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• Rigaud on alert for spring flooding

  20-03-2018 23:58 via globalnews.ca
  The rural city is bracing in the event of a repeat of last year's floods.
  
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• One-on-one with Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante

  20-03-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Mar 20: Global News Senior Anchor Jamie Orchard speaks to Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante on breed specific legislation and the consultations underway in Quebec City.
  
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• West Island residents weigh in on government response to last spring's devastating floods

  20-03-2018 22:59 via cbc.ca
  People affected by the catastrophic floods weighed in on the lessons Montreal and neighbouring communities learned at a meeting with city and provincial officials Tuesday evening.
  
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• Pierrefonds residents weigh in on government response to last spring's devastating floods

  20-03-2018 22:59 via cbc.ca
  People affected by the catastrophic floods are weighing in on the lessons Montreal and neighbouring communities learned at a meeting with city and provincial officials Tuesday evening.
  
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• Pierrefonds residents to review government response to last spring's devastating floods

  20-03-2018 22:59 via cbc.ca
  People affected by the catastrophic floods are invited to weigh in on the lessons Montreal and neighbouring communities learned at a meeting with city and provincial officials Tuesday evening.
  
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• Allison Hanes: City hall takes a big step on long road to diversity and inclusion

  20-03-2018 22:43 via montrealgazette.com
  For all its glorious diversity, Montreal is still a city where exclusion is far too prevalent.
  Sometimes it’s a matter of blatant discrimination, such as police pulling over motorists for the so-called crime of driving while black, or too quickly dismissing the death of an Indigenous woman as suicide when witnesses suspect there could be foul play.
  Sometimes it’s a sin of omission, such as an ad campaign unveiled to celebrate Montreal’s 375th birthday that features not a s
  
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• Bouchard and Abanda eliminated in qualifying at Miami Open

  20-03-2018 22:42 via montrealgazette.com
   MIAMI – Quebecers Eugénie Bouchard and Françoise Abanda lost in qualifying at the Miami Open on Tuesday.
  Bouchard, ranked 114th in the world, fell 6-4, 6-3 to Sweden’s Rebecca Peterson.
  Peterson, the 116th player in the world, took an hour and 16 minutes to defeat the Westmount player.
  Abanda, 124th in the world, suffered a 6-4, 6-3 loss to China’s Yafan Wang in one hour and 31 minutes.
  Toronto’s Carol Zhao plays Katie Boulter of Great Britain later t
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Rigaud officials watch water levels as spring thaw looms

  20-03-2018 22:41 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Mar 20: The snow levels along Rigaud’s flood plains are lower than in the previous two years and the town’s officials are watching the situation closely. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports some homeowners believe the town is restricting their ability to prevent spring flooding.
  
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• Divers stop searching river for missing boy

  20-03-2018 22:37 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Mar 20: Montreal police divers have stopped searching the water for 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou. As Dan Spector reports, they say the search is still ongoing but that divers will return to the river only if they receive information they believe warrants further diving.
  
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• West Island walk-in clinic in jeopardy

  20-03-2018 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Mar 20: A Pierrefonds clinic that services tens of thousands of people in the West Island may have to eliminate its walk-in services and residents in the area are concerned it will impact the quality of health care in their neighbourhood. Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports.
  
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• Pierrefonds clinic may be forced to cut walk-in services

  20-03-2018 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  Medistat clinic on the West Island may lose government funding because they don't yet qualify as a super clinic.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Family of Côte St-Luc woman disappointed with lack of English treatment

  20-03-2018 22:31 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Mar 20: Just days after Global News broke the story about a young West Island man forced to attend a French facility for specialized therapy, another family is speaking out about the lack of mental health services in English. As Global’s Anne Leclair reports, families are calling on the government to put mental health...
  
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• Global News at 5:30: Mar 20

  20-03-2018 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  The Tuesday, March 20, 2018 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
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• Quebecers to get more vacation time, sooner under proposed changes to labour laws

  20-03-2018 22:25 via cbc.ca
  Quebec workers will be eligible for three weeks' vacation after just three years, and temporary foreign workers will get new protections under a bill tabled in the National Assembly Tuesday.
  
