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• Carey Price out indefinitely with concussion

  22-02-2018 23:56 via cbc.ca
  The Montreal Canadiens announced on Thursday that goaltender Carey Price is out indefinitely after suffering a concussion.
  
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• Families of victims of crime want more aid from Quebec program

  22-02-2018 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  Parents of children who have been murdered say the Quebec government is not doing enough to help in their grief.
  
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• Program for families of murdered children too restrictive

  22-02-2018 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Feb 22: Parents of children who have been murdered say the Quebec government is not doing enough to help in their grief. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Saint-Henri garbage pile an eyesore for residents

  22-02-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Feb 22: There’s been a lot of finger pointing in Saint-Henri over a pile of trash that residents say has been there for months. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, neighbours say the city has not responded to their requests to have the garbage removed.
  
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• Montreal forcing tenants from unsafe homes

  22-02-2018 22:57 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Feb 22: Montreal housing advocates are criticizing how the city has handled the eviction of a slum apartment building. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Who stays and who goes from the Habs? Your 2018 NHL trade deadline tracker

  22-02-2018 22:03 via cbc.ca
  Will your team make a bold move, a minor tweak, or stand pat? Catch up on all the deals made ahead of the NHL's trade deadline.
  
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• Restaurant review: Fieldstone takes adventurous dining seriously

  22-02-2018 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Fieldstone
  ★ out of ★★★★
  $$$$
  Address: 5427 St-Laurent Blvd.
  Phone: 438-387-7197
  Website: fieldstonemtl.com
  Open: Wed.-Sun.. 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.; brunch Sat. & Sun. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
  Wheelchair access: No
  Reservations: Recommended 
  Cards: All major
  Vegetarian-friendly: Yes
  Parking: On the street with meters.
  Price range: Set menus: $54, $69, $75
  The sign of a top chef 50 years ago was his or her ability to re-create classic dishes. Back then, restaurants
  
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• Roll over (again), Beethoven: Amplified Concert mating classical content with high-volume rock medium

  22-02-2018 21:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Amplified Concert. For most classical fans, this will look more like an audience advisory than a marketing slogan.
  Gunshots will be heard. Show includes strobe effects. Or partial nudity. That sort of thing.
  Yet “Amplified Concert” is unabashedly the title of a program presented in the Bell Centre on March 2 under the auspices of Montréal en lumière.
  “Classical music with the scenery and staging of a rock concert,” reads the promotional material. Amplificati
  
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• Community rallies to help Rivière-des-Prairies fire victims. https://t.co/qDpfeA3PKx

  22-02-2018 21:05
  
  Community rallies to help Rivière-des-Prairies fire victims. https://t.co/qDpfeA3PKx
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: So, parents, ready for March break?

  22-02-2018 21:03 via montrealgazette.com
  March break is around the corner, and if you’re a parent, things are about to get real, really fast. You see, parents fall into one of the following three categories when it comes to March break: alpha, beta (betta save money), and gamma (we’re going to Gramma’s).
  There are the alpha parents who have family vacations booked weeks, if not months, in advance. Their tickets are printed off, their itineraries are booked, the dog sitter is scheduled and the mail has been set to be p
  
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• Canadiens defenceman Shea Weber out for rest of season, will require surgery

  22-02-2018 21:01 via globalnews.ca
  The veteran defenceman will miss the rest of the season as he undergoes surgery for a torn tendon in his left foot.
  
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• Ticketed for paying wrong parking meter, Quebec woman wins court fight to overturn fine

  22-02-2018 20:50 via cbc.ca
  A Saint-Jérôme, Que., woman who says she made an error in good faith when paying for her parking in the wrong meter has successfully contested her ticket — a ruling at least one legal expert believes could set an important new precedent.
  
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• Inuit hockey team 'keeps kids going when they're down'

  22-02-2018 20:47 via montrealgazette.com
  They squeezed into the airplane on an icy tarmac in Inuit territory — 16 teenagers, two coaches and a cargo hold full of smelly hockey gear.
  There are no home games for Quebec’s northernmost high school hockey team, the Kuujjuaq Naturaliit. Each match is the end point of a 1,400-kilometre trek from the fjords along Ungava Bay to Montreal or Quebec City.
  And because it costs so much to charter a turboprop airplane, the Naturaliit can only afford to take two trips south a year &md
  
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• Hockey Canada’s French name policy criticized by Quebec politicians

  22-02-2018 20:40 via globalnews.ca
  A public address announcer at the Winter Olympics was told by the national governing body to stop using French pronunciations.
  
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• Quebec City to dump 46 million litres of sewage waste into St. Lawrence River

  22-02-2018 20:31 via cbc.ca
  Quebec City will start emptying the Saint-Pascal pumping station at 11 p.m. on Thursday evening. The city says the operation is necessary to do maintenance work on the structure.
  
