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• Quebecers still can’t claim monthly transit passes on income tax

  30-03-2018 23:48 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Mar 30: Despite the massive investments in public transit, users still won’t be able to claim their monthly passes on their income taxes. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• Reinforcements come to search for Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou

  30-03-2018 23:43 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Mar 30: Montreal police have called in reinforcements to search for missing boy Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou. As Global’s Gloria Henriquez reports, the family is organizing a search party over the weekend.
  
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• A tale of 2 budgets: Quebec and Ontario reveal different approaches to government, experts say

  30-03-2018 23:17 via cbc.ca
  While both the Quebec and Ontario governments promised to dole out billions of new dollars in their final budgets before each province heads to the polls, the two documents clash when it comes to their bottom lines.
  
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• Will the small Quebec town of Huntingdon be Canada's next Hockeyville?

  30-03-2018 23:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Melissa Spenard arrived at the Centre Sportif Promutuel in Huntingdon Friday morning with her two daughters and two sons.
  The boys (Thies, 10, and Bas, 6) play hockey; the girls (Nelleke, 12, and Mieke, 8) figure skate. Their family uses the arena several times a week from early fall to spring.
  That’s why they, and most other citizens in this small town 75 kilometres southwest of Montreal, have their fingers crossed that Huntingdon will be named the 2018 Kraft Hockeyville Sunday during the
  
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• Walmart Canada pulls out of training program for people with intellectual disabilities

  30-03-2018 22:55 via globalnews.ca
  Walmart Canada says it is ending its involvement with a Quebec program that provides job training to people with intellectual disabilities or who are on the autism spectrum.
  
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• Technoparc shakeup brings hope to environmentalists

  30-03-2018 22:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Environmentalists and animal lovers are cautiously optimistic that a sudden, city-ordered change in leadership at Technoparc Montréal — as well as a diminutive heron and an endangered wood thrush — can help save the city’s top birding spot and one of the few wetlands on the island of Montreal.
  Close to 100 birdwatchers bearing binoculars and long lenses came to the St-Laurent technopark, on the northern edge of the Montreal-Trudeau airport, for the second-annual Good Fri
  
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• Montreal's Record Breakers and Travis Cormier will open for Bon Jovi at the Bell Centre

  30-03-2018 21:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal bands The Record Breakers and Travis Cormier will open for Bon Jovi at the rocker’s pair of shows at the Bell Centre on April 4 and 5.
  Bon Jovi is selecting local artists to open for his This House Is Not for Sale 2018 Tour.
  “This is absolutely unreal! This is what we’ve always dreamt of. It’s going to be the best 20 minutes of our lives,” said The Record Breakers in a statement.
  Cormier called it “a dream come true.”
  Bon Jovi has selected local
  
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• Quebec man paralyzed in mosque shooting to receive $400K for new home

  30-03-2018 21:49 via globalnews.ca
  The Muslim-Canadian non-profit DawaNet says it will deliver the funds to Aymen Derbali on Saturday.
  
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• Pardon My French: Nadeau-Dubois's passionate defence of diversity

  30-03-2018 21:42 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.
  To find the head office of Québec solidaire, you have to really, really want to find the head office of Québec solidaire.
  It’s a short walk from the Berri-UQAM métro station, but after you identify the right building, you have to go down a side alley and then a few steps along a back alley before you see the home of Quebec
  
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• The Canadiens' terrible season might actually be good for your heart

  30-03-2018 21:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Watching your favourite team play a close game can be thrilling. But, as any diehard fan knows, there can also be a lot of yelling at the TV.
  All that excitement can put extra stress on your heart, according to a study published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology.
  Researchers studied data from the Montreal Heart Institute to see if there was any association between admissions of those suffering ST-elevation myocardial infarction (a heart attack) and days the Montreal Canadiens played a g
  
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• The death knell for Bishop St. businesses came from a jackhammer

  30-03-2018 21:08 via montrealgazette.com
  The signs on the fence barring half of Bishop St. say the local businesses are open, but that’s not really true.
  There has been a steady exodus of merchants since the Société de transport de Montréal tore up most of the street between Ste-Catherine St. and de Maisonneuve Blvd. in the summer of 2016. The four-year construction project is to build a ventilation station for the métro network.
  The Brazilian restaurant Le Milsa closed and moved one block ea
  
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• In photos: Montreal faithful join Way of the Cross march on Good Friday

  30-03-2018 20:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Dozens of Montrealers participated in Way of the Cross marches on Friday. The procession is meant to be a re-enactment of Christ’s crucifixion and is performed on the Friday before Easter Sunday.
  The faithful re-enact the arrest and condemnation of Jesus Christ during a Way of the Cross procession in Montreal, March 30, 2018.
  
