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• Holiday weekend: Traffic update and what’s open and closed in Montreal

  28-03-2018 23:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Here is a partial list of what is open and closed in the Montreal area during this year’s holiday weekend:
  Most, if not all, of Canada’s major banks will be closed on Friday and open on Monday.
  Federal and provincial government offices will be closed on Friday and Monday.
  Most city of Montreal offices will be closed, including borough offices, Access Montreal offices and points of service. Boroughs will maintain regular garbage and recycling pi
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Noise forces Griffintown daycare to temporarily close

  28-03-2018 23:58 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 28: A private daycare in Montreal’s Griffintown borough is closing temporarily because the noise from a nearby construction site is too loud. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, the owner is insisting the city must do something about it.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Canadiens in dire need of more gems like Brendan Gallagher

  28-03-2018 23:56 via montrealgazette.com
  At 5-foot-9 and 181 pounds, Brendan Gallagher has been the biggest bright spot for the Canadiens this season, reaching the 30-goal mark for the first time in his NHL career when he scored twice during a 4-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings Monday night at the Bell Centre.
  Gallagher leads the Canadiens in goals and points (49), but his offensive numbers also highlight one of the Canadiens’ biggest problems. While Gallagher leads the Canadiens offensively, he was only 99th on the NHL scoring l
  
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• Helicopters flying low in search for Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou

  28-03-2018 23:40 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 28: Helicopters are flying low and icebreakers are on the Rivière des Prairies in the search for 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, it’s been more than two weeks since the boy went missing.
  
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• Bishop Street merchants ‘suffering’ because of construction

  28-03-2018 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 28: Merchants on Bishop Street in downtown Montreal say their businesses are suffering tremendously because of the ongoing construction. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Accused in Quebec City mosque shooting changes plea to guilty

  28-03-2018 23:27 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 28: The accused in the Quebec City mosque shooting has changed his plea to guilty on six counts of first-degree murder and six counts of attempted murder. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Mosque shooting: Politicians relieved by guilty plea

  28-03-2018 23:22 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The mayor of Quebec City says he is relieved by Alexandre Bissonnette’s guilty plea in the January 2017 mosque killings in his city.
  “I don’t want to get mixed up in the legal aspects of this, but I would say that I think we are relieved to know that now we can turn the page,” Régis Labeaume told reporters.
  “For a community like Quebec, for me and for others, it’s a relief.”
  Labeaume took a moment to mention the victims of the attac
  
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• For Quebec City Muslims, questions remain after mosque shooter pleads guilty

  28-03-2018 22:57 via cbc.ca
  The guilty plea marks the end of a horrific chapter in the provincial capital. But some Quebec City Muslims are still searching for answers.
  
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• Bon Jovi invites Montrealers to ‘Make a Memory’ with them

  28-03-2018 22:54 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 28: One West Island band is hoping to be ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ as Bon Jovi’s opening act when the American rockers perform at the Bell Centre in Montreal. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, the group says it’s a lesson to ‘Never say Good-bye’ to your dreams.
  
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• Montreal taxi drivers skeptical about $250M compensation

  28-03-2018 22:41 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 28: Montreal taxi drivers say they don’t believe the Quebec government’s promise to compensate them for the loss in value of their permits. As Global’s Phil Carpenter reports, $250 million was allocated to the industry in the province’s 2018 budget.
  
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• Another school bus union votes for general strike mandate for April

  28-03-2018 22:40 via montrealgazette.com
  More school bus drivers who are members of the FTQ-affiliated Teamsters — this time in the Outaouais region — are threatening a general strike next month.
  The latest strike mandate, adopted by the membership by a margin of 99 per cent, could affect the travel plans of about 5,000 students attending classes in the des Draveurs and des Portages-de-l’Outaouais school boards in Gatineau.
  The drivers join their Teamster union colleagues in the Montérégie, Laval and on
  
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• Bears letting cubs stay home longer to avoid hunters, finds study led by Sherbrooke PhD student

  28-03-2018 22:21 via cbc.ca
  Like many millennials, bear cubs in Sweden are living at home with their moms longer than previous generations — and researchers think it's because female bears are trying to stay safe from hunters.
  
