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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: It's crucial to listen to seniors

  01-03-2018 23:56
  Montreal’s public consultation process for seniors has not been without its share of bumps. Still, it’s an important exercise.
  As our population ages, it’s crucial to canvass seniors’ perspectives and wisdom, so that present and future municipal services can best serve seniors’ needs. Creating an inclusive environment that is physically safe and welcoming for our seniors should be a key objective of public policy. 
  The city came in for justified criticism
  
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• Fire in Montreal heritage building injures 3

  01-03-2018 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 1: Three people were sent to hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation after fire broke out in a heritage building in Montreal’s Plateau borough. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Victor Mete has been a 'Little Ball of Fun' for Canadiens

  01-03-2018 23:41
  The Canadiens locker rooms have not been very fun places to be this season, whether it be at their Brossard practice facility or after games at the Bell Centre.
  Players are tired of having to answer the same questions about why the team has been so bad and reporters are getting tired trying to come up with new questions. Thankfully for the players and the media — not to mention the fans — there are only 19 games left in this season to nowhere starting with Friday’s game in New
  
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• Quebec premier making budget, election promises

  01-03-2018 23:40 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 1: Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard toured a local microbrewery to find out what challenges it is facing in light of the province’s new liquor laws. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, he’s already making promises for this year’s budget – as well as the October 1 election.
  
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• Montreal ranks #2 for millennials

  01-03-2018 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 1: The City of Montreal was ranked the second best city for millenials, just behind Berlin, when it comes to business, housing and lifestyle affordability, recreation and openness. Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports.
  
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• Montreal police not doing enough to recruit English speakers?

  01-03-2018 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 1: Recruiters with the Montreal police force are not attracting English speaking graduates from the police academy at John Abbott College, according to one CEGEP spokesperson. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Quebec floods: Martin Coiteux’s plan for the future

  01-03-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 1: Quebec Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux said he wants to make it easier for future flood victims to get their cheques. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• Female Inuk airline captain lands in New Brunswick to inspire young women to take up aviation

  01-03-2018 23:29 via globalnews.ca
  Air Inuit's first female Inuk captain is hoping to become an inspiration to others by travelling across the country to encourage more women to earn their wings.
  
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• Future of new Panagitsa Greek church in jeopardy due to unpaid bills

  01-03-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
  Subcontractors have sent notices to the owners of the newly rebuilt Koimisis Tis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church in Parc-Extension, demanding they be paid or they could force the church's sale.
  
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• Montrealer guilty of infanticide ordered to have regular pregnancy tests

  01-03-2018 22:53
  A mother of three who pleaded guilty to killing her newborn child was sentenced to house arrest Thursday and ordered to submit two pregnancy tests a year for the duration of her sentence — something her lawyer believes is a first in Canada.
  The 43-year-old Montreal woman, who cannot be named, pleaded guilty to one charge of infanticide last November after giving birth at home in July 2016 without knowing she was pregnant.
  The child was placed in a plastic bag and died from the ef
  
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• Injuries leave Impact undermanned ahead of MLS season opener

  01-03-2018 22:29
  The Major League Soccer season hasn’t even started and already the Montreal Impact’s lack of depth has been exposed.
  Injuries have left the Impact with one healthy forward, Matteo Mancosu, and one centre back, Victor Cabrera, heading into their regular-season opener Sunday in Vancouver.
  The club that could not afford any injuries to key players was dealt a massive blow when one of their top off-season signings, French central defender Zakaria Diallo, went down during training on Tues
  
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• Montreal considered second-best city in the world for millennials

  01-03-2018 22:24 via globalnews.ca
  A global survey found Montreal to be one of the best places in the world for millennials to live.
  
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• Quebec floods: Coiteux talks preventing future disasters, helping victims

  01-03-2018 21:32 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux said he wants to make it easier for future flood victims to get their checks.
  
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• Laval police search for missing 14-year-old girl

  01-03-2018 21:26 via cbc.ca
  Laval police are looking for the teen who's been missing since Monday.
  
