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• Death of Pincourt man highlights dangers of synthetic opioid U-47700

  18-01-2018 23:54 via cbc.ca
  A coroner has ruled 22-year-old Nicholas Vietri died accidentally last February after consuming U-47700, a dangerous street drug known as “pink” or “pinky” that he ordered online.
  
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• Couillard offers hope for Montreal transit projects and pot cash, but no cheques

  18-01-2018 23:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Mayor Valérie Plante is hoping for provincial cash for the Pink Line and pot-legalization expenses.
  But after her first meeting with Premier Philippe Couillard at Montreal city hall Thursday, she came away with hope but no cheques.
  The two held a press conference after their meeting. Here’s what they had to say about:
  Public transit
  Couillard noted Quebec and Montreal are working together on transit, pointing to last week’s joint announcement about the purchase of 300 buses fo
  
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• Skating on Beaver Lake a thing of the past

  18-01-2018 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Jan 18: Skating on Mount Royal’s Beaver Lake – a popular pastime for decades – is now a thing of the past. The city has decided to permanently shutter the natural ice rink due to fluctuating temperatures which make the rink unsafe. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports.
  
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• Vaudreuil couple feels cheated after dealing with West Island roofing company

  18-01-2018 23:32 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Jan 18: A Vaudreuil couple is speaking out after hiring a West Island contractor to replace the roof of their home, only to find out after the new roof began leaking, that the contractor had been operating without a valid license and had filed for bankruptcy. Global’s Anne Leclair reports.
  
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• Tax hikes at the forefront as finance commission meetings held in Montreal

  18-01-2018 23:32 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Jan 18: The city’s finance commission held meetings in Montreal Thursday and as Global’s Billy Shields reports, the tax hikes in Mayor Valérie Plante’s recently released budget were front and centre of the discussions.
  
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• Update: Judge signed off on 'bait' to lure MNA Guy Ouellette: warrants

  18-01-2018 23:27 via montrealgazette.com
  A judge signed off on the Unité permanente anticorruption’s use of “bait” to lure a sitting Liberal MNA to a meeting last October where he was ultimately arrested, touching off a political scandal and a showdown between the National Assembly and the police squad.
  Newly unsealed warrants related to UPAC’s investigation into media leaks reveal that a judge was advised of plans to seize a cellphone belonging to Richard Despaties, a former investigator, and use it
  
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• Rescue operation saves fallen Champlain bridge worker

  18-01-2018 23:23 via globalnews.ca
  A Champlain bridge worker sustained minor injuries after falling from a ladder atop the 150-foot super structure.
  
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• Nancy Richler, author of The Imposter Bride, dead at 60

  18-01-2018 23:17 via cbc.ca
  Richler's third and final novel, 2012's The Imposter Bride, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
  
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• Crown appeals verdict in case of woman acquitted in alleged terror case

  18-01-2018 23:16 via globalnews.ca
  Prosecuters say in a document filed at the Quebec Court of Appeal this week the trial judge committed an error instructing the jury on the "interpretation and definition of the term 'explosive substance."'
  
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• Welcome Hall Mission to open free grocery store in Montreal North

  18-01-2018 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Jan 18: A new grocery store is coming to Montreal North – a borough with an aging population, chronic unemployment and a high percentage of low-income single-parent households. As Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports, the Welcome Hall Mission hopes to help the city’s poor by offering them a convenient location to get free groceries.
  
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• C.D.N.-N.D.G. looking into new site to dump snow, borough mayor says

  18-01-2018 23:12 via montrealgazette.com
  With much of the snow already cleared, the city’s most-populous borough was beginning to focus on how it will improve its snow-removal operation for the next major storm.
  Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce trucks were barred this week from using one of the borough’s three snow dumps, which it shares with LaSalle. The dump, located on Angrignon Blvd. near the Angrignon shopping mall, was apparently reaching its limit for snow. As a result, the city decreed  it
  
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• Trudeau continues cross-country town hall tour with stop in Quebec City

  18-01-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
  After a swing through Nova Scotia and southwestern Ontario, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads to Quebec City tonight for the second leg of his cross-country town hall tour as he looks to meet with Canadians ahead of parliament's return later this month.
  
