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• In the Habs' Room: Niemi credits his footwork in strong start against Ducks

  03-02-2018 23:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Antti Niemi is a strong believer in the old adage practise makes perfect.
  The backup goaltender has been used sparingly — Saturday’s start against the Anaheim Ducks was only his third since Nov. 25 — but he said his work in practice with coach Stéphane Waite — has made him more comfortable and more confident. 
  “It’s a reset,” said Niemi, who is 2-1-1 after making 43 saves in Montreal’s 5-2 win Saturday afternoon. “It’s about
  
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• Man in critical condition after Côte-des-Neiges shooting

  03-02-2018 23:39 via cbc.ca
  A 38-year-old man is in critical condition after being shot at least once in the upper body in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood.
  
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• Condition of man injured in Côte-des-Neiges shooting updated to stable

  03-02-2018 23:39 via cbc.ca
  A 38-year-old man is now in stable condition after being shot at least once in the upper body in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood.
  
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• Montreal sells Snowdon Theatre to private company for $1.6M

  03-02-2018 23:35 via cbc.ca
  The classic art deco facade and iconic Snowdon Theatre sign must be conserved. A considerable amount of the property is expected to be turned into housing.
  
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• TSB completes field work in fatal Quebec helicopter crash investigation

  03-02-2018 23:25 via globalnews.ca
  Three people died after the Robinson model helicopter crashed and caught fire in a snow-covered field just outside the city, about 110 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
  
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• About this afternoon … Canadiens beat Ducks 5-2

  03-02-2018 22:39 via montrealgazette.com
  OK, here’s the plan:
  The Canadiens trade Carey Price for a centre, a prospect and a first-round draft choice.
  Antti Niemi becomes the Canadiens No. 1 goaltender until Charlie Lindgren is ready to take over.
  Bada-bing, bada-boom!
  The Cup is ours!!
  I’m joking … sort of.
  The Canadiens beat a good playoff-bound hockey team Saturday afternoon at the Bell Centre. Before the season began, TSN’s Pierre LeBrun, who knows his stuff, picked Anaheim to face Tampa Bay in the 2018 Sta
  
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• Defenceman Petry scores twice as Habs snap slide with 5-2 win over Ducks

  03-02-2018 22:38 via globalnews.ca
  Defenceman Jeff Petry scored two goals as the Montreal Canadiens ended a three-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens beat Ducks 5-2

  03-02-2018 22:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Jeff Petry’s second of the game, on a third period power play, sealed the deal.
  After Petry made it 4-0 early in the second, goals by Corey Perry (on a power play) and Rickard Rakell got the Ducks into the game.
  Jonathan Drouin was hit by a shot and didn’t return.
  Fourth liner Logan Shaw scored his first as a Canadien six minutes into the first period.
  Joe Morrow made it 2-0 during a power play two minutes later. Nikita Scherbak picked up an assist. David Schlemko’s goal,
  
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• Habs Game Report: Backup goalie Niemi blocks 43 shots to help snap' losing streak

  03-02-2018 22:24 via montrealgazette.com
  The bottom line: Backup goaltender Antti Niemi turned in a strong performance as the Canadiens snapped a three-game losing streak with a 5-2 win over the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday afternoon at the Bell Centre. Niemi, who was making only his third start since Nov. 25, turned aside 43 shots as he ran his record with the Canadiens to 2-1-1. While the Canadiens’ defencemen provided him with four goals, he didn’t get as much support at the other end of the ice. He stopped a number of brea
  
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• Pointe-Claire residents hope new park will honour local CFL great Tony Proudfoot

  03-02-2018 22:12 via globalnews.ca
  Pointe-Claire resident Norm Horner is campaigning for the city to name a new park after the late CFL player.
  
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• Pointe-Claire resident hopes new park will honour local CFL great Tony Proudfoot

  03-02-2018 22:12 via globalnews.ca
  Pointe-Claire resident Norm Horner is campaigning for the city to name a new park after the late CFL player.
  
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• Canadiens down Ducks to end 3-game losing skid

  03-02-2018 22:00 via cbc.ca
  The Montreal Canadiens ended a three-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday afternoon, but forward Jonathan Drouin left the game early in the second period after being hit by a slapshot from teammate Karl Alzner.
  
