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• Goodbye brown carpets and grey cubicles: Quebec government offices are getting a makeover

  11-02-2018 23:45 via cbc.ca
  The province plans to modernize its existing government buildings to remove the bland brown carpets and grey cubicle walls in hopes of promoting productivity and attracting more workers, Radio-Canada has learned.
  
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• Lino Zambito cuts ties with UPAC, calls for independent investigation

  11-02-2018 23:39 via cbc.ca
  Lino Zambito says he will no longer collaborate with Quebec's anti-corruption unit (UPAC) after he was named in an affidavit that details the unit's efforts to uncover who was leaking classified information about ongoing investigations to the media.
  
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• Men's moguls final is Canadian Mikael Kingsbury's to lose

  11-02-2018 23:19 via cbc.ca
  Mikael Kingsbury has seemingly done it all and an Olympic gold medal in Monday's men's moguls final may all but solidify his status as the greatest of all time.
  
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• Maniwaki shooting: Protest in support of Steven Bertrand

  11-02-2018 22:38 via montrealgazette.com
  MANIWAKI, Que. — Friends and loved ones of an 18-year-old who was seriously injured in an altercation with a special constable held a protest on Saturday in front of the Quebec courthouse where the young man was shot.
  The raucous participants cheered and waved signs reading Justice for Steven as they held a small demonstration and march in Maniwaki, about 130 km north of Ottawa.
  Steven Bertrand was shot in the head on Jan. 31 after struggling with a special constable.
  Quebec’s police
  
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• Freezing rain warning in effect for much of southern Quebec

  11-02-2018 22:38 via cbc.ca
  Environment Canada warned drivers and pedestrians should be careful on slick roads.
  
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• No trace of two missing snowmobilers on South Shore

  11-02-2018 22:26 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) has suspended a search for two snowmobilers who have been missing in the Montérégie region since Friday.
  The SQ halted the search Sunday at around noon, after finding no traces of the two men, age 29 and 30.
  As of mid-afternoon, police did not know what the next step in the investigation would be.
  The SQ carried out only aerial searches on Sunday, focusing mainly on areas where there was no ice cover.
  On Saturday, police divers discover
  
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• PQ slams Gaétan Barrette for standoff with optometrists

  11-02-2018 22:13 via montrealgazette.com
  The Parti Québécois is calling on Premier Philippe Couillard’s government to change its negotiating strategy with optometrists, who threatened last week to withdraw from Quebec’s health insurance plan (RAMQ).
  PQ health critic Diane Lamarre blamed Health Minister Gaétan Barrette for playing tough with optometrists, which she said has caused them to switch course and walk out on the talks.
  Lamarre, the MNA for Taillon, said Barrette’s intransigent stance is a
  
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• ‘I have lots of possibilities’: Young girls learn about working in science

  11-02-2018 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  The Montreal Science Centre hosted an event on women and science to inspire young girls to study and pursue a career in science.
  
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• Quebec injecting extra $8.6 million into health care

  11-02-2018 21:58 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec government is injecting an additional $8.6 million into the health-care system between now and March 31, Health and Social Services Minister Gaétan Barrette announced Sunday.
  The non-recurring amount will “meet the growing needs of the population and reduce waiting times” by facilitating access to surgery, diagnostic tests and certain cardiology services, Barrette said at a news conference in Montreal.
  The government will invest $2.5 million in surgery, which w
  
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• Quebec's deputy premier to attend Magic fashion marketplace in Las Vegas

  11-02-2018 21:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Deputy Premier Dominique Anglade will be in Las Vegas on Monday to attend one of the largest fashion marketplaces in North America.
  Anglade will arrive at the Magic exposition with a delegation of 80 Quebec businesses in the fashion industry.
  The annual expo runs Feb. 12 to 14.
  Quebec’s fashion players will be showcasing their work at the event’s MontréalStyle gallery.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Serge Savard could help Canadiens in a management role

  11-02-2018 21:22 via montrealgazette.com
  When Canadiens owner Geoff Molson went looking for a new general manager six years ago, he asked Serge Savard to help him conduct the search.
  It was a good move by Molson, since Savard was a Hall of Fame defenceman with the Canadiens and won eight Stanley Cups as a player before becoming the team’s general manager and building Montreal’s last two championship teams in 1986 and 1993. 
  After a month-long search, Molson and Savard decided Marc Bergevin was the man to rebuild the Ca
  
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• Woman, 78, in critical condition after being hit by car in Rivière-des-Prairies

  11-02-2018 20:55 via cbc.ca
  Police say a driver was making a turn as woman was crossing westbound on Maurice-Duplessis Blvd. She was hit and taken to hospital, where her condition worsened.
  
