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• When Dietrich met Piaf: The Angel and the Sparrow takes flight

  11-04-2018 23:57 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s a safe bet that mixing the fervid passion of Édith Piaf with the cool aloofness of Marlene Dietrich will brew up some dramatic thunder when The Angel and the Sparrow opens at the Segal Centre this weekend. The casting choices for these two legendary divas certainly won’t hurt the show’s chances.
  Piaf is being played by “the First Lady of Canadian musical theatre,” Louise Pitre. Pitre, who has played Piaf several times before, will be forever associated i
  
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• Saint-Tite Western Festival criticized over animal welfare concerns

  11-04-2018 23:55 via cbc.ca
  A popular western festival and a Montreal law professor are at odds again over whether rodeo events in Quebec last year contravened the province's animal welfare rules.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Suggestions on which playoff teams Habs fans should root for

  11-04-2018 23:54 via montrealgazette.com
  For the second time in three years there will be no NHL playoff action in Montreal.
  Last season, there were only three playoff games at the Bell Centre as the Canadiens were eliminated by the New York Rangers in six games in the first round. The Canadiens lost two of the three games on home ice, so Bell Centre fans have witnessed only one playoff victory in the last three years.
  While the Canadiens aren’t in the playoffs this year, there are quite a few former Habs taking part with differe
  
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• Montreal money launderer sentenced to five years in jail, serves two months

  11-04-2018 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
  On Jan. 30, Leng Ky Lech, a woman convicted of laundering millions of dollars for a notorious cocaine trafficker, was sentenced to a five-year prison term for not having paid a hefty fine related to her case. 
  On Tuesday, the Parole Board of Canada determined Lech, 55, should be released from the penitentiary she was brought to just two months ago. 
  Lech’s speedy release is based on how the Quebec Court judge who sentenced her in January interpreted a previous decision made by th
  
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• Sexual violence cases not handled well, insist Concordia, McGill students

  11-04-2018 23:14 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Apr 11: The student unions at Concordia University and McGill University organized a walkout to protest the way sexual violence claims against professors have been handled by the schools. Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports.
  
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• Class action lawsuit over noise pollution at Trudeau airport gets green light

  11-04-2018 23:14 via globalnews.ca
  An estimated 200,000 residents living under the airport's flight paths from Dorval to Ahuntsic could qualify for compensation.
  
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• Lawsuit against noise levels near Trudeau Airport gets green light

  11-04-2018 22:52 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Apr 11: A Quebec Superior Court judge has officially given the go-ahead for a class-action lawsuit from residents seeking damages due to aircraft noise pollution. As Global’s Anne Leclair reports, it’s considered the first of its kind in Canada.
  
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• Quebec rodeos violated animal protection laws: report

  11-04-2018 22:51 via montrealgazette.com
  An examination of videos of 20 rodeos held in Montreal and St-Tite last summer concludes they were illegal and a report to that effect has been filed with the provincial agriculture ministry’s committee on rodeos.
  The report was made public on Wednesday by Université de Montréal law professor Alain Roy, who last summer filed a request for an injunction to stop a rodeo staged as part of Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations.
  An out-of-court agreement led to the Montr
  
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• Former Google, Blackberry executives join Montreal venture-capital firm

  11-04-2018 22:47 via montrealgazette.com
  A former Google executive and former executive with Blackberry have joined iNovia Capital, a Montreal-based venture-capital firm, the company said on Wednesday.
  Patrick Pichette, who was Google’s chief financial officer, and Dennis Kavelman, who was the chief financial officer and co-chief operating officer at Research in Motion, now Blackberry, will be general parters at the VC firm.
  iNovia said it is expanding to Europe and has opened an office in London.
  The firm already has o
  
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• West Island Palliative Care Residence launches $12.5 million fundraising project

  11-04-2018 22:41 via globalnews.ca
  The project will consolidate two different sites into one, and is already $7 million toward its goal.
  
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• Montreal's Meaghan Benfeito, partner Caeli McKay win Commonwealth silver

  11-04-2018 22:36 via montrealgazette.com
  GOLD COAST, Australia — After a rocky start to the Commonwealth Games diving competition Wednesday, Canada stepped up to the medal podium.
  Flag-bearer Meaghan Benfeito and teenage partner Caeli McKay steadied the ship with a silver medal in the women’s 10-metre synchronized event after a botched dive dropped Jennifer Abel and Melissa Citrini-Beaulieu out of medal contention in the three-metre synchro final.
  “We had a really shaky start as you might have noticed,” said Mit
  
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• WIPCR raising $12.5M for new state-of-the-art facility

  11-04-2018 22:25 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Apr 11: The West Island Palliative Care Residence is hoping to raise $12.5 million over the next nine months to consolidate its two facilities into one state-of-the-art institute. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Mayor's plan puts home ownership within reach of Montreal families