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• After years of neglect, Montreal's iconic Snowdon Theatre is sold

  03-02-2018 21:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal has found a buyer for the Snowdon Theatre, a once-stylish venue that became a sad relic — a magnet for vandals and arsonists.
  The sale — for $1.6 million, $200,000 less than the city paid for it in 2004 — is conditional on the new owner preserving the historic facade of the building, on Décarie Blvd., just north of Queen-Mary Rd. The interior, however, has been too badly damaged by a 2016 fire to be salvaged, the city said.
  Known for its art-deco design, el
  
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• Abandoned former Chinese hospital to be put on real estate market after 18-year vacancy

  03-02-2018 21:38 via cbc.ca
  Built in the 1960s to care for newcomes to Montreal, the former Montreal Chinese Hospital at the intersection of Faillon and St-Denis streets in Villeray hasn’t had patients since 1999.
  
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• Canadiens Drouin leaves game after being hit in upper body by Alzner shot

  03-02-2018 21:29 via globalnews.ca
  Drouin, who was hit in the upper body, was reportedly taken to hospital for X-rays.
  
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• Youth arrested over alleged social media threats in wake of Maniwaki courthouse shooting

  03-02-2018 21:05 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec provincial police say they arrested a male youth in Maniwaki on Thursday on the charge of intimidating a justice system participant.
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens 4 – Anaheim 2 after two

  03-02-2018 20:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Should be a fun third period.
  After Jeff Petry made it 4-0 early in the second period, goals by Corey Perry (on a power play) and Rickard Rakell got the Ducks into the game.
  Jonathan Drouin was hit by a shot and didn’t return.
  Fourth liner Logan Shaw scored his first as a Canadien six minutes into the first period.
  Joe Morrow made it 2-0 during a power play two minutes later. Nikita Scherbak picked up an assist. David Schlemko’s goal, 10 minutes in, chased Ryan Miller.
  Shots thr
  
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• Stu Cowan: Habs fan’s backyard ice shrine brings neighbours together

  03-02-2018 20:05 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens didn’t give their fans anything to cheer about in Thursday night’s 2-0 loss to the Hurricanes in Carolina, but that didn’t spoil the party inside Derek Parker’s backyard ice castle/bar in Brossard.
  Parker, a diehard Canadiens fan, started building his ice castle on Dec. 14 and finished on Jan. 8, spending more than 100 hours working on it. It is 30 feet long, 12 feet wide and 6½ feet high, built from 568 blocks of ice measuring 12x12x15 inches that Pa
  
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• A bit of snow for Montreal, bitterly cold in the rest of Quebec

  03-02-2018 19:26 via montrealgazette.com
  For those playing the weather home game, Montreal streets are 100 per cent clear of ice and snow, according to the city’s snow-removal site.Snow clouds should move into the region overnight Saturday, leaving up to 3 centimetres on the ground by morning. Another five to 10 centimetres could fall by the end of Sunday, which will boast a high of minus-1 Celsius.
  The snow might stick around a while: Montreal’s snow-removal policy dictates that snow-removal operations won’t begin un
  
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• Nature Conservancy expands protected Quebec wetland area and bird habitat

  03-02-2018 19:22 via globalnews.ca
  The conservation group says it's adding 25 hectares to its 305-hectare preserve on Île de Grâce, about 95 km northeast of Montreal.
  
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• Rats are squatting in a snowbank in N.D.G.

  03-02-2018 19:14 via montrealgazette.com
  A large mound of snow is serving as a makeshift hotel for a family of rats at one of the busiest intersections of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
  Located at the base of the Shell gas station sign, near a bush on Somerled Ave. at the corner of Cavendish Blvd., the mound of snow is home to all sorts of wildlife, including pigeons and squirrels, feeding off bread and seeds that passersby leave for them.
  The mound became the talk of the city after someone posted a video on Facebook of the rats going in a
  
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• A centre for excellence in artificial intelligence is coming to Mile-Ex

  03-02-2018 18:41 via cbc.ca
  The complex, called O Mile Ex, is at the corner of St-Urbain and St-Zotique streets. Its tenants are set to move in by the end of the year.
  
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• Chimney fire forces evacuation of Château Montebello

  03-02-2018 18:34 via cbc.ca
  A fire broke out in the central chimney of the the historic west Quebec hotel Friday night.
  
