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• We need to find ways to break the isolation of anglo seniors, Weil says

  23-03-2018 23:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Younger Quebecers need to respect, value and spend more time with isolated seniors, perhaps particularly in Quebec’s anglophone communities, the minister responsible for relations with English-speaking Quebecers said Friday.
  “There needs to be a major public campaign to sensitize people to the value that these seniors represent for the community,” Kathleen Weil told reporters after a meeting with leaders of about a dozen organizations that serve elderly anglophones on the islan
  
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• Quebec religious order apologizes, opens hotline for Innu victims of sexual abuse

  23-03-2018 23:45 via cbc.ca
  A religious order in Quebec is apologizing and offering support to people who say they were sexually abused as children by one of its missionaries on the province's north shore.
  
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• Volunteers still searching for Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou

  23-03-2018 23:21 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Mar 23: As police decide if it’s time to scale back on the search for 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, volunteers are still showing up to try to find him. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Will REM transit network hurt downtown business?

  23-03-2018 23:18 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Mar 23: Arguments are surfacing that Montreal’s REM transit network could encourage more urban sprawl. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, some insist this is a bad thing and it may be time to go back to the drawing board.
  
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• Global News at 5:30: Mar 23

  23-03-2018 23:18 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, March 23, 2018 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
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• What’s to happen to the former Royal Victoria Hospital?

  23-03-2018 23:11 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Mar 23: McGill University has decided what it wants to do with the former Royal Victoria Hospital. Global’s Amanda Jelowicki finds out what that is.
  
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• Quebec 2018 budget to be tabled Tuesday

  23-03-2018 23:07 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Mar 23: Quebec Finance Minister Carlos Leitao is tabling his 2018 budget on March 27. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, the government has already made several promises.
  
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• Cry for justice as Montreal portion of Indigenous inquiry wraps up

  23-03-2018 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  In December 2016, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard approached a podium at the National Assembly flanked by the province’s public health, justice, public security and native affairs ministers.
  The provincial government was under pressure after an investigation into allegations that police abused Indigenous women in Val-d’Or ended without charges. 
  What Couillard announced was met with cautious optimism — a $9 million, two-year public inquiry into the relationship between I
  
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• Lisette Lapointe returns to the Parti Québécois after quitting seven years ago

  23-03-2018 22:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Former Parti Québécois MNA Lisette Lapointe is returning to the fold of the party she had quit seven years ago while its caucus was in turmoil. 
  Lapointe, the widow of former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau, will act as a counsellor to the PQ. Party leader Jean-François Lisée announced Friday that Lapointe is joining the team “to polish the commitments the party makes toward the elderly of Quebec.” 
  Lisée noted that Lapointe served as the
  
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• Quebec man convicted in pit-bull mauling gets four-year prison sentence

  23-03-2018 22:18 via montrealgazette.com
  LONGUEUIL — A Quebec man whose pit bull-type dog mauled a young girl in 2015 was sentenced Friday to four years in jail, with the judge calling his behaviour “gross and extreme negligence.”
  Quebec court Judge Pierre Belisle handed down the sentence for Karim Jean Gilles a month after he convicted him of criminal negligence causing bodily harm.
  The attack left the seven-year-old girl with severe damage to her face and cranium.
  In reading his sentence, Belisle said there wer
  
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• Investigative journalist Marie-Maude Denis says confidential sources 'worth fighting for'

  23-03-2018 22:05 via cbc.ca
  A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered Radio-Canada journalist Marie-Maude Denis to testify and divulge her sources, something Denis said would violate her journalistic integrity.
  
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• Police aren't giving up search for Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, missing almost 2 weeks

  23-03-2018 21:50 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal police continued its investigation Friday into the disappearance of 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, while maintaining a presence in the neighbourhood where he was last seen. 
  The boy disappeared on March 12 after leaving his home late that morning to visit a friend whose family lives three blocks away. Earlier this week, the Montreal police said they are convinced the boy headed to a nearby park after realizing his friend wasn’t home and that Ariel drowned in the Rivi&
  
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• Will Quebec fund $690M Royal Victoria revamp? McGill hopes so

  23-03-2018 21:23 via cbc.ca
  McGill University is asking the Quebec government to help transform the old site of the Royal Victoria Hospital into a university pavilion for sustainable development and public policy.
  
