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• Lost art: Montrealer makes a living as a shoe shiner

  26-12-2017 23:55 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Dec 26: Harry Klein said he didn’t know he was destined to become the premier shoe shiner in Montreal, but 15 years later, he’s more than polished his craft. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• Boxing Day hits Montreal

  26-12-2017 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Dec 26: ‘Twas the day after Christmas, and you know what that means…Boxing Day sales. Global’s Sarah Volstad meets some shoppers who braved the cold to get their hands on some good deals.
  
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• Older women robbed in home invasion scam by 'charming' man

  26-12-2017 23:47 via cbc.ca
  In December, a handful of seniors in the Montreal area were approached at their homes by a suspect offering edibles like chocolate and wine, police say.
  
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• Extreme cold weather chills Quebecers from Hudson Bay down to Montreal area

  26-12-2017 22:48 via cbc.ca
  Quebecers are facing bitter cold with temperatures that feel as low as –42 C with the wind chill in some parts of the province.
  
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• Police looking for victims, perpetrator in home invasions targetting elderly women

  26-12-2017 22:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police investigators are seeking the public’s help in identifying and locating a man in connection with a series of thefts in seniors’ homes.
  The robberies took place in December, mainly in Pointe-aux-Trembles, Rivière-des-Prairies and Dorval boroughs. Police are also looking for potential victims.
  According to investigators, the suspect approaches elderly and vulnerable women in their homes by talking to them at the door, or just outside their homes, and uses kindnes
  
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• At Montreal food banks, donated turkeys feed more than physical hunger

  26-12-2017 22:40 via montrealgazette.com
  The number of families lining up at Montreal’s food banks ramps up significantly every holiday season. And in the tens of thousands of food baskets handed out, chickens and turkeys take a place of honour, coveted as much for their power to bring people together as they are for combating hunger.
  Those who run food distribution organizations don’t have statistical data to clearly explain the increase in want, but they have a few theories. The back-to-school season, with its many hidden
  
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• Canadiens resume uphill battle for playoff spot with visit to Carolina

  26-12-2017 21:34 via montrealgazette.com
  A .500 record on the road is considered good but, after splitting four road games before Christmas, the Canadiens are going to have to be better than that over the final three games of their seven-game Christmas road trip if they hope to stay within hailing distance of a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
  The journey begins Wednesday with a brief visit to Raleigh, N.C., to play the Hurricanes (7 p.m., TSN2, RDS. TSN-690 Radio). Normally, teams fly into a city the night before the game, but
  
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• From Cohen to Rozon: Quebec culture's highs and lows in 2017

  26-12-2017 21:20 via montrealgazette.com
  The top story of 2017 in Hollywood was also the top story of the year in the Quebec entertainment milieu.
  In the American showbiz world, it was the year of often shocking allegations of sexual abuse, aggression and impropriety on the part of power brokers in film and TV. Here in Quebec, the entertainment scene was also rocked by a slew of allegations of sexual misconduct levelled at a number of high-profile figures, most notably Juste pour rire/Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon and TV host a
  
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• Quebec music producer André Di Cesare dies at 70

  26-12-2017 20:52 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec music industry has lost one of its most important figures with the death of record producer André Di Cesare on Sunday. He was 70. 
  Johanne Di Cesare said her brother was hospitalized with an illness that had weakened him during the past year.
  Di Cesare, longtime owner of the Montreal indie label Star Records, was a major figure in the Quebec music industry during the 1980s and 1990s. From 1987 to 1989, he was president of the Association québécoise de l&
  
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• Police identify body found outdoors in Quebec City on Christmas Day

  26-12-2017 19:09 via globalnews.ca
  An autopsy will be performed to confirm the cause of death.
  
