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• Love is in the air at Quebec’s National Assembly

  14-02-2018 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Feb 14: Coalition Avenir Quebec MNA Eric Lefebvre was feeling the love this Valentine’s Day as he proposed to his longtime partner in the National Assembly.
  
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• Quebec City judge throws out fines for 160 anti-austerity protesters

  14-02-2018 23:49 via cbc.ca
  A municipal court judge in Quebec City has thrown out fines handed out to 160 people arrested in an anti-austerity march in 2015, due to unreasonable delays in the judicial process.
  
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• Updated: Defence files motion to halt Contrecoeur trial as final arguments begin

  14-02-2018 23:45 via montrealgazette.com
  A new defence motion to either halt the Contrecoeur fraud trial or declare a mistrial added to the start of closing arguments in the long-running case on Wednesday.
  The last-minute motion was filed two years after the trial of Frank Zampino, the former No. 2 politician at Montreal city hall, and five co-accused began before a judge alone and just as the defence and the prosecution were to begin the first of three days of final arguments.
  The motion was filed by Zampino’s lawyer, Isabel Sch
  
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• Montreal proposes controversial road safety recommendations

  14-02-2018 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Feb 14: Should cyclists be forced to stop at stop signs and red lights? If you said yes, you disagree with Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante and her administration. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, the city’s list of road safety recommendations are creating controversy.
  
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• Outremont dog park to close in 10 years

  14-02-2018 23:24 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Feb 14: A popular dog park in Outremont is slated to close in 10 years as it is now owned by Université de Montréal. Global’s Gloria Henriquez finds out why.
  
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• Analyze This: Canadiens conundrum — young forwards and old defencemen

  14-02-2018 23:23 via montrealgazette.com
  The Feb. 26 NHL trade deadline is less than two weeks away, and for a Canadiens team that’s had its fair share of disappointments at the club and individual levels, it’s seen as a possible turning point in management’s organizational philosophy.
  Whether general manager Marc Bergevin wants to call it a rebuild, retool or reset, it’s quite obvious that the Canadiens need to change their approach if they’re to become a serious contender for Lord Stanley’s Cup.
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• Families of autistic children fight Quebec government

  14-02-2018 23:18 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Feb 14: Charlotte Kuhn, a 7-year-old Montrealer living with autism, was rejected from receiving services because of her age, leading her father to protest. As Global’s Anne Leclair reports in this exclusive update, more heartbroken families are teaming up with human rights experts to prepare a legal fight against the Quebec government.
  
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• Awareness and education key to preventing youth from being drawn into sexual exploitation

  14-02-2018 22:58 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Feb 14: The Missing Children’s Network has helped parents to find their missing kids for years. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, the non-profit organization is now launching a program to warn youth about the pitfalls of running away from home and falling victim to sexual exploitation.
  
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• Montreal appeals to province to allow cyclists to turn right on red

  14-02-2018 22:35 via cbc.ca
  The City of Montreal wants the proposed amendments to Quebec's Highway Safety Code to allow cyclists more freedom in how they navigate city streets, and to protect them and pedestrians from trucks with blind spots and distracted drivers.
  
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• Let cyclists turn right on red lights, Montreal tells province

  14-02-2018 22:35 via cbc.ca
  The City of Montreal wants the proposed amendments to Quebec's Highway Safety Code to allow cyclists more freedom in how they navigate city streets, and to protect them and pedestrians from trucks with blind spots and distracted drivers.
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Antti Niemi gets start against Avalanche in Denver

  14-02-2018 22:14 via montrealgazette.com
  DENVER — Antti Niemi, who officially became a lame-duck goaltender after Charlie Lindgren signed a contract extension on Tuesday, will get the start Wednesday night when the Canadiens play the Colorado Avalanche at the Pepsi Center (9:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).  
  Canadiens coach Claude Julien said he looked at his goalies’ records before handing out the assignments for the game here and Thursday night’s game against the Arizona Coyotes. Niemi, who has played a goo
  
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• Check out the awesome wax figurines at the @GrevinMontreal Museum! https://t.co/LNLPepSpDO

  14-02-2018 21:56
  
  Check out the awesome wax figurines at the @GrevinMontreal Museum! https://t.co/LNLPepSpDO
  
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• Yes, we've had a lot more snow than usual

