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• Hydro-Québec partner plans appeal in New Hampshire for Northern Pass project

  03-04-2018 23:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Even though the Northern Pass project to export hydro power from Quebec to the United States was rejected by regulators in the state of New Hampshire, the utility’s American partner says it’s still hoping to obtain authorization to build the transmission line by filing an appeal.
  Martin Murray, a spokesperson for Eversource Energy, Hydro-Québec’s American partner, confirmed to Canadian Press on Tuesday that the company plans to file a request with the New Hampshire Site
  
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• Concordia journalism class delves into one of Canada’s oldest languages

  03-04-2018 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  A Concordia journalism class is putting together an innovative multimedia project aimed at raising awareness of the dwindling Mohawk language.
  
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• Liveblog: Winnipeg at Canadiens

  03-04-2018 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Maybe the high-flying Jets will be tired.
  Winnipeg zoomed off to a 3-0 lead in Ottawa Monday night before the Senators made a game of it. The Jets prevailed 6-5 behind two goals by Blake Wheeler.
  Patrik Laine did not score his 44th of the season in Kanata. The spectacular Finn, who won’t turn 20 until the 19th of this month, had only one shot on goal and finished minus-1 against the lowly Senators.
  Laine had seven shots on Al Montoya and opened the scoring during a first-period power play
  
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• Irish Embassy Pub to rebuild following fire

  03-04-2018 23:19 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Apr 3: The Irish Embassy Pub is vowing to rebuild after a devastating fire tore through the building in March. As Global’s Gloria Henriquez reports, its owners are hoping to be back in business in six months.
  
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• Preserving one of Canada’s oldest languages

  03-04-2018 23:16 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Apr 3: Students at Concordia University are examining the efforts being made in two Mohawk communities to preserve and promote the Mohawk language – one of the oldest in Canada. But as Billy Shields reports, protecting a language presents unique challenges.
  
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• Mayor Plante hopes new plan will help boost city’s struggling small businesses

  03-04-2018 23:10 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Apr 3: A new committee made up of economic industry experts has been tasked with coming up with ideas to advance commerce and retail business in Montreal. Global’s Tim Sargeant has more on Mayor Valérie Plante’s Commercial Development Plan.
  
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• Duncan: Food waste collection and brown bins coming to NDIP

  03-04-2018 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A composting theme and new program dominates the latest edition of Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot ‘s municipal newsletter, Moulin à Paroles.
  In her introductory message, Mayor Danie Deschênes announces the creation of a Zero Waste Brigade and makes a call for citizen volunteers who care about the environment to join and play an active role in the rollout of new local waste reduction efforts.
  This coming fall, food waste collection will begin within the Municipalit
  
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• Can Montreal green space be saved from development?

  03-04-2018 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Apr 3: Domtar Garden, an urban oasis in downtown Montreal, has been sold to a developer who is planning to build a 35-storey mixed-use tower. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, a group of residents is mobilizing in the hopes of saving the garden.
  
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• City councillor wants Montreal police force to allow turbans and hijabs

  03-04-2018 22:50 via globalnews.ca
  A longtime city councillor, Marvin Rotrand, is again calling on the Montreal police force to allow its officers to wear turbans and hijabs.
  
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• Did your vehicle get towed for no reason? Talk to us

  03-04-2018 22:37 via cbc.ca
  CBC News Montreal is looking into questionable towings for snow removal operations. We need to hear from you.
  
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• West Island community calendar for the week of April 4

  03-04-2018 21:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Galleries and exhibitions
  The Kirkland Library, 17100 Hymus Blvd., presents an exhibition of paintings by Elke Attal, Lisa Marie Boissonneau, Nicole Dorion, Huguette Gabrial, Terri McKeown and Catherine Zanbaka, starting Tuesday and continuing to May 6. Vernissage on April 15 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Call 514-630-2726, local 3216.
  Galerie de la ville, 12001 de Salaberry Blvd. in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, presents the exhibition Multifaceted — recent works by teachers of classes for adults of the
  
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• Game Day Notebook: Final home game of the season for Canadiens vs. Jets

  03-04-2018 20:57 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens will play their final home game of the season Tuesday night when the Winnipeg Jets visit the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN2, TSN3, RDS, TSN Radio 690).
  The Canadiens have an 18-14-8 record at home, but are 10-25-4 on the road and will miss the playoffs for the second time in three years. The Canadiens have only three games left in the season and the last two are on the road with stops in Detroit Thursday (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690) and Toronto on Saturday (7 p.m., CBC, TVA
  