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• Members of far-right Storm Alliance attend Trudeau's town hall in Quebec City

  18-01-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau swings into Quebec City for the second leg of his cross-country town hall tour, fielding questions on the state of Canada's immigration system and how to combat racism as members of a far-right group look on.
  
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• Argos name Montreal native Catherine Raiche as director, football administration

  18-01-2018 22:56 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO – Catherine Raiche is back in the CFL.
  Raiche stepped down as the Montreal Alouettes assistant GM in December. On Thursday, the Toronto Argonauts hired the Montreal native as their director, football administration.
  The move reunites Raiche with Toronto GM Jim Popp. Raiche served as Montreal’s co-ordinator of football administration when Popp was the Alouettes general manager.
  “We are very excited to add Catherine to our front office team,” Popp said in a statemen
  
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• Opinion: Quebec's new history text fails in portrayal of Muslims

  18-01-2018 22:38 via montrealgazette.com
  In responding to the heinous shooting in a Quebec City mosque last January, Premier Philippe Couillard made a series of comments that seemed to be coming from the heart. “Spoken words matter. Written words matter,” he said, “they can of course express an idea, but they can hurt. They can hurt very much. We should all be cognizant of that.”
  This is particularly true with respect to the words we use with our young people. Such words can reproduce existing attitudes that har
  
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• Canadiens at Capitals: Five things you should know

  18-01-2018 22:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Canadiens-Capitals game at the TD Garden on Friday (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio):
  How low can you go? This week, coach Claude Julien was taking some comfort that the Canadiens had earned six of a possible eight points. After Wednesday’s 4-1 loss in Boston, Montreal has earned six of a possible 10 points, which doesn’t look bad until you look at the big picture. The Canadiens are 2-6-2 in their last 10 games, which means they have
  
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• Montreal police pranked by a car snow sculpture

  18-01-2018 22:15 via globalnews.ca
  A snow sculpture shaped like car successfully pranks Montreal police
  
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• New Canadiens forward Logan Shaw arrives with penalty-kill pedigree

  18-01-2018 22:09 via montrealgazette.com
  WASHINGTON — Logan Shaw isn’t the answer to the Canadiens’ black hole at centre. 
  And the 25-year-old from Cape Breton isn’t going to go on a scoring rampage that propels the Canadiens into the playoffs. 
  But Shaw would look good in the Canadiens’ lineup for Friday’s game against the Washington Capitals (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio) because his game is based on hard work, an element that was sadly missing in Wednesday’s 4-1 loss to the
  
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• Beaver Lake's natural skating rink is closed, perhaps forever. Here it is in all its glory

  18-01-2018 21:23 via cbc.ca
  Montreal has decided to close the historic skating rink on Beaver Lake due, in part, to increasingly fluctuating temperatures during the winter months. Here's a look back at the rink's glory years.
  
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• Beaver Lake's natural skating rink is closed forever. Here it is in all its glory

  18-01-2018 21:23 via cbc.ca
  Montreal has decided to close the historic skating rink on Beaver Lake due, in part, to increasingly fluctuating temperatures during the winter months. Here's a look back at the rink's glory years.
  
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• Anglos vow to fight CAQ plan to abolish Quebec's school boards

  18-01-2018 21:18 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Representatives of the English-speaking community are vowing to fight a Coalition Avenir Québec plan to abolish the province’s school boards all the way to the Supreme Court.
  And the community has picked up the support of the Parti Québécois, which says such a move would be a clear violation of their rights.
  “What the CAQ is proposing is nothing less than a declaration of war on the anglophone community,” PQ Family critic Véronique Hiv
  
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• Brownstein: Montreal mother's mission to rescue daughter from ISIS is followed in gripping documentary

  18-01-2018 21:03 via montrealgazette.com
  It was about as jarring a note as a mother could receive: “Mama, I’ve left to join ISIS.” It was also completely unexpected.
  The note was left to a Montreal mother by her 19-year-old daughter in November 2014. The mother has since spent the last three years tracking her daughter down in Syria and trying to bring her back home. As perilous as this mission is, it probably won’t get any easier if the daughter gets home because she could face criminal charges as a consequence
  
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• Quebec investing $67M into sprinklers for seniors' residences

  18-01-2018 20:40 via cbc.ca
  Quebec is increasing funding by $67 million to its program to ensure seniors' residences have sprinkler systems, Health Minister Gaétan Barrette announced Wednesday.
  
