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• Old Brewery Mission takes care of homeless in the winter

  14-12-2017 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  The cold weather has hit earlier than usual and that means the Old Brewery Mission has put its cold weather plan into action. President Matthew Pearce speaks to Senior Anchor Jamie Orchard.
  
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• Dashcam video captures Alberta driver hitting 600-pound moose at highway speed

  14-12-2017 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  An Edmonton man says he's thankful to be alive after he ran into a moose at full highway speed while driving home from work late last month.
  
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• Liveblog: New Jersey at Canadiens

  14-12-2017 23:30
  A visit by New Jersey Thursday night offers a glimmer of hope for increasingly morose Canadiens fans.
  The Devils finished at the bottom of the NHL’s Eastern Conference last season. Their goal differential was minus-61.
  Fast forward to the current season.
  New Jersey sits third in the Metropolitan Division, one point behind Columbus and Washington with games in hand on each. The Devils’ goal differential is plus-2, and their most recent outing was a 5-1 home-ice win over the mighty L.A
  
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• Global News at 5:30 Montreal, Thursday, Dec. 14

  14-12-2017 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Global News at 5:30 Montreal for Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017.
  
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• Montreal firefighters work to get 4-alarm fire under control in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

  14-12-2017 23:20 via cbc.ca
  The fire broke out in a building on Bossuet Street Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Montreal firefighters respond to 5-alarm fire in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

  14-12-2017 23:20 via cbc.ca
  The fire broke out in a building on Bossuet Street Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Quebec Construction Commission debunks TVA's mosque story

  14-12-2017 23:05
  After two days of investigation, the Quebec Construction Commission has found no sign whatsoever that anyone associated with a mosque in Côte-des-Neiges asked for women to be excluded from a work site outside its doors — ever. 
  That’s the conclusion of the CCQ’s report, based on 10 meetings with witnesses from the construction companies involved and with two mosques in CDN. It also met with the women allegedly targeted by unusual, anti-feminist requests. 
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• Show Biz Chez Nous: X-Men, Bon Cop Bad Cop 2 boosted Quebec film scene in 2017

  14-12-2017 22:42
  It’s been a great year for the film scene in Quebec, on both the international and local fronts.
  There has been a slew of high-profile foreign film shoots in and around Montreal, and it looks like the amount of Hollywood filming in town will be up from 2016 — and that was a good year. At the same time, it’s been a blockbuster 12 months for local French-language films at the box office, and that year-end tally is certain to be way, way up compared to a year earlier.
  I spoke to D
  
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• Quebec promises new law to protect journalists' sources

  14-12-2017 22:42
  The Quebec government is promising to create a new law to better protect journalists’ sources — as well as the documents and information they collect — following recommendations of a provincial inquiry into police spying on reporters.
  The inquiry is also urging the province to adopt new regulations to ensure police can work independently of elected officials, following reports of possible political interference.
  These were the two key recommendations issued Thursday from the fi
  
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• A race with no track: Formula E won’t be held on Île Notre-Dame in 2018

  14-12-2017 22:39
  The Formula E is looking like an event without a home.
  Administrators at Société Parc Jean-Drapeau said Thursday the race won’t be held on Île Notre-Dame where the Formula One race is held annually.
  “It won’t be in 2018, and the (Plante) administration is aware,” said Geneviève Boyer, the communications chief for the city-owned organization that runs events on Île-Notre-Dame and Île-Ste-Hélène.
  During the election campa
  
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• Journalistic sources should be protected: Chamberland Commission

  14-12-2017 22:28 via globalnews.ca
  The Chamberland Commission on journalistic sources makes more than twenty recommendations in its 550 page report.
  
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• Bombardier on track to deliver on turnaround goals, CEO says

  14-12-2017 22:24 via cbc.ca
  Bombardier Inc. says it's on track to deliver on its promised five-year turnaround in 2020 as its aerospace and railway divisions are projected to deliver better revenues and profits.
  
