Montreal news

• This weekend's highway closures span from downtown Montreal to Lachine

  16-02-2018 23:57 via cbc.ca
  If you need to head to Montreal’s Trudeau International airport this weekend or anywhere downtown such as the French superhospital, the CHUM, you’ll have to leave extra early and be prepared for detours.
  
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• Minister reaches out to English-speakers in day-long forum

  16-02-2018 23:55 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Feb 16: The Minister responsible for Relations with English-speaking Quebecers met with representatives of the community at Concordia University today to hear their concerns and grievances. Elysia Bryan-Baynes reports.
  
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• Police arrest student after threat at Centennial Regional High School

  16-02-2018 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Feb 16: A student has been arrested after a threat was reported at Centennial Regional High School in Greenfield Park on Montreal’s south shore. Global’s Gloria Henriquez reports.
  
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• Traps set for rats in NDG

  16-02-2018 23:45 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Feb 16: Several traps have been set to hunt down a colony of elusive rats that have built their home on the corner of a gas station in NDG. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• 9-year-old shaves head, raises money after dad diagnosed with cancer

  16-02-2018 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Feb 16: A 9-year-old boy has shaved his head for cancer and raised thousands of dollars in honour of his father, who was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer. Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports.
  
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• Jackpot: Loto-Québec profits jump nearly 16%, marking 11th consecutive increase

  16-02-2018 23:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Loto-Québec raked in $340.5 million in profits in its third quarter, an increase of nearly 16 per cent compared with the same period last year.
  Revenues followed a similar course, totalling $945 million over the 91-day period ending Dec. 25, a jump of more than 10 per cent.
  Loto-Québec spokesperson Patrice Lavoie noted that this is the 11th consecutive quarter to see increases.
  The crown corporation’s lottery and casino operations saw increases in revenue of 15 per cent
  
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• Government reveals details of deal with medical specialists

  16-02-2018 23:22 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Feb 16: The Health Department has released details of a two billion dollar agreement in principle with Quebec’s medical specialists. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Borough, gas station declare war on NDG rat nest

  16-02-2018 23:22 via globalnews.ca
  The rats are under attack.
  
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• Montreal cops stay frosty ahead of the polar bear plunge in Lachine

  16-02-2018 23:17 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s almost too good to be true. 
  Not only will dozens of police officers and other do-gooders jump into the frigid waters of the Lachine Canal on Saturday, some of them will even do it in costume. Hopefully no one will get cold feet in the face of the challenge.
  Beyond the polar bear plunge, there will be family-friendly entertainment, plus food kiosks, and even a prize for the best costume.
  The challenge is organized by the Law Enforcement Torch Run, a global Special Olympics f
  
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• Former mayor helps raise money for struggling NDG dry cleaner

  16-02-2018 23:17 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Feb 16: Former NDG-Cote-des-Neiges borough mayor Russell Copeman has launched a go-fund-me campaign to help his local drycleaner out. She’s been the victim of two recent robberies. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports
  
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• The data is in: Here are the winners and losers of the new mortgage rules so far

  16-02-2018 23:08 via globalnews.ca
  January housing data offered a first glimpse into the likely impact of the new federal mortgage standards.
  
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• Quebec signs $2B deal with medical specialists

  16-02-2018 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  The government released details of a $2-billion "agreement in principal" with Quebec medical specialists in effect from 2015 to 2023.
  
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• What the Puck: Habs unlikely to make splash ahead of trade deadline

  16-02-2018 22:18 via montrealgazette.com
  I am already fatigued by all the NHL trade-deadline speculation.
  Enough already. It’s always a letdown because there are far fewer blockbuster deals than expected and we end up spending way too much time watching those oh-so-serious sports-network shows with star “experts” talking much ado about nothing.
  Part of the reason I’m less than thrilled by the trade gossip is the fact that I firmly believe the Canadiens aren’t going to do anything exciting before the Feb. 2
  
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• Montreal police search for 26 valuable watches in circulation around the city

  16-02-2018 21:49 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal police are asking for the public`s help for any information concerning 26 valuable stolen watches circulating around the city.
  
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• Why the opening of Black Panther is such a major event

  16-02-2018 21:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Marvel’s Black Panther is a big deal. 
  This is most obviously the case at the box office, where it is expected to challenge records for February releases.
  More importantly, though, the movie is a big deal to black filmgoers who wish to see a wider range of black experiences and characters in theatres. 
  Many community organizations, including black student groups at McGill and Concordia universities, have organized screenings of the film on its opening weekend.
  “I think what
  
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• Crown won't appeal acquittals in Lac-Mégantic train disaster case

  16-02-2018 21:35 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions will not appeal the not-guilty verdicts reached by the jury in the trial of three former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic rail workers for their role in the 2013 derailment and explosions in Lac-Mégantic, Que.
  
