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• Cancer patients choose gifts for family, friends

  20-12-2017 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Dec 20: Patients on the MUHC’s oncology floor got the chance to pick out Christmas gifts to give their family and friends – something they would not otherwise be able to do. Global’s Brayden Jagger Haines reports.
  
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• Couillard agrees to intervene in negotiations with medical specialists

  20-12-2017 23:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Premier Philippe Couillard has agreed to intervene directly in negotiations with the province’s medical specialists hours after the group filed a motion in Quebec Superior Court Wednesday.
  Diane Francoeur, president of the Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec (FMSQ), said she received a call from the premier announcing that he would “take charge” of the negotiations. Francoeur and Sylvain Bellemare, the federation’s chief
  
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• Meet Frank Briganti. He's been a shoemaker for 50 years. He's retiring soon and he worries about the future of his… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-12-2017 23:34
  Meet Frank Briganti. He's been a shoemaker for 50 years. He's retiring soon and he worries about the future of his… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Montreal suspends pit bull ban until 2018

  20-12-2017 23:27 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Dec 20: Montreal has temporarily suspended the controversial ban on pit bull-type dogs. As Global’s Matt Grillo reports, a new bylaw will be introduced in 2018.
  
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• Montreal Impact’s James Pantemis on his come up from Lakeshore Soccer Club

  20-12-2017 23:27 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal Impact's James Pantemis speaks about his journey from Lakeshore Soccer Club to the MLS.
  
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• Montreal suspends pit bull ban, will consult before reworking bylaw

  20-12-2017 23:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Pit bulls are once again allowed in Montreal as the Projet Montréal administration followed through with an election promise to do away with the controversial bylaw that banned them.
  Craig Sauvé, the executive committee member in charge of animal services, said Wednesday the ban will be suspended, as will several specific sections of the city’s animal control bylaw pertaining to the breed such as mandatory muzzling and special permits.
  “The pit bull-style dog will no lo
  
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• Inmate sentenced to 16 years in prison for brazen helicopter escape

  20-12-2017 23:19 via cbc.ca
  Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for a brazen helicopter escape from a Quebec detention centre in 2013 that made headlines around the world.
  
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• Opinion: Marking winter solstice is a welcome pause in a busy season

  20-12-2017 22:16 via montrealgazette.com
  A few years ago when my sister proposed we have a winter solstice celebration, I agreed to the idea right away.
  I was covered in flour and my kitchen was littered with gingerbread men. Many of them looked like they’d just crawled through a mineshaft. I wanted to get off the phone quickly so I didn’t burn another batch of the cookies. I wasn’t really listening to my sister.
  After I hung up, I began to worry that I’d just casually agreed to dance naked under the stars,
  
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• Students get presents from Generations Foundation toy drive

  20-12-2017 22:10 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Dec 20: Over the holidays, Natalie and Adrian Bercovici visit different schools to deliver gifts donated through the Generations Foundation toy drive. Global’s Brayden Haines brings us inside the magic at Gerald McShane Elementary in Montreal North.
  
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• Christmas comes early for students at Gerald McShane Elementary thanks to Generations Foundation

  20-12-2017 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  Gerald McShane Elementary in Montreal North hosted the 2017 Generations Foundation holiday breakfast and toy giveaway.
  
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• Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau sentenced for 2013 helicopter escape

  20-12-2017 21:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau, the man who staged a spectacular escape from a provincial detention centre by using a helicopter four years ago has been sentenced to an overall 16-year prison term for his leading role in the caper that made headlines worldwide. 
  The sentence was delivered by Superior Court Justice Marc David at the St-Jérôme courthouse on Wednesday. With time served and other issues factored into the sentence Hudon-Barbeau, 41, was left with a little more than 106 mont
  
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• Man charged with Concordia threats pleads guilty to bail violation

  20-12-2017 21:37 via montrealgazette.com
  A 48-year-old man charged with making bomb threats against Concordia University pleaded guilty on Wednesday to violating a condition of his parole.
  Hisham Saadi pleaded guilty to breaking a curfew that was imposed last March when a Quebec Court judge released him on bail. He was arrested in Montreal on Monday at 1 a.m.  At that hour, he is required to be at an address in Laval unless he needs treatment at a hospital or is involved in a training program at another address. The court-imposed
  
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• U.S. slightly lowers Bombardier C Series duties to 292.21 per cent

  20-12-2017 20:42 via globalnews.ca
  A final decision rests with the U.S. International Trade Commission.
  
