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• Weekend traffic update: What to avoid, where to go March 24, 25

  22-03-2018 23:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s a look at this weekend’s road closures in Montreal. All closures are according to Quebec’s transportation ministry and are subject to change.
  Closures related to Turcot Interchange construction
  Highway 20 eastbound will be completely closed between Exit 64 (St-Jacques St.) and the entrance to Angrignon Blvd., from midnight on Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. Transport Québec will use Notre Dame St. as a detour.
  During the same timeframe, the eastbound sections of Highways
  
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• Tomorrow on BT: Puppies! https://t.co/WH25bwLGcE

  22-03-2018 23:36
  
  Tomorrow on BT: Puppies! https://t.co/WH25bwLGcE
  
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• Long-awaited Vaudreuil-Dorion hospital will be twice as big as expected

  22-03-2018 23:32 via cbc.ca
  The future Vaudreuil-Soulanges Hospital, west of Montreal, will have 404 beds and 10 operating rooms, the Quebec government announced on Thursday.
  
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• Missing boy Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou may have drowned: police

  22-03-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 22: Police are ramping up searches for missing 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou in the Rivière des Prairies. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, their primary theory is that he may have been involved in an accident near the water’s edge.
  
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• Iconic Montreal Dilallo Burger founder dies

  22-03-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 22: Montrealers are commemorating the passing of the father of the iconic Dilallo Burger restaurant chain, Louis Di Lallo. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• No, REM train line will not restrict Montreal transit services, mayors insist

  22-03-2018 23:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Transit users in Montreal do not need to fear a reduction in transit choices with the coming of the REM light-rail train line, West Island mayors and the mayor of Montreal said Thursday.
  “Everybody needs to calm down and understand what a great opportunity this is for Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue,” Mayor Paolo Hawa said. “I have no concerns for Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue or any other routes because the (regional transit planning authority) will be co-ordinating with the STM (Sociét&ea
  
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• Quebec promises more flexibility, extra weeks of parental leave for families

  22-03-2018 22:32 via cbc.ca
  The province wants to allow young parents to keep up to 10 days of parental leave in the bank they'd be able to use once they've gone back to work.
  
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• #GreatMTLers: Claire Webster is a pioneer in health care

  22-03-2018 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 22: Claire Webster seemed to have it all…until her world came crashing down when her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The mother of three tells Global News Montreal Senior Anchor Jamie Orchard about how her journey as a caregiver turned her into an unlikely pioneer in the health care system.
  
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• Are all dogs equally ‘dangerous’?

  22-03-2018 22:26 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Mar 22: During Quebec’s dangerous dog hearings, the National Assembly committee heard arguments that pit bull-type dogs and Rottweilers are no more dangerous than other large dog breeds. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Proposed dangerous dogs law overlooks Quebec First Nations, government hears

  22-03-2018 22:19 via globalnews.ca
  The province is on the wrong track with a rottweiler and pit bull ban, two groups of witnesses told the National Assembly committee studying Bill 128, Quebec's proposed dangerous dogs legislation.
  
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• Watch where you park: Montreal is about to increase fines for violations

  22-03-2018 21:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Parking scofflaws, be warned: Montreal is about to raise fines for drivers who leave their cars in the wrong place — the first hike since 2009.
  Parking tickets will rise from $53 to $62, the city announced Thursday. 
  Fines for people who park in zones reserved for people with disabilities will more than double — going from $149 to $300.
  “People with disabilities face significant mobility challenges on a daily basis, so respect for parking areas reserved for them is all the
  
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• Trudeau government avoids defeat on key pot bill vote

  22-03-2018 21:24 via cbc.ca
  The Liberal government avoided a disastrous result for its marquee marijuana bill Thursday, as the bill to legalize recreational marijuana passed a key legislative stage in the Senate. It's now headed to committee for further study.
  
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• Police in Florida believe cold case heist killers are in Montreal

  22-03-2018 21:23 via cbc.ca
  Police in Florida say they have identified suspects in a 36 year-old murder tied to a daring armoured car heist, and that they're likely connected to Montreal's notorious "West End Gang".
  
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• Leading Quebec investigative journalist ordered to reveal who leaked information about political corruption

  22-03-2018 21:11 via cbc.ca
  One of Quebec's most prominent investigative journalists has been ordered by the Superior Court to reveal who leaked confidential information to her.
  