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• Canadiens' Claude Julien wishes Bobby Orr a happy 70th birthday

  20-03-2018 21:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr turned 70 on Tuesday, which will certainly make people in the 50-something age group who grew up idolizing the Boston Bruins defenceman feel old.
  Canadiens coach Claude Julien is one of those people.
  “He was my hero growing up,” Julien, 57, said after the Canadiens practised Tuesday in Brossard.
  Julien was born in Blind River, Ont., and raised near Ottawa in Orléans. Like Orr, Julien was a defenceman as a player, but was a career minor-leaguer, p
  
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• Men trapped in vehicle died of carbon monoxide poisoning, coroner says

  20-03-2018 20:53 via montrealgazette.com
  As a winter storm roared across the province last March, Pierre Thibault and Michaël Fiset ignored the advice of colleagues who urged them to ride out the dangerous blizzard at their office in Montmagny and not attempt to drive home.
  Their decision would prove to be a fatal mistake. 
  About 10 hours after leaving the transportation company where they worked, police found the two men dead after the truck they were travelling in had become trapped in a high snowdrift northeast of Quebec C
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Carey Price will return to action vs. Penguins

  20-03-2018 20:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Carey Price will be back in goal for the Canadiens when they play the Penguins Wednesday night in Pittsburgh (7 p.m., SN, RDS, TSN Radio 690).
  Price has missed the last 14 games after suffering a concussion when he took a slapshot off the mask during the second period of game in Philadelphia on Feb. 20. Price stayed in the game, which the Canadiens lost 3-2 in overtime, but hasn’t played since. He did serve as the backup to Antti Niemi during the Canadiens’ 2-0 loss to the Florida Pa
  
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• Dorval helps citizens with cost of upgrading wood burning appliances

  20-03-2018 20:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Dorval is offering financial assistance to homeowners who want to replace wood burning appliances that are not up to code. The city will pay a maximum of $1,000 per household to help defray the cost of the installation of a new appliance which complies with environmental standards. The offer is retroactive to Nov. 26, 2015 for residents with a valid invoice.  
  As of Dec. 1, 2018, wood burning appliances in Dorval must have an emission rate of no greater than 2.5 g of fine particle
  
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• Dangerous dogs: 'We need minimal rules,' Quebec minister says as hearings set to begin

  20-03-2018 20:18 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — A provincial bill designed to ban dangerous dogs will inevitably split public opinion, but the minister responsible for the legislation says he has a duty to create “minimal” rules protecting citizens.
  “We aren’t wearing rose-coloured glasses here,” Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux told reporters Tuesday. “It’s a bill which polarizes opinions. I am approaching these consultations with an open mind.
  “I don’t know if it&rs
  
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• Police search homes, vehicles linked to Hells Angels

  20-03-2018 20:03 via cbc.ca
  Police targeted the Hells Angels this morning in a series of raids in the Laurentians, the Montérégie and the Outaouais, searching several locations linked to drug trafficking.
  
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• Four plead guilty in series of armed bank robberies

  20-03-2018 19:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Four men who were arrested more than two years ago as suspects in a series of armoured car heists pleaded guilty to some of the charges they faced at the Montreal courthouse on Tuesday. 
  Included among them was Paul Thomas Bryntwick, a notorious bank robber who has had ties in the past to several members of the West End Gang. Bryntwick, 66, of Mississauga, Ont., pleaded guilty to three of the charges that were filed against him in December 2015. 
  He admitted that he was part of a consp
  
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• Dan Delmar: Throwing stones in Quebec’s glass house of nationalism

  20-03-2018 19:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Finance Minister Carlos Leitão’s description of the Coalition Avenir as a party promoting “ethnic-based nationalism” may seem inflammatory, but low-level ethnocentrism is certainly present at varying levels across the political spectrum in Quebec. It is a problem worth examining.
  It might be uncomfortable to acknowledge, but all nationalism excludes, at least on occasion, even the Liberal Party’s nationalist-federalist hybrid governance. CAQ Leader François
  
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• Pair perished in winter storm after ignoring warnings not to drive home, Quebec coroner says

  20-03-2018 18:40 via cbc.ca
  Drivers who set out in dangerous conditions must take more responsibility for their own safety and not rely on first responders for help, says Quebec coroner Luc Malouin after investigating the deaths of Pierre Thibault and Michaël Fiset.
  