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• 'Not to be underestimated': Flare honours Valérie Plante

  14-12-2017 22:23
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is one of a dozen women being recognized by Flare magazine in its “12 Days of Feminists” series.
  “To see a dark horse candidate like Plante boot Montreal’s incumbent mayor, the “sure bet,” out of office and all with an enormous, infectious smile on her face and the kind of unabashed enthusiasm that can’t be faked made me feel vindicated, and invigorated,” Jennifer Berry writes in the entry dedicated to
  
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• Lesley Chesterman: 20 food gifts for a range of appetites and budgets

  14-12-2017 22:00
  Shopping season can cause some to reach for that extra-stiff eggnog. The idea that the holidays are a crass commercial cash grab doesn’t feel so off the mark when you’re rushing out to spend big, buying friends and loved ones gifts to ram under the tree in time for Dec. 25. Choose unwisely, and that well-intentioned gift goes unused or, worse yet, gets re-gifted. Yet a practical gift can be welcome, even cherished — food-related ones especially so.
  To help you choose, I have 20
  
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• Bertrand Charest’s lawyers ask for their client’s release from prison

  14-12-2017 21:57 via globalnews.ca
  They point out a pre-sentence report presented by the Crown stated the risk of Charest reoffending is slim.
  
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• Montreal man seeking revenge pleads guilty to killing wrong person

  14-12-2017 21:53
  A young Montrealer pleaded guilty on Thursday to having shot and killed the wrong man while he was seeking revenge for the death of a friend. 
  Jayson Riché-Paquet, 20, appeared before Quebec Superior Court Justice Marc-André Blanchard at the Montreal courthouse where he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the Aug. 22, 2015, death of Serge Saninga. In doing so, Riché-Paquet admitted he was actually trying to kill Davidson Arretus, 21, a man Riché-Paquet believed had
  
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• Quebec premier condemns 'baseless' media report that women were barred from work site near mosque

  14-12-2017 21:48 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's labour minister has confirmed that no Montreal mosque sought to exclude women from a nearby work site during Friday prayers. Premier Philippe Couillard said the "baseless" news report on the work site created needless social tension.
  
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• No evidence any Montreal mosque asked women be barred from work site, construction board finds

  14-12-2017 21:48 via cbc.ca
  An investigation by Quebec's construction board has confirmed that no Montreal mosque sought to exclude women from a nearby work site during Friday prayers.
  
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• No anti-woman clause in Montreal mosque's construction contract, says Quebec minister

  14-12-2017 21:48 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's labour minister has confirmed that no Montreal mosque sought to exclude women from a nearby work site during Friday prayers.
  
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• Davie shipyard launches new plea for Ottawa to award it second ship contract

  14-12-2017 21:47 via globalnews.ca
  About 400 people have already been let go.
  
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• Top 5 parenting trends to expect in 2018

  14-12-2017 20:40 via globalnews.ca
  From location tracking to social media accounts for your baby-to-be, here are the top five parenting trends you can expect to see in 2018.
  
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• Man who died after canoe capsized in frigid St. Lawrence River identified as Daniel Malenfant

  14-12-2017 20:34 via cbc.ca
  The 39-year-old physiotherapist and experienced ice canoe paddler had been in the water about 30 minutes when he was rescued. He was in a state of respiratory arrest and was hypothermic.
  
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• Man killed after canoe capsizes in frigid St. Lawrence River identified as Daniel Malenfant

  14-12-2017 20:34 via cbc.ca
  The 39-year-old physiotherapist and experienced ice canoe paddler had been in the water about 30 minutes when he was rescued. He was in a state of respiratory arrest and was hypothermic.
  
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• Convicted sex offender Bertrand Charest seeks release from prison pending appeal

  14-12-2017 20:21 via cbc.ca
  Lawyers for Bertrand Charest appeared before Quebec's top court today in a bid to release the convicted sex offender pending an appeal of his conviction on some of the 37 charges on which he was found guilty.
  
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• 4 dead in Hydro One helicopter crash in eastern Ontario

  14-12-2017 19:35 via globalnews.ca
  Police say the crash happened at about noon in Addington Highlands.
  
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• Sun Youth could be relocating

  14-12-2017 19:24 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Dec 14: After 36 years at the former Baron Byng High School, Sun Youth may be forced to relocate. Global’s Matt Grillo reports.
  
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• Montreal’s Sun Youth could be forced out of current home

  14-12-2017 19:24 via globalnews.ca
  After 36 years at the former Baron Byng High School, Sun Youth may be forced to relocate.
  