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• Hockey on ice as Loyola high school pulls teams from playoffs

  22-03-2018 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  Loyola high school in NDG has pulled its two Juvenile hockey teams from the playoffs just days before they were to begin, following some disciplinary measures involving some of the hockey players.
  
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• Restaurant review: Heirloom Pizzeria adds value to Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

  22-03-2018 21:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Heirloom Pizzeria
  ★★ 1/2 out of ★★★★
  $$
  Address: 3991 Ontario St. E. (Near Pie-IX Blvd.)
  Phone: 514-905-8211
  Website: pizzeriaheirloom.ca
  Open: Weekdays 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Sat.-Sun. 5 to 11 p.m.
  Wheelchair access: Yes
  Reservations: Essential 
  Cards: All major
  Vegetarian friendly: Yes
  Parking: On the street with meters
  Price range: Appetizers $5-$19; main courses $14-$18; desserts $8-$9.
  I was in New York City over spring break, walking the streets o
  
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• Visually impaired chef serves up Haitian Créole food at Kwizinn

  22-03-2018 20:51 via montrealgazette.com
  More than 4 million people live in cosmopolitan Montreal and its suburbs. In a new series called The People Project, Montreal Gazette reporters Christopher Curtis and Catherine Solyom profile some of the many characters who call the city home and make it hum.
  Kwizinn is Créole for cuisine and the name of a family-run restaurant in Montreal.
  The restaurant was started by Michael Lafaille and Claudia Fiorilli last year.
  Lafaille first came to Canada after the earthquake in Haiti. He was see
  
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• Radio-Canada reporter won't face harassment charge

  22-03-2018 20:44 via cbc.ca
  Radio-Canada reporter Antoine Trépanier will not face criminal charges after a story subject accused him of criminal harassment.
  
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• Anti-Muslim sentiment higher in Quebec than rest of Canada, study finds

  22-03-2018 20:37 via cbc.ca
  Even though Quebec politicians routinely claim otherwise, a recent study suggests Islamophobia is widespread in the province and more prevalent here than elsewhere in Canada.
  
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• Canada’s 100 best restaurants for a night out according to OpenTable

  22-03-2018 19:44 via globalnews.ca
  Online reservations website OpenTable reveals the best places across Canada to eat based on user reviews.
  
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• Arthur Kaptainis: OSM's 2018-19 season has a familiar ring

  22-03-2018 19:37 via montrealgazette.com
  If Kent Nagano and the OSM had any desire next season to distance themselves from the repertoire of a certain Swiss conductor whose name is no longer mentioned in polite company, they have not succeeded.
  The opening concert of Sept. 6 (repeated Sept. 8) in the Maison symphonique finds Nagano leading Ravel’s Boléro and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, as well as Chaakapesh, the Trickster’s Quest, a new chamber opera by McGill-trained composer Matthew Ricketts with words b
  
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• Cassie Campbell-Pascall quits CWHL, calls for one women’s pro league

  22-03-2018 19:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Talk of a single women’s professional hockey league has accelerated, but the two North American organizations don’t appear close to a merger.
  That the championship games of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League and the U.S.-based National Women’s Hockey League are both Sunday is evidence enough the two leagues aren’t yet interested in working together.
  But powerful people in hockey and prominent players are talking about the need for a unified women’s league.
  For
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: Yellow badges a shocking means of protest

  22-03-2018 19:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Yellow badges were worn by some citizens recently to protest school buses on the streets in Outremont, a borough in which 23 per cent of the population is younger than 14.
  School buses — let that sink in for a moment.
  The yellow badges, of course, recall the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear in Nazi-era Europe. Tensions have existed in Outremont between the orthodox Jewish community and non-Jewish residents for some time now; this is not the first time those tensions have flared u
  
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• Social Notes: A picture-perfect book launch for the good of Cuba

  22-03-2018 17:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Hey Noties! Hope you were infotained by last week’s supersized season opener! This week, we spotlight a whole other kind of event.
  THE HER-STORY: Please meet the star of today’s column, Heidi Hollinger. Some of you might already be familiar with this ridiculously accomplished homegrown talent; for those who have yet to have the pleasure, you’re in for a treat.
  Not only has the award-winning photographer (and author and television host and/and/and!) snapped signature portraits o
  
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• Former tomato farm in this Montreal suburb will grow cannabis for Canada's legal market

