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• Statistics show Quebecers leaving to settle in rest of Canada

  05-12-2017 23:59
  There is a massive exodus happening in Quebec where tens of thousands of residents have left the province to live elsewhere in Canada.
  
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• Tips on winter foot care with Montreal Canadiens' Head Athletic Therapist Graham Rynbend https://t.co/cOOgsMlYEU

  05-12-2017 23:49
  
  Tips on winter foot care with Montreal Canadiens' Head Athletic Therapist Graham Rynbend https://t.co/cOOgsMlYEU
  
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• Montreal company finds niche with STM-themed products

  05-12-2017 23:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Wondering what to get that lover of the city’s transit network who already has everything?
  How about a mug with an image of his or her favourite station, or cufflinks with the métro logo.
  Redoing a kitchen? How about a backsplash of tiles modelled after the painted bricks in the Place St-Henri station?
  The STM has had a boutique up and running for the last year to sell STM-themed products. With the holidays approaching, the city’s transit corporation is promoting its merc
  
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• Stu Cowan: Blues have a giant on the blue-line in Colton Parayko

  05-12-2017 23:44 via montrealgazette.com
  If you’re old enough to remember the Friendly Giant children’s TV show that aired on CBC from 1958 to 1985, you’ll recall the opening words: “Look up …. waaaaay up.”
  I had a flashback to that show when I interviewed St. Louis defenceman Colton Parayko in the Blues’ dressing room at the Bell Centre after the team’s morning skate Tuesday before a game against the Canadiens. I’m 6-foot-3, but I felt very small standing beside the 6-foot-6, 230-
  
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• Hate crimes targeting Muslims doubled this year, says Quebec City police chief

  05-12-2017 23:34 via cbc.ca
  The number of crimes and incidents aimed at Muslims jumped from 21 in 2016 to 42 so far this year.
  
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• Thieving crime ring allegedly targeting Westmount homes

  05-12-2017 22:28
  A gang of thieves is allegedly targeting the affluent community of Westmount.
  
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• Thousands are still leaving Quebec for other provinces. Here's where they're going

  05-12-2017 22:26 via cbc.ca
  Lured by the promise of a better job or improved quality of life, seven thousand people a year leave Quebec to live elsewhere in Canada. Here's a closer look at where they're headed.
  
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• For every toy-shaped treat posted with #TreatsForToys, a toy will be donated to a kid in need by @RiceKrispiesCA!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-12-2017 22:17
  For every toy-shaped treat posted with #TreatsForToys, a toy will be donated to a kid in need by @RiceKrispiesCA!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Laurentian Bank audit uncovers $89M worth of mortgages with 'misrepresentations'

  05-12-2017 21:35 via cbc.ca
  Laurentian Bank of Canada says it found client misrepresentations in at least $89 million worth of mortgages it sold to a third party earlier this year, and will as a result buy back the loans where it found documentation issues.
  
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• The right woman for the job: Quebec women’s federation chooses first trans leader

  05-12-2017 21:29
  Gabrielle Bouchard is brushing aside criticism she is unfit to lead Quebec's women's federation as its first trans president.
  
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• Montreal feminist theatre's mentorship program gives young women tools to find their voices

  05-12-2017 21:01 via cbc.ca
  For the all-woman team at Imago Theatre Company, the #MeToo movement validates the work they've already been doing in Montreal's theatre community for more than 20 years.
  
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• Update: Power restored after gas leak forced blackout of 2,000 Hydro clients

  05-12-2017 20:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Update: According to Hydro-Québec’s website, power has been restored to all 2,000 customers.
  A gas leak described as “major” by Hydro-Québec has forced the utility to cut power to 2,000 customers as repairs are carried out. The incident occurred at the corner of Bélanger and Chambord Sts.
  The utility says the outage was carried out at the request of the Montreal fire department.
  Hydro outages can be monitored via their app or website.
  Power was cut to about
  
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• Update: Quebec's diversity forum ineffective, misses the point, group says