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• Mosque shooting: Guilty verdict brings relief, but sense of loss remains profound

  28-03-2018 22:13 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — For the Muslim community in Quebec City and the families of the many victims, Alexandre Bissonnette’s guilty pleas brought a measure of relief Wednesday. But for most in the courtroom, many of whom broke into tears as the names of their loved ones were read out, the grief of loss remains deep. Added to that was their frustration with the fact the motivations behind his crimes remain unclear, and his declaration that his crimes were not motivated by Islamophobia.  
  
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• Mayor Valérie Plante announces departure of city manager Alain Marcoux

  28-03-2018 22:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal is parting company with city manager Alain Marcoux, Mayor Valérie Plante announced Wednesday.
  Plante said Marcoux is staying on for a few more months, while the city looks for a new top bureaucrat who will be more in sync with what she termed her administration’s “bold, audacious goals.”
  “I would like to thank Alain Marcoux personally for his devotion and his four years with Montreal’s municipal administration,” she said.
  Plante said she feels
  
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• St. Thomas teacher to be removed after incident with student

  28-03-2018 22:09 via globalnews.ca
  The teacher was allegedly "very angry" with the student and asked them to stay back during lunch break.
  
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• ‘It’s now or never’: West Island band vying for chance to open for Bon Jovi

  28-03-2018 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  A West Island band is living on a prayer for the chance to open for Bon Jovi when the rock legends perform in Montreal.
  
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• Montreal looking for new city manager to replace Alain Marcoux

  28-03-2018 21:26 via cbc.ca
  Montreal is on the hunt for a new city manager as part of a move Mayor Valérie Plante described as a final step toward a complete revitalization at city hall.
  
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• Canada’s official languages action plan promises ‘historic’ investments

  28-03-2018 21:01 via globalnews.ca
  The last federal budget earmarked $400 million starting next year and $88.4 million annually after that.
  
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• Opinion: DeRozan, Love help write a new playbook of manhood

  28-03-2018 20:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Toronto Raptors all-star guard DeMar DeRozan leads by example on and off the basketball court. Recently, he’s gone public about his personal struggle with depression. DeRozan tweeted, “This depression get the best of me…” Later in an interview with the Toronto Star, he explained that he’s not ashamed of his mental health challenges because he knows that many people suffer from depression and that, by speaking out, he hopes to encourage others.
  Inspired by DeRozan&r
  
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• Opinion: Canada, Australia are natural allies against protectionism

  28-03-2018 20:30 via montrealgazette.com
  With the spectre of a new trade war and populist protectionism sweeping some parts of the globe, it is heartening that earlier this month, 11 nations signed one of the most expansive free trade agreements in history.
  Just a year ago, on the eve of the last Australia-Canada Economic Leadership Forum (AusCan Forum), we both observed the importance of standing up for our two countries’ shared values.
  Today, that message is more important than ever. 
  We share a common heritage, liberal de
  
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• Montreal taxi drivers skeptical about promise of compensation

  28-03-2018 20:18 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal taxi drivers say they don't believe the government's promise to compensate them for the loss in value of their permits.
  
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• Mosque shooting: Relief at the guilty verdict, but the grief remains strong

  28-03-2018 19:57 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — For the Muslim community in Quebec City and the families of the many victims, Alexandre Bissonnette’s guilty pleas brought a measure of relief Wednesday. But for most in the courtroom, many of whom broke into tears as the names of their loved ones were read out, the grief of loss remains strong. Added to that was their frustration at the fact that the motivations behind his crimes remain unclear, and that he declared that his crimes were not motivated by Islamophobia. &
  
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• Mosque shooting: Bissonnette agreed with Trump, affidavit shows

  28-03-2018 19:55 via montrealgazette.com
  After Alexandre Bissonnette opened fire in a Quebec City mosque, he called 911 identifying himself as the shooter and said he wanted to kill himself.
  Bissonnette was crying, and said he had a pistol with him on the back seat of the grey Mitsubishi he was driving.
  He said he was going to walk into the woods and kill himself. He told the 911 operator he would co-operate 100 per cent, was tired and wanted the police to help him.
  That information was contained in police affidavits that were made pub
  
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• Astronomers perplexed to find that distant galaxy has no dark matter

  28-03-2018 19:39 via cbc.ca
  A galaxy far, far away is perplexing astronomers not by what it contains, but by what it doesn't: dark matter.
  
