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• Judge to decide if journalists should take the stand in high-profile fraud case

  02-02-2018 23:55 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Feb 2: A Quebec judge will deliberate on whether two journalists will be forced to take the stand to reveal confidential sources in the Nathalie Normandeau and Marc Yvan Cote fraud case. Global’s National Assembly reporter Raquel Fletcher has more.
  
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• Demerged cities take stock after Montreal’s capital budget

  02-02-2018 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Feb 2: The fifteen demerged cities on the island of Montreal are taking a closer look at Valerie Plante’s administration’s new capital works budget. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• West Island charity needs new van

  02-02-2018 23:49 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Feb 2: The community food bank On Rock in Pierrefonds serves hundreds of local and refugee families in need. But as Billy Shields reports the group’s van is no longer working, leaving volunteers to drive their own cars to deliver food baskets to needy clients. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• De-merged cities concerned over their fair share of Montreal’s new spending budget

  02-02-2018 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  Many suburban cities/towns on the island of Montreal want to know how they will benefit from Montreal's capital works budget.
  
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• Pierrefonds food bank in dire straits after string of bad luck

  02-02-2018 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  With demand for its services at an all-time high, On Rock is in dire straits after suffering a string of unfortunate setbacks.
  
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• Montreal creates new water main repair training centre

  02-02-2018 23:35 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal inaugurated a new training centre Friday that will educate city employees in how to maintain and repair the city’s aging water system.
  Unique in Quebec, all of the city’s blue collar workers involved in water main and sewer repairs will be trained there. Focussing on hands-on training, the goal is to improve the internal expertise of city of Montreal employees and to advance maintenance of the system.
  Poorly maintained for years, Montreal’s underground wate
  
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• Montreal landmark disappears

  02-02-2018 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Feb 2: The city’s well known steakhouse Le Bifteque has been torn down. The restaurant closed for good in 2015, and had to be demolished after the borough of Saint-Laurent deemed it unsafe. Phil Carpenter talks to some of Le Bifteque’s former customers.
  
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• Liberals pick Julie Boulet over Pierre Giguère to run in merged riding

  02-02-2018 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec tourism minister Julie Boulet will represent the Quebec Liberal Party in the October general election in a new merged riding in the Mauricie region, leaving out fellow Liberal Pierre Giguère.
  The Commission de la représentation électorale merged Boulet’s Laviolette and Giguère’s Saint-Maurice ridings last year as it redrew the electoral map to account for population changes.
  The merger forced the Liberals to eliminate a candidate, which it reluctant
  
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• Labour board rules in favour of waitress who was fired for 'lack of a smile'

  02-02-2018 23:29 via montrealgazette.com
  A waitress dismissed for allegedly having a bad attitude and not smiling enough has been awarded $30,000 and must be given her job back, Quebec’s labour tribunal ruled.
  Caroline Daunais had been working at the Coco Frutti restaurant in Victoriaville, Que, for about six months when she was fired in April 2016, according to a decision released Jan. 29.
  Daunais filed a complaint to the tribunal, claiming she was fired after asking for back pay owed to her.
  In the official notice of her firing
  
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• Baie d’Urfé building plans getting mixed reviews from neighbours

  02-02-2018 23:25 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Feb 2: A proposed McMansion is making waves in the sleepy West Island community of Baie d’Urfé. As Billy Shields reports, the town council has not approved the building permit for the ambitious construction project. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• When Canada’s winter will actually end, according to a meteorologist (and not a rodent)

  02-02-2018 22:31 via globalnews.ca
  Groundhogs couldn't come up with a consensus on when winter will end. Here's what Global News meteorologist Anthony Farnell says.
  
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• Time’s running out to enter for a chance to win a trip to The Bahamas courtesy of @VisitTheBahamas @AirCanadaVac… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-02-2018 22:28
  Time’s running out to enter for a chance to win a trip to The Bahamas courtesy of @VisitTheBahamas @AirCanadaVac… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• This Quebec ballet class brings joy and confidence to dancers with Down syndrome

  02-02-2018 22:00 via cbc.ca
  Meet the students and teachers who make up this ballet class, where dancers overcome shyness and use their imaginations to create beautiful movement.
  