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• Vélo Québec, Projet Montréal councillor blast hikes in cycling fines

  30-03-2018 19:40 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal councillor responsible for cycling issues has joined Vélo Québec in blasting the province’s plan to significantly increase fines against scofflaws.
  Under Bill 165, which would modify Quebec’s Highway Safety Code, fines for cyclists caught without reflectors or running through red lights would start at $80, up from the current $15 minimum.
  Vélo Québec president Suzanne Lareau called the proposed fines “discriminatory and
  
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• You probably won't be hit by space debris this weekend

  30-03-2018 19:33 via montrealgazette.com
  You probably won’t be hit by space debris this weekend, but there’s a slim chance — quite slim, actually — that Montrealers could see the remains of a space station burn up in the atmosphere just to the south of us.
  China’s out-of-control Tiangong-1 space station went rogue in 2016 and it’s now falling back to Earth. It’s expected to make landfall sometime this long weekend, with April 1 the most likely date (no joke). The station weighs 8.5 metric tons
  
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• Woman dies in head-on collision with truck in Ste-Julienne

  30-03-2018 19:13 via montrealgazette.com
  A woman died in a head-on collision on Friday morning.
  The accident happened at approximately 11 a.m. on Route 125 when the driver veered into oncoming traffic and collided with a truck headed in the opposite direction in the Lanaudière town of Ste-Julienne, about 70 kilometres north of Montreal.
  The road was closed and detours were in place so police crash investigators could determine the cause of the collision.
  
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• Quebec's crumbling road network needs $15B in repairs

  30-03-2018 19:00 via cbc.ca
  While it might not come as a surprise to most Quebecers, a recent government report shows that more than half of the province's major roads need to be repaired. The province says it will need to spend $15 billion just to fix them.
  
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• What the Puck: Habs' communications shakeup could signal more changes

  30-03-2018 18:27 via montrealgazette.com
  What should we read into the timing of the departure of Donald Beauchamp?
  On Thursday afternoon, the Montreal Canadiens announced that Beauchamp, the team’s senior vice-president (communications), was leaving the organization effective May 15. He joined the Habs as director of communications in 1993 and was promoted to V.P. of communications in 2002. The club said he will remain involved as a member of the board of directors of the Canadiens Children’s Foundation.
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• Nova Scotia RCMP dog joins search for missing Montreal boy Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou

  30-03-2018 18:22 via globalnews.ca
  Police believe he most likely fell in the water and drowned.
  
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• Don Macpherson: Carlos Leitão's Sharknado budget

  30-03-2018 18:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Like a rapper flaunting his wealth in a video by rapidly peeling off a stack of bills one by one into the air, Quebec Finance Minister Carlos Leitão made it rain this week.
  In fact, Leitão didn’t just make it rain in his free-spending pre-election budget. He produced a Sharknado.
  Yes, sharks were falling from the heavens in Quebec City — figuratively speaking. The spending estimates accompanying the budget included more than $50 million for a new pavilion at the Quebec
  
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• Never say goodbye: Bon Jovi's love affair with Montreal

  30-03-2018 18:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Map out your future, but do it in pencil.— John Bongiovi
  In the beginning, there was the hair.
  Fourteen inches of chestnut poodledom, fawned over in a silly Rolling Stone magazine cover piece in 1987, and long since trimmed and turned debonairly mature. But John Bongiovi always had his sights set high. His mother was a part-time Playboy Bunny, and his father was a hairdresser. In all sincerity, what the hell else was he going to do but be a rock star?
  The guy fronting the band that be
  
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• We overdosed on chocolate Easter eggs so you wouldn't have to

  30-03-2018 18:05 via montrealgazette.com
  A telltale sign of spring — along with sugar shacks, taxes and gaping potholes — is the presence of chocolate eggs and bunnies at your local drugstore or supermarket. While some Easter treats, like Mini Eggs, have started popping up year-round, most of the cheap finds remain strictly seasonal. So, this being Easter weekend, which ones deserve your cash and taste buds?
  A team of discerning chocophiles assembled at the Montreal Gazette’s office to judge five Easter egg treats. On
  
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• What to do this Easter weekend in Montreal

  30-03-2018 18:00 via cbc.ca
  Easter egg hunts, animal showings and museum visits are on the docket this holiday weekend in Montreal.
  
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• Surgery doesn’t bode well for Weber’s future | HI/O Bonus

  30-03-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  With eight years remaining on his contract and an annual $7.857 million salary-cap hit. how concerned should Canadiens fans be about Shea Weber’s season-ending foot surgery?
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• Que., Ont. budgets reveal different approaches: experts

  30-03-2018 17:20 via globalnews.ca
  The Quebec and Ontario governments promised to dole out billions of new dollars, but the two documents clash when it comes to their bottom lines.
  