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• Game Day: Artturi Lehkonen takes part in Canadiens' morning skate

  14-12-2017 19:20
  The Canadiens, who have been cancelling morning skates on game days recently, held an optional one Thursday in Brossard before facing the New Jersey Devils at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690) and Artturi Lehkonen was one of the players who took part.
  Lehkonen, who has missed the last 13 games with a lower-body injury, won’t be in the lineup Thursday night but will make the trip to Ottawa after the game with his teammates and is expected to practice with them outdoors F
  
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• Racetrack construction thwarts plans to move Formula E - CTV News

  14-12-2017 19:13
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  Racetrack construction thwarts plans to move Formula E
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  Four years after it was first announced the city of Montreal has issued a tender for bids to undertake major work to renovate the Gilles Villeneuve racetrack. The city of Montreal will pay $30 million of the $48 million pricetag to update the paddocks ...
  
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• Game Day: Artturi Lehkonen takes part in Canadiens' morning skate - Montreal Gazette

  14-12-2017 18:29
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  Game Day: Artturi Lehkonen takes part in Canadiens' morning skate
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  But he's not ready to return to the lineup against Devils Thursday night at the Bell Centre after missing 13 games with a lower-body injury. Stu Cowan, Montreal Gazette More from Stu Cowan, Montreal Gazette. Published on: December 14, 2017 | Last ...
  Montreal Canadiens: Why the recent power-play units will workA Winning Habitall 7 news articles »
  
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• Montreal police look for other victims in online child luring case

  14-12-2017 18:21 via cbc.ca
  Tanisha Samuels was arrested in the area around Harrowsmith, Ont., but Montreal police believe that there may be victims in the Montreal area.
  
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• Klô Pelgag orchestrates her own sound

  14-12-2017 17:58
  Klô Pelgag is one of the most unusual success stories of the past few years in Québécois music.
  Pelgag — whose real name is Chloé Pelletier-Gagnon — is a 27-year-old singer-songwriter who makes arty music that mixes classical influences with ’70s-style progressive rock, with a little chanson thrown in for good measure. You can hear everything from Frank Zappa to Harmonium on her two albums, L’Alchimie des monstres from 2013 and last year’s
  
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• Five things to do in Montreal this weekend: Dec. 15-17

  14-12-2017 17:43
  Even if you don’t want to go outside in the wintery cold, there’s still plenty to do in Montreal this weekend.
  Here are five ways to make the most of your weekend, regardless of your tolerance for freezing wind:
  Puces POP Winter 2017
  POP Montreal’s winter fair is hosting its second and final weekend at Eglise Saint-Denis, across from the Laurier métro station, on Saturday and Sunday. It features a range of arts and crafts and if you’re lucky some really good p
  
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• Mayor Plante to host Christmas open house at Montreal city hall

  14-12-2017 17:32
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante will host a Christmas open house at city hall on Saturday, Dec. 23, that will welcome the public from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
  Visitors will be able to sign a guest book, have their pictures taken with elected officials and tour Montreal’s council chambers. Plante will be accompanied her husband, Pierre-Antoine Harvey, council speaker Cathy Wong and other city council members.
  
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• Sex ed will be mandatory in Quebec elementary and high schools next year

  14-12-2017 17:23 via cbc.ca
  Every Quebec elementary and high school student will receive mandatory sex ed, integrated into their current classes, as of next September, Couillard confirmed to La Presse Canadienne.
  
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• Police followed surveillance rules, but more regulation needed: Chamberland Commission

  14-12-2017 17:16
  The government of Quebec should implement an umbrella law ensuring the protection of journalistic material and sources, and create regulations ensuring the independence of police with regard to elected officials.
  These were the two key recommendations of the final report of the Chamberland Commission, created last year after revelations surfaced that Quebec main police forces had been spying on journalists in several different cases in the course of their investigations, based in part on the bel
  
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• We take a look at @WalmartCanada's Toy Academy! https://t.co/SIxmBKTQar

  14-12-2017 17:10
  
  We take a look at @WalmartCanada's Toy Academy! https://t.co/SIxmBKTQar
  
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• Quebec needs law to protect media from police spying, inquiry finds

  14-12-2017 17:06 via cbc.ca
  A provincial commission of inquiry says Quebec needs better legislation to protect journalists from police surveillance techniques.
  