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• U.S. slightly lowers Bombardier C Series duties to 292.21%

  20-12-2017 20:39 via cbc.ca
  The U.S. Department of Commerce has slightly lowered the massive duties it plans to impose on imports of Bombardier C Series commercial jets.
  
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• Quebec government to challenge duties against C Series, calls Boeing's claims 'unjustified'

  20-12-2017 20:39 via cbc.ca
  The U.S. Department of Commerce has slightly lowered the massive duties it plans to impose on imports of Bombardier C Series commercial jets.
  
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• Update: Montreal suspends pit bull ban, will consult before reworking bylaw

  20-12-2017 20:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Pit bulls are once again allowed in Montreal as the Projet Montréal administration follows through with an election promise to do away with the controversial bylaw that banned them.
  Craig Sauvé, the executive committee member in charge of animal services, said Wednesday the ban will be suspended, as will several specific sections of the city’s animal control bylaw pertaining to the breed such as mandatory muzzling and special permits.
  “The pit bull-style dog will no lon
  
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• Couillard to meet with medical specialists

  20-12-2017 20:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A few hours before filing an application in Superior Court to assert their right to negotiate their working conditions, the Federation of Medical Specialists of Quebec received a call from Premier Philippe Couillard on Wednesday to announce that he will “take their file in hand.”
  A press conference by the FMSQ scheduled to take place in the morning was subsequently cancelled.
  According to information provided by the FMSQ, the new negotiating committee will hold a first meeting on Thu
  
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• Alouettes hire former NFL coach Mike Sherman

  20-12-2017 20:29 via globalnews.ca
  Mike Sherman is adding the CFL to his football resume.
  
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• 'I love the challenge,' says new Alouettes head coach Mike Sherman

  20-12-2017 20:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Mike Sherman hasn’t been in professional football since 2013, but the Alouettes believe he’s the man to turn their fortunes around.
  The Canadian Football League team announced Sherman, who turned 63 on Tuesday, as their new head coach on Wednesday.
  Sherman said it was an honour and privilege to become the 24th coach in Als’ history. He said he wants total alignment in the organization but admitted there will be challenges and obstacles.
  “Everybody has to be aligned with t
  
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• Watch Philippe Couillard try to host a casual cabinet meeting

  20-12-2017 20:06 via montrealgazette.com
  ’Twas the last cabinet meeting, when in l’édifice Honoré-Mercier
  No creature was stirring, save Couillard’s cameraman for the day;
  The premier had taken to Facebook pre-meeting to share,
  His trip from his office to the conference room downstairs;
  To the room of ministers nestled snug that he led;
  Where visions of laws danced in their heads;
  And the Premier with no tie, camera in tow,
  Was preparing to give 2017 just one last go,
  When nearby at the table there arose
  
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• Montreal suspends pit bull ban, will consult before reworking bylaw next year

  20-12-2017 20:04 via globalnews.ca
  The measures were ratified by the city's executive committee Wednesday.
  
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• Opinion: Quebec's special needs children face a worrisome future

  20-12-2017 19:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Imagine this: A room overflowing with parents whose children have leukemia. The hospital director announces pediatric cancers will no longer be treated in Quebec hospitals. It’s just too expensive. He explains the new service options: to keep costs down, hospitals must outsource to private facilities with unskilled workers and minimal treatments. He adds that while few have experience with cancer, the managers are swell.
  He introduces the other option being promoted by neo-liberals, &ldquo
  
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• Montreal suspends controversial pit bull ban, new animal control bylaw in works

  20-12-2017 19:31 via cbc.ca
  The parts of Montreal’s animal control bylaw pertaining to pit bulls and pit bull-type dogs were suspended during an executive committee meeting Wednesday morning.
  
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• Montreal officially suspends controversial pit bull ban

  20-12-2017 19:31 via cbc.ca
  The parts of Montreal’s animal control bylaw pertaining to pit bulls and pit bull-type dogs were suspended during an executive committee meeting Wednesday morning.
  