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• Pit bulls: Montreal's new dog bylaw will be 'balanced', Plante says

  16-02-2018 21:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Mayor Valérie Plante says public consultations will help the city come up with an animal-control bylaw that protects Montrealers without targeting pit bull-type dogs.
  “We saw that with the previous administration when they decided to do the bylaw (in 2016), a lot of people felt left out and not consulted,” Plante told the Montreal Gazette Friday after the city announced it will consult the public in February and March.
  “There’s a lot of research and studi
  
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• Oh hi, Marc: ESPN names Habs GM Bergevin 'Disaster Artist'

  16-02-2018 21:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Your scrolling finger will have to be in excellent shape if you’re looking to find Marc Bergevin in ESPN’s ranking of NHL general managers. 
  He’s in the very bottom of the rankings, the final tier.
  In fact, if there’s an experience that encapsulates being a Habs fan this season, it’s probably having to scroll all the way down in order to find your team on a list.
  ESPN refers to Bergevin as a “Disaster Artist.” If you didn’t know there was a Ja
  
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• Centennial Regional High School student arrested for suspected firearm threat

  16-02-2018 20:55 via cbc.ca
  Last night, rumours that the student was planning to make his way to the school to "resolve a dispute" with another student started circulating on social media, police say.
  
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• 16-year-old Centennial Regional High School student arrested following suspected threat

  16-02-2018 20:55 via cbc.ca
  Last night, rumours that the student was planning to make his way to the school to "resolve a dispute" with another student started circulating on social media, police say.
  
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• On Rock Community Services gets new van

  16-02-2018 20:45 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Feb 16: After a Global News story about On Rock Community Services’ misfortune, the organization is getting a new van. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• McGill student jumps into action after finding suicide note in bathroom stall

  16-02-2018 20:36 via globalnews.ca
  Avleen K Mokha sprung into action after seeing an ominous note scrawled on a stall of the third floor bathroom at McGill University.
  
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• Rosemont closes pools as teen who nearly drowned remains in critical condition

  16-02-2018 20:31 via cbc.ca
  Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie has closed its public pools to investigate the circumstances of the near drowning of a 13-year-old Thursday. The youth remains in hospital in critical condition after he was found at the bottom of the indoor pool at Centre Père-Marquette.
  
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• Quebec says deal with medical specialists will allow it to save $3B by 2023

  16-02-2018 20:27 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec government is defending the confidential deal it's struck with Quebec medical specialists, saying the province will save billions over the next five years, even as it pays out money owed to specialists.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: New van to roll in for On Rock Community Services

  16-02-2018 20:23 via globalnews.ca
  On Rock Community Services is set to get a new van after a month of terrible luck that included a caved-in roof and a broken-down van.
  
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• Defence at Contrecoeur trial blames 'media storm' for UPAC probe

  16-02-2018 20:10 via montrealgazette.com
  There may have been an “accumulation of irregularities,” but there was no fraud in the sale of the city-owned Faubourg Contrecoeur, a lawyer representing Frank Zampino, the former no. 2 politician at Montreal city hall, said in closing arguments at his trial on Friday.
  Zampino’s lawyer, Isabel Schurman, and Pierre L’Écuyer, who is defending co-accused businessman  Paolo Catania and who also presented final arguments, maintained that the investigation by Quebec
  
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• NHL's worst team also trounced Habs on Twitter

  16-02-2018 19:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Not content with bludgeoning the Habs on the ice, which they very much did on Thursday night, the Arizona Coyotes took to Twitter and rubbed a bit more salt in the wounds.
  It would be depressing enough if just any team did that after a 5-2 win, but the Coyotes are also the worst team in the NHL. (Before you say it: Yes, there is actually a team doing worse than the Habs this year. At least thus far.)
  All of which is to say that the Coyotes tweeted out footage of their fifth goal with the caption
  
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• Editorial: City should listen to opponents of Mount Royal traffic plan

  16-02-2018 19:07 via montrealgazette.com
  It seems it might be easier to move mountains than to move Luc Ferrandez away from his plan to prevent cars from crossing Mount Royal from one side to the other. His announcement earlier this month elicited a groundswell of outraged opposition, which continues. But based on his reported comments in recent days, it seems clear that the mind of the executive committee member responsible for large parks is made up. 
  In a flood of letters to the editor and elsewhere, citizens have raised any nu
  
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• John Abbot College student wins prestigious Horatio Alger scholarship

  16-02-2018 18:59 via globalnews.ca
  The $5,000 scholarships are given to students who have overcome adversity, show strength of character, are involved in their community all the while pursuing academic excellence.
  
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• Student arrested after suspected threat at Centennial Regional High School

  16-02-2018 18:51 via globalnews.ca
  A student has been arrested after a potential threat at Centennial Regional High School.
  
