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• Montreal approves $1.4-billion plan to buy 967 STM buses

  14-03-2018 23:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Attention, transit sardines: More buses are on the way.
  The city of Montreal on Wednesday approved a plan to buy 967 new buses for the Société de transport de Montréal.
  The executive committee passed a bylaw that allows the STM to borrow up to $1.4 billion over the next five years to finance the purchase of the new vehicles.
  Between 2019 and 2024, the transit authority plans to buy:929 regular-sized hybrid buses.
  34 regular-sized all-electric buses.
  Four smaller, all-electri
  
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• Tackling provincial debt a priority in Quebec’s March 27 budget

  14-03-2018 23:50 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The province plans to dip deeply into its Generations Fund to pay down $2 billion a year over the next five on its debt.
  Confirming Quebec’s 2018-2019 budget will be tabled March 27 in the National Assembly, Premier Philippe Couillard and Finance Minister Carlos Leitão held a news conference to reveal a major element of the document in advance.
  Overall, Quebec’s plan is to reduce the provincial debt by a total of $10 billion by 2022-2023, thus saving about $1.1
  
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• Two arrested after Villeray condo project is approved

  14-03-2018 23:26 via montrealgazette.com
  The leaders of Montreal’s two largest political parties say debates at council meetings must be conducted respectfully after two people were arrested at a borough council meeting that turned rowdy Tuesday night.
  Police were called to the Villeray—St-Michel—Parc-Extension monthly borough meeting Tuesday where councillors voted on two controversial development projects.
  After the five-member borough council voted unanimously to uphold a decision to allow the construction of condo
  
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• Stu Cowan: Canadiens in dire need of a 'Shanaplan', not a 'reset'

  14-03-2018 23:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin believes his team only needs a “reset” not a “rebuild”.
  “That’s me,” Bergevin said in early January when the Canadiens had a 17-20-4 record. “You might not like it.”
  The Canadiens have gone 9-12-8 since Bergevin said those words and Montreal fans definitely don’t like it, shown by the empty seats at the Bell Centre and a drop in TV ratings.
  A reset is not going to be enough to fix a team that was
  
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• Global News at 5:30: Mar 14

  14-03-2018 23:10 via globalnews.ca
  The Wednesday, March 14, 2018 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
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• More than 900 new buses in Montreal by 2024

  14-03-2018 22:48 via cbc.ca
  Montreal wants commuters to know they can count on a more reliable bus service thanks to a major purchase over the next six years.
  
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• Quebec to table budget March 27

  14-03-2018 22:46 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 14: Two weeks ahead of the provincial budget, the Liberal Government says it will pay down its debt – a plan the CAQ welcomes because they say it’s their idea. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Bitcoin price drops after Google announces ban on cryptocurrency ads

  14-03-2018 22:39 via globalnews.ca
  Google said Wednesday it was banning advertisements for cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings.
  
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• Montreal refuses to negotiate Highway 13 lawsuit

  14-03-2018 22:38 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 14: It’s been one year since the intense snow storm that stranded thousands for hours on Highway 13 in Montreal. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, the Quebec government says it is ready to negotiate a settlement in the ensuing lawsuit, but the City of Montreal has refused.
  
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• Les Canadiennes open CWHL title defence Friday on home ice

  14-03-2018 22:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Les Canadiennes, who are coming off their eighth regular-season title in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League, begin defence of their Clarkson Cup title this weekend when they  face the Markham Thunder in a best-of-three semifinal series.
  The Montreal team wrapped up the regular-season title last weekend when they swept the Calgary Inferno, the runner-up in the Clarkson Cup last spring. They’ll be facing the hottest team in the CWHL. Markham won its last seven games to edge out th
  
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• RMT promises to improve services

  14-03-2018 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 14: Riders on Montreal’s RTM commuter train are expecting to benefit from massive infrastructure investments. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, the goal is to improve reliability.
  
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• A timeline of what’s to come for Camillien Houde Way

  14-03-2018 22:27 via globalnews.ca
  On Wednesday, Montreal's mayor insisted she isn't backpedaling, just clarifying her plans for traffic on Mount Royal.
  
