Montreal news

• Gaspésien ham products recalled over possible Listeria

  05-04-2018 23:49 via cbc.ca
  Quebec-based Les Cuisines Gaspésiennes de Matane issues a nationwide recall of some of its smoked ham products over possible Listeria contamination.
  
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• Pierrefonds-Roxboro monitors water levels

  05-04-2018 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Apr 5: As a preventive measure, Montreal’s Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough has been conducting a daily watch to monitor the Rivière des Prairies in an effort to provide residents with advance warning if there is a risk of flooding. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Wind storms wreck Montreal

  05-04-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Apr 5: Rain and crazy winds wreaked havoc across Montreal, leaving tens of thousands of people without power. As Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports, winds gusted up to 90 km an hour.
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens at Detroit

  05-04-2018 23:30
  It’s almost over in Montreal.
  The hockey season, that is.
  Winter, however, has lingered, bringing unseasonal icy temperatures to a city that yearns for spring.
  Of course, Montrealers yearn for winning hockey … and look what all that wishin’ and hopin’ has got us.
  Two road games to go, and then the season-long misery will be over.
  The funeral cortege makes its first stop at the Little Caesars Arena Thursday night.
  This is actually a game of some significance. The Red Wing
  
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• #GreatMTLer: Matthew Pearce houses Montreal’s homeless

  05-04-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Apr 5: Matthew Pearce has been at the helm of the Old Brewery Mission for 10 years. As he tells Global News Montreal Senior Anchor Jamie Orchard, his work to help Montreal’s homeless is only getting better.
  
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• Major wind storm sweeps across southern Quebec

  05-04-2018 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  An overnight storm blanketed southern Quebec with heavy rain and winds, causing damage to power lines and leaving thousands without power.
  
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• Section of road in Rigaud collapses after heavy rainfall

  05-04-2018 22:28 via globalnews.ca
  Part of de la Baie Road in Rigaud has been closed due to a road collapse.
  
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• Trudeau defends usefulness of G7 meeting to be held in Quebec

  05-04-2018 22:21 via globalnews.ca
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added he expects protesters to gather at the summit.
  
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• Restaurant review: Longueuil's Dur à Cuire aims to spruce up suburbs

  05-04-2018 22:00
  Restaurant Dur à Cuire
  ★★ out of ★★★★
  $$$-$$$$
  Address: 219 St-Jean St., Longueuil
  Phone: 450-332-9295
  Website: duracuire.ca
  Open: Tues.-Sun. 6 to 10 p.m.; Thurs.-Fri. 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
  Wheelchair access: Yes
  Reservations: Recommended 
  Cards: All major
  Vegetarian friendly: Not especially
  Parking: On the surrounding streets
  Price range: Appetizers $6-$19; main courses $26-$40; desserts $8-$11
  The local restaurant scene is so squarely centred
  
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• #GreatMTLer: Matthew Pearce taking care of Montreal’s homeless

  05-04-2018 21:11 via globalnews.ca
  Matthew Pearce has been at the helm of the Old Brewery Mission for 10 years.
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Antti Niemi gets call in battle of bottom-feeders

  05-04-2018 20:54
  DETROIT — There is no incentive for the Canadiens to beat the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio) but Montreal head coach Claude Julien nonetheless says victory is the goal.
  “Both teams can benefit from losing, but both teams want to win; it’s ingrained in us,” Julien said after the Canadiens’ morning skate at Little Caesars Arena. “I can honestly tell you I’ve been told to try to win every game we can. There’s no gu
  
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• Dance: Le Patin Libre cuts through ice-bound conventions in Threshold

  05-04-2018 20:32
  Don’t expect the kind of over-the-top chintz sent up by I, Tonya or Blades of Glory in Le Patin Libre’s latest show, Threshold, which plays at Aréna St-Louis from Wednesday, April 11 to Sunday, April 22 as part of the Danse Danse season.
  True, the five members of the award-winning, Montreal-based company largely come from the more glittery end of showbiz skating. Founding member Alexandre Hamel even spent a year with Disney on Ice, while Samory Ba used to skate on cruise ships
  
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• Is there a better combination than chocolate and peanut butter? @TimHortons is teaming up with Reese! #ad https://t.co/Jw5b5AI04z

  05-04-2018 19:49
  
  Is there a better combination than chocolate and peanut butter? @TimHortons is teaming up with Reese! #ad https://t.co/Jw5b5AI04z
  
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• Quebec schools anxious to use new government cash on repairs

  05-04-2018 19:43 via cbc.ca
  If you’ve got children in the public school system, there’s a good chance they spend their days in a building badly in need of repair. With new money from Quebec, school board officials are now hoping to make tangible improvements.
  
