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• Former Habs among ex-NHLers named to Canadian men's Olympic team

  10-01-2018 23:37 via cbc.ca
  Former Calgary Flames forward Rene Bourque, ex-Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers centre Derek Roy and long ago Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Ben Scrivens will try to make like their former NHL brethren and win a gold medal for Team Canada at next month's Olympics in Pyeongchang.
  
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• Impact loses Blerim Dzemaili as coaching staff is unveiled

  10-01-2018 23:34 via montrealgazette.com
  There is no truth to the rumour that Pommes de terre à la lyonnaise will be served at the Impact’s pregame meals this season.
  But there is a definite Lyon flavour to the team’s 2018 coaching staff, which was introduced Wednesday at the teams training centre.
  Head coach Rémi Garde relied heavily on his experience with France’s Olympique Lyonnais as he added assistant coach Maxence Flachez, goalkeeper coach Joël Bats and fitness coach Robert Duverne.  Gard
  
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• Heather O’Neill, harassed during her time at Concordia, sickened by latest allegations

  10-01-2018 23:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Prominent Montreal author Heather O’Neill said Concordia must act now to put a stop to a culture of predatory behaviour in its creative writing department. 
  “It has to change,” said O’Neill, who attended the program. “It has just been too disgusting for too long.”
  O’Neill told the Montreal Gazette in an interview Wednesday that she was one of the victims of what she called a “gross abuse of authority” perpetrated by men who not only cont
  
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• Allison Hanes: Valérie Plante's first budget breaks a key promise

  10-01-2018 23:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Looking back just under four years from now, the moment when Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante’s political honeymoon came to an end will be easy to pinpoint.
  It was Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, shortly after 11 a.m., when, in explaining her administration’s first budget to the media, she tried to insist the 3.3-per-cent increase in Montrealers’ overall residential tax bill was in line with her campaign promise to keep any hikes to the rate of inflation.
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• NDG residents call for better snow removal

  10-01-2018 23:01 via globalnews.ca
  On Wednesday afternoon, the sidewalks on arteries like Terrebonne and Girouard were difficult to navigate, nevermind the smaller side streets.
  
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• Carey Price will represent Canadiens at NHL All-Star Game

  10-01-2018 22:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Carey Price certainly didn’t look like an all-star at the beginning of this season, but the Canadiens’ goaltender is headed to the NHL All-Star Game on Sunday, Jan. 28, in Tampa.
  Price was named to the Atlantic Division team on Wednesday afternoon as the NHL announced the all-star rosters. It will be the fifth All-Star Game for the Canadiens’ 30-year-old goalie.
  Price started the season with a 3-7-1 record in his first 11 games, along with a 3.77 goals-against average and an .
  
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• City asks for patience as we brace for more cold, freezing rain

  10-01-2018 22:54 via montrealgazette.com
  If the persistent snow banks didn’t make getting around hard enough, freezing rain is expected to be added to the mix on Wednesday and Thursday.
  We’ve gone from deep freeze, to seasonal norms, to unseasonably warm weather and are now bracing for freezing rain, rain, a snowstorm, and then back to the deep freeze. The coming weather even led to Air Canada issuing a travel warning and to waive the usual fees for anyone wishing to change their travel plans from Jan. 11 to Jan. 14.
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• Man who shot unwelcome party guest in the back has parole eligibility set at 12 years

  10-01-2018 22:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal resident Oswald Wyke will have to serve at least 12 years behind bars before he is eligible for parole in a case where he murdered a stranger who crashed his backyard party in Côte-des-Neiges three years ago. 
  “Wyke committed the most important offence under the Criminal Code, which is murder,” Superior Court Justice Claude Champagne wrote in his decision delivered at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday. “He acted in a cowardly manner, shooting his victim t
  
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• Air Canada issues travel alert amid freezing rain warnings

  10-01-2018 22:07 via cbc.ca
  Air Canada is warning travellers there may be delays as eastern Ontario is coated in up to four millimetres of freezing rain.
  
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• Author Louise Penny weighs in on the Fire and Fury controversy

  10-01-2018 21:02 via globalnews.ca
  Senior Anchor Jamie Orchard speaks to Quebec author Louise Penny about the controversy around the book about Donald Trump.
  
