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• Quebec cannabis hearings draw to a close

  17-01-2018 23:56 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jan 17: As the Quebec hearings on marijuana draw to a close, the medical community is warning of increasing levels of THC – the primary psychoactive ingredient in cannabis. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, they’re recommending the province set a limit on the amount of THC in legal marijuana.
  
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• Fire in Longueuil highrise complex forces 200 into street

  17-01-2018 23:54 via montrealgazette.com
  A fire that broke out in the electrical room linking two highrise apartment blocks forced 200 of the complex’s residents into the street early Wednesday.
  The evacuation took place in an orderly fashion despite the cold. There were no injuries reported and residents were able to return to their homes before sunrise.
  Longueuil’s fire department said the fire broke out at around 2:45 a.m. for reasons that had yet to be determined.
  Smoke was detected on many of the floors of the complex,
  
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• Montreal budget: Is the water-tax increase really necessary?

  17-01-2018 23:49 via montrealgazette.com
  At city hall Tuesday, everyone agreed Montreal must spend massively to upgrade sewers and water mains to make up for years of neglect.
  But other questions were up for debate. What does “massively” mean? Was an increase in the water tax really necessary? And where will those extra tax dollars actually go?
  The scene: council chamber, where the Finance committee was studying an operating budget tabled last week by Mayor Valérie Plante that breaks a tax election promise, in large
  
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• Canadiens prospect Zachary Fucale waits for opportunity with Laval Rocket

  17-01-2018 23:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Zachary Fucale was the last player off the ice Wednesday at Place Bell. That’s the way the world works when you’re one of three goaltenders on a team and constantly draw the short straw.
  After spending two hours at practice — including a stint on the bench, forlornly watching the Laval Rocket scrimmage — there were six bottles of water awaiting Fucale at his dressing room stall.
  “I do that most days now, unless it’s a morning skate. At least I get my work in,&
  
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• Westmount to allow free parking at meters for car-sharing services

  17-01-2018 23:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Westmount will soon allow users of car-sharing services to leave their cars at metered parking spots on its territory — for free.
  It will become the first demerged municipality on the island of Montreal to allow one-way car- sharing services, wherein users can pick up a car and leave it wherever they want, as opposed to having to pick it up and return it to a designated spot. It’s also the first territory on the island to give free access to parking meter spaces, a practice common in
  
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• Quebec Crown appeals Sabrine Djermane's acquittal in terror case

  17-01-2018 23:37 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec Crown is appealing the recent acquittal of 21-year-old Sabrina Djermane, whose boyfriend, El Mahdi Jamali, was found guilty of a single charge of possessing an explosive without a lawful excuse.
  
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• Former homeless teen turned entrepreneur says he owes it all to ‘Pops’

  17-01-2018 23:27 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jan 17: Ever since father Emmett Johns passed away last Saturday, thousands of people who crossed his path are now sharing stories about how meeting “Pops” changed their lives for the better. Global’s Anne Leclair recounts how one man went from living on the streets to running his own business – thanks to Pops.
  
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• Salvation Army collecting winter coats for asylum seekers

  17-01-2018 23:24 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jan 17: The Salvation Army and the Quebec government are seeking the public’s help to equip newly arrived refugees for winter weather. As Dan Spector reports, they say asylum seekers coming over the border aren’t prepared for Quebec’s cold and snow and are in desperate need of winter clothing.
  
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• Elderly couple homeless after east-end Montreal fire

  17-01-2018 23:17 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jan 17: An elderly couple is struggling after their east-end Montreal house was heavily damaged in an electrical fire Monday morning. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, efforts are being made to help the couple rebuild and save their home.
  
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• Thursday will be Day 8 of Lac-Mégantic jury deliberations

  17-01-2018 23:08 via globalnews.ca
  Unlike Tuesday, when they emerged with a letter telling the judge they were at an impasse, the jurors did not surface Wednesday.
  
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• Vigil for Father Emmett 'Pops' Johns brings together mourners in Place Émilie-Gamelin

  17-01-2018 22:37 via cbc.ca
  People are gathering at Place Émilie-Gamelin in downtown Montreal to pay tribute to Father Emmett “Pops” Johns, Montreal’s exemplar of hands-on generosity, who died last Saturday at 89.
  
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• Father Emmett 'Pops' Johns remembered for saving lives

  17-01-2018 22:37 via cbc.ca
  About 200 people gathered Wednesday evening at Place Émilie-Gamelin to pay tribute to Father Emmett "Pops" Johns, who died last Saturday at the age of 89.
  
