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• Ian Lafrenière reinstated as Montreal police media relations

  13-12-2017 23:44
  Wed, Dec 13: Montreal’s interim police chief Martin Prud’homme made what some are calling a bold move by bringing back an old face to the force’s media relations office. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, Ian Lafrenière was a key figurehead of the department until he was removed in 2016.
  
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• Snow removal underway in Montreal

  13-12-2017 23:32
  Wed, Dec 13: More than 20 cm of snow has fallen across the island of Montreal and snow clearing operations are underway. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• Former Mount Real CEO Lino Matteo to be released again while he appeals second conviction

  13-12-2017 23:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Lino Matteo is expected to be a free man once again despite having recently been sentenced to his second prison term in less than 18 months in two different cases where he was convicted of defrauding hundreds of investors out of millions of dollars. 
  On Wednesday, Superior Court Justice Guy Cournoyer agreed with a request, from Matteo’s lawyer George Calaritis, that he be released on bail while Matteo appeals his conviction in a case where a Quebec Court judge found him guilty of havi
  
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• Chisasibi tyke 'Habs' a big day at Montreal Children's Hospital

  13-12-2017 23:16 via cbc.ca
  Samuel Kanatewat, nine-months-old, sported his best Montreal Canadiens gear for a Christmas visit from team members.
  
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• Montreal mosque denies trying to exclude women from construction site

  13-12-2017 23:06 via montrealgazette.com
  The head of an organization overseeing electrical work near two mosques in Côte-des-Neiges said there’s no contract barring women from working on the construction site on Fridays, the Muslim day of prayers.
  “We never received any request from the mosque or anyone else to remove women from the work site, said Serge Boileau, director of the Commission des services électriques de Montréal, which is responsible for installing underground electrical cables in Montreal.
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Shea Weber will be good to go against Devils

  13-12-2017 22:56 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens got some good news Wednesday when defenceman Shea Weber was on the ice for practice in Brossard.
  Weber, who has been battling through a lower-body injury and didn’t practise Tuesday, will be in the lineup when the Canadiens face the New Jersey Devils Thursday night at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690). Weber has missed seven games this season with the injury and hadn’t practised with his teammates since taking part in a morning skate on Dec. 2 before
  
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• Montrealers collect Christmas decorations for flood victims

  13-12-2017 22:45
  Wed, Dec 13: Montrealers are doing what they can to bring some joy to families who lost everything in the Quebec spring floods. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, they’re distributing donated decorations in the hope of sharing a little Christmas cheer as the holidays approach.
  
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• Famous Quebec pig travels the world, inspires social media following

  13-12-2017 22:30 via cbc.ca
  Christopher has amassed a substantial social media presence in the last year — he has 19,000 followers on Instagram as well as growing Facebook and YouTube pages.
  
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• Pierrefonds woman collecting Christmas decorations for flood victims

  13-12-2017 22:24
  A Pierrefonds woman is collecting Christmas decorations to donate for flood victims.
  
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• Doubts cast on news report that Montreal mosque asked for women to be kept away from construction site

  13-12-2017 22:05 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's construction commission is looking into allegations published by TVA Nouvelles that a Montreal mosque asked an electrical contractor that women be excluded from a nearby construction site on Fridays, the Muslim day of prayer.
  
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• Students at @Roslyn_EMSB in Westmount give the gift of warmth for Montreal’s homeless. @EnglishMTL https://t.co/rIkYRjcUpi

  13-12-2017 21:52
  
  Students at @Roslyn_EMSB in Westmount give the gift of warmth for Montreal’s homeless. @EnglishMTL https://t.co/rIkYRjcUpi
  
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• Montreal mosque denies asking female construction workers to be barred from site

  13-12-2017 21:45
  They say they were surprised and astonished to hear about the report.
  
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• Quebec to spend heavily to boost digital services throughout the province

  13-12-2017 21:30
  Philippe Couillard says he wants every Quebecer to have access to high-speed internet.
  