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• Lewis Hyde's The Gift a touchstone for art world, and for DHC/ART show

  10-01-2018 20:47 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s the gift that keeps on giving. Old Montreal’s DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art has been showing world-class works by international artists, for free, since 2007. DHC’s 10th-anniversary group exhibition, L’Offre, which opened in October and runs to March 11, explores the concept of the gift.
  And on Thursday, Jan. 11 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, DHC hosts a talk by American scholar and author Lewis Hyde, about his 1983 book The Gift: Creativity and the A
  
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• Concordia to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct

  10-01-2018 20:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Concordia University president Alan Shepard said he only learned Monday about what some on social media are calling an “open secret” — allegations of sexual misconduct by certain professors in the university’s respected creative writing program.
  “Had I know about it earlier, I would have acted earlier,” Shepard said Wednesday at a press conference, after announcing the university is launching an investigation into the allegations.
  He would not say whether any
  
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• Opinion: Amid NAFTA uncertainty, Canada has allies in New England

  10-01-2018 20:30 via montrealgazette.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump has promised Americans a renegotiated, more advantageous NAFTA, but beneath his commercial sabre-rattling lies a more promising and perhaps more interesting story. Across New England, state leaders are approaching trade with Canada from the perspective of mutual benefits.
  NAFTA talks and the perpetually thorny issue of softwood lumber have concealed much of the economic relationship between Canada and the United States. In New England, that relationship is perhaps bes
  
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• Montreal appoints commissioner of Indigenous affairs

  10-01-2018 20:13 via cbc.ca
  Cree lawyer Marie-Ève Bordeleau will serve as the city's commissioner of Indigenous affairs. Her job will include coming up with a reconciliation strategy and advising the mayor and executive on how to build bridges with Indigenous people living in the city.
  
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• Uncertainty, attention made Dutoit's position 'untenable,' London Royal Philharmonic says

  10-01-2018 20:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Charles Dutoit is leaving the London Royal Philharmonic earlier than expected. He had planned to retire from his position as artistic director and principal director in 2019.
  His departure was immediate.
  The Montreal maestro and former OSM conductor was targeted last month by a series of allegations of sexual misconduct. Dutoit denied all wrongdoing, and the allegations have not been proved in court.
  The decision to leave the Royal Philharmonic was made after “an emergency meeting with the
  
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• Potential jurors in Montreal murder trial being vetted for racial bias

  10-01-2018 19:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Potential jurors for a murder trial set to begin soon at the Montreal courthouse were asked a delicate question on Wednesday before lawyers decided whether they should be chosen to hear evidence in the case. 
  The case involves Kwasi Alfred Benjamin, 32, who was charged in July 2015 with the murder of Nellie Angutiguluk, a 29-year-old Inuk woman originally from Nunavik. She was found dead on May 18, 2015, in Côte-des-Neiges. Benjamin is charged with second-degree murder. 
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• Concordia University to investigate alleged sexual misconduct, launches university-wide assessment

  10-01-2018 19:40 via cbc.ca
  Concordia University president Alan Shepard said the university is launching a multi-pronged response to allegations of sexual misconduct in the English department's creative-writing program.
  
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• Concordia to investigate alleged sexual misconduct, launches university-wide assessment

  10-01-2018 19:40 via cbc.ca
  Concordia University president Alan Shepard says the university is launching a multi-pronged response to allegations of sexual misconduct in the English department's creative writing program.
  
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• Concordia launches investigation into alleged sexual misconduct, president denies prior knowledge

  10-01-2018 19:40 via cbc.ca
  Concordia University president Alan Shepard says the university is launching a multi-pronged response to allegations of sexual misconduct in the English department's creative writing program.
  
