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• Senior hockey players prove age is just a number

  09-04-2018 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Apr 9: Twenty-two hockey teams are facing off as the puck drops in a friendly annual tournament – where every player is over the age of 70. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Group wants appellate court to stop light-rail project

  09-04-2018 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  A citizen-led coalition is turning to the court of appeal to overturn a decision made last year to dismiss its lawsuit.
  
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• Improving access to health care for anglophones

  09-04-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Apr 9: Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette has announced plans to adopt new regulation in the hopes of improving access to health care services for English-speaking Quebecers. Global’s Anne Leclair reports.
  
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• From the Centaur to Cape Town: director finds meaning in South Africa

  09-04-2018 23:28 via montrealgazette.com
  After 28 years as artistic director of Montreal’s Centaur Theatre, Maurice Podbrey suddenly gave it all up to discover the meaning of life.
  He found it 13,000 kilometres away in the impoverished township of Khayelitsha near Cape Town, helping kids find matching shoes and computer time to do their homework and a chance at a decent life through the sports and education club he helps manage.
  A holdover of South Africa’s apartheid system that segregated citizens based on race, Khayelitsh
  
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• Quebec debates rules around recreational marijuana

  09-04-2018 23:25 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Apr 9: Recreational cannabis could start to be sold legally across Canada this summer – but where will Quebecers be allowed to smoke? Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Quebec’s opposition parties don’t want cannabis allowed in public

  09-04-2018 23:20 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's opposition parties are demanding a total ban on recreational cannabis in public areas - that includes public parks and sidewalks.
  
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• Goyens recalls playing days in small-town Saskatchewan

  09-04-2018 23:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Like every hockey player or coach who’s ever boarded a team bus, Jon Goyens has trouble finding the words to describe his reaction to the fatal bus crash last Friday that claimed 15 lives on a stretch of highway in Saskatchewan.
  “It’s horrific,” said Goyens, head coach of the Lac St-Louis Lions, the local midget AAA team that often travels by bus across Quebec in wintry conditions.
  “You can’t really fully describe how you feel because, from a distance, you fee
  
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• Marc Bergevin asked why Habs fans should believe in him

  09-04-2018 22:51 via globalnews.ca
  HABS GM Marc Bergevin is asked to “sell himself” to fans and prove to them why he has the answers to turn the Montreal Canadiens around after a poor season.
  
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• Geoff Molson says HABS ‘weren’t good enough’

  09-04-2018 22:47 via globalnews.ca
  Geoff Molson and Marc Bergevin tried Monday to explain why the Montreal Canadiens failed to make the playoffs. They both said, among other things, attitude and skill contributed to the losses.
  
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• Environmentalists trying to stop REM

  09-04-2018 22:27 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Apr 9: A group of environmentalists is once again trying to stop Quebec’s light rail project, the REM. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, they want the Quebec Court of Appeal to overturn a decision to dismiss a lawsuit they filed last year.
  
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• ‘I never felt like we were a team that competed every night’: HABS GM Marc Bergevin

  09-04-2018 22:23 via globalnews.ca
  General Manager of the Montreal Canadiens, Marc Bergevin said Monday that the HABS were never in sync and he felt that the players’ attitude contributed to the fact that the team did not make the playoffs.
  
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• ‘The status quo is not acceptable’: HABS owner Geoff Molson promises improvement both on and off the ice next season

  09-04-2018 22:02 via globalnews.ca
  Owner of the Montreal Canadiens expressed his disappointment in the team this season. He said the team “will get better” and promised to make changes for a better season next year.
  
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• Boone: HI/O live blog commentariat adds perspective to season that died early

  09-04-2018 21:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Are heretics still burned at the stake? Or, in the case of a burnt-out Montreal Canadiens blogger, at Moishes steak house?
  Here’s the heresy: I want the Leafs to win the Stanley Cup. That’s what a season of live blogging the Canadiens on the Hockey Inside/Out page at montrealgazette.com has done to me: I’m rooting for a team Montrealers grow up hating.
  Sad, isn’t it? But not as sad as the season Montreal hockey fans have endured. And speaking of endura
  
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• Will West Island Ecomuseum Zoo benefit from Biodome closure?

