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• Hockey journalist Red Fisher has passed away at age 91. https://t.co/pOgvz1RyXe

  19-01-2018 23:58
  
  Hockey journalist Red Fisher has passed away at age 91. https://t.co/pOgvz1RyXe
  
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• UPAC suspends investigation involving MNA Guy Ouellette

  19-01-2018 23:57 via globalnews.ca
  The National Assembly and UPAC traded legal jabs Friday, arguing over who's fault it is the investigation into allegations surrounding sitting MNA Guy Ouellette has been suspended.
  
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• The 3 railway workers charged in connection with the 2013 Lac-Mégantic tragedy have been found NOT GUILTY of crimin… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-01-2018 23:54
  The 3 railway workers charged in connection with the 2013 Lac-Mégantic tragedy have been found NOT GUILTY of crimin… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 'It broke their lives': Lac-Mégantic residents support acquittals of MMA rail workers

  19-01-2018 23:51 via cbc.ca
  Residents in Lac-Mégantic, Que., support the decision of the jury to acquit three former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) railway employees charged with criminal negligence causing death in the 2013 rail disaster.
  
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• UPAC investigation into MNA Guy Ouellette suspended

  19-01-2018 23:48 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Jan 19: Quebec’s anti-corruption squad is no longer investigating MNA Guy Ouellette, but as Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, the National Assembly and UPAC are blaming each other.
  
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• Pothole-riddled roads make for difficult driving

  19-01-2018 23:48 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Jan 19: Potholes are popping up on highways and access ramps around Montreal, making driving difficult. Global’s Billy Shields, finds out what the transport ministry is doing to address the problem.
  
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• Red Fisher, legendary Montreal Canadiens columnist, dead at 91

  19-01-2018 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  The Montreal native covered the Canadiens through their glory years starting in 1955 until he retired at age 85 in 2012.
  
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• Evelyn Farha, longtime HIV/AIDS advocate, dies at 92

  19-01-2018 23:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Evelyn Farha, a longtime HIV/AIDS advocate and head of the Farha Foundation, died Thursday night. She was 92. 
  Saying she lived a “long and fruitful life,” the foundation confirmed her death on Friday.
  “It was an honour for her to devote the past 25 years of her life to the HIV/AIDS community,” it said in a statement. 
  Farha’s son, Ron, died after a six-year battle with the illness in 1993. He had launched the foundation with the personal goal of
  
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• Montreal Auto Show draws crowd

  19-01-2018 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Jan 19: Montreal’s much anticipated auto show kicked off on Friday, featuring the latest in automotive technology and design. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports.
  
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• RTM addresses train delays

  19-01-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Jan 19: Raymond Bachant, the director general of the Réseau de transport métropolitain (RTM) joins senior anchor Jamie Orchard to discuss what is being done to improve service on the RTM commuter train lines.
  
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• Montreal loses a hockey legend as Red Fisher dies at age 91

  19-01-2018 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Red Fisher, the chronicler and the conscience of Montreal hockey whose career touched seven decades, died on Friday at age 91.
  Fisher started on the Canadiens beat in 1955 in the era of train travel and finished it in 2012 when reporters tweeted the lines at morning skates. The man knew how to make an entrance: the first game he covered was the Richard Riot, that singular marriage of hockey, sociology and, ultimately, mythology that has marked Quebec for generations. Fisher was the link to the m
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens at Washington

  19-01-2018 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Back in the day when its baseball team was the perennially inept Senators, Washington was said to be “first in War, first in Peace and last in the American League.”
  Times have changed.
  Washington has a good baseball team (that used to be Montreal’s), and the Capitals are among the NHL’s Stanley Cup contenders.
  Meanwhile, about 800 kilometres northeast of the capital of the free world, hockey fans are grappling with the realization this season’s edition of the Canadi
  
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• Red Fisher, legendary Canadiens sportswriter, dead at age 91

  19-01-2018 23:23 via cbc.ca
  Red Fisher, who chronicled every Montreal Canadiens star from Maurice Richard to Carey Price, has died. He was 91.
  
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• Red Fisher, legendary Canadiens chronicler, dead at age 91

  19-01-2018 23:23 via cbc.ca
  Red Fisher, who chronicled every Montreal Canadiens star from Maurice Richard to Carey Price, has died. He was 91.
  
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• Westmount to revise budget

  19-01-2018 23:14 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Jan 19: For the first time in three years the city of Westmount has had to raise its taxes, and as Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports, the city is blaming Valerie Plante and her agglomeration council budget.
  
