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• Quebec commits $11 million a year for new plan to curb youth runaways, teen prostitution

  12-03-2018 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  Part of the government’s 24-point action plan is to add new liaison agents throughout Quebec to ensure better communication between all parties.
  
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• Customers to blame for half of métro delays: STM

  12-03-2018 23:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Métro delays were on the upswing in 2017 for the second consecutive year.
  The Société de transport de Montréal provided figures to CBC Montreal recently showing that delays and breakdowns on the métro increased in 2017 compared with 2016. That’s a bad sign, considering 2016 was also not a very good year for métro delays.
  According to the STM’s annual report for 2016, 97.5 per cent of métro users arrived at their destination on time in
  
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• Stu Cowan: Habs' man of steel Noah Juulsen shows poise on blue line

  12-03-2018 23:23 via montrealgazette.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — When my wife saw Noah Juulsen during a recent TV interview, she said: “Oh, my God. He looks like Clark Kent!”
  Turns out she’s not the only one who thinks the good-looking Canadiens rookie defenceman resembles the fictional character who was Superman’s alter ego.
  “Actually, Andrew Shaw told me that yesterday,” Juulsen said with a chuckle when told about the Clark Kent comparison after the Canadiens’ morning skate Monday at Nationwid
  
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• Quebec aims to tackle problem of teenage runaways with $11M investment

  12-03-2018 23:13 via cbc.ca
  The province is investing $11 million per year into its efforts to prevent and intervene in cases of teenage runaways.
  
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• Health minister inaugurates Stillview super-clinic

  12-03-2018 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The overcrowding issues in the emergency room at the Lakeshore General Hospital should ease with the designation of the Groupe de Médecine Familiale (GMF) Stillview and Statcare walk-in as a provincial “super-clinic.”
  Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette officially inaugurated the Pointe-Claire walk-in clinic last Thursday as the 13th such super clinic in the Montreal area, and 30th in the province.
  “This is a very, very significant milestone to me,”
  
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• Quebec wants to reduce number of teen runaways, prostitutes

  12-03-2018 22:31 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Mar 12: The Quebec government is stepping up its prevention efforts in order to reduce the number of teen runaways and underage prostitutes. But as Gloria Henriquez reports, some are worried the money won’t end up where it’s needed most.
  
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• Global News at 5:30: Mar 12

  12-03-2018 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  The Monday, March 12, 2018 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
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• Guillaume Gélinas pleads guilty to 2nd-degree murder

  12-03-2018 22:06 via cbc.ca
  A former Canadian Forces reservist accused of killing his father and stepmother has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
  
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• Baie d’Urfé upgrading recreational facilities

  12-03-2018 21:47 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Mar 12: Baie d’Urfé is investing almost a quarter of a million dollars to upgrade the town’s recreational facilities. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, the funding is coming from all three levels of government and the goal is to encourage people to get fit.
  
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• SQ officer faces 35-day suspension for firing plastic bullets into crowd at 2012 protest

  12-03-2018 21:36 via cbc.ca
  Const. Denis Burelle could face a 35-day suspension without pay using his firearm to shoot plastic bullets at protesters during a student protest in 2012.
  
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• Classics and experimentation in Centaur Theatre's 50th anniversary season

  12-03-2018 21:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Centaur Theatre has unveiled its 50th anniversary season. It’s the first to be put together by Eda Holmes, the Shaw Festival’s erstwhile associate director who took over Centaur’s reins last year.
  As well as revealing six main productions of what is being called the Essential Series — the usual Centaur slots for outside companies are being called the Presenting Series and the Guests of Centaur Series — there’s a new item on the menu called the Legacy Series. T
  
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• After reports of illegal dumping, Quebec to track contaminated soil

  12-03-2018 20:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Responding to reports that criminal gangs have infiltrated the industry, Quebec and Montreal are set to announce a plan to track the disposal of contaminated soil.
  La Presse has reported that police suspected an organized crime group has been picking up contaminated soil from construction projects.
  Instead of decontaminating the soil or disposing of it legally, the culprits are allegedly dumping it illegally, often in farmers’ fields or on sites that are not approved by Quebec’s
  
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• Celine Cooper: Is Doug Ford's win an omen for Quebec?

