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• Stu Cowan: Canadiens' Brendan Gallagher stands tall in leadership role

  06-03-2018 23:56 via montrealgazette.com
  NEWARK, N.J. — A good leader should never ask people under them to do what he or she wouldn’t do themselves.
  That’s part of what makes the Canadiens’ Brendan Gallagher a very good leader.
  Gallagher is only 5-foot-9 and 181 pounds, but he’s never afraid to go to the dirty areas of the ice to battle for the puck or score a goal. He gives 100-per-cent effort every shift and he won’t back down from anyone — not even 6-foot-6, 223-pound Tampa Bay Lightning de
  
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• Quebec investing in homeless shelters

  06-03-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Mar 6: Quebec is promising $11 million over the next your years to build new homeless shelters. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, people who work with the homeless say it’s a step in the right direction.
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens at New Jersey

  06-03-2018 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens are playing for pride and 2018-’19 season employment.
  Unlike too many 2016-’17 games, it’s been fun to watch.
  The team hasn’t lost a game in regulation since Feb. 17, when the Canadiens were smoked 6-3 in Las Vegas.
  In the more than two weeks since, the Canadiens have beaten the Rangers and the Islanders – twice! – and lost in OT/Shootout to Tampa Bay, Philadelphia and Boston.
  This late-season manifestation of decent hockey has come despite a lon
  
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• Outremont residents wear yellow badges to protest use of Jewish buses in borough

  06-03-2018 23:24 via montrealgazette.com
  The wearing of yellow badges at an Outremont borough council meeting to protest the use of school buses by Hasidic Jews has sparked outrage due to their similarity to the stars Jews were forced to wear under the Nazi occupation.
  Monday night’s incident is the most recent event in a long-simmering dispute between a few local residents and members of the growing Hasidic community.
  “Should we just go away? Just vanish?” Alex Werzberger, a member of Outremont’s Hasidic commun
  
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• West Island police files

  06-03-2018 23:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Two arrests have been made in conjunction with a recent spate of break-ins within Montreal Police Station 1 territory, which includes Beaconsfield, Baie-D’Urfé, Kirkland, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue and Senneville. The majority of break-ins occurred in Beaconsfield.
  Montreal Police Station 1 Commander Martin Bernier said a 47-year-old “career criminal” was arrested Feb. 23. The man was caught in the act of breaking into a Beaconsfield home. Police arrested him on the spot. His
  
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• Help improve the Montreal Gazette web experience by taking this brief survey

  06-03-2018 23:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Can we get your opinion?
  We’re always looking for ways to improve your experience with the Montreal Gazette website. That’s why we want to hear from you. We would appreciate your input on this 60-second survey: bit.ly/2CG0N2g.
  Whether you have thoughts about the content you’re reading or reactions to the site you’re navigating, your opinion matters to us. Your comments are private and confidential.
  Thank you for taking the time to tell us what you think.
  
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• Homeless women get free Ardene shopping spree

  06-03-2018 22:54 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Mar 6: About 200 of Montreal’s homeless women, as well as people who work at local shelters, got the chance to shop – for free. Global’s Felicia Parrillo finds out about the initiative that’s giving back ahead of International Women’s Day.
  
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• Crossing guards protest work conditions in Montreal

  06-03-2018 22:47 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Mar 6: Hundreds of crossing guards are protesting their expired work contracts. As Global’s Anne Leclair reports, they are demanding Mayor Valérie Plante resign.
  
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• Ensemble Montréal calls for public consultations on Mount Royal road plan

  06-03-2018 22:32 via montrealgazette.com
  The municipal Opposition party is calling on Mayor Valérie Plante’s administration to hold public consultations before blocking through traffic on Mount Royal this spring.
  Ensemble Montréal has tabled resolutions at 10 borough councils demanding that the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) hold hearings before the pilot project to close Camillien-Houde Way and Remembrance Rd. to crosstown traffic, Opposition leader Lionel Perez announced Tuesday.
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• Montreal is getting a shelter where alcoholics aren't turned away

  06-03-2018 22:17 via cbc.ca
  Montreal will soon have a shelter where people with alcohol abuse problems living on the streets will be able to consume alcohol in a managed way, meeting a longstanding demand of advocates for the city's homeless.
  