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• Montreal police seek potential victims of suspected online predator - Montreal Gazette

  14-12-2017 16:17
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  Montreal police seek potential victims of suspected online predator
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  Police allege Tanisha Samuels committed the crimes in the summer of 2017 while she was living in the west end of Montreal. Montreal Gazette. Published on: December 14, 2017 | Last Updated: December 14, 2017 10:16 AM EST. Investigators arrested Tanisha ...
  Montreal police look for other victims in online child luring caseCBC.ca
  Harrowsmith woman charged by Montreal policeThe Kingston Whig-Standardall 4 ne
  
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• Montreal police seek potential victims of suspected online predator

  14-12-2017 16:16
  Montreal police are turning to the public in their search for possible victims of a 20-year-old woman charged this week with online luring and producing child pornography.
  Investigators arrested Tanisha Samuels, 20, on Dec. 12 in the region of Harrowsmith, Ont.
  Police allege Samuels committed the crimes in the summer of 2017 while she was living in the west end of Montreal. Samuels allegedly targeted young girls in their first year of high school. She is alleged to contacted the girls online by
  
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• BC woman says her dog was stolen and taken to Montreal - Globalnews.ca

  14-12-2017 15:41
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  BC woman says her dog was stolen and taken to Montreal
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  WATCH: The owner of a three-year-old Husky named Ruger, who went missing from his British Columbia home four months ago, could be in the Montreal area. As Global's Billy Shields reports, Ruger's family is hoping he'll be home for Christmas. X. - A A + ...
  
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• B.C. woman says her dog was stolen and taken to Montreal

  14-12-2017 15:39 via globalnews.ca
  A British Columbia woman thinks that a social media post made four months ago from the Plateau of Montreal could hold the key to the whereabouts of her missing dog.
  
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• A century of Montreal Canadiens goals: These legendary plays launched dynasties and helped define the NHL - National Post

  14-12-2017 15:35
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  A century of Montreal Canadiens goals: These legendary plays launched dynasties and helped define the NHL
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  The history of the National Hockey League can hardly be written without large swaths of text devoted to the legends of the Montreal Canadiens. The mythology built up around the team, starting in its city and its province, then exported across Canada ...
  
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• Omarosa, Alabama, tax cuts, and the Mueller investigation: Graham Dodds from @concordia joins us in studio to discu… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-12-2017 15:34
  Omarosa, Alabama, tax cuts, and the Mueller investigation: Graham Dodds from @concordia joins us in studio to discu… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Social Notes: Season closes with bubbles for Accueil Bonneau

  14-12-2017 15:30
  I don’t know about you, Noties, but this fall/winter social season just flew by for me! One minute we were reuniting post-summer with a doubleheader featuring the majestic MAC Ball and Casino contre le cancer, and now here we are, seemingly days later (not months!), parting ways for the holidays.
  But then, time does fly when you’re having fun, and we certainly had quite a bit of that in the past couple. That’s a testament to the expert event-throwing skills of the many differen
  
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• Trendy toys this holiday season

  14-12-2017 15:27 via globalnews.ca
  Struggling to buy gifts? Discover the must-have toys this holiday season with Mathieu Huard from Imports Dragon and Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Sun Youth forced to move?

  14-12-2017 15:26 via globalnews.ca
  After 36 years, Sun Youth – one of Montreal’s best-known charities – may have to change locations. Global’s Matt Grillo reports.
  
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• Could a missing B.C. dog be in Montreal?

  14-12-2017 15:20 via globalnews.ca
  The owner of a three-year-old Husky named Ruger, who went missing from his British Columbia home four months ago, could be in the Montreal area. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, Ruger’s family is hoping he’ll be home for Christmas.
  
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• Riders alarmed to learn Montreal buses use 'homemade' snow tires - CTV News

  14-12-2017 15:16
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  Riders alarmed to learn Montreal buses use 'homemade' snow tires
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  A number of Montreal public transit riders say they were alarmed to learn that city buses are exempt from a law requiring all vehicles to have snow tires by Dec. 15. The Society de transport de Montreal says there simply aren't proper snow tires ...
  The STM Lied To Us, Montreal Buses Are Not Prepared For WinterMTL Blog (blog)all 3 news articles »
  
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• View from the top of the Tour des Canadiens

  14-12-2017 14:53 via globalnews.ca
  Real estate brokers Shanna Garneau and Nick Markou take a tour of a 50th floor penthouse in the Tour des Canadiens, just next to Montreal’s Bell Centre.
  
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