  05-12-2017 20:13 via montrealgazette.com
  The same day Quebec held its controversial forum on diversity and anti-discrimination, a coalition of groups announced it will be holding its own independent consultation into systemic racism in the province. 
  At a news conference Tuesday, the Table de concertation contre le racisme systémique — which includes more than 40 anti-racism groups — said it felt Quebec’s forum has been scaled back too far to be effective and misses the point.
  To shed light on the iss
  
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• Former Hab @KnucklesNilan30 paid a surprise visit to the @ShrinersCanada Hospital today. Knuckles spent some qualit… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-12-2017 20:04
  Former Hab @KnucklesNilan30 paid a surprise visit to the @ShrinersCanada Hospital today. Knuckles spent some qualit… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Panic drove actions of couple, Crown says in closing argument of terror trial

  05-12-2017 20:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Sabrine Djermane and El Mahdi Jamali slipped into panic mode when the RCMP began to investigate concerns they were preparing to go to Syria to join ISIL, the prosecutor in the young couple’s trial said in her closing arguments to the jury on Tuesday. 
  Federal prosecutor Lyne Décarie was in the second day of her closing arguments at the Montreal courthouse when she highlighted text messages and Internet searches the young Montreal couple made in April 2015 immediately after the
  
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• Alouettes’ linebacker Kyries Hebert pledges brain to CTE research

  05-12-2017 19:52
  Football player Kyries Hebert sustained concussions throughout his career. He hopes he can improve safety for future athletes.
  
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• Quebecers cited in alleged virtual currency scam now facing U.S. charges

  05-12-2017 19:51
  The alleged activities took place between this past August and present day.
  
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• Montreal gas prices jump

  05-12-2017 19:31
  Tue, Dec 5: Gas prices in Montreal have jumped, with some paying about $1.28 a litre at the pump Tuesday. Global’s Matt Grillo reports.
  
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• Tiradito, Gokudo headline Eater's best Montreal food and drink list

  05-12-2017 19:27 via montrealgazette.com
  As another dining year draws to a close, Eater Montreal handed out its awards to some of the city’s brightest lights today. 
  Here are the winners in all six categories, with some added thoughts from Montreal Gazette food critic Lesley Chesterman:
  Restaurant of the Year: Tiradito (1076 Bleury St.)
  Tiradito was chosen by both Eater’s editor and readers as the restaurant of the year. “It was something novel for the city’s dining scene, for sure,” writes Eater&rsqu
  
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• Increase at the pumps: Montreal gas prices jump

  05-12-2017 19:17
  Gas prices have jumped again in Montreal.
  
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• Quebec forum on diversity lacking ethnic representation

  05-12-2017 19:04
  There is a visible lack of ethnic representation at a forum on diversity in Quebec.
  
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• Time, therapy and spiders: Denis Villeneuve accepts doctorate, offers advice to UQAM grads

  05-12-2017 18:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Denis Villeneuve pulled out two speeches, as he took the podium at Place des Arts’ Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Tuesday morning.
  The acclaimed filmmaker is, of course, no politician. He was not holding a victory speech and a concession speech, but rather two versions of his advice for graduating students of his alma mater, Université du Québec à Montréal’s (UQAM) communications program.
  Clad in a long black robe and sporting a bashful grin, Villeneuve was ther
  
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• Quebec's labour force needs are urgent, Couillard tells discrimination conference

  05-12-2017 18:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s shrinking labour force is a far more pressing problem than trade agreements, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard told a forum on the promotion of diversity and the fight against discrimination as it opened on Tuesday in Quebec City.
  The forum replaces a controversial conference on systemic racism originally planned by the Couillard government. The change of format followed accusations from the opposition that the government wanted to place Quebecers on trial and and try to imply gui
  
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• Legal marijuana: Don't sell pot in poor neighbourhoods, committee says

  05-12-2017 17:58 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The government should ban the sale of cannabis in impoverished neighbourhoods once it is legalized in July, a committee of the National Assembly was told Tuesday.
  Alexandre Cusson, president of Quebec’s union of municipalities (UMQ), told the committee examining Bill 157 that Quebec should not make the same mistake with cannabis as was made with video-poker machines.
  He said in the past many machines were installed in impoverished neighbourhoods, which amplified existing soc
  
