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• St-Hubert Plaza refurbishment to begin in August

  21-03-2018 23:39 via cbc.ca
  The plan to revamp St-Hubert Plaza involves widening the sidewalks and planting new trees, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante announced Wednesday. The 33-year-old glass structure that hangs over the sidewalks will also be replaced.
  
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• Montreal SPCA against Quebec pit bull ban

  21-03-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's SPCAs say the province should not adopt a pit bull ban. Instead, they presented the National Assembly with recommendations they say would be more effective against severe and fatal bites.
  
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• McCord Museum inherits Ogilvy's iconic holiday window displays

  21-03-2018 23:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s McCord Museum will inherit Ogilvy’s much-loved mechanical holiday window displays of small stuffed animals interacting in an imaginary setting, the museum announced on Wednesday.
  The windows, which have delighted families since 1947, have been transferred to the downtown social history museum. They will be accessible to visitors, free of charge, from mid-November to early January.
  The end of the Christmas window display tradition comes only months after the demise of anot
  
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• Allison Hanes: Revitalizing Parc Lafontaine came with citizen input

  21-03-2018 23:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Sweeping plans to revitalize Parc Lafontaine and augment its grandeur were unveiled by the city before a packed house Tuesday night.
  Parc Lafontaine is one of Montreal’s emblematic urban parks, beloved by residents and adored by tourists for its leafy tree canopy, meandering paths and calming ponds. Its storied history dates back 175 years to when it was a farm owned by the Logan family, a clan that spawned the father of Canadian geology, Sir William Logan. But this sprawling green space i
  
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• Man who shot Montreal cop in 2000 now accused in two armed robberies

  21-03-2018 23:12 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal man who was released from a penitentiary just months ago and is still serving a 30-year sentence for having shot a Montreal police officer 18 years ago during a bank robbery is back behind bars as a suspect in two recent armed robberies.
  On May 3, 2000, Robert Pallagi shot and wounded Constable Frédérick Huchet, a member of what was then called the Montreal Urban Community police, while fleeing from a Laurentian Bank branch in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve that he had just robbe
  
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• Brownstein: Mandel gets stake in Just for Laughs, HQ staying in Montreal

  21-03-2018 23:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Howie Mandel will be an even more familiar figure than ever at Just for Laughs festivals. The veteran Canadian comic and America’s Got Talent judge, a frequent JFL performer/host over the years, has joined up with American entertainment juggernaut ICM Partners in acquiring the Just for Laughs Group/Groupe Juste pour rire, it was announced Wednesday morning.
  In a statement issued by Mandel, ICM Partners’ managing director Chris Silbermann and JFL chairman of the board Pierre-Marc John
  
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• Knitting helps kids at Terry Fox Elementary

  21-03-2018 22:53 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 21: Children at Terry Fox Elementary are taking part in a new lunchtime program – knitting. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, the school says it helps them relax and refocus when it’s time to head back to the classroom.
  
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• Quebec to regulate ‘dangerous’ dogs

  21-03-2018 22:29 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 21: On the second day of public hearings, the Quebec government said it wants to implement regulations for dangerous dogs. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, some in the National Assembly wanted to know: how do we identify which dogs are actually dangerous?
  
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• Search continues for missing boy Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou

  21-03-2018 22:23 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 21: The search continues for missing boy Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, but with no clues coming to light after nine days, police may start to scale back operations. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Family escapes domestic violence, denied services in English

  21-03-2018 22:21 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 21: A Montreal mother and son who escaped domestic violence say they were denied English services at the Centre Jeunesse de Montréal. As Global’s Anne Leclair reports, language rights activists are calling it a case of clear discrimination.
  
