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• Medical specialists not greedy, according to union president

  15-03-2018 23:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Medical specialists are far from greedy when it comes to their remuneration, says the Fédération des médecins spécialistes (FMSQ). And in fact they made a number of concessions in the contract they just signed with Quebec.
  That was the message the FMSQ wanted to get across Thursday at a news conference in Montreal after several days of silence.
  President Diane Francoeur and her team did not deny the numbers — an increase of $2 billion by 2023 and $480 million re
  
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• So many volunteers joined the search for Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou that police told them to stop coming

  15-03-2018 23:46 via globalnews.ca
  Police say they don't need any more volunteers at their command post.
  
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• Rescued K9s from South Korean dog meat farm arrive in Canada

  15-03-2018 22:53 via globalnews.ca
  Aid groups hope awareness of the dog meat trade will put pressure on South Korea government to end it.
  
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• Quebecor out of the running for Just for Laughs, comedy fest says

  15-03-2018 22:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebecor has dropped out of the race to purchase Montreal-based Just for Laughs comedy festival, Groupe Juste pour rire confirmed in a statement Thursday.
  That means the owners of the entertainment juggernaut will most likely be from outside of Quebec and Canada. However, no deal has yet been finalized with U.S. entertainment conglomerate ICM Partners, which is expected to be the new owner when the paperwork is completed.
  In the statement, Groupe Juste pour rire stated that, “Quebecor Medi
  
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• Six-month recovery normal for Shea Weber's injury, specialist says

  15-03-2018 22:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens defenceman Shea Weber had surgery Tuesday in Green Bay, Wisc., with the team announcing only that it was “to repair an injury to tendons in his left foot.”
  The surgery was performed by foot and ankle specialist Dr. Robert Anderson and the Canadiens said Weber’s recovery period is expected to be six months and that they would coordinate a media opportunity “at a later date.” Weber visited with his teammates in the locker room at their Brossard practice
  
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• Quebec's medical specialists defend pay deal, say they're helping system save money

  15-03-2018 22:34 via cbc.ca
  Suddenly finding themselves the black sheep of Quebec health-care system, the province's medical specialists defended Thursday their controversial pay deal with the government, saying it will save money and improve service.
  
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• Montrealers rally to find missing boy

  15-03-2018 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 15: Montrealers are rallying together to find a 10-year-old boy who went missing in Ahuntsic-Cartierville. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Theatre: TNM takes up the challenge of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot

  15-03-2018 22:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Long considered one of the most formidable, if not forbidding, of the great novelists, Fyodor Dostoyevsky has been getting more Montreal stage time than all his 19th-century peers put together over the last few years.
  In 2016, The Gambler played Théâtre Prospero’s mainstage at the same time as Notes From Underground hunkered down in its basement studio theatre. In the same year, Hudson Village Theatre played host to a slapstick adaptation of the Russian maestro’s early a
  
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• Liveblog: Pittsburgh at Canadiens

  15-03-2018 22:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Bell Centre fans are in for a treat Thursday night: They’ll get to watch the world’s greatest hockey player.
  And I don’t mean Jacob De La Rose.
  Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins are in snowy Montreal,
  It’s an absurdly belated first game this season between the Cup contender and the draft lottery aspirant.
  And it should be a good one.
  As evidenced by last Saturday’s Shootout loss in Tampa, the Canadiens can play well against fast, skilled teams.
  Pittsbur
  
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• Global News at 5:30: Mar 15

  15-03-2018 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  The Thursday, March 15, 2018 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
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• Man gets prison term, probation for threats evoking Polytechnique massacre

  15-03-2018 22:21 via montrealgazette.com
  A man who harassed and threatened women online for their opinions was sentenced to a four-month prison term at the Montreal courthouse on Thursday.
  Alexandre Chebeir, 24, used photos of Marc Lépine, who killed 14 women in 1989 during a shooting rampage inside the École Polytechnique, and the hashtag #JeSuisMarc in his messages in 2016. Besides the prison term, Chebeir was also sentenced to three years of supervised probation. 
  In one case, the messages were posted on the Faceb
  
