Montreal news

• Game Day: A couple of changes to Canadiens' lineup vs. Panthers

  30-12-2017 23:51 via montrealgazette.com
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Canadiens coach Claude Julien cancelled the team’s morning skate Saturday, giving his players a chance to either sleep in or take a walk along the beach across the street from their oceanfront hotel on an overcast morning in Florida with a temperature of 16C.
  The Canadiens will return to the bitter cold of Montreal on Sunday after wrapping up their three-game road trip Saturday night against the Florida Panthers at the BB&T Center (7 p.m., CBC, CITY, TVA S
  
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• Charity hockey tournament held in honour of West Island teen killed by train

  30-12-2017 23:47 via globalnews.ca
  Family and friends of Tristan Morrissette-Perkins held a charity hockey tournament in memory of the Dorval teen.
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens at Florida

  30-12-2017 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  How will the Canadiens end 2017?
  The year began, last January 3, with a 2-1 win in Nashville. Max Pacioretty beat Pekka Rinne 4:30 into Overtime to end a game in which Carey Price made 42 saves, including five in OT.
  The win lifted the Canadiens’ record, as 2017 began, to 24-9-6 for 54 points. They were eight points ahead of Ottawa and Boston, 10 up on Tampa Bay and Toronto in the Atlantic Division standings. The high-flying Canadiens had a goal differential of plus-28.
  And they were 12 po
  
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• Cold snap brings warning of icy roads across Quebec

  30-12-2017 21:30 via cbc.ca
  As the extreme cold drags on, the frigid weather conditions are creating havoc on Quebec roads.
  
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• 'A page in history turns': The last chance to hold a fresh copy of La Presse in your hands

  30-12-2017 20:33 via cbc.ca
  After 134 years in print, with news coverage spanning the Montreal smallpox outbreak and the unveiling of the Montreal metro, one of Canada's most widely read newspapers has delivered its final version in print.
  
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• Saturday morning collision temporarily closes Montreal’s Highway 40

  30-12-2017 19:37 via globalnews.ca
  The highway was closed for two hours in both directions as the vehicles involved in the collision were towed away and abrasives spread on the roadway.
  
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• Westbound Highway 40 reopens after accident between car, 53-foot truck

  30-12-2017 18:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Westbound lanes of the Metropolitain Expressway were closed for more than two hours Saturday morning after an accident involving a car and 53-foot truck shortly before 7 a.m.
  The car driver lost control of the wheel on the icy road near Iberville St. and spun into the path of the truck, whose driver was unable to stop, said Geneviève Bruneau, a spokesperson for the Sûreté du Québec.
  Neither driver suffered serious injuries. Emergency crews towed away both vehicles and
  
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• Catch the final Montreal 375 celebrations in the Old Port on Sunday

  30-12-2017 17:49 via montrealgazette.com
  The festivities for Montreal’s 375th anniversary will end on Sunday, with several events in Old Montreal to usher in the New Year. 
  A free feast will be served to all visitors at Marché Bonsecours on Sunday starting at noon. Tourtière, pea soup and pouding chomeur will be on the menu. Storytellers and musicians will provide entertainment.
  In the evening, Quebec performers including Garou, Vincent Vallières, Daniel Bélanger and Mes Aïeux will appear in
  
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• Montreal’s ‘La Presse’ publishes final print edition as part of shift to digital

  30-12-2017 17:37 via globalnews.ca
  The move to a fully digital platform means that 49 full- and part-time jobs will be eliminated.
  
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• Game Day: No morning skate before Canadiens face Panthers

  30-12-2017 17:35 via montrealgazette.com
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Canadiens coach Claude Julien cancelled the team’s morning skate Saturday, giving his players a chance to either sleep in or take a walk along the beach across the street from their oceanfront hotel on an overcast morning in Florida with a temperature of 17C.
  The Canadiens will return to the bitter cold of Montreal on Sunday after wrapping up their three-game road trip Saturday night against the Florida Panthers at the BB&T Center (7 p.m., CBC, CITY, TVA S
  
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• Charles Dutoit to be replaced by Joshua Weilerstein after misconduct allegations

  30-12-2017 16:51 via cbc.ca
  Joshua Weilerstein will replace Charles Dutoit and lead performances with the New York Philharmonic following sexual assault allegations against the renowned conductor.
  