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• Lac-Mégantic trial ends with acquittal

  19-01-2018 23:14 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Jan 19: On the ninth day of deliberations, the jurors in the Lac-Mégantic trial returned a not-guilty verdict for the three former railway employees charged with criminal negligence causing the death. Global’s Mike Armstrong has more.
  
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• Tom Harding ‘too moved’ by Lac-Megantic verdict to talk with reporters, but ‘terribly relieved’: lawyer

  19-01-2018 23:03 via globalnews.ca
  The lawyer of Tom Harding, one of three men found not guilty in the Lac-Megantic trial, told reporters on Friday that his client was “too moved” to give a statement following the verdict, but said the result was “proof” that trial by jury is important.
  
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• Richard Labrie calls Lac-Megantic trial’s final day ‘a roller coaster’

  19-01-2018 21:42 via globalnews.ca
  After being found not guilty in connection with the Lac-Megantic tragedy in July 2013, Richard Labrie said the final day was a “roller coaster” and said the verdict “feels good.”
  
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• Richard Labrie says he feels ‘relief’ after Lac-Megantic verdict

  19-01-2018 21:41 via globalnews.ca
  Richard Labrie, one of three men found not guilty of criminal negligence in the Lac-Megantic trial, said Friday he hopes to return to “anonymity” following the verdict.
  
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• Tom Harding walks away from reporters after Lac-Megantic verdict

  19-01-2018 21:38 via globalnews.ca
  Tom Harding, who was one of three men found not guilty in the Lac-Megantic trial, did not have the words to express himself yet to reporters and walked away leaving his lawyer to take questions following the verdict.
  
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• Update: All three former rail employees acquitted in Lac-Mégantic trial

  19-01-2018 21:18 via montrealgazette.com
  SHERBROOKE — One of the most closely watched Canadian trials in recent years ended Friday with the acquittal of three former railway employees who were charged with criminal negligence causing the death of 47 people in the Lac-Megantic tragedy.
  The jurors reached the verdict on their ninth day of deliberations.
  Tom Harding, Richard Labrie and Jean Demaître were charged with criminal negligence in the 2013 tragedy that killed 47 people when a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed
  
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• Evelyn Farha, longtime HIV/AIDS advocate, dead at 92

  19-01-2018 21:17 via cbc.ca
  Evelyn Farha, a well-known advocate in the fight against HIV/AIDS, has died at the age of 92.
  
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• 5 Montreal stories you must read this week: January 19

  19-01-2018 20:49 via globalnews.ca
  From a not guilty verdict in the Lac-Mégantic trial, to the medical community's warning on the potency of pot, here are the biggest stories Global News covered in Montreal this week.
  
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• Lac-Megantic trial: 3 men found not guilty of criminal negligence in train derailment that killed 47 people

  19-01-2018 20:35 via globalnews.ca
  Three men have been found not guilty of criminal negligence causing death in the Lac-Megantic railway disaster that killed 47 people.
  
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• Mascouche mayor used straw men, labyrinth of companies, Accurso jury told

  19-01-2018 20:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Richard Marcotte, the former mayor of Mascouche, created an international, complex labyrinth of companies and bank accounts before construction entrepreneur Antonio Accurso allegedly bribed him in exchange for municipal contracts. 
  Pascale Boutin, a forensic accountant with the Sûreté du Québec, testified Friday at the Joliette courthouse before a jury that is hearing evidence on the fifth day of Accurso’s trial. Accurso, 66, is charged with using illegal means to
  
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• Possibilities dawn for Canadian films at Sundance

  19-01-2018 20:13 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sundance Film Festival changed everything for Yoann-Karl Whissell, Anouk Whissell and François Simard.
  The Quebec directorial trio, collectively known as Roadkill Superstar (RKSS for short), were virtually unknown when they showed their feature debut Turbo Kid at a midnight screening in 2015 at the fest that Robert Redford built.
  “It transformed our career, 100 per cent,” Yoann-Karl said matter-of-factly. “It changed our lives. That’s where we met our agent. Th
  
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• Lac-Mégantic disaster trial ends with acquittal for all 3 rail workers

  19-01-2018 20:12 via cbc.ca
  After nine days of deliberations, jurors have acquitted the three former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) railway employees charged with criminal negligence causing death in the 2013 Lac-Mégantic, Que., rail disaster.
  
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• All 3 MMA rail workers acquitted in Lac-Mégantic disaster trial

  19-01-2018 20:12 via cbc.ca
  Jurors have acquitted the three former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) railway employees charged with criminal negligence causing death in the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster.
  