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• Telefilm's outgoing executive director has been an agent of change

  15-03-2018 22:02 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s like a cliché out of a bad movie. In the early 1990s, when Carolle Brabant was an auditor at Telefilm Canada, she visited a Vancouver production company that was, shall we say, less than enthusiastic about her visit.
  “It was winter, January,” Telefilm’s executive director recalled on Monday afternoon, sitting in the Old Montreal office that would be hers for just 48 hours more. “They put me in a room with a broken window. So the wind was coming in. I had
  
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• Liberals won’t apologize for calling CAQ racist

  15-03-2018 22:01 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 15: Quebec’s National Assembly exploded after Finance Minister Carlos Leitao refused to apologize for accusing the Coalition Avenir Québec party of promoting ethnic nationalism. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Rights commission loses interim boss after sex-assault probe

  15-03-2018 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (CDPDJ) has lost another president.
  Interim-president Camil Picard has withdrawn from the post in the wake of an article in La Presse reporting he was investigated in connection with sexual assaults committed in the 1980s.
  Picard had succeeded Tamara Thermitus, whose term was cut short by allegations over her management style and the work environment under her leadership.
  On Thursday, Quebec Justice Minister St&eacu
  
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• B-boy Lazylegz pushes the limits of dance with his 'ill-ability'

  15-03-2018 22:00 via cbc.ca
  Luca "Lazylegz" Patuelli was born with a neuromuscular disorder — and he uses it to breakdance like no one else in the world.
  
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• Hydro-Québec dam can’t stop flooding in Montreal this spring

  15-03-2018 21:39 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 15: Global’s Tim Sargeant tours the Carillon dam, where Hydro-Québec produces enough electricity to power 150, 000 homes. Officials told Global News staff can’t close the gates to stop floods from reaching the Greater Montreal area.
  
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• ‘Let my kid go,’ Missing child’s father believes he was kidnapped

  15-03-2018 21:36 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 15: Kouadio Frederic Kouakou, father of a10-year-old boy who went missing Monday in Ahuntsic-Cartierville, believes his son was kidnapped and is pleading for his safe return.
  
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• 2 Queen Victoria statues in Montreal vandalized

  15-03-2018 21:33 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 15: Two landmark Montreal statues commemorating Queen Victoria were vandalized by a group claiming they represent racism and oppression. Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports.
  
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• Law student advocates for better relations between police and sex assault victims

  15-03-2018 19:58 via globalnews.ca
  When Ava Williams reported her alleged rape to London, Ont. police, she says the detective assigned to her file suggested the sex was consensual.
  
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• Hydro-Quebec hopes for no major flooding this spring

  15-03-2018 19:09 via globalnews.ca
  Hydro-Quebec says it is hoping to curb major flooding in the province this spring.
  
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• Quebec Liberals won’t apologize for accusing CAQ of ‘ethnic-based nationalism’

  15-03-2018 18:59 via globalnews.ca
  A debate exploded at the National Assembly Thursday morning after Finance Minister Carlos Leitao refused to apologize for accusing the CAQ of promoting ethnic nationalism.
  
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• A breathalyzer, a belch and the Supreme Court of Canada

  15-03-2018 18:58 via montrealgazette.com
  The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an unusual case from Quebec to determine the necessary conditions under which a breathalyzer test can be conducted — and whether a belch can throw that process into doubt.
  The case involves a suspected drunk driver who was not placed under the required 20 minutes of surveillance before the test was administered.
  Marc Cyr-Langlois was arrested in July 2012 and was taken to a police station, where he was left alone for a period of time.
  At trial, Cy
  
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• Weekend traffic update: come downtown, but don't drive

  15-03-2018 18:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealers are invited to come out in great numbers to attend the St. Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday but are being warned to leave their cars at home.
  Major traffic closures will make it difficult to navigate several highways around the city this weekend because of work on the Turcot Interchange and the new Champlain Bridge.
  The closure of the Ville-Marie Expressway will make it difficult to go to and from downtown, and street closures on Sunday because of the parade will add to the mess.
  
