Montreal news

• Free eye screenings for newly arrived asylum seekers

  17-03-2018 23:32 via globalnews.ca
  Nearly 400 newly-immigrated Haitians received free eye screenings by optometry students from the University de Montreal.
  
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• Christians and Muslims join forces to feed homeless in downtown Montreal

  17-03-2018 23:09 via cbc.ca
  An interfaith program that prepares meals for the homeless is celebrating its one-year anniversary.
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens at Toronto

  17-03-2018 22:56 via montrealgazette.com
  “Ninety-three!” Clap-clap/clap-clap-clap! “Ninety-three!”
  Remember how much it fun it was for fans at the Forum/Molson Centre/Bell Centre to taunt the visiting Leafs with “Sixty-seven!” — a painful reminder of the last time Toronto won the Stanley Cup.
  But now it’s 2018.
  And the no-longer-pathetic Leafs are closer to June silverware than the team they will host Saturday night.
  Toronto is headed to the playoffs. Toronto has 91 points (third in the E
  
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• Hudson celebrates its Irish heritage with St. Patrick's Day festivities

  17-03-2018 22:42 via cbc.ca
  The Irish spirit is alive and well in Hudson where the ninth annual St. Patrick’s Day parade marched through the streets Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Montreal Impact earns 1 – 0 win over Toronto FC in season home opener

  17-03-2018 22:40 via globalnews.ca
  Jeisson Vargas scored four minutes before the intermission to lift the Montreal Impact to a 1-0 victory over Toronto FC in their Major League Soccer home opener Saturday.
  
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• Hudson pulls off yet another great St. Patrick’s Day parade

  17-03-2018 22:14 via globalnews.ca
  Hundreds lined the streets of Hudson to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and take in the parade.
  
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• Impact get it done the hard way against weary Toronto FC

  17-03-2018 22:13 via montrealgazette.com
  The drought, mercifully, is over for the Impact — and it only took three games.
  Montreal won for the first time in Major League Soccer play this season Saturday afternoon, edging Toronto FC 1-0 before 26,005 Olympic Stadium spectators.
  Jeisson Vargas scored the game’s only goal in the 41st minute of this chippy affair that left Rémi Garde, the Impact’s first-year head coach, frequently animated with the work of referee Robert Sibiga.
  While the Impact deserved full marks
  
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• Oliver Jones, Yannick Nézet-Séguin join effort to save Villa Maria music program

  17-03-2018 19:57 via cbc.ca
  More than 100 of Quebec's leading musicians — including pianist Oliver Jones and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin — are appealing to Villa Maria College to reconsider axing its private music program.
  
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• Man convicted of quadruple murder denied parole while he maintains innocence

  17-03-2018 19:32 via montrealgazette.com
  A man who maintains he did not commit four murders he was convicted of more than 23 years ago will remain behind bars after he was recently denied parole. 
  Daniel Jolivet, 60, has been behind bars since 1992, following his arrest for the murders of two men and two women who were killed inside two different condos in a building in Brossard.
  On Nov. 10, 1992, the bodies of Catherine Morin, 20, Nathalie Beauregard, 23, and François Leblanc, 32, were found inside one of the condos in the
  
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• $10K reward for information being offered by family of missing Montreal boy

  17-03-2018 19:29 via globalnews.ca
  Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou's father, Kouadio Frédéric Kouakou, said the family was offering a $10,000 reward to the person who could help them find their son and urged anyone with information to contact police.
  
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• Big turnout expected for Montreal’s St. Patrick’s Day parade

  17-03-2018 18:59 via globalnews.ca
  To get a good spot on the brand new parade route, organizers and city officials recommend revellers make their way downtown using public transit.
  