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• Global News at 5:30: Mar 21

  21-03-2018 22:20 via globalnews.ca
  The Wednesday, March 21, 2018 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
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• Canadiens prospects take centre stage in NCAA tournament

  21-03-2018 22:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Four Canadiens draft picks, including 2017 first-rounder Ryan Poehling, will be in action this week as the NCAA  men’s hockey tournament gets underway with regional play. 
  Poehling, 19, is a sophomore and a key member of the St. Cloud State team that has been ranked No. 1 for most of the season. St. Cloud is the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament and will begin play Friday when it meets the Air Force Academy in the West Regional at Sioux Falls, S.D. Minnesota State and Minnesot
  
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• Palliative care pioneer Dr. Ina Cummings has died

  21-03-2018 22:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Palliative care pioneer Dr. Ina Cummings passed away at the West Island Palliative Care Residence, March 20. She was 78.
  Cummings was the residence’s first medical director.
  “All of us at the residence in its early years benefited greatly from her experience, compassion and understanding of the needs of those at the end of life,” executive director Teresa Dellar said. “It was an honour to care for her in the place that she helped create. Her legacy will live on through th
  
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• Army veteran's family tells Indigenous inquiry of police harassment

  21-03-2018 22:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Growing up in Mistissini, all Nigel Bosum ever wanted as a child was military toys — tanks, planes, soldiers and so on. When his parents gifted him anything else, he sought other children around the Cree community and looked to make trades.
  By his early teens, he had already started what his family refers to as his “pre-military” training.
  Bosum, 37 today, would build shelters in the woods and stay overnight. He’d lift weights, climb through ditches and run
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens at Pittsburgh

  21-03-2018 22:03 via montrealgazette.com
  He could have picked an easier opponent.
  Carey Price returns to action Wednesday night in Pittsburgh, where he will face a team of angry Penguins coming off a disappointing Tuesday night loss in Brooklyn.
  Price’s last start was also in Pennsylvania. On Feb. 20, Jakub Voracek scored 1:26 into Overtime to score a 3-2 win for the Flyers.
  In 14 subsequent games, Antti Niemi and Charlie Lindgren shared goaltending duty while Price rehabbed a concussion.
  Some – including the Ol’ Blog
  
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• Knitting at school: Pierrefonds kids take part in lunchtime program

  21-03-2018 21:17 via globalnews.ca
  Children at Terry Fox Elementary School are taking part in a knitting lunchtime program.
  
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• Shareholder motions demand Imperial Oil transparency on water risk, lobbying

  21-03-2018 21:16 via globalnews.ca
  Imperial Oil Ltd. shareholders are seeking to force the company to be more transparent about its water-related risks from pollution and climate change, as well as its lobbying activities and expenditures.
  
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• Families of 2 men who died in 2017 blizzard demand apology from Quebec

  21-03-2018 20:43 via cbc.ca
  Valérie Tanguay was supposed to celebrate her fourth anniversary with Pierre Thibault on March 15, 2017. Instead, it was the day she found out her partner had died, along with his friend Michaël Fiset, their truck buried in a blizzard.
  
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• Breaking up is hard to do: Why leaving Facebook is more difficult than it looks

  21-03-2018 20:17 via cbc.ca
  Facebook's latest privacy scandal, involving Trump campaign consultants who allegedly stole data on tens of millions of users in order to influence elections, has some people reconsidering their relationship status with the social network.
  
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• Opinion: Time for the CAQ to make public its 'values test'

  21-03-2018 20:04 via montrealgazette.com
  In an op-ed piece published in the Montreal Gazette March 20, Nathalie Roy, immigration critic for the Coalition Avenir Québec, offered up boilerplate clichés on tolerance, yet refused to specifically outline the criteria, details and mechanics of the CAQ’s values test which, upon failure, would lead to the expulsion of new immigrants.
  Since my appointment as minister of immigration, diversity and inclusion last October, I have met with Quebecers of all backgrounds who have c
  
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• Canadian says her role in cruise ship cocaine smuggling was to be ‘on holiday’

  21-03-2018 19:49 via globalnews.ca
  Melina Roberge said she initially refused when her unnamed "sugar daddy" asked her to carry drugs on the cruise to Australia but later agreed when told she could enjoy a free vacation while helping the group.
  
