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• Canadiens' Jonathan Drouin has grown into role as centreman

  06-04-2018 23:48 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — There are still nights — one of them was Thursday in Detroit — when Jonathan Drouin loses twice as many faceoffs as he wins.
  And there are still nights when Drouin’s defensive shortcomings contribute to a plus/minus figure that is among the worst in the NHL.  
  But those nights aren’t as frequent as they were in the first half of the season and the Canadiens will go into training camp next fall with Drouin pencilled in as a centre.
  Drouin saw some
  
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• Grass damaged at Saint-Zotique golf course

  06-04-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Apr 6: What could have been a perfect fairway at the Saint-Zotique golf course this summer is now in ruins. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, the club owner is offering $2,000 worth of golf to anyone who can pinpoint the culprit.
  
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• Global News at 5:30: Apr 6

  06-04-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, April 6, 2018 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
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• Quebec unveils ambitious food plan

  06-04-2018 23:14 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Apr 6: The Quebec government unveiled its first-ever bio-food policy, complete with an ambitious food policy set to unfold over the next seven years. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Sound barriers to block noise for Griffintown daycare

  06-04-2018 23:07 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Apr 6: A Griffintown daycare forced to close for several days because of loud construction noise is now claiming a small victory. As Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports, the contractor has installed sound barriers.
  
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• Normandeau fraud trial delayed

  06-04-2018 23:03 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Apr 6: The fraud-related trial for former Quebec deputy premier Nathalie Normandeau and her five co-accused has been delayed. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Montreal Metro's Blue line: What we know and what we don't about long-awaited extension

  06-04-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
  On Monday, Quebec is expected to formally announce a plan to extend the Montreal Metro's Blue line. Questions remain, including which level of government will pay for it and when construction will begin.
  
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• André Arthur's anti-cyclist radio rant crossed line, watchdogs say

  06-04-2018 22:53 via montrealgazette.com
  More than a year after the event, Quebec City radio personality André Arthur has been cited by the province’s press council and the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council after he suggested that cyclists who ride in the winter should be “hit.”
  In separate decisions made public this week, Quebec’s press council as well as the CBSC both ruled that Arthur had crossed the line when, during a broadcast on BLVD 102.1, aired on March 27, 2017, he said: “the
  
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• Is the métro's Blue Line plan finally ready to roll?

  06-04-2018 22:43 via montrealgazette.com
  It was vaguely confirmed in last month’s provincial budget, but the Quebec government intends to announce on Monday it will officially go ahead with a 5.8-kilometre extension of the métro’s Blue Line, Radio-Canada has reported.
  Transport Minister André Fortin confirmed at the time that the project, estimated at $3.9 billion, will go ahead starting this year. However, he said the province was still negotiating with the federal government on how the costs of the project w
  
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• Former SNC-Lavalin VP accused of bribing Libyan officials will go to trial

  06-04-2018 22:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Sami Abdellah Bebawi, the former SNC Lavalin vice-president charged with bribing Libyan government officials in exchange for construction contracts, has failed in his request to have a stay of proceedings placed on the charges he faces. 
  On Friday, Superior Court Justice Guy Cournoyer rejected Bebawi’s motion in which the 71-year-old former engineering firm executive ‎argued he has waited too long for a trial and has suffered hardships while waiting. 
  ‎Bebawi was first ch
  
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• St-Jacques overpass taking shape over Décarie Expressway

  06-04-2018 22:33 via montrealgazette.com
  It was demolished nearly two years ago, and now crews have finally started rebuilding the St-Jacques overpass over the Décarie Expressway.
  Used by many southern Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and St-Henri residents as an alternative to the Ville-Marie Expressway, the St-Jacques overpass was closed in 2015 so it could be demolished and rebuilt. The project was originally supposed to be completed before work on the Turcot Interchange began in the summer of 2015, but crews ran into delays during
  
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• Kraft Heinz will exit Vaudreuil-Dorion, affecting 95 jobs

  06-04-2018 22:32 via montrealgazette.com
  About 95 employees of the Kraft Heinz distribution centre in Vaudreuil-Dorion will be out of work this year as the food producer plans to close its doors.
  A spokesman for the company, Av Maharaj, confirmed Friday the company is moving to a new 775,000-square-foot distribution centre in Milton, Ont., near Toronto. He called the move “an effort to better serve our customers.”
  Staff at the Vaudreuil-Dorion industrial park distribution centre were told Thursday of the plans.&nb
  
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• Alexandre Bissonnette watched videos of mass murders before Quebec City mosque attack, court hears

  06-04-2018 22:30 via cbc.ca
  The man convicted of killing six men inside a Quebec City mosque on Jan. 29, 2017, spent hours watching videos and researching mass murders in the weeks before he gunned down the worshippers.
  