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• 3 former MMA rail workers acquitted in Lac-Mégantic disaster trial

  19-01-2018 20:12 via cbc.ca
  Jurors have acquitted the three former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) railway employees charged with criminal negligence causing death in the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster.
  
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• UPAC's work climate has improved after bumpy years, report concludes

  19-01-2018 19:48 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The work climate in the division of Quebec’s anti-corruption unit charged with verifying and accrediting the integrity of firms bidding for public contracts has improved, an independent report handed to the Quebec government Friday says.
  But Robert Lafrenière, head of the unit, concedes more work can be done to improve the workplace atmosphere.
  “Things have improved a lot,” Lafrenière told reporters shortly after the report was made public. “Y
  
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• 6 days after major storm, Montreal snow removal operation nearly complete

  19-01-2018 19:40 via globalnews.ca
  Snow removal from the last snow storm is almost complete, but another 15 cm could be on the way.
  
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• Where does all of Montreal’s snow go?

  19-01-2018 19:38 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Jan 19: Six days after a major storm, Montreal’s snow removal operation is nearly complete. But as Global’s Dan Spector reports, one of the city’s snow dumps is almost full which has had repercussions on snow removal in Côte-des-Neige-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Logan Shaw to make Habs debut against Capitals

  19-01-2018 19:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Logan Shaw will play his first game as a Canadien Friday night at the Capital One Arena against the Washington Capitals (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).
  Shaw received a crash course in the Canadiens’ system Friday morning. Normally, the Canadiens skip the morning skate but they opted for a 30-minute workout at the Capitals’ training facility in suburban Arlington, Va., because they had a day off Thursday. Shaw was on the fourth line with Jacob de la Rose and Byron Froese. 
  
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• Cuisine connects generations in The Baklawa Recipe at Centaur Theatre

  19-01-2018 19:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Trump’s unappetizing comments about certain countries of origin notwithstanding, the way to a host population’s heart for many immigrants is through the stomach. Take baklawa (or baklava), that irresistible pastry characteristic of, for instance, some countries of the Middle East and which now graces supermarket shelves and café displays all across Montreal.
  Name-checked in the title of Pascale Rafie’s new play The Baklawa Recipe, which opens at Centaur Theatre next week
  
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• Lac-Mégantic trial: Jurors seek clarifications on judge’s instructions

  19-01-2018 19:10 via globalnews.ca
  Jurors at the trial of three men charged with criminal negligence causing death in the Lac-Mégantic railway disaster asked the judge for certain clarifications on Friday.
  
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• Montreal auto show showcases the evolution of safety, clean energy

  19-01-2018 19:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Visitors to the Montreal International Auto Show will be the first in Canada to have the opportunity to drive a hydrogen-powered vehicle.
  And they could soon be a more frequent sight on our roads after Toyota Canada, in partnership with the Quebec government, announced Thursday that the Mirai will go on sale in the province later this year.
  Toyota says Quebec was chosen because of its abundance of clean energy, a lot of which is required to produce hydrogen. However, there are very few hydrogen
  
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• City's first pothole-filling operation is underway

  19-01-2018 18:59 via montrealgazette.com
  The pothole fillers are out, and they have a lot of ground to cover.
  After rain, snow, freezing rain, followed by frigid temperatures, the city of Montreal was experiencing a bit of a thaw Friday and Saturday, and that means potholes appearing on the city’s roads.
  Potholes are caused by water infiltrating the road surface, and then expanding when it freezes. As the ice melts, there is hole left in the ground, explained city spokesperson Marilyne Laroche Corbeil.
  Corbeil said 10 specia
  
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• Lac-Mégantic jury heading into ninth day of deliberations Friday

  19-01-2018 18:47 via montrealgazette.com
  SHERBROOKE — Day 8 of jury deliberations at the Lac-Mégantic criminal negligence trial came and went without a verdict Thursday.
  There was no news from the 12 jurors for a second straight day, and they will resume their work Friday.
  The eight men and four women are deciding the fate of Tom Harding, Richard Labrie and Jean Demaître.
  The three are charged in connection with the July 2013 tragedy in which 47 people were killed when a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed and
  
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• This is what's at issue in the Lac-Mégantic trial

  19-01-2018 18:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Jury deliberations in the trial of three men charged in connection with the Lac-Mégantic railway disaster entered their ninth day on Friday.
  Tom Harding, Richard Labrie and Jean Demaître are charged with criminal negligence relating to the July 2013 tragedy that left 47 people dead after a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded. 
  Harding was the train’s engineer, Labrie the traffic controller and Demaître the manager of train operations.
  The jury beg
  
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• Canada-wide women's rights march on Saturday includes Montreal

  19-01-2018 18:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal will be one the venues for a nationwide Women’s March Canada taking place Saturday aimed at supporting women’s rights and attaining equality.
  The local march is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. at the esplanade at Place des Arts, 175 Ste. Catherine St. E., and will continue until 1 p.m.
  Similar marches are planned in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, the Maritimes and the Yukon.
   
