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• Wife of Raif Badawi furious after Ottawa suggests asking for his father's pardon

  22-12-2017 23:54 via cbc.ca
  The wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi said she's outraged by a suggestion from the Canadian government to ask for her father-in-law's help, saying that he asked for Badawi to be convicted.
  
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• Shoppers hit the mall ahead of the holidays in Montreal

  22-12-2017 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  Friday marked the final weekday before Christmas and is one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
  
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• Last minute Christmas shopping

  22-12-2017 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Dec 22: It’s the most wonderful time of the year – and busiest if you’ve delayed buying your Christmas presents and are now one of thousands heading to the malls. Global’s Matt Grillo reports.
  
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• Gifts for kids at Giant Steps

  22-12-2017 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Dec 22: Special delivery! A sleigh-full of gifts were given to children from Giant Steps, a Montreal school for students with autism. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports.
  
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• Majiza Philip ready to celebrate the holidays after acquittal in police-assault case

  22-12-2017 23:24 via cbc.ca
  Majiza Philip says she’s looking forward to spending the holidays with her family after a municipal court judge found her not guilty earlier this week of assaulting police officers and obstruction of justice.
  
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• Montreal company named in U.S. sanctions list

  22-12-2017 23:20 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal-based company has been placed on a United States government sanctions list that bans Americans from doing business with it.
  Emaxon Finance International, which was legally headquartered in Montreal, was placed on the list due to its connection with Dan Gertler, an Israeli billionaire and one of “13 serious human rights abusers and corrupt actors” facing sanctions, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday.
  U.S. residents, citizens and corporations are legally barr
  
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• Valérie Plante visits Moisson Montreal

  22-12-2017 22:50 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Dec 22: It’s Valérie Plante’s first holiday season as mayor of Montreal and as she told Global’s Howard Cohen, ‘tis the season to give back.
  
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• Spending $2/day on food

  22-12-2017 22:24 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Dec 22: Could you live off $2 for food a day? Global’s Gloria Henriquez meets one Montrealer who tried it.
  
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• Holiday magic arrives at Jules Verne Elementary in form of gifts

  22-12-2017 22:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Dressed in pyjamas, and jumping for joy, about 80 children screamed “Merry Christmas” and tore into their presents.
  Gathered in a common room of Jules-Verne Elementary school in Montréal-Nord to unwrap presents Friday afternoon, the Grade 2 students received their gifts as a surprise on the last day before winter vacation.
  “I wanted a pogo stick so I could jump a lot at home,” said David Chery, hugging a box nearly as tall as him. “It was a surprise. I’
  
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• How to get news updates on the Google Home and Amazon Echo in Canada

  22-12-2017 21:44 via globalnews.ca
  You can get news updates from Global News and Corus Radio newstalk stations on voice assistants like the Google Home or Amazon Echo. Here's how to set them up.
  
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• Mayor Valérie Plante volunteers at Moisson Montreal ahead of holidays

  22-12-2017 21:30 via globalnews.ca
  It’s Valérie Plante’s first holiday season as mayor of Montreal and she says, ‘Tis the season to give back.'
  
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• Plateau dog owners petition for new, fenced-in dog run in Jeanne-Mance Park

  22-12-2017 20:32 via cbc.ca
  Dog owners in Montreal's Plateau-Mont-Royal borough are asking for a new, 24-hour, fenced-in dog park in Jeanne-Mance Park so their dogs are protected from running into oncoming traffic.
  
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• Editorial: Hope and generosity in the bleak midwinter

  22-12-2017 19:50 via montrealgazette.com
  In the bleak midwinter
  Frosty wind made moan;
  Earth stood hard as iron,
  Water like a stone;
  Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
  Snow on snow,
  In the bleak midwinter
  Long ago.
  That is the first verse of an extraordinarily beautiful Christmas carol called In the Bleak Midwinter, based on a poem by Christina Rossetti.
  As sung by soaring voices of the McGarrigle family to a crowd huddled in an icy Outremont square Wednesday night, the carol seemed to have particular resonance.
  Not just because of the bit
  