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• Quebec's legal cannabis market to open with 20 retail stores

  17-03-2018 17:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The future Société québécoise du cannabis (SQC) will open with 20 outlets, not 15, once the sale of cannabis, but its management recognizes it is heading into unknown territory.
  The president and CEO of the Société des alcools du Québec, Alain Brunet, made the announcement Friday before the members of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal.
  Although Quebec originally announced 15 branches when it introduced its bill on the legalization of can
  
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• St. Patrick's Day Parade: Near-perfect weather expected for 195th edition

  17-03-2018 17:10 via montrealgazette.com
  The 195th edition of Montreal’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade is set to begin at noon on Sunday.
  While the parade’s traditional route has been altered for the first time in 50 years (due to major construction on Ste-Catherine. St. W.) it remains Canada’s longest-running parade. Besides serving as a celebration of all things Irish and the community’s deep roots in Montreal, it also serves as a reminder to many that spring is right around the corner.
  Other major centres of
  
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• Ugo Fredette, accused in murders of former partner and senior, pleads guilty to minor charges

  17-03-2018 17:08 via globalnews.ca
  The 42-year-old Saint-Eustache man pled guilty to charges of dangerous driving, flight from police, possession of a stolen vehicle and obstruction of justice.
  
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• Tomorrow's your lucky day! The hosts of BT will be celebrating St. Patty's Day downtown at @swcpc before the parade… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-03-2018 16:00
  Tomorrow's your lucky day! The hosts of BT will be celebrating St. Patty's Day downtown at @swcpc before the parade… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• #ICYMI If Chef Ricardo (@Ricardocuisine) puts squash and bacon bits on his pizza, then so can you. Creative and del… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-03-2018 15:00
  #ICYMI If Chef Ricardo (@Ricardocuisine) puts squash and bacon bits on his pizza, then so can you. Creative and del… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Montreal's St. Patrick's Day parade welcomes the dark side

  17-03-2018 14:00 via cbc.ca
  The Forteresse Impériale Garrison of the 501st Legion just want to dress up as storm troopers and feel like they're "making a difference in the galaxy."
  
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• McGill's student band a hit with fans and teams alike at hockey nationals

  17-03-2018 14:00 via cbc.ca
  A group of students who call themselves the Sudbury Saturday Nights Band went to every McGill home game during the season, and on Friday they made the eight hour drive from Montreal to Fredericton.
  
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• While you were sleeping: FBI deputy director fired, Russia expels British diplomats, airstrikes in eastern Ghouta

  17-03-2018 13:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he has fired former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, a regular target of President Donald Trump’s anger and criticism, just two days before his scheduled retirement date.
  McCabe immediately decried the move and suggested it was part of the Trump administration’s “war on the FBI.”
  The Friday dismissal was made on the recommendation of FBI disciplinary officials and comes ahead of an inspector general report expected to conclude that Mc
  
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• 30 Days of Céline Dion: The Miss Piggy feud

  17-03-2018 13:01 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 17 of 30 Days of Céline. Check back in tomorrow for another update.
  Name a more iconic diva than Céline Dion, I’ll wait.
  We’ll be here forever if I really wait for you, so let’s just stipulate that there isn’t one. But if w
  
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• Why a Quebec man is tackling his depression with an 11,000 km bike ride to Argentina

  17-03-2018 13:00 via cbc.ca
  Until recently, the longest bike ride Jérôme Pilette had ever been on was 40 kilometres. Now he's cycling 11,000 kilometres to Argentina in an effort to tackle his 15-year struggle with depression.
  
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• The Week in Review: Love hurts, Mount Royal, debt, identity politics and Social Notes

  17-03-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on all the big stories that happened this week in Montreal.
  Montreal-area man sues social worker for breach of professional conduct
  Malcolm Nadeau says he doesn’t want hush money. He wants vindication. Nadeau is suing his former social worker for $125,000 for breach of professional ethics — for loving and leaving him. Bereft of both lover and social worker, the spectre of abandonment so harsh, he found himself admitted into hospital under suicide watch several time
  
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• Karl Lohnes: Planning takes pain out of choosing right sofa for your space

  17-03-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Welcome to Week 2 of my mission to fix the 10 most common decorating mistakes. Last week we conquered the art of hanging art. This week we go after one of the largest (and costliest) furniture pieces: the sofa — the one item of furniture that is often bought too large, too small or too trendy for its lifespan.
  Size matters
  Consider these two key measurements when buying a sofa: getting the proportion of the sofa to room right, and ensuring you can get the sofa in the room!
  Measure for prop
  
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• 'If you have our child, bring him back to us:' Search continues for missing Montreal boy

  17-03-2018 12:58 via cbc.ca
  After a vigil weaved its way to the doorstep of Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou's family home late Friday, the search continues for the missing 10-year-old boy.
  