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• Free shopping spree for Montreal-area homeless women

  06-03-2018 22:07 via globalnews.ca
  Around 150 women from 35 Montreal-area homeless shelters went on a shopping spree, for free.
  
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• School crossing guards protest at Montreal police station over expired contract

  06-03-2018 22:01 via globalnews.ca
  The crossing guards say they have been without a collective agreement since December 2015.
  
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• Kramberger: West Island is more than ready for REM

  06-03-2018 22:01 via montrealgazette.com
  A new information website will allow West Islanders to follow the progress of the much anticipated — and costly — Réseau express métropolitain (REM) network to be built in the coming years.
  The rem.info website, launched last week, includes a section dedicated to the weatherproof stations that will serve the West Island’s residential areas. The Pointe-Claire station near the Fairview shopping centre will include 50 bike racks, 17 bus platforms, 10 drop-off spots a
  
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• Montreal university upset about union likening rector to Gilligan’s Island captain

  06-03-2018 21:39 via globalnews.ca
  Université de Montréal has issued a statement saying it took the legal route to avoid further personal attacks on its representatives.
  
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• Group of Montrealers wear yellow badges to protest Jewish buses

  06-03-2018 21:26 via globalnews.ca
  Every so often tensions flare in the borough between a handful of citizens and its Hasidic Jews.
  
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• Young N.B. cancer survivor sells paintings to raise money for kids with cancer

  06-03-2018 21:24 via globalnews.ca
  An aspiring young artist from Riverview, N.B., is spending hours at her easel to raise money for kids with cancer and to honour the legacy of Becca Schofield.
  
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• Quebec puts more money into housing for homeless

  06-03-2018 19:55 via cbc.ca
  More Quebecers living on the streets will have access to housing under provincial funding announced Tuesday.
  
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• A banner year for tourism in Montreal as tourists spent $4B in 2017

  06-03-2018 19:32 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal's 375th-anniversary celebrations helped boost local tourism in 2017, according to a new report.
  
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• City opposition calls for public consultations on Camillien-Houde

  06-03-2018 19:31 via montrealgazette.com
  The municipal opposition is calling on Mayor Valérie Plante’s administration to hold public consultations before blocking through traffic on Mount Royal this spring.
  The Ensemble Montréal party has tabled resolutions at 10 borough councils demanding that the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) hold hearings before the pilot project to close Camillien-Houde Way and Remembrance Rd. to cross-town traffic, opposition leader Lionel Perez announced Tuesday.
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• Game Day: Charlie Lindgren will start in goal for Canadiens vs. Devils

  06-03-2018 19:13 via montrealgazette.com
  NEWARK, N.J. — Charlie Lindgren will be in goal for the Canadiens when they take on the Devils Tuesday night in New Jersey (7 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690).
  The Canadiens called up goalie Zach Fucale from the AHL’s Laval Rocket on an emergency basis Monday after Antti Niemi missed practice for a therapy day. Fucale took part in Tuesday’s morning skate at the Prudential Center and will be the backup for Lindgren against the Devils after the Canadiens announced Niemi has a lowe
  
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• Show your tummy some love! Find out how you can enter for a chance to win a $350 prize pack from @Jamieson_Canada… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 19:04
  Show your tummy some love! Find out how you can enter for a chance to win a $350 prize pack from @Jamieson_Canada… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• MMIWG inquiry asks federal government for 2-year extension

  06-03-2018 19:01 via cbc.ca
  The national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls says it has requested a two-year extension, until Dec. 31, 2020, to complete its mandate.
  