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• Laval police find body of missing 14-year-old girl in stream behind school

  01-03-2018 21:26 via cbc.ca
  Laval police say they have found the body of a 14-year-old girl who was reported missing earlier in the week.
  
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• Laval police find body of missing 14-year-old girl

  01-03-2018 21:26 via cbc.ca
  Laval police say they have found the body of a 14-year-old girl who was reported missing earlier in the week.
  
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• Diallo injury exposes Impact’s depth issues as MLS season set to start

  01-03-2018 21:03 via globalnews.ca
  The Major League Soccer season hasn't even started and already the Montreal Impact's lack of depth has been exposed.
  
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• Delphine Bergeron: The public's eye in the courtroom

  01-03-2018 20:21
  More than 4 million people live in cosmopolitan Montreal and its suburbs. In a new series of videos called The People Project, Montreal Gazette reporters Christopher Curtis and Catherine Solyom profile some of the many characters who call the city home and make the city hum.
  Delphine Bergeron has been covering the Montreal courthouse for 10 years, not with a pen and paper or a TV news camera, but with her sketchpad and paints.
  With cameras still forbidden inside the halls of justice, she tells u
  
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• Quebec's nurses are in crisis. How did we get here?

  01-03-2018 20:18
  The plight of nurses in Quebec, forced to work overtime and extra shifts to make up for a shortage of nurses, has dominated headlines and editorial cartoons for weeks.
  Here is a look at what’s driving the crisis, and how unions, politicians and even doctors are responding — some physicians even rejecting hefty raises because the nurses and other health-care workers are suffering. 
  Both Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette, a radiologist by training, and Premier Philippe
  
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• 'It's just great to represent your country': Canada's women's hockey team members return to Quebec

  01-03-2018 20:06 via cbc.ca
  Three Montreal-based Team Canada players — Marie-Philip Poulin, Lauriane Rougeau and Mélodie Daoust — discuss winning silver, the future of women's hockey, and how they feel about Scott Moir's beer-fueled referee call-out at the game.
  
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• Calgary man wanted on Canada-wide warrants may be in Alberta or Quebec

  01-03-2018 19:57 via globalnews.ca
  David Midouin is wanted in relation to two armed robbery incidents that happened late last year in Calgary.
  
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• Quebec unveils 24-point plan to improve disaster relief, preparedness

  01-03-2018 19:20
  In the wake of 2017’s historic flooding, the Quebec government said it will pour more money into disaster preparedness, and make it easier for future victims to get compensation.
  That was the gist of a new 24-point plan to improve the response to disasters unveiled Thursday.
  Other measures included improving disaster plans in cities, simplifying information for victims on the province’s website, and revisiting urban plans to ensure there is no new development within floodplains. 
  
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• Snowboarder Sebastien Toutant ‘drops in’ to talk Olympic gold

  01-03-2018 19:18 via globalnews.ca
  The French Canadian snowboarder made history by winning the first-ever men's big air Olympic snowboard event.
  
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• This 9-year-old drag queen shows us how to slay

  01-03-2018 19:11 via cbc.ca
  Nemis Melancon tells us what it takes to transform from a skateboarding kid into a glamorous vogueing drag princess named Lactatia.
  
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• Regular pregnancy tests for mother who pleaded guilty to infanticide

  01-03-2018 18:57
  A Montreal mother who pleaded guilty to killing her newborn child has been sentenced to 20 months of house arrest followed by three years of probation. 
  In what her lawyer described as a first in Canada, she has also been ordered to take a pregnancy test every six months and submit the results to her supervising officer while under house arrest. She will need to do the same for the three following years. 
  Quebec Court Judge Linda Despots rendered the sentence Thursday morning
  
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• Quebecer who pleaded guilty to infanticide must get pregnancy tests twice a year

  01-03-2018 18:57 via globalnews.ca
  The newborn was found in a plastic bag and died in hospital a few days later.
  