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• Montreal to chop 4,000 ash trees on Mount Royal sickened by emerald ash borer

  17-01-2018 22:24 via globalnews.ca
  The emerald ash borer has killed millions of ash trees in southwestern Ontario, Michigan and surrounding states and "poses a major economic and environmental threat to urban and forested areas in both countries.''
  
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• Montreal-funded outdoor event contravened city wood-burning bylaw

  17-01-2018 21:50 via montrealgazette.com
  On Sunday night, with the wind chill hovering around -30 C, a constant stream of people arrived at Place des Festivals to enjoy Luminothérapie, an annual event that this year includes 30 interactive see-saws that light up and play music as they rise and fall.
  They took frequent breaks to warm up at two wood-burning stoves and two open-air fires at Ste-Catherine and Jeanne-Mance Sts. 
  The problem with this charming scene of Montrealers enjoying winter?
  A smog warning was in
  
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• 60% of those who will benefit from higher minimum wage will be women, Quebec says

  17-01-2018 21:02 via montrealgazette.com
  The minimum wage in Quebec will increase to $12 per hour on May 1, the provincial labour minister announced Wednesday.
  It is an increase of 75 cents per hour.
  It is the most significant increase in the minimum wage in Quebec’s history, Labour Minister Dominique Vien said in a statement.
  “The good economic performance of Quebec allows us to substantially increase the minimum wage,” Vien said. “This increase will improve the quality of life for low income workers, as w
  
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• Mount Royal to lose 4,000 trees in Montreal's emerald ash borer cull

  17-01-2018 21:00 via cbc.ca
  Thousands of ash trees infested by the tiny but destructive emerald ash borer will be cut down in Mount Royal Park by March 2019.
  
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• Opinion: Overreaction to modest Montreal tax hike obscures broader issues

  17-01-2018 20:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealers recently concluded a year-long celebration of the city’s 375th anniversary. It was an opportunity to acknowledge the ingenuity, industry and determination that helped build and sustain the city we inhabit today.
  With unemployment at a 30-year low, global companies investing in the city, and a booming real estate market, ambition and optimism are the order of the day.
  All of which make the rhetoric surrounding a modest tax increase that much harder to reconcile.
  Mayor Valé
  
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• Montrealer gets 15-month prison term in U.S. for telemarketing fraud

  17-01-2018 20:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealer Alberino (Rino) Magi has been sentenced to a 15-month prison term for his role in a fraudulent telemarketing ring that specifically targeted elderly and vulnerable people with false promises of lottery winnings. 
  Magi, 50, has been detained in the U.S. since April 5, after he was ordered to be extradited to the U.S. where he had faced charges related to the telemarketing ring for a decade. Late last year, he pleaded guilty to being part of a conspiracy and was sentenced on Tuesda
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Habs face 'challenge' at centre, Claude Julien says

  17-01-2018 20:21 via montrealgazette.com
  BOSTON — When Canadiens coach Claude Julien walked into the TD Garden Wednesday morning, he didn’t make the mistake of walking into the wrong dressing room.
  “It was a little different,” said Julien, who spent 10 years as the coach of the Bruins. “You come here as a home-team coach and now come in as a visitor. Obviously, I was familiar with what’s going on, but there’s a lot of construction going on and things seem to be moving ahead. I’m sure I&rs
  
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• Salvation Army seeks winter jacket donations for refugees not ready for Quebec winter

  17-01-2018 20:19 via globalnews.ca
  Asylum seekers coming into Quebec are need winter jackets.
  
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• Opinion: Homelessness doesn't have to be a fact of life in Montreal

  17-01-2018 20:19 via montrealgazette.com
  Every winter, the sight of people shivering in the cold and begging for change moves the issue homelessness to the forefront of our minds.
  Homelessness seems like a sad fact of life in big cities like Montreal.
  It feels like there is just no solution. I mean, if there were a solution to the problem of homelessness, our governments would surely be all over it, right?
  In fact, the Canadian government and our provincial and municipal governments have been well aware that there is a solution to most
  
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• 'We laugh, but it's true': Formula E barriers could be reused as dams during future floods

  17-01-2018 20:03 via cbc.ca
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante got a kick out of a "creative suggestion" from the Ville-Marie borough that could help in case of another devastating flood — using those costly Formula E barriers as dikes.
  
