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• Pedestrian, 85, in critical condition after collision in Rosemont

  08-03-2018 23:48 via cbc.ca
  An 85-year-old woman is in hospital in critical condition after she was struck by a car Thursday afternoon while crossing Beaubien Street at Pie-IX Boulevard.
  
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• Pedestrian, 85, in critical condition after being struck by car in Rosemont

  08-03-2018 23:48 via cbc.ca
  An 85-year-old woman is in hospital in critical condition after she was struck by a car Thursday afternoon while crossing Beaubien Street at Pie-IX Boulevard.
  
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• Les Canadiennes sign American star Hilary Knight

  08-03-2018 23:47 via montrealgazette.com
  American forward Hilary Knight has joined Montreal’s Les Canadiennes ahead of the 2018 Canadian Women’s Hockey League playoffs.
  The defending Clarkson Cup champions announced the signing on Thursday of the 28-year-old free agent, who most recently scored for Team USA in its Olympic final win over Canada.
  Les Canadiennes general manager Meg Hewings described Knight as “an impact player who will help our organization continue to be a leading, world-class club.”
  The move mar
  
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• Brownstein: What's next for city streets after the Mount Royal pilot project?

  08-03-2018 23:47 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s a done deal. Despite an impressive petition and demands from all quarters for prior public consultations, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante has decided that the spring pilot project to block through traffic on Mount Royal will go ahead as planned.
  And this is just the beginning. It will be interesting to see how much public consultation will come into play when the Plante team goes ahead with plans to widen the sidewalks on Ste-Catherine St. from four to seven metres and to reduce
  
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• Gas leak forces street closures in downtown Montreal

  08-03-2018 23:45 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal police are asking people to avoid downtown Montreal Thursday evening as a gas leak has forced the partial closure of several streets. 
  According to the Montreal fire department, a gas leak was reported around 3 p.m. at the corner of Ste-Catherine St. W. and McGill College Ave. The department could not immediately be reached for comment on what caused the leak. 
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• N.D.G. man hopes to force city consultations on Mount Royal traffic plan

  08-03-2018 23:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Mike Silas is hoping 15,000 of his fellow citizens are mad enough about the city’s plan to close Mount Royal to through traffic this summer that they will sign a petition forcing the city to hold public consultations.
  The 46-year-old businessman drives across the mountain every day, from his home in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce to his restaurant in the Plateau-Mont-Royal.
  “Big deal, so I like to drive over the mountain because I find it scenic. What’s wrong with that? Who are you
  
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• Outremont Hasidic community outraged over yellow squares

  08-03-2018 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 8: Members of the Hasidic community say they’re outraged by some Montrealers who are protesting Jewish buses in Outremont by wearing yellow badges. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, they say it reminds them of the Holocaust.
  
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• Puppy moves into West Island Palliative Care Centre

  08-03-2018 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 8: Abby, the newest member of the West Island Palliative Care Residence team, has big paw prints to fill. As Global’s Dan Spector reports the comfort dog was donated by Rosie Animal Adoption to take over from former beloved team member, Ping-Pong.
  
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• Gas leak in the heart of downtown Montreal shuts down streets

  08-03-2018 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  The Montreal Eaton Centre was evacuated and trains were not stopping at McGill Station due to a gas leak.
  
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• Pointe-Claire Statcare recognized as super clinic

  08-03-2018 23:32 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 8: The Statcare Emergency Clinic is being named as the province’s 30th super clinic. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, the facility has been unofficially operating as a super clinic since October.
  
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• Could postponing lunch for play help curb childhood obesity?

  08-03-2018 23:31 via cbc.ca
  Flipping the order of kids’ meals and activities at their school lunch break is enough to make some forego junk food and eat less, a new Montreal study has found.
  