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• Impact to sign defender Zakaria Diallo, Brest sporting director says

  18-01-2018 20:29 via montrealgazette.com
  French soccer club Stade Brestois has announced that it terminated the contract of Zakaria Diallo so the central defender can sign with the Montreal Impact.
  The Impact have not confirmed the report.
  “We terminated the contract we had with Zakaria Diallo that ran to June 2018, so that he can join the Montreal Impact,” Brest sporting director Gregory Lorenzi told the club’s website.
  The French sports newspaper L’Equipe reported this week that Diallo received a two-year cont
  
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• Trial begins for man charged with posting ad to have police spokesperson killed

  18-01-2018 20:27 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal police had little difficulty locating the man they suspected was the author of an online ad offering $1,000 to anyone willing to kill one of its best known spokespeople. 
  Anatoliy Vdovin, 48, is alleged to have accessed the internet at the Westmount Library to post an online ad through which he offered to pay anyone willing to kill Montreal police Commander Ian Lafrenière. As he was described in court, Lafrenière, the head of the media relations department, was at
  
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• New Canadiens centre Logan Shaw arrives with penalty-kill pedigree

  18-01-2018 20:05 via montrealgazette.com
  WASHINGTON — Logan Shaw isn’t the answer to the Canadiens’ black hole at centre. 
  And the 25-year-old from Cape Breton isn’t going to go on a scoring rampage that propels the Canadiens into the playoffs. 
  But Shaw would look good in the Canadiens’ lineup for Friday’s game against the Washington Capitals (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio) because his game is based on hard work, an element that was sadly missing in Wednesday’s 4-1 loss to the
  
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• Analyze This: Jonathan Drouin, Alex Galchenyuk hit same wall at centre

  18-01-2018 20:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Early this season, I noted that, in Jonathan Drouin, the Canadiens might have found their coveted No. 1 centre. The sample size was limited but, by early November, Drouin was showing improvements in every offensive category. If he could manage to sustain that pace, he was heading toward a very successful season.
  However, he hasn’t maintained that pace. In fact, he has experienced a major regression in goals, primary assists, shot control and other metrics since November (see charts be
  
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• City of Montreal wants say in which festivals would allow legal marijuana

  18-01-2018 19:49 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Jan 18: Montreal is seeking the power to keep legal cannabis out of certain festivals in the city. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• 5 CBC Montreal personalities nominated for Dynastie awards

  18-01-2018 19:48 via cbc.ca
  Congratulations are in order for some of our colleagues here at CBC for being nominated for the second annual Dynastie Awards, which will be held Feb. 3.
  
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• Justin Trudeau in Quebec City for meeting with mayor and town hall

  18-01-2018 19:40 via globalnews.ca
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Quebec City Thursday as part of a two-day visit to the province. He will be answering voter questions at a public meeting Thursday evening.
  
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• Montreal wants say in which festivals would allow legal marijuana

  18-01-2018 19:26 via globalnews.ca
  Could legal marijuana be banned at Montreal festivals?
  
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• Quebec Premier @phcouillard met Montreal Mayor @Val_Plante today and signed the city's Golden Book. #polmtl https://t.co/E72RVm6C4K

  18-01-2018 19:09
  
  Quebec Premier @phcouillard met Montreal Mayor @Val_Plante today and signed the city's Golden Book. #polmtl https://t.co/E72RVm6C4K
  
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• Alouettes re-sign long-snapper Martin Bédard, DB Mikael Charland

  18-01-2018 18:27 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Alouettes signed Canadian long-snapper Martin Bédard and defensive-back Mikael Charland to one-year contracts.
  Bédard is entering his 10th season with the Alouettes. The 33-year-old Laval native has 58 special-teams tackles in 135 CFL games.
  Charland is going into his third CFL campaign and second with the Alouettes. The former Ottawa Redblack from Gatineau played 12 games for Montreal last season.
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• Cyclist hospitalized after sliding into truck near Hippodrome de Montréal