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• Zambito cuts ties with UPAC, calls for investigation of anti-corruption squad

  11-02-2018 20:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Former construction boss Lino Zambito denied on Sunday that he was responsible for leaking information about ongoing investigations of Quebec’s anti-corruption squad into prominent members of the provincial Liberal party.
  “I am not the source that UPAC is looking for, I have no access to investigate files and no information on the investigative process,” Zambito said at a press conference in Montreal.
  Zambito, who was a star witness at the Charbonneau Commission, said he was su
  
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• Freezing rain warning expected in Montreal

  11-02-2018 19:28 via globalnews.ca
  Environment Canada is warning Quebecers to adjust their driving accordingly, as road conditions will become more challenging.
  
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• Prince exhibit celebrates musical icon during Black History Month

  11-02-2018 18:59 via cbc.ca
  Until the end of Black History Month, a free, multimedia exhibit on Prince's career will be displayed at Place des Arts, featuring items sourced from CBC Montreal music columnist Duke Eatmon's personal collection.
  
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• PQ slams Barrette for standoff with optometrists

  11-02-2018 18:57 via montrealgazette.com
  The Parti Québécois is calling on the Premier Philippe Couillard’s government to change its negotiating strategy with optometrists, who threatened last week to withdraw from Quebec’s health insurance plan (RAMQ).
  PQ critic Diane Lamarre blamed Minister Gaétan Barrette f0r playing tough with optometrists, which she said has caused them to switch course and walk out on the talks.
  Lamarre, the Member of the National Assembly for Taillon, said Barrette’s intran
  
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• Let Scherbak find his groove with Habs | HI/O Bonus

  11-02-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
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• Union gives out heartbreak badges symbolizing nurses' overwork

  11-02-2018 17:33 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec union is launching a campaign to get people to wear “broken heart” badges to protest against overwork and compulsory overtime for the province’s nurses.
  The Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ) is best known for representing most of the elementary and high school teachers across the province, but it also includes 5,000 nurses, nurses’ aides and respiratory therapists.
  The union is hoping the broken heart symbol for health care staff will catch on like th
  
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• Quebec campaign promotes need to stay in school

  11-02-2018 17:19 via montrealgazette.com
  Hooked on School Days — a campaign to combat Quebec’s drop-out rate — runs from Monday to Friday.
  Symbolized by a green-and-white ribbon, the campaign aims to encourage young people to finish high school. The drop-out rate among high school students in Montreal decreased to 18 per cent in 2014 from 25 per cent in 2009.
  Among boys, the rate was 20 per cent, while among girls it was 15 per cent.
  Across the province, the rate was 14 per cent — 17 per cent for boys and 1
  
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• #ICYMI: Stella Papadopoulos (@TweetStella) from Clean The World Canada's soap recycling initiative tells us how the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-02-2018 16:01
  #ICYMI: Stella Papadopoulos (@TweetStella) from Clean The World Canada's soap recycling initiative tells us how the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 16,700 litres of diesel spilled in northeastern Quebec

  11-02-2018 15:39 via montrealgazette.com
  A broken generator belonging to the mining company Arcelor Mittal has caused the spill of 16,700 litres of diesel near Fermont, Qc., close to the Labrador border.
  On Saturday morning, the company informed the Quebec Environment Department’s control centre that a spill had occurred at mileage 213.2 of a railway leading to Fermont, 800 kilometres north of Sept-Îles.
  The Environment Department’s environmental emergency team has in contact with the company and will visit the s
  
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• Snow, freezing rain expected to wreak havoc on the roads Sunday

  11-02-2018 15:17 via montrealgazette.com
  A combination of rain, freezing rain and snow could make for slippery surfaces and traffic disruptions in southwest and central Quebec starting Sunday afternoon and continuing into the evening. 
  Environment Canada has issued a freezing rain warning for the Montreal area. Between two and five millimetres of freezing rain are expected. 
  Gusts reaching 50 kilometres per hour are also expected in some parts of the province. 
  The storm is forecast to reach eastern Quebec later in the d
  
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• Fitness: What it takes to get to the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics

  11-02-2018 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  For the next two weeks, you’ll be enjoying a ringside seat to the greatest athletes in the world doing what they do best. And despite the fact that they make it look easy, becoming an Olympian is anything but. Most careers are built on blood, sweat and tears, with plenty of lows sprinkled between the highs of podium-worthy finishes.
  So what does it take to represent Canada in Pyeongchang? Here’s some insight on the path to gold for a few of the disciplines in which our athletes are e
  