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• Pair perished in winter storm after ignoring warnings not to drive home, coroner says

  20-03-2018 18:40 via cbc.ca
  Drivers who set out in dangerous conditions must take more responsibility for their own safety and not rely on first responders for help, says Quebec coroner Luc Malouin after investigating the deaths of Pierre Thibault and Michaël Fiset.
  
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• Montreal emerging artist pursuing her life’s passion btmontreal.ca/videos/montrea… https://t.co/cdNnWHArTx

  20-03-2018 17:27
  
  Montreal emerging artist pursuing her life’s passion btmontreal.ca/videos/montrea… https://t.co/cdNnWHArTx
  
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• Public smoking ban sparks anger from Hampstead residents

  20-03-2018 17:18 via cbc.ca
  The Montreal suburb of Hampstead's decision to ban smoking in all public spaces has prompted a mixed reaction from residents, with some wondering if the bylaw is necessary at all.
  
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• Far-reaching smoking ban leaves some Hampstead residents fuming

  20-03-2018 17:18 via cbc.ca
  The Montreal suburb of Hampstead's decision to ban smoking in all public spaces has prompted a mixed reaction from residents, with some wondering if the bylaw is necessary at all.
  
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• Six O’Clock Solution: Creamy Thai Carrot Sweet Potato Soup

  20-03-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  If you have ignored or scorned vegan cuisine, this book, and its enthusiastic author, could change your attitude.
  Blogger Angel Liddon has produced her second good-looking and comprehensive book about what she calls plant-based cuisine. Oh She Glows Every Day (Penguin, $32) contains more than 100 recipes, some requiring special shopping. She calls this recipe her favourite blended soup. Red curry paste is the key Thai ingredient and a topping of almonds roasted with a little tamari adds crunch.
  
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• Quebec man charged with murder in Alberta cold case to remain behind bars for now

  20-03-2018 16:58 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec man accused in a 16-year-old cold case murder appeared over closed-circuit television in a Calgary courtroom Tuesday and will remain in custody for at least another month.
  
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• 'Long windy road' to justice, says friend of cold case murder victim as Quebec man appears in Calgary court

  20-03-2018 16:58 via cbc.ca
  The friend of a southern Alberta woman killed 16 years ago says she plans to attend every court appearance of the Quebec man who was arrested last month in connection with the cold case murder.
  
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• How well do you know your neighbours? Tell @TimHortons why you want to share a coffee #CoffeeWithNeighbours… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-03-2018 16:23
  How well do you know your neighbours? Tell @TimHortons why you want to share a coffee #CoffeeWithNeighbours… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• PQ would pull the plug on REM in favour of trams, express buses

  20-03-2018 16:20 via montrealgazette.com
   A Parti Québécois government would pull the plug on a proposed Montreal-area electric train network (REM) and point its funding toward a network of tramways, high-speed buses and extensions and improvements to the existing commuter train system.
  The PQ’s transport plan, dubbed “le grand déblocage” — the big breakthrough — calls for nine express bus routes in the east and west of Montreal and on the North and South Shore, as well as five tr
  
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• Liberals propose tightening Canada's firearms law with new record-keeping practices

  20-03-2018 16:16 via cbc.ca
  The Liberal government hopes to tighten Canada's firearms law with changes to the background check system and new mandatory record-keeping practices for vendors.
  
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• Hair Food: Feed your hair btmontreal.ca/videos/hair-fo… https://t.co/5I14NAtJm4

  20-03-2018 16:06
  
  Hair Food: Feed your hair btmontreal.ca/videos/hair-fo… https://t.co/5I14NAtJm4
  
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• New restaurant training aims to eliminate food allergy incidents

  20-03-2018 16:04 via cbc.ca
  Two years after a Sherbrooke waiter triggered a police investigation after mistakenly serving salmon tartare to a diner with a seafood allergy, a new online training program is rolling out to help restaurants identify and avoid potential problems.
  
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• Getting the best out of your wedding photographer & videographer btmontreal.ca/videos/getting… https://t.co/h50zmf9HUs

  20-03-2018 15:49
  
  Getting the best out of your wedding photographer & videographer btmontreal.ca/videos/getting… https://t.co/h50zmf9HUs
  
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• Snow crab fishery's 'sustainable' label suspended in wake of whale deaths

  20-03-2018 15:44 via cbc.ca
  The London-based Marine Stewardship Council announced Tuesday it was suspending its sustainability certification for the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence snow crab fishery.
  