  14-02-2018 21:47 via montrealgazette.com
  The snow really has been relentless in Montreal this winter.
  Between November and mid-February, 193 centimetres fell.
  That’s 36 cm more than Montreal normally gets by the end of February, according to an analysis of data collected by Environment Canada at Trudeau Airport.
  And Montreal’s current tally is only 15 cm short of the 208 cm the city normally gets in an entire snow season (November to April).
  The season came in like a lamb, with Montreal receiving 13 cm fewer than
  
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• Opinion: Action needed to keep women in STEM careers

  14-02-2018 20:57 via montrealgazette.com
  More than 50 of Montreal’s most prominent STEM industry leaders, government officials, academics and HR specialists came together last month to discuss the issues affecting inclusivity and leadership opportunities for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
  McGill University, Ubisoft, Status of Women Canada, CAE and SAP were among the organizations represented at YES Montreal’s forum, as impassioned talk around breaking down barriers, addressing unconscious bias an
  
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• South Korean robots are the true sweethearts of PyeongChang https://t.co/iGQyCJ2lR8

  14-02-2018 20:50
  
  South Korean robots are the true sweethearts of PyeongChang https://t.co/iGQyCJ2lR8
  
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• New Quebec program targeting youth to stem runaways, teen sexual exploitation

  14-02-2018 20:33 via globalnews.ca
  The organization says it aims to give 40,000 kids the necessary tools right across the province.
  
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• CAQ MNA 'breaks protocol,' proposes marriage at the National Assembly

  14-02-2018 20:22 via montrealgazette.com
  It is seems that on Valentine’s Day at least, love conquers all — even the procedural protocols of the National Assembly.
  Coalition Avenir Québec MNA Éric Lefebvre had risen in the Assembly Wednesday morning during a period reserved for statements from members to note to his colleagues that the political life was difficult and the hardships were borne not only by those holding office, but also by those close to them.
  “On this St. Valentine’s Day I want to pa
  
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• Unusually bad flu season in Montreal

  14-02-2018 20:15 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Feb 14: There are more than double the number of influenza cases in Quebec so far this year. Global’s Billy Shields finds out why.
  
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• Bill of love tabled as Quebec MNA proposes at national assembly

  14-02-2018 19:56 via globalnews.ca
  Valentine's Day is all about romance and grand gestures — even at Quebec's national assembly.
  
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• Montreal suffering through unusually bad flu season

  14-02-2018 19:51 via globalnews.ca
  The flu season is in full swing in the Montreal area, where it is considered "widespread" in a province where more than double the reported cases have been listed over last year.
  
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• Montreal wants to make full stops optional for cyclists

  14-02-2018 19:35 via montrealgazette.com
  You may have heard this before: Montreal wants stiffer penalties for dooring, and it wants cyclists to be permitted to merely slow down at stop signs. 
  Those were among the recommendations the city unveiled as part of its brief to Quebec’s transportation ministry as it goes through the process of reforming the province’s Highway Safety Code.
  Marianne Giguère, who is charged with the active transportation file for Mayor Valérie Plante’s administration, said it
  
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• We celebrate Valentine’s Day with @nonna_maria! https://t.co/cjV1yj6gQu

  14-02-2018 19:28
  
  We celebrate Valentine’s Day with @nonna_maria! https://t.co/cjV1yj6gQu
  
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• Parliament Hill rink wins dubious award for waste of taxpayer dollars

  14-02-2018 19:27 via globalnews.ca
  Here's the complete list of federal, provincial and municipal winners and nominees.
  
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• Final arguments begin at Contrecoeur trial

  14-02-2018 19:18 via montrealgazette.com
  A new defence motion to either halt the Contrecoeur fraud trial or declare a mistrial added to the start of closing arguments in the long-running case on Wednesday.
  The last-minute motion was filed two years after the trial of Frank Zampino, the former No. 2 politician at Montreal city hall, and five co-accused began before a judge alone and just as the defence and the prosecution were to begin the first of three days of final arguments.
  The motion was filed by Zampino’s lawyer, Isabel Sch
  
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• Former Montreal police chief reassigned to manage security guards

  14-02-2018 19:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Two months after being relieved of his duties but still on the city payroll, former Montreal police chief Philippe Pichet has been re-assigned to oversee the city’s security guards.
  “He is still under contract with the city of Montreal for another two and a half years, so the position was offered to him and he accepted it,” Nathalie Goulet, the executive committee member responsible for public security, said Wednesday.
  “It’s a mutually profitable situation,” s
  
