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• Shooting for the stars: Four youths from Indigenous communities meet Carey Price

  24-01-2018 23:51 via montrealgazette.com
  For the fourth consecutive year, four youths from Indigenous communities got to meet Angela and Carey Price in Montreal.
  The unforgettable experience for the visiting youths is courtesy of Shooting for the Stars, an event organized by Breakfast Club of Canada and the Air Canada Foundation, and is sponsored by Club Ambassadors Angela and Carey.
  A native of the Ulkaltcho reserve in Anahim Lake, Carey Price was moved by the inspiring stories of the candidates that were proposed by their school
  
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• Montrealer who broke arm during arrest wants case reopened

  24-01-2018 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jan 24: Majiza Philip is asking the Quebec police ethics commissioner to reopen her case after contradictory police testimony about an arrest that left her with a broken arm. Global’s Anne Leclair reports.
  
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• Montreal toddler can only eat peaches

  24-01-2018 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jan 24: Two-year-old Micah suffers from such severe food allergies that mean he can only eat peaches. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, the boy’s family is desperate for help.
  
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• Flu could raise heart attack risk, Canadian study says

  24-01-2018 23:39 via cbc.ca
  Having the flu appears to increase the risk of having a heart attack, especially among those aged 65 and older, according to new research findings.
  
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• PKP returning to Quebec politics?

  24-01-2018 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jan 24: Could Pierre Karl Peladeau be returning to the Parti Québécois? The question is dominating the party’s caucus after the billionaire media mogul hinted that he may be contemplating a return to politics. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• 1 charge dropped against Tony Accurso in Mascouche fraud trial

  24-01-2018 23:36 via cbc.ca
  The jury in the trial of the former construction magnate was not given an explanation as to why the charge of having tried to influence a municipal official has been dropped.
  
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• Montreal votes on 2018 budget

  24-01-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jan 24: Montreal city councillors vote on Valérie Plante’s controversial municipal budget, which plans to raise taxes above the rate of inflation. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• Global News at 5:30: Jan 24

  24-01-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  The Wednesday, January 24, 2018 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
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• Quebec court authorizes 'dieselgate' class-action suit against Volkswagen

  24-01-2018 23:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Superior Court on Wednesday authorized a class-action lawsuit against Volkswagen over the “dieselgate” scandal.
  The lawsuit is different from other class actions related to the emissions-cheating scandal in that this one is in the name all Quebecers, not only people who owned or leased Volkswagen vehicles. It seeks $35 in punitive damages for every Quebecer.
  The class action targets several entities, including Volkswagen Group Canada Inc. and Audi Canada Inc.
  It was brought fo
  
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• Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour includes Montreal date

  24-01-2018 23:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Elton John has announced details of his final tour, but it will be a while before he retires from the stage.
  The Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour will stop at Montreal’s Bell Centre on Thursday, Oct. 4, roughly one month into the itinerary. In typically lavish fashion, John will go on to perform more than 300 shows on five continents, with the tour scheduled to wrap up in North America in 2021.
  Tickets for the Montreal concert cost $73 to $250 and go on sale to the general public on Friday,
  
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• Montreal Heart Institute files lawsuit against equipment maker

  24-01-2018 23:19 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Heart Institute has filed a $345,000 lawsuit over a piece of equipment that led the institute to contact thousands of patients because they might be at risk of bacterial infection.
  The MHI contacted patients in 2016 after Consumer Reports magazine published an article about the device being linked to heart and lung infections.
  The institute filed the lawsuit against the maker of the equipment — LivaNova Corporation — in Quebec Superior Court this week.
  In the l
  
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• Despite controversy, Valérie Plante’s Montreal 2018 budget adopted

  24-01-2018 22:32 via globalnews.ca
  The vote to adopt Montreal mayor Valérie Plante's $5.47-billion budget for the city has passed along party lines.
  
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• PQ leader wants Pierre Karl Péladeau ‘to be part of the team’

  24-01-2018 22:31 via globalnews.ca
  Could the Parti Québécois see the return of Pierre Karl Péladeau? The question dominated a caucus retreat after the multi-millionaire said he was contemplating a return to politics.
  
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• Legendary hockey writer Red Fisher remembered in Montreal

  24-01-2018 22:29 via cbc.ca
  Legendary hockey writer Red Fisher was remembered as a man who "demanded excellence" at a funeral attended by former hockey players and executives as well as several of his media colleagues on Wednesday.
  