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• PQ says REM route is purely political and 'a waste'

  03-04-2018 20:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Calling it a route based purely on politics, the Parti-Québécois lashed out against the planned Réseau express métropolitain on Tuesday.
  PQ MNA Alain Therrien, the party’s spokesperson on the economy, said the $6.3-billion electric light-rail project will include a branch that will go along the Trans-Canada Highway toward Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Therrien said that branch was included by REM planners, the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec,
  
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• Crown says bankrupt railway in Lac-Mégantic tragedy won’t have to stand trial 

  03-04-2018 20:16 via globalnews.ca
  Prosecutors weren't convinced they could obtain a guilty verdict against the now-bankrupt Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway.
  
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• Police looking for missing Laval teenager

  03-04-2018 20:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police are looking 15-year-old Sherry Nunes, who left her home in the Vimont district Monday
  Sherry Nunes
   
  night and hasn’t been in contact with her parents. Her family is worried for her safety.
  Nunes uses the public transit network in Laval and Montreal.
  She is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. She has brown hair, brown eyes and was wearing a black coat with a grey hood and was carrying a neon pink backpack. Nunes speaks French.
  Anyone with information about her can
  
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• Fire at the Willow Inn in Hudson causes only minor damage

  03-04-2018 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A dulcet spring at the Willow Inn in Hudson was briefly interrupted when a fire broke out in a ventilation duct, March 29. 
  Willow Inn spokesperson Vanessa Ades said it was caused by a defective ventilation coil. The fire broke out in the basement at around 10:30 p.m. There was smoke and the firefighters had to break the wall in order to tear out a ventilation unit, but Ades said the damage was contained to that wall and that portion of the ventilation system.
  There were no guests in the re
  
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• Join the Women in Action Committee

  03-04-2018 19:57 via globalnews.ca
  Are you interested in defending women’s rights? Do you wish to participate in raising awareness on feminist issues? Do you wish to take action against the feminization of poverty, violence against women or other? Join our Women in Action Committee at the Centre des femmes solidaires et engagées-YOUR Women’s Centre. Together we can make the...
  
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• Boil-water advisory issued for parts of Vaudreuil-Dorion

  03-04-2018 19:47 via cbc.ca
  A broken water main has forced the city to shut off water service to the area served by the Hardwood well.
  
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• Varennes residents 'worth more' than Turcot Interchange, judge rules

  03-04-2018 19:36 via cbc.ca
  Frustrated people living along a rural road in Varennes on Montreal's South Shore are pleased with a court decision that will strictly limit the number of trucks going by as part of the work on the Turcot Interchange.
  
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• Michael Gloodbloom named chair of CBC/Radio-Canada

  03-04-2018 19:35 via globalnews.ca
  Michael Goldbloom will bring his extensive media experience to his new position as chair of the board of directors for CBC/Radio-Canada.
  
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• Activists work to save downtown Montreal green space from destruction

  03-04-2018 19:30 via globalnews.ca
  Can one of downtown's last remaining green spaces be saved from development?
  
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• Protesters denounce changes to Quebec's welfare program

  03-04-2018 19:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Anti-poverty groups staged a demonstration on Tuesday against changes to Quebec’s welfare program that will require new recipients to participate in employment training.
  The program, called Objectif emploi, aims to help people find work by undergoing job training, learning how to find work and developing social skills. The program took affect on April 1. 
  But anti-poverty groups say the new law will cut up to $224 from their $648 monthly income if they fail to participate in the
  
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• Opinion: Quebec labour standards bill threatens to undermine businesses

  03-04-2018 19:26 via montrealgazette.com
  A law is judged by its effects, not the legislator’s intentions, regardless of how laudable they may seem. Bill 176, “An Act to amend the Act respecting labour standards and other legislative provisions mainly in order to facilitate family-work balance,” introduced last month in the National Assembly, is a case in point.
  This bill threatens to undermine the competitiveness and viability of many businesses in Quebec. The government seems to be failing to take into account compar
  
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• Mosque attack survivor receives $400,000 cheque https://t.co/JJGfS0j60o

  03-04-2018 19:13
  
  Mosque attack survivor receives $400,000 cheque https://t.co/JJGfS0j60o
  
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• MMA will not stand trial for criminal negligence in Lac-Mégantic rail disaster

  03-04-2018 19:07 via cbc.ca
  Following the acquittals of three former MMA employees on charges of criminal negligence causing 47 deaths, the Quebec Crown said it no longer believes there is enough evidence to reach a guilty verdict against the defunct railway company.
  
