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• Dollard-des-Ormeaux: suspects arrested in series of break-ins

  05-02-2018 23:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Police investigators arrested three suspects on Wednesday in connection with a series of break-ins in Dollard-des-Ormeaux.
  Robberies were reported at two homes on Jan. 29. Investigators quickly made the link to a suspect related to similar crimes in 2017, all carried out in the same way.
  The man would go to residential areas in the company of two minors, who would ring people’s doorbells. At homes where no one answered, the minors would break in and steal various items while the man kept w
  
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• Student gets parking ticket outside home

  05-02-2018 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Feb 5: A Montreal student says he was fined for parking outside his apartment building for longer than 24 hours. As Global’s Phil Carpenter reports, Jean-Pierre Colgan-Nolin argues he has a permit to park in a spot reserved for residents.
  
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• Montreal to expropriate Notman Garden

  05-02-2018 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Feb 5: The City of Montreal is planning to expropriate the land at Notman Garden to prevent it from being turned into condos. As Global’s Matt Grillo reports, the hope is to turn the area into a park.
  
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• Mother's death after collision highlights risks of aging drivers

  05-02-2018 23:19 via montrealgazette.com
  An accident that claimed the life of a Montreal woman and left her young son in critical condition is highlighting the issue of aging seniors behind the wheel.
  Montreal police said Sunday’s incident, which involved a 90-year-old driver, occurred in the Village Montpelier shopping centre on Côte-Vertu Blvd. in Montreal’s St-Laurent borough.
  A mother, 44, was walking in a parking lot with her five-year-old son when they were struck by a car.
  Police spokeswoman Caroline Chevr
  
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• Stu Cowan: Two wishes come true on same day for young Canadiens fan

  05-02-2018 23:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Mark Tucker had a super day on Sunday, one he and his family will never forget.
  The 16-year-old from Ingersoll, Ont., is a huge Canadiens fan and got to watch his favourite team beat the Ottawa Senators 4-1 on his first visit to the Bell Centre. Tucker, who received a leukemia diagnosis when he was 11, was a guest of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and watched the game from a private loge operated by the Montreal Canadiens Children’s Foundation along with his father, Mike, and mother, Christine
  
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• Once-loved toys get second chance

  05-02-2018 23:13 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Feb 5: A Montreal mother is giving gently used toys a second chance at a happy home. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, she’s started a business to collect and sell toys, all the while raising money for charity.
  
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• Jesse Galganov's disappearance baffles locals in Peru

  05-02-2018 22:13 via montrealgazette.com
  As the editor of the Huaraz Telegraph in Peru, Rex Broekman often gets news tips that are of interest to the hundreds of backpackers who hike the popular Santa Cruz trail every year.
  Last Oct. 16, Broekman received a message on Facebook saying a Canadian man had gone missing while hiking on the trail.
  Broekman quickly published a story about Jesse Galganov’s disappearance in the online English-language newspaper he founded almost six years ago.
  The next day, the head of the local tourist p
  
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• Montreal makes good on promise to save Notman Garden, moves to expropriate land

  05-02-2018 21:20 via cbc.ca
  For more than a decade, Milton Park residents have fought to preserve the green space behind 172-year-old Notman House, named after the famed Montreal photographer who lived there until the 1890s.
  
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• STM to receive two free Azur métro trains

  05-02-2018 21:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealers will be getting two free, nine-car Azur métro trains, the city’s transit authority announced Monday. 
  The Société de transport de Montréal made the announcement as it unveiled its capital budget for the next 10 years.
  The STM said Bombardier-Alstom, the consortium supplying 50 new trains for the STM at a cost of $1.2 billion, delivered the first six late, so it was liable to pay a penalty. Instead, the STM opted for two free trains, STM chairper
  
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• MMA and former employees plead guilty, fined $1.25 million in Lac-Mégantic case

  05-02-2018 21:04 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway pleaded guilty and was ordered today to pay $1 million for violating the Fisheries Act.
  
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• PQ leader gets earful after joking about female MNA’s facial hair

  05-02-2018 20:41 via globalnews.ca
  The head of Quebec's official opposition apologized Monday for making fun of a female politician's fuzzy upper lip.
  
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• Kwasi Benjamin didn't believe girlfriend was dead when he found her, stepmother testifies

  05-02-2018 20:24 via cbc.ca
  Carmen James testified at the second-degree murder trial of her stepson, Kwasi Benjamin, 32, Monday, describing a caring but rocky relationship between him and his girlfriend, Nellie Angutiguluk, whom he is accused of killing in May 2015.
  