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• Kevin Tierney: Three Oscar hopefuls inhabit an ambiguous universe

  20-12-2017 19:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Does everybody know that kids do not sit on Santa’s lap anymore because it’s considered inappropriate? Children these days are “encouraged” to sit beside shopping-mall Santas, which strikes me as one of the saddest things I have heard in a long time.
  It is, of course, part of our very own big chill — the one that has nothing to do with winter and everything to do with a collective moral breakdown that says we are not safe, potential abuse is everywhere and we have t
  
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• 'I love the challenge,' says Alouettes new head coach, Mike Sherman

  20-12-2017 19:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Mike Sherman hasn’t been in professional football since 2013, but the Alouettes believe he’s the man to turn their fortunes around.
  The Canadian Football League team announced Sherman, who turned 63 on Tuesday, as their new head coach on Wednesday.
  Sherman said it was an honour and privilege to become the 24th coach in Als’ history. He said he wants total alignment in the organization but admitted there will be challenges and obstacles.
  “Everybody has to be aligned with t
  
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• Anticosti Island a candidate for UNESCO world heritage status

  20-12-2017 19:04 via montrealgazette.com
  The federal government has added Anticosti Island to its Tentative List for World Heritage Sites, and the local mayor is overjoyed by the news.
  Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna made the announcement Wednesday morning.
  The criterion for selection of the island that best supported Anticosti’s candidacy was the presence of fossils, according to the Parks Canada website, which notes the geological eras represented by the specimens have “no equivalent” elsewhere on the
  
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• Despite some progress, Quebec falls short of its family doctor access target

  20-12-2017 18:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Even if one million more Quebecers now have access to a family doctor than in 2014, that still won’t meet the end-of-year target of 85 per cent set by the government.
  But Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette told reporters Wednesday morning that the target was a “symbolic number” and that the province’s physicians “had answered the call.”
  Barrette acknowledged the 85-per-cent access threshold — about 300,000 patients more, according to the minis
  
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• Pit bulls are legal again in Montreal; bylaw will be rejigged

  20-12-2017 18:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s new administration has temporarily put on hold the city’s controversial ban on pit bull-type dogs.
  The city says it is suspending the ban as well as specific sections pertaining to the breed, such as mandatory muzzling and special permits.
  The measures were ratified by the city’s executive committee today.
  Councillor Craig Sauvé says a new bylaw will be introduced sometime in the first half of 2018.
  Sauvé says he expects a vast consultation process to b
  
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• Video: @JFLisee on holidays, charity, and "Bonjour-Hi" https://t.co/h5T8Wf55Q8

  20-12-2017 17:53
  
  Video: @JFLisee on holidays, charity, and "Bonjour-Hi" https://t.co/h5T8Wf55Q8
  
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• Video: @livjudd shares great stocking stuffer ideas https://t.co/n3WyVwZEMd

  20-12-2017 17:47
  
  Video: @livjudd shares great stocking stuffer ideas https://t.co/n3WyVwZEMd
  
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• Metro, Sobeys say they didn't violate Competition Act as bread price-fixing story unfolds

  20-12-2017 17:43 via cbc.ca
  Some of Loblaws' biggest rivals in the food business say they are fully co-operating with an investigation by Canada's Competition Bureau into allegations of fixing prices for baked goods, and add that they don't believe they have run afoul of Canada's competition rules.
  
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• Video: @cookingwithv’s Foodie Gift Guide https://t.co/gWX7zVZn4u

  20-12-2017 17:40
  
  Video: @cookingwithv’s Foodie Gift Guide https://t.co/gWX7zVZn4u
  
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• Ring in the new year by saying goodbye to 375

  20-12-2017 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Get ready to bid a fond, or not so fond, adieu to the city’s contentious 375th-anniversary celebrations with one last outdoor party on New Year’s Eve.
  The free 375th La Finale festivities start at 6 p.m. at the Jacques Cartier Pier in the Old Port. The pre-countdown musical portion of the evening will be hosted by singer Garou and headlined by Québécois trad-folkies Mes Aïeux, who are ending a four-year hiatus. A pair of big names in francophone music, Daniel B&eac
  
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• Alouettes hire former Packers coach Mike Sherman

  20-12-2017 17:08 via cbc.ca
  Mike Sherman is adding the CFL to his football resume. The Montreal Alouettes have hired the former NFL coach to fill their vacant head-coaching position.
  
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• Ottawa backs Anticosti's bid to become UNESCO World Heritage site

  20-12-2017 17:01 via cbc.ca
  The island, a rocky, 200-kilometre stretch of land known for its sweeping vistas and salmon fishing, is now a step closer to becoming a UNESCO World Heritage site.
  