  12-03-2018 19:39 via montrealgazette.com
  The election of Doug Ford as leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative (PC) party over the weekend appears to have taken many government, media and intellectual elites by surprise. It shouldn’t have.
  The businessman and former Toronto city councillor who is probably best known as the brother of the late scandal-ridden Toronto mayor Rob Ford beat out his closest competitor, former MPP and lawyer Christine Elliott, in a close and chaotic race. 
  Is this an early sign of a c
  
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• Focus Montreal: A conversation with Homa Hoodfar on International Women’s Day

  12-03-2018 19:27 via globalnews.ca
  Concordia University Professor Homa Hoodfar chats with Global’s Elysia Bryan-Baynes about her traumatic experience in Iranian jail and how it strengthened her commitment to working for human and women’s rights.
  
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• What you need to know about Montreal’s St Patrick’s Parade 2018

  12-03-2018 19:24 via globalnews.ca
  Global’s Elysia Bryan-Baynes chats with Paul Loftus President of the United Irish Societies of Montreal and gets all the details to know about the celebration.
  
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• Focus Montreal: Sugary alcoholic drink discontinued

  12-03-2018 19:20 via globalnews.ca
  Educ’Alcool’s Hubert Sacy joins Elysia Bryan-Baynes to talk about the dangers of sugary alcoholic beverages being marketed to teens.
  
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• Game Day: Charlie Lindgren will start in goal for Canadiens in Columbus

  12-03-2018 19:08 via montrealgazette.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Canadiens will wrap up a six-game road trip when they face the Columbus Blue Jackets Monday night at Nationwide Arena (7 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690) and rookie Charlie Lindgren will get the start in goal.
  “Tonight it’s going to be Lindgren and hopefully tomorrow (Antti) Niemi,” coach Claude Julien said after the Canadiens’ morning skate. “I think it’s the right thing to do on the back-to-back and with the travel included in there
  
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• Man shot in Peel St. boutique that was firebombed a year ago

  12-03-2018 18:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Peel St. downtown was covered by a sea of police vehicles Monday after a man was shot in clothing boutique that had been targeted by a firebombing a year earlier.
  The incident occurred at the Giorgio Gruppo Roma boutique across from the Cours Mont Royal shopping complex at about 11:45 a.m. Police said a masked man entered the store and fired once at an employee. The victim, a man of about 60 years old, was shot in the lower body. He was taken to hospital, but police do not fear for his life.
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• Memorial for Marlene Geoffrion, wife of Boom Boom, Saturday in Georgia

  12-03-2018 18:53 via montrealgazette.com
  A memorial service will be held Saturday in Marietta, Ga., for Marlene Geoffrion, the widow of Montreal Canadiens great and Hockey Hall of Fame member Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion. She died on March 2 at age 84.
  Geoffrion was the daughter of Canadiens Hockey Hall of Famer Howie Morenz and her early life was marked by tragedy. She was three years old when her father died of complications from a broken leg suffered during a game in 1937. Her brother, Donald, died of pneumonia two years later and h
  
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• Trudeau says Canada is working to prevent dumped Chinese steel

  12-03-2018 18:47 via globalnews.ca
  During a visit to the Rio Tinto AP60 Technology Centre Monday in Saguenay, QC., Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he told U.S. President Donald Trump that Canada also faces challenges of cheap global steel and foreign dumping.
  
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• Police investigate shooting at luxury clothing store in Montreal

  12-03-2018 18:42 via globalnews.ca
  Police are searching for a suspect after a shooting at a luxury clothing store in downtown Montreal.
  
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• ‘We had your backs last week’: Trudeau visits aluminum factory in Quebec following tariff battle

  12-03-2018 18:40 via globalnews.ca
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec premier Philippe Couillard visited the Rio Tinto AP60 Technology Centre Monday in Saguenay, Qc. It’s the first among several stops on a steel and aluminum tour amid continuing concerns about US tariffs.
  
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• Grow weed at McGill University and get a degree?

  12-03-2018 18:29 via globalnews.ca
  McGill is offering people with a background in plant sciences the unique opportunity to learn how to cultivate marijuana.
  
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• Restaurant bar at centre of tragic Lac-Mégantic train derailment for sale

  12-03-2018 18:18 via globalnews.ca
  Le Musi-Café owner Yannick Gagné has set the asking price at $2.5 million.
  
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• Glitch blamed for delays now fixed, Air Canada says

  12-03-2018 18:09 via cbc.ca
  A system-wide computer outage led to long lines at airports across Canada on Monday, but as of the afternoon Air Canada says things are getting back to normal.
  