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• Police bring in specialized canine unit as search resumes for missing Montreal boy

  30-03-2018 16:38 via cbc.ca
  The search for a missing 10-year-old boy has resumed with the help of a dog Friday morning on the riverbank of the park where he was last seen.
  
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• Missing boy: Specialized dog to help in search for Ariel Kouakou

  30-03-2018 16:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Police have brought in a specialized dog on loan from the RCMP to aid in the search for Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, who disappeared on March 12 in Ahuntsic—Cartierville.
  The search for the 10-year-old resumed around 8 a.m. Friday on the shores of the Rivière des Prairies with the help of a dog trained in searching for bodies in the water. The dog is on loan from the RCMP in Halifax.
  Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, 10, in undated photo.
  Teams have also been helped by an icebreaker boat from H
  
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• ICYMI: Not only did mogul skier @MikaelKingsbury win Olympic Gold at #PyeongChang2018 - he just earned his 7th Wor… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-03-2018 16:01
  ICYMI: Not only did mogul skier @MikaelKingsbury win Olympic Gold at #PyeongChang2018 -he just earned his 7th Wor… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Watchdog investigating after Quebec man falls to his death during raid

  30-03-2018 15:38 via globalnews.ca
  The agency says he tried to jump to a neighbouring balcony on the same floor.
  
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• Quebec police clamp down on dangerous driving this holiday weekend

  30-03-2018 14:30 via cbc.ca
  Police forces across Quebec will be out on the roads starting this holiday weekend to crack down on motorists and passengers who are not wearing their seatbelts.
  
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• Three seriously injured in St-Hyacinthe crash

  30-03-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Three people were seriously injured in an accident police say was caused by a drunk driver Thursday night.
  The driver, a man in his 20s, veered into oncoming traffic on St-Pierre St. West in St-Hyacinthe about 10:30 p.m., police said. His car crashed head-on into a car carrying three people. The driver was not seriously injured in the crash.
  He was arrested for driving under the influence and causing injuries, and both cars were seized so investigators could analyze them. 
   
  
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• 30 Days of Céline Dion: It all ends with Céline's 50th birthday

  30-03-2018 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 revisited a memorable moment from her career. Today is the final day of our 30 Days of Céline.
  Well that’s all she wrote. It’s Day 30 of the 30 Days of Céline Dion. It’s all over except for the crying and heaven knows Céline knows how to cry. I remember seeing her during her last run o
  
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• 'It wasn't a hypothetical': Rotrand on deal he says was offered by ex-N.D.G. mayor

  30-03-2018 13:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Elections Quebec is recommending an investigation into an allegation that Russell Copeman, the former borough mayor of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, offered city councillor Marvin Rotrand the position of city ombudsman in return for not running in November’s election.
  On Jan. 22, Rotrand, the veteran councillor for Snowdon district, told city council that Copeman, a member of Montreal mayor Denis Coderre’s executive committee, ­had offered him the ombudsm
  
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• TUNE IN: Chef @Ricardocuisine whipped up some typical South Korean food - and it looks delicious! Watch live: btmontreal.ca

  30-03-2018 13:40
  TUNE IN: Chef @Ricardocuisine whipped up some typical South Korean food - and it looks delicious! Watch live: btmontreal.ca
  
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• TUNE IN: He's back home after months of travelling - and winning medals! @MikaelKingsbury stopped by to chat about… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-03-2018 13:20
  TUNE IN: He's back home after months of travelling - and winning medals! @MikaelKingsbury stopped by to chat about… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• TUNE IN: MOM TALK: With today’s lifestyle and pull of technology, it isn’t enough to tell kids to be more active.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-03-2018 13:00
  TUNE IN: MOM TALK: With today’s lifestyle and pull of technology, it isn’t enough to tell kids to be more active.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Editorial: At last, Quebec anglophones are on the radar

  30-03-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  English-speaking Quebecers have long since come to realize that ours is a minority community in a predominantly French-speaking province.
  But persuading our fellow Quebecers that this community has rights and vulnerabilities has been an ongoing challenge. So has getting proper attention from the federal government, which, not without reason, has tended to focus its official-language efforts on boosting French.
  Fact is, the anglo minority needs and deserves some support too. 
  And this week,
  
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• 23-year-old man seriously injured in Pointe-aux-Trembles stabbing

  30-03-2018 12:56 via montrealgazette.com
  A 23-year-old man was being treated for serious injuries Friday morning after he was stabbed on Thursday night.
  Police got a 911 call about 9 p.m. reporting a man who was injured and lying on the ground. The incident happened on Notre-Dame St. near 8th Ave. in the Pointe-aux-Trembles sector. Montreal police said the man was stabbed with a sharp object.
   
