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• Update: Missing 14-year-old girl found safe

  23-12-2017 23:44 via montrealgazette.com
  A missing 14-year-old girl from Verdun has been found in good health, Montreal police said Sunday.
  She was found Sunday morning in LaSalle.
  She had been missing since Wednesday, when she did not return home from school.
  
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• Montreal police looking for missing 14-year-old girl

  23-12-2017 23:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are seeking the public’s help to find a teenager who didn’t return home from school in Verdun on Wednesday and hasn’t been seen since. 
  Emily Morin, who is 14, speaks English and very little French, the police said in a statement on Saturday evening.
  She may be in the Montreal area or there’s a strong chance she’s in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, the statement said. She uses public transit, it said.
  Morin has red hair and was last seen wearing a khaki
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens at Edmonton

  23-12-2017 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Can the Canadiens sweep Alberta?
  It won’t be easy.
  After starting the season as poorly as the Canadiens, the Oilers have started to play like the Cup contender everyone thought they would be.
  Connor McDavid and Co. have won three in a row and moved into Wild Card contention in a heated Western Conference race that’s a tribute to NHL parity.
  The Canadiens have also come alive.
  The W in Calgary moved  the Canadiens within four points of an Eastern Conference Wild Card berth that s
  
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• Drugs, money and guns seized in Outaouais region raid

  23-12-2017 23:07 via globalnews.ca
  Police seized a more than four kilograms of cocaine, some 100,000 methamphetamine tablets, more than $200,000 cash, and firearms.
  
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• Winter weather across Canada could make holiday travel a challenge

  23-12-2017 22:35 via cbc.ca
  Air Canada, WestJet and Porter airlines all issued travel advisories to customers as Atlantic Canada could see a major winter hit, possibly affecting flights from elsewhere in Canada in the pre-holiday rush.
  
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• Montreal emergency rooms overloaded with injuries from icy sidewalks

  23-12-2017 22:30 via cbc.ca
  With a cocktail of snow and freezing rain underway in Montreal, emergency rooms on and off the island are dealing with an uptick in patients this holiday season.
  
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• Canada’s junior team to rely on speed, depth at world championship

  23-12-2017 22:24 via montrealgazette.com
  HAMILTON — Looking at Canada’s junior team roster there are no budding superstars like Connor McDavid or Mitch Marner. But there is a simple philosophy: take time and space away from your opponent and then you can take the puck, too.
  Head coach Dominique Ducharme and Hockey Canada executives Shawn Bullock and Joel Bouchard have built a team that is fast, very deep and balanced heading into a competitive world junior championship in Buffalo, N.Y.
  “Our goal when we lose the puck
  
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• Quebec ferry fined for breaking Gulf of St. Lawrence speed limit

  23-12-2017 21:59 via cbc.ca
  The C.T.M.A. Vacancier has been fined $6,000 for allegedly breaking the speed limit that was put in place in the fall to protect right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
  
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• Quebec City man charged with inciting hatred over social media

  23-12-2017 21:50 via montrealgazette.com
  A 46-year-old Quebec City man has been arrested and charged for using social medial to incite hatred and issue threats against the Muslim community.
  Nicolas Thériault was arrested and held by Quebec police Friday and charged in Quebec City court on Saturday morning. The RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams (INSET) division gave information to the Quebec City police force about a message sent, and officers were able to track the suspect down.
  Thériault was rel
  
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• Quebec City man arrested for allegedly making hateful comments against Muslims online

  23-12-2017 21:11 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec city resident Nicolas Thériault was arrested by Quebec city police after the RCMP tipped them off.
  
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• What’s open and closed over the Christmas holidays

  23-12-2017 21:06 via globalnews.ca
  Make sure you check all operating hours for businesses and services around Montreal before you head out the door.
  
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• Meet the Louisiana grandmother Quebecers keep drunk dialing, hoping for a ride

  23-12-2017 21:00 via cbc.ca
  Ruby Palermo, 79, has taken to unplugging her landline at night during the holiday season to stop getting calls from intoxicated Quebecers trying to reach Opération Nez Rouge.
  