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• No charges to be laid in collision causing death of Mount Royal cyclist

  21-03-2018 19:42 via globalnews.ca
  No charges will be laid against an American driver involved in a fatal collision with a cyclist on Camillien-Houde Way.
  
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• Show Biz Chez Nous: Sale of Just for Laughs to ICM bad news for Quebec

  21-03-2018 19:37 via montrealgazette.com
  If you care about Quebec culture, you shouldn’t be laughing about the news that our comedy festival has been sold to an American company. This is not good.
  The press release heralding the sale of the Just for Laughs Group/Groupe Juste pour rire makes a point of underlining that the consortium acquiring the fest includes Howie Mandel — “a native Canadian,” it says, using language that is oh so wrong. But make no mistake: that’s just a way of trying to camouflage that
  
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• No charges will be laid in Mount Royal cyclist death: Crown

  21-03-2018 18:15 via montrealgazette.com
  No criminal charges will be laid in the death of 18-year-old cyclist Clément Ouimet, who died after his bicycle was struck by a car on Mount Royal, Quebec’s Crown prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday.
  The actions of  the driver, who was making an illegal U-turn when Ouimet’s bicycle slammed into his rear door, does not constitute dangerous driving under the Criminal Code, the Crown prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
  “Recklessness, simple
  
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• 100 firefighters deployed to Brossard hotel fire

  21-03-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Econo Lodge Motel on Taschereau Blvd. in Brossard was the site of a four-alarm fire early Wednesday.
  Broadcast images of the site show flames erupting from the building’s roof while a pall of smoke visible in east end Montreal covered the site of the blaze. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
  Longueuil fire dept. director Jean-Guy Ranger said at 7:45 a.m. that the two-storey building had been evacuated and the fire was under control.
  About 100 firefighters had been deployed at
  
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• Montreal urges Quebec not to ban any dog breeds

  21-03-2018 17:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal is urging the province to stay away from breed-specific legislation in the final version of its animal control law.
  Bill 128 was introduced nearly a year ago in the National Assembly, and the province recently began public hearings on the bill. If passed in its current form, Bill 128 would prevent people in Quebec from acquiring three breeds associated with pit bulls — American pit bull terriers, American Staffordshire terriers and Staffordshire bull terriers.
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• Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou: 10-year-old missing since March 12

  21-03-2018 17:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou has been missing since March 12.
  The 10-year-old left his home in Ahuntsic—Cartierville for a friend’s house a few blocks away.
  A woman told police she saw him at des Bateliers Park the same day. No one has seen him since.
  An Amber Alert was issued, but was then lifted by police. Without a suspected kidnapper or vehicle description, the case did not meet the criteria for an Amber Alert.
  Kouakou’s father Frédéric maintains his son was abducted
  
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• Just For Laughs sold to Howie Mandel and U.S. company ICM Partners

  21-03-2018 17:24 via globalnews.ca
  Just For Laughs has been sold to an investor group led by Canadian-born comedian Howie Mandel and an American talent agency.
  
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• In wake of Ariel's disappearance, network shares tips to keep kids safe

  21-03-2018 17:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Parents who are worried about their children’s safety following the mysterious disappearance of 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou should make sure their children know how to respond if they’re lured by a stranger, the head of the Missing Children’s Network says.
  “We need to teach our children that if an adult needs help, they should be approaching another adult — not a child,” said Pina Arcamone, the organization’s executive director.
  “Kids need to
  
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• Chef David Rocco’s culinary passport @Scotiabank #ScotiaRewardsYou btmontreal.ca/videos/chef-da… https://t.co/qIa0uIiMzb

  21-03-2018 17:15
  
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• Canada’s first synagogue celebrating its 250th anniversary https://t.co/gJFoUpmlRQ

  21-03-2018 17:08
  
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• No criminal charges will be laid in October death of cyclist on Mount Royal, says Crown

  21-03-2018 17:04 via cbc.ca
  Quebec’s director of criminal prosecutions will not pursue criminal charges against the driver of an SUV who struck and killed a cyclist on Mount Royal last fall while making an illegal U-turn.
  