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• Accused murderer said he wanted to get rid of Nellie Angutiguluk, ex-cellmate testifies

  05-02-2018 20:24 via cbc.ca
  Kwasi Benjamin, charged with the second-degree murder of his girlfriend in 2015, told his ex-cellmate he was in love with someone else and was tired of paying for his girlfriend's booze and drugs, a jury heard Monday.
  
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• Celine Cooper: Avoiding drinking alcohol for a month was enlightening

  05-02-2018 20:02 via montrealgazette.com
  For many Canadians, alcohol is a normal part of our daily lives. More than 80 per cent of us drink — and I include myself.
  However, over the last few years, a critical conversation about our cultural relationship with alcohol has been brewing. Part of this has involved the growing popularity of movements that encourage people to hit the pause button and go alcohol-free for a month. Here in Quebec, February is the month to go sober. Défi 28 jours sans alcool (or 28 days sober) i
  
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• More debt, fewer tickets sold: Montreal's Formula E organizers open their books one last time

  05-02-2018 19:49 via cbc.ca
  Organizers of Montreal's ill-fated electric race gave one last reckoning of its accounts on Monday, admitting they sold only 15,000 tickets to the event, owe more than $13 million and have no clear idea how that money will be repaid.
  
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• Trial begins for man charged in Concordia University bomb threats

  05-02-2018 19:46 via montrealgazette.com
  In the days leading to last year’s bomb threats against Concordia University, evidence found on Hisham Saadi’s laptop suggest he carefully drafted the threatening letters, researched how to send them anonymously and whether his computer could somehow be traced back to him.
  The details emerged as his trial began at the Montreal courthouse Monday morning.
  Concordia was forced to evacuate three of its buildings on March 1, 2017, after several media outlets received a letter threatening
  
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• Registration day at Royal Vale ends 3 days of camping

  05-02-2018 19:20 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Feb 5: Parents hoping to get a spot at Royal Vale School in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce having been camping outside the EMSB school since Friday. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Formula E: 10,000 more freebies than previously revealed

  05-02-2018 18:58 via montrealgazette.com
  It turns out 30,000 tickets — not 20,000 — were given away for last summer’s ePrix, the non-profit agency running the Formula E event revealed Monday.
  In unveiling its final financial results, Montréal c’est électrique reported a deficit of $13.55 million, including $8.1 million in promised subsidies that the event never received from the city.
  Taking that subsidy into account, the deficit adds up to $5.45 million — the amount the organization was
  
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• Registration day at Royal Vale marks end to a three-day weekend of camping for parents

  05-02-2018 18:49 via globalnews.ca
  Registration at the Royal Vale Academy in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce opened Monday morning. Annually parents camp outside the school to gain a spot for their child.
  
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• Fan of #thebachelor? We get @VanessaGrimaldi's take on the current season and hear what she's up to in Los Angeles https://t.co/ovoH1JesVA

  05-02-2018 18:34
  
  Fan of #thebachelor? We get @VanessaGrimaldi's take on the current season and hear what she's up to in Los Angeles https://t.co/ovoH1JesVA
  
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• Fraud repayments should be returned to taxpayers: Montreal opposition

  05-02-2018 18:24 via montrealgazette.com
  The municipal opposition is calling on Montreal to use money repaid by companies that defrauded taxpayers to reduce property tax bills.
  Opposition Leader Lionel Perez also called on Mayor Valérie Plante to reveal how much the city has received under a voluntary repayment program created in November 2015 that gave companies and individuals an opportunity to reimburse money from public contracts obtained through collusion, bid-rigging or other fraudulent acts.
  “It’s hard to beli
  
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• Opinion: Youth protection deal with Atikamekw is reconciliation in action

  05-02-2018 18:12 via montrealgazette.com
  It is clear that there are numerous Indigenous realities in Quebec, rather than a single perspective. Many communities are dynamic and prosperous, but we rarely hear about these success stories. The social problems that plague certain communities have attracted a great deal of public attention.
  Of course, the theme of reconciliation with Indigenous communities has acquired much greater prominence in the media.
  That the reconciliation process is underway is undeniable, given many recent agreement
  
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• UPAC's first high-profile case produces few results