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• Family searching shores of Riviéres-des-Prairies for missing woman

  23-12-2017 20:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Friends and family of Priti Patel walked the forest paths near the shores of the Riviéres-des-Prairies in the freezing rain in Ahuntsic-Cartierville Saturday, searching through the snow for any sign of the 29-year-old woman who went missing from her family home last Sunday.
  More than 30 searchers turned out at the grounds of the Sacré-Coeur Hospital, near the corner of Gouin and Marcel Laurin Blvds., to see if they could turn up any signs. The parking lot of the hospital was the la
  
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• Jack Todd: The year everything went wrong in Montreal sports

  23-12-2017 19:17 via montrealgazette.com
  It was the worst of times — and the worst of times. An entire year of Blue Mondays. Failures stacked atop failures. A year that will go down in the often glorious history of Montreal sports as an annus horribilis when this city’s men’s professional teams did a fair impression of the Three Stooges — stumbling, bumbling and fumbling their way from one loss to the next.
  For the Impact, the Canadiens and (especially) the Alouettes, 2017 was a year to forget. All three teams s
  
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• Quebec City police arrest suspect in connection with online threats against Muslims

  23-12-2017 18:36 via cbc.ca
  A man in his 40s has been arrested by Quebec City police for allegedly making hateful comments about Muslims online.
  
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• Festivus for the rest of us: Montreal bar announces ritual celebration

  23-12-2017 18:21 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s that time of year again. No, not Christmas. Festivus.
  The holiday popularized in a 1997 episode of the sitcom Seinfeld falls on Dec. 23 this year, and Le Ritz PDB is offering Montrealers a chance to get the full Costanza experience.
  In an announcement posted on Facebook, the bar said it would be putting up the aluminum pole and staging time-honoured Festivus traditions like the airing of grievances and feats of strength. 
  The event kicks off at 8:30 p.m. tonight and will not conc
  
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• Netflix Canada users told to beware of phishing scam

  23-12-2017 18:12 via cbc.ca
  Netflix Canada is warning subscribers to be wary of a new phishing scam involving fake messages asking for credit card information.
  
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• A quiz for people who think they know Montreal

  23-12-2017 18:06 via cbc.ca
  Our city reached a major milestone this year — 375 years young. How much do you know about the city?
  
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• Christmas comes early on the métro with expanded cellphone service

  23-12-2017 17:15 via montrealgazette.com
  The STM is making a list, checking it twice and confirming that cellphone service is now available at three more of its métro stations.
  The transit network confirmed this festive gift for regular users of the Laurier, Rosemont and Beaubien stations on the Orange Line in a tweet on Friday.
  A consortium managed by Telus, with Bell, Rogers and Vidéotron, has been working to integrate cellular service into the métro network since 2014.
  Work will be done to connect
  
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• Update: Canadiens vs. Oilers — 5 things you should know

  23-12-2017 17:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Canadiens-Oilers game at Rogers Place on Saturday (7 p.m., Sportsnet, TVA Sports, TSN-690 Radio).
  The matchup: This is the second and last meeting between these teams this season and the Canadiens are still smarting after dropping a 6-2 decision to the Oilers at the Bell Centre on Dec. 9. That game might have been the Canadiens’ worst of the season and it started with a subpar performance from goaltender Carey Price. He was pulled early in the
  
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• ICYMI: The creator of The Nut Job Live! brought along her friends Andie and Mole to tell us about their show on Dec… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-12-2017 17:00
  ICYMI: The creator of The Nut Job Live! brought along her friends Andie and Mole to tell us about their show on Dec… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Transport ministry preparing for a snowy holiday season in Quebec

  23-12-2017 16:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s transportation ministry says it is ready for road-clearing operations over the holidays.
  If snowfall affects the entirety of the MTQ’s road network, more than 2,000 workers will be deployed to ensure safe travel for all. 
  In a statement, the ministry added that the requisite equipment will be deployed to limit snow accumulation and apply the necessary melting and abrasive products to keep roads safe. 
  Transport Minister André Fortin is asking drivers to exer
  