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• School crossing guards protest job conditions outside police HQ

  06-03-2018 18:48 via montrealgazette.com
  About 100 school crossing guards — members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees — protested outside Montreal police headquarters Tuesday morning to protest their working conditions.
  They also demonstrated to highlight that their contract negotiations have been stalled for more than two years.
  Union president Diane Girard said the guards are paid for four hours of work but scheduled to work those hours over an eight-and-a-half-hour period. They also have no pension plan.
  Nor are
  
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• Opinion: It's time for Quebec to catch up to Ontario on 'super nurses'

  06-03-2018 18:34 via montrealgazette.com
  With a health-care system plagued by access problems, Quebecers should rejoice that the province is (slowly) training more specialized nurse practitioners and (grudgingly) giving them more to do. But Quebec still lags far behind Ontario, and in fact is losing ground.
  Specialized nurse practitioners, also known as “super nurses”, are health-care professionals with some powers formerly restricted to medical doctors. Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette announced last month&nbs
  
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• Hampstead bans smoking on city property, including streets and sidewalks

  06-03-2018 18:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Describing second-hand tobacco smoke as a danger “especially to minors, the elderly and those with lung diseases,” the town of Hampstead has tabled a bylaw that will ban smoking on city property — including streets and sidewalks.
  The across-the-board ban was announced by the west-end municipality on Tuesday morning on the town’s website, which quoted Mayor William Steinberg saying: “Second-hand smoke is dangerous, especially for the elderly, people with lung di
  
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• Six O’Clock Solution: Mango Pork Fried Rice is classic Betty Crocker

  06-03-2018 17:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Back in 1969, the celebrated culinary adviser Betty Crocker included this easy stir-fry in the latest cookbook to appear under her name. She was a made-up person, the titular adviser to consumers who sought help from the U.S. flour company General Mills. Beginning in1950, Betty’s cookbooks were big sellers. The recent publication of Betty Crocker Lost Recipes: Beloved Vintage Recipes for Today’s Kitchens (Houghton Mifflin Harvourt/Raincoast, $35) contains more than 120 of the most po
  
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• B.C. company targets small Quebec municipality for blocking open mine project

  06-03-2018 17:41 via cbc.ca
  Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, a picturesque municipality in Quebec's Laurentians, is being targeted by a Vancouver-based mining company in a lawsuit that is worth nearly 20 times its total budget.
  
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• Opinion: Why your backyard rink is turning into a wading pool

  06-03-2018 17:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealers who recently watched their outdoor rinks turn into wading pools may be asking, “Is this normal?” The answer: Yes. 
  As far as skating seasons go, this wasn’t the worst one in recent history. It was short, but over the last 75 winters, there have been 10 others when the best skating was finished by mid-February. It was a bit of a shock to learn the Beaver Lake rink on Mount Royal  would no longer be maintained, but ponds that must bear the additional weight
  
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• Looking for what to do in Montreal during your Spring Break Staycation? @montreal_mom has you covered! btmontreal.ca/videos/what-to…

  06-03-2018 17:00
  Looking for what to do in Montreal during your Spring Break Staycation? @montreal_mom has you covered! btmontreal.ca/videos/what-to…
  
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• Tournament MVP @Daoust17 on leading Canada to Olympic silver medal btmontreal.ca/videos/melodie…

  06-03-2018 16:53
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• It's real estate high season - @ThierryLindor helps us navigate the market btmontreal.ca/videos/its-rea…

  06-03-2018 16:51
  It's real estate high season - @ThierryLindor helps us navigate the market btmontreal.ca/videos/its-rea…
  
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• Updated: Service resuming gradually on métro Green Line

  06-03-2018 16:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Service is slowly resuming on the Green Line of the métro after it was shut down for more than an hour in the wake of a medical emergency at the Peel station. Commuters had been urged to use the Orange Line as an alternative to getting around downtown.
   
   
  
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• West Island Living: DIY home selling growing in popularity

  06-03-2018 15:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Selling your home without an agent always struck me as a stressful — even risky — choice. Yet commission-free real estate services are growing in popularity, and those who have done it say it’s easier than you might think.
  For 20 consecutive years, Du Proprio has achieved record sales numbers in Quebec. At the beginning of March, the company announced a new high of over 19,000 annual sales in 2017 — up 10 per cent from the year before. One in five sales in Quebec today is
  
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• Children’s reads: Bella and Jack Bring Back the Bees

  06-03-2018 15:22 via globalnews.ca
  Canadian author Paulette Bourgeois and illustrator Josée Bisaillon join Global’s Laura Casella to tell us about their new children’s book ‘Bella and Jack Bring Back the Bees,’ raising sensitivity about the bee population.
  