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• Alexandre Bissonnette watched videos of mass murders before Quebec City mosque attack

  06-04-2018 22:30 via cbc.ca
  The man convicted of killing six people inside a Quebec City mosque on Jan. 29, 2017 spent hours watching videos and researching mass murders in the weeks before he gunned down the worshippers.
  
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• Montreal daycare claims small victory over big contractor

  06-04-2018 22:15 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Montreal forced a large construction company to install temporary sound barriers on the windows of Imagination Daycare in Griffintown, after Global News highlighted the noise problem last week.
  
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• Quebec to spend $500 million to get more people eating locally grown food

  06-04-2018 21:58 via cbc.ca
  Already a national leader in the production of local and organic food, the Quebec government is promising to spend $500 million over the next five years to boost the fledgling industry.
  
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• Table for one, plus laptop? Some cafés look for ways to curb patrons' screen time

  06-04-2018 21:19 via cbc.ca
  Some Montreal cafés are introducing laptop-free zones or ditching Wi-Fi altogether, saying they don't want their cozy neighbourhood spot eerily quiet and awash in glowing screens.
  
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• $5 billion to be invested in Quebec’s food industry

  06-04-2018 20:59 via globalnews.ca
  As a result of this investment, the government said it expects billions of dollars to flow into the industry from the private sector.
  
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• Quebecers have to start paying a Netflix tax — here’s why the rest of Canada doesn’t

  06-04-2018 19:45 via globalnews.ca
  Starting next year, Quebecers will have to pay a tax on their monthly Netflix bill — but the rest of the Canadian population won't have to.
  
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• NAFTA talks entering 'new, more intensive phase' says Freeland

  06-04-2018 19:43 via cbc.ca
  Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said today North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations recently entered "a new, more intensive phase of engagement" — but it's not clear how close Canada, Mexico and the U.S. are right now to signing a deal.
  
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• NAFTA partners close to agreement-in-principle with a heavy focus on auto sector

  06-04-2018 19:43 via cbc.ca
  Canada the U.S. and Mexico are close to an agreement in principle on the future of North America Free Trade Agreement, CBC News has learned.
  
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• Fraud related trial for ex-Quebec deputy premier Normandeau delayed

  06-04-2018 19:23 via globalnews.ca
  A fraud-related trial for former Quebec deputy premier Nathalie Normandeau.
  
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• Five popular oral health myths debunked

  06-04-2018 19:14 via globalnews.ca
  Dr. Jaime Greenspoon joined Global's Laura Casella to talk about important dental hygiene tips for your kids.
  
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• Canadiens prospect Jake Evans leads Notre Dame to another dramatic win

  06-04-2018 19:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin wants to sign Jake Evans, but that move is on hold because Evans has some unfinished business at Notre Dame.
  Evans scored with 5.2 seconds remaining Thursday night to give the No. 2-ranked Fighting Irish a 4-3 win over No. 10 Michigan in the semifinals of the NCAA hockey championship in St. Paul, Minn. Notre Dame will meet No. 11 Minnesota-Duluth — a 2-1 winner over No. 5 Ohio State — in the Frozen Four final on Saturday (7:30 p.m., TSN2).
  
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• Bombardier Transportation wins $580M contract in Sweden

  06-04-2018 19:04 via montrealgazette.com
  After Singapore and Arizona last month, Bombardier Transportation won another major order valued at approximately $580 million for 40 high-speed regional trains destined for Sweden.
  This contract announced on Friday is accompanied by an option for up to 60 additional electric multiple units. Deliveries must begin as of 2021.
  The three-car trains, which can carry up to 270 people and reach a speed of more than 200 km/h, will be delivered to the company Vasttrafik, which will operate this rol
  
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• Walter Buchignani: F1 looks to shift gears in Bahrain

  06-04-2018 18:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Formula One returns to the track this weekend carrying a trunkful of déjà vu.
  Sure, the Grand Prix of Bahrain is only Race No. 2 of the season. But if Race No. 1 two weekends ago is any indication, the 2018 campaign is already looking all too familiar.
  Like last year, Ferrari struck first in Melbourne, snatching an unlikely win courtesy of Sebastian Vettel and raising hopes that perhaps Mercedes might finally be forced to loosen its stranglehold on the planet’s premier racing
  
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• Heritage centre documents tea-drinking tradition in Quebec's Eastern Townships

  06-04-2018 18:55 via cbc.ca
  The Uplands Cultural and Heritage Centre in Sherbrooke, Que., is gathering stories of tea-drinking rituals from anglophones in the Eastern Townships, to include their oral histories in future exhibits.
  