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• City spending $5.3 million on rented snowblowers

  14-02-2018 18:43 via montrealgazette.com
  With most of Montreal’s snow dumps already nearly full, the city is spending $5.3 million to rent 10 extra-powerful snowblowers for the next two months.
  The city’s executive committee approved the expense Wednesday morning.
  The snowblowers, which are able to blow snow higher and farther than regular models, will help the city make use of the temporary Blue Bonnets site and former Miron quarry in St-Michel, said Jean-Francois Parenteau, the mayor of Verdun and executive committee memb
  
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• Show Biz Chez Nous: Feist, Lil Uzi Vert to play Santa Teresa Festival

  14-02-2018 18:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Is our music scene heading north?
  In recent months, local music fans have had to trek to Laval to see major bands like LCD Soundsystem and the Killers headline at Place Bell. And now a festival in Ste-Thérèse looks to be making a play to become an important event on the local cultural calendar.
  The lineup for the second edition of the Santa Teresa Festival was unveiled this week, and it sports a mighty impressive selection of acts, including Juno-winning singer-songwriter Feist, Au
  
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• Quebecers give smaller amounts to charity than other Canadians: StatsCan

  14-02-2018 18:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec has come in last when the average amount of charitable donations declared here in 2016 is compared with those of other provinces, according to numbers compiled by Statistics Canada.
  Numbers made public on Wednesday show that the median charitable donation in Quebec in 2016 was $130, which means half of all declared donations in the province for that year were less than $130, while the remainder exceeded that amount.
  Meanwhile, the national median for declared charitable donations in 2016
  
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• Debunking common myths surrounding kids’ health

  14-02-2018 17:55 via globalnews.ca
  All parents have been on the receiving end of well-intentioned advice when it comes to raising healthy kids. But how much is fact and how much is fiction?
  
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• Quebec adopts Bill 107, beefing up UPAC's powers

  14-02-2018 17:44 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The National Assembly has adopted Bill 107, making Quebec’s anti-corruption unit a real police force with new powers and more independence.
  Despite the staunch opposition of the three opposition parties, the Liberal government used its majority in the legislature to push the bill into law Wednesday.
  The vote was 61 for (all the Liberals present in the house) and 49 against (all the opposition MNAs in the house).
  Bill 107 elevates L’Unité permanente anti-corrupti
  
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• Dunlevy: Just call me T'Challa, a.k.a. The Black Panther

  14-02-2018 17:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Hippie parents.
  That’s my short answer when people ask — after making sure it’s not Chuck, or Chad, or Charles or Sean or, en français, Richard — where my name is from.
  The long answer is, well, long. It involves explaining that my parents didn’t name me until I was three months old; that a friend of theirs, exasperated, decided that if they weren’t going to make up their minds, she was going to call me Benjamin; that my dad, mortified, walked over and,
  
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• Quebec's anti-corruption unit gets its powers boosted, despite internal woes

  14-02-2018 17:38 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's National Assembly has adopted a bill that gives more power to the province's anti-corruption unit (UPAC), the independent bureau of investigations (BEI) and the Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions (DPCP).
  
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• Quebec gives more power, independence to anti-corruption unit under new law

  14-02-2018 17:38 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's National Assembly has adopted a bill that gives more power to the province's anti-corruption unit (UPAC), the independent bureau of investigations (BEI) and the Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales (DPCP).
  
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• Deux-Montagnes anxious as it waits for Quebec's OK to build new dike

  14-02-2018 17:30 via cbc.ca
  The mayor of Deux-Montagnes says the clock is ticking on flood preparedness, with water levels already high and an abnormal amount of snow waiting to melt.
  
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• CAQ MNA proposes a life-changing question to his biggest supporter

  14-02-2018 17:23 via montrealgazette.com
  It is seems that on Valentine’s Day at least, love conquers all — even the procedural protocols of the National Assembly.
  Coalition Avenir Québec MNA Éric Lefebvre had risen in the Assembly Wednesday morning during a period reserved for statements from members to note to his colleagues that the political life was difficult and the hardships were borne not only by those holding office, but also by those close to them.
  “On this St. Valentine’s Day I want to pa
  
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• Parliament Hill rink wins ‘Teddy Award’ for federal wasteful spending

  14-02-2018 16:46 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian Taxpayer Federation on Wednesday awarded their annual “Teddy Award” for wasteful spending at the federal level to the Heritage department over the much-maligned “Parliament skating rink.”
  