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• Fernand Nault's Nutcracker is as familiar as Christmas at Place des Arts

  13-12-2017 20:46 via montrealgazette.com
  As Fernand Nault’s ever-popular production of The Nutcracker rolls around again for Christmas, we take a look at five aspects of the seasonal treat first performed at Place des Arts in 1965.
  Who was Fernand Nault?
  Born in Montreal in 1920, Nault’s first ambition was to become a priest. After dropping this idea and turning to dance, he studied in Montreal, London, France and New York, where he joined the American Ballet Theatre. After 20 years with that company, he was coaxed back to
  
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• Update: Snow removal operations begin Wednesday night in Montreal

  13-12-2017 20:10 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal says snow operations to deal with the remains of the first major snowfall of the season on Tuesday are scheduled to begin Wednesday at 7 p.m.
  Jean-François Parenteau, responsible for city relations with citizens, told his executive committee colleagues during their meeting on Wednesday that snow removal would start Wednesday evening in some boroughs, while the remainder would begin their operations early Thursday. The city estimates snow removal to take about fou
  
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• Dorval wants to better protect private woods

  13-12-2017 20:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Dorval city council approved an bylaw amendment that will allow the city to preserve trees in property that are to be developed in the future.
  Dorval Mayor Edgar Rouleau said the new bylaw will pertain more to wooded lots that contain the most “majestic trees.
  “We want to save trees that, let’s say, have the most the impact on a property,” the mayor said.
  Rouleau said he new bylaw “to better protect private woods in a residential project” won’t directly
  
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• Quebec City rescue crews save 5 men after boat capsizes

  13-12-2017 20:08 via cbc.ca
  One man is in hospital suffering from hypothermia after a boat carrying five men capsized on the St. Lawrence River near Quebec City around noon. The other four men in the boat were able to swim to shore.
  
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• Quebec City man dies after boat capsizes

  13-12-2017 20:08 via cbc.ca
  One man is dead after a canoe carrying five men capsized on the St. Lawrence River near Quebec City around noon Wednesday. The other four men were able to swim to shore.
  
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• Check out @repertoiredeco's last minute decor ideas & Christmas tree alternatives https://t.co/J9GgyRvsKz

  13-12-2017 19:46
  
  Check out @repertoiredeco's last minute decor ideas & Christmas tree alternatives https://t.co/J9GgyRvsKz
  
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• Arthur Kaptainis: We have entered the post-James Levine era

  13-12-2017 19:41 via montrealgazette.com
  The name “Levine” and the word “rumours” last appeared in the Montreal Gazette in the same paragraph in 2004, when I noted in a column mostly about James Levine’s health problems that “the most visible maestro of the Americas” had been “the subject of unrelenting rumours throughout his career.”
  In those halcyon days it was possible to reject the stories as fictions generated by envious rivals, disgruntled vocalists or just people with operati
  
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• Holiday entertaining with the PC Insiders Collection btmontreal.ca/videos/holiday…

  13-12-2017 19:40
  Holiday entertaining with the PC Insiders Collection btmontreal.ca/videos/holiday…
  
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• Quebec to spend $1.5B to boost digital services throughout the province

  13-12-2017 19:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard says the province will spend $1.5 billion over five years to boost the level of digital services throughout the province.
  Couillard says he wants every Quebecer to have access to high-speed internet, regardless of where they live.
  The premier is also playing down suggestions the focus on the digital world is a security risk to patient confidentiality, saying having the proper technology is more secure than a paper-driven health system.
  Part of the strategy he re
  
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• Opinion: Let's not delay new bill on impaired driving

  13-12-2017 19:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Every holiday season, volunteers for Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada (MADD) distribute red ribbons to remind us of the lives lost due to impaired driving. Look around over the next few weeks, and you’ll find them on key chains, car antennas and pinned to jackets. 
  This year, though, the Red Ribbon campaign takes on a greater resonance.
  A bill that will provide our justice system with significant new powers designed to deter impaired driving — both for alcohol and for a broa
  
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• Montreal moves to ban sale of sugary drinks inside city buildings

  13-12-2017 19:02
  It calls on the city to ask the federal government to introduce a tax on sugary drinks.
  