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• Anticosti moves a step closer to becoming UNESCO World Heritage site

  20-12-2017 17:01 via cbc.ca
  The island — a rocky, 200-kilometre stretch of land known for its sweeping vistas and salmon fishing — is now a step closer to becoming a UNESCO World Heritage site.
  
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• City moves away from breed-specific legislation

  20-12-2017 16:55 via globalnews.ca
  The city’s executive committee is expected to finalize the reforms that would end breed-specific legislation in Montreal. Global’s Matt Grillo reports.
  
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• Delays expected as record number of Canadians expected at country's big airports

  20-12-2017 16:43 via cbc.ca
  Canadian holiday travellers are warned to brace for crowds and delays as a record number of passengers are expected to pass through the country's largest airports and highways are filled with holiday commuters.
  
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• Christmas cocktails

  20-12-2017 16:39 via globalnews.ca
  Pur Vodka founder Nicolas Duvernois joins Global’s Laura Casella & Kim Sullivan to make some great holiday cocktails with Quebec’s own Pur Vodka.
  
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• Quebec woman among at least 12 killed in Mexico bus crash

  20-12-2017 16:36 via cbc.ca
  A woman from Gatineau, Que., was killed in a bus crash in eastern Mexico early Tuesday in which her partner and their two daughters were injured, CBC News has learned.
  
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• Gatineau, Que., woman among at least 12 killed in Mexico bus crash

  20-12-2017 16:36 via cbc.ca
  A woman from Gatineau, Que., was killed in a bus crash in eastern Mexico early Tuesday in which her partner and their two daughters were injured, CBC News has learned.
  
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• 1 Canadian among at least 12 killed in Mexico bus crash

  20-12-2017 16:36 via cbc.ca
  One Canadian citizen is among the at least 12 people killed in a bus crash in eastern Mexico, Global Affairs Canada officials confirm.
  
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• Global Affairs Canada says 1 Canadian tourist was among the 12 people killed in yesterday's bus crash in eastern Me… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-12-2017 16:34
  Global Affairs Canada says 1 Canadian tourist was among the 12 people killed in yesterday's bus crash in eastern Me… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• It'll be a white (but maybe also slippery) Christmas in Montreal

  20-12-2017 16:32 via montrealgazette.com
  The Weather Network is using words like “unsettled” and “meandering” to describe the week leading up to Christmas, and they aren’t even talking about traffic in Montreal’s malls.
  Rather, the prognosticator has revealed its Canadian Christmas forecast, and the short story is that Quebec will be snow-covered for the holidays. On a scale of “no chance” to “guaranteed,” Montreal, Quebec City and Saguenay are firmly in the guaranteed lane. T
  
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• Quebec woman among 12 killed in Mexico tourist bus crash

  20-12-2017 16:25 via globalnews.ca
  Stephanie Horwood, 42, was killed in Tuesday morning’s crash, a family member confirmed to Global News.
  
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• Chinese buyers increasingly present in Montreal housing market

  20-12-2017 16:25 via montrealgazette.com
  The proportion of buyers from China purchasing housing in Montreal in 2017 increased significantly, according to statistics unveiled Tuesday by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. and Statistics Canada.
  And CMHC analysts suspect that the local increase might have been a transfer in demand triggered by the imposition of foreign property ownership taxes in Toronto and Vancouver to cool down their housing markets.
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante has said she wants the province to grant
  
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• How to raise an appreciative kid

  20-12-2017 15:46 via globalnews.ca
  Life coach and parenting expert Erica Diamond joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about how to manage children’s expectations and raise appreciative kids.
  
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• ‘He’s a Canadian hero’: Muslim community raises money for paralyzed mosque shooting victim

  20-12-2017 15:41 via globalnews.ca
  After waking up from a two-month-long coma, Aymen Derbali, a 47-year-old father of three, was paralyzed from the chest down.
  
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• Update: Benoit Dorais's 'Christmas Party Suit' revealed

  20-12-2017 15:40 via montrealgazette.com
  They say you should dress for the job you want, which raises the interesting question of why the head of Montreal’s executive committee plans on dressing like an extra from the movie Elf.
  Spoiler alert: It’s for charity.
  Benoit Dorais announced on Tuesday that he’ll dress up in a garish Christmas-themed suit for the last executive committee meeting of the year to raise funds for the Mission Bon Acceuil. On Wednesday, he showed up in Opposuits’ “Iconicool.”
  Te
  
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