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• Canadian car thieves love pickups (but SUVs still hot in Quebec)

  05-12-2017 17:47 via montrealgazette.com
  The Insurance Board of Canada has published this year’s list of those models of vehicle most popular with car thieves.
  But while pickup trucks may have sideswiped SUVs nationally when it comes to being pinched, holding eight of the 10 spots on the list for Canada, Quebec numbers suggest sports utility vehicles haven’t lost their charm when it comes to being chopped down and/or shipped out of the country.
  In Quebec, the top half of the top 10 list consists exclusively of SUVs, the dub
  
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• Ex-Hab Zack Kassian might testify via video hookup in woman's trial

  05-12-2017 17:35 via montrealgazette.com
  It appears that former Montreal Canadien Zack Kassian will not have to appear in person to testify in the case brought against a woman charged with impaired driving causing him bodily harm. 
  The preliminary inquiry in the case against Alison De Courcy Ireland is scheduled to begin Tuesday at the Montreal courthouse. Zack Kassian, a former Hab who was traded after the accident, was expected to appear in person but lawyers involved in the case appeared to inform the judge that he will instead
  
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• Game Day: Canadiens going for sixth straight win against Blues

  05-12-2017 17:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens coach Claude Julien cancelled the team’s scheduled morning skate Tuesday in Brossard before facing the St. Louis Blues at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690).
  That means there was no word on whether No. 1 centre Jonathan Drouin will return to the lineup after missing the last two games with a lower-body injury. Julien was scheduled to meet with the media at 5 p.m. at the Bell Centre at which time we’ll find out about Drouin’s status.
  It appears very
  
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• Gas leak forces blackout of 2,000 customers in Villeray—Saint-Michel—Parc-Ex

  05-12-2017 17:02 via montrealgazette.com
  A gas leak described as “major” by Hydro-Québec has forced the utility to cut power to 2,000 customers as repairs are carried out. The incident occurred at the corner of Bélanger and Chambord Sts.
  The utility says the outage was carried out at the request of the Montreal fire department.
  Hydro outages can be monitored via their app or website.
  Power was cut to about 2,000 Hydro customers because of a gas leak Dec. 5, 2017.
  
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• Turcot traffic nightmare begins Monday as Ville Marie west is closed

  05-12-2017 16:51 via montrealgazette.com
  It has been confirmed: the promised major expressway and highway closures around the Turcot Interchange will begin on Monday morning.
  Transport Quebec confirmed the closures Tuesday morning, and it will be especially difficult to head west from the downtown area as the westbound Ville Marie expressway is demolished between now and sometime in 2019. 
  To prepare for the closures, the Ville Marie will be completely closed from Exit 5 downtown, where the expressway exits to the Champlain Bridge
  
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• Suspect arrested after man fatally shot in Rock Forest home

  05-12-2017 16:48 via montrealgazette.com
  A suspect in his 40s has been arrested in connection with an apparent slaying on Monday night at a residence in a Sherbrooke suburb.
  Sherbrooke police were notified at 11:30 p.m. that a man in a single family home in Rock Forest had been struck by at least one bullet.
  The victim was taken to hospital, where he was later declared dead.
  The suspect was taken into custody soon after the incident, although the circumstances of the arrest remain unclear.
  The Sûreté du Québec
  
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• Sonia Benezra, family sue Jewish General Hospital over malfunctioning door

  05-12-2017 16:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec media personality Sonia Benezra and her family are suing the Jewish General Hospital for $800,000 in damages after Benezra’s mother fractured her leg last March in an incident with an allegedly malfunctioning revolving door.
  In a lawsuit filed Nov. 30, lawyers representing the family contend that on March 20, while Perla Benezra was entering the hospital to receive treatment for cervical cancer, she was violently knocked to the ground by the revolving door at the hospital’s ma
  
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• How to lose Twitter followers: A politician's guide #UnfollowMcCain https://t.co/Djtz4b4W61

  05-12-2017 16:37
  
  How to lose Twitter followers: A politician's guide #UnfollowMcCain https://t.co/Djtz4b4W61
  