  18-01-2018 18:17 via montrealgazette.com
  A male cyclist in his 30s is in hospital after colliding with a truck, apparently after his bicycle slid on an icy road.
  The incident occurred on Clanranald Ave. (formerly des Jockeys St.) near the site of the former Hippodrome de Montreal racetrack at 9 a.m. Both the truck and bicycle were travelling westbound at the time of the accident.
  The 38-year-old cyclist was conscious when taken to the hospital. The 41-year-old driver of the truck was treated at the scene for shock. 
  Police are wai
  
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• François Girard digs up Montreal's roots in Hochelaga, terre des âmes

  18-01-2018 18:15 via montrealgazette.com
  “This is not really a career move,” François Girard said.
  The Quebec director was talking via Skype from New York City, where he is overseeing an upcoming staging of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal, under the musical direction of fellow Quebecer Yannick Nézet-Séguin, at the Metropolitan Opera from Feb. 5 to 27.
  He wasn’t referring to the opera, but to his new film Hochelaga, terre des âmes (Hochelaga, Land of Souls), an impressionistic look at the sto
  
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• Trudeau 'in reflection' over day of action against Islamophobia

  18-01-2018 17:57 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – The federal government is still “in reflection” on the idea of making the anniversary of the attack on a Quebec City mosque a day of action on Islamophobia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday.
  Saying he wants to find the right way to commemorate the tragedy, Trudeau added the government doesn’t want to spark a backlash against any minorities, either.
  Trudeau made the remarks in an interview on Radio-Canada’s French language morning show in Quebec C
  
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• Donald Trump's a fan: What is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test?

  18-01-2018 17:51 via montrealgazette.com
  The White House, in an attempt to dispel concerns about Donald Trump’s mental state, is highlighting the results of a test developed by a Canadian immigrant from Lebanon. 
  The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which identifies light impairment or the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, was designed by neurologist Ziad Nasreddine in the 1990s.
  The test consists of a series of basic tasks like drawing a clock, counting down from 100 in increments of seven, naming words that start with a gi
  
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• Impact cut ties to defenders Wandrille Lefèvre and Deian Boldor

  18-01-2018 17:44 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Impact have waived defenders Wandrille Lefèvre and Deian Boldor.
  Lefèvre, a native of France who has Canadian citizenship, played 48 games over five Major League Soccer seasons. He won Canadian championships with the Impact in 2013 and 2014. Boldor joined the club late last season on loan from Bologna FC and played five games.
  The Impact had previously announced that the two players would not be kept on for 2018.
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  Former Impact captain Patrice Bernier combi
  
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• Quebec finds more cash to pay for sprinklers in seniors' residences

  18-01-2018 17:32 via montrealgazette.com
  A month after being criticized that the Quebec government’s financial assistance program for the installation of sprinkler systems in private seniors’ residences was ill-conceived and badly organized, Health Minister Gaetan Barrette announced on Thursday that the program had received a cash infusion of more than $67 million.
  The extra cash, which brings the program’s total cost to $183 million, allows residences with less than 30 occupants to see their expenses for installing s
  
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• Trump reveals "Fake News" Awards as "girther" movement is born https://t.co/PlH9lF1fYg

  18-01-2018 17:30
  
  Trump reveals "Fake News" Awards as "girther" movement is born https://t.co/PlH9lF1fYg
  
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• Jonas and the Massive Attraction

  18-01-2018 17:29 via globalnews.ca
  Jonas and the Massive Attraction join Global’s Andrea Howick and Kim Sullivan to talk music and play a song in advance of their upcoming show at L’Astral.
  
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• Fluctuating temperatures claim Montreal’s natural Beaver Lake ice rink for good

  18-01-2018 17:22 via globalnews.ca
  The city's decision to shutter the natural ice rink has to do with constantly shifting winter temperatures that make it impossible to keep the surface safe.
  
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• Raising awareness about dairy allergies

  18-01-2018 17:16 via globalnews.ca
  Global’s Andrea Howick finds out more about dairy allergies from 6-year-old Jake Grainer and his mom Elana Mayberger.
  
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• Our own @CVDmtl is in the @lavalfamilies spotlight https://t.co/BOVVatZcsC

  18-01-2018 17:12
  
  Our own @CVDmtl is in the @lavalfamilies spotlight https://t.co/BOVVatZcsC
  
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