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• While you were sleeping: Man fights 150-pound bear to protect his puppy

  11-02-2018 14:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Also: Philippe Couillard talks about the province’s deal with medical specialists and the SQ searches for missing snowmobilers
  Premier Philippe Couillard said the agreement in principal signed on Friday between the province and medical specialists will aid patients. The confidential agreement aims to set working conditions and renumeration for the 10,000 members of the Fédération des médecins spécialistes (FMSQ). The premier denied he had yie
  
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• Quebec needs to do more to ensure safety of ride-sharing cars, coroner says

  11-02-2018 14:06 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's auto insurance board needs to do more to ensure the vehicles used in ride-sharing services meet basic safety standards, a provincial coroner said following an investigation into a fatal 2016 crash.
  
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• Schukov: Understanding Bitcoin is virtually impossible

  11-02-2018 13:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Have you ever had a problem understanding something no matter how many times it’s explained to you? It’s like expounding electricity to a Neanderthal. Everyone I know has that dilemma with the question, “What is a Bitcoin?” Even the rare bird who tells me they absolutely know what it is, and starts to explain it to me, soon breaks down and admits, “I have no idea.”
  So, after avoiding what would be inevitably futile extensive research, I feel completely qualifi
  
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• Young: Hudson's Daniel Shelton and the funny papers

  11-02-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Remember when we used to call them funny papers, those ever-present cartoon strips in our daily newspapers, that often as not we would turn to before settling into the more serious stuff.
  Well, happy to say, they are still with us. For example, the Montreal Gazette alone carries 16 different strips, each revealing its unique overview of the human condition, all bundled together on what the Gazette calls the Diversions page, a page it shares with Your Horoscope.
  These works of art, for that&rsquo
  
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• About last night…Nashville edges Canadiens 3-2 in a thriller

  11-02-2018 13:10 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s not going to happen any time soon.
  Maybe not within the lifetime of most people reading this … or the guy writing it.
  But based on the two games they’ve played this season, a Stanley Cup final between the Canadiens and Nashville could be a classic.
  Nov. 22 in Nashville: A Finnish goaltenders’ duel between Pekka Rinne and Antti Niemi goes to overtime after Joe Morrow ties it at 2-2 with 56 seconds left in regulation. The home team wins on Kyle Turris’s shootout
  
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• Montreal's Justine Dufour-Lapointe captures silver in women's moguls

  11-02-2018 12:15 via cbc.ca
  Canadian skier Justine Dufour-Lapointe has captured an Olympic silver medal in women's moguls on Sunday in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
  
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• How a group of CEGEP students rescued skiers swept away by a Gaspé avalanche

  11-02-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Five students from the adventure tourism program at Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles are being honoured by their school for coming to the aid of a group of skiers, injured in an avalanche.
  
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• CEGEP students spring into action after avalanche sweeps away skiers in Gaspé

  11-02-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Five students from the adventure tourism program at Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles are being honoured by their school for coming to the aid of a group of skiers, injured in an avalanche.
  
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• Nashville Predators top Montreal Canadians on Ryan Ellis' shootout goal - The Globe and Mail

  11-02-2018 05:53 via theglobeandmail.com
  The Globe and Mail
  Nashville Predators top Montreal Canadians on Ryan Ellis' shootout goal
  The Globe and Mail
  Alexei Emelin #25 of the Nashville Predators and Byron Froese #42 of the Montreal Canadiens skate against each other during the NHL game at the Bell Centre on February 10, 2018 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images. Bill Beacon ...
  Hospital visit once again part of PK Subban's return to MontrealMontreal Gazette
  Montreal Canadiens: What would addressing the fans do
  
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• In the Habs' Room: Gallagher and Subban engage in own private war

  11-02-2018 05:48 via montrealgazette.com
  The final score at the Bell Centre on Saturday night was Nashville Predators 3, Montreal Canadiens 2.
  But there was also a game within the game and the final score there was Brendan Gallagher 1, P.K. Subban 0. 
  The former teammates appeared to have their own private war going. There were words — although neither player would go into the details of the trash-talking — and there was some physical play. Gallagher, who would score his 20th goal was credited with four hits and three
  
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• Stu Cowan: P.K. Subban gets the last smile in win over Canadiens

  11-02-2018 05:30 via montrealgazette.com
  As P.K. Subban was being interviewed outside the Nashville Predators’ locker room following Saturday night’s 3-2 shootout win over the Canadiens at the Bell Centre, his former teammates Carey Price and Alex Galchenyuk were standing in the background waiting to talk with him.
  Not surprisingly, Brendan Gallagher wasn’t there.
  “You know what, I miss those two guys the most … Pricey and Chucky and guys that I keep in touch with pretty regularly since I’ve been he
  