  
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• Montreal to file 40 lawsuits in effort to reclaim collusion cash

  19-01-2018 18:32 via cbc.ca
  The City of Montreal will soon be filing about 40 lawsuits against construction companies and politicians in an effort to recover money lost through collusion schemes over the last 20 years.
  
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• Montreal police seek clues in wake of murder attempt in Ahuntsic-Cartierville

  19-01-2018 18:15 via montrealgazette.com
  A male victim was in stable condition in hospital Friday morning after being shot at least once in what police are describing as an attempted murder in the city’s Ahuntsic-Cartierville district.
  The incident occurred a little before 11 a.m. at the corner of Legendre St. and 16th Ave. Police are on site seeking information on the suspect, who appears to have acted alone and fled the scene after the shooting.
  This story will be updated.
   
  
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• Another downside to Montreal winters — the Azur métro doors are jamming

  19-01-2018 18:15 via montrealgazette.com
  The Societé de transport de Montréal has embarked on a repair program to deal with what can only be described as a minuscule problem — pieces of gravel and other abrasives tracked in to métro stations by commuters, which wind up jamming subway doors.
  The problem, which has plagued the métro system in previous winters as the city spreads abrasives on ice-covered streets and sidewalks, has now manifested itself with the STM’s new Azur trains. The gravel buil
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: Jan. 19, 2018

  19-01-2018 18:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Every week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings. 
  Under $16
  Dão 2015, Quinta dos Roques, Portugal red, $15.90, SAQ # 744805. Very elegant Dão. Oak is still there, but it’s way in the background behind the intense fruit. Great ripeness, with an almost cassis jujube note on the finish. Classy and very powerful for a wine at this price. Tannins still grip; this needs meat. Grape varieties: touriga nacional, ja
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw: What makes one Chianti different from another?

  19-01-2018 18:07 via montrealgazette.com
  There are presently more than 100 types of 750 mL Chianti bottles available at SAQ.com. A reader who was looking to explore Italy’s Tuscany region asked why there is such a variation in taste and price between these bottles. The reasons are many, but here are the main factors.
  The grapesWhile sangiovese is the main grape of Chianti, how much is used and what it is blended with makes a big difference. Depending on which part of Chianti the wine comes from, sangiovese will make up
  
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• Legend Lin Dance Theatre slows things down with The Eternal Tides

  19-01-2018 17:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Be prepared to enter the No-Hurry Zone next week as Taiwan’s Legend Lin Dance Theatre brings its latest piece, The Eternal Tides, to Place des Arts as part of the Danse Danse series.
  This is the first time the company, formed over two decades ago, has visited Canada, so audiences may need to acclimatize themselves to a form of dance that is more like an infinitely slow unfolding than the gravity-defying, full-tilt moves that are more typical of westerly latitudes. The rewards for doing so
  
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• Don Macpherson: Waiting for Aussant

  19-01-2018 17:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Since the National Assembly has become bad political theatrics, the Parti Québécois might as well put on a play, figuratively speaking: an adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
  The PQ’s version is titled Waiting for Aussant, after the party’s latest hope of salvation. This week, the PQ confirmed what it showed in 2016 with its choice of Jean-François Lisée over Alexandre Cloutier as its leader: that it is incapable of modernizing itself.
  
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• Travel advisory issued for Jamaica's Montego Bay as violent crime spikes

  19-01-2018 17:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealers planning to visit one of Jamaica’s most popular resort areas were being warned on Friday by the Canadian government to stay within the confines of their resorts and to exercise caution while travelling to and from any point outside of them.
  The federal government issued a travel advisory to Canadians noting that on Thursday, “a state of emergency was declared by the Jamaican government for St. James Parish, which includes Montego Bay, as a result of a significant increase
  
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• Psychiatrists request limit on marijuana THC levels https://t.co/ZwoQJ9bWgl

  19-01-2018 17:25
  
  Psychiatrists request limit on marijuana THC levels https://t.co/ZwoQJ9bWgl
  
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• Give your look a trendy update with these five items celebrities are obsessed with: https://t.co/Nc27YsLhFJ

  19-01-2018 17:23
  
  Give your look a trendy update with these five items celebrities are obsessed with: https://t.co/Nc27YsLhFJ
  
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