  
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• While you were sleeping: Some hockey, and egg hunts the Easter bunny never intended

  30-03-2018 12:49 via montrealgazette.com
  A few things you might have missed while you were sleeping.
  A little banged up: The Canadiens’ Carey Price and Brendan Gallagher have both told Hockey Canada they’re not interested in playing at the IIHF World Championship this year, but for different reasons. Said Price: “I want to spend time with my family. … I just want to take the time with my family. That’s the only reason.” And Gallagher: “The body’s a little banged up here.&r
  
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• Police wiretapped ex-mayor Gérald Tremblay, search warrants reveal

  30-03-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The police were listening in when ex-Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay cried on the phone to his former assistant in 2015 and asked to leave a document with her because he didn’t know what would happen to him.
  The intercepted call, part of a wiretap operation carried out in the Quebec anti-corruption squad’s ongoing investigation into allegations of corruption in Montreal during the time that Tremblay’s Union Montreal party was in power at city hall, is detailed in one of 3
  
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• Montreal this morning: Good Friday, mediocre weather

  30-03-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Friday’s weather in Montreal will be rainy with a daytime high of seven degrees, according to Environment Canada’s forecast. 
  Skies will clear during the afternoon, Environment Canada says, giving way to a nighttime low of five degrees
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by tagging them with #ThisMtl. We’ll feature one per day right here in the morning file. Today’s photo was posted on Instagram by @valgirardeau.
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• Arriving on Passover, a Holocaust survivor built a life in Montreal

  30-03-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Sarah Engelhard still remembers the day a Nazi officer told her to get in the car. But that trip ended almost three years later, on the other side of the Atlantic, in Montreal.
  
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• What's open and what's closed in Montreal over Easter weekend

  30-03-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Here is a list of how the holidays are affecting businesses, transportation and government services.
  
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• Oh Canada — Why Big Telcos still dominate internet services when there are cheaper options

  30-03-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  There are few things that raise the hackles of Canadian consumers more than the cost of telecom services. But when it comes to rising internet costs at least, experts say Canadians have only themselves to blame.
  
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• Man dies after falling from 7th-floor balcony during Laval police operation

  30-03-2018 05:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s police-oversight bureau is investigating after a man died during a planned drug raid in Laval Thursday night. 
  According to Quebec’s Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), which investigates police interventions resulting in deaths or injuries, the incident happened after Laval police officers made a “dynamic entry” into a seventh-floor apartment.
  A 36-year-old man in the apartment then rushed to the balcony to throw over an object, the BEI sa
  
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• Former Canadien defenceman Lyle Odelein facing serious health issues

  30-03-2018 05:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Lyle Odelein, 49, a rugged defenceman who was drafted in the seventh round (141st overall) by the Montreal Canadiens in 1986, is in a Pittsburgh hospital and in seriously ill health, The Athletic’s Aaron Portzline reports.
  The family of former #NHL defenseman Lyle Odelein – the Blue Jackets’ inaugural captain – asks for your prayers, thoughts and well wishes. Odelein, 49, is facing serious health issues at this hour in a Pittsburgh hospital. No further details, per the fa
  
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• Montreal firefighters honoured for decades of distinguished service

  30-03-2018 04:45 via cbc.ca
  About 50 Montreal firefighters received medals at a special ceremony on Thursday in recognition of their dedicated service.
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened in Montreal on March 29

  30-03-2018 04:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Busy day? Here’s what you might have overlooked.
  Mayor Valérie Plante announced that the city will disband the organization that runs Technoparc Montreal. She cited “serious concerns” with the management of the non-profit, which receives $2.6 million in annual funding. The city will take over direct management of the high-tech industrial park, Plante said at a news conference at city hall. A consultative committee headed by Michel Leblanc, president and CEO of
  
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• Ariel Kouakou search: police will return to Rivière des Prairies Friday

  30-03-2018 04:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police continued their search Thursday for 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, reported missing since March 12.
  The day’s operations once again focused on breaking the thick layer of ice covering the Rivière des Prairies. 
  No divers entered the water Thursday, said SPVM Inspector Ian Lafrenière, but it’s possible they could on Friday. 
  “The ice was almost entirely cleared and we’re hoping to dive in tomorrow,”
  
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• Montreal city buses being targeted in road safety pressure tactic

  30-03-2018 03:52 via globalnews.ca
  Dozens of Montreal buses are being pulled off the road for being over their weight limit.
  
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• Montrealers gather to mourn Mireille Knoll, murdered Holocaust survivor

  30-03-2018 03:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Oscar Véron Weismann didn’t know the woman he stood in the rain to commemorate Thursday night. But in a sense, he said, she could have been anyone’s grandmother. 
  On July 16, 1942, Weismann’s grandfather was arrested during the Nazi-directed Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in Paris. Mireille Knoll was arrested the same day. Both ultimately escaped. 
  His grandfather, Joseph, is still alive today, living in France. But Knoll, 85, was brutally stabbe
  
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