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• Quebec police step up highway patrols over New Year's weekend

  30-12-2017 16:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Police will step up patrols on Quebec highways over the New Year’s weekend.
  The VACCIN operation to snare impaired drivers, launched Nov. 30, will continue until Jan. 3. 
  By mid-December, police had arrested 300 motorists across Quebec, a decrease of 50 per cent compared to the same period last year.
  Across the province, police conducted 1,087 patrols, stopping tens of thousands of drivers.
  Drunk driving is one of the leading causes of accidents in Quebec. From 2011 to 2015, alcohol-r
  
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• ICYMI: One of our favourite guests of 2017 was the fabulous Ginette Reno! ow.ly/gPo630he2rC

  30-12-2017 16:00
  ICYMI: One of our favourite guests of 2017 was the fabulous Ginette Reno! ow.ly/gPo630he2rC
  
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• Two injured, 15 evacuated in Quebec City apartment fire

  30-12-2017 15:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec City firefighters rescued a man in his fifties Friday night when a fire broke out in his apartment in suburban Ste-Foy.
  The fire’s cause is unknown. It started around 8:15 pm in the apartment, on the 3rd floor of a 19-unit building. About fifteen residents were evacuated.
  The flames were intense, but firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the blaze and evacuate the tenant before the fire spread to other apartments.
  The man was hospitalized for burns to his respiratory passages
  
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• Montrealers can now hit the slopes closer to home with new Ville-Émard sports hill

  30-12-2017 15:00 via cbc.ca
  La Pente à Neige is an organization that’s opened a ski and snowboard hill about a 10-minute walk from Angrignon Metro, at Ignace-Bourget Park.
  
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• The Week in Review: Charitable, powerful, jackpot, brrrrr, -30-

  30-12-2017 14:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on all the big stories that happened this week in Montreal.
  Faces of the Open Door: The work will live on
  It is only four days before Christmas and much of the city is caught up in last-minute shopping or the panic of hosting relatives. Aside from the usual work of meeting people’s most basic needs, David Chapman and his team at the Westmount day centre Open Door are scrambling to turn a creaky Anglican church into something like home. That means getting 40 turkeys, 200 pounds of
  
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• Update: Missing 16-year-old girl has been found

  30-12-2017 14:51 via montrealgazette.com
  A 16-year-old girl who went missing on Dec. 23 has been found in good health, Montreal police said Saturday.
  She was found on Friday night in Parc-Extension. 
  A call to 9-1-1 alerted police to her location. 
  
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• While you were sleeping: 20 tons of avocados toast after truck crash, fire

  30-12-2017 14:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Also: Beer glasses with Montreal Canadiens logo affected by recall
  A 16-year-old teen died following a collision between two cars on highway 440 in Laval. According to preliminary information collected by the Sûreté du Québec, a motorist lost control of his vehicle on Friday and then hit a van. The driver and passenger of the car were transported to a hospital and on Friday night, where the passenger succumbed to injuries. According to the SQ, the driver of the
  
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• Josh Freed: Just you wait — technology might be the end of the line

  30-12-2017 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Most of you probably lost some time last week — waiting in line.
  Maybe you were in a Boxing Day lineup that circled the block, despite minus 30C degree temperatures. Or in a Queu-bec supermarket queue, or Starbucks latte line.
  Maybe you were stuck in traffic — in a different kind of line, we call a lane.
  These little waits are aggravating, but they’re way worse when you know how much time we spend in them. According to queue experts, the average commuter wastes one to two
  
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• How homeless Montrealers are surviving as the deep freeze drags on

  30-12-2017 14:00 via cbc.ca
  With a prolonged cold snap gripping most of Quebec, the Old Brewery Mission's shuttle bus service is helping Montrealers find warm spots and overnight shelters.
  
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• 20 years after the Ice Storm: With more extreme weather expected, are we ready?

  30-12-2017 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A rare confluence of circumstances is required for freezing rain to develop: precipitation falling in an area where a layer of warm air is sandwiched between two layers of cold air.
  The bad news: Montreal is one of the most freezing-rain prone regions in North America. The worse news: climate change may make ice storms more frequent – and more drawn out.
  That means we may yet see a replay of the extraordinary 1998 Ice Storm, which plunged half of Quebec into darkness, in some cases for wee
  
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• Update: Teen, 16, dead in Laval Highway 440 crash

  30-12-2017 13:51 via montrealgazette.com
  A 16 year old who had been in critical condition following a collision between two vehicles on Highway 440 in Laval has died. 
  According to preliminary information collected by the Sûreté du Québec, a motorist lost control of his vehicle and then hit a van.The driver and passenger of the car were transported to a hospital and on Friday night, where the passenger succumbed to injuries. 
  According to the SQ, the driver of the car appears to be in a stable conditi
  
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• Year in review: Losing Alex Radulov, Andrei Markov kayoed Canadiens

  30-12-2017 13:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Former Canadiens general manager André Savard once offered an interesting insight into the negotiating process. 
  “When you want to sign a player, you sometimes have to give him one more year than you want to,” said Savard. “You know that extra year may not work out, but that’s what it takes to get a deal done.”
  That lesson was lost on current Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin during key negotiations last summer with Andrei Markov and Alexander Radu
  
