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• Quebec making it easier to obtain liquor permits

  21-02-2018 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Feb 21: Quebec is announcing a modernization of some of its more antiquated liquor laws. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Potholes appearing as Montreal temperatures rise

  21-02-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Feb 21: Potholes and crumbling asphalt are appearing all over the city as the temperature in Montreal rises, melting the snow. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• Montreal catering company hiring Syrian refugees

  21-02-2018 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Feb 21: Montreal catering company Les Filles Fattoush is employing Syrian refugee women so they have the means necessary to support themselves and gain experience in the workforce. Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports.
  
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• Miriam Home day program shouldn’t be cut: parents

  21-02-2018 23:18 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Feb 21: More than one hundred Montreal families of severely disabled adults are calling on the Quebec government to reverse a decision to cut the day program at Miriam Home. As Global’s Anne Leclair reports, families were told last fall to expect a massive reduction of service.
  
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• Syrian refugee women cook up a taste of home with Montreal business

  21-02-2018 23:06 via globalnews.ca
  Two Montrealers have created Les Filles Fattoush - a catering company that gives Syrian refugee women a job.
  
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• Quebec coroner to investigate death of teen found at bottom of city pool

  21-02-2018 22:35 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec coroner’s office will investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a 14-year-old boy who was found at the bottom of a municipal pool last week.
  The teen had been in critical condition in a hospital since last Thursday after he was pulled that morning from the bottom of a swimming pool at the Centre Père-Marquette sports complex in the Rosemont—La-Petite-Patrie borough. 
  He had been a student at École Père-Marquette, a high school ac
  
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• Spring is in the air! Butterflies Go Free at the Botanical Garden begins tomorrow. Check out this great photo taken… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-02-2018 22:20
  Spring is in the air! Butterflies Go Free at the Botanical Garden begins tomorrow. Check out this great photo taken… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Pointe-Saint-Charles tenants must leave apartments by Thursday, judge rules

  21-02-2018 22:19 via cbc.ca
  A Quebec judge has ruled that the tenants of two decrepit apartment buildings in Pointe-Saint-Charles will have to leave their homes by tomorrow afternoon.
  
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• Pointe-Saint-Charles tenants must leave apartments by noon Thursday, judge rules

  21-02-2018 22:19 via cbc.ca
  A Quebec judge has ruled that the tenants of two decrepit apartment buildings in Pointe-Saint-Charles will have to respect the city's evacuation order and vacate their homes without delay.
  
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• Rise Against to headline '77 Montréal punk festival

  21-02-2018 21:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Punk fans rejoice! ’77 Montréal is back for a second year.
  Chicago melodic punk group Rise Against headline the one-day festival at Parc Jean-Drapeau on July 27.
  Other performers include Suicidal Tendencies, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Planet Smashers and Crass.
  Tickets go on sale Feb. 23 at noon. 
  For those looking to make it a weekend in the mosh pit, promoter Evenko also announced the lineup for Heavy Montréal on Wednesday, which runs July 28 and 29 at Parc Jea
  
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• Crown in Kwasi Benjamin trial rejects theory that Nellie Angutiguluk killed herself

  21-02-2018 21:52 via cbc.ca
  Wrapping up closing arguments in the second-degree murder trial, Crown prosecutor Dennis Galiatsatos asked jurors to ask themselves why the Inuk woman would make plans to see her mother, who was visiting from Nunavik, if she was suicidal.
  
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• Analyze This: High-danger shots become kryptonite for Carey Price

  21-02-2018 21:49 via montrealgazette.com
  It hasn’t been a banner season for Canadiens netminder Carey Price by any measure. Of the 38 NHL goaltenders who have started 20 games or more, Price ranks 33rd in save percentage (.904), 31st in goals against average (2.98) and 28th in wins (15) through Feb. 20.
  For a team that counts on its goaltender to mask several roster deficiencies, a bad season for Price has predictably led to the Canadiens nearly assured of missing the playoffs. Of course, it doesn’t help that his defence is
  
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• Activists decry Quebec welfare travel restrictions that force recipients to stay put

  21-02-2018 21:46 via globalnews.ca
  Social activists are denouncing a Quebec government practice that cuts off welfare payments if recipients leave the province for a week or more.
  