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• Aeroméxico said to mull C Series order as Delta faces tariffs

  26-12-2017 18:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Grupo Aeroméxico SAB is considering an order of Bombardier Inc. C Series jets, taking aircraft that would be available next year if U.S. tariffs thwart deliveries to Delta Air Lines Inc., people familiar with the matter said.
  Mexico’s largest carrier is also considering short-range planes from Brazil’s Embraer SA and Japan’s Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. instead, said the people, who asked not to be named because the talks are private. There’s no guarantee the discussi
  
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• Quebec City police believe man found outside building froze to death

  26-12-2017 18:19 via cbc.ca
  The victim has been identified as Réal Charron, 57. His body was found early Monday morning outside a building on des Capucins Boulevard in the city’s Limoilou neighbourhood.
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: White Bean, Cabbage and Sausage Soup

  26-12-2017 18:05 via montrealgazette.com
  A big batch of soup in the refrigerator, at the ready to heat up for family or friends, provides a great break for the cook.
  The Soup Sisters Family Cookbook, edited by Sharon Hapton (Appetite by Random House, $24.95), has more than 100 soup recipes, including this sustaining meal-in-one recipe. It’s the third in a series of cookbooks from the group that started in 2009 in Calgary and has spread to more than 20 cities across North America. Besides family soup makers, both chefs and food wr
  
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• No one hurt in Ahunstic fire that started in child's room

  26-12-2017 17:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Two families had to leave their homes on Christmas night when a fire ravaged their duplex in Ahuntsic.
  No one was hurt in the fire that broke out at 8:40 p.m. in the Vianney Ave. building. Montreal Fire Department operations chief Benoît Martel said the fire started on the building’s second floor. A mattress caught fire in a child’s room. On Tuesday morning, firefighters were still investigating the cause of the fire.
  The building had a working smoke detector, and the two famil
  
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• Police identify body found outdoors in Quebec City

  26-12-2017 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The body of a man discovered early Monday morning in the snow outside a building in the central La Cité-Limoilou borough of Quebec City has been identified.
  Police confirmed the man’s identity Tuesday morning as Réal Charron, 57, of Quebec City.
  An investigation is underway and an autopsy is to be performed to determine the cause of death, said Cyndi Paré, a spokesperson for Quebec City police, but the hypothesis is that Charron died of hypothermia. Temperatures in Que
  
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• Scoundrels steal thousands from Salvation Army on Christmas

  26-12-2017 17:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Scrooge-like thieves robbed a Salvation Army branch in Quebec City overnight on Christmas.
  Thieves made off with several thousand dollars from a safe in the Wilfrid-Hamel Blvd. branch, in the Haute-Saint-Charles/Des-Rivières borough.
  The money was intended to help those in need. Now, the organization is appealing to the public to help raise funds to replace the stolen money.
  
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• Quebec astronaut David Saint-Jacques has date with the ISS in 2018

  26-12-2017 17:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec David Saint-Jacques is poised to be the first Canadian sent to the International Space Station since Chris Hadfield in 2013.
  Saint-Jacques, 47, will make the trip in November aboard a Soyuz space capsule, accompanied by American and Russian astronauts.
  Saint-Jacques, who is both an engineer and a doctor, will become the ninth Canadian in space, and will be the vessel’s copilot. He said he has been training for the mission for several years.
  He said it will be a difficult mission for
  
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• Environment Canada issues extreme cold warnings across country

  26-12-2017 16:54 via globalnews.ca
  Extreme cold warnings are issued when very cold temperatures or wind chill creates an elevated risk to health such as frost bite and hypothermia.
  
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• Montreal man bringing back lost art of the shoe shine

  26-12-2017 16:46 via globalnews.ca
  Harry Klein is cleaning up the shoes of Montrealer shoes, one shine at a time.
  
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• Denis Shapovalov wins Canadian Press male athlete of the year

  26-12-2017 16:21 via cbc.ca
  No athlete in Canada held the spotlight in 2017 quite like Denis Shapovalov. The 18-year-old's remarkable run up the ATP rankings has earned the Richmond Hill, Ont., tennis player the Lionel Conacher Award as the Canadian Press male athlete of the year.
  
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• Quebec City Salvation Army left reeling after Christmas Eve break-in

  26-12-2017 16:13 via cbc.ca
  Someone made off with thousands of dollars Sunday night, taken from a safe at the store. Quebec City police have confirmed they are investigating the break in.
  
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• $5K stolen from Quebec City Salvation Army during Christmas Eve break-in

  26-12-2017 16:13 via cbc.ca
  Someone made off with $5,000 Sunday night, taken from a safe at the store. Quebec City police have confirmed they are investigating the break in.
  