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• Police search riverfront park for 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou

  14-03-2018 21:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police used all-terrain vehicles and its cavalry unit as part of their search for 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, who went missing from his family home in Ahuntsic-Cartierville at noon Monday.
  Officers on horseback, firemen and concerned citizens spent much of the day Wednesday trudging through deep snow in parks adjacent to Rivière des Prairies. The missing boy was last seen in a riverfront park — close to his home and the home of a friend he had planned on visiting.
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• Is Saint-Henri home to Montreal’s next best dance crew?

  14-03-2018 21:12 via globalnews.ca
  Allison Rector is teaching several workshops to introduce Montrealers to the Melbourne Shuffle.
  
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• Shuffling makes its way to Montreal

  14-03-2018 21:06 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 14: Allison Rector wants to teach Montrealers how to shuffle — a rave and club dance style that started in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s.
  
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• Experimental video game collective goes beyond first-person shooter

  14-03-2018 20:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Are video games simply a mindless distraction or can they be turned into something deeper?
  A group of Concordia University students grapple with that question every day as they create games that also function as interactive pieces of art.
  The FLOP collective explores subjects like depression and anxiety. They make games that subvert your sense of time and space.
  “We’re trying to make games that aren’t just fun but that play with the relationship between the user and the medium,
  
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• Carlos Leitão: no apology to François Legault over 'dirty' accusations

  14-03-2018 20:43 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — A furious François Legault has demanded an apology from Finance Minister Carlos Leitão for saying the Coalition Avenir Québec preaches ethnic-based nationalism.
  But Leitão has refused to say he’s sorry and denies saying the CAQ or Legault are racist.
  “The words I made last week were not intended to characterize the CAQ or Mr. Legault as racists,” Leitão told reporters emerging from a meeting of the cabinet. “I challenge yo
  
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• Quebec sits down at negotiating table in Highway 13 class-action lawsuit

  14-03-2018 20:27 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec has agreed to settlement talks in the class-action lawsuit. Last March, about 300 vehicles were trapped overnight in their cars on Highway 13, after heavy snow and an accident led to a complete standstill.
  
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• Analyze This: Canadiens rookie Nikita Scherbak shows high-end potential

  14-03-2018 20:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Nikita Scherbak is an interesting, if not polarizing, figure among Montreal Canadiens prospects. There were doubts about his future during the team’s 2017-18 training camp, where he struggled and was among the early cuts sent down to the AHL to join the Laval Rocket.
  However, the right-winger who was selected 26th overall in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, proved many wrong with his strong play for the Rocket, to the tune of seven goals and 23 assists in only 26 games. Scherbak’s 1.15 poin
  
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• Police called to council meeting in north-end Montreal borough

  14-03-2018 19:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The leaders of Montreal’s two largest political parties say debates at council meetings must be conducted respectfully after people were arrested at a borough council meeting that turned rowdy Tuesday night.
  Police were called to the Villeray—St-Michel—Parc-Extension monthly borough meeting Tuesday where councillors voted on two controversial development projects.
  After the five-member borough council voted unanimously to uphold a decision to allow the construction of condos at
  
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• Mount Royal traffic restrictions to start June 1

  14-03-2018 19:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Drivers should enjoy the view while they can because for five months starting June 1 they will not be allowed to use Mount Royal as a bypass between Côte-des-Neiges and Plateau-Mont-Royal.
  On Wednesday, Mayor Valérie Plante announced a few details of a pilot project that has divided Montrealers since it was announced in February.
  Proponents say it will make the mountain safer for pedestrians and cyclists and more pleasant for all users. Critics say it will reduce access to a ke
  
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• Longueuil police say parcel found at Heritage Regional High School not explosive

  14-03-2018 19:41 via globalnews.ca
  About 1,600 students were evacuated after a suspicious package was found at Heritage Regional High School.
  
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• 'I forgive you,' mother of homicide victim tells accused, urging him to forgive himself

  14-03-2018 19:05 via montrealgazette.com
  The mother of a young man who was murdered in Lachine four years ago made an emotional statement at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday as she told one of the men charged in the slaying to forgive himself because she had already found a way to do the same. 
  Dominique Narcisse had to ask Ian Charbonneau, 31, twice to look toward her as she read from a victim impact statement following his guilty plea to manslaughter and robbery in the Jan. 11, 2014 death of her son Ali Husain Jean. 
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• Alexis Guimond captures bronze in Men’s Paralympics GS

  14-03-2018 19:02 via globalnews.ca
  Gatineau, Que.’s Alexis Guimond was the third fastest skier in the Pyeongchang Paralympics Men’s GS on Tuesday.
  