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• The secret's out: There's a Nordiques puck hidden inside La Rencontre sculpture

  21-02-2018 21:00 via cbc.ca
  The bronze sculpture of two white-tailed deer in front of Quebec City's Vidéotron Centre was once criticized for not having anything to do with hockey. The artists have now revealed that there's more to the sculpture than meets the eye.
  
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• The secret's out: There's a Nordiques puck hidden inside a Quebec City sculpture

  21-02-2018 21:00 via cbc.ca
  The bronze sculpture of two white-tailed deer in front of Quebec City's Videotron Centre was once criticized for not having anything to do with hockey. The artists have now revealed that there's more to the sculpture than meets the eye.
  
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• Opinion: #MeToo, the media and the public's right to know

  21-02-2018 20:44 via montrealgazette.com
  The #MeToo movement has shined the light on the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, especially in the workplace. Recent allegations of sexual misconduct have led to the downfall and disgrace of many celebrities and politicians.
  Many of the accused have threatened to sue the individuals making the allegations and the media reporting them. But since the rise of the #MeToo movement, none of these accused has followed through on the threats. Donald Trump is a notorious example.
  Perhaps it i
  
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• Quebec loosens liquor laws to make it easier for restaurants to serve booze

  21-02-2018 20:27 via cbc.ca
  Restaurants in Quebec could soon be able to serve alcohol without food under changes proposed by the provincial government. "We've been waiting for this for 20 years," said a restaurant industry representative.
  
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• Quebec loosens liquor laws to make it easier to obtain alcohol permits

  21-02-2018 20:23 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec is announcing a modernization of some of its more antiquated liquor laws.
  
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• Rigaud on floodwatch during warm and damp weather

  21-02-2018 20:14 via globalnews.ca
  The Town of Rigaud has also dispatched teams to survey the water levels.
  
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• Province proposes sweeping changes to Quebec liquor laws

  21-02-2018 20:09 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Parents will be allowed to dine on terrasses with their children until 11 p.m. and establishments with restaurant licences will be able to serve liquor without requiring the purchase of food.
  Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux Wednesday tabled a long-awaited reform of the province’s liquor laws and the changes are sweeping.
  It is especially attractive for small venues, which have been hampered for years by laws even the minister admits are archaic. The rules used to say
  
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• Bran Van 3000 diva Stéphane Moraille can't shake the music

  21-02-2018 19:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Stéphane Moraille had no illusions, in 2014, when she accepted an invitation from Audiogram Records to join her old bandleader James DiSalvio at Victor Studios to reinterpret the group’s trademark 1997 single Drinking In L.A.
  When she showed up for the recording session, she and the folks at the label got to talking.
  “Audiogram was celebrating its 30th anniversary,” Moraille recounted. “They said, ‘We looked at our money, and we realized that Drinking In L.A.
  
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• 50 shades of grey: Investigating Jean-François Lisée's new look

  21-02-2018 19:52 via montrealgazette.com
  First came the Farrah, then the Rachel, the Bieber and now, it appears, the latest eponymous hairstyle may be the Jean-François Lisée.
  The Parti Québécois leader has, in recent days, been spotted with a slightly darker mane and hipster duds to match.
  The precise nature of Lisée’s transformation had been a hot topic in recent days, leading to speculation that he — like many men of a certain age — had discovered that hair dye really does wo
  
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• Quebec nixes rule forcing political candidates to remove head coverings

  21-02-2018 19:44 via cbc.ca
  For nearly 30 years, all potential candidates in Quebec have been required to submit a photo that shows their hair, but the province's chief electoral officer is doing away with that rule.
  