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• Is Bitcoin changing the world of finance in Montreal?

  26-12-2017 16:09 via globalnews.ca
  Volatile crypto-currency Bitcoin has been drawing the attention of investors and financial service firms in recent months.
  
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• ICYMI: We are always ecstatic to have Karl Wolf here in the #BTMTL studio. Watch him chat with Joanne about his sin… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-12-2017 16:00
  ICYMI: We are always ecstatic to have Karl Wolf here in the #BTMTL studio. Watch him chat with Joanne about his sin… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 5 photos of the year: Gazette photographers pick their best of 2017

  26-12-2017 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The sky’s the limit
  It was Nov. 7, a slow news day, and I had been assigned to look for a feature picture for A1. I knew that because the clocks had been set back an hour the weekend before, and it was a sunny day with light clouds, a sunset photo would be possible toward the end of the afternoon, so I headed out to a favourite spot on the lakeshore in Lachine. As the sun dropped to just above the horizon, I shot a bunch of pictures of walkers, runners and cyclists silhouetted against the
  
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• Snow removal operations begin in Montreal

  26-12-2017 14:38 via cbc.ca
  A day after a very snowy Christmas, almost 2,200 city vehicles hit the streets at 7 p.m. Tuesday to start removing the roughly 25 centimetres of snow.
  
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• Snow removal in Montreal to begin this evening

  26-12-2017 14:38 via cbc.ca
  A day after a very snowy Christmas, almost 2,200 city vehicles will hit the streets at 7 p.m. Tuesday to start removing the roughly 25 centimetres of snow.
  
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• Year in Review: Did Barrette's health-care reforms finally succeed in 2017?

  26-12-2017 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Three years into Gaétan Barrette’s not-so-quiet revolution of Quebec’s health-care system, emergency rooms are as overcrowded as ever across the province and wait times for surgery remain stubbornly long.
  The McGill University Health Centre, which was supposed to usher in 21st century medicine with an ultra-modern superhospital in 2015, has lurched from crisis to crisis without a permanent executive director for more than a year.
  And doctors are still angry at the ministe
  
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• No one hurt as child's mattress sets off Ahuntsic fire

  26-12-2017 13:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Two families had to leave their homes on Christmas night when a fire ravaged their duplex in Ahuntsic.
  No one was hurt in the fire that broke out at 8:40 p.m. in the Vianney Ave. building. Montreal Fire Department operations chief Benoît Martel said the fire started on the building’s second floor. A mattress caught fire in a child’s room. On Tuesday morning, firefighters were still investigating the cause of the fire.
  The building had a working smoke detector, and the two famil
  
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• A deep chill, something about pot, last call & a surprise truffle

  26-12-2017 13:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Baby, it’s cold outside: With a wind chill of minus-19 Celsius, Tuesday is shaping up to be the warmest day of the week. It was minus-10 C at dawn, and expected to drop another two degrees throughout the day. But the westerly wind will cut right through, so make sure your face is covered if you’re standing around waiting for Boxing Day sales to kick off. From now till Monday, Environment Canada is threatening highs around minus-19 C and lows in the minus-20s, under blue skies. We&rsq
  
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• Montreal this morning: Sunny, windy and bitterly cold overnight

  26-12-2017 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Mainly sunny and  local blowing snow with a southwest wind at 30 km/h, gusting to 50.  
  The high will be minus-13 Celsius according to Environment Canada.
  Tonight: Clear and cold with a wind west of 20 km/h becoming light overnight and a low of minus-23 and a wind chill of minus-32.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by tagging them with #ThisMtl. We’ll feature one per day right here in the morning file. Today&r
  
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• Duplex fire forces two families from their homes in Ahuntsic

  26-12-2017 12:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Two families had to leave their homes on Christmas night when a fire ravaged their duplex in Ahuntsic.
  No one was hurt as the fire broke out a bit before 9 p.m. in the Vianney Ave. building. Firefighters believe the fire was accidental, caused by a cigarette or other smoking item that lit up a mattress.
  