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• Crown announces no criminal charges will be laid in death of cyclist on Mount Royal

  21-03-2018 17:04 via cbc.ca
  Quebec’s director of criminal prosecutions will not pursue criminal charges against the driver of an SUV who struck and killed a cyclist on Mount Royal last year while making an illegal U-turn.
  
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• Finding Your Meditation “Fit” with @KTrotterFitness btmontreal.ca/videos/finding… https://t.co/G4IsUzpzOs

  21-03-2018 16:52
  
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• Perfecting your winged eyeliner btmontreal.ca/videos/perfect… https://t.co/qOKd4LzMlL

  21-03-2018 16:50
  
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• Hasidic buses in Outremont: ‘Our kids have to go to school’

  21-03-2018 16:45 via montrealgazette.com
  For years, Malkie Farkas organized the bus routes for the 800 children at one of the Hasidic girls’ schools in Outremont. She put “hours and hours and hours” of time and thought into the task — trying, among other things, to design routes as short as possible to reduce the time children spent aboard buses and to minimize disruption to the traffic flow.
  The neighbourhood straddling Outremont and Mile End is home to several thousand members of Montreal’s Hasidic commu
  
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• 10-year-old Montreal boy missing since March 12

  21-03-2018 16:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou has been missing since March 12.
  The 10-year-old left his home in Ahuntsic—Cartierville for a friend’s house a few blocks away.
  A woman told police she saw him at des Bateliers Park the same day. No one has seen him since.
  An Amber Alert was issued, but was then lifted by police. Without a suspected kidnapper or vehicle description, the case did not meet the criteria for an Amber Alert.
  Kouakou’s father Frédéric maintains his son was abducted
  
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• Educate kids about safety, set up a buddy system: Missing Children's Network

  21-03-2018 16:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Parents who are worried about their children’s safety following the mysterious disappearance of 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou should make sure their children know how to respond if they’re lured by a stranger, the head of the Missing Children’s Network says.
  “We need to teach our children that if an adult needs help, they should be approaching another adult — not a child,” said Pina Arcamone, the organization’s executive director.
  “Kids need to
  
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• Yes, it's spring! Check out these awesome picnic ideas btmontreal.ca/videos/spring-… https://t.co/EYqnl3pOND

  21-03-2018 16:15
  
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• Body found in Eastern Townships was murder victim, police say

  21-03-2018 16:15 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec confirmed Wednesday that the body of a man found Monday along an Eastern Townships highway was the victim of a murder.
  The body has been identified as that of Jean-François Henri, a 41-year-old resident of Magog.
  Henri’s body was discovered a little after dawn on Monday alongside Highway 55 at Ulverton, a small town with a few hundred residents, about 20 kilometres southeast of Drummondville.
  The case has been transferred to the SQ’s ho
  
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• Don't hate me because I'm beautiful: 'Fancy cats' bred for competition

  21-03-2018 15:59 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s taken about 18 years, but there is finally a feline counterpart to Best in Show, a hysterical mockumentary nonpareil about the world of competitive dog shows where the owners are even more high-strung than their pooches.
  Okay, so Catwalk: Tales From the Cat Show Circuit — marking its world broadcast première April 1 on CBC Docs POV — is a documentary, and veteran directors Michael McNamara and Aaron Hancox don’t really mock the owners or their pets here. But w
  
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• Quebecers pay more for less when it comes to Internet services: study

  21-03-2018 14:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebecers are paying more for their residential Internet services than the average price charged to residents of any other G7 nation, but are being served by older, slower technologies than are available elsewhere in Canada, a study made public on Wednesday suggests.
  The study, carried out by the Institut de recherche et d’informations socioéconomiques (IRIS), notes than in Montreal, Internet users can expect to by 1.5 times more for a “good quality” Internet connec
  
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• Montreal police call off divers in search for Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou

  21-03-2018 14:30 via globalnews.ca
  As the search for 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou enters its ninth day, Montreal police have ended their dives into the Rivière des Prairies and will focus efforts on land. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports.
  
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