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• What will be in the 2018 Quebec budget?

  23-03-2018 21:23 via globalnews.ca
  Next week, the Liberal government will present its last budget before the provincial election, but it's already made a number of financial promises. What else can we expect in Tuesday's budget?
  
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• An ambitious plan for Montreal’s former Royal Victoria hospital

  23-03-2018 21:13 via globalnews.ca
  McGill University has unveiled an ambitious, nearly $700 million plan for the former Royal Victoria hospital site.
  
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• What the Puck: Laughter helps us cope with Habs' horror show season

  23-03-2018 21:09 via montrealgazette.com
  It is a time for laughing. About the Habs. At the Habs. It’s all fair game.
  I tweeted out this joke earlier in the week and some reacted badly.
  Gary Bettman finally reveals real reason Quebec City will not be getting an NHL franchise. pic.twitter.com/Q5LN1NgRyG
  — Brendan Kelly (@brendanshowbiz) March 22, 2018Folks mostly loved it, but the Bergevinites, as usual, complained and claimed it was proof I never have anything positive to say about the Canadiens. All that proved to me w
  
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• Ultra-fast 5G mobile network is coming to Quebec and Ontario

  23-03-2018 21:09 via montrealgazette.com
  It took 25 years to connect five billion devices to the Internet. By 2020, as many as 29 billion will be connected.
  Everything from coffee makers to thermostats; washing machines to autonomous vehicles will be online, all the time.
  This is the “Internet of Things” and it will require a fast and reliable wireless network to support it.
  Welcome to 5G.
  A $400-million public-private partnership is bringing the technology to Ontario and Quebec. The network will allow speeds 100 times fast
  
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• Stu Cowan: Education came before sports for Montreal's Darche brothers

  23-03-2018 21:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s annual Sports Celebrity Breakfast is a special event for Mathieu Darche.
  Five years ago, the former Canadiens forward had just announced his retirement from the NHL and less than two months later was invited to attend the Sports Celebrity Breakfast, which raises money for the Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors Foundation. While there, Mike Cohen — one of the event organizers — introduced Darche to Mike Wagen, the senior vice-president and owner of Delmar Internationa
  
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• Off-Island hospital completion date pushed back to 2026

  23-03-2018 21:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The project to build a new hospital in Vaudreuil-Dorion has doubled in size and scope after an analysis of regional needs revealed the initial plans would be inadequate to serve the area’s booming population.
  At a press conference on Thursday, Quebec Premier Phillippe Couillard said that a recently completed clinical plan concluded that a hospital of the size originally planned for the Vaudreuil-Soulanges region would quickly become overcrowded. The revised plan will include 404 beds, at a
  
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• Opinion: Canada must say no to U.S.-style gun lobby rhetoric

  23-03-2018 19:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealers, led by courageous young students, are marching on March 24 in solidarity with victims of gun violence in U.S. schools and in support of common sense gun laws. They deserve our support.
  Canadians can look to our neighbours with a mixture of shock and sadness. Consider the latest descent into madness: Following the tragic shooting in Parkland, Fla., the most significant response proposed by President Donald Trump was to arm teachers.
  Far from being typical Trump tripe, this seems like
  
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• Don Macpherson: The holes in François Legault's wall

  23-03-2018 18:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Something unfortunate has happened to the Coalition Avenir Québec party: people have begun to take it seriously.
  In recent months, I’ve often looked back and seen that the CAQ had won the past week in Quebec politics without really doing anything, while the other major parties inflicted damage on each other or themselves.
  The CAQ seemed to be heeding advice attributed to Napoleon: never interfere with an enemy while he is in the process of destroying himself.
  And it paid off in the
  
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• Montreal following up on promise to increase parking, traffic fines

  23-03-2018 18:15 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Montreal is following up on a promise to boost fines for parking and traffic violations for the first time since 2009.
  
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• Montreal following up on promise to boost parking, traffic fines

  23-03-2018 18:15 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Montreal is following up on a promise to boost fines for parking and traffic violations for the first time since 2009.
  