  05-02-2018 18:11 via montrealgazette.com
  With the jury now sequestered at the Joliette courthouse in the trial of construction magnate Antonio Accurso, a door is about to close on Quebec’s anti-corruption squad’s first high-profile case. 
  When arrest warrants were issued for Accurso and then-Mascouche mayor Richard Marcotte — along with more than a dozen other people in April 2012 — Project Gravier made the front pages of newspapers across the province.
  The end result, however, can hardly be called a succes
  
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• Martha Wainwright kicks off music series in Pierrefonds-Roxboro

  05-02-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Martha Wainwright comes to the Pierrefonds Cultural Centre to perform songs from her album Goodnight City, Friday (Feb. 9).
  Wainwright, who grew up in Montreal, comes from a family which is considered music royalty by many. Her mom and dad are Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III. Her aunt is Anna McGarrigle and her brother is Rufus Wainwright.
  Wainwright has been touring the album, but the Pierrefonds evening will be the first time she performs Goodnight City in Montreal.
  The Guardian&rsqu
  
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• Our @CVDmtl named Anglophone TV Personality of the Year at #GalaDynastie https://t.co/ybeUk7vPnn

  05-02-2018 17:51
  
  Our @CVDmtl named Anglophone TV Personality of the Year at #GalaDynastie https://t.co/ybeUk7vPnn
  
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• Who doesn’t love poutine? La Poutine Week returns across Canada for another edition https://t.co/QA3kBzoRoi

  05-02-2018 17:46
  
  Who doesn’t love poutine? La Poutine Week returns across Canada for another edition https://t.co/QA3kBzoRoi
  
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• Puppies come out to play at Le Doggie Café - @ImCoraMacDonald reports https://t.co/i4pA5pLJyP

  05-02-2018 17:36
  
  Puppies come out to play at Le Doggie Café - @ImCoraMacDonald reports https://t.co/i4pA5pLJyP
  
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• Laval sex workers upset about move - @ImCoraMacDonald reports https://t.co/0bd2XeK4dV

  05-02-2018 17:06
  
  Laval sex workers upset about move - @ImCoraMacDonald reports https://t.co/0bd2XeK4dV
  
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• Xavier Dolan cuts Jessica Chastain from upcoming English language debut

  05-02-2018 17:02 via cbc.ca
  Quebec filmmaker Xavier Dolan says he has cut actress Jessica Chastain from his upcoming movie The Death and Life of John F. Donovan.
  
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• Paul Simon's farewell tour to stop at Montreal's Bell Centre

  05-02-2018 17:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Less than two weeks after Elton John revealed plans to retire from the road after a final tour, Paul Simon has also announced a farewell tour, including a show at Montreal’s Bell Centre on Wednesday, June 13.
  Tickets cost $65.50 to $197.50 and go on sale Saturday, Feb. 10 at noon at the venue and via Evenko (855-310-2525; evenko.ca).
  The Homeward Bound tour will begin May 16 in Vancouver, with the North American leg wrapping up June 20 in Nashville before Simon embarks on a U.K. and Europe
  
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• Montreal CEGEP professor claims he was suspended for admitting 'disgust' of homosexuality

  05-02-2018 17:01 via cbc.ca
  A philosophy professor at CEGEP du Vieux Montréal was suspended last week after writing on Facebook that he has "disgust for homosexuals."
  
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• Montreal snow clearing to begin Monday night

  05-02-2018 16:41 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal will begin snow-clearing operations at 7 p.m. Monday.
  Noting that the city had received 14 centimetres of snow over the past weekend, Jean-François Parenteau, the executive-committee member responsible for services to citizens, announced the start of the operation via his Twitter account Monday morning.
  Borough residents who park their cars in the street are urged to pay attention to snow-removal notices attached to existing parking signs or placed on placards in snow
  
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• Canada's moguls king still has one hill left to conquer

  05-02-2018 16:16 via cbc.ca
  Mikael Kingsbury is the most prolific athlete ever to compete in freestyle skiing. But for all his accomplishments, he's still missing the greatest prize of all — Olympic gold.
  
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• Canada's moguls king still has 1 hill left to conquer

  05-02-2018 16:16 via cbc.ca
  Mikael Kingsbury is the most prolific athlete ever to compete in freestyle skiing. But for all his accomplishments, he's still missing the greatest prize of all — Olympic gold.
  
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• A tribute to Prince for Black History Month

  05-02-2018 16:12 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal musicologist Duke Eatmon joins Global’s Kim Sullivan and Laura Casella to talk about the special tribute to Prince that’s part of this February’s Black History Month celebrations.
  