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• Airbus wants to make C Series profitable by lowering supplier prices

  06-03-2018 15:14 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard visited the Airbus facilities during trip to France.
  
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• Spring your office wardrobe forward

  06-03-2018 15:07 via globalnews.ca
  Style expert Claude Laframboise joins Global’s Laura Casella with this spring’s work-friendly fashion trends.
  
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• Seven sweet choices for cabanes à sucre around Montreal

  06-03-2018 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Maple syrup is big business in Quebec.
  In fact, this province is the world’s largest producer of maple syrup. According to the Quebec Federation of Maple Syrup Producers, in 2017 our 13,700 maple syrup producers harvested 152 million pounds of maple syrup. That’s enough to fill 24 Olympic-size swimming pools.
  But when we think about sugaring off, many of us picture a small cabin nestled among the trees, like the one that’s been featured on our cans of maple syrup since 1951.
  In
  
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• Airbus calls on suppliers to reduce prices to make CSeries profitable

  06-03-2018 14:53 via montrealgazette.com
  TOULOUSE, France — Airbus intends to call upon suppliers for Bombardier’s CSeries jet to reduce their prices in an effort to make its partnership with the Quebec aeronautics firm profitable.
  That intention was announced Tuesday by Airbus purchasing director Klaus Richter during a visit by Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard to the Airbus installation in Toulouse as part of a weeklong mission to France.
  Richter noted that Airbus had gambled on taking over the beleaguered CSeries, which
  
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• #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/d60GDF5aIM

  06-03-2018 14:40
  
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• Fewer monarch butterflies made it to Mexico again this year

  06-03-2018 14:37 via cbc.ca
  The number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexican forests declined for a second consecutive year, a government official say.
  
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• Working out while traveling

  06-03-2018 14:32 via globalnews.ca
  Fitness expert Suaad Ghadban joins Global’s Kim Sullivan with some nifty workouts for the road.
  
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• NEXT: Tanya Toledano shares fun things to do for spring break staycation. Watch live: btmontreal.ca https://t.co/kpqENzN6HO

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• Education through the Assassin’s Creed video game franchise

  06-03-2018 14:29 via globalnews.ca
  Find out how ‘Assassin’s Creed Discovery Tour’ can be implemented in classrooms. Ubisoft’s Maxime Durand a historian for the ‘Assassin’s Creed’ franchise talks to Global’s Laura Casella about the new educational game mode.
  
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• Tourism brought $4 billion to Montreal in 2017

  06-03-2018 14:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Tourism Montreal says that the city enjoyed a bumper year when it came to welcoming visitors here in 2017.
  Last year the city welcomed 11.1 million tourists, an increase of 5.1 per cent compared with 2016. And those visitors spent $4 billion here last year, an increase of 9.7 per cent.
  And while the Conference Board of Canada notes that visitors from France, the city’s main source of tourism, increased by nine per cent, the number of tourists coming here from China skyrocketed by 33 per ce
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Tuesday, March 6

  06-03-2018 14:15 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Tuesday, March 6.
  
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• Global News Community Events: Pierrefonds-Roxboro Meals on Wheels

  06-03-2018 14:15 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has Montreal’s Community Events for Tuesday, March 6.
  
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• Greater Montreal home sales up from February 2017, as active listings drop

  06-03-2018 14:14 via cbc.ca
  The Greater Montreal Real Estate Board says home sales in the region grew five per cent year-over-year in February, as the number of active listings dropped 17 per cent.
  
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  06-03-2018 14:05
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Tuesday, March 6

  06-03-2018 14:05 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Tuesday, March 6.
  
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• 30 Days of Céline Dion: Singing for the pope at the age of 16

  06-03-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec singer, businesswoman and all-around icon Céline Dion is turning 50 on March 30, 2018. Every day for the month leading up to this milestone, the Montreal Gazette is revisiting a memorable moment from her career. Today is Day 6 of 30 Days of Céline. Check back in tomorrow for another update.
  It was one of the first signs that Céline Dion was going to be more than just another Québécois pop vedette. She had already had quite a bit of local chart success by
  
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