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• Montreal weather: A bit of snow here, bitterly cold in the rest of Quebec

  03-02-2018 18:30 via montrealgazette.com
  For those playing the weather home game, Montreal streets are 100 per cent clear of ice and snow, according to the city’s snow-removal site.Snow clouds should move into the region overnight Saturday, leaving up to 3 centimetres on the ground by morning. Another five to 10 centimetres could fall by the end of Sunday, which will boast a high of minus-1 Celsius.
  The snow might stick around a while: Montreal’s snow-removal policy dictates that snow-removal operations won’t begin un
  
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• Genie Bouchard's going to the Super Bowl with that guy from the Internet

  03-02-2018 18:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Genie Bouchard, who has some free time this weekend after losing in the quarterfinals of Taiwan’s Kaohsiung tennis tournament on Friday, will be attending this Sunday’s Super Bowl with a fan she met over Twitter.
  You may remember him from last year’s Super Bowl. That’s when he asked Bouchard if she’d go on a date with him in the unlikely event of the New England Patriots coming back from a 28-3 deficit against the Atlanta Falcons. They did, and a couple weeks later
  
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• Liveblog: Anaheim at Canadiens

  03-02-2018 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  What’s the over/under on the number of Canadiens fans who show up wearing paper bags?
  And how far into Saturday afternoon’s game against Anaheim will we get before the first boos are heard at the Bell Centre?
  I say 30 and 12:00 of the first period … 10:00 if the Canadiens have yet to register a shot on goal.
  Which could eventuate, because the visitors will be motivated.
  Anaheim is in a tough battle for a playoff spot in the Western Conference.
  The Ducks sit third in the Pacifi
  
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• School buses: 'Did you see me' campaign targets drivers, kids, parents

  03-02-2018 16:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Companies that operate Quebec school buses have launched a safety campaign to protect the province’s 520,000 schoolchildren.
  The campaign, by the Fédération des transporteurs par autobus, uses the tagline “Did you see me?”According to data from the Société de l ‘assurance automobile du Québec, 292 people were victims of an accident related to school transportation in 2016, 29 fewer than the previous year. There were five deaths.
  Tra
  
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• #ICYMI: Jordan Soles from Montreal's @FXRodeo told BT about their 3 nominations for 2018 Academy Awards. Watch here… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-02-2018 16:01
  #ICYMI: Jordan Soles from Montreal's @FXRodeo told BT about their 3 nominations for 2018 Academy Awards. Watch here… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Wanted: volunteers to help low-income Quebecers complete tax returns

  03-02-2018 15:59 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canada Revenue Agency and Revenu Québec are looking for volunteers to complete tax returns.
  Their job will be to help low-income people fill in their tax returns free of charge so that they can receive the benefits and tax credits to which they are entitled.
  Volunteers, who will receive online training, will also be able to help taxpayers who have difficulty completing their returns and who can’t afford professional services.
  Last year in Quebec more than 3,550 volunteers h
  
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• Game Day: An early start for Canadiens matinee game vs. Ducks

  03-02-2018 15:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens defenceman Karl Alzner is a big fan of afternoon hockey games.
  “I definitely love the matinee games,” Alzner said after practice Friday in Brossard. “Yeah, big fan. Anything in the afternoon is good. 7:30 is a little late in my opinion, but I understand it for everybody trying to get to get to the game. But I’m excited about it.”
  Alzner gets to play back-to-back matinee games this weekend at the Bell Centre against the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday (1 p.m., TS
  
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• Montrealers' input wanted for 3 new parks in Griffintown

  03-02-2018 15:35 via cbc.ca
  The city of Montreal wants to hear what residents in Griffintown would like three new parks in their neighbourhood to look like.
  
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• Montreal wants your ideas for 3 new Griffintown park projects

  03-02-2018 15:35 via cbc.ca
  The City of Montreal wants to hear what residents in Griffintown would like three new parks in their neighbourhood to look like.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Cute animals compete to pick Super Bowl winner

  03-02-2018 14:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Also: Parks and remediation 
  Concordia will allow its student union to select the two undergraduate students who will participate on its task force on sexual violence. The university had previously announced that students could apply directly to participate in the 12-person task force, which was announced in the wake of allegations of misconduct against certain professors in its Creative Writing program. The Concordia Student Union held a news conference on Thursday to air concerns that the
  
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• The Week in Review: Sidewalks, Code White, snowmageddon, task force and tax bills

  03-02-2018 14:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on all the big stories that happened this week in Montreal.
  Montreal ices plan to heat Ste-Catherine St. sidewalks
  The dream of heated sidewalks for Ste-Catherine St. is over. The administration of Mayor Valérie Plante has decided not to pursue the idea, first proposed by former mayor Denis Coderre, because it has been judged too expensive, potentially prone to costly breakdowns and could delay the first phase of the infrastructure overhaul that has just begun on Montreal’
  
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• Shelter: From Stockholm to Verdun, with love (and a dog named Sture)

  03-02-2018 14:02 via montrealgazette.com
  When Stefan Seibert learned that his company was transferring him from Stockholm to Montreal, his live-in girlfriend, Trine Jørgensen, jumped at the chance to go along.
  As the ice axe on the wall of their new home attests, they are both outdoor lovers who are used to cold winters, so they figured that living in Quebec for a year or so would be both enjoyable and widen their horizons. Last fall, Jørgensen set off from Scandinavia with Sture, their enthusiastic Australian Shepherd, a
  
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• Robotics competition encourages girls to get into STEM

  03-02-2018 14:00 via cbc.ca
  It’s Super Bowl weekend, and a robotics competition in Laval is riffing on the football theme as it continues to encourage students, particularly girls, to take an interest in robotics.
  