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• Montreal’s improv scene finds success on the spot

  06-04-2018 18:51 via montrealgazette.com
  A young man nervously explains to his girlfriend that there’s somebody else in his life. His twin sister suddenly pops out from under his sweater: she’s been living there because it reminds her of the embryonic sac they once happily shared. The girlfriend (played by a middle-aged man) wails: “I can’t deal with this kind of thing again!”
  It’s a scene that would have done absurdist playwright Ionesco proud. And yet, like most improvisation performance, as soon a
  
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• Monster trucks bring (more) destruction to Olympic Stadium

  06-04-2018 18:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Michael Vaters was at a crossroads. 
  Confronted with the reality of bumper height laws, he could either lower his lifted pickup truck to a conservative height or take it off the road. 
  “I wasn’t about to lower it,” he says.
  So he took the truck off the street, lifted it even closer to the heavens and installed 66-inch tires. 
  Vaters will appear at the Olympic Stadium this Saturday as one of the drivers in the 24th Monster Spectacular, a fossil-fuelled celebration
  
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• Rights tribunal awards $5,000 to job applicant asked about origin of his name

  06-04-2018 18:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Lingerie and swimsuit retailer La Vie en Rose has been ordered by Quebec’s Human Rights Tribunal to pay a would-be employee $5,000 after he was asked, “What is the origin of your name?” at the end of a job interview.
  Salim Kerdougli, who is of Algerian origin, was applying for a job as a logistics co-ordinator for the company’s international division.
  He landed a telephone interview, then a face-to-face interview along with six other candidates and, finally, a second inte
  
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• Fish and birds die in Magog pet shop because of low temperatures

  06-04-2018 18:23 via montrealgazette.com
  MAGOG — About 30 animals, including fish and birds, have died in a pet shop about 120 kilometres east of Montreal because of low temperatures.
  The co-owner of Animalerie Orford, Fanny Richard, says the cold was attributable to work that was being done at a shopping centre where her store is located.
  A burst water pipe also caused the heating system to fail in certain places and the temperature fell by as much as 10 C overnight Wednesday night.
  The other co-owner, Andre Beaulieu, fears othe
  
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• What the Puck: Canadiens' future rides on Carey Price rebound

  06-04-2018 18:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens goalie Carey Price is a man of mystery.
  Let’s face it, none of us knows what’s going on between this guy’s ears. He has always been a man of few words and even fewer visible emotions.
  He comes out after a dramatic playoff win and he sounds like he’s about to fall asleep. He comes out after a meaningless exhibition game and he sounds like he’s about to fall asleep. He is calm with gusts up to catatonic when speaking with journalists.
  So what’s he thin
  
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• Drugged by chocolate and robbed, Montreal senior speaks out after being victim of alleged serial thief

  06-04-2018 18:05 via cbc.ca
  Berthe Cadorette was closing the sale of her home to a seemingly charming man, when suddenly he shoved chocolate laced with drugs in her mouth — leaving her unconscious. The 72-year-old woke up the next day, her house robbed and the man gone.
  
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• Time to shuffle assistant coaches | HI/O Bonus

  06-04-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Do you think Claude Julien will change his assistant coaches during the offseason?
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: April 6, 2018

  06-04-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Every week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings.
  Under $16 
  Corbières 2016, La Garnotte, Jean-Noël Bousquet, France red, $10.65, SAQ # 11374411. This SAQ staple shows exceptional drinkability and purity for a low-cost wine. Loads of red fruit, a subtle meaty note and fine tannins that grip just enough. The finish has a touch of fresh thyme. Grape varieties: carignan, syrah, grenache. Residual sugar: 2.9 g/L. Serve
  
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• ‘Bachelor Winter Games’ couple Clare Crawley and Benoit Beausejour-Savard announce split

  06-04-2018 17:58 via globalnews.ca
  Clare Crawley and Benoit Beausejour-Savard both took to their own Instagram accounts to post the same lengthy message.
  