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• Canadiens' Shea Weber is done for the season with foot injury

  22-02-2018 20:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Shea Weber’s season is over.
  The Canadiens announced on Thursday afternoon that the defenceman will undergo surgery to repair a tendon in his left foot and will miss the rest of this season. 
  Weber has already missed the last 26 games with the injury and was also sidelined for six games in November. The Canadiens play the New York Rangers Thursday night at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690).
  “Following the diagnosis of Shea Weber’s injury, it was ou
  
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• City of Montreal criticized after tenants forced from unsafe homes

  22-02-2018 20:10 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal housing advocates are criticizing how the city has handled the eviction of a building of tenants.
  
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• City of Montreal criticized after low-income tenants forced from ‘unsafe’ homes

  22-02-2018 20:10 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal housing advocates are criticizing how the city has handled the eviction of a building of low-income tenants.
  
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• Montreal Mayor Plante wants to lower transit fares for children, seniors

  22-02-2018 19:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Seniors, children and people on low incomes could see free or reduced transit fares throughout Greater Montreal under a vision outlined by Mayor Valérie Plante Thursday.
  In her inaugural address as chairperson of the Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC), Plante announced that she has given the MMC’s transportation committee the mandate to hold consultations on reduced or free fares for certain groups of users.
  “This is an issue that I care deeply about and I’m very prou
  
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• Game Day: Canadiens will face Rangers goalie making his first NHL start

  22-02-2018 19:49 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens will be facing a rookie goalie when they play the New York Rangers Thursday night at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690).
  Not only is Russian Alexandar Georgiev a rookie, he has never played in an NHL game. The Rangers signed the 22-year-old undrafted free agent last summer and he has a 12-11-2 record this season with the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack, along with a 2.97 goals-against average and a .908 save percentage.
  As of Thursday morning it remained unce
  
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• Charles Hamelin's legacy will be measured in medals — but not the ones he's won

  22-02-2018 19:27 via cbc.ca
  Canada bid an unofficial farewell to Charles Hamelin on Thursday after what will likely be his final spin around the Olympic ice. True to form, he exited the stage in style by winning his fifth-career medal, a bronze in the 5,000 relay, granting him entry into an elite club as one of Canada's most-decorated male Olympians. But it's his impact on the next generation of Canadian skaters that will be his lasting legacy.
  
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• Canadiens' Shea Weber out for year with torn tendon in left foot

  22-02-2018 19:15 via cbc.ca
  Montreal Canadiens star defenceman Shea Weber will miss the remainder of the regular season because of a torn tendon in his left foot, the team announced Thursday.
  
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• Pointe-Saint-Charles tenants on the move after being forced from their homes

  22-02-2018 18:37 via cbc.ca
  Tenants in two deteriorating apartment buildings in Pointe-Saint-Charles are scrambling today after a Quebec Superior Court justice ruled Wednesday they must vacate their homes by this afternoon due to safety risks.
  
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• Pointe-Saint-Charles tenants forced out of homes due to safety risks

  22-02-2018 18:37 via cbc.ca
  Two deteriorating apartment buildings in Pointe-Saint-Charles are now padlocked, after a Superior Court justice upheld a city evacuation order due to safety risks, forcing tenants to vacate.
  
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• Plante announces consultation on reducing transit fares

  22-02-2018 18:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Seniors, children and people on low incomes could see free or reduced transit fares throughout Greater Montreal under a vision outlined by Mayor Valérie Plante Thursday.
  In her inaugural address as chairperson of the Montreal Metropolitan community, Plante announced public consultations on reduced fares for certain groups of users.
  “This is an issue that I care deeply about and I’m very proud to go ahead,” Plante told mayors and officials from 82 municipalities in Greate
  
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• Good faith error acceptable defence when fighting parking tickets: Quebec court

  22-02-2018 18:29 via globalnews.ca
  She contested the $43 ticket in municipal court but lost.
  
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• Opinion: Weight loss and the case for bariatric surgery

  22-02-2018 18:04 via montrealgazette.com
  When you start talking about weight loss, most people think about diet and exercise. But a recent survey in the United States found that people generally overestimate how effective diet and exercise are. The survey also found that people generally consider surgery, like gastric bypass, to be dangerous and ineffective. In fact, only a minority of patients eligible for gastric bypass are referred, reflecting a knowledge gap among both patients and their physicians about who would make an ideal can
  
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• Man convicted in Longueuil dog attack that injured girl

  22-02-2018 18:01 via globalnews.ca
  Karim Jean Gilles has been found guilty of criminal negligence after his pit bull-type dog mauled a child.
  
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• Rosemont students, staff honour teen who died after being found unconscious in city pool

  22-02-2018 17:57 via cbc.ca
  Students, staff, parents and community members are gathering at École Père-Marquette to honour the memory of the 14-year-old boy who died after being found unconscious at the bottom of a city pool in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie.
  