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• Montreal weather gets dicey heading into busy holiday shopping weekend

  22-12-2017 19:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada tweaked its special weather statement Friday afternoon as two storm-wielding low-pressure systems make their way toward Quebec.
  The first system, hanging over the central United States and heading toward New England, is expected to bring snow on Friday to the regions encompassing Montreal, Longueuil, Laval and Châteauguay. The federal forecaster called that system “weak,” but noted there’s another right behind it that could dump up to 10 centimetre
  
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• What the Puck: Habs should embrace the pressure of playing in Montreal

  22-12-2017 19:09 via montrealgazette.com
  I am so sick and tired of people saying that players don’t want to play with the Canadiens because the Montreal media is so mean to them.
  Give me a break.
  This debate was once again renewed by the infamous media scrum with Carey Price after the Habs’ embarrassing 3-0 loss to the Ottawa Senators last Saturday in the NHL 100 Classic. Talking to journalists, the Canadiens’ star netminder simply refused to talk about the game or his team’s performance and for much of the time
  
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• Don Macpherson: Falsehoods and their consequences

  22-12-2017 19:09 via montrealgazette.com
  “Lie, lie, something will always remain,” the 18th-century French writer Voltaire is supposed to have said.
  Here in the part of the world that Voltaire dismissed as “a few acres of snow,” we have recently seen a demonstration of that saying.
  Two weeks ago, Quebecor’s TVA television network falsely reported that an agreement on construction work outside two Montreal mosques said “in black and white” that female workers were not to be on the site duri
  
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• We get ready for Christmas with the man himself, Santa Claus! https://t.co/NTcbYQXzXo

  22-12-2017 18:25
  
  We get ready for Christmas with the man himself, Santa Claus! https://t.co/NTcbYQXzXo
  
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• P.K. Subban brought a touch of Montreal to Nashville for Christmas

  22-12-2017 18:16 via montrealgazette.com
  You didn’t really think we’d make it through the festive season without P.K. Subban engaging in some combination of dressing up, putting on a show, helping needy families and remembering Montreal, did you?
  Thought not. 
  True to form, the Nashville Predators star dressed up as a septuagenarian named Eddie to commit not-so-random acts of kindness and posted footage of his escapades on social media. In the video, he hands out candy canes and hockey tickets to strangers before tryin
  
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• From Gord Downie to Mary Tyler Moore: honouring those who died in 2017

  22-12-2017 18:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Art endures, but as we’re reminded seemingly more frequently every year, its practitioners are subject to the same frailties as the rest of us. The past 12 months brought losses across the culture spectrum, with music being hit especially hard. Here is a salute, by no means complete, to some of the creators who left us in 2017.
  Gord Downie faced terminal illness with stoicism and courage. (Photo: Chad Hipolito / CP files)
  The Tragically Hip were more than just a very popular band — t
  
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• German museum reverses plan to cancel show on Montreal gallery owner Max Stern

  22-12-2017 18:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Facing intense criticism, a German mayor is reportedly backtracking on his decision to abruptly cancel an upcoming exhibition on the life and work of art dealer Max Stern, who in the 1930s was forced by the Nazis to sell hundreds of paintings.
  The exhibition, Max Stern – From Düsseldorf to Montreal, had been scheduled to open in February in the Stadtmuseum in Düsseldorf, Germany. It was to be the first on a world tour, passing through Haifa, Israel, before culminating at Mon
  
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• Gift suggestions: Hard liquor has more staying power than wine

  22-12-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  If you’re looking to drop some extra cash on someone, think hard alcohol. A bottle of wine will last but a night, while a good bottle of booze will hang around much longer. Here are some suggestions that will make your giftee, or yourself, a happy person.
  Tequila
  My personal favourite these days. Good tequila is to be sipped either straight or with ice.
  Tequila, Anejo, La Serpiente, Mexico spirit, $54.25, SAQ #12468735. Recently a winner at a London-based competition. This is floral and fr
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: Dec. 22, 2017