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• Alexandre Bissonnette explains why he pleaded guilty, in his own words

  28-03-2018 19:37 via cbc.ca
  After pleading guilty to all charges, Alexandre Bissonnette read a statement to the Quebec City courtroom filled with the victims' families, survivors and their supporters. Here is the transcript.
  
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• Around the World in 80 Days

  28-03-2018 18:37 via globalnews.ca
  This iconic classic comes to hilarious contemporary light in an all-new production featuring incredible physical performances, lightening-speed set changes, razor-sharp dialogue, and…an elephant. Travel across the globe with the clever Phileas Fogg and his astute partner-in-crime Passepartout as they encounter a cast of over twenty characters (played by 3 people!) on this worldly epic adventure....
  
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• Sainte Céline is more than a comic cabaret spoof of Dion

  28-03-2018 18:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Tranna Wintour and Thomas Leblanc are kind of obsessed with Céline Dion.
  So they thought it was a natural to do a comic cabaret show that celebrates — and skewers — notre Céline nationale.
  “It’s really a sort of cultural excavation and exploration,” said Wintour. “It’s kind of this academic approach but doing it in a way that’s entertaining and funny and very pop. But going deeper. You can go see a Céline tribute show or a Mari
  
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• Another school bus union votes a general strike mandate for April

  28-03-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  More school bus drivers who are members of the FTQ-affiliated Teamsters — this time in the Outaouais region — are threatening a general strike next month.
  The latest strike mandate, adopted by the membership by a margin of 99 per cent, could affect the travel plans of about 5,000 students attending classes in the des Draveurs and des Portages-de-l’Outaouais school boards in Gatineau.
  The drivers join their Teamster union colleagues in the Montérégie, Laval and on
  
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• Victims of Quebec City mosque shooting ‘accept’ guilty plea from gunman

  28-03-2018 17:55 via globalnews.ca
  A representative for the victims of a deadly Quebec City mosque shooting said his clients “accept positively” the guilty plea of gunman Alexandre Bissonnette on six charges of first-degree murder and six of attempted murder.
  
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• Taste of AMCAL

  28-03-2018 17:52 via globalnews.ca
  AMCAL Family Services will be hosting the 10th edition of “A Taste of AMCAL” on Monday, April 16th at the Royal St-Lawrence Yacht Club. This event, designed to raise funds for the ever demanding needs of the community we serve, consists of local restaurants and caterers offering a tasting of their menus, along with a...
  
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• Sitar-studded supergroup: Montreal's Rishi Dhir is the glue to Mien

  28-03-2018 17:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Have sitar, will travel.
  That’s Rishi Dhir in a nutshell.
  “I accepted, at one point, that this is kind of my calling card,” the Montreal multi-instrumentalist, bandleader (of noble psych-pop act Elephant Stone) and newly minted acid-house DJ/sitarist said recently, on a lunch break from his day job as a technical writer.
  A rare instrument in the rock world, the sitar has opened doors for Dhir, from sharing the stage with Beck during a 2012 Australian tour (and then at Osheaga i
  
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• After an incredible moment at the Big O last night, the team at BT asks: Do we need baseball back in Montreal?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 17:28
  After an incredible moment at the Big O last night, the team at BT asks: Do we need baseball back in Montreal?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 'What I did is unforgivable,' Quebec mosque shooter says after pleading guilty

  28-03-2018 17:23 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Alexandre Bissonnette says he doesn’t know why he killed six people in cold blood in a Quebec City mosque last year but he says he’s not a terrorist or Islamophobe.
  Speaking to the court in Quebec City Wednesday, he said he regrets his actions and, appearing to be holding back tears, he asked the dozens of Muslim community members in the audience to forgive him for what he did.
  “I would like to ask you to forgive me for all the wrongs that I have done but I know
  
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• Should you listen to celebrity health advice? Actual ER doctor @Realdrzach says doing so might be dangerous btmontreal.ca/videos/celebri…

  28-03-2018 17:13
  Should you listen to celebrity health advice? Actual ER doctor @Realdrzach says doing so might be dangerous btmontreal.ca/videos/celebri…
  
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• Six months later, still no sign of missing Montrealer Jesse Galganov btmontreal.ca/videos/6-month…