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• About last night … Nashville edges Canadiens 3-2 in a thriller

  11-02-2018 05:06 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s not going to happen any time soon.
  Maybe not within the lifetime of most people reading this … or the guy writing it.
  But based on the two games they’ve played this season, a Stanley Cup final between the Canadiens and Nashville could be a classic.
  Nov. 22 in Nashville: A Finnish goaltenders’ duel between Pekka Rinne and Antti Niemi goes to overtime after Joe Morrow ties it at 2-2 with 56 seconds left in regulation. The home team wins on Kyle Turris’s shootout
  
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• Drouin's late heroics not enough in OT loss to Predators

  11-02-2018 04:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The bottom line: Ryan Ellis scored the only goal in a shootout to give the Nashville Predators a 3-2 win over the Canadiens on Saturday night at the Bell Centre. The shootout was an anticlimax after the Canadiens outshot Nashville 49-32 with a 10-2 edge in overtime.
  Drouin delivers late heroics: Jonathan Drouin sent the game into overtime when he scored his eighth goal of the season at 19:46 of the third period. Drouin’s shot from the left faceoff circle beat Pekka Rinne high on the blocke
  
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• Predators edge Habs in shootout

  11-02-2018 04:20 via cbc.ca
  Ryan Ellis was the only scorer in a shootout as the Nashville Predators defeated the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 on Saturday night.
  
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• Liveblog: Nashville beats Canadiens 3-2 in Shootout

  11-02-2018 04:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Ryan Ellis’s Shootout goal settled a terrific game dominated by the home team right through the OT.
  With Carey Price on the bench for an extra attacker, Jonathan Drouin had tied it up 2-2 with 74 seconds left in regulation.
  Pekka Rinne’s heroics had kept Nashville in a game the Canadiens dominated.
  Then Kevin Fiala gave the Predators their first lead, 12 minutes into the third period.
  Brendan Gallagher’s 20th got the Canadiens on the board 8:35 into the second. Artturi Leh
  
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• Patients will be winners under medical specialists deal, Couillard says

  11-02-2018 03:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Premier Philippe Couillard maintains the agreement in principal signed on Friday between the Quebec government and medical specialists will aid patients.
  Medical specialists will also benefit by avoiding the penalties provided for in Bill 130, which would regulate the practice of specialists in hospitals.
  The premier denied he had yielded to the powerful doctors lobby, who have received substantial and controversial pay increases in recent years.
  On the contrary, he said during a media
  
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• Pointe-St-Charles tenants ordered to leave 'risk to human life' apartment buildings, city says

  11-02-2018 02:37 via cbc.ca
  The notice was directed at the tenants of two apartment buildings owned by the same landlord — one on Du Centre and Châteauguay streets — telling them to be out by Feb 22.
  
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• Pointe-Saint-Charles tenants ordered to leave 'risk to human life' apartment buildings, city says

  11-02-2018 02:37 via cbc.ca
  The notice was directed at the tenants of two apartment buildings owned by the same landlord — one on du Centre and Châteauguay streets — telling them to be out by Feb 22.
  
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• Do you want to buy a snow bank?

  11-02-2018 02:15 via globalnews.ca
  A business owner in Beauharnois, Que. is fed up with the amount of snow the region has seen this winter and his plan to get rid of it has become the talk of the town. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Protesters demand justice for teen shot at Maniwaki courthouse

  11-02-2018 01:56 via cbc.ca
  A few dozen people rallied outside the Maniwaki, Que., courthouse Saturday afternoon, demanding justice for the 18-year-old man who was shot in the head last week by a special constable.
  
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• Liveblog: Nashville 0 – Canadiens 0 after one

  11-02-2018 01:54 via montrealgazette.com
   
  Canadiens played an excellent first period against P.K.’s team.
  Pekka Rinne had the tougher saves and made a good one on an Alex Galchenyuk one-timer.
  There were a few scrums as the intensity cranked up.
  Shots were 8-5 CH.
   
  
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• St-Valentin vies to be the capital of true love

  11-02-2018 00:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Plunked in the middle of snow-covered corn fields and dairy farms of southern Quebec, where traffic on main street slows to make way for all-terrain vehicles, the village of St-Valentin has quietly transformed itself into Canada’s Capital of Love.
  For the 24th year, the town near the Lacolle border crossing is trading on its name to hold its annual Saint Valentine’s Day festival, from Feb. 7 to 14, with events of all kinds related to matters of the heart.
  On Thursday, they held the m
  
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