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• Don Macpherson: Anglos' supposed new political influence is an illusion

  16-02-2018 18:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Recently, a reader describing himself as an anglophone “former Liberal supporter from Côte-St-Luc” emailed to tell me why he won’t be voting Liberal in this year’s Quebec general election.
  He was angry at the Liberal government for allowing Montreal, through the agglomeration council which the city controls, to impose property tax increases on the other island municipalities, such as his.
  What he didn’t say, however, is how he’d take out his anger on the
  
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• 5 Montreal stories you must read this week: February 16

  16-02-2018 18:43 via globalnews.ca
  The father of a 7-year-old Montrealer is protesting after she was denied from getting speech therapy.
  
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• Alouettes release linebacker Kyries Hebert after 6 seasons

  16-02-2018 18:40 via cbc.ca
  The Montreal Alouettes have granted the 11-year CFL veteran his release upon his request.
  
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• Weekend traffic: Westbound 20 closed, strangling bridge approaches from the west

  16-02-2018 18:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Both the Turcot and Champlain Bridge projects will disrupt traffic on several main routes this Feb. 16-18 weekend.
  However, it is the Turcot that will cause the biggest headaches, with the Ville-Marie Expressway closed in both directions all the way to Lachine.
  Ville-Marie Expressway/Highway 20
  The westbound expressway will be closed from the exit at Robert-Bourassa Blvd. to the entrance at 1st Ave. in Lachine. from Friday at 11:59 p.m. to Monday at 5 a.m. Eastbound Highway 20 will also be close
  
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• Everything's on the table at the Montréal en lumière festival

  16-02-2018 18:32 via montrealgazette.com
  In late 1999, details of a new festival sounded too good to be true.
  It would be called Montréal en lumière, and there would be a performing-arts and museum component, as well as a lighting-arts component. But the table-arts component, with tasting events, seminars and especially guest chef dinners, is what grabbed local food lovers. Within hours of the festival’s unveiling, they were scrambling to get tables at what sounded like the most exciting event to happen on the Montr
  
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• Longueuil police arrest student, 16, after reports of online threats

  16-02-2018 18:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Longueuil police arrested and were questioning a 16-year-old Friday after receiving reports of online threats made against a fellow student at Centennial Regional High School in Greenfield Park.
  Police said the interrogation is to determine the seriousness of the alleged threats, which were seen on social media and resulted in a 9-1-1 call to police Thursday.
  According to police, the alleged threat suggested the suspect would be settling some kind of grievance that had occurred Thursday with ano
  
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• About last night…Canadiens lose 5-2 in Arizona

  16-02-2018 18:13 via montrealgazette.com
  In terms of total points, the Arizona Coyotes are the worst team in the National Hockey League.
  In terms of what we watched Thursday night, the Canadiens could wrest away that dubious distinction.
  How bad are they?
  No team in the league has lost twice to Arizona this season … except the Montreal Canadiens.
  The optimists out there – all four of them, sharing a cab ride home from the brasserie after watching the game – will point to the total domination the Canadiens exercised o
  
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• ‘Jane and Finch,’ a film by a Concordia grad

  16-02-2018 16:50 via globalnews.ca
  Concordia University graduate Karina Lafayette is launching a croundfunding campaign for her new film, Jane and Finch.
  
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• Montreal wants citizens to weigh in on animal control

  16-02-2018 16:42 via cbc.ca
  The City of Montreal will be holding public consultations into its animal control bylaw, following its repeal of the previous administration's pit bull ban.
  
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• Health Canada approves new multiple scleroris drug

  16-02-2018 16:40 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Feb 16: Health Canada approved Ocrevus as a drug that can be used for patients suffering from MS. For some patients, it’s a game changer.
  
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• Montreal entertainment: A weekend ‘en lumières’

  16-02-2018 16:20 via globalnews.ca
  Entertainment columnist Jay Walker tells Global’s Kim Sullivan all about Montreal en Lumières, which kicks off this weekend.
  
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• Chinese New Year-inspired recipes

  16-02-2018 16:07 via globalnews.ca
  It’s Chinese New Year and PC Cooking Schools Chef Martin Patenaude is in to show Global’s Laura Casella some fun recipe ideas.
  
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• Health Canada approval of multiple sclerosis drug ‘absolutely a game-changer’

  16-02-2018 15:50 via globalnews.ca
  Health Canada has approved a new drug to help patients suffering from a debilitating form of MS. The drug was approved last year in the United States, and some patients have said it has improved their symptoms.
  
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• Global News Community Events:Lion and Dragon Parade

  16-02-2018 15:50 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has Montreal’s Community Events for Friday, February 16.
  
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• Father panhandling for child with autism https://t.co/QZAXSLZujs

  16-02-2018 15:50
  
  Father panhandling for child with autism https://t.co/QZAXSLZujs
  
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