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• Broadcaster and author @PAHolder shares his celebrity favourites in a new book https://t.co/zYUHsBGNoq

  05-12-2017 16:34
  
  Broadcaster and author @PAHolder shares his celebrity favourites in a new book https://t.co/zYUHsBGNoq
  
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• Systemic racism in Quebec: Group launches independent consultations

  05-12-2017 16:29 via montrealgazette.com
  As Quebec holds a diversity and anti-discrimination forum Tuesday, a coalition of groups fighting discrimination announced it will be holding its own independent consultation into the matter without the government’s involvement. 
  At a news conference Tuesday morning, the Table de concertation contre le racisme systémique — which includes about 40 anti-racism groups — said it felt Quebec’s forum has been scaled back too far to be effective a
  
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• Valérie Plante one of many mayors to join Obama at climate summit in Chicago

  05-12-2017 16:24
  This comes after President Donald Trump said the U.S. will pull out of the Paris climate accord.
  
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• New mortgage stress test rules will block 50,000 people from buying: mortgage group

  05-12-2017 16:16 via cbc.ca
  New rules aimed at cracking down on the mortgage market will result in 100,000 people failing a stress test of their finances, and about half of them will be blocked from buying a home, according to a new report by a mortgage industry group.
  
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• Donating a football player’s brain to research

  05-12-2017 16:01
  Montreal Alouettes’ linebacker Kyries Hebert joins Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan to talk about donating his brain for research purposes.
  
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• Gifts for the whole family

  05-12-2017 15:54
  Fashion blogger Caroline Elie joins Global’s Laura Casella with holiday gift ideas that every member of the family will love.
  
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• Holiday gifts for fitness lovers

  05-12-2017 15:51
  Fitness expert Tina Kissavos shows Global’s Kim Sullivan a few of her favourite gift ideas for the fitness lover in the family.
  
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• Quebec government outlines $36M plan to help struggling news industry

  05-12-2017 15:50 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec government released details Monday on how it plans to spend $36.4 million over five years to help the province's struggling print media.
  
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• Montreal International Games Summit: A look at the video game industry

  05-12-2017 15:44
  MIGS event director Serge Landry tells Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan about the unique event, which offers networking opportunities and an inside look into the video game industry.
  
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• Valérie Plante joins global meeting of mayors in Chicago

  05-12-2017 15:38 via montrealgazette.com
  CHICAGO — Valérie Plante is attending a gathering of mayors from across the globe at which former president Barack Obama is expected to speak.
  The group of mayors has met in Chicago to discuss climate change after President Donald Trump said the U.S. will pull out of the Paris climate accord. Miguel Angel Mancera of Mexico City is also attending.
  Chicago officials are billing the two-day North American Climate Summit Chicago as the first of its kind in the city. Chicago Mayor Rahm E
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Tuesday, December 5

  05-12-2017 15:37
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Tuesday, December 5.
  
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• Gas prices rise ahead of holiday season

  05-12-2017 15:37
  Gas prices jumped by 10 cents overnight in Dorval. Global’s Matt Grillo reports.
  
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• Community Events: Holiday Market

  05-12-2017 15:37
  Laura Casella has Montreal’s community events for Tuesday, December 5.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Tuesday, December 5

  05-12-2017 15:27
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Tuesday, December 5.
  
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• With province's anti-discrimination forum mired in controversy, community groups launch their own

  05-12-2017 14:50 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec government is holding a one-day diversity and anti-discrimination forum today, as community groups launch parallel consultations that aim to go further in exploring systemic racism.
  
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• Couillard sidesteps discrimination at diversity forum, focuses on 'jobs, jobs, jobs'

  05-12-2017 14:50 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec government held a one-day diversity and anti-discrimination forum today, as community groups launched parallel consultations that aim to go further in exploring systemic racism.
  
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• As province holds anti-discrimination forum, community groups announce racism consultations

  05-12-2017 14:50 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec government is holding a one-day diversity and anti-discrimination forum today, while community groups plan their own parallel consultations that aim to go further in exploring the problem of systemic racism.
  
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