  22-03-2018 17:42 via montrealgazette.com
  One of the largest growers of pink tomatoes in North America is converting its greenhouses in a Montreal suburb to grow upwards of 60,000 kilograms of cannabis each year.
  The family-owned Les Serres Bertrand in Mirabel has partnered with Canada’s largest medical marijuana company to complete the transformation.
  Last year, Canopy Growth invested $15 million to retrofit the farm so that it will be ready for the recreational cannabis market when the federal government legalizes it this summer
  
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• Success coach @SamanthaKris on a woman’s path to success btmontreal.ca/videos/a-woman… https://t.co/2BtlxviG02

  22-03-2018 17:15
  
  Success coach @SamanthaKris on a woman’s path to success btmontreal.ca/videos/a-woman… https://t.co/2BtlxviG02
  
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• Marika Fellegi: the classical violinist with a twist btmontreal.ca/videos/marika-…

  22-03-2018 17:07
  Marika Fellegi: the classical violinist with a twist btmontreal.ca/videos/marika-…
  
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• Missing Montreal boy Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou may be in river: police

  22-03-2018 17:00 via globalnews.ca
  Police are ramping up searches for missing 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou in the Rivière des Prairies.
  
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• Checking In: Auberge Le Madrigal in Bromont is a warm, traditional inn

  22-03-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The core of Auberge-Spa Le Madrigal in Bromont is nearly 140 years old, but it still has lots of life.
  Sylvie Bédard and her husband, Alain Simard, operate this warm and traditional inn with help from their daughters, Roxanne, 20, and Audrey, 25, and in summer, Charlotte, 17.
  Bédard has extensive hotel administration experience and Simard is a plumber who discovered that his true passion is cooking, specifically what he calls “back to roots” cuisine.
  Le Madrigal is a mo
  
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• Proposed deal for REM would kill some existing transit services

  22-03-2018 16:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The Réseau express métropolitain (REM), the Montreal-area electric commuter train project overseen by the Caisse de dépôt, intends to obtain exclusive rights to serve certain sectors of its planned route that would eliminate some existing transit services and re-direct their clientele to its stations.
  And among the existing transit services that could be eliminated are those travelling across the Champlain Bridge and linking Montreal-Trudeau airport with downtown.
  The
  
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• Longueuil police bust drug, fraud and counterfeiting ring

  22-03-2018 16:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Three male suspects ages 20 to 21 were expected to face counterfeiting charges in a Longueuil courtroom Thursday after being arrested Wednesday in a series of raids aimed at shutting down a drug trafficking, counterfeiting and fraud ring on Montreal’s South Shore.
  The raids, which began early Wednesday morning in Greenfield Park and ended in the evening in the municipality of Sainte-Catherine, followed a two-month investigation sparked by tips police had received from the public.
  A total
  
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• Video: @graphikDesignr talks about The Black Queens and The Black Kings colouring books btmontreal.ca/videos/the-bla… https://t.co/EJNjqFnKZ4

  22-03-2018 16:20
  
  Video: @graphikDesignr talks about The Black Queens and The Black Kings colouring books btmontreal.ca/videos/the-bla… https://t.co/EJNjqFnKZ4
  
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• How do you keep the trains running in cold & snowy weather? Set the tracks on fire, of course. https://t.co/Skdwz5B1DT

  22-03-2018 16:17
  
  How do you keep the trains running in cold & snowy weather? Set the tracks on fire, of course. https://t.co/Skdwz5B1DT
  
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• Celine Dion cancels 3 weeks of Las Vegas residency shows

  22-03-2018 16:08 via globalnews.ca
  “We regret to inform you that the performances of Celine scheduled for March 27 through April 18 have been cancelled,” the Canadian singer’s Facebook page posted on Wednesday.
  
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• What’s next for @justforlaughs? @eliasmakos spoke to Chief Operating Officer @Brucehills about the new ownership. A… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-03-2018 16:00
  What’s next for @justforlaughs? @eliasmakos spoke to Chief Operating Officer @Brucehills about the new ownership. A… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• #GreatMTLer: Claire Webster an unlikely pioneer in Montreal’s health-care system

  22-03-2018 15:57 via globalnews.ca
  On the surface, Claire Webster seemed to have it all — until it all came crashing down.
  