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• Tooba Yahya, mother in Shafia murder case, has permanent resident status revoked

  15-03-2018 18:40 via cbc.ca
  The permanent resident status of Tooba Yahya, the Montreal woman serving a life sentence for killing her three daughters and her husband's first wife in 2009, has been revoked.
  
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• Game Day: Carey Price practises, but he's not ready to play yet

  15-03-2018 18:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Goalie Carey Price, who has missed the last 11 games after suffering a concussion from a slapshot off the mask during a game in Philadelphia on Feb. 20, was on the ice with goalie coach Stéphane Waite 30 minutes before the Canadiens’ morning skate Thursday in Brossard and also took part in the team’s practice, but is not ready to return to the lineup.
  “Carey Price won’t play tonight,” coach Claude Julien said after the morning skate. “He took part in hi
  
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• Canadian Olympic star Meagan Duhamel lends voice to calls for end to dog meat trade

  15-03-2018 18:24 via globalnews.ca
  A Canadian Olympic star is adding her voice to those calling for an end to the dog-meat trade.
  
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• Quebec anti-corruption unit arrests ex-mayor, four others

  15-03-2018 18:13 via globalnews.ca
  They are accused of corruption and breach of trust involving an alleged contract-sharing scheme.
  
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• Liberals, CAQ spar over ethnic nationalism

  15-03-2018 17:49 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The hot-button issue of ethnic nationalism has roared to life in the National Assembly.
  The opposition Coalition Avenir Québec presented a motion Thursday asking the legislature to state that no political party advocates ethnic nationalism.
  The moves comes a day after an interview was published in the West Island edition of the Montreal Gazette in which Finance Minister Carlos Leitão accused the CAQ of preaching ethnic nationalism.
  The CAQ’s immediate resp
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: Allow flood victims to dip into their RRSPs

  15-03-2018 17:47 via montrealgazette.com
  As much of a nightmare as the floods of 2017 were to live through, the ongoing horror that some survivors are still experiencing is arguably worse. Almost an entire year after the floods that ravaged Pierrefonds, Rigaud, Gatineau and other communities in the western part of Quebec, some families remain in hotel rooms, living with relatives or relying on aid. They are exhausted in every sense of the word. All they want now is their home.
  While the wheels of bureaucracy turn frustratingly slowly,
  
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• Group claims responsibility for Queen Victoria vandalism

  15-03-2018 17:03 via montrealgazette.com
  A group calling itself the Delhi-Dublin Anti-Colonial Solidarity Brigade is claiming responsibility for the defacing overnight Thursday of two Montreal monuments to Queen Victoria.
  Both statues — one in Victoria Square, the other on Sherbrooke St. in front of McGill University — were spattered with green paint after the group deemed “these racist statues in Montreal … an insult to the self-determination and resistance struggles of oppressed peoples worldwide, includ
  
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• Opinion: Those leprechauns don’t tell the whole story

  15-03-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  As the St. Patrick’s parade makes its way along de Maisonneuve Blvd. and green beer flows in Montreal’s pubs, you may be tempted to think that it’s great fun to be Irish. But is it? Believe me, those happy-go-lucky leprechauns don’t tell the whole story. The fact is, being Irish is a complicated business.
  To begin with, St. Pat himself wasn’t Irish. In fact, the consensus among scholars is that he was Welsh. His remains are buried in Northern Ireland, which, like Wa
  
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• Checking In: At YOTEL Boston, the future is now

  15-03-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I have seen the future of hotels and it looks a lot like YOTEL Boston.
  The avant-garde YOTEL calls its genre “micro-luxury.” The brand’s idea is to be an affordable getaway in a major metropolis. Since YOTEL is a relatively new concept, it follows that it also is high-tech and high-design.
  British businessman Simon Woodroffe launched his vision in the early 2000s. He had enjoyed a first-class airline flight so much that he built a hotel brand around that sort of minimalist comf
  