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• Global News at 5:30: Mar 8

  08-03-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  The Thursday, March 8, 2018 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
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• Opinion: Study on cellphones and cancer is reassuring

  08-03-2018 23:14 via montrealgazette.com
  If anyone ever tried to convince you that cellphones cause brain cancer, they probably referred to the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP). In 2016, the NTP published preliminary results suggesting that cellphones increased the risk of brain and heart cancer. The wave of concerned headlines was predictable.
  Many criticisms could be made about the study, but the main one was that the final data had not been published.
  Fortunately, we now have the final report and can look at the data more care
  
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• Gas leak forces evacuations in downtown Montreal after construction crews hit pipe

  08-03-2018 23:03 via cbc.ca
  Montreal police and firefighters evacuated the Eaton Centre, McGill Metro station and a few other businesses in downtown Montreal after a gas leak Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Gas leak forces evacuations in downtown Montreal

  08-03-2018 23:03 via cbc.ca
  Montreal police and firefighters have evacuated the Eaton Centre, McGill Metro station and a few other businesses in downtown Montreal after a gas leak Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Statcare designated super clinic by Quebec Health Minister

  08-03-2018 22:58 via globalnews.ca
  Despite the recognition, Statcare is still waiting on promised funding and will soon be facing a doctor shortage.
  
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• Quebec educators resist being rushed into teaching sex ed

  08-03-2018 22:05 via cbc.ca
  Teachers in Quebec say they're being rushed into offering sex education courses for students from kindergarten through high school without proper training or support.
  
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• Sherbrooke father, 19, charged with manslaughter in suspected shaken-baby case

  08-03-2018 21:32 via cbc.ca
  A 19-year-old man has been charged with manslaughter after his six-week-old infant died earlier this week. The man appeared in court in Sherbrooke, Que., Thursday.
  
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• ‘Find one ally,’ Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau says to working women

  08-03-2018 21:21 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 8: Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau and federal Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour Patty Hajdu speak about women’s empowerment in the workforce as part of International Women’s Day.
  
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• FCKD UP: After teen’s death, should high-alcohol, high-sugar drinks be sold in Canada?

  08-03-2018 20:39 via montrealgazette.com
  A Laval teen was found dead last week after reportedly drinking FCKD UP — a high-sugar alcoholic beverage marketed to young drinkers.
  On Sunday, Laval-based Groupe Geloso, the company that manufactures FCKD UP, announced it would be pulling the beverage from shelves across Quebec and discontinuing its production. But the beverage — which contains 11.9 per cent alcoholic content per can — was still in stores across Montreal as of Wednesday.
  Similar to the American beverage Four
  
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• Kaptainis: YNS is going places — and standing by the OM

  08-03-2018 20:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct six of 12 Orchestre Métropolitain subscription concerts next season in the Maison symphonique.
  Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who could easily move into an Upper West Side co-op within walking distance of Metropolitan Opera and let the OM fade into his illustrious history.
  But the echt-Montréalais maestro has no intention of abandoning his hometown band.
  “Why would I leave?” he asked rhetorically not long ago at the b
  
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• Bloc Québécois leader unveils plan to quell party discord

  08-03-2018 20:22 via cbc.ca
  Embattled Bloc Québécois Leader Martine Ouellet is proposing to hold a referendum among members to ease tensions within her party.
  
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• The People Project: His 'Wolf Pack' keeps homeless safe at night

  08-03-2018 20:17 via montrealgazette.com
  More than 4 million people live in cosmopolitan Montreal and its suburbs. In a new series 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 it hum.
  Al Harrington isn’t waiting for police or politicians to make the streets of Montreal safer.
  Three nights a week, Harrington gathers a group of volunteers and patrols the areas where homeless men and women sleep — handing out fo
  
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• Teen father charged with manslaughter in shaken-baby case in Sherbrooke

  08-03-2018 20:17 via montrealgazette.com
  A 19-year-old Sherbrooke father whose six-week-old baby died after being shaken was charged with manslaughter Thursday.
  The man had been charged with aggravated assault last week, when the baby was expected to live. He pleaded not guilty and was released on a promise to appear.
  The baby succumbed to their injuries Wednesday and the suspect was rearrested. He was charged at the Sherbrooke courthouse. He was released under various conditions and will be back in court April 25.
  Doctors at the 
  