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• Family, friends mourn teen who died after being found unconscious in Rosemont pool

  22-02-2018 17:57 via cbc.ca
  Family and fellow classmates are struggling to come to terms with the death of Blessing Moukoko, a ​14-year-old boy who died after being found unconscious at the bottom of a city pool in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie.
  
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• Been missing your daily cup of Jo? Well, you’re in luck! Tomorrow @joannevrakas will be stopping by the studio (+ t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-02-2018 17:57
  Been missing your daily cup of Jo? Well, you’re in luck! Tomorrow @joannevrakas will be stopping by the studio (+ t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Forum aims to help Anglos living off-island access health care services in English

  22-02-2018 17:50 via cbc.ca
  The forum, called “Personalize Your Future,” will also provide information on a new regional hospital coming to Vaudreuil-Soulanges.
  
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• Why it's never too late to take up team sports

  22-02-2018 17:48 via montrealgazette.com
  When you think of team sports, it’s probably other people who come to mind — professional athletes who have spent the last couple of decades being in exceptional shape. 
  But you don’t need to count yourself out in these situations. Team sports are not limited to what you watch on TV, and recreational leagues offer a variety of important health benefits. 
  This isn’t just motivational pabulum; a recent editorial in the Journal of Sport and Health Science high
  
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• Update: We'll have new Champlain Bridge built on schedule, consortium says

  22-02-2018 17:13 via montrealgazette.com
  The consortium building the new Champlain Bridge in Montreal says it is aiming to have the structure ready as planned by the end of 2018.
  The reassurance comes as a published report says the bridge won’t be ready on time and that the current Champlain Bridge will have to be kept in service a while longer.
  A spokeswoman for the consortium building the new bridge says they are working under the premise it will open as planned before Christmas.
  None of the stakeholders would comment directly
  
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• Whack-a-mole: Youtube, Facebook, & Twitter battle fake news https://t.co/M4LEe5o5eF

  22-02-2018 16:54
  
  Whack-a-mole: Youtube, Facebook, & Twitter battle fake news https://t.co/M4LEe5o5eF
  
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• New Champlain Bridge expected to open before Christmas despite rumours of delay

  22-02-2018 16:54 via globalnews.ca
  The consortium building the new Champlain Bridge in Montreal says it is aiming to have the structure ready as planned by the end of 2018.
  
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• New Champlain Bridge expected to open before Christmas

  22-02-2018 16:54 via globalnews.ca
  The consortium building the new Champlain Bridge in Montreal says it is aiming to have the structure ready as planned by the end of 2018.
  
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• 60 cops involved in Hells Angels-linked raids north of Montreal

  22-02-2018 16:38 via montrealgazette.com
   A third wave of raids aimed at breaking what police contend is a drug trafficking network linked to the Hells Angels was carried out Thursday morning, with 60 police officers executing warrants in five municipalities north of Montreal.
  Eight raids were carried out in residences, warehouses and in one commercial establishment. As was the case with similar operations carried out on Tuesday and on Jan. 24, no arrests were made.
  Thursday’s operation, overseen by an anti-organized crime t
  
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• Montreal, there's freezing rain coming Friday, Environment Canada says

  22-02-2018 16:18 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal area’s topsy-turvy weather predictions continued Thursday with a special weather statement warning of freezing rain starting Friday afternoon.
  With the temperature hovering around zero degrees Celsius, we could get 2 to 5 millimetres of freezing rain, meaning “untreated surfaces such as roads and sidewalks may become icy and slippery.” The Environment Canada statement also covers Châteauguay, La-Prairie, Laval and the Longueuil-Varennes area.
  It’ll
  
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• Pointe-Saint-Charles residents face eviction

  22-02-2018 16:15 via globalnews.ca
  Tenents of two different builidings in Pointe-Saint-Charles have until noon Thursday to pack up their belongings and move, after an injunction request to postpone the evictions was denied. Billy Shields reports.
  
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• All those selfies are giving your kids lice - Watch the full video at btmontreal.ca/videos https://t.co/HVYIzk8hfz

  22-02-2018 16:15
  
  All those selfies are giving your kids lice - Watch the full video at btmontreal.ca/videos https://t.co/HVYIzk8hfz
  
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• ‘Shiners’ meets shoe shiners around the world

  22-02-2018 16:11 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal filmmaker Stacey Tenenbaum tells Global’s Laura Casella why she travelled the world to rediscover the lost art of the shoe shine.
  
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• Clear the clutter to find forgotten spaces

  22-02-2018 16:11 via globalnews.ca
  Clear the clutter and find those forgotten spaces in your home with decor expert Karl Lohnes and Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Discovering Quebec cheeses

  22-02-2018 16:01 via globalnews.ca
  Find out everything you need to know about Quebec’s cheeses as some of the province’s producers meet with Global’s Kim Sullivan at Montréal en Lumières.
  
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