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• Quebec Court of Appeal rejects Guy Lafleur's appeal in lawsuit over arrest

  02-02-2018 21:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Guy Lafleur might have been a prolific goal scorer with the Montreal Canadiens, but he was shut out on Friday by the Quebec Court of Appeal, which rejected his request to reverse a lower court decision denying him financial compensation for his arrest by the Montreal police several years ago.
  In 2008, Lafleur filed the lawsuit, in Quebec Superior Court, seeking $2 million from a prosecutor, who decided to charge him with having lied while testifying under oath, and a Montreal police officer who
  
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• Nellie Angutiguluk's accused killer turned up at memorial with new girlfriend, jury hears

  02-02-2018 21:56 via cbc.ca
  A pastor at the Open Door drop-in centre testified Friday at the second-degree murder trial of Kwasi Benjamin, describing how he watched the relationship between Benjamin and his Inuk girlfriend deteriorate over the 18 months to two years that he knew them.
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Antti Niemi will start in goal Saturday against Ducks

  02-02-2018 21:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens will play their annual Super Bowl weekend matinee games at the Bell Centre and coach Claude Julien has decided to split the goaltending duties with Antti Niemi starting Saturday against the Anaheim Ducks (1 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690) and Carey Price playing Sunday against the Ottawa Senators (1 p.m., SN, RDS, TSN Radio 690).
  Niemi has a 1-1-1 record with a 2.59 goals-against average and a .919 save percentage since being claimed by the Canadiens off waivers from the Florida Pa
  
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• Montreal’s Lakes of Canada wins Grammy for Leonard Cohen collaboration

  02-02-2018 21:54 via globalnews.ca
  The band laid down the choral tracks for 2 songs on the artist's final album.
  
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• Service resuming on eastern side of métro's Orange Line after hour-long service interruption

  02-02-2018 21:45 via montrealgazette.com
  The STM says the métro’s Orange Line is resuming service after being down almost an hour between the Montmorency and Berri-UQAM stations.
  The shutdown was caused by an emergency medical intervention, the STM said. It began about 2:50 p.m.
  Replacement shuttle buses were ordered to serve the stations between Berri-UQAM and Cartier.
  
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• Eastern side of métro's Orange Line down

  02-02-2018 21:35 via montrealgazette.com
  The STM says the métro’s Orange Line is down between the Montmorency and Berri-UQAM stations.
  The shutdown is caused by an emergency medical intervention, the STM said. It says service should resume around 3:50 p.m.
  Replacement shuttle buses have been ordered to serve the stations between Berri-UQAM and Cartier.
  This story will be updated.
  
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• Large rat colony at busy intersection has NDG residents demanding action

  02-02-2018 21:29 via globalnews.ca
  A video posted on social media Thursday night shows rats scurrying around a snow bank in NDG.
  
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• What the Puck: As fans tune out, Habs need a fresh front-office voice

  02-02-2018 20:42 via montrealgazette.com
  My friends have stopped watching Habs games.
  Almost all of my close pals live for the Montreal Canadiens. We talk about them endlessly. Many of us play hockey. When we get off the ice on Sunday nights, we crack open a few cold ones and we over-analyze the team we’re obsessed with. We love the Habs more than you can imagine. And these people have stopped watching.
  Canadiens TV ratings dropped 13 per cent on RDS and TVA Sports for the first half of the season, according to a La Pre
  
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• Quebec government promises to slash cost of air travel in far-flung regions

  02-02-2018 20:38 via cbc.ca
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said the spring budget will contain a series of measures aimed at reducing the cost of air travel outside of major urban centres in the province.
  
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• Quebec City mayor blames Air Canada monopoly for high cost of flying in regions

  02-02-2018 20:38 via cbc.ca
  Mayors from across Quebec are meeting in Lévis today for a summit on the cost of regional air transport in the province. Politicians are under pressure to find ways to bring down the cost of flying outside major urban centres.
  
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• Unfazed by crypto-currency crash, miners flock to power-rich Quebec, Canada

  02-02-2018 20:25 via montrealgazette.com
  China’s clampdown on its crypto-currency industry is sending miners scurrying for a new home. They’re finding one in Canada, lured by its cold climate, lots of clean, cheap power and a welcoming market for raising capital.
  In Farnham, a Quebec town 35 kilometers (21 miles) north of the Vermont border, nearly 5,000 machines are packed into a former carpet factory run by Backbone Hosting Solutions Inc. The company, known as Bitfarms, says it’s earning more than $250,000 a day fro
  
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• A tour of Portugal’s gourmet delicacies

  02-02-2018 20:19 via globalnews.ca
  Claudia and Sandra Ferreira’s new web series explores Portugal discovering some of the country’s foodie treasures. The sisters tell Global’s Andrea Howick about their new web documentary series, Portugal Gourmand.
  