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• Fish, birds die in Quebec pet shop because of low temperatures

  06-04-2018 17:39 via globalnews.ca
  A burst water pipe also caused the heating system to fail in certain places.
  
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• 5 Montreal stories guaranteed to make you smile this week: April 6

  06-04-2018 17:27 via globalnews.ca
  How much do you know about this week's great Montrealer?
  
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• Montreal women’s shelter desperate for underwear donations

  06-04-2018 17:13 via globalnews.ca
  A Montreal shelter is desperately searching for new underwear for the women in its care.
  
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• A taste of Venezuela right here in Montreal! We discover Cachitos & @CachitosMTL, a delicious stuffed bread!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-04-2018 17:06
  A taste of Venezuela right here in Montreal! We discover Cachitos & @CachitosMTL, a delicious stuffed bread!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• You can't say that on the radio: Anti-cyclist rant crossed line — watchdog

  06-04-2018 17:04 via montrealgazette.com
  More than a year after the event, Quebec City radio personality André Arthur has been cited by the province’s press council and the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) after he suggested that cyclists who ride in the winter should be “hit.”
  In separate decisions made public this week, Quebec’s press council as well as the CBSC both ruled that Arthur had crossed the line when, during a broadcast on BLVD 102.1, aired on March 27, 2017, he said: &ldq
  
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• Rent spike forces beloved Ste-Catherine St. bookstore to close

  06-04-2018 17:00 via cbc.ca
  The owners of Astro Books, on Ste-Catherine between St-Marc and St-Mathieu, started setting up shop 31 years ago. They have to be out by July.
  
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• Astronomers use old-time math to measure distance, age of one of the oldest objects in the universe

  06-04-2018 17:00 via cbc.ca
  They are some of the most spectacular sights in the sky: globular clusters, tight collections of hundreds of thousands or even millions of stars. Now, using trigonometry, astronomers have accurately measured the distance to one of the oldest in our universe.
  
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• Highland dancing through the weekend

  06-04-2018 16:57 via globalnews.ca
  Entertainment columnist Jay Walker talks to Global’s Laura Casella about weekend events around Montreal, including a free highland dance show in Dorval and a dollhouse show.
  
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• The #JeuxdeMontréal is inspiring young athletes - We speak to ambassador and #IMFC legend @pbernier10… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-04-2018 16:55
  The #JeuxdeMontréal is inspiring young athletes - We speak to ambassador and #IMFC legend @pbernier10… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Death of D'Arcy McGee to be commemorated Saturday in Montreal

  06-04-2018 16:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Conservative MP Thomas D’Arcy McGee arrived in Montreal in 1857 and studied law at McGill.
  A ceremony commemorating the 150th anniversary of the assassination of Canadian politician and journalist Thomas D’Arcy McGee will be held Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Basilica on René-Lévesque W.
  D’Arcy McGee was shot to death in Ottawa on April 7, 1868. He was 42 years old, a member of Parliament and had just finished participating in a lengthy debate in t
  
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• Check out our interview with Moonfruits, performing tonight at Place des Arts btmontreal.ca/videos/moonfru… https://t.co/Yk1PAxS3tv

  06-04-2018 16:47
  
  Check out our interview with Moonfruits, performing tonight at Place des Arts btmontreal.ca/videos/moonfru… https://t.co/Yk1PAxS3tv
  
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• Documenting a Montreal winemaker in France

  06-04-2018 16:46 via globalnews.ca
  Film director David Eng joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about his latest film ‘Grand Cru,’ about a Montrealer who became an internationally renowned winemaker in Burgundy, France.
  
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• How do you fix the Montreal Canadiens? The BT Panel debates - @EmnaAchour and @Shaun925thebeat join @derickfage and… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-04-2018 16:42
  How do you fix the Montreal Canadiens? The BT Panel debates - @EmnaAchour and @Shaun925thebeat join @derickfage and… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Quebec premier to announce provincial food strategy at Île Perrot farm

  06-04-2018 16:38 via globalnews.ca
  Île Perrot’s Quinn Farms is set to host Premier Philippe Couillard prior to his Quebec food strategy announcement. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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