  22-12-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Under $16
  Puglia Igt 2015, Primitivo, Atlas, Tommasi Surani, Italy red, $15.95, SAQ # 13366546. Organic. Sweet red fruit that still remains quite crisp. Doesn’t have that dark and raisiny feel of primitivo’s sibling zinfandel at all; rather, it’s remarkably fresh and easy drinking. Maybe the touch of residual sugar adds some extra body, but this works just fine. Grape variety: primitivo. Residual sugar: 5.2 g/L. Serve at: 16 C. Drink now. Food pairing idea: pepper steak.
  $
  
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• Friends and family organize search for Priti Patel, missing since Dec. 17

  22-12-2017 17:56 via montrealgazette.com
  The friends and family of Priti Patel, the 29-year-old woman who disappeared while visiting her family’s home in St-Laurent last Sunday, will conduct a search for her on Saturday morning.
  The search will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the spot where Patel’s husband, Nitan, was able to track her smart phone’s last position signal — the parking lot of Sacré Coeur Hospital in Montreal near Rivière des Prairies.
  Megan Ilko, a friend since childhood and one of the organiz
  
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• Quebec VIP airport lounge wins best in North America

  22-12-2017 17:46 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Dec 22: The VIP lounge at the Jean Lesage airport in Quebec City was just voted the best in North America. Global videojournalist Jean-Vincent Verville went to the airport to take a look.
  
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• The Right Chemistry: Diagnosing disease by scent

  22-12-2017 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  We spew out chemicals. Hundreds of compounds have been identified in our breath and in our sweat, with the exact composition varying with our personal biochemistry, our diet, state of health, emotional situation and the bacteria we harbour. Can some practical information be teased out of our “odourprint?” Is it possible to diagnose disease by scent, scientists wonder? In some cases, the answer is yes.
  Although tuberculosis is no longer the scourge it once was, the disease still kills
  
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• 5 Montreal stories you must read this week: December 22

  22-12-2017 17:25 via globalnews.ca
  This week: A forgotten hero, an organization forced out of its home and a rising soccer star.
  
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• Opposition needs (another) new name, as Mouvement Montreal snapped up

  22-12-2017 16:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The official opposition at Montreal city hall, defeated Nov. 5 under the banner Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal, will have to wait a bit longer before changing its name. The party was informed this week by Quebec’s director general of elections that their choice — Mouvement Montreal — had already been taken.
  In a statement made public Friday, the party, which for now bears the name of the man who lost the mayoralty to Valérie Plante of Projet M
  
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• Denis Coderre's old party has name change rejected

  22-12-2017 16:09 via cbc.ca
  The party's name change had to be approved by Quebec's Chief Electoral Officer. It wasn't, because someone else applied to have the name Mouvement Montréal.
  
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• London orchestra releases conductor Charles Dutoit from duties amid sexual misconduct allegations

  22-12-2017 15:43 via globalnews.ca
  The orchestra says in a statement the decision was reached "jointly" with Dutoit.
  
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• Charles Dutoit shut out of 7 symphonies amid sexual assault accusations

  22-12-2017 15:43 via cbc.ca
  Symphonies are cutting ties with conductor Charles Dutoit following sexual assault accusations made by three opera singers and a classical musician. Dutoit, currently the London Philharmonic's artistic director, previously served as music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
  
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• Motorist killed in car crash in Saint-Adèle

  22-12-2017 15:14 via montrealgazette.com
  A 44-year-old motorist died Thursday night in a violent car crash in Sainte-Adèle in the Laurentians.
  The incident occurred at about 9:30 p.m., when the victim apparently lost control of his vehicle, which flipped over at the corner of Notre-Dame and Ronchand Sts.
  First responders found the man unconscious and trapped inside the wreckage of the car. He was later declared dead.
  The Sûreté du Québec is trying to determine the exact cause of the incident and excessiv
  
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• Grade 6 opera singer launches his career

  22-12-2017 15:04 via globalnews.ca
  6th grade student and opera prodigy Julien Brody joins Global’s Laura Casella & Kim Sullivan to talk about his budding career and to sing some opera!
  