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• Montreal budget: Mayor Valérie Plante hikes taxes more than expected

  10-01-2018 18:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Mayor Valérie Plante is raising taxes by more than expected, and spending more on snow clearing and freezing the pay of elected officials.
  Plante had promised to keep tax hikes to the inflation rate, expected to be 2.1 per cent in the Montreal region in 2018.
  The city budget made public on Wednesday shows that residential property taxes charged by the city of Montreal will rise by an average 1.9 per cent, while non-residential building owners will see hikes of 2.1 per cent.
  However, the P
  
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• Snow, rain, deep freeze: Montreal is caught in a weather yo-yo

  10-01-2018 17:45 via montrealgazette.com
  If the persistent snow banks didn’t make getting around hard enough, freezing rain will be added to the mix on Wednesday and Thursday.
  We’ve gone from deep freeze, to seasonal norms, and then unseasonably warm weather.
  Next up is freezing rain, rain, a snowstorm, and then back to the deep freeze.
  If the winter were a children’s toy, it would be a yo-yo, as Montrealers have dealt with extremes during the first three weeks of winter.
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante saluted t
  
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• Check out this delicious one-pot stew perfect for the winter! https://t.co/3DZLRLedre

  10-01-2018 17:37
  
  Check out this delicious one-pot stew perfect for the winter! https://t.co/3DZLRLedre
  
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• PQ & CAQ oppose national day against Islamophobia https://t.co/nLW4vAMeDU

  10-01-2018 17:31
  
  PQ & CAQ oppose national day against Islamophobia https://t.co/nLW4vAMeDU
  
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• Valérie Plante begins to make her mark on Montreal https://t.co/OrZcZUxNPr

  10-01-2018 17:29
  
  Valérie Plante begins to make her mark on Montreal https://t.co/OrZcZUxNPr
  
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• Montreal budget includes biggest non-residential property tax increase since 2012

  10-01-2018 17:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Non-residential property taxes in Montreal are going up by an average of 3 per cent in the city’s 2018 budget.
  It’s the biggest increase in non-residential property taxes since 2012.
  The increase in what the city calls general tax charges, which includes property tax and the road tax, will rise by 2.1 per cent, the biggest increase in those taxes since 2013. The inflation rate for Montreal in 2018 is forecast to be 2.1 per cent, according to the Conference Board of Canada.
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• Montreal budget has money for transit, but silence on métro's Pink Line

  10-01-2018 17:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Under the first budget presented by the administration of new Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante, there were slight increases to the amount of money invested in public transit, but nothing earmarked yet for promises linked to the métro’s Pink Line or her party’s promised “mobility squad,” designed to improve traffic flow around the city’s numerous construction projects.
  Montreal is increasing municipal spending on public transit by $27.7 million over last y
  
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• Montreal budget 2018: Tax increases target homeowners

  10-01-2018 17:12 via globalnews.ca
  Valérie Plante had previously insisted she would not increase taxes beyond the rate of inflation.
  
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• Property taxes jump in Valérie Plante's 1st budget

  10-01-2018 17:10 via cbc.ca
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante’s first budget includes a major increase in property taxes for both residential and commercial properties.
  
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• Montreal Gazette cartoonist Boris to read at Drawn & Quarterly

  10-01-2018 17:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Author and illustrator Jacques Goldstyn — known to Montreal Gazette readers for his editorial cartoons under the pen name Boris — will be La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly on Saturday, Jan. 13 at 11 a.m. to read from his children’s book Azadah.
  The bilingual event is open to all ages, but is recommended for listeners aged three to six. The children’s bookstore is at 176 Bernard St. W. 
  Goldstyn received the 2017 Governor General’s Literar
  
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• Montreal homeowners, here's how much your property tax rates are going up

  10-01-2018 17:05 via cbc.ca
  Here's a breakdown by borough for the average residential property tax rate increase.
  
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• Canadian government to spend $291M on First Nations policing program

  10-01-2018 16:45 via cbc.ca
  The Liberal government is injecting $291 million into policing in First Nations and Inuit communities in Canada over the next five years, following years of complaints and legal challenges from Indigenous police forces that they’ve been chronically underfunded.
  
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• Charles Dutoit steps down early as Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's artistic director and principal conductor

  10-01-2018 16:29 via cbc.ca
  Charles Dutoit has stepped down as artistic director and principal conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the famed London orchestra says in a release.
  