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• Vanished: David Fortin, missing since 2009

  17-01-2018 19:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Vanished is a series that hopes to raise the profiles of long-term missing-person cases.
  David Fortin was last seen in Alma, Que., on Feb. 10, 2009. 
  The 14-year-old left home before 8 a.m. He never got on the bus he was supposed to board and never got to school. 
  There has been no trace of him in the intervening years. 
  At the time of his disappearance, it was reported that Fortin had been relentlessly bullied at school since kindergarten. 
  At an event on National Missing Ch
  
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• Independent businesses, lobby groups express concern over Quebec’s minimum wage hike

  17-01-2018 18:35 via globalnews.ca
  The 75-cent increase, from the current rate of $11.25, is the highest rise in minimum wage in Quebec's history.
  
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• Misstress Barbara keeps her cool at Igloofest

  17-01-2018 18:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Misstress Barbara is the first to admit she may be mellowing with age.
  Exhibit A: On New Year’s Eve, she stayed in, at least until 1 a.m., then wandered over to her neighbourhood watering hole, Brasserie Harricana, for a drink with her friends who own the place.
  It’s not that the internationally renowned Montreal techno DJ couldn’t find a gig for the biggest party night of the year. She couldn’t be bothered.
  “I got a lot of invitations on the 31st,” she said l
  
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• NDG massage therapist faces new sexual assault charges while awaiting sentence

  17-01-2018 18:10 via montrealgazette.com
  David Kost, the massage therapist who pleaded guilty last year to having sexually assaulted two of his clients while he operated his business in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce faces a new series of charges after five more alleged victims have come forward. 
  Kost, 49, is scheduled to be sentenced next week at the Montreal courthouse for the two sexual assaults he admitted. But earlier this week, an arrest warrant was authorized at the same courthouse alleging Kost sexually assaulted five other pe
  
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• We've got great "cocooning" fashion ideas with @zeeta https://t.co/L9exKxvCiz

  17-01-2018 18:09
  
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• Check out @cookingwithv's kitchen organization hacks https://t.co/eACnbhBKMg

  17-01-2018 18:08
  
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• City to cut 4,000 trees on Mount Royal ravaged by ash borer beetles

  17-01-2018 17:53 via montrealgazette.com
  A Beauceville-based firm has been awarded a $1.2-million contract to proceed with the cutting down of 4,000 ash trees on Mount Royal killed by a strain of beetle that has already ravaged trees on city streets.
  Plateau Mount Royal borough mayor Luc Ferrandez, the executive committee member responsible for parks, told a meeting of the committee on Wednesday that while no one wanted to cut trees on the city’s signature green space, the damage done by the emerald ash borer couldn’t be ig
  
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• 60% those who will benefit from higher minimum wage will be women, Quebec says

  17-01-2018 17:15 via montrealgazette.com
  The minimum wage in Quebec will increase to $12 per hour on May 1, the provincial labour minister announced Wednesday.
  It is an increase of 75 cents per hour.
  It is the most significant increase in the minimum wage in Quebec’s history, Labour Minister Dominique Vien said in a statement.
  “The good economic performance of Quebec allows us to substantially increase the minimum wage,” Vien said. “This increase will improve the quality of life for low income workers, as w
  
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• From Formula E to flood breaks: Plante mulls recycling pricey concrete barriers

  17-01-2018 17:04 via montrealgazette.com
  What do you do with $7.5 million worth of publicly funded concrete barriers bought for a road race that will no longer take place in Montreal?
  As far as Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is concerned, you could repurpose them in time for the next round of flooding.
  “While we’re talking about various forms of (flood barriers), about sandbags and more sophisticated forms of technology, I think the borough of Ville-Marie has some creative suggestions on this subject,” Plante to
  
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• Electrical fire forces evacuation of 2 Longueuil apartment buildings

  17-01-2018 16:43 via globalnews.ca
  Fire forced 285 Longueuil residents into the street early Wednesday morning.
  
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• Uncovering Montreal’s untold stories

  17-01-2018 16:41 via globalnews.ca
  Author Kristian Gravenor tells Global’s Andrea Howick some of the stories he uncovered while writing his book: “Montreal 375: Tales of Eating, Drinking, Living and Loving”.
  