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• It happened to me too: Resident describes hospital assault

  24-01-2018 21:54 via montrealgazette.com
  This week, the Montreal Gazette published an intimate and thorough look at the personal safety of employees at the Montreal General Hospital. While some readers might have found the accounts of assault shocking, I did not. Unfortunately, it happened to me too.
  In September 2014, I was a third-year medical student doing a mandatory psychiatry rotation at the MGH. Most of my time was spent in the locked psychiatric ward, where I had the opportunity to work with an excellent team of psychiatrists,
  
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• School bus drivers in Montreal threaten to strike next week

  24-01-2018 21:53 via montrealgazette.com
  School bus drivers who transport 15,000 Montreal students are threatening to strike for two days next week unless they receive a satisfactory salary increase from their employer.
  About 330 drivers with Autobus Transco gave their union a strike mandate on Tuesday night.
  If the company doesn’t improve its salary offer, drivers will walk off the job next Tuesday and Wednesday, said Carole Laplante, president of the Syndicat des travailleuses et travailleurs de Transco-CSN.
  “We don&rsquo
  
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• Sean Brennan: Killer recaptured after failing to return to Pinel hospital

  24-01-2018 21:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Sean Brennan, the man who disappeared while out on a brief leave from the Philippe Pinel Institute this week, was located by the Montreal police on Wednesday in LaSalle. 
  Brennan was out on an escorted leave and failed to return to the hospital on Monday despite having been classified as a high risk to the public just months ago and having escaped before. 
  In 2012, Brennan was declared not criminally responsible for having killed Bryan Bougie, a Pointe-Claire resident who had offered t
  
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• Talk of PKP's return shakes up PQ MNAs at caucus retreat

  24-01-2018 21:41 via cbc.ca
  Parti Québécois MNAs have rushed to show support for their current leader, Jean-François Lisée, after former party chief Pierre Karl Péladeau surprised everyone Tuesday with talk of a possible return.
  
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• Animal control: What Calgary can teach Montreal

  24-01-2018 21:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Of the more than 26,000 lost, abandoned or stray dogs and cats that end up in shelters every year in Montreal, an estimated 50 to 60 per cent are put down for want of a home, according to city figures.
  That works out to slightly over 1,000 dogs and cats killed each month.
  In Calgary, where the dog population is of similar size, the euthanization rate for dogs is around five per cent.
  There is no simple explanation for the glaring discrepancy, but what Calgary has and Montreal lacks is an animal-
  
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• Quebec doctors call on province to let parents accompany kids on medical flights

  24-01-2018 20:30 via globalnews.ca
  A group of Quebec doctors is calling on the province to allow parents to accompany sick children.
  
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• Montreal woman violently arrested in 2014 demands police ethics commissioner reopen her case

  24-01-2018 20:29 via cbc.ca
  If a woman's allegation of police violence during a 2014 arrest aren't re-examined by the police ethics commission, it will jeopardize the integrity of the entire police ethics system, says the Center for research-action on race relations (CRARR).
  
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• PQ will ‘have its hands full’ if Peladeau returns to politics: Couillard

  24-01-2018 20:18 via globalnews.ca
  Philippe Couillard picked up an old attack line when asked about the rumours.
  
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• Review: Apartheid-era 'Master Harold' … and the Boys feels fresh, relevant

  24-01-2018 19:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Just as Bertolt Brecht’s reputation as an epic dramatist emerged relatively unscathed from under the rubble of the Berlin Wall, so the best of Athol Fugard’s humane, beautifully constructed dramas have retained their wallop long after the apartheid system that inspired them has been dumped in the ashcan of history.
  Take “Master Harold” … and the Boys, his largely autobiographical 1982 masterpiece, which Toronto’s Obsidian Theatre has just brought to the Segal
  
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• Ready to soak up some rays? Enter now for you chance to win a trip for two to Nassau Paradise Island Bahamas thanks… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-01-2018 19:38
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• Environmental groups raise alarm about possible changes to offshore assessments

  24-01-2018 19:31 via globalnews.ca
  About 20 environmental and fisheries groups in Atlantic Canada and Quebec staged a news conference and protest march in downtown Halifax on Wednesday
  
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• Protesters denounce Mayor Valerie Plante’s budget outside Montreal city hall

  24-01-2018 19:16 via globalnews.ca
  A few dozen protesters chanted, played loud music and waved signs outside city hall.
  
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• Sundance: Montrealers' Summer of '84 gives midnight thrills

  24-01-2018 18:51 via montrealgazette.com
  PARK CITY, UTAH — Stranger Things this is not, quite.
  Montreal filmmaking trio Yoann-Karl Whissell, sister Anouk Whissell and her partner François Simard — collectively known as Roadkill Superstar — attended the world première of their second feature, Summer of ’84, at the Sundance Film Festival Monday night. Though the movie’s premise makes it sound like a distant cousin of the above-noted Netflix hit series, such comparisons felt far off the mark by
  
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• How law enforcement is struggling to control hate in an online world

  24-01-2018 18:27 via cbc.ca
  Since the fatal shooting last year of six men in a Quebec City mosque, police in the province have tried to crack down on online hate speech. It hasn’t been easy.
  