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• Montreal’s commuter train network promises to improve services

  14-03-2018 18:43 via globalnews.ca
  The Deux-Montagnes line represents 40 per cent of ridership on all six lines of the RTM.
  
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• Hydro-Québec faces $4M lawsuit over worker's 2015 death

  14-03-2018 18:40 via cbc.ca
  Family members and former colleagues of a man who died on the La Romaine construction site on Quebec's North Shore are suing Hydro-Québec for $4 million in damages.
  
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• Hydro-Québec faces $4M lawsuit over 2015 death of worker at La Romaine

  14-03-2018 18:40 via cbc.ca
  Family members and former colleagues of a man who died on the La Romaine construction site on Quebec's North Shore are suing Hydro-Québec for $4 million in damages.
  
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• Cree nation takes action to save language that was 'on back burner' for 20 years

  14-03-2018 18:32 via cbc.ca
  The children of a northern Cree community are at risk of losing their Cree language.
  
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• Quebec agrees to settlement talks in Highway 13 snowstorm lawsuit

  14-03-2018 18:18 via cbc.ca
  One year after more than 300 people were stuck in their cars overnight on Highway 13, the lawyers behind a class-action lawsuit say the Quebec government seems willing to negotiate a settlement, but the City of Montreal has so far refused.
  
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• RTM backtracks on compensation refusal over winter delays

  14-03-2018 18:13 via cbc.ca
  The Réseau de transport métropolitain says it will compensate its passengers left stranded or delayed by problems with the commuter rail system earlier this year and is instituting other measures to try to curb chronic delays.
  
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• Frustrated RTM commuters offered compensation for repeated delays

  14-03-2018 18:13 via cbc.ca
  The Réseau de transport métropolitain says it will compensate its passengers left stranded or delayed by problems with the commuter rail system earlier this year and is instituting other measures to try to curb chronic delays.
  
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• Mother of homicide victim urges one of the accused to forgive himself

  14-03-2018 17:40 via montrealgazette.com
  The mother of a young man who was murdered in Lachine four years ago made an emotional statement at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday as she told one of the men charged in the slaying to forgive himself because she had already found a way to do the same. 
  Dominique Narcisse had to ask Ian Charbonneau, 31, twice to look toward her as she read from a victim impact statement following his guilty plea to manslaughter and robbery in the Jan. 11, 2014 death of her son Ali Husain Jean. 
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• Quebec provincial budget to be tabled on March 27

  14-03-2018 17:31 via globalnews.ca
  The budget will be Leitao's fifth budget and the final one before the provincial election.
  
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• Pilot project limiting Mount Royal traffic will start June 1, city says

  14-03-2018 17:25 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal will begin a controversial plan to limit traffic on Mount Royal on June 1, Mayor Valérie Plante announced Wednesday.
  The pilot project to stop through traffic on Remembrance Rd./Camillien-Houde Way will run until Oct. 31.
  Plante says the pilot project is about “opening up Mount Royal” and she hopes all Montrealers give it a chance. She said the city will listen to concerns from the public.
  Before it begins, Montreal’s Office de consultation public wi
  
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• Best gifts for moms-to-be

  14-03-2018 17:19 via globalnews.ca
  Parenting blogger Jaime Damak joins Global’s Laura Casella with great baby shower gift ideas.
  
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• Quebec’s March 27 budget will tackle the debt

  14-03-2018 17:18 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The province plans to dip deeply into its Generations Fund to pay down $2 billion a year over the next five on its debt.
  Confirming Quebec’s 2018-2019 budget will be tabled March 27 in the National Assembly, Premier Philippe Couillard and Finance Minister Carlos Leitão held a news conference to reveal a major element of the document in advance.
  Overall, Quebec’s plan is to reduce the provincial debt by a total of $10 billion by 2022-2023, thus saving about $1.1
  
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• Update: Police search riverfront park for Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou

  14-03-2018 17:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are using all-terrain vehicles and its cavalry unit as part of their search for 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, who went missing from his family home in Ahuntsic-Cartierville at noon Monday.
  Officers on horseback and on foot are searching the deep snow in parks adjacent to Rivière des Prairies. The missing boy was last seen in a riverfront park — close to his home and the home of a friend he had planned on visiting.
  A woman who spoke to Ariel in Parc des Bate
  