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• Illustrator Jacques Goldstyn, a.k.a. Boris, is drawn to a challenge

  03-02-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Last year, at the age of 59, renowned Quebec illustrator Jacques Goldstyn — known as Boris to Montreal Gazette readers — was tasked with following in the footsteps of a local legend.
  Goldstyn, best known in the francophone community for his illustrations in the science magazine Les Débrouillards, was invited to replace Terry Mosher, a.k.a. Aislin, as the Gazette’s chief editorial cartoonist. Mosher continues to draw one new editorial cartoon per week and provides one his
  
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• How to buy weed in Canada when it’s legalized

  03-02-2018 12:30 via globalnews.ca
  Across the country, it's looking like each province is taking quite a different approach to pot legalization.
  
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• From smoke break request to gunfire, courthouse incident escalated swiftly

  03-02-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  A request for a smoke break escalated into a fight between a teenager and a special constable inside a courthouse in Maniwaki, Que., on Wednesday, and ended with gunfire.
  
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• Crossing the urban jungle: Crémazie Boulevard's pedestrian problem

  03-02-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Crémazie Boulevard poses a challenge for pedestrians and cyclists, with a tally of 33 accidents on a single busy stretch in the past two years. A new group in the Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough wants your ideas to make the artery safer.
  
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• Can Crémazie Boulevard go from pedestrian problem to urban oasis?

  03-02-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Crémazie Boulevard poses a challenge for pedestrians and cyclists, with a tally of 33 accidents on a single busy stretch in the past two years. A new group in the Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough wants your ideas to make the artery safer.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Groundhog Day for Canadiens with yet another shutout loss

  03-02-2018 05:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Friday was Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney Phil — the famous furry rodent — emerged from his burrow in western Pennsylvania at around 7:25 a.m. and saw his shadow, predicting another six weeks of winter. I’m not sure if Canadiens coach Claude Julien saw his shadow Friday morning, but I can safely predict there are only two more months of hockey remaining for his team.
  The Canadiens saw their record drop to 20-25-6 with a 2-0 loss to the Hurricanes Thursday night in Carolina that
  
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• Missing 13-year-old girl is found safe

  03-02-2018 05:15 via montrealgazette.com
  A missing 13-year-old girl was found safe last night.
  She was last seen in the Côte-des-Neiges area before she went missing and was known to frequent the métro.
  Her family were concerned for her safety and Montreal police had asked for the public’s help in locating her. 
  She was found at the Atwater métro station.
   
   
  
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• Villa Maria High School to drop private music school

  03-02-2018 03:06 via globalnews.ca
  Villa Maria High School is putting an end to its private music school.
  
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• Father and daughter among 3 dead in helicopter crash near Drummondville

  03-02-2018 03:05 via montrealgazette.com
  DRUMMONDVILLE — The family of two of the three people who died in a helicopter crash northeast of Montreal said Friday that words cannot fully describe the feelings of desolation and incomprehension they are experiencing.
  Jean-Claude Mailhot and his daughter Janie, along with Nathalie Desrosiers, died Thursday after a helicopter they were travelling in crashed in a snow-covered field just north of Drummondville.
  Police said Friday the crash that killed everyone on board was not likely due
  
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• Missing 13-year-old girl is sought by police

  03-02-2018 03:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are asking the public’s help to locate 13-year-old Jiangtian Liu, who has gone missing.
  She may be in Montreal, and travels by métro. She was last seen in the Côte-des-Neiges area.
  Her family is concerned for her safety.
  Anyone with information is asked to contact Info-Crime Montreal at 514-393-1133. All calls are confidential.
  
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• Missing 13-year-old girl found safe

  03-02-2018 03:00 via cbc.ca
  A 13-year-old girl was was reported missing in Montreal has been found safe and sound.
  
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• In case you missed it, here is what happened on February 2

  03-02-2018 02:27 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal:
  Montreal tax bills are going out and they may shock some taxpayers
  Montreal sent out tax bills this week, detailing for the first time exactly how taxpayers will be affected by a controversial tax hike Plante imposed in her first budget. This weekend, as taxpayers take a closer look, they might be surprised by what they find. That’s because the figures bandied about in news articles, press releases and politician sound bites can
  
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