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• Man shot, assailant drops gun fleeing Peel Street men's clothing store

  12-03-2018 18:01 via cbc.ca
  Montreal police say an employee at the Giorgio Gruppo Roma store on Peel Street near Ste-Catherine Street was shot in the lower body by an assailant who dropped a long gun on the sidewalk as he fled.
  
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• GOOD FRIDAY WALK

  12-03-2018 17:46 via globalnews.ca
  March 30, 2018 the Lachine Good Friday Walk will begin at 9:00 am – in the east at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church 25 – 12th Avenue, Lachine and in the west at Summerlea United church 225 – 50th Avenue, Lachine. From there the walks will stop at Eglise Saints-Anges (St. Joseph corner 15th Ave. )...
  
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• 65-year-old in critical condition after work dispute ends with a stabbing

  12-03-2018 17:46 via montrealgazette.com
  A 56-year-old man is in police custody and a 65-year-old in critical condition in hospital after what appears to be a work-related dispute ended with a stabbing on Monday morning.
  The incident occurred at about 8:40 a.m. Police received 911 calls concerning an argument that broke out in a restaurant on Lacombe St. near Côte-des-Neiges Rd. 
  Investigators believe a former employee returned to the restaurant and became entangled in an argument with four of his ex-colleagues, one of them
  
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• Restaurant that became symbol of Lac-Mégantic recovery put up for sale

  12-03-2018 17:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Lac-Mégantic’s Musi-Café, a restaurant-pub that became a grim symbol of the 2013 rail disaster,  has been put up for sale by owner Yannick Gagné.
  The real estate firm of Engel & Volkers has been tasked with selling the property, which has been placed on the market for $2.5 million.
  Nearly two thirds of the 47 people who died during the devastating derailment on July 6, 2013, were seated at the original site of the restaurant when the unmanned Montreal, Maine a
  
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• Opinion: Fake video nightmare scenario isn't so far away

  12-03-2018 17:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Upon walking into the office, you are taken aback by the stone-cold face of disapproval from your employer. Asking what is wrong, you are shocked to learn that a salacious sex tape you star in has been making rounds on the internet and was emailed to your boss. Sure enough, the person in the video has an uncanny resemblance, but only you know that video is a high-quality fake by a malicious trickster. You now face the daunting task of clearing your name while your job, reputation and marriage ha
  
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• Children speak out in debate over Jewish school buses

  12-03-2018 17:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Elementary school students are speaking out in the wake of a heated debate over traffic caused by Jewish school buses in Outremont.
  Ginette Chartre and other Outremont citizens wore yellow badges to a council meeting on March 5 to protest against the buses — evoking comparisons with the yellow stars Nazi Germany forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust.Now children at JPPS Elementary in Côte-St-Luc are wading into the debate.
  “The majority of my family was killed in the Holocau
  
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• Man stabbed at Côte-des-Neiges restaurant expected to survive

  12-03-2018 17:12 via cbc.ca
  The 64-year-old victim was taken to hospital in critical condition, but police now say they no longer fear for his life.
  
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• Man stabbed at Côte-des-Neiges restaurant

  12-03-2018 17:12 via cbc.ca
  The 64-year-old victim was taken to hospital in critical condition, but police now say they no longer fear for his life.
  
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• Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada’s marks #ChildrensWishMonth btmontreal.ca/videos/childre…

  12-03-2018 16:57
  Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada’s marks #ChildrensWishMonth btmontreal.ca/videos/childre…
  
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• Canada also faces threat of dumped Chinese steel, will work with U.S. to prevent threat to jobs: Trudeau

  12-03-2018 16:53 via globalnews.ca
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau  says the challenges of cheap global steel and foreign dumping cited by U.S. President Donald Trump as the basis for steep new tariffs announced two weeks ago are real and that Canada faces them too.
  
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• After steel tariff battle, Trudeau heads out on cross-country factory tour

  12-03-2018 16:53 via globalnews.ca
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has begun a cross-country tour of aluminum and steel factories with a visit to Quebec's Saguenay region.
  