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• Half of Quebec's public school buildings get failing grade, province concedes

  05-04-2018 19:43 via cbc.ca
  If you’ve got children in the public school system, there’s a good chance they spend their days in a building badly in need of repair. With new money from Quebec, school board officials are now hoping to make tangible improvements.
  
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• Charges could be laid in spectacular truck-overpass crash east of Montreal

  05-04-2018 19:30 via globalnews.ca
  Charges could be laid against both the truck driver and the person who took the video.
  
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• Charges could be laid after truck crashes into overpass

  05-04-2018 19:24 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Apr 5: A truck with its bed raised and full of canola seeds crashed into an overpass Wednesday. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, the driver may face charges — and he may not be the only one.
  
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• Police search for victims of ‘charming’ suspect in Montreal home invasions

  05-04-2018 18:53 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal police are searching for potential victims of Hamid Chekakri, arrested in a slew of home invasions.
  
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• Montreal mayor to meet with investors hoping to bring back baseball

  05-04-2018 18:50 via globalnews.ca
  Mayor Valérie Plante will meet with the potential investors who hope to bring major league baseball back to Montreal.
  
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• Montreal mayor to meet with investors hoping for MLB return

  05-04-2018 18:42 via cbc.ca
  Montreal mayor Valerie Plante said this week she will sit down with businessmen Stephen Bronfman and Mitch Garber on Friday to gather information on the project and see what role the city may play in getting a team.
  
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• Bombardier, Tim Hortons' reputations take biggest hits in 2018 survey

  05-04-2018 18:38
  Bombardier Inc. took a big reputation hit in the eyes of Canadians this year, but no active Canadian company saw its esteem drop as much as Tim Hortons, a new survey by Léger Marketing found.
  The survey, published Thursday, is the 21st annual edition of NATIONAL Public Relations and Leger’s annual Corporate Reputation Study.
  The survey asked Canadians about the reputations of 241 companies and rated them based on their perceived impressions. It found that Tim Hortons dropped fr
  
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• RCMP wearing turbans 'a plus,' Justin Trudeau says

  05-04-2018 18:37
  QUEBEC — While saying it’s up to individual police forces to decide, Justin Trudeau says the issue of RCMP officers wearing turbans or other religious symbols has not posed a problem.
  In fact, it has been a plus, the prime minister said.
  “You know very well my perspective on this,” Trudeau told reporters arriving for a meeting of international business leaders preparing for a June summit of the G7 in La Malbaie.
  “The RCMP has allowed this for years, and it allo
  
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• Arthur Kaptainis: Quebec shores up symphony support

  05-04-2018 18:08
  Take note of this change in programming: In place of Ravel’s Boléro, Kent Nagano and the OSM will open the season in September with Thirty-Three Variations on We’re in the Money.
  When the orchestra released its 2018-19 brochure two weeks ago, Quebec Culture Minister Marie Montpetit had already announced that the OSM would receive a supplemental grant of $7.5 million over five years in addition to the $8.8 million it gets annually from the province — a sum that does
  
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• Taxes are due April 30! Michael Martella shares ways to save money with these income tax deductions btmontreal.ca/videos/save-mo…

  05-04-2018 18:00
  Taxes are due April 30! Michael Martella shares ways to save money with these income tax deductions btmontreal.ca/videos/save-mo…
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: Responsible dog ownership, not pit bull bans

  05-04-2018 18:00
  While politicians have been debating breed-specific legislation the past couple of years, dog owners have been anxiously awaiting the fate of their furbabies. The debate has centred around the safety of pit bulls and other specific breeds. The larger and more important issue of how the dogs are raised has been receiving insufficient attention.
  Breed-specific legislation was one of the central campaign issues in Montreal’s municipal election last November, which was closely watched by anima
  
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• Age-defying attitudes and behaviours make a difference! @FamCareExpert explains btmontreal.ca/videos/age-def…

  05-04-2018 17:56
  Age-defying attitudes and behaviours make a difference! @FamCareExpert explains btmontreal.ca/videos/age-def…
  
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• Man linked to cases of drugged and robbed seniors arrested in U.S.