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• Walkout threat widens as more school bus drivers vote for strike mandates

  01-03-2018 18:30
  One day after the 330-member union representing Transco school bus drivers voted to go on unlimited strike if necessary, negotiations with other drivers’ unions seemed in danger on Thursday of also skidding off the road, with drivers in Longueuil, Laval, Sainte-Julie, Vaudreuil-Dorion and Dorval all voting for strike mandates.
  This time the drivers are part of the Teamsters union affiliated with the Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Quebec.
  A Teamsters spok
  
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• Millions needed to improve justice system, Quebec Bar tells province

  01-03-2018 18:22
  The Quebec Bar has added its voice to those of the health and education sectors in begging the province for more funding, particularly in the areas of computerizing the administration of justice and improving access to the legal system.
  Paul-Matthieu Grondin, bâtonnier of the Quebec Bar, told reporters Thursday that $400 million to $600 million was needed to computerize a system that for a large part still functions with paper and photocopiers. He said another $212 million is needed to ren
  
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• Festival de Casteliers 2018: Welcome to the new age of puppetry

  01-03-2018 18:13
  I’m not sure which god of puppetry has been pulling strings for the artists and organizers of Festival de Casteliers, but things are definitely going their way. This much expanded 13th edition sees the long wished-for appearance of Canadian phenomenon Ronnie Burkett with his scintillatingly funny The Daisy Theatre (which plays at Centaur Theatre to March 24, but has a special festival showing and talk-back on March 8 at 8 p.m.). And later this year, the long planned Maison Internationale d
  
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• Locals frustrated with noise coming from U.S. Navy ship stuck in Montreal

  01-03-2018 18:02 via cbc.ca
  The Port of Montreal is responding to noise complaints from locals about a U.S. warship stuck here since December after residents say they are having a hard time dealing with the hum of generators powering the ship.
  
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• Checking In: 1865 Griffintown row houses reborn as B&B

  01-03-2018 18:00
  The petite Hôtel Particulier Griffintown is a homespun getaway at the epicentre of Montreal’s hip, progressive neighbourhood.
  This is history in the making. The lodging establishment is a series of interconnected brick row houses that date to 1865. And it’s wedged between the historic Horse Palace and the new city-within-a-city of towering glass condos.
  L’Hôtel Particulier Griffintown operates as a B&B, but with an unusual formula.
  “It is micro-lodging,&rd
  
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• Australian regulator raises competition concerns over Saputo dairy deal

  01-03-2018 17:50 via globalnews.ca
  The regulator says dairy farmers want the $1.3-billion friendly purchase deal to proceed after years of uncertainty.
  
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• Guilty verdict in death of Inuk woman a ‘reassurance’ to Indigenous community: Crown

  01-03-2018 17:42 via globalnews.ca
  A jury in Montreal Wednesday found 32-year-old Kwasi Benjamin guilty in the 2015 death of his girlfriend.
  
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• Locals frustrated with generator hum coming from U.S. warship stuck in Montreal

  01-03-2018 17:27 via globalnews.ca
  The Port of Montreal says it is working to deal with noise complaints from locals about a U.S. warship.
  
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• Eisha Marjara forgoes the drama in transgender tale Venus

  01-03-2018 17:24
  Eisha Marjara was 11 years old when she began questioning what it means to be a woman.
  “Ever since I reached puberty, it’s something I’ve wondered about,” said the Montreal filmmaker, whose fiction feature debut Venus focuses on a transgender protagonist.
  “I was very sensitive to gender and inequality, and to the fact that women didn’t seem to have as much worth as men,” Marjara explained. “That deeply affected how I saw myself. I internalized that
  
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• Reitmans to close all of its Hyba activewear stores over the next year

  01-03-2018 17:19 via globalnews.ca
  Women's fashion retailer Reitmans Ltd. says it is closing all of its Hyba stores.
  
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• What would you do with a Montreal time machine? - CBC.ca

  01-03-2018 17:02
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  What would you do with a Montreal time machine?
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  This is the latest in a series of blog posts by the 2018 CBC Montreal/Quebec Writers' Federation writer-in-residence, Joshua Levy. When I reach the Kondiaronk lookout in Mount Royal Park, the snow has stopped falling and people are busy snapping ...
  