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• Two years in the making, Contrecoeur trial verdict will come May 2

  21-02-2018 19:42 via montrealgazette.com
  The judge presiding over the fraud trial of Frank Zampino, the former No. 2 politician at Montreal city hall, businessman Paolo Catania and four other men says he will render the verdicts on May 2.
  That was how the fraud, breach-of-trust and conspiracy trial connected to the 2007 sale of the city-owned Faubourg Contrecoeur ended at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday after two years and nearly as many defence motions as there were witnesses who testified.
  Court of Quebec Judge Yvan Poulin is al
  
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• How one teen’s dying wish is helping make a difference in the lives of other sick kids

  21-02-2018 18:59 via globalnews.ca
  The Children's Wish Foundation has created an apparel line called King Jay in memory of Jayden, whose dying wish was to create a sneaker inspired by his idol LeBron James, a.k.a King James.
  
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• Contact Montreal police if you've seen this missing 17-year-old

  21-02-2018 18:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police have turned to the public for help in finding 17-year-old Gabrielle Rousseau, who left her home in the borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville at 11 a.m. on Jan. 19 and hasn’t been seen since.
   
  Police say her family is concerned for her safety and worry she may have made some unsavoury acquaintances.
   
  Gabrielle stands 5-feet-2 and weighs about 110 pounds. She has red hair and brown eyes.
   Montreal police say 17-year-old Gabrielle Rousseau left her home in the boro
  
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• Flood warning in Rigaud

  21-02-2018 18:51 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Feb 21: With temperatures rising and the snow melting, residents in Rigaud are struggling to make sure their homes don’t get damaged again. As Billy Shields reports, many are still recovering from the 2017 Quebec floods.
  
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• Canadiens send Jakub Jerabek to Capitals for 5th-round pick

  21-02-2018 18:38 via cbc.ca
  The Montreal Canadiens traded defenceman Jakub Jerabek to the Washington Capitals for a 2019 fifth-round draft pick Wednesday.
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Jakub Jerabek traded to Washington Capitals

  21-02-2018 18:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Shortly after the Canadiens started their noon-hour practise Wednesday in Brossard the club announced that defenceman Jakub Jerabek has been traded to the Washington Capitals in exchange for a fifth-round pick at the 2019 NHL Draft.
  Jerabek played 25 games with the Canadiens this season, posting 1-3-4 totals and a minus-1 while averaging 17:20 of ice time. Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin signed the 26-year-old defenceman to a one-year, US$925,000 contract last summer after he posted 5-29-34 totals in
  
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• At-risk areas of Quebec are on flood watch, Coiteux tells reporters

  21-02-2018 18:32 via montrealgazette.com
  With the memory of last spring’s flooding still fresh and the sound of freezing rain crackling on Quebec City, provincial Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux told reporters on Wednesday that at-risk areas of the province have been put on flood-watch status.
  “In the Eastern Townships, in certain parts of the Montéregie — particularly in the area of the Yamaska River — I think it’s clear that we’re in a state of alert and our teams on the ground are i
  
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• Quebec coroner to investigate death of 14-year-old found at bottom of city pool

  21-02-2018 18:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s coroner’s office will investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a 14-year-old boy who was found at the bottom of a municipal pool last week.
  The boy had been in critical condition in hospital since last Thursday, after he was pulled that morning from the bottom of a swimming pool at the Centre Père-Marquette sports complex in the Rosemont—La-Petite-Patrie borough.
  Urgences-Santé paramedics arrived at the centre to find the boy in cardiac arre
  
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• Teen dies after being found in Rosemont pool

  21-02-2018 18:20 via globalnews.ca
  A 14-year-old boy has died after being found unconscious in an indoor swimming pool.
  