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• TSB urges pilots to avoid risky unstable landings

  10-01-2018 16:18 via globalnews.ca
  The Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday that unstable landings are one of its main concerns among air travel and urged pilots to avoid performing them, due to the high risk associated with them.
  
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• Plane crash that killed MP Jean Lapierre caused by an unstable landing

  10-01-2018 16:15 via globalnews.ca
  The Transportation Safety Board says an unstable approach to landing was the key factor in a plane crash that killed former federal cabinet minister Jean Lapierre and several members of his family.
  
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• TSB animation shows what led to plane crash that killed Jean Lapierre, 6 others

  10-01-2018 16:12 via globalnews.ca
  The Transportation Safety Board released an animation Wednesday showing what led to the 2016 plane crash that killed former federal cabinet minister Jean Lapierre and several members of his family.
  
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• 'It's still happening': Author addresses Concordia sexual harassment allegations

  10-01-2018 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A prominent Montreal author said Concordia University must clean up a culture of harassment and power abuse in its Creative Writing department.
  Speaking to CBC’s Daybreak program on Wednesday morning, Heather O’Neill, author of the prize-winning Lullabies for Little Criminals, said the culture of sexual harassment by professors toward young aspiring female authors was pervasive when she was at the university in the 1990s and continues today.
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• In shadow of sex-assault allegations, Dutoit leaves London Royal Philharmonic

  10-01-2018 15:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Charles Dutoit is leaving the London Royal Philharmonic earlier than expected.
  The decision was made after “an emergency meeting with the board of directors and a more in-depth dialogue with Charles Dutoit,” according to a statement issued Wednesday morning. The statement says it was a joint decision.
  The Montreal maestro and former OSM conductor was targeted last month by a series of allegations of sexual misconduct. Dutoit denied all wrongdoing, and the allegations have not been pr
  
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• McGill student wins award for work with homeless

  10-01-2018 15:34 via globalnews.ca
  McGill University student Hannah Taylor tells Global’s Kim Sullivan about her work with the homeless, starting at age 5, which won her a prestigious philanthropy award.
  
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• How to set goals and attain them

  10-01-2018 15:28 via globalnews.ca
  Life coach and parenting expert Erica Diamond tells Global’s Laura Casella about her seven-day challenge to help people not only setting goals, but attain them too.
  
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• TSB to release report on plane crash that killed Jean Lapierre, former cabinet minister

  10-01-2018 15:21 via globalnews.ca
  Report on the plane crash that killed former cabinet minister Jean Lapierre to be released Wednesday morning.
  
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• Plane crash that killed Jean Lapierre caused by unstable landing: TSB

  10-01-2018 15:21 via globalnews.ca
  Report on the plane crash that killed former cabinet minister Jean Lapierre to be released Wednesday morning.
  
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• What to do when kids are challenging

  10-01-2018 15:18 via globalnews.ca
  Special needs consultant Lindsay Lapaquette shows Global’s Laura Casella some strategies to deal with your children’s challenging behaviour.
  
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• Detecting Alzheimer’s disease differently

  10-01-2018 15:18 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal neurology researchers Christine Tardif and Mallar Chakravarty tell Global’s Laura Casella about their ground-breaking research to detect Alzheimer’s disease before cognitive decline.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Robots, snow, marijuana, and a fresh take on cops and coffee

  10-01-2018 15:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Happy hump day. Here are some things you might have missed while you were sleeping.
  It’s all downhill (if you want it to be): What are we going to do with all this nice weather? Leave work early and head to a sledding hill, perhaps. Don’t want to wait till tomorrow, when it’s supposed to rain. For a preview of all the fun you’re going to have, check out the video above, wherein Montrealer Christos Kastamoulas answers his partner’s pleading: “Why are we going d
  
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• Flu season over crowding ER’s throughout Montreal

  10-01-2018 14:48 via globalnews.ca
  Emergency rooms are operating at over capacity as influenza season sweeps through Montreal. Global’s Dan Spector reports from the Lakeshore General Hospital.
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Wednesday, January 10

  10-01-2018 14:44 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Wednesday, January 10.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Wednesday, January 10

  10-01-2018 14:41 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Wednesday, January 10.
  
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