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• In the Habs' Room: More fourth-line heroics out west

  23-12-2017 16:31 via montrealgazette.com
  CALGARY – Coach Claude Julien said it’s time people stopped referring to Daniel Carr, Byron Froese and Nicolas Deslauriers as the Canadiens’ fourth line. 
  Froese was credited with a goal on a deflection and assisted on Deslauriers’s fourth goal of the season to help the Canadiens to a 3-2 win over the Calgary Flames Friday night at the Saddledome.  
  “They’ve been doing that for a while,” Julien said of the fourth line’s heroics. “Th
  
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• Something to read, something to watch, something to sing-along to

  23-12-2017 15:58 via cbc.ca
  Whether you have a full two weeks to enjoy the holiday break, or just a long weekend, why not commit to letting yourself be carried away in the story of a good book, the scenes of a powerful film or the sounds of great music?
  
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• Valérie Plante and Santa Claus welcome you to city hall today

  23-12-2017 15:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s city hall will mark the holiday season with a festive open house this Saturday.
  Valérie Plante will be joined by city council speaker Cathy Wong, an array of municipal officials and Plante’s husband, Pierre-Antoine Harvey, to greet Montrealers between 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. 
  Santa Claus is scheduled to make an appearance. There will also be face-painting and snacks for children. 
  Should they be so inclined, visitors will be able to have their pictur
  
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• Year in review: Misery had company on Montreal's pro sports scene

  23-12-2017 14:39 via montrealgazette.com
  It was the worst of times — and the worst of times. An entire year of Blue Mondays. Failures stacked atop failures. A year that will go down in the often glorious history of Montreal sports as an annus horribilis when this city’s men’s professional teams did a fair impression of the Three Stooges — stumbling, bumbling and fumbling their way from one loss to the next.
  For the Impact, the Canadiens and (especially) the Alouettes, 2017 was a year to forget. All three teams s
  
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• The Week in Review: Pulling the plug, terror acquittal, doctor is OUT, facing the music, gift-wrapped

  23-12-2017 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on all the big stories that happened this week in Montreal.
  Jack Todd: Killing Formula E was the right decision for Montreal
  In the Museum of Bad Ideas, the Montreal version of the Formula E race deserves a separate wing. It was, among many other things, a ruinously expensive event that threw a significant portion of the city into gridlock for no discernible reason. When Mayor Valérie Plante announced Monday that her administration was shutting down the race after organizers
  
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• Instagram holiday bakers put names to faces at Montreal cookie swap

  23-12-2017 14:00 via cbc.ca
  When Montreal Instagrammer Rachel Bishop gained her 1,000th follower this month, she celebrated by hosting a Christmas cookie exchange, to meet some of her followers and fellow bloggers.
  
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• Glass walls welcome Laurentian vistas into remodelled cedar home

  23-12-2017 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Light would be a most appropriate word to describe this superb residence overlooking Lac Manitou in the Laurentians. Light as in graceful, airy, and light as in sunlight entering from an abundance of glass walls.
  But earthy would be another good term as well. Though the architecture is resolutely modern, the house blends perfectly into the natural landscape, and seems to be anchored by the retaining stone walls that surround it.
  When Mike and Marcia (who asked that their last names not be publis
  
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• Canadiens vs. Oilers: Five things you should know

  23-12-2017 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Canadiens-Oilers game at Rogers Place on Saturday (7 p.m., Sportsnet, TVA Sports, TSN-690 Radio).
  The matchup: This is the second and last meeting between these teams this season and the Canadiens are still smarting after dropping a 6-2 decision to the Oilers at the Bell Centre on Dec. 9. That game might have been the Canadiens’ worst of the season and it started with a subpar performance from goaltender Carey Price. He was pulled early in the
  
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• Josh Freed: Christmas wish list for Montreal, Canada and the world

  23-12-2017 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s been a rough 2017, with the spirit of Scrooge outgunning the spirit of Christmas.
  The U.S. has been a shriek-fest of nasty policies, squabbles, tweets and division — in a Grumpy Trumpy time that will, hopefully be remembered as the Year of the Dinosaur.
  The Spirit of Brexit has spread from England and Europe to America, which is trying to Brexit from the world.
  Yet here in Montreal it has been a quiet year, apart from some needless niqab squabbles and the mother-of-all road repa
  
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• CHUM doctor on a mission to convince Quebecers to spare a kidney

  23-12-2017 13:00 via cbc.ca
  Quebec has the lowest rate of living organ donors in the country but a new project is trying to double the numbers.
  