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• Couillard promotes gender equality while surrounded mostly by men

  08-03-2018 20:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard made a point of promoting gender equality during International Women’s Day on Thursday, but did so at the head of a provincial trade mission to France composed almost entirely of men.
  And according to Couillard, that optic proves there is till work to do when it comes to opening up certain career paths to women.
  Of the 49 members of the week-long, digital- and aeronautics-themed mission to France, only five are women.
  “It depends on the industries th
  
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• Crypto miner Bitfarms to invest $250 million in Sherbrooke facility

  08-03-2018 20:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Backbone Hosting Solutions Inc., a cryptocurrency mining company, said it plans to invest $250 million in computing centres in Sherbrooke.
  The facilities will allow the company, known as Bitfarms, to quadruple its computing power and to increase its workforce in Quebec to 330 from 80 by the end of the year, Backbone said in a statement Thursday. The company is an affiliate of Blockchain Mining Ltd.
  Quebec-based Bitfarms said it entered into six hydropower purchasing agreements with generator Hyd
  
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• Queen Elizabeth clinic to christen waiting room in honour of Warren Allmand

  08-03-2018 20:06 via montrealgazette.com
  During his 84 years of life, the late parliamentarian Warren Allmand never seemed to slow down, taking on municipal to international causes with tireless dedication until his final days.
  One such cause that always had a special place in his heart was the Queen Elizabeth Health Complex (QEHC) — a unique-to-Canada medical centre that, operating without government funding in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, emerged from the ashes of provincial budget cuts 22 years ago, all because local citizens re
  
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• Pedestrian killed in early morning Saint-Isidore crash

  08-03-2018 19:58 via globalnews.ca
  The 60-year-old male victim was pronounced dead at the hospital, and the 24-year-old male driver was treated for shock.
  
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• Quebec's aluminum industry shaken despite temporary relief from Trump's tariffs

  08-03-2018 19:43 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's aluminum and steel industry was handed temporary relief on Thursday, with Canada's exemption from the initial round of tariffs put in place by the United States.
  
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• Quebec's aluminum industry gets temporary relief from Trump's tariffs

  08-03-2018 19:43 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's aluminum and steel industry was handed temporary relief on Thursday, with Canada being exempt from the initial round of tariffs put in place by the United States.
  
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• The People Project: 'Wolf Pack' keeps homeless safe at night

  08-03-2018 18:31 via montrealgazette.com
  More than 4 million people live in cosmopolitan Montreal and its suburbs. In a new series 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 it hum.
  Al Harrington isn’t waiting for police or politicians to make the streets of Montreal safer.
  Three nights a week, Harrington gathers a group of volunteers and patrols the areas where homeless men and women sleep — handing out fo
  
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• Referendum is only way to break impasse, Bloc Québécois brass says

  08-03-2018 18:27 via montrealgazette.com
  The Bloc Québécois executive says the only way to break the stalemate with the party’s seven disgruntled MPs in Ottawa is to go directly to the party membership.
  Going on the offensive on Thursday after a roller-coaster two weeks, the party executive — which is loyal to leader Martine Ouellet — proposed a referendum on the mission and role of the party. They said it’s the only way to break the impasse in the feud. There are about 20,000 Bloc members in Quebe
  
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• Checking In: Three Sherbrooke experiences add up to charming getaway

  08-03-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The pleasant, small city of Sherbrooke promises romance, relaxation and refinement.
  It is also is buzzing with businesses, two universities, including Bishop’s, two hospitals and lots of culture. One highlight is the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke, home to the compelling landscapes of painter Frederick Simpson Coburn and photographer François Lafrance.
  Here is a trio of Sherbrooke experiences that add up to a charming getaway: Auberge Marquis de Montcalm, an antique-fille
  