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• 5 Days for the Homeless: Students sleep on the streets to raise funds, awareness

  15-03-2018 16:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on the streets?
  Every year, Concordia commerce students go beyond that mental exercise and actually sleep on the pavement outside the university’s Hall Building. During 5 Days for the Homeless, the group tries to walk a mile in the shoes of an itinerant person in order to raise money for charity but also to gain perspective on the situation of those in need.
  “What we’re doing here is nothing compared to what it’s really
  
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• Mom Talk with @CVDmtl: Meal planning made easy btmontreal.ca/videos/meal-pl…

  15-03-2018 16:40
  Mom Talk with @CVDmtl: Meal planning made easy btmontreal.ca/videos/meal-pl…
  
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• Youth philanthropy initiative at Hebrew Academy btmontreal.ca/videos/youth-p…

  15-03-2018 16:33
  Youth philanthropy initiative at Hebrew Academy btmontreal.ca/videos/youth-p…
  
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• Quebec should reopen med school admissions, study says

  15-03-2018 16:11 via cbc.ca
  As opposition parties hammer the Quebec government over perennial problems in the health-care system, a new study indicates the province doesn't have enough doctors and should loosen its control over medical school admissions.
  
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• McGill’s Effusion A Cappella

  15-03-2018 16:01 via globalnews.ca
  Join students from McGill’s Effusion A Cappella group as they talk to Global’s Laura Casella about their upcoming concert and “Be Happy” with a song.
  
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• Search party organized for missing Montreal boy

  15-03-2018 15:46 via globalnews.ca
  Friends and supporters are rallying behind the family of 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou who has been missing from his Ahunstic-Cariterville home since Monday. As Global’s Phil Carpenter reports a search party was expected to get underway Thursday morning.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Thursday, March 15

  15-03-2018 15:42 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Thursday, March 15.
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Thursday, March 15

  15-03-2018 15:42 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Thursday, March 15.
  
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• UPAC arrests ex-mayor of Terrebonne, four others in corruption probe

  15-03-2018 15:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s anti-corruption unit (UPAC) has arrested five people — including former Terrebonne mayor Jean-Marc Robitaille.
  The arrests, carried out early Thursday, are in connection with an investigation into allegations that contract bids were rigged by “bureaucrats and an elected official” in exchange for “large personal gain,” UPAC said.
  Aside from Robitaille, the arrested are:Daniel Bélec, Robitaille’s chief of staff;
  Luc Papillon,
  
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• Catching up with the Habs

  15-03-2018 15:39 via globalnews.ca
  Find out the latest news on the Montreal Canadiens with hockey analyst Brian Wilde and Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• The @impactmontreal open up their home slate on Saturday - we talk to @DLovitz11 about Montreal, rivalries, and mor… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  15-03-2018 15:36
  The @impactmontreal open up their home slate on Saturday - we talk to @DLovitz11 about Montreal, rivalries, and mor… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Two landmark Queen Victoria statues in Montreal vandalized

  15-03-2018 15:26 via globalnews.ca
  Two landmark Montreal statues commemorating Queen Victoria have been vandalized.
  
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• The big five kitchen trends for 2018

  15-03-2018 15:22 via globalnews.ca
  Join Global’s Laura Casella and décor expert Karl Lohnes as they look at the five big design trends for kitchens for 2018.
  
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• Overcoming anxiety - thanks to the flying trapeze! @FamCareExpert shares her story btmontreal.ca/videos/overcom…

  15-03-2018 15:22
  Overcoming anxiety - thanks to the flying trapeze! @FamCareExpert shares her story btmontreal.ca/videos/overcom…
  
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• Butterflies are free

  15-03-2018 15:18 via globalnews.ca
  Discover Butterflies are Free at Space for Life with Global’s Kim Sullivan and Insectarium Educational program officer Sonya Charest.
  
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• Silver-medal winner talks about his Olympic experience

  15-03-2018 15:11 via globalnews.ca
  Olympic silver medalist in slopestyle snowboard Max Parrot talks to Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan about his Olympic experiences.
  
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