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• Lac-Mégantic disaster: No criminal charges will be filed against MMA

  03-04-2018 18:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s office of criminal prosecutions (DPCP) announced Tuesday that no criminal charges will be filed against the Montreal Maine & Atlantic (MMA) railway in connection with Lac-Mégantic rail disaster that killed 47 persons in July 2013.
  A spokesperson for the DPCP said the office was not reasonably convinced it could obtain a conviction against the company, particularly in the wake of not-guilty verdicts delivered earlier this year by a jury in the trial of three MMA employee
  
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• Desjardins Group boss to head committee on Montreal's retail strategy

  03-04-2018 18:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Guy Cormier, the president and CEO of Desjardins Group, will head a committee to make recommendations on the city’s retail strategy, Mayor Valérie Plante announced Tuesday.
  The 17-member committee, including merchants and business experts, will come up with a plan on how retailers can weather major roadwork projects like the rebuilding of Ste-Catherine St. W., Plante said.
  Rather than adding to merchants’ problems, “we want to be part of the solution,” Plante said
  
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• Trial begins for man accused in yoga teacher's murder

  03-04-2018 18:26 via cbc.ca
  Nicholas Jordan Butcher faces a charge of second-degree murder in the 2016 death of Kristin Johnston.
  
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• Raising awareness about childhood grief through Camp Erin btmontreal.ca/videos/raising…

  03-04-2018 18:26
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• WATCH: Canada’s sensational @dufourlapointe skiing sisters join us in studio btmontreal.ca/videos/the-duf…

  03-04-2018 18:25
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• Canadiens honour Paul Byron and Brendan Gallagher

  03-04-2018 17:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Marc Bergevin has made some bad moves as general manager of the Canadiens — which is why the team will miss the playoffs for the second time in three years — but he made a very good move when he claimed Paul Byron off waivers from the Calgary Flames on Oct. 6, 2015.
  Byron has become one of the Canadiens’ most consistent and hard-working forwards, heading into Tuesday night’s game against the Winnipeg Jets at the Bell Centre with 19-15-34 totals after setting career highs
  
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• Former La Presse columnist to challenge PQ's Lisée in Rosemont

  03-04-2018 17:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Vincent Marissal, a former political columnist for La Presse, has confirmed his intention to run in the provincial election as a candidate for Québec Solidaire in the Montreal riding of Rosemont.
  The move will pit his candidacy against that of Parti Québécois incumbent and party leader, Jean-François Lisée.
  Marissal told reporters that, in the meantime, he will serve as a public affairs adviser to Québec Solidaire. The  left-of-centre sovereign
  
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• David Byrne brings American Utopia Tour to Montreal Sept. 12

  03-04-2018 17:52 via montrealgazette.com
  David Byrne is bringing his eclectic pop stylings to Montreal Sept. 12 at the Bell Centre.
  The tour is in support of American Utopia, the former Talking Heads frontman’s latest solo studio album released last month.
  Formerly Montreal-based tUnE-yArDs will open the show.
  Tickets go on sale April 6 at 10 a.m.
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: Pecans serve as Parmesan in vegan kale salad

  03-04-2018 17:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Kale, the fashionable greenery, can make interesting, crunchy salads. This one from Angela Liddon’s new cookbook, Oh She Glows Every Day (Penguin, $32), has a lemon-garlic dressing that the author claims softens the kale, plus a pecan topping. Serve it with a soup or a combination of roasted vegetables and chickpeas, she suggests. She calls her topping Toasted Pecan Parmesan, although no Parmesan cheese is included. Followers of her blog OhSheGlows.com will know that Liddon lives in Oakvil
  
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• Quebec City police to probe death of four-month-old infant

  03-04-2018 17:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec City police have a launched a probe into the circumstances surrounding the death of a four-month-old infant.
  Police were alerted after the mother called 9-1-1 a little before 7:30 a.m. Tuesday to say the child was in cardiac arrest.
  An ambulance was dispatched to the residence in the Beauport district and first responders tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate the child on site and during transport to hospital.
  While there is nothing to immediately indicate the child’s death was suspic
  
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• We're looking for Montreal's worst pothole. Do you know where it is?