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• Mayor @Val_Plante talks #InternationalWomensDay - Full interview: btmontreal.ca/videos https://t.co/RVBKb0IjYk

  08-03-2018 17:27
  
  Mayor @Val_Plante talks #InternationalWomensDay - Full interview: btmontreal.ca/videos https://t.co/RVBKb0IjYk
  
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• Pedestrian dies after being struck by truck in St-Isidore

  08-03-2018 17:23 via montrealgazette.com
   A 60-year-old pedestrian died early Thursday after he was struck by a pickup truck on Highway 207 near St-Isidore.
  The driver of the truck alerted authorities about the incident at about 4:20 a.m. The victim was later declared dead in hospital.
  Châteauguay police spokesperson Nathalie Langevin said that accident reconstruction experts from the Sûreté du Québec had been assigned to establish if the man was walking on the highway itself or alongside it. Investigator
  
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• Canadian women’s empowerment in the workforce leads International Women’s Day

  08-03-2018 17:21 via globalnews.ca
  On International Women's Day, Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau joined federal Minister of Employment Patty Hajdu to talk about empowering women in the workforce.
  
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• Montreal's long-awaited Blue line extension could soon, finally, be a reality. Here's why

  08-03-2018 17:12 via cbc.ca
  You’ve probably heard this before (it’s an idea that’s been bandied about since 1979), but there’s reason to believe this time the Blue line extension may actually be imminent.
  
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• Quebec’s maple syrup producers losing ground as U.S. imports rise: report

  08-03-2018 16:56 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's abundance of maple syrup supply is a result of strict restrictive rules.
  
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• It's a symbol of #InternationalWomensDay: Check out this Mimosa flower inspiration courtesy of Chef Samantha btmontreal.ca/videos/mimosa-…

  08-03-2018 16:53
  It's a symbol of #InternationalWomensDay: Check out this Mimosa flower inspiration courtesy of Chef Samantha btmontreal.ca/videos/mimosa-…
  
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• Police seek suspect in series of sexual and aggravated assaults

  08-03-2018 16:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Investigators with the Montreal police sexual exploitation squad are turning to the public for help in tracking down Yves Randy Hyppolite, who is wanted on several warrants in connection with a series of sexual and aggravated assaults.
  Hyppolite is 27, stands six-feet-tall and weighs 195 pounds. His hair is worn in dreadlocks and he has a slight moustache. Both his ears are pierced, he has a cross tattooed on his torso and his left arm is covered with tattoos depicting dollar signs and bank note
  
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• Mayor Valérie Plante talks Camillien-Houde - Full interview: btmontreal.ca/videos https://t.co/Qnd4KwFGcw

  08-03-2018 16:46
  
  Mayor Valérie Plante talks Camillien-Houde - Full interview: btmontreal.ca/videos https://t.co/Qnd4KwFGcw
  
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• Empowering women in developing countries

  08-03-2018 16:38 via globalnews.ca
  Jennifer Lonergan and Sarah Carey talk to Global’s Laura Casella about the Montreal-based non-profit group ‘Artistri Sud’ helping women artisans in developing countries.
  
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• Montreal’s real estate soars into 2018

  08-03-2018 16:35 via globalnews.ca
  Remax real estate broker Shanna Garneau tells Global’s Laura Casella about the real estate boom Montreal saw in 2017 and how the trend will affect the market this year.
  
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• Tegan and Sara, Montreal-born Geneviève Bujold among 2018 winners of Governor General's Performing Arts Awards

  08-03-2018 16:30 via cbc.ca
  Indie pop duo Tegan and Sara are receiving this year's National Arts Centre Award, while actor Geneviève Bujold and concert pianist Angela Hewitt are among this year's laureates for the Governor General's Performing Art Awards.
  
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• Making magic for Disney On Ice

  08-03-2018 16:27 via globalnews.ca
  Disney On Ice’s Rachel Nevares talks to Global’s Kim Sullivan about the technical aspects to bring Disney’s “Dare to Dream” show to life.
  
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