebeneezer Scrooge being portrayed as a female in this rendition of the holiday classic.
  
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• Fighting sexual harassment in the workplace

  04-12-2017 15:44 via globalnews.ca
  Human resources specialist Sherri Rabinovitch gives Global’s Laura Casella some advice for people who feel they have been victims of sexual assault in the workplace.
  
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• Kim Sullivan returns from Dubai

  04-12-2017 15:31 via globalnews.ca
  Global’s Kim Sullivan shares some pictures from her recent trip to Dubai.
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Monday, December 4

  04-12-2017 15:31 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Monday, December 4.
  
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• Coyotes sightings near Montreal North

  04-12-2017 15:31 via globalnews.ca
  Coyotes have been spotted near École Saint-André-Apotre in Ahuntsic-Cartierville. Global’s Matt Grillo reports.
  
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