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• Whirlwind week for new Impact wingback Raheem Edwards

  13-12-2017 18:56 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — It’s been five days and three teams since Raheem Edwards celebrated winning the MLS Cup final with Toronto FC.
  The 22-year-old wingback from Mississauga found himself — briefly — a member of Los Angeles FC when he was taken with the fifth and last pick of Tuesday’s expansion draft. LAFC promptly flipped Edwards and Finnish defender Jukka Raitala, taken fourth from Columbus, to Montreal for star defender Laurent Ciman.
  On Monday, Edwards was celebrating a c
  
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• Morneau's small business tax changes promise simpler rules for income sprinkling

  13-12-2017 18:10 via cbc.ca
  The Canadian government has unveiled its new proposal to curb "income sprinkling" by some small business owners to family members, with substantive changes to a much-criticized initial proposal unveiled in the summer.
  
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• Lhasa de Sela remembered, on album and in concert

  13-12-2017 18:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Yves Desrosiers remembers when he first met Lhasa de Sela. The year was 1991, and the guitarist was working with Jean Leloup, having collaborated on the latter’s 1990 breakthrough album L’amour est sans pitié and the ensuing tour.
  Little did he know de Sela would become his key collaborator for the next decade, which he would come to remember as “one of the greatest coups of my career.”
  Lhasa (as she became known) was 18, freshly arrived from San Francisco, with &l
  
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• We must meet now to discuss pot revenue sharing, Montreal mayor tells Quebec

  13-12-2017 18:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says the recent agreement between Ottawa and Quebec on revenue sharing from the sale of legal marijuana now makes it “imperative” the province meet with the city as quickly as possible to establish how much of those funds will go to municipalities.
  “I remind you that (legalization) is happening on July 1, that’s very, very fast,” Plante told a meeting of the city’s executive committee on Wednesday. “Since we don&rsquo
  
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• Montreal's house price index continued to rise in November

  13-12-2017 17:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Housing prices in the Montreal region rose again in November, according to an index that measures the resale prices of homes.
  The Teranet–National Bank House Price Index for Montreal was 161.92 in November, a new high. 
  The index is up 1.04 per cent when compared to October and up 6.71 per cent when compared to November 2016.
  The index, which tracks the change in prices of houses and condos that have sold at least twice, uses June 2005 as a base, which suggests that res
  
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• What legal weed stores will look like: 'Very chic, very modern, very clean-cut'

  13-12-2017 17:14 via cbc.ca
  With less than seven months to go before recreational marijuana becomes legal, provinces and territories are scrambling to come up with plans to sell cannabis, but few details have emerged about what the retail experience of buying legal weed will be like.
  
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• Quebec Superior Court quashes legal challenge to REM electric train network

  13-12-2017 17:11
  The Caisse de Dépôt's electric train network is one step closer to reality after a Quebec Superior Court judge rejected a motion to have construction blocked.
  
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• Pierrefonds flood victims told to leave Marriott hotel

  13-12-2017 17:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Seven months after her home in Pierrefonds was flooded, Frances Maxant is still living in a hotel with her husband and four boys, waiting for her basement to be rebuilt.
  It’s far from ideal, she says, but she’s made the best of it — getting the kids onto local hockey teams so they have something to do after school besides hanging around in the lobby, and stocking the fridge in the kitchenette, so they don’t always have to eat in restaurants.
  But even that little bit of no
  
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• The value of maple and honey production grew in 2017: Statistics Canada

  13-12-2017 17:06
  Quebec produced 92 per cent of Canada's maple syrup output.
  
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• Rock me generously: Andy Kim comes home for Christmas fundraiser

  13-12-2017 17:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Before getting down to pleasantries, Andy Kim has a question: “How is the (bleep)ing weather in Montreal?”
  Just divine, he is told. Sun is shining. Temperature is close to 20 C. Not a trace of snow on our streets.
  “Right!” Kim shoots back over the phone.
  Can’t fool him. Though he is now based in Toronto, Kim was born here and has spent much of his life here. He knows what kind of arctic havoc can come to this city (and has come to this city in the days since the int
  
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• Sun Youth could soon be looking for a new home

  13-12-2017 16:36 via cbc.ca
  Sun Youth, which for years has been a mainstay on St-Urbain Street in Montreal’s Plateau neighbourhood, may soon need to relocate.
  