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• Montreal police say 'gang rape' warning on social media is a hoax

  02-02-2018 20:02 via cbc.ca
  Montreal police took to Facebook Friday to debunk a warning that's circulating on social media — ostensibly from the police service — about a ruse to entrap and sexually assault women.
  
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• The Napoleon complex is showcased at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

  02-02-2018 19:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Nearly all of us have an image and conception of Napoleon Bonaparte. The erstwhile Corsican customs clerk who delivered France from the trauma of its post-Revolution reign of terror and restored a monarchy, conveniently with himself as the self-proclaimed divinely ordained head, was also the endlessly ambitious expansionist whose fatal hubris was such that nearly two centuries after his death his very name is a universally understood shorthand for overcompensation.But no matter your view, whethe
  
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• Don Macpherson: Quebec Liberals losing franco vote — and the election

  02-02-2018 19:26 via montrealgazette.com
  The Parti Québécois leadership drama continues, with Pierre Karl Péladeau destabilizing Jean-François Lisée’s position by doing nothing to discourage speculation that he is after Lisée’s job.
  The latest Léger poll results, released just before meetings last weekend of PQ officials from across the province, showed the party stagnating in third place in popularity, eight months before the next general election is due.
  And Lisée ta
  
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• Labour board rules in favour of waitress who was fired for 'lack of smile'

  02-02-2018 19:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Fired for “her bad attitude and her lack of a smile,” a waitress in a Victoriaville restaurant has won her challenge, with the labour board ordering her employer to reinstate her job and pay her nearly $30,000 in compensation.
  Caroline Daunais worked at the Coco Frutti Restaurant from December 2015 to April 2016, when she was fired.
  Daunais filed a complaint with the province’s labour relations board contesting her dismissal, arguing she had been dismissed because she claimed s
  
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• Montreal police seek other victims of duo charged with pimping minors

  02-02-2018 18:40 via cbc.ca
  Kadeem Noël, 22, and Tatiana Isabel Sanchez, 18, face multiple charges related to luring a 15-year-old runaway into prostitution. Police believe there may be other alleged victims.
  
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• Hydro-Québec CEO optimistic that Northern Pass project isn't dead in the water

  02-02-2018 18:18 via cbc.ca
  Hydro-Québec is still holding out hope that its multi-million Northern Pass project to sell energy to Massachusetts can move forward, despite facing a major roadblock this week.
  
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• Keep Shea Weber off ice until he is 100% healthy | HI/O Bonus

  02-02-2018 18:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Should the Canadiens shut down Shea Weber for the rest of this lost season to allow him to fully heal?
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• Facebook sex assault 'alert' is fake, Montreal police warn

  02-02-2018 18:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police have taken to their own Facebook page to alert the public that a Facebook post bearing what appears to be their logo (and that of the city of Montreal) and purporting to warn of a sexual assault scam is false.
  The post, which in many cases appears on Facebook feeds in English only, warns female readers not to believe a crying little boy begging to be taken to a certain address because it is a lure that precedes a sexual assault.
  Montreal police say their department has issued no
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: Feb. 2, 2018

  02-02-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Under $16
  Rioja 2016, Genoli, Ijalba, Spain white, $14.30, SAQ # 883033. I always enjoy drinking this wine. Nervy and twitchy, but not without some texture. Minerality is there to ground the wine. Fruit is primarily citrus, moving toward passion fruit and melon. Once again, a great, inexpensive and very interesting white. Residual sugar: 1.7 g/L. Grape variety: viura. Serve at: 8-10 C. Drink now. Food pairing idea: apéritif, ceviche, goat cheese salads.
  $16-$20
  Cabernet Sau
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw: Steak tartare deserves a rich and spicy white wine