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• Quebec man found guilty of sexually assaulting Ontario woman who later took her own life

  14-02-2018 16:44 via globalnews.ca
  Shawn Roy's victim, 20-year-old Kassidi Coyle, took her own life four months after the incident in 2016.
  
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• City of Montreal wins ‘Teddy Award’ for municipal wasteful spending

  14-02-2018 16:40 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian Taxpayer Federation on Wednesday awarded their annual “Teddy Award” for wasteful spending at the municipal level to the City of Montreal over their Formula E racetrack.
  
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• Jennifer Campbell: Fifty Shades Freed may set some of us free

  14-02-2018 16:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Like countless devotees of the Fifty Shades trilogy, I recently made my way to the theatre to catch Fifty Shades Freed, the much-anticipated final instalment in the cinematic series based on the bestselling books by E.L. James, starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson. 
  And like so many of same devotees, I couldn’t help but surrender all logic and decorum to the deliciously naughty chemistry that exploded between Ana and Christian as they painstakingly laid out, scene b
  
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• Six marijuana companies announce deals to supply Quebec with cannabis

  14-02-2018 15:36 via globalnews.ca
  Six companies announced they have signed letters of intent with Quebec's liquor board to supply cannabis and related products.
  
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• Best wine pairings for Valentine’s Day

  14-02-2018 15:30 via globalnews.ca
  Wine expert Lino Lozza joins Global’s Laura Casella with wine suggestions and food pairings for a romantic evening, or a night out with friends.
  
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• Anonymity suits Emmy-nominated Montreal sound mixer just fine

  14-02-2018 15:30 via montrealgazette.com
  To some, it sounds like something you do with a Cuisinart. When the category comes up at the Oscar gala, many TV viewers will take the opportunity to hit the loo or kitchen.
  But at least the Oscars honours it during the broadcast. The Emmys honour it, too, but in a non-broadcasted tech ceremony prior to the main event. As for the Golden Globes … their selectors don’t even seem aware that its practitioners exist and don’t dole out any statuettes to them.
  Ah, sound mixers. They
  
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• Widespread flu cases reported in Montreal

  14-02-2018 15:17 via globalnews.ca
  Flu season is well underway and Montreal is one of a few metropolitan regions where the sickness is widespread. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• SAQ signs deals with 6 firms to supply Quebec marijuana market

  14-02-2018 15:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Six companies announced on Wednesday they have signed agreements with Société des alcools du Québec to supply at least 62,000 kilos of cannabis during the first year that marijuana is legalized.
  The largest supplier will be Hydropothecary, a Quebec firm that will ship 20,000 kilos a year to the Crown corporation.
  Ontario-based Aphria will provide the SAQ with up to 12,000 kilos of cannabis products and byproducts during the first year of the agreement, including cannabis oil
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Wednesday, February 14

  14-02-2018 15:01 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Wednesday, February 14.
  
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• Spicing it up on Valentine’s Day

  14-02-2018 14:54 via globalnews.ca
  Want to spice it up on Valentine’s Day? Join Erica Diamond and Global’s Laura Casella for some fun ideas that are sure to impress your partner.
  
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• While you were sleeping: When pigs fly, it's usually in coach

  14-02-2018 14:43 via montrealgazette.com
  And a few other things you might have missed while you were sleeping.
  Putting the brakes on free parking: It is no longer free to park at the StatCare medical clinic in Pointe-Claire. Motorists now have to pay a nominal fee for using the busy parking lot adjacent to the walk-in medical clinic and office building on Stillview Ave. Southwest One, which owns the parking lot, said the fees were necessary to offset the costs of maintaining a $300,000 parking lot system. Previously, patrons
  
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• #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/L5jGn87XoH

  14-02-2018 14:36
  
  #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/L5jGn87XoH
  
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• Quebec lines up cannabis suppliers ahead of legalization

  14-02-2018 14:33 via cbc.ca
  Gatineau's Hydropothecary is one of the companies that has reached tentative deals to supply Quebec with cannabis products once they're legalized for recreational use.
  
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• Gatineau company signs cannabis deal with Quebec government

  14-02-2018 14:33 via cbc.ca
  Gatineau's Hydropothecary is one of the companies that has reached tentative deals to supply Quebec with cannabis products once they're legalized for recreational use.
  
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