  05-04-2018 17:52 via cbc.ca
  A man who police allege targeted seniors before befriending, drugging and robbing them in a string of frightening home invasions in Quebec and Ontario has been arrested in Atlanta, Ga.
  
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• Montreal police seek victims of alleged home invader

  05-04-2018 17:05
  Montreal police are seeking other possible victims of an alleged home invader who drugged elderly people before looting their homes and and fleeing.
  Hamid Chekakri, 47, was arrested last Saturday in Atlanta, Ga., and is facing an extradition hearing to answer charges in connection with thefts in Montreal, Sherbrooke and Ottawa.
  Investigators in Montreal have been seeking a suspect in connection with thefts here since December 2017.
  They say someone pretending to be a potential home buyer would v
  
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• Movie review: Detail is missing in La Bolduc's drama

  05-04-2018 17:03
  La Bolduc
  ✮✮✮Starring: Debbie Lynch-White, Émile Proulx-Cloutier, Mylène MackayDirected by: François BouvierDuration: 103 minutes
  Let’s start with the good news: Debbie Lynch-White is absolutely terrific in the title role of La Bolduc, the new biopic that recounts the life and times of Mary Travers, a.k.a. La Bolduc.
  Lynch-White is a force of nature on the big screen, which will not surprise anyone who saw the actress over the course
  
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• Opinion: The environment doesn't need your 'likes,' it needs your action

  05-04-2018 17:00
  The Arctic is melting, coral reefs are dying, storms are raging across the globe, animal habitats are being wiped out and an island of garbage four times the size of France is drifting in the Pacific Ocean. 
  And yet, amid this environmental chaos, we trudge along in our insulated routines, expecting to see another day. 
  But we won’t, actually  — not the same one, anyway.  
  Because the science and data are pretty much unanimous: At the rate we are plodding alo
  
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• Quebec's heftier fines will deter cyclists, advocate says

  05-04-2018 16:49 via cbc.ca
  Heftier fines for cyclists caught breaking road rules in Quebec will deter some people from biking altogether, the president of an Outaouais cycling group argues.
  
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• Gordie Howe, Maurice Richard to be stripped off Stanley Cup—here’s why

  05-04-2018 15:54 via globalnews.ca
  Perhaps the most iconic trophy in sports, the Stanley Cup is unique among major prizes because the NHL passes it from team to team instead of producing a new one for every champion.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Ham recalled, 'zombie' raccoons and a sad ending on the highway

  05-04-2018 15:26
  If you purchased some ham recently, you might want to check the packaging.
  Les Cuisines Gaspésiennes de Matane Ltée. is recalling Gaspésien brand ham because of a  possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.Consumers are being advised not to consume the following products:
   
   
   
   
   
   
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency advises anyone who thinks they have became sick from consuming a recalled product to call their doctor. Recalled p
  
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• Jewelry for autism awareness

  05-04-2018 15:26 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal makeup artist and mother of two Charlotte Marie Flannery talks to Global’s Laura Casella about her new line of handmade jewelry that will raise awareness about autism.
  
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• 2nd-degree murder trial in death of yoga teacher continues

  05-04-2018 15:20 via cbc.ca
  The second-degree murder trial of Nicholas Jordan Butcher continues in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax.
  
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• Refreshing your home ahead of spring

  05-04-2018 15:19 via globalnews.ca
  Decor expert Karl Lohnes joins Global’s Laura Casella to share some of his favourite tips to help refresh your home for spring.
  
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• Cleanup crews reopen section of Highway 40 near Repentigny

  05-04-2018 14:46 via globalnews.ca
  Highway 40 outside of Repentigny was closed after a tractor dump-loader crashed into a pedestrian bridge Wednesday afternoon. As Global’s Dan Spector reports part of the overpass was dismantled quickly for the section of the Trans-Canada highway to be reopened ahead of Thursday morning’s rush hour.
  