  09-04-2018 21:41 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Apr 9: Sunday is Zoo Lovers Day, but Montreal’s main attraction, the Biodome, is closed for a year-long renovation project. So what’s a zoo-lover to do? Global’s Brayden Jagger Haines reports on how the Biodome’s closure could impact the Ecomuseum Zoo in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.
  
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• Could imposing a minimum price on alcohol in Quebec curb problem drinking?

  09-04-2018 21:38 via cbc.ca
  Éduc'alcool, a group that promotes responsible consumption, wants the province to impose a minimum price on alcoholic beverages of at least $1.70 per standard drink.
  
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• Quebec hockey community in mourning following tragic Humboldt bus crash

  09-04-2018 21:37 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Apr 9: It is 3,000 km from Humboldt to Montreal, but the impact of the bus tragedy that left 15 people dead and 14 others injured is being felt nationwide. Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports on how the Quebec hockey community is coping.
  
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• “They don’t make ’em like Nick anymore”

  09-04-2018 21:33 via montrealgazette.com
  It was 20 years ago: St. Patrick’s Basilica was packed to the rafters with a crowd of more than 3,000 paying their final respects. The scene following the funeral was bedlam as police had to cordon off streets to make way for a boisterous procession — led by a Dixieland band — as it snaked its way west to Crescent St., where much tippling would take place until the wee hours of the next day.
  A sendoff for a hockey star, singing vedette or mayor? Not quite. This outpouring of em
  
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• Montreal Metro blue line to be extended by five stations

  09-04-2018 21:24 via globalnews.ca
  The five additional stops will add nearly six kilometres to the line.
  
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• Celine Cooper: Mélanie Joly's South Korea trip raises questions

  09-04-2018 21:05 via montrealgazette.com
  On her way to China for a cultural trade meeting, federal Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly made a quick pit stop in South Korea last week to spend a few days learning about K-Pop music and the Korean cultural export strategy. 
  It’s a decision she may come to regret to when she returns home to Quebec. 
  The Journal de Montreal reported last week that Joly went ahead with this trip against the advice of her officials. A government document dated Dec. 14
  
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• Inmate beaten to death for a few grams of tobacco, court told

  09-04-2018 20:18 via montrealgazette.com
  A man who was killed at the Montreal Detention Centre nearly two years ago was beaten to death by three fellow inmates for just a few grams of tobacco, the prosecutor in the murder trial of the trio told a jury on Monday. 
  “All this for a few unfortunate grams of tobacco,” prosecutor Louis Bouthillier said at the Montreal courthouse Monday morning while summarizing the Crown’s theory in the death of Michael Barrette, 46, who was killed on June 22, 2016, just a couple of da
  
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• Montreal métro: Green light for Blue Line extension

  09-04-2018 20:05 via montrealgazette.com
  The long-awaited extension to the Montreal métro’s Blue Line will go ahead, Quebec and Ottawa announced Monday.
  The Quebec government had announced it was finally serious about building the Blue Line in its last budget in late March, putting a dollar figure for the first time on the long-standing pledge. It estimated at the time that extending the métro line for 5.8 kilometres and five stops into the east-end boroughs of St-Léonard and Anjou will cost $3.9 billion. Of
  
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• REM opponents turn to appeal court in bid to block light-rail project

  09-04-2018 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  An environmental group is seeking to overturn a ruling by Quebec Superior Court denying its bid to halt the Réseau express métropolitain light-rail project.
  In December, Judge Michel Yergeau rejected a court challenge to the $6.3-billion project by the Montreal Climate Coalition and five citizens, who argued the project should be suspended until proper public hearings were held and an environmental assessment conducted.
  In a 48­-page ruling, Yergeau said “the plaintiff&rs
  
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• Group wants Quebec's top court to force new public consultation on light-rail project

  09-04-2018 19:53 via cbc.ca
  A citizen-led coalition wants Quebec’s top court to force the government to redo the public consultations on the province’s light-rail project.
  