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• Assurances, but no details on Quebec's plan for greenhouse-gas reduction

  23-03-2018 18:01 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec government thinks it can still meet its greenhouse-gas-emission reduction targets but acknowledges it will require tougher measures to do so.
  However the minister in charge of the file says the government is not yet ready to announce just what those measures will be.
  Quebec Environment Minister Isabelle Melançon made the comments Friday during a press conference to announce the midway results of the government’s 2013-2020 plan to combat climate change.
  Melançon sai
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Friday could be Josh Gorges' last rodeo with Habs

  23-03-2018 17:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Former Canadiens defenceman Josh Gorges will be in the Sabres’ lineup against Montreal Friday (7 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio) but fellow blue-liner Nathan Beaulieu will be a healthy scratch.
  Gorges, who has been a healthy scratch for nine of the last 11 games, might be playing his last game against the Canadiens. The 33-year-old has appeared in only 30 games — with no goals, two assists and a minus-5 rating — and admits that his NHL future is in doubt.
  Beaulieu, who was sele
  
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• New website aims to change conversation surrounding women’s health issues

  23-03-2018 17:41 via globalnews.ca
  Kristina Kasparian has been suffering from endometriosis for 20 years and she's hoping her new website will help raise awareness about the disease and other issues surrounding female health.
  
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• 5 Montreal stories guaranteed to make you smile this week: March 23

  23-03-2018 17:22 via globalnews.ca
  These stories are guaranteed to make you smile this week.
  
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• Did you know that colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in Canada? Dr. Baffis of the MU… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-03-2018 17:07
  Did you know that colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in Canada? Dr. Baffis of the MU… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Jonathan Drouin’s drive a question mark | HI/O Bonus

  23-03-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Jonathan Drouin made lazy passes and appeared completely disinterested during Monday’s loss to Florida. Has he taken a step back this season?
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• 'Its hooves came within 6 inches of my eyes,' Quebec senior says of terrifying encounter with ox

  23-03-2018 17:00 via cbc.ca
  Laura Chouinard's encounter with the runaway ox had her gripped by fear. But in the midst of the battle she resolved, "I am not going to die today."
  
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• How a spry senior outmanoeuvred an angry ox in Quebec's Gaspé region

  23-03-2018 17:00 via cbc.ca
  "Its hooves came within six inches of my eyes," Laura Chouinard said. Gripped by fear, she resolved, "I am not going to die today."
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: March 23, 2018

  23-03-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Every week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings.
  Under $16
  Douro 2016, Reserva, Cabral, Portugal white, $13.95, SAQ # 12757692. Very interesting white for a low price. Textured, with pear and apple notes followed by a mix of almond and spice on the finish. Great balance, with a lengthy and comforting finish. Grape varieties: viosinho, arinto, rabigato, gouveio. Residual sugar: 2.2 g/L. Serve at: 8-12 C. Drink now. Food pairing idea
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw: Tiny Italian island produces towering dessert wines

  23-03-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Dessert wines may no longer be in vogue, but they have a rich history. Throughout much of the past 500 years, it was these wines, and not dry table wines, that were the most coveted. One of my favourites is the Passito di Pantelleria.
  The passito style involves drying grapes to concentrate the sugars, acids and, ultimately, flavours. If you drink amarone or ripasso red wines, you have tasted a passito wine.
  Located 50 kilometres from the coast of Tunisia, the volcanic island of Pantelleria is on
  
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• Dogs, Doggos, woofers, puppers, & pupperinos: We celebrate #NationalPuppyDay with @fondationmira https://t.co/oxBu2HlT2c

  23-03-2018 16:56
  
  Dogs, Doggos, woofers, puppers, & pupperinos: We celebrate #NationalPuppyDay with @fondationmira https://t.co/oxBu2HlT2c
  
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• Freedom at 50: Céline Dion is in control as she reaches a milestone

  23-03-2018 16:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Turning 50 is a big deal, and people often mark it with a major bash.
  But not Céline Dion. She claims it’s no biggie.
  In fact, the hardest-working woman in showbiz planned to spend the red-letter day — Friday, March 30 — at Las Vegas’s Colosseum at Caesars Palace, doing exactly what she’s been doing on so many nights since she was a teenager: singing on stage. That makes perfect sense: entertaining is what Dion does.
  (That birthday plan was scrapped Wednesday
  