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• Christmas Fund 2017: Long-distance marriage a sacrifice for children

  23-12-2017 12:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Yovana is happy to be in Canada.
  It’s safer than her home country of Peru, she explained, and there are more opportunities for her sons, age 8 and 2.
  “I love Canada,” she said. “I know my children … will have a better future here.”
  But being here, as she has been for the last 15 years, means being away from her husband. That leaves her alone to care for the two young boys, which has been tough, she said.
  Yovana explained that her work schedule often needs to
  
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• Province's handling of spring floods gets low grade from municipalities, survey shows

  23-12-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Quebec and its municipalities have a long list of lessons to learn from last spring’s catastrophic floods, according to a provincially commissioned online survey of affected areas.
  
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• From the archives: Moving the Black Stone was monumental stupidity

  23-12-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  This story was first published on Dec. 24, 2006, in the Montreal Gazette.
  “People who had occasion to pass St. Patrick’s square, Point St. Charles, yesterday were surprised to see the “Ship Fever Monument” … occupying a prominent position on the corner of the square.”
  The Gazette, Saturday, Dec. 22, 1900
  It was an act of astonishing insensitivity. Without consulting a soul, the Grand Trunk Railway uprooted one of the most poignant and revered reminders of a d
  
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• About last night … Canadiens edge Calgary 3-2

  23-12-2017 06:20 via montrealgazette.com
  If the game had lasted another minute …
  Well, that possibility just doesn’t bear thinking about.
  Christmas came early for the Canadiens. Their gift was the second straight win of their western road trip, a 3-2 squeaker in Calgary.
  It shouldn’t have been that close. For about 56 minutes, the Canadiens dominated the home team.
  How dominant?
  A stat cited by play-by-play guy John Bartlett during the third period: The home team went 10:39, from late in the second into the third, wi
  
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• Canadiens hold on to win after Flames mount late comeback bid

  23-12-2017 06:15 via cbc.ca
  Byron Froese scored his first goal in 22 months and also added an assist as the Montreal Canadiens hung on for a 3-2 win on Friday night against the Calgary Flames.
  
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• Canadiens hold on to beat Flames to inch closer to playoff berth

  23-12-2017 05:57 via montrealgazette.com
  CALGARY — Montreal controlled the pace for most of the game and goaltender Carey Price played a solid game as the Canadiens weathered a third-period rally to beat the Calgary Flames 3-2 before a Saddledome crowd that contained more than a few fans cheering for the visitors. 
  Moving up: The win gives the Canadiens a 2-1-0 record on their current seven-game road trip and they edged closer to a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. They are four points behind the New York Islander
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens edge Calgary 3-2

  23-12-2017 05:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Never in doubt … until the last three minutes.
  A late power play goal by Matthew Tkachuk set up a tense ending.
  Brendan Gallagher ended his slump a shade over three minutes into the third period to make it 3-0, but Micheal Ferland made it 3-1 six minutes later..
  Nicolas Despauriers batted in the rebound of a Byron Froese shot halfway through the second period.
  With nine minutes left in the first period, Alex Galchenyuk fed Jordie Benn for a point shot that Froese tipped past Mike Smith.&n
  
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• Trudeau airport warns passengers to come early

  23-12-2017 05:33 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Dec 22: Some 60,000 air passengers came through Trudeau Airport on its busiest day. Officials gave advice on how to cope with delays. Billy Shields reports
  
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• Nicholas Baptiste scores in overtime lift Americans over Rocket 3-2