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• What would you do with a Montreal time machine?

  01-03-2018 17:00 via cbc.ca
  The CBC Montreal/Quebec Writers' Federation 2018 writer-in-residence, Joshua Levy, explores the connections between our past, present and future with his ingenious time machine.
  
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• Mother who pleaded guilty to infanticide ordered to take regular pregnancy tests

  01-03-2018 16:53
  A Montreal mother who pleaded guilty to killing her newborn child has been sentenced to 20 months of house arrest followed by three years of probation. 
  In what her lawyer described as a first in Canada, she has also been ordered to take a pregnancy test every six months and submit the results to her supervising officer while under house arrest. She will need to do the same during her three years of probation. 
  Quebec Court Judge Linda Despots rendered the sentence Thursday m
  
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• 2-alarm fire in Montreal heritage building sends 3 people to hospital

  01-03-2018 16:42 via globalnews.ca
  The fire broke out on the first floor of a former bank, which has been designated as a heritage building by Heritage Montreal.
  
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• Defence lawyer seeks to have journalists testify on leaks from UPAC

  01-03-2018 16:38
  The lawyer for Marc-Yvan Côté, a former Quebec politician and one of six persons accused in a fraud and breach of trust trial, will try again on Thursday to force two journalists to testify and reveal their sources.
  Côté’s lawyer will argue in Superior Court that a Feb. 12 decision by a Quebec Court judge rejecting a motion that the journalists be compelled to testify be overturned.
  Quebec Court Judge André Perreault’s rejection of the motion found th
  
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• Canadian Olympian returns home

  01-03-2018 16:33 via globalnews.ca
  Canadian Olympian Sebastien Toutant talks to Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan about their experiences in Pyeongchang.
  
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• New Montreal-made app may help detect depression

  01-03-2018 16:22 via globalnews.ca
  Mind.me partners Dr. Roger McIntyre and Jonathan Levitt talk to Global’s Laura Casella about a new mobile app that will help detect depression and help sufferers get support when they need it.
  
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• Province orders Quebec municipalities to come up with action plans in response to 2017 floods

  01-03-2018 16:13 via cbc.ca
  Every municipality in Quebec has two years to come up with an emergency plan to deal with a disaster after the government has made it mandatory for them to do so.
  
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• Trump says U.S. will impose tariffs of 25% for steel, 10% for aluminum

  01-03-2018 16:11 via cbc.ca
  U.S. President Donald Trump has announced hefty new tariffs for imports of steel, at 25 per cent, and 10 per cent for aluminum, to be implemented next week in his attempt to boost U.S. manufacturers.
  
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• Montreal International Children’s Film Festival 2018

  01-03-2018 16:05 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal’s International Children’s Film festival arrives just in time to entertain kids with films from 30 different countries. FIFEM jury president Antoine Vézina joins Global’s Kim Sullivan to talk about this year’s edition.
  
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• Purim treats: @delishnogluten shares traditional and new recipes btmontreal.ca/videos/purim-t…

  01-03-2018 15:58
  Purim treats: @delishnogluten shares traditional and new recipes btmontreal.ca/videos/purim-t…
  
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• Montreal VFX studio celebrates award-winning work on ‘Blade Runner 2049’

  01-03-2018 15:54 via globalnews.ca
  Framestore managing director Lucy Kellick talks to Global’s Laura Casella about the Montreal studio’s Oscar award-winning work on ‘Blade Runner 2049,’ and upcoming projects for the studio.
  
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• Purim treats: traditional and new btmontreal.ca/videos/purim-t…

  01-03-2018 15:49
  Purim treats: traditional and new btmontreal.ca/videos/purim-t…
  
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• Getting to know Montreal-Italian singer @BettaLemme btmontreal.ca/videos/getting…

  01-03-2018 15:46
  Getting to know Montreal-Italian singer @BettaLemme btmontreal.ca/videos/getting…
  
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