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• Jerry Springer's one-time nemesis Ian Sirota is still a prankster

  17-01-2018 16:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Ian Sirota has opened for Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams and Jim Gaffigan. He has been nominated for two Gemini Awards for comedy performance and writing. He has even taught Toronto Mayor John Tory the rudiments of standup.
  But, without question, the highlight of the Montreal native’s career came in 1995, when he and a couple of his cronies pulled a prank on talk-show host Jerry Springer that has been ranked by Sirius radio as No. 50 in the top 150 comedy moments in Canada.
  Sirota, who pla
  
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• Why are Parti Québécois MNAs abandoning ship? https://t.co/WCaZIX9kD0

  17-01-2018 16:21
  
  Why are Parti Québécois MNAs abandoning ship? https://t.co/WCaZIX9kD0
  
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• Longueuil apartment buildings evacuated from electrical fire

  17-01-2018 16:14 via globalnews.ca
  An electrical fire in the basement adjoining two 16-story apartment towers forced the evacuation of 285 residents early Wednesday morning.
  
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• Better parenting tips for the New Year

  17-01-2018 16:14 via globalnews.ca
  Parenting expert Erica Diamond talks to Global’s Andrea Howick about resolutions to help you be the best parent you can be.
  
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• Big banks move to match Bank of Canada's rate hike

  17-01-2018 16:00 via cbc.ca
  Canada's biggest lenders have raised their prime lending rates on the same day that the country's central bank moved its benchmark interest rate 25 points higher.
  
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• Canadian films 'telling universal stories' head to Sundance, Slamdance fests

  17-01-2018 15:57 via cbc.ca
  Two islands — one that risks being swallowed by the ocean because of climate change, the other the fictitious home of director Wes Anderson's stop-motion animation dogs — are among the subjects Canadians are exploring at the 34th Sundance Film Festival.
  
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• Bonhomme Carnaval visits Montreal

  17-01-2018 15:39 via globalnews.ca
  Find out about all the activities taking place at this year’s Quebec Winter Carnival from Global’s Kim Sullivan and Bonhomme Carnaval.
  
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• Tips to start the New Year off on the right financial track

  17-01-2018 15:22 via globalnews.ca
  Money coach and financial planner Lama Farran shares some tips with Global’s Andrea Howick on how to start the year off on the right foot when it comes to your personal finances.
  
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• Quebec's minimum wage will rise to $12 on May 1

  17-01-2018 15:20 via montrealgazette.com
  The minimum wage in Quebec will increase to $12 per hour on May 1, the provincial labour minister announced Wednesday.
  It is an increase of 75 cents per hour.
  It is the most significant increase in the minimum wage in Quebec’s history, Labour Minister Dominique Vien said in a statement.
  The government says the wage increase will result in an annual increase in revenue — depending on the number of hours worked and the size of a household — of between $462 and $979.
  This story wi
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Wednesday, January 17

  17-01-2018 15:09 via globalnews.ca
  Andrea Howick has the Global News Morning headlines for Wednesday, January 17.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Wednesday, January 17

  17-01-2018 14:55 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Wednesday, January 17.
  
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• Government of Quebec asks for donated winter clothes

  17-01-2018 14:51 via globalnews.ca
  The Quebec government asks for winter clothing donations to help increase supply for asylum seekers. Global’s Dan Spector reports from the Salvation Army in NDG.
  
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• Government of Quebec asks for donated clothes

  17-01-2018 14:51 via globalnews.ca
  The Quebec government asks for clothing donations to help increase supply for asylum seekers. Global’s Dan Spector reports from the Salvation Army in NDG.
  
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• Quebec's minimum wage to increase to $12 in May

  17-01-2018 14:44 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's labour minister says it will be the largest wage increase in the province's history. The government estimates about 352,000 workers will benefit from the increase.
  
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• #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/byO4ysL0gm

  17-01-2018 14:35
  
  #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/byO4ysL0gm
  
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• Celebrations: January 17, 2018 We celebrate you!!! https://t.co/5LROwA58UA

  17-01-2018 14:15
  
  Celebrations: January 17, 2018 We celebrate you!!! https://t.co/5LROwA58UA
  
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• Stop us if you've heard this before: Smog, snow clearing continue in Montreal

  17-01-2018 14:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal passed the halfway mark in its snow-removal operation sometime overnight, reporting that 60 per cent of streets were cleared before 8 a.m. Wednesday.
  Saint-Léonard beat the odds, with an 87-per-cent completion rate before dawn. Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce remained last, with 45 per cent done. An incomplete snow-removal operation was complicated Saturday, when an additional 36 centimetres fell on the city.
  Flurries, but little accumulation, is foreca
  
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