  03-04-2018 17:20 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s pothole season in Montreal.
  This is where you’re probably thinking that every season is pothole season in Montreal. It’s a relatable sentiment. But spring weather wreaks particular havoc on roads. 
  With that in mind, we’re looking for your help to locate Montreal’s most egregious potholes. If you have a candidate in mind, tap this link to let us know where the pothole is and how bad it is. 
  We’ll be updating the map below as new submissions
  
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• Michael Goldbloom named chair of CBC/Radio-Canada

  03-04-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Michael Goldbloom, a former publisher of the Montreal Gazette, has been appointed chair of the board of directors of CBC/Radio-Canada, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly announced on Tuesday.
  Goldbloom’s appointment to the five-year mandate was announced as Joly unveiled a new set of executives for the publicly funded broadcaster that included the nomination of Catherine Tait, a veteran media entrepreneur and executive, as president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada, making her the
  
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• Vaudreuil-Dorion issues boil water advisory following water main break

  03-04-2018 16:41 via globalnews.ca
  A boil water advisory has been issued for the areas of Vaudreuil-Dorion serviced by the Hardwood well.
  
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• Nicholas Butcher pleads not guilty in death of Halifax yoga teacher Kristin Johnston

  03-04-2018 16:26 via globalnews.ca
  Johnston, 32, was found dead at her home on Oceanview Drive off Purcell's Cove Road in March 2016. 
  
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• Turkey on the loose in Ottawa leads Global News cameraman on wild chase

  03-04-2018 15:58 via globalnews.ca
  A turkey was spotted running wild around downtown Ottawa Tuesday morning.
  
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• Environment Canada issues rainfall warning for Montreal area

  03-04-2018 15:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada issued a rainfall warning on Tuesday morning for the Montreal Island and Laval areas.
  A total of 25 to 35 millimetres of rain is expected. Precipitation is to begin Tuesday evening and continue through to Wednesday night.
  The agency is warning that flooding in low-lying areas is possible. 
  The warning follows a special weather statement issued Monday that noted a “spring storm” was expected to roll into Quebec on Tuesday.
  The forecast high for Tuesday is
  
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• Montreal chefs appear on ‘Top Chef Canada’

  03-04-2018 15:20 via globalnews.ca
  Two Montreal chefs and contestants on “Top Chef Canada” have some fun with Global’s Laura Casella as they set the tone for the upcoming Season 6 première.
  
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• As asylum seekers show up on their doorstep, two Quebec women struggle with how to help

  03-04-2018 15:00 via cbc.ca
  ​Frances Ravensbergen and Sue Heller live near Canada's busiest illegal border crossing on Roxham Road, and they're desperate to show asylum seekers some sign of comfort.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Tuesday, April 3

  03-04-2018 14:48 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Tuesday, April 3.
  
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• Streamlining your beauty routine

  03-04-2018 14:43 via globalnews.ca
  Find out how to streamline your beauty routine to get the look you want with beauty expert Bahar Niramwalla and Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• NEXT: It finally feels like Spring! Hop right into the new season in style. BT fashion contributor @zeeta offers af… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-04-2018 14:30
  NEXT: It finally feels like Spring! Hop right into the new season in style. BT fashion contributor @zeeta offers af… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Domtar Garden in downtown Montreal sold to developer

  03-04-2018 14:30 via globalnews.ca
  Domtar Garden, an urban oasis in downtown Montreal, has been sold to a developer who is planning to build a 35-storey mixed-use tower. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, a group of residents is mobilizing in the hopes of saving the garden.
  
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• Total body dynamic warm-up

  03-04-2018 14:24 via globalnews.ca
  Fitness expert Adrian Davis shows Global’s Kim Sullivan one of his best-kept secrets, the total body dynamic warm-up.
  
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• DonnaBella teams up with Pink in the City for charity fashion

  03-04-2018 14:14 via globalnews.ca
  Find out more about the Pink in the City charity fashion show with MUHC Breast Clinic director Dr. Sarkis Meterissian, Pink in the City founder Denise Voutzoumis and Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Three Olympians look to the future

  03-04-2018 14:04 via globalnews.ca
  Olympians Mikael Kingsbury, Marie-Philip Poulin and Marc-Antoine Gagnon join Global’s Laura Casella in a wide-ranging conversation on their Olympic experience and what the future holds.
  
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