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• Year in review: Alouettes hit bottom with upside-down season

  26-12-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Perhaps the wonder of it all was the Alouettes actually won their first game last season. It took Saskatchewan’s Tyler Crapigna missing a game-winning field goal attempt on the final play but, for one night, this team was living the good life.
  The Als were still in the thick of the weak East Division race following four games, sitting at 2-2. Three games later, after defeating a Toronto team without quarterback Ricky Ray, Montreal was 3-4 heading into the rematch at BMO Field. An Als victo
  
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• Year end interview: Couillard on Bonjour-Hi, Bill 62 and 2018 election

  26-12-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Looking back over the year that was, Premier Philippe Couillard concedes more than a few things took him by surprise in 2017 when it comes to relations with the minority communities.
  There was the, at times, acrimonious debate this fall over Quebec’s new state neutrality law, Bill 62. And who can forget the Bonjour-Hi debacle which made, as Couillard himself predicted, international headlines despite his efforts to contain the damage.
  But on the broader issue of the looming 2018 election,
  
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• Weather caps the 2017 top 10 list of CBC Montreal Facebook videos

  26-12-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  How Canadian: you obsessed over the weather in 2017 — spring flooding in Pierrefonds, snow in July in Schefferville and buses sliding on Côte-des-Neiges Road all made the most-viewed list.
  
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• Strongest woman in Quebec likes baking, crosswords — and deadlifting cars

  26-12-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  There’s a statue of Louis Cyr, reputed to be “the strongest man who ever lived,” not far from the Victorian row house in Little Burgundy where Joyce Turner lives.
  In the 1880s, Cyr worked as a policeman in the neighbourhood. He very well might have passed by the house while on patrol. 
  But he likely never guessed that one day it would be inhabited by a soft-spoken mother of two whose hobbies include gardening, baking, crossword puzzles— and deadlifting cars.
  Turner,
  
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• Opinion: Finding my new Comfortland

  26-12-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Everyone has a comfort zone, and people often don’t like to move out of it. Familiar tastes and smells, sights and sounds, recognizable roads and routes are assurances to people like me — sticklers for routine, although I like to call it my preference for mental stability and security.
  For me, the Middle East was always the centre of the universe. Although I travelled to explore the world, home never changed its address.
  Yet a few months ago, I immigrated to Canada, to prov
  
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• From the archives: Military disgrace took the 'merry' out of general's Christmas

  26-12-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  This story was first published on Dec. 24, 2010, in the Montreal Gazette.
  “The Court Martial ordered on Major-General Proctor assembled on Tuesday at the Court House.”
  The Gazette, Thursday, Dec. 22, 1814
  It wasn’t much of a Christmas for Henry Proctor. The British general was being court-martialled for his conduct while under fire the previous year in Upper Canada.
  It was the War of 1812, and at first it had gone well for Proctor. He was serving under General Isaac Brock when
  
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• Aislin at 50: The cartoon ghosts of Christmas past

  26-12-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  For 50 years, giving to the Montreal Gazette’s Christmas Fund has been a seasonal tradition, one that runs from mid-November to the end of the year. Millions of dollars have been raised over that time for those in need, and now that Christmas is over, the team is getting ready to close the books for another year.I don’t know whether serious consideration has ever been given to watering down the name — to the Gazette Holiday Fund, for example — but in any case, t
  
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• Six things about Boxing Day: Still worth lining up for sales?

  26-12-2017 11:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Door-crasher deals and early morning lineups: Boxing Day has long been associated with shopping and sales. But is it all it’s cracked up to be? Here are six things about the day:
  Boxing Day appears to be losing its lustre as Canadians’ big discount shopping day: “At one time, Boxing Day was the end-all and be-all,” said Craig Patterson, the founder and editor-in-chief of Retail Insider, an online industry publication. Now, Black Friday and cyber Monday have beco
  
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• Community club in LaSalle gets anglophone seniors out of isolation

  26-12-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  From line dancing to yoga, people who go to the D&D 50+ Centre in LaSalle say it's the only one of its kind for English speakers in the neighbourhood.
  
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• 2018 to mean more challenges for Canadian retailers

  26-12-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  Shifting shopping expectations driven by demographic changes, the growing move to online consumerism, and evolving technologies will continue to shake up the Canadian retail scene in 2018, experts say.
  
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