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• Montreal budget: We don't like tax hike, but it's the responsible choice: Plante

  24-01-2018 18:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Passing an unpopular tax hike is the last thing a new city administration wants to do, Mayor Valérie Plante acknowledged Wednesday as city council got ready to vote on a $5.4-billion annual operating budget.
  Despite a campaign pledge by Plante not to increase the burden on Montreal taxpayers above the rate of inflation — pegged at about two per cent — the budget contains a 3.3-per-cent increase thanks to a hike in the city’s water infrastructure tax, which has remai
  
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• Delays, cost overruns dog Montreal's animal shelter

  24-01-2018 18:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Of the more than 26,000 lost, abandoned or stray dogs and cats that end up in shelters every year in Montreal, an estimated 50 to 60 per cent are put down for want of a home, according to city figures.
  That works out to slightly over 1,000 dogs and cats killed each month.
  In Calgary, where the dog population is of similar size, the euthanization rate for dogs is around five per cent.
  There is no simple explanation for the glaring discrepancy, but what Calgary has and Montreal lacks is an animal-
  
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• Update: Dangerous killer who escaped Pinel arrested by Montreal police in LaSalle

  24-01-2018 18:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Sean Brennan, the man who disappeared while out on a brief leave from the Philippe Pinel Institute this week, was located by the Montreal police on Wednesday in LaSalle. 
  Brennan managed to escape on Monday despite having been classified as a high risk to the public just months ago and having escaped before. 
  In 2012, Brennan was declared not criminally responsible for having killed Bryan Bougie, a Pointe Claire resident who had offered to help Brennan in January 2011 when he realized
  
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• Snow, freezing rain in Montreal

  24-01-2018 18:08 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jan 24: Overnight freezing rain blanketed the city slowing Montrealers along their Tuesday morning commute. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Bill Brownstein: Comedians commute to Hudson for mini-festival

  24-01-2018 17:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Up until about a decade back, one of the highlights of the Just for Laughs festival was the Montreal Experience series — showcases for local comics, both known and up-and-coming, hosted by radio personalities Ted Bird and Terry DiMonte.
  In the years since then, however, even the most rabid fans of Montreal wits needed a microscope to find Montreal-centric JFL spectacles, which were invariably held late at night and in smaller, more ramshackle venues.
  Well, we now have a reasonable facsimil
  
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• 'Yes, I know the condition well': Leonard Cohen's advice to Basia Bulat on writer's block

  24-01-2018 17:45 via cbc.ca
  Watch the singer-songwriter read the words she has framed and perform "Dance Me To The End Of Love."
  
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• Quebec policy leaves Indigenous children anxious and alone on medical flights, doctors say

  24-01-2018 17:39 via cbc.ca
  Children in northern Quebec in need of emergency care are flown are flown to Montreal without a family member, under a longstanding policy of the Quebec government. Doctors and Indigenous leaders say it has to stop.
  
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• National Bank plans tallest building Montreal's downtown has seen in 25 years

  24-01-2018 17:38 via montrealgazette.com
  National Bank plans to spend around $500 million building a new headquarters at the corner of St-Jacques St. and Robert-Bourassa Blvd., the company said on Tuesday.
  The 36-storey building will be the tallest office tower built in Montreal’s downtown core since the 47-storey building at 1250 René-Lévesque went up in 1992, said Claude Breton, the bank’s vice-president of public affairs. 
  The building will be built in partnership with developer Broccolini. I
  
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• PQ caucus rallies to Jean-François Lisée, no red carpet treatment for PKP

  24-01-2018 17:35 via montrealgazette.com
  SHAWINIGAN — With the shadow of former leader Pierre Karl Péladeau hovering in the air, Parti Québécois MNAs Wednesday rallied around Jean-François Lisée saying he is still the right man for the job.
  And the level of enthusiasm for Péladeau’s possible return to active politics was decidedly muted despite the official line that he’s welcome.
  Nobody was gushing about Péladeau and none suggested he replace Lisée as leader. So
  
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  24-01-2018 17:27
  
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• Plan your “Money Date” now and avoid financial arguments with your partner https://t.co/KakFvdkYCt

  24-01-2018 17:04
  
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• With one winter month left, @janette_ewen shows us how to bust through the January blahs! https://t.co/5IDj434nJ8

  24-01-2018 16:48
  
  With one winter month left, @janette_ewen shows us how to bust through the January blahs! https://t.co/5IDj434nJ8
  
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• Pop artist Ralph performs

  24-01-2018 16:46 via globalnews.ca
  Pop artist Ralph joins Global’s Kim Sullivan and Laura Casella for a preview of her upcoming concert and to play a tune
  
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• When is it OK to give kids an allowance?

  24-01-2018 16:36 via globalnews.ca
  Parenting expert Erica Diamond joins Global’s Laura Casella with tips and advice on when it’s ok to give your kids an allowance and for how much.
  
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• Parenting: When is it OK to give kids an allowance?

  24-01-2018 16:36 via globalnews.ca
  Parenting expert Erica Diamond joins Global’s Laura Casella with tips and advice on when it’s ok to give your kids an allowance and for how much.
  
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• Protestors expected to gather outside Montreal’s city hall

  24-01-2018 16:15 via globalnews.ca
  A group of protestors are expected to gather outside city hall opposing Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante’s budget, expected to pass Wednesday. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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