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• Shelter: Mile End condo offers plenty of light for freelance photographer

  17-03-2018 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Sylvie Li was born in Montreal, but when she was five, she moved to Quebec City where her father got a job. She spent her growing-up years there and then moved back to the city to attend HEC Montréal, where she earned a degree in international business.
  Li worked for a couple of years in the corporate world and discovered she didn’t like it very much. As a teenager, she had a hankering to try her hand at becoming a professional photographer — a notion that was reinforced follo
  
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• Josh Freed: Opinions are divided on the future of Ste-Catherine St.

  17-03-2018 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Can we save Ste-Catherine St?
  That’s a question many are asking as the street turns into “Rue Barrée” — a vast construction pit from Bleury to Mansfield Sts. that looks like an archeological dig.
  It’s a drag, but better than risking another sinkhole that could swallow the street — if we don’t fix her ancient water pipes.
  Ste-Catherine is the queen of Montreal streets, one of the longest, liveliest downtown shopping boulevards on the continent. But
  
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• The dealer wants in on Quebec’s marijuana plan

  17-03-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Marc just wants to be a legitimate business owner.
  For more than a decade, he’s worked in the illegal cannabis industry.
  Now, with the legalization of cannabis looming, Marc, who spoke to the Montreal Gazette on the condition that he not be identified, wants to become part of the new legal market.
  But that won’t be an option.
  The only legal seller of recreational cannabis in Quebec will be a government-owned monopoly that plans to source cannabis from a handful of big growers al
  
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• Memorable Montreal: some of our favourite nostalgic spots

  17-03-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Over the last 10 to 15 years, many of our old bakeries, delis, neighbourhood stores and restaurants have disappeared as traditionally working class neighbourhoods undergo gentrification and elderly owners retire.
  Fortunately, Montreal is still full of places that have survived the passage of time. Gibeau Orange Julep, the Montreal Pool Room, Moishes, Beauty’s, the Snowdon Deli, the Greenspot, Chalet Bar-B-Q, and La Binerie continue to thrive, in part, because they are time capsules and the
  
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• Syrup and the city: Self-styled superhero brings sugaring off to downtown Montreal

  17-03-2018 11:00 via cbc.ca
  Here's a sweet tale, pun intended: Mario Bonenfant grew up making maple syrup in a small village in Quebec. Now, as Capitaine Sirop, he's keeping the sugar shack tradition alive in Montreal parks.
  
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• Candlelit vigil held for Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou’s family, now desperate for help

  17-03-2018 04:27 via globalnews.ca
  In their darkest hour, more than one hundred people brought their prayers and support to the family's doorstep. "We're not alone, thank you, thank you," Jeffrey Ariel's father said, overwhelmed with joy and relief.
  
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• Prominent Montreal musicians join fight to save Villa Maria's music school

  17-03-2018 04:00 via montrealgazette.com
  More than 100 prominent members of Montreal’s music and cultural communities have signed a letter deploring a decision by the administration of Villa Maria High School to close its 164-year-old music school. 
  The letter — signed by, among others, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain, soprano Natalie Choquette, pianist Oliver Jones, and singer-songwriter Michel Rivard, among others — describes the decision as “one more sign of the
  
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• Thunder rolls over Les Canadiennes in playoff opener