  28-03-2018 17:00
  Six months later, still no sign of missing Montrealer Jesse Galganov btmontreal.ca/videos/6-month…
  
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• Breaking fitness barriers with body weight training btmontreal.ca/videos/breakin…

  28-03-2018 17:00
  Breaking fitness barriers with body weight training btmontreal.ca/videos/breakin…
  
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• Mosque shooting: Quebec politicians express relief at guilty plea

  28-03-2018 16:57 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The province’s political class Wednesday expressed cautious relief — particularly for the families of the victims — at Alexandre Bissonnette’s guilty plea in the Quebec City mosque killings.
  “I think people are reassured by the situation,” Health Minister Gaétan Barrette told reporters as he headed into question period at the legislature.
  “The events at the Quebec mosque did not only affect the city of Quebec, but all of Quebec.
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• Children are the future! We check out the annual @HydroQuebec Montreal Regional Science & Technology Fair btmontreal.ca/videos/montrea…

  28-03-2018 16:54
  Children are the future! We check out the annual @HydroQuebec Montreal Regional Science & Technology Fair btmontreal.ca/videos/montrea…
  
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• Ariel Kouakou search: Police divers return to Rivière des Prairies

  28-03-2018 16:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police divers were to return to the banks of the Rivière des Prairies on Wednesday as the search for 10-year-old Ariel Kouakou, missing since March 12, continued.
  Police were expected to break the ice around the shoreline near Parc des Bateliers in north-end Montreal to allow the divers more access to the area.
  The park, the last place where the boy’s image was captured on a surveillance camera after leaving his home to visit a friend — who proved to be not at ho
  
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• Quebec budget 2018: @taxpayerDOTcom's @carlvallee sees lots of room for improvement btmontreal.ca/videos/quebec-…

  28-03-2018 16:48
  Quebec budget 2018: @taxpayerDOTcom's @carlvallee sees lots of room for improvement btmontreal.ca/videos/quebec-…
  
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• Liberals promise historic investment as official languages action plan unveiled

  28-03-2018 16:45 via cbc.ca
  The federal government's action plan on official languages will include significant investments in early childhood education and encourage Francophone immigration in a minority setting.
  
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• Charles Hamelin @Speedskater01 on his continued success, what's next, and watching Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit that h… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 16:42
  Charles Hamelin @Speedskater01 on his continued success, what's next, and watching Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit that h… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Video: @cookingwithv shares Easter-inspired recipes btmontreal.ca/videos/easter-…

  28-03-2018 16:39
  Video: @cookingwithv shares Easter-inspired recipes btmontreal.ca/videos/easter-…
  
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• Quebec budget 2018: Carlos Leitao explains all the spending

  28-03-2018 15:56 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 28: Quebec Finance Minister Carlos Leitao speaks about what he hopes to change as the Liberal’s table their fifth and final budget before the Oct. 1 elections.
  
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• Quebec City mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette says he's ashamed of his 'senseless act'

  28-03-2018 15:52 via cbc.ca
  Alexandre Bissonnette, the man who stormed a Quebec City mosque in January 2017, killing six and critically injuring five, says he has changed his plea to guilty because he is deeply sorry for the pain he caused and is ashamed of his actions.
  
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• Quebec City mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette pleads guilty to all charges

  28-03-2018 15:52 via cbc.ca
  The lone gunman who stormed a Quebec City mosque in January 2017, killing six and critically injuring five, has pleaded guilty to all 12 charges against him, reversing his earlier not-guilty plea.
  
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• Accused in Quebec City mosque shooting pleads guilty

  28-03-2018 15:50 via globalnews.ca
  Alexandre Bissonnette pleaded guilty Wednesday to six counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder in connection with the deadly attack on a Quebec City mosque in 2017.
  
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• Divers return to icy river to search for missing Montreal boy

  28-03-2018 15:29 via cbc.ca
  More than two weeks after his disappearance, police divers have returned to the Rivière des Prairies this morning as the search for Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou continues.
  
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• Divers end icy search for missing Montreal boy

  28-03-2018 15:29 via cbc.ca
  More than two weeks after his disappearance, police divers returned to the Rivière des Prairies on Wednesday as the search for Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou continues.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Wednesday, March 28

  28-03-2018 15:15 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Wednesday, March 28.
  
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