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• Montreal snowstorm: Snow removal operations to begin Wednesday night

  13-12-2017 16:27 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal says snow operations to deal with the remains of the  first major snowfall of the season on Tuesday are scheduled to begin Wednesday night at 7 p.m.
  Jean-François Parenteau, responsible for city relations with citizens, told his executive committee colleagues during their meeting on Wednesday that snow removal would start Wednesday evening in some boroughs, while the remainder would begin their operations early Thursday. The city estimates snow removal to ta
  
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• Bombardier meets with its unions as U.S. Commerce Department decision looms

  13-12-2017 16:23
  The unions from both sides of the Atlantic are meeting to come up with a common strategy to protect jobs.
  
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• Community Events: Salon des Métiers d’Art

  13-12-2017 16:07
  Laura Casella has Montreal’s community events for Wednesday, December 13.
  
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• Googling Quebec: Scandal, death, sports and crime sparked interest in 2017

  13-12-2017 15:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebecers seem to have spent much of their screen time in 2017 keeping up with sex scandals, deaths, sports and crime, according to trends recorded by Google over the course of the past year.
  Google Canada published its trends list Wednesday, showing the people and topics that sent Canadians and Quebecers to their keyboards and smartphones in 2017. Unsurprisingly, local celebrities who made headlines for sexual misconduct, harassment or other controversies topped the list for Quebecers.
  Just for
  
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• Florence K performs Christmas Is Almost Here

  13-12-2017 15:54
  Montreal singer and songwriter Florence K performs a track from her new Christmas EP
  
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• Parenting trends for 2018

  13-12-2017 15:47
  Life coach and parenting expert Erica Diamond joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about the parenting trends that we expect to see in 2018.
  
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• Flower collection for the holidays

  13-12-2017 15:47
  Anna Mormina and Angela Martignetti from M Fleurs join Global’s Laura Casella to talk about floral arrangements that are perfect for the holidays.
  
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• Short stories for hockey fans of all ages

  13-12-2017 15:37
  Author Andrew Cadell joins Global’s Kim Sullivan to talk about his new book: “The Goal”, featuring short stories celebrating Canada’s game.
  
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• What have Canadians and Quebecers been searching for this year? Thibault Davet from @googlecanada has the answer! https://t.co/BWpmvhzj5v

  13-12-2017 15:17
  
  What have Canadians and Quebecers been searching for this year? Thibault Davet from @googlecanada has the answer! https://t.co/BWpmvhzj5v
  
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• Lyrics & Latkes: Annual Chanukah Sing-Along https://t.co/ScdEPZWw3e

  13-12-2017 15:12
  
  Lyrics & Latkes: Annual Chanukah Sing-Along https://t.co/ScdEPZWw3e
  
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• Holiday cooking with the kids

  13-12-2017 15:10
  Parenting and lifestyle blogger Jaime Damak joins Global’s Laura Casella with some great holiday cooking ideas you can do with your kids.
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Wednesday, December 13

  13-12-2017 15:07
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Wednesday, December 13.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Wednesday, December 13

  13-12-2017 15:00
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Wednesday, December 13.
  
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• Montreal snowstorm cleanup

  13-12-2017 14:57
  Montreal has received close to 20 centimetres of snow since it began falling on Tuesday, but isn’t quite done yet with a few more centimetres still expected. Global’s Matt Grillo reports on Wednesday’s cleanup effort.
  
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• Montreal snowstorm: City to tackle black ice, clearing streets before snow removal

  13-12-2017 14:45 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal is expected to announce on Wednesday when snow removal operations will begin in the wake of the first major snowfall of the season on Tuesday.
  But city spokesperson Philippe Sabourin said on Wednesday morning that the immediate priority was maintaining the clearing of streets and spreading abrasives as a drop in temperature has led to the creation of black ice patches through the road network.
  While a few centimetres of snow are expected in the area on Wednesday, Sabourin sa
  
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