  02-02-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I’m a bit of a “crudivore”: I love raw things. From fish to beef, if I can eat it raw, I will. I wrote last year about salmon tartare, and how it is best served with a red — pinot noir in particular. But that’s not much of a stretch. I recently received an email from a reader who said that after years of trying many of my food and wine pairing ideas, he finally tried a white with tartare and was “blown away” at how it was such a perfect match.I
  
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• Montreal police seek suspect after Jarry St. bar shoot up

  02-02-2018 17:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are seeking a 24-year-old suspect after a Jarry St. bar was shot up last week and two persons injured.
  Investigators say they believe Amine Mohammed Khabba is responsible for the shootings, which occurred at 2 a.m. on Jan. 26 at the Lucky 7 Resto-Pub on Jarry St. near St. Michel Blvd. 
  Police say Khabba was in the bar, exited for a few minutes and then returned, opening fire and wounding one person in the arm and another in the shoulder.
  While police perceive the bar as
  
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• Celebrity chef @martin_juneau stops by the BT studios to celebrate 50 years of @ithqofficiel https://t.co/2hOC4LwFPz

  02-02-2018 17:37
  
  Celebrity chef @martin_juneau stops by the BT studios to celebrate 50 years of @ithqofficiel https://t.co/2hOC4LwFPz
  
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• Pharmaprix, PC Plus points cards merging

  02-02-2018 17:32 via globalnews.ca
  What’s happening to your PC Plus and Pharmaprix points cards as they merge into one? PC Optimum Ambassador Isabelle Racicot tells Global’s Andrea Howick everything you need to know.
  
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• The Right Chemistry: Ricin is lethal, but most lectins are no threat

  02-02-2018 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Lectins are a class of proteins found in many foods. They can kill you! All you have to do is extract some from castor beans, introduce them into a tiny perforated metal pellet, load this into the tip of a special umbrella fitted with a spring, aim the umbrella at the thigh of an intended victim and trigger the spring to inject the pellet into his bloodstream. He’ll be dead in a couple of days. That’s not theory, that’s the way a Bulgarian agent assassinated dissident Georgi Ma
  
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• From Trump to Trudeau: Drawing politics with cartoonist Boris

  02-02-2018 17:29 via montrealgazette.com
  You might imagine that an editorial cartoonist’s job is all about jokes, but Montreal Gazette contributor Jacques Goldstyn says he’s more like an anthropologist.
  Better known as Boris, he spends much of his time observing his fellow Montrealers in search of inspiration. 
  “You hop on the bus,” he says, “and after half an hour you have half a dozen subjects.”
  Mind you, some of Boris’s subjects, like Donald Trump or Justin Trudeau, are unlikely to be f
  
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• Godspeed's Efrim Manuel Menuck sings from the shadows on solo album

  02-02-2018 17:25 via montrealgazette.com
  I don’t know Efrim Manuel Menuck well enough to say that he’s full of surprises, but I can safely say that the starting point for his new solo album, Pissing Stars, comes out of left field.
  As a co-founder of Montreal’s mythically, mystically, underground and world-renowned post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Menuck is anti-establishment as a matter of duty.
  When his band’s 2012 release ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! won the Polaris Music Prize
  
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• Spring is on the way according to Quebec's Fred la marmotte

  02-02-2018 16:58 via cbc.ca
  His colleague Shubenacadie Sam agrees, with both rodents failing to see their shadow Friday morning.
  
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• Black History Month highlights contributions made year-round

  02-02-2018 16:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Myrna Lashley feels that Black History Month will have increased significance this year, and she attributes some of that to racist remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump, who decried immigrants from “s—hole countries” going to the U.S.
  “I’m just amazed that his base doesn’t seem to be perturbed by any of this,” says Lashley, this year’s Montreal Black History Month spokesperson. “If Americans re-elect him in 2020, I think we’re all in f
  
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• 40-year-old man dies in Sainte-Clotilde-de-Châteauguay fatal crash

  02-02-2018 16:05 via globalnews.ca
  A 40-year-old man died in a car crash in Sainte-Clotilde-de-Châteauguay Thursday night, a female passenger sustained minor injuries. Driver of another vehicle involved in the crash was uninjured.
  
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• 2 men injured in downtown Montreal knife fight

  02-02-2018 16:05 via globalnews.ca
  Two men were hospitalized following a fight involving knives in Ville-Marie Thursday night.
  
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