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• Canadiens never found solution to training camp struggles, slow start

  09-04-2018 19:41 via cbc.ca
  The Montreal Canadiens have missed the Stanley Cup playoffs for the second time in three seasons after tying a team record with 40 regulation time losses en route to a 29-40-13 campaign, fourth worst overall in the 31-team NHL.
  
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• Habs forward Gallagher says team struggled to find solutions

  09-04-2018 19:36 via globalnews.ca
  The Montreal Canadiens' season started bad and never got better.
  
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• Quebec to create committee overseeing anglos' access to health services

  09-04-2018 18:48 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s good to have screaming rights, but it’s better to have suing rights, lawyer Eric Maldoff joked following an announcement Monday that the government will create an official English-language committee responsible for maintaining access to health and social services.
  Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette and Kathleen Weil, the minister responsible for relations with English-speaking Quebecers, announced new regulations creating a provincial access committee.
  Barrette said p
  
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• Facebook users to learn if they were part of privacy scandal

  09-04-2018 17:54 via cbc.ca
  ​Get ready to find out if your Facebook data was swept up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
  
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• Facebook users can find out if they were part of privacy scandal

  09-04-2018 17:54 via cbc.ca
  ​Get ready to find out if your Facebook data was swept up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
  
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• Info on the Montreal Centre for Learning Disabilities 2018 Parent Conference @infomc4ld btmontreal.ca/videos/montrea…

  09-04-2018 17:48
  Info on the Montreal Centre for Learning Disabilities 2018 Parent Conference @infomc4ld btmontreal.ca/videos/montrea…
  
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• Accused stabbed drug dealer, then hit panic button, manslaughter trial told

  09-04-2018 17:46 via montrealgazette.com
  An Île Bizard resident waited until after he fatally stabbed a drug dealer to whom he owed money before he pressed the panic alarm installed inside his home. 
  Prosecutor Valérie Bourbonniere highlighted this piece of evidence as she made her opening statement in the trial of Steve Barnes, accused of manslaughter in the death of George Berry. 
  The victim was killed the night of Nov. 14, 2015, outside Barnes’s home on St-Maurice St. In Île Bizard‎. 
  Bour
  
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• Video: @d2prodmtl opens production of "The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble" on April 18 btmontreal.ca/videos/d2-prod…

  09-04-2018 17:42
  Video: @d2prodmtl opens production of "The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble" on April 18 btmontreal.ca/videos/d2-prod…
  
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• Free seminar: Healthy Relationships

  09-04-2018 17:25 via globalnews.ca
  The West Island Women’s Centre, an agency supported by Centraide, will host the free seminar “Healthy Relationships” on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 from 1 to 3 p.m. Anuska Martins a Primary Worker for Auberge Transition, an organization that supports women and families, will explore how we can cultivate healthy relationships, name our values and limits,...
  
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• Quiz Bowl: @mcgillu students head to Championship in Chicago btmontreal.ca/videos/mcgill-… https://t.co/slmNXL8TPD

  09-04-2018 17:23
  
  Quiz Bowl: @mcgillu students head to Championship in Chicago btmontreal.ca/videos/mcgill-… https://t.co/slmNXL8TPD
  
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• Recyc-Québec launches phone app to show what goes where

  09-04-2018 17:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Confused by your recycling bin? Recyc-Québec has launched a smartphone app called “Ça va où?” (“Where does it go?”) to help Quebecers organize their recycling.
  The app can be downloaded free on smartphones and a version is also available online.
  More than 800 consumer products are listed, and the app explains how each item should dealt with, whether it’s plastic, glass, batteries,  tires or fabrics.
  The app identifies areas where the items
  
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• Canadian singer-songwriter @francescoyates opens up for Justin Timberlake Tour btmontreal.ca/videos/canadia… https://t.co/CupeQumiZT