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• The challenge is canapés — and helping children and youth at Batshaw

  22-03-2018 15:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Chefs of several Montreal establishments will prepare their signature canapés at a fundraiser on March 28 for the Batshaw Centres Foundation. Guests at the third annual Défi Canapé, as the event is dubbed, will nibble on the canapés and then vote on their favourite.
  Participating establishments are Bishop and Bagg/Burgundy Lion, Loïc, Mouton Noir, Petros Taverna Westmount, Restaurant Sumac and Tuck Shop. The competition is friendly, but it&rsq
  
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• Montreal's first bike-centric 'velorue' coming to St-André

  22-03-2018 15:31 via cbc.ca
  The Plateau-Mont-Royal borough finally moving forward with long-planned transformation of a portion of St-André Street to create the city's first cyclist-focused street.
  
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• 'My luck hasn't been very good lately:' Céline Dion cancels more shows over health issues

  22-03-2018 15:22 via cbc.ca
  ​Céline Dion has cancelled a string of shows between March 27 and April 18 due to a hearing condition that she says will require a 'minimally invasive surgical procedure.'
  
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• Fania’s Heart Book Launch

  22-03-2018 14:40 via globalnews.ca
  Join us at the launch of Fania’s Heart, a new children’s book written by Anne Renaud and illustrated by Richard Rudnicki. The book is based on the remarkable true story of the object in the Montreal Holocaust Museum. “Fania’s Heart reveals the true story of the crafting of the heart, against all odds, within the...
  
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• Local singer makes history in New York

  22-03-2018 14:29 via globalnews.ca
  Lasalle’s twelve-year-old Alessandro Gabrielli joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about how he became the first child to sing both national anthems at New York’s historic Madison Square Garden.
  
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• Accessorizing your kitchen

  22-03-2018 14:11 via globalnews.ca
  Decor expert Karl Lohnes talks to Global’s Laura Casella about how to accessorize your kitchen and make it look amazing.
  
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• Laval firefighters respond to overnight restaurant fire

  22-03-2018 14:08 via globalnews.ca
  The fire started in the kitchen and was quickly contained. However, other rooms were damaged by heat and water.
  
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• 30 Days of Céline Dion: Singer weds manager René Angélil in Montreal

  22-03-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec singer, businesswoman and all-around icon Céline Dion is turning 50 on March 30, 2018. Each day for the month leading up to this milestone, the Montreal Gazette is revisiting a memorable moment from her career. Today is Day 22 of 30 Days of Céline. Check back in tomorrow for another update.
  Céline Dion and her longtime manager, René Angélil, were secretly engaged in 1991, but their relationship only became public when Dion wrote about it in the liner not
  
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• Montreal police seek other possible victims of alleged pimp

  22-03-2018 13:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are seeking other possible victims of an alleged pimp they arrested last March 15.
  Jeffrey Whyte St-Fleur was taken into custody in connection with the sexual exploitation of two underage girls and was arraigned last Friday on a dozen charges stemming from the investigation. He is alleged to have recruited his victims via social media.
  The suspect was released on bail on the condition he keep the peace, not communicate with his alleged victims or use the Internet.
  However, police
  
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• Montreal Police believe missing boy fell in river, drowned https://t.co/aIm3oXuKA4

  22-03-2018 13:40
  
  Montreal Police believe missing boy fell in river, drowned https://t.co/aIm3oXuKA4
  
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• #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/Ebb59udpyn

  22-03-2018 13:34
  
  #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/Ebb59udpyn
  
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• Fire damages Chez AlexSim restaurant in Sainte-Rose

  22-03-2018 13:32 via globalnews.ca
  Laval firefighters responded to a call at Chez AlexSim on Curé-Labelle in Sainte-Rose early Thursday morning. Nobody was injured in the fire.
  
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• Easter fun at Laval’s Centre de la Nature

  22-03-2018 13:32 via globalnews.ca
  Laval’s Centre de la Nature spokesperson Justin Creamer tells Global’s Kim Sullivan about Easter weekend activities at the park.
  
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• Montreal men indicted in illegal U.S. online money-laundering operation

  22-03-2018 13:31 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal-area resident is in custody in the United States and his brother is being sought after a federal grand jury recently indicted both on charges alleging they operated an Internet-based money service to launder money from illegal activity. 
  This week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of Ferhan Patel, 37, who was picked up in Detroit and detained pending a transfer to the District of Columbia where he and his brother Firoz, 43, are charged with conspiring to operat
  
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