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• Actress @IAMannalynnemcc fights to end human trafficking btmontreal.ca/videos/actress… https://t.co/ESGQDPhZPX

  23-03-2018 16:35
  
  Actress @IAMannalynnemcc fights to end human trafficking btmontreal.ca/videos/actress… https://t.co/ESGQDPhZPX
  
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• What is Montreal’s best bagel? @FoodGuyMTL gives us a blind taste test and we get help from actress… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-03-2018 16:32
  What is Montreal’s best bagel? @FoodGuyMTL gives us a blind taste test and we get help from actress… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Should Quebec ban dangerous dogs? The BT panel with @BarbaraRKay @DogueShop @seazlington & Dr. Marlene Kalin debate… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-03-2018 16:15
  Should Quebec ban dangerous dogs? The BT panel with @BarbaraRKay @DogueShop @seazlington & Dr. Marlene Kalin debate… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• PUPPY ALERT! Today is #NationalPuppyDay, and we couldn't be more excited! Can you tell? These little guys are from… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-03-2018 15:23
  PUPPY ALERT! Today is #NationalPuppyDay, and we couldn't be more excited! Can you tell? These little guys are from… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Stingray hires former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre as special adviser

  23-03-2018 15:22 via globalnews.ca
  Former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre has been hired as a special adviser by digital media company Stingray.
  
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• Pardon My French: Signs ruling was missed opportunity to elevate human rights

  23-03-2018 15:20 via montrealgazette.com
  In this series of columns, one-time Alliance Quebec president and media personality Royal Orr reflects on his relationship with his second language.
  For a lifelong Quebecer now in my 60s, wars have come and gone, men have walked on the moon, the Berlin Wall fell and Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash, but always, alongside these headlines on the front pages of Montreal newspapers, there was the latest episode in the psycho-drama of language in Quebec.
  The young leaders who emerged out
  
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• From a postponed P!nk concert to Power Rangers live this weekend

  23-03-2018 15:15 via globalnews.ca
  Entertainment columnist Jay Walker joins Global’s Kim Sullivan to explore a whole weekend’s worth of things to do, including the Power Rangers Live and what to do with your P!nk concert tickets.
  
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• Couillard defends REM transit monopolies, but Mayor Plante isn't convinced

  23-03-2018 15:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is defending the service monopolies obtained by the Réseau express métropolitain (REM), the electric train project that will service the Montreal area between Brossard and Deux-Montagnes.
  However, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante thinks the Caisse de dépôt — which is overseeing the $6.3-billion project — has some explaining to do.
  On Wednesday, the Presse Canadienne obtained a copy of a confidential agreement that calls
  
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• Changing the dialogue on women’s health and fertility

  23-03-2018 15:15 via globalnews.ca
  Writer, photographer and Alba A New Dawn founder Kristina Kasparian joins Global’s Andrea Howick and Kim Sullivan to talk about her new website and initiative to help change the conversation regarding women’s health and fertility.
  
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• Montreal jazz/blues artist Jordan Officer releases new album

  23-03-2018 15:01 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal Jazz/Blues artist Jordan officer joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about his upcoming album “Three Rivers” and to play a song.
  
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• Home-schooling centre is a textbook case of community and passion

  23-03-2018 14:57 via montrealgazette.com
  A few elementary-school-age children are playing street hockey in a damp drizzle that hasn’t decided whether to be snow or rain. Their puck is a firmly packed snowball that they smack around, mostly on the wide sidewalk or against the brick of a factory-style building.
  Inside, the hallways are industrial and bleak except for a bright mural at the end that announces: “Communidée.”
  These kids are like any others you’d expect to come across on a Friday afternoon, with
  
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• Celebrating Greek Independence Day with pastries

  23-03-2018 14:56 via globalnews.ca
  What better way to celebrate a national holiday than with delicious Greek pastries! Afroditi Bakery owner Vasili Karagiannides gives Global’s Andrea Howick a taste of Park Ex’s iconic trademark pastries now available in the West island.
  
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