  09-04-2018 17:20
  
  Canadian singer-songwriter @francescoyates opens up for Justin Timberlake Tour btmontreal.ca/videos/canadia… https://t.co/CupeQumiZT
  
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• 'Montreal will have a jewel': Musée d'art contemporain to be modernized

  09-04-2018 17:14 via montrealgazette.com
  The Musée d’art contemporain will undergo major renovations that will make the popular museum larger, brighter and more contemporary.
  The transformation will give the museum greater visibility on Ste-Catherine St. beside Place des Arts.
  The exhibition space will almost double and the restaurant and boutique will be modernized.
  The museum’s attendance has increased over the past five years with 600,000 people visiting over the past 12 months.
  “With this transformation, w
  
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• Small town in Lanaudière faces 'out of the ordinary' landslide threat

  09-04-2018 16:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Soil studies were carried out Monday in Sainte-Marie-Salomé, in the province’s Lanaudière district, in the wake of a landslide last week.
  Six residences as well as a stable on Saint-Jean Rd. were evacuated as a precaution Friday night. In total, 13 persons and a pair of horses had to be relocated.
  An inspection of the area by civil security officials found that other parcels of land were also in danger of sliding dozens of metres.
  Local Mayor Véronique Venne said core
  
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• Quebec featured in National Geographic

  09-04-2018 16:15 via globalnews.ca
  Photographer Mathieu Dupuis showcased his home province in the new National Geographic book, Quebec
  
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• Humboldt Broncos supporters across Canada, U.S. leave hockey sticks outside in tribute

  09-04-2018 16:06 via cbc.ca
  What started as a text between two friends to remember the victims of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team bus crash Friday has turned into a social media phenomenon.
  
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• Listing your used car

  09-04-2018 15:31 via globalnews.ca
  Car expert Charles Chamberland from autoTRADER.ca (autoHEBDO.net) joins Global’s Laura Casella & Kim Sullivan with pointers to help you sell your car.
  
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• Trudeau, Couillard commit to Blue line extension, but offer few financial details

  09-04-2018 15:12 via cbc.ca
  There was no major funding announced, but both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said Monday they are committed to making the long-awaited extension of the Metro's Blue line a reality.
  
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• East end businesses banking on a boom from Blue line Metro extension

  09-04-2018 15:12 via cbc.ca
  Having five new metro stations in the east end will make it easier for businesses to attract and retain employees, says head of eastern Montreal chamber of commerce.
  
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• Adjustments for your picky eating child

  09-04-2018 15:01 via globalnews.ca
  Dietitian and nutritionist Robin Glance joins Global’s Laura Casella with her tips to change your child’s eating dynamic.
  
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• #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/hWXfZipbXf

  09-04-2018 14:34
  
  #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/hWXfZipbXf
  
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• A whole lot of mac n’ cheese

  09-04-2018 14:31 via globalnews.ca
  Mac N’ Cheese Week founder Pascal Salzman joins Global’s Kim Sullivan with a preview of the dishes being created for Montreal’s 2018 edition.
  
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• NEXT: It's a good time to be @FrancescoYates! He released a new single "Do You Think About Me?" on Friday - then o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-04-2018 14:30
  NEXT: It's a good time to be @FrancescoYates!He released a new single "Do You Think About Me?" on Friday - then o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• While you were sleeping: God, equality and your leftover Canadian Tire money

  09-04-2018 14:28 via montrealgazette.com
  A few things you might have missed while you were sleeping or otherwise occupied.
  Upon this rock: With so few answering the call each Sunday, small towns in Quebec are facing what once would have been unimaginable: a churchless future. The Saint-Jérôme Catholic diocese is contemplating whether to dramatically slash the number of buildings it maintains — reports say up to 33 of the diocese’s 54 churches could be on the chopping block as of this summer — an anno
  
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• What you can do if you’re treated badly at work?

  09-04-2018 14:23 via globalnews.ca
  Career coach and human resources expert Sherri Rabinovitch joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about what to do if you’ve been treated unfairly at work.
  
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