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• Longueuil high school evacuated after suspicious package found

  14-03-2018 17:16 via montrealgazette.com
  A call concerning a suspicious package received by Longueuil police led to the evacuation Wednesday morning of Heritage Regional High School in the borough of St-Hubert.
  All of the 1,600 students have been safely transferred to nearby André-Laurendeau school as the police operation continues.
  The call was received at about 10:30 a.m., and police have set up an information line for concerned parents at 450-463-7191.
  This story will be updated.
   
  
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• Hudson’s St. Patrick’s Day parade

  14-03-2018 17:12 via globalnews.ca
  Hudson’s Irishman of the Year Gary McKeown and Hudson’s St. Patrick’s Day parade spokesperson Ken Doran join Global’s Kim Sullivan (the parade’s Chief Reviewing Officer) to talk about this year’s edition.
  
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• Plowing and salting is priority; snow removal can wait, city says

  14-03-2018 17:05 via montrealgazette.com
  As Montrealers muttered Wednesday under the latest layer of March snowfall, the city of Montreal said it was concentrating on clearing streets and salting sidewalks as the flurries continued.
  But it remained unclear just when the city would get around to carting away the snow that the plowing had piled up along streets.
  “For the moment we can’t answer that question,” said city spokesperson Philippe Sabourin. “We’ll have to wait until the snow stops to make an assess
  
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• Béchard gives Les Grands Ballets' Rite of Spring a modern urban touch

  14-03-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Some 105 years on, it’s perhaps difficult to conceive of the uproar that met the original production of The Rite of Spring, the Nijinsky-Stravinsky ballet about human sacrifice in prehistoric Russia. Difficult, but not impossible.
  Walking into the Les Grands Ballets’ rehearsal studio on the fifth floor of the Wilder Building and coming face to face with the set design causes if not shock, then at least a whiplash double take as expectations are upended.
  Instead of a primeval earthy l
  
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• McGill24 raises funds for refugee students

  14-03-2018 16:38 via globalnews.ca
  Find out about the McGill24 fundraiser for refugee students wishing to study at the university. McGill24 spokesperson Jenny Aboue Youn El Soud and alumni ambassador Gemma Peralta join Global’s Laura Casella to talk about the event.
  
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• Opinion: If Quebec physicians are less productive, here's why

  14-03-2018 16:33 via montrealgazette.com
  A recent Quebec government-commissioned report linked increasing physician pay with lower physician productivity. Casting physicians, themselves victims of the system’s inefficiencies, as the villains here would be hugely unfair.
  In Quebec, there are significant barriers to both the quality and quantity of medical work.
  As a specialist physician and the founder of two Quebec-based health-technology companies, I am doing all I can to increase patients’ access to medical care
  
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• How to go green in Montreal

  14-03-2018 16:31 via globalnews.ca
  There are many ways to live a green lifestyle in Montreal. Find out more from Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert spokesperson France D’Amour and Global’s Laura Casella.​
  
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• RTM unveils plan to improve train punctuality; will compensate users

  14-03-2018 16:18 via montrealgazette.com
  The region’s commuter train authority says it will invest $450 million to improve reliability on its network, and it will compensate users for this winter’s late trains.
  The Réseau de transport métropolitain unveiled an action plan after the authority got a wag of the finger from the transport minister for consistently late trains last month.
  RTM president Raymond Bachant said the plan has been in the works since January. It includes building a new maintenance centre to
  
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• Montreal approves $1.3-billion plan to buy 963 STM buses

  14-03-2018 15:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s executive committee on Wednesday approved a $1.3-billion plan to buy 963 new transit buses.
  The air-conditioned buses — 929 hybrid and 34 all-electric — will be purchased between 2019 and 2024, said Craig Sauvé, a city councillor who is vice-president of the Société de transport de Montréal.
  The purchases include the extra 300 that Mayor Valerie Plante’s Projet Montréal promised during the election campaign, he said.
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  14-03-2018 15:13
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• Mental and physiological effects of marijuana - @realdrzach explains btmontreal.ca/videos/mental-…

  14-03-2018 15:12
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