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• The @CanadianSkiHOF relocates to Mont-Tremblant btmontreal.ca/videos/the-can…

  12-03-2018 16:52
  The @CanadianSkiHOF relocates to Mont-Tremblant btmontreal.ca/videos/the-can…
  
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• McGill library offers peek 'inside Jean Drapeau's mind'

  12-03-2018 16:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Jean Drapeau didn’t like to talk about them, but behind the scenes, he picked up a pen and carefully circled the numbers in his personal copy of the Malouf report — the conclusions of a three-year public inquiry into the financial fiasco that was the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
  Using a black pen, Montreal’s longest-serving mayor circled Olympic cost estimates, starting with his own original lowball figure in 1969 ($120 million) and ending in 1975 ($730 million).
  The last number in
  
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• Food is more than just fuel! @Alithedietitian unlocks the potential of food btmontreal.ca/videos/unlock-…

  12-03-2018 16:43
  Food is more than just fuel! @Alithedietitian unlocks the potential of food btmontreal.ca/videos/unlock-…
  
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• Mont Tremblant ski resort to get $17M facelift

  12-03-2018 16:42 via montrealgazette.com
  The company that owns the Mont Tremblant ski resort announced Monday it will spend $17 million in renovations and upgrades at the site.
  The Alterra Mountain Company announced the renovations would include replacing the Lowell Thomas chairlift, renovating and expanding summit chalet Le Grand Manitou, creating new glades, renovating La Fourchette du Diable on the North Side base, as well as other upgrades.
  Snowmaking capacity will be increased with the acquisition of 31 snow guns, and five new gla
  
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• MMIWG hearings in Montreal: Brace for painful testimony

  12-03-2018 16:42 via montrealgazette.com
  The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls opened its Montreal hearings Monday morning with commissioner Michèle Audette reminding those on hand of how hard — and how important — some of the testimony heard this week will be. 
  More than 70 people, Audette said, have found the courage to either speak for the first time or relive once again the painful memories of what happened to their daughters, sisters and mothers. 
  Some, she added, wi
  
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• Is Montreal ready for self-driving cars? @MarvinRotrand says we need to do more btmontreal.ca/videos/is-mont…

  12-03-2018 16:35
  Is Montreal ready for self-driving cars? @MarvinRotrand says we need to do more btmontreal.ca/videos/is-mont…
  
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• Is bad press reducing interest in a nursing career in Quebec?

  12-03-2018 16:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Stress. Overtime. Staff shortages. Exhaustion.
  The difficult working conditions for Quebec nurses have been criticized in the media for a long time, where horror stories from those working within the system are published on an almost weekly basis.
  But has that bad press made it less attractive for someone to even want to study the profession?
  Recent statistics from the Service régional d’admission du Montréal métropolitain (SRAM), which oversees admissions for 32
  
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• A century gone by: Seniors celebrate 100th birthday in Côte Saint-Luc

  12-03-2018 16:20 via cbc.ca
  Over the weekend, nine seniors celebrated turning 100 this year in the company of their family, friends and contemporaries.
  
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• Police investigating suspicious fire at Laval print shop

  12-03-2018 15:56 via globalnews.ca
  The fire broke out around 11 p.m. Sunday evening, there were no injuries.
  
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• Source of fire unclear in overnight blaze at Ahuntsic grocery store

  12-03-2018 15:08 via globalnews.ca
  One resident was evacuated from an apartment unit on the second floor above the grocery store.
  
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• Calls grow for government action on high-sugar alcohol drinks

  12-03-2018 14:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Nearly two weeks after the death of Laval teen who was believed to have consumed a high-alcohol energy drink, calls are growing for governments to regulate an industry perceived as targeting young and vulnerable consumers.
  Éduc’alcool, which promotes the responsible consumption of alcohol, wants the federal and provincial governments to come up with concrete and lasting measures to govern highly sweetened alcoholic beverages.
  Athena Gervais, 14, was found dead March 1 behind her Lav
  
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• Overnight fire at Ahuntsic grocery store

  12-03-2018 14:50 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal firefighters were called to a fire at Marché d’Alimentation Caraïbes in Ahuntsic early Sunday morning. Firefighters were unclear about the cause of the blaze.
  
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• Arson suspected in Laval print shop fire

  12-03-2018 14:50 via globalnews.ca
  Laval police were asked to investigate a suspicious fire at a print shop on des Laurentides Boulevard late Sunday night. Nobody was injured in the fire.
  
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• Irish music and its influence on folk culture

  12-03-2018 14:47 via globalnews.ca
  Singer-songwriter Belfast Andi joins Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan to talk about Irish music, folk culture and to plays us a song on the traditional Celtic bodhran.
  
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