  11-04-2018 22:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Mayor Valérie Plante announced a new program Wednesday to help more Montrealers become homeowners.
  Plante said that while the city’s booming economy is good news, soaring housing prices are beyond the means of many families with young children.
  “That’s why we have gone ahead with the creation of a program to support residential acquisition, for which we are setting aside an annual budget of $21.2 million,” she said.
  “We are confident that the increase in fina
  
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• Analyze This: Habs GM's botched roster construction began at blue line

  11-04-2018 22:14 via montrealgazette.com
  It would be an understatement to say a lot went wrong for the Canadiens this year.
  Not only did they finish with the second-lowest point total in modern franchise history, only one point ahead of the infamously terrible 2001 edition of the team, but they finished with a minus-55 goal differential. Last season, they posted a plus-26 differential. The Canadiens scored only 209 goals, which ranks them 29th in the NHL, while surrendering 264 goals, the fifth-highest total in the league. Last se
  
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• Residents near Trudeau airport flight paths launch class-action suit

  11-04-2018 22:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Residents who have been complaining about excessive noise from night flights landing at Trudeau Airport have received permission to launch a class-action suit against the airport authority.
  A group called Les Pollués de Montréal-Trudeau wants a decrease in the noise created by planes flying over Montreal and reasonable compensation for those who have put up with the noise for years.
  The group wants a flight curfew from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m., saying the late night flights keep them awak
  
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• ‘We’re here to learn, not to face harassment’: McGill, Concordia students stage walkout

  11-04-2018 22:11 via globalnews.ca
  Students from McGill and Concordia universities walked out of class Wednesday to protest the way sexual misconduct allegations are handled.
  
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• Concordia, McGill students stage walkout over alleged sexual misconduct, demand more action

  11-04-2018 22:11 via cbc.ca
  Following widespread allegations of sexual misconduct at both major English universities in Montreal, students at McGill and Concordia are taking steps to try to change things — literally.
  
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• MeToo: Students at McGill, Concordia walk out of classes over sexual violence inaction

  11-04-2018 22:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Chanting “we will not be silenced” and “this will not blow over,” more than 700 students and professors gathered on the McGill campus Wednesday afternoon to protest what they call the mismanagement of sexual violence allegations against professors at both Concordia and McGill universities.
  The students from Concordia and McGill staged the walkout outside the James Administration building downtown starting at 2 p.m.
  Last week, the Students Society of McGill University
  
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• Quebec mosque shooting: Killer's sentencing hearing begins with video of attack

  11-04-2018 21:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Warning: This story contains graphic content
  QUEBEC  — As survivors of the Quebec City mosque shooting sat in a courtroom here Wednesday afternoon, a television screen showed disturbing images of Alexandre Bissonnette’s deadly attack.
  Security-camera footage from the mosque was played at the beginning of a hearing to determine Bissonette’s sentence.
  Bissonnette, his wrists and ankles in shackles, sat in the prisoner’s docket, his head bowed.
  Several members of Quebec
  
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• Montreal ditching 'Welcome Tax' for families buying 1st home

  11-04-2018 21:32 via cbc.ca
  Montreal is trying to curb the exodus of young families by tempting them to buy on the island in exchange for a $5,000 tax break.
  
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• Quebec mosque shooting: Decision to withhold video allays pain of Muslim community

  11-04-2018 21:16 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The Muslim community has expressed relief that a judge refused a media request for permission to broadcast excerpts from security camera videos of the night of the Quebec City mosque massacre.
  Judge François Huot announced his decision Wednesday.
  Boufeldja Benabdallah, president of the mosque where the shooting occurred, told reporters the families of the six men who were killed by Alexandre Bissonnette that night would never have been able to heal if the videos were made p
  
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• Quebec Muslim community ‘happy’ shooting video won’t be made public

  11-04-2018 20:50 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Apr 11: Boufeldja Benabdallah, spokesperson for the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre, says he’s glad the footage from the mosque shooting won’t be made public.
  
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• Quebec's lack of emergency air ambulance system 'embarrassing,' renowned doctor says

  11-04-2018 20:15 via cbc.ca
  In the wake of the fatal bus crash in rural Saskatchewan, a prominent Montreal doctor is imploring Quebec’s health ministry to develop an air ambulance system that could quickly transport trauma victims to hospital.
  