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• Snow crab fishery's sustainability designation suspended in wake of whale deaths

  20-03-2018 15:44 via cbc.ca
  The London-based Marine Stewardship Council announced Tuesday it was suspending its sustainability certification for the Gulf of St. Lawrence snow crab fishery.
  
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• Organized crime unit performs drug raids throughout Quebec

  20-03-2018 14:51 via globalnews.ca
  The Sûreté du Québec says the raids are related to the 'Objection Project' raids which took place in winter 2017.
  
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• Various properties raided through Montreal, Monteregie and Outaouais

  20-03-2018 14:40 via globalnews.ca
  120 police officers from the organized crime unit raided properties linked to a Hells Angels drug network Tuesday morning.
  
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• Demolition of Montreal Children's Hospital site forces midday road closures

  20-03-2018 14:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Demolition work to remove the remains of the Montreal Children’s Hospital will force the closure on Tuesday of several streets near the site.
  The city of Montreal says that between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. the following streets will be closed to pedestrian and vehicle traffic and parking will be forbidden.
  • Atwater Ave. between Sainte-Catherine and Saint-Antoine Sts.
  • Tupper St. between Atwater Ave. and Lambert Closse St.
  • Lambert Closse St. between René-Lévesque B
  
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• Family, including toddler, seriously injured in Saguenay train crash

  20-03-2018 14:31 via montrealgazette.com
  A family was seriously injured after the car they were driving was struck by a passenger train Monday afternoon near Lac-Bouchette, in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region.
  The Sûreté du Québec said the train struck the vehicle’s passenger side at about 4:30p.m., seriously injuring the three people inside — one of them a two-year-old child.
  First responders needed hydraulic pliers to pry the victims out of their vehicle.
  The cause of the accident is under inve
  
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• 2018 Festival de la Voix

  20-03-2018 14:29 via globalnews.ca
  ‘Festival de la Voix’ co-founder Kerry-Anne Kutz and Quebec singer Monique Fauteux talk to Global’s Laura Casella about this year’s edition of the festival on the West Island.
  
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• Early morning raids target organized crime, Hells Angels hangout

  20-03-2018 14:22 via montrealgazette.com
  About 120 police launched a series of early morning raids Tuesday that targeted alleged members of organized crime as well as a site in the Montérégie allegedly used by the Hells Angels.
  The Sûreté du Québec says the operation also saw officers deployed at locales in the Outaouais and Montreal’s north shore.
  No arrests had been reported as Tuesday morning.
  A total of nine residences and 10 vehicles were the object of search warrants. Several sources said o
  
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• Fashion for April showers

  20-03-2018 14:15 via globalnews.ca
  April showers are just around the corner. Stay dry and fashionable with image consultant Mlle. Geri and Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Divers return to Rivière-des-Prairies as search for Ariel continues

  20-03-2018 13:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police divers will return to the frigid waters of the Rivière-des-Prairies Tuesday as part of an effort to find Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, the 10-year-old boy who has been missing for more than week.
  The return to the shoreline in front of De Bateliers Park in north-end Montreal follows three dives on Monday that yielded no trace of the boy, who left his family home on March 12 to visit a friend living nearby and was last seen in the park that day at 2 p.m. 
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• #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/oBMFOxv6uV

  20-03-2018 13:39
  
  #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/oBMFOxv6uV
  
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• Workouts for office workers

  20-03-2018 13:34 via globalnews.ca
  Learn how to counter the effects of sitting at a desk all day with fitness expert Patrick Burkhard and Global’s Kim Sullivan.
  
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• Korf: The bigger picture springs to mind

  20-03-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  It feels like winter just doesn’t want to end. With the recent snow came lots of grumbling from people who are ready to see some sunshine and put away their shovels.
  I get it. Long winters are depressing. And the fact that we recently switched to daylight savings time might not be helping. Sure, it is lighter when we get home, which should make us feel more energetic and upbeat. However, I recently read that losing or gaining an hour does affect our health, but not necessarily in a good wa
  
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• Crickets as a source of protein

  20-03-2018 13:27 via globalnews.ca
  Daniel Novak co-founder of Crickstart joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about their cricket based food line.
  
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