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• Canadiens vs. Panthers: Five things to watch

  30-12-2017 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  SUNRISE, Fla. — Here are five things you should know about the Canadiens’ game against the Florida Panthers Saturday at the BB&T Center (7 p.m., CBC, City, TVA Sports, TSN Radio 690).
  Battling for a playoff spot: The Canadiens (16-18-4) fell to 13th place in the Eastern Conference following their 3-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning Thursday night and were eight points out of the final wild-card playoff spot. The Panthers (16-16-5) are one of four teams between the Canadiens and t
  
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• Year in Review: Instagram Challenge: This is how you photographed Montreal in 2017

  30-12-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Every week, we ask our Instagram followers to share their view of Montreal in response to a set theme. To look back at a year in Montreal Friday entries, then, is to see Montreal and 2017 through their eyes. Indeed, the five images that have stuck with us represent Montreal’s many facets in  snow and summer as well as day and night.
  #MTLFRIDAY_REPURPOSED
  Instagram user @cocoriquette #MTLFriday_Repurposed entry, a photo of the George Stephen House, which began life as a private residen
  
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• Year in Review: Hubris and Formula E came before the fall at city hall in 2017

  30-12-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The year in municipal politics was bookended by one former Montreal mayor going to prison and another one unexpectedly losing his job. In between, Mother Nature displayed what happens to cities that are ill-prepared, Montreal threw itself a party that proved costly in many ways, and the city hosted a very short-lived electric-car race series.
  APPLEBAUM GOES TO JAIL 
  In order to convict someone of extortion, former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum told his chief of staff, Hugo Tremblay, in 2
  
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• Working New Year's Eve 'part of my job': 5 who work while you party

  30-12-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Not everyone will be partying when the clock strikes 12 on Dec. 31. While most of us are sending off the old year and ringing in the new, others will be hard at work behind the scenes, making sure revellers have food, drink, transportation, medical care and an appropriate soundtrack.
  The Montreal Gazette talked to five people working New Year’s Eve.
  Name: Jun YuJob: waiterWhere: Beijing RestaurantSince: 2009
  Q: What do people order on New Year’s Eve?
  A: General Tao chicken, Cantonese
  
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• From the archives: Ritz's New Year's Eve opening was a grand event

  30-12-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  This story was first published on Dec. 30, 2001, in the Montreal Gazette.“The most notable event of tonight will be the opening of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where the restaurant will be absolutely full. Three hundred and fifty guests will sit down to supper and, if there had been accommodation enough, nearly three times that number could have been taken.”
  The Gazette, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1912                           
  
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• Fewer homicides in Montreal, but fewer solved, too

  30-12-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  The homicide rate is dropping in Montreal, but the number of crimes which are solved has remained unchanged.
  
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• Christmas Fund 2017: Mother battles to help son with disorder

  30-12-2017 11:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Patricia has been engaged in an almost seven-year-long fight for her son’s well-being.
  When he was just over a year old, her son came down with the flu. She alleges that improper treatment of the flue led to his eventual diagnosis of severe receptive and expressive communication delay, which kept him silent until the age of five.
  “He’s making great progress now, but it took us seven years to get here,” she said.
  Patricia described the process as a “hellacious fight&
  
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• Old Brewery Mission running winter shuttle bus for Montreal’s homeless

  30-12-2017 05:16 via globalnews.ca
  The bus service, which drops off shelter users at resource centres and other locations, runs from Dec. 1 to Apr. 30.
  
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• Three injured, one seriously, in Laval Highway 440 crash

  30-12-2017 04:52 via montrealgazette.com
  A person was in critical condition Friday night following a collision between two vehicles on Highway 440 in Laval at 3:50 p.m.According to preliminary information collected by the Sûreté du Québec, a motorist lost control of his vehicle and then hit a van.The driver and passenger of the car were transported to a hospital and on Friday night police feared for the life of the passenger.According to the SQ, the driver of the car appears to be in a stable condition, while the dr
  
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• Tax deadline looming for Canadian charitable donations

  30-12-2017 03:13 via globalnews.ca
  If you want to take advantage of tax incentives, any donations for the year need to be made by Dec. 31.
  