  17-03-2018 03:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Jamie Lee Rattray scored a short-handed goal at 5:05 of overtime to give the Markham Thunder a 2-1 win over Les Canadiennes in the opening game of their best-of-three Clarkson Cup semifinal series Friday at Michel-Normandin Arena.
  The Thunder, which closed the regular season in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League with seven consecutive wins, opened the scoring on a goal by Nicole Kosta at 11:58 of the second period. Emmanuelle Blais sent the game into overtime with a goal at 13:32 of the th
  
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• Girl found dead in small Cree community, woman charged with 1st-degree murder

  17-03-2018 02:49 via cbc.ca
  A woman faced a first-degree murder charge after a girl was found dead Thursday in the small Cree community of Wemindji, Que., off James Bay, about 1,300 kilometres northwest of Montreal.
  
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• Quebec will launch with 20 cannabis stores, not 15 as previously indicated

  17-03-2018 02:44 via montrealgazette.com
  The future Société québécoise du cannabis (SQC) will open with 20 outlets, not 15, once the sale of cannabis, but its management recognizes it is heading into unknown territory.
  The President and CEO of the Société des alcools du Québec, Alain Brunet, made the announcement Friday before the members of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal.
  Although Quebec originally announced 15 branches when it introduced its bill on the legalization of can
  
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• Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou’s family hires private investigator to explore kidnapping theory

  17-03-2018 02:22 via globalnews.ca
  A private investigator is now looking into the 10-year-old boy's disappearance.
  
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• St. Patrick's Day Parade: Go ahead, be 'Irish for a day'

  17-03-2018 01:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Elizabeth Quinn loves everything about Montreal’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, but what she loves best is that festive feeling, that sense that everyone is “Irish for a day”.
  “If you walk along the parade route, it’s like the League of Nations on both sides,” Quinn told the Montreal Gazette. “All ethnic groups are there and they all wear green and they have their thumbs up, saying they are Irish for a day. We all have a good time and that&
  
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• Radio-Canada reporter arrested for criminal harassment after contacting source ‘3 times’

  17-03-2018 00:35 via globalnews.ca
  Antoine Trépanier was working on a story about the head of Big Brothers and Big Sisters in Western Quebec. As part of his investigation, he reported Yvonne Dubé falsely claimed she was a lawyer between the fall of 2011 and March 2012. According to his boss, Yvan Cloutier, Trépanier contacted Dubé three times in the course of his reporting.
  
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• Ottawa will support Canada’s part in 2026 World Cup bid

  17-03-2018 00:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The federal government will support Canada’s part in an unprecedented three-country bid to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Canadian Heritage Minister Melanie Joly said Friday.
  Canada has joined the United States and Mexico in a bid for the event. Morocco is the only other candidate.
  Joly also confirmed Montreal, Toronto and Edmonton will be candidates to play host to games if the United 2026 bid is successful.
  “Montreal is a world-class city and is the perfect venue to host the 2026 FI
  
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• A family’s cry for help

  17-03-2018 00:08 via globalnews.ca
  Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou’s family held a press conference in Cartierville Friday afternoon, their 10-year-old son has been missing for over 100 hours.
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Geoff Molson confirms GM Marc Bergevin will return

  17-03-2018 00:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens owner Geoff Molson confirmed Friday that Marc Bergevin will stay on as general manager after this season.
  Speaking to media members after a Montreal Canadiens Children’s Foundation event involving Belgium’s King Philippe and Queen Mathilde — who are on their first state visit to Canada — Molson said a comprehensive assessment will be conducted at all levels of the organization during the offseason but that Bergevin will remain as GM.
  “We all know it&r
  
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• Go ahead, be 'Irish for a day,' says St. Patrick's Day Parade grand marshal

  17-03-2018 00:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Elizabeth Quinn loves everything about Montreal’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, but what she loves best is that festive feeling, that sense that everyone is “Irish for a day”.
  “If you walk along the parade route, it’s like the League of Nations on both sides,” Quinn told the Montreal Gazette. “All ethnic groups are there and they all wear green and they have their thumbs up, saying they are Irish for a day. We all have a good time and that&
  
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