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• #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/omtU53l9N8

  22-12-2017 14:35
  
  #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/omtU53l9N8
  
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• Christmas entertainment

  22-12-2017 14:34 via globalnews.ca
  Entertainment columnist Jay Walker joins Global’s Jay Walker for great entertainment over the holidays, including Nut Job & Friends live.
  
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• Mikael Kingsbury wins 10th straight World Cup moguls gold

  22-12-2017 14:20 via cbc.ca
  ​Canadian freestyle skiing star Mikael Kingsbury captured his 10th straight World Cup moguls title on Friday while Andi Naude of Penticton, B.C., collected a bronze medal in her women's race for a second day in a row.
  
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• Celebrations: December 22, 2017 We celebrate you!!! https://t.co/3pjp0IXFDR

  22-12-2017 14:18
  
  Celebrations: December 22, 2017 We celebrate you!!! https://t.co/3pjp0IXFDR
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Friday, December 22

  22-12-2017 14:17 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Friday, December 22.
  
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• What to do with all those leftovers

  22-12-2017 14:09 via globalnews.ca
  Chef Martin Patenaude from PC Schools joins Global’s Laura Casella with some delicious recipes for all your holiday leftovers.
  
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• New Christmas album from Florence K

  22-12-2017 13:51 via globalnews.ca
  Join Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan as they talk to Montreal singer-songwriter Florence K about her brand new Christmas album.
  
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• Snow, freezing rain heading for parts of southern Quebec

  22-12-2017 13:47 via cbc.ca
  The snow is expected to start early Friday afternoon and should continue overnight. It’s still unclear which areas will see the freezing rain, because the path of the system that’s bringing all this weather our way is still not set.
  
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• NHL prospect dreams of playing with his big brother BT’s Domenic Fazioli reports. https://t.co/o2JKms2xqh

  22-12-2017 13:39
  
  NHL prospect dreams of playing with his big brother BT’s Domenic Fazioli reports. https://t.co/o2JKms2xqh
  
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• Battle heats up over mystery box of legal documents seized by UPAC

  22-12-2017 13:34 via montrealgazette.com
  A legal battle is mounting over documents seized last year from the home of Violette Trépanier, the Quebec Liberal Party’s former head of fundraising, and the Crown is seeking to have the public excluded from debates held in court on the issue. 
  The battle is over documents seized from Trépanier’s home on December 12, 2016, as part of a UPAC investigation dubbed Operation Mâchurer. According to a motion filed by the prosecution (that had been heavily redacted
  
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• While you were sleeping: High-speed postal truck heist crew jailed

  22-12-2017 13:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Also: A reward is being offered to help find a third suspect in connection with an armed hospital robbery. 
  An anonymous donor has put up a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a third suspect wanted in connection with an armed robbery at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital. Éric Demers, 40, is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for his alleged role in the Oct. 16 holdup. Three men ambushed a hospital employee who was pushing a cart that held bags containing about
  
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• June Rowlands, Toronto's 1st female mayor, has died at age 93. https://t.co/lkL4359EyA

  22-12-2017 13:25
  
  June Rowlands, Toronto's 1st female mayor, has died at age 93. https://t.co/lkL4359EyA
  
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• Snow, freezing rain headed for Montreal: Environment Canada

  22-12-2017 13:07 via montrealgazette.com
  A low pressure system over the central United States and heading toward New England has led Environment Canada to issue a special weather statement early Friday for the Montreal area (Montreal island, Longueuil-Varennes, Laval and Châteauguay – La Prairie) forecasting snow later in the day that may turn to freezing rain by Saturday.
  Environment Canada is predicting five to 10 centimetres of snow over southern Quebec beginning Friday afternoon and continuing overnight.
  That snow may c
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Friday, December 22

  22-12-2017 12:50 via globalnews.ca
  Andrea Howick has the Global News Morning headlines for Friday, December 22.
  
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• COMING UP ON BT: Samantha the Singing Chef! Tune in at 8:10am https://t.co/8rCL8LZdmq

  22-12-2017 12:30
  
  COMING UP ON BT: Samantha the Singing Chef! Tune in at 8:10am https://t.co/8rCL8LZdmq
  
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