  23-12-2017 04:47 via montrealgazette.com
  LAVAL — Nicholas Baptiste scored at 3:51 of overtime as the Rochester Americans edged the Laval Rocket 3-2 on Friday in American Hockey League action.
  Kyle Criscuolo’s second goal of the game forced the extra period for the Americans (18-6-6), as he scored at 18:20 of the third with the goalie pulled for the extra attacker.
  Eric Gelinas and Chris Terry found the back of the net for the Rocket (11-13-7).
  Linus Ullmark made 34 saves for the win as Charlie Lindgren stopped 25-of-28 shot
  
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• Montreal police ask public for help to find missing teen

  23-12-2017 04:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are asking the public for help to find a teenager who is missing.Zack Descoteaux, 14, was last seen on Monday, Dec. 18, at around 7:30 p.m. at his home in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough and has not been seen since.Police say they fear for his life and safety, highlighting the particularly cold weather conditions.The teenager regularly visits McDonald’s restaurants in the Longueuil area.He has white skin, is 5-foot-4 4and weighs 125 pounds. He has green eyes, brow
  
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• Montreal police search for missing 14-year-old boy

  23-12-2017 04:18 via cbc.ca
  Montreal police are looking for a missing 14-year-old and say he could possibly be in Longueuil on Montreal's South Shore.
  
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• Missing 14-year-old boy returns home safely, say Montreal police

  23-12-2017 04:18 via cbc.ca
  Montreal police say the teen, who disappeared on Dec. 22, is in good health.
  
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• Trudeau Airport officials say come early on year’s busiest travel day

  23-12-2017 04:02 via globalnews.ca
  Trudeau Airport officials said about 60,000 airline passengers came through Dec. 22 — the busiest day of travel in 2017.
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened in Montreal on Dec. 22

  23-12-2017 03:13 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal:
  Analysis: Music world chose to ignore allegations of Charles Dutoit’s misconduct
  It was only a matter of time. Associated Press has published allegations by three singers and one instrumentalist of aggressive assaults by Charles Dutoit, music director of the OSM from 1977 to 2002, and a figure without whom the orchestra would have nothing like the public profile it enjoys today. Vast discography? Forget about it. Maison sym
  
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• P.K. Subban, as old Man ‘Eddie,’ joins in on the spirit of giving

  23-12-2017 02:10 via globalnews.ca
  Ex-Hab defencemen P.K. Subban continues his holiday tradition disguising himself as Old Man 'Eddie.'
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens at Calgary

  23-12-2017 01:30 via montrealgazette.com
  How competitive is the National Hockey League?
  Seven of the 10 games on the NHL’s Thursday schedule were decided in Overtime or by Shootout.
  So maybe the Canadiens have a chance in Calgary.
  The Flames are coming off a 2-1 win over mighty St. Louis Wednesday night. Calgary is battling for a Wild Card spot in the ultra-competitive Western Conference.
  The Canadiens are seven points behind red-hot Boston in the weak-sister Atlantic Division. The consensus opinion is they have to stay within si
  
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• Marie-Philip Poulin and Canada always find way to beat U.S. in Olympics

  23-12-2017 01:03 via montrealgazette.com
  CALGARY — What can Marie-Philip Poulin do for an encore?
  That was the question presented to the two-time Olympic gold medalist Friday after she was introduced as one of the 23 players who will represent Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
  “I’m not thinking that far ahead,” Poulin said. “It would be nice if we didn’t need a goal with three minutes to go. It would be nice to be ahead by a few goals.”
  But she knows from experienc
  
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• Dorval residents will see a 2.5 per cent tax decrease in 2018

  23-12-2017 00:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Dorval residents will a 2.5 per cent decrease in the average tax bill in 2018.
  The city said the tax account for the evaluation of an average residence will benefit from a tax reduction of $73.67, or a 2.58 per cent decrease compared to 2017.
  The average home with an evaluation of $384,951 will pay $2,785,12 in property taxes in 2018, compared to $2,858.79 in 2017.
  “The budgetary exercise that we have undertaken requires balance, Mayor Edgar Rouleau said in a statement.
  “We rely larg
  
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