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• In case you missed it, what happened in Montreal on Dec. 29

  30-12-2017 02:49 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal.
  Shatner, Villeneuve, Gazette’s Red Fisher among Quebecers named to Order of Canada
  Twenty-nine Quebecers were named to the Order of Canada on Friday, including actor William Shatner, director Denis Villeneuve and longtime Montreal Gazette journalist Red Fisher, honoured for his coverage of the Montreal Canadiens.  Before retiring in 2012, Fisher covered the Canadiens for nearly 60 years, first for the Montrea
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Brendan Gallagher one of the few bright spots

  30-12-2017 02:16 via montrealgazette.com
  CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — One of the few bright spots for the Canadiens this season has been the play of Brendan Gallagher.
  The 5-foot-9, 181-pounder scored the only goal for the Canadiens in a 3-1 loss to the Lightning Thursday night in Tampa. It was the team-leading 15th goal of the season for Gallagher in 38 games after he scored only 10 in 64 games last season.
  Last season also marked the second straight year that Gallagher’s left hand was shattered by a slapshot and his goal Thursda
  
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• Montreal non-profit bringing skiing, snowboarding and tubing to South West

  30-12-2017 02:15 via globalnews.ca
  Thanks to Pente à Neige, Montrealers can now ski and snowboard right in the middle of the city.
  
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• BEI investigating two fatal police shootings in Quebec

  30-12-2017 01:32 via montrealgazette.com
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s police watchdog has announced two investigations into fatal police shootings.
  The unit says it is launching a probe into the death of a 36-year-old man killed by police in Danford Lake, about 250 kilometres northwest of Montreal.
  On Thursday night the unit said it was called to investigate another fatal police shooting, this time involving a 22-year-old man killed in the Hudson Bay town of Umiujaq.
  The unit did not say in its news release when the incident occurre
  
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• New census numbers show Montreal to be Canada's most trilingual city

  30-12-2017 01:00 via cbc.ca
  While some politicians and Quebec nationalists fretted in 2017 over the perception Montreal has become too bilingual, new data from the 2016 census reveal the city is truly Canada's trilingual metropolis.
  
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• Majority of Canadians believe Trudeau is handling Trump well: poll

  30-12-2017 00:56 via globalnews.ca
  Only 16 per cent of those surveyed in a new Ipsos poll think Trump's presidency has been good for Canada.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Canadiens' Max Pacioretty is facing a month without a goal

  30-12-2017 00:51 via montrealgazette.com
  CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Zero-for-December.
  That’s the situation captain Max Pacioretty will be facing Saturday night when the Canadiens play the Florida Panthers at the BB&T Center (7 p.m., CBC, CITY, TVA Sports, TSN Radio 690). 
  Pacioretty’s last goal came on Nov. 30 in a 6-3 win over the Detroit Red Wings at the Bell Centre. Since then, the captain has gone 11 games without a goal and he has only one in the last 20. During those 20 games, Pacioretty has had 58 shots on
  
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• Montreal is Canada’s most trilingual city, census reveals

  30-12-2017 00:44 via montrealgazette.com
  MONTREAL — While some politicians and Quebec nationalists fretted in 2017 over the perception Montreal has become too bilingual, new data from the 2016 census reveal the city is truly Canada’s trilingual metropolis.
  Quebec made international headlines when its legislature voted 111-0 in November in favour of a motion calling on store clerks to greet customers with a “Bonjour” instead of the English-French mix, “Bonjour/Hi.”
  The reality on the ground in Montrea
  
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• Hundreds of residents at NDG apartment complex without adequate heating

  30-12-2017 00:17 via globalnews.ca
  Roughly 250 units in NDG's Sherbrooke Forest apartment complex were without proper heating on Friday.
  
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• Check out the impressive wax figures at the @GrevinMontreal! Which is your favourite? https://t.co/vTUtsa6iFC

  30-12-2017 00:14
  
  Check out the impressive wax figures at the @GrevinMontreal! Which is your favourite? https://t.co/vTUtsa6iFC
  
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• La Presse turns the page on paper edition

  30-12-2017 00:13 via montrealgazette.com
  La Presse’s founders would be happy to see the new direction their paper is taking, says the paper’s deputy managing editor, Éric Trottier.
  The 133-year-old daily marks the end of an era Saturday, when its last print edition rolls off the presses.
  By eliminating printing and distribution costs, the paper can now focus entirely on digital journalism, Trottier said.
  “I’m sure our founders would have said this is an excellent idea,” he said.
  “This is the l
  
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• Global News at 5:30: Dec 29

  30-12-2017 00:09 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, December 29, 2017 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
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• Urban mini ski hill opens in Montreal’s South

  30-12-2017 00:03 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Dec 29: The Ignace-Bourget park has been turned into a winter playground area, complete with tubing and a miniature ski and snowboard slope. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, the initiative is aimed at increasing access to winter sports.
  
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• How to prevent fires during frigid winter weather

  30-12-2017 00:00 via cbc.ca
  Montreal has seen a series of fires this week that has kept the city’s firefighters “very, very busy.”
  
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