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• Keeping our hearts healthy and happy

  05-02-2018 16:08 via globalnews.ca
  February is heart month: Dr. Mitch Shulman drops by to give Global’s Laura Casella some tips on keeping your heart healthy and happy.
  
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• West Island food bank was struggling with increased demand, leaky roof — then the delivery van broke down

  05-02-2018 16:00 via cbc.ca
  On Rock says it's been a trying start to 2018, as it tries to service almost twice the number of people it has the usual capacity to help with only 9,000-square feet of space.
  
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• Leaky roof, broken down van make for challenging times at West Island food bank

  05-02-2018 16:00 via cbc.ca
  On Rock says it's been a trying start to 2018, as it tries to service almost twice the number of people it has the usual capacity to help with only 9,000-square feet of space.
  
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• Online culinary market encourages buying local

  05-02-2018 15:57 via globalnews.ca
  Find out more about buying online from local artisans as Tastebuds Boutique co-founders Lara Osseiran and Caroline Agarao Safi talk to Global’s Kim Sullivan.
  
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• Meet the St. Patrick’s Day Parade queen and her court

  05-02-2018 15:49 via globalnews.ca
  Let the countdown to St Patrick’s Day begin as this year’s parade queen and her court introduce themselves to Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Challenges and solutions for working moms

  05-02-2018 15:49 via globalnews.ca
  HR Specialist Sherri Rabinovitch talks to Global’s Laura Casella about the challenges and potential solutions facing working moms.
  
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• PQ leader Lisée apologizes for mentioning Massé's moustache

  05-02-2018 15:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée took to Facebook Sunday night to apologize for having alluded a few hours earlier to the moustache of Québec Solidaire MNA Manon Massé during a radio broadcast.
  During the program, which was broadcast on Radio-Canada, Lisée was speaking about PQ MNA Véronique Hivon, his newly appointed deputy-leader. Asked what distinguished the PQ’s tandem of leadership from that of Québec Solidaire,
  
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• Parents camp outdoors ahead of Royal Vale registration

  05-02-2018 15:37 via globalnews.ca
  Parents hoping to get a spot at Royal Vale School in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce having been camping outside the EMSB school since Friday. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Monday, February 5

  05-02-2018 15:37 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Monday, February 5.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Monday, February 5

  05-02-2018 15:29 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Monday, February 5.
  
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• #BTMTL #needtoknow Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/Z3MvMT5VWU

  05-02-2018 14:38
  
  #BTMTL #needtoknow Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/Z3MvMT5VWU
  
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• Little sympathy for Quebec celebs accused of misconduct, poll shows

  05-02-2018 14:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Overall, a little more than one third of respondents in an online poll conducted by SOM for Cogeco News believe Quebec celebrities suspected of misconduct should return to the public domain.
  This proportion was 39 per cent in the case of chef Giovanni Apollo, 35 per cent for producer and broadcast host Éric Salvail, 20 per cent for actor Gilbert Sicotte and 14 per cent for Juste pour rire founder and businessman Gilbert Rozon.
  Most respondents felt that most of the individuals accuse
  
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• NEXT: Interior designer and specialist, Vanessa Sicotte tells us what home decor trends to watch out for in 2018. W… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-02-2018 14:01
  NEXT: Interior designer and specialist, Vanessa Sicotte tells us what home decor trends to watch out for in 2018. W… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• While you were sleeping: Eagles fans take to the streets; honouring a fish and Berlin Wall history

  05-02-2018 13:36 via montrealgazette.com
  On Sunday night, just as Nick Foles led the Philadelphia Eagles to a surprise Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots in Minneapolis, the scene more than 1,000 miles away in Philly was jubilation and pandemonium.
  Fireworks were set off. Car horns blared. And Philadelphians young and old descended on Broad Street, the iconic thoroughfare that will soon host a parade to commemorate the city’s first major pro sports championship since the Phillies won the 2008 World Series.
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• Stars Above: Mars meets rival

  05-02-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  As we head into the depths of winter, February nights are filled with amazing cosmic sights from ghostly pyramids of light to stunning lunar pairings.
  Every evening up until Feb. 16, about an hour after sunset, keen sky-watchers in the outer suburbs and especially the countryside can hunt down one of the most elusive of astronomical phenomena called zodiacal light.
  This pyramid-shaped, tower of light is often mistaken for simple light pollution from a distant city and has also been called t
  
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