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• Cleanup crews quickly reopen closed section of Highway 40 outside of Repentigny

  05-04-2018 14:46 via globalnews.ca
  Highway 40 outside of Repentigny was temporarily closed after a tractor dump-loader crashed into a pedestrian bridge Wednesday afternoon. As Global’s Dan Spector reports the overpass had to be demolished quickly overnight for the section of the Trans-Canada highway to be reopened ahead of Thursday morning’s rush hour.
  
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• Highway 40 fully re-opened after spectacular accident

  05-04-2018 14:44
  Highway 40 was completely re-opened Thursday morning after being completely and then partially closed for close to 20 hours.
  The thoroughfare was shut down in both directions at about 11:30 a.m., after a semi-trailer, its box left in the raised position, hit a pedestrian bridge at full speed, it load of canola seed exploding ad scattering across the the highway.
  The westbound lanes were re-opened several hours after the incident.
  No one was hurt in the incident. Pieces of the trailer were embedd
  
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• Violent winds wreak havoc in Montreal

  05-04-2018 14:39 via globalnews.ca
  Strong wind gusts damaged trees and knocked out power around the Greater Montreal Area overnight Wednesday. The winds are slowly expected to recede throughout the day Thursday.
  
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• Discover curling in Montreal West

  05-04-2018 14:39 via globalnews.ca
  Glenmore Curling Club’s Stan Fong shows Global’s Kim Sullivan how to curl as they pepare for the Kurling for Kids fundraiser tournament.
  
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• Nearly 20,000 cases of Grolsch beer stolen near Montreal

  05-04-2018 14:33 via globalnews.ca
  The goods, worth nearly $500,000, were stolen March 12 at a warehouse in the Boucherville district.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Thursday, April 5

  05-04-2018 14:31 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Thursday, April 5.
  
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• Kurling for kids celebrates its 20th edition

  05-04-2018 14:16 via globalnews.ca
  Kurling for Kids vice-president Carl Mainguy talks to Global’s Kim Sullivan about the curling fundraiser benefitting children’s hospitals in Montreal for 20 years.
  
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• Kurling for kids celebrates 20th edition

  05-04-2018 14:16 via globalnews.ca
  Kurling for Kids vice-president Carl Mainguy talks to Global’s Kim Sullivan about the curling fundraiser benefitting children’s hospitals in Montreal for 20 years.
  
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• A 150-year term would be 'death sentence' for mosque gunman, defence says

  05-04-2018 14:04
  Putting Alexandre Bissonnette behind bars for 150 years would be the equivalent of a “death sentence by incarceration,” say the defence lawyers representing him, and they intend to argue in court for a life sentence with no possibility of parole before 25 years.
  The 28-year-old Bissonnette pleaded guilty last week to six counts of first degree murder and six of attempted murder in connection with the attack in January of 2017 on a Quebec City mosque.
  The Criminal Code was amended in
  
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• Bandits make off with $500K in beer, snacks from Longueuil warehouse

  05-04-2018 13:59 via cbc.ca
  If you've noticed anyone with unusually large amounts of beer, dried beef or pepperoni, police in Longueuil, Que., may want to hear from you, after bandits made off with some $500,000 in goods.
  
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• Bandits make off with $500K in beer and snacks from Longueuil warehouse

  05-04-2018 13:59 via cbc.ca
  Police in Longueuil are asking the public to help them find thieves who recently made off with nearly 20,000 cases of beer, dried beef and Jack Link's brand pepperoni. The goods, worth nearly $500,000, were stolen on March 12 at a warehouse in the Boucherville district.
  
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• Walmart rolls back plan to withdraw from program for people with intellectual disabilities

  05-04-2018 13:54 via cbc.ca
  A week after the retail giant drew sharp criticism for abruptly ending its ties with an on-the-job training program for adults with intellectual disabilities, Walmart now says it will welcome back anyone had been participating in the program.
  
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• Habs playing for 2018 NHL Draft Lottery position

  05-04-2018 13:37 via globalnews.ca
  Hockey analyst Brian Wilde joins Global’s Laura Casella to explain how the NHL Draft Lottery works and who the Habs may be targeting.
  
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