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• Snoop Dogg to speak at C2 Montréal's 2018 edition

  21-02-2018 18:10 via montrealgazette.com
  With his mind on his money and his money on his mind, rapper-turned-entrepreneur Snoop Dogg will be coming to Montreal to talk about the business of pot.
  He will be one of the featured speakers at C2 Montréal, an annual conference that focuses on innovation in business.
  Snoop Dogg rose to prominence in 1993 with his debut album, Doggystyle, which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide. He has also appeared in numerous films. But in addition to being a rapper and an actor, he is al
  
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• Caisse de dépôt earned $24.6 billion in 2017

  21-02-2018 18:06 via montrealgazette.com
  The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has reported net investment results of $24.6 billion in 2017, bringing its net assets to $298.5 billion.
  That’s an annualized return of 9.3 per cent, the provincial pension fund manager said on Wednesday. 
  This is the Caisse’s strongest annualized return since 2014, when it generated an annual return of 12 per cent, or $23.8 billion.
  In 2016, it reported an annualized return of 7.6 per cent, worth $18.4 bil
  
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• Could Jean-François Lisée's new pre-election remake cinch 4 new ridings?

  21-02-2018 17:57 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – As the old advertising expression goes, “Only his hairdresser knows for sure.”
  There’s been something different about Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée’s look which reporters and political pundits have noticed in the last few days. Photos do not lie either.
  Announcing he has the scoop, former PQ cabinet minister Bernard Drainville, who now works as a political analyst on 98.5 FM (Cogeco) radio chain, spilled the beans li
  
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• Justin Trudeau weighs in on Quebec legislature kirpan ban, Air India bomber posters

  21-02-2018 17:50 via globalnews.ca
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau weighed in from India on Wednesday on a ruling earlier this week upholding a controversial ban on Sikh ceremonial daggers from being brought into Quebec's National Assembly.
  
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• Meanwhile in Montreal: 'Soup group' cooks up hot meals for homeless

  21-02-2018 17:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Marie Anne McNally doesn’t consider herself a master chef, but the smell of her tomato soup is enough to draw a crowd inside one of Montreal’s busiest homeless shelters.
  Every second Wednesday, McNally and three of her friends make enough soup to feed the 150 people who frequent the Open Door most days. The “soup group” — as she calls it — is a fixture of the Westmount shelter.
  “Wednesdays are our favourite day of the week,” says Zack Ingles, who w
  
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• Quebec pension fund manager Caisse earns over 9% return in 2017

  21-02-2018 17:14 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's Caisse de depot pension fund manager says it earned a 9.3 per cent return in 2017, ending a three-year streak of decreasing returns.
  
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• Rob Zombie, Avenged Sevenfold, Marilyn Manson headline Heavy Montréal's 2018 return

  21-02-2018 17:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Heavy Montréal is back after a one-year break with headliners Rob Zombie, Avenged Sevenfold and Marilyn Manson.
  Promoter Evenko put the festival on hiatus in 2017 as the city celebrated its 375th anniversary and Parc Jean-Drapeau underwent renovations.
  Other performers include French heavy metal act Gojira, Christian rock band Underoath and doom metal group Sleep.   
  The 2018 edition of the festival runs July 28-29 at Parc Jean-Drapeau. The festival’s Heavy in the City eve
  
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• Safety, mobility concerns as consultations begin on Montreal's seniors' policy

  21-02-2018 16:59 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal’s public consultations on how to make Montreal a more senior-friendly city began in Outremont on Wednesday morning. 
  Patricia Colangelo, 72, showed up to see if she could get information that would make her life easier as she ages. 
  “In the winter, it is hard for us older folks because we don’t have our balance anymore,” she said. “It is difficult to put our feet on ice because we are afraid of falling and breaking something. If I brea
  
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• Teen dies after being found unconscious at bottom of Rosemont pool

  21-02-2018 16:41 via cbc.ca
  The 13-year-old boy was taking part in a swimming class at Centre Père-Marquette, a municipal community centre across the street from his school, when the incident occurred.
  
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• Teen dies after being found at bottom of Rosemont pool

  21-02-2018 16:41 via cbc.ca
  The 14-year-old boy was taking part in a swimming class at Centre Père-Marquette, a municipal community centre across the street from his school, when the incident occurred.
  
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• Rigaud moves up preparations for potential spring floods

  21-02-2018 16:29 via globalnews.ca
  In light of recent rain and warm temperatures, officials in the town of Rigaud say they have deployed patrols to monitor the flood risk in the community. Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Wednesday, February 21

  21-02-2018 16:21 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Wednesday, February 21.
  
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