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• Now you can buy STM swag while waiting for service to resume

  11-04-2018 20:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Imagine this: It’s the end of a long day. You’re on your way home and arrive at the Square-Victoria-OACI métro station just as the Orange Line goes down. While waiting, you develop a hankering for a pillow with a picture of the métro that is decidedly not conveying you home. 
  This is where you’d normally be plumb out of luck. But not today, because the STM is selling its official merchandise at Square-Victoria-OACI métro through April 29. 
  Th
  
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• Opinion: Humboldt tragedy shows value of helicopter ambulances

  11-04-2018 19:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Like all Canadians, North Americans and many others around the world, I deeply sense the grief related to the recent tragedy in Saskatchewan. It is particularly  poignant to me, as I have lived the team bus experience while playing amateur hockey in Saskatchewan, the province of my birth.
  This horrendous accident occurred in a rural agricultural community, on a clear day, with the Humboldt Broncos team bus and the semi-trailer truck ending up in a snow-covered field. There were 29 young ath
  
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• Elementary school playground vandalized in Saint-Lazare

  11-04-2018 19:53 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Apr 11: The community surrounding Evergreen Elementary in Saint-Lazare is devastated after their new playground was vandalized. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• ‘Doesn’t make sense to me’: Elementary school playground vandalized in Saint-Lazare

  11-04-2018 19:34 via globalnews.ca
  Parents of students at Evergreen Elementary in Saint-Lazare are furious after a new playground at the school was vandalized.
  
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• Font helps you write like Leonard Cohen — other than the whole poetry bit

  11-04-2018 19:27 via montrealgazette.com
  If you’ve always wanted to write like Leonard Cohen — not in the same poetic language, but just with his scrawling letters — you will be very excited by the new offerings on songwritersfonts.com.
  The website has digitized Cohen’s handwriting and used it to produce a new font.
  It has done the same with fellow songwriters John Lennon, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain and Serge Gainsbourg.
  “Writing lyrics with the handwriting of influential songwriters helps imagination t
  
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• Quebec MNAs call for public commission of inquiry into Lac-Mégantic disaster

  11-04-2018 19:19 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec National Assembly is calling on the federal government to launch a public commission of inquiry into the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster as soon as possible.
  
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• Class action lawsuit to fight Montreal airport noise pollution gets go-ahead

  11-04-2018 19:19 via cbc.ca
  Citizen group Les Pollués de Montréal-Trudeau says the noise made by airplanes flying over their homes is ruining their quality of life.
  
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• 'We've decided not to back up': Montreal earmarks $60M for Grand Prix facilities

  11-04-2018 19:08 via montrealgazette.com
  The city is spending nearly $60 million to renovate the paddocks at the Gilles Villeneuve racetrack.
  On Wednesday, the executive committee approved a $59.9-million contract with Groupe Geyser to upgrade structures for the Formula One Grand Prix, including the paddocks and hospitality area.
  Geyser was the lowest of five bidders who responded to a call for tenders on Dec. 14.
  The project includes demolishing the existing paddocks and rebuilding them to meet the F1’s current requirements.
  The
  
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• Social Notes: Batshaw Centres Foundation’s canapés for the cause

  11-04-2018 19:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Noties, we might not have the same population as NYC, but I’d bet major accessory dollars that on a per capita basis, we’re pretty competitive when it comes to the number of events per year. The sheer volume of events that take our party city by storm each social season renders it virtually impossible to cover them all in a calendar year, leading to the sad eventuality that some amazing, inspiring fundraisers get lost in the mix — until, of course, the next year, when we can tu
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: Jersey Day is one more way to support Humboldt

  11-04-2018 19:01 via montrealgazette.com
  As a hockey mom, I am among the Canadians across the country who have been consumed by news of the Humboldt Broncos tragedy. This hit our nation where it hurts, with our children and in our hockey-loving hearts. While thousands of kilometres may separate us, when it comes to our children and our love of hockey, our hearts beat as one.
  Here in Montreal, many local elementary and high schools will join others across the nation in participating in Jersey Day this Thursday, April 12. It’s the
  
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• Segal Centre's 2018-19 season: Unconventional musicals, controversial history and re-vamped Ibsen

  11-04-2018 19:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Segal Centre’s 2018-19 season will begin with a multi-Tony-Award-winning Broadway musical taking the stage in the theatre’s main space, newly named in recognition of a gift from a noted Montreal-born, now Tel Aviv-based businessman and philanthropist. Once, which will play in the Sylvan Adams Theatre, as the 306-seat hall is now called (Oct. 7 to 28), is Enda Walsh’s stage version of the 2007 Oscar-winning film about a Dublin-based busker and his sunny romance with an
  
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• The NHL playoffs kick off tonight in Winnipeg, Pittsburgh and Las Vegas! https://t.co/dvweSTRqc7

  11-04-2018 18:53
  
  The NHL playoffs kick off tonight in Winnipeg, Pittsburgh and Las Vegas! https://t.co/dvweSTRqc7
  
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• Banks don't adequately inform clients about fees: consumers' rights group

  11-04-2018 18:52 via montrealgazette.com
   Most financial institutions do not correctly inform their clients about banking fees, according to a survey made public Wednesday by a Quebec consumers rights group.
  Option Consommateurs says that about 70 per cent of bank clients they interviewed said they received no or little information about the fees and that those fees were also underestimated by as much as 48 per cent.
  The findings are even more surprising, the group says, since financial institutions have made a public commitm
  
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• Document reveals ex-Liberal minister Jacques Daoust opposed sale of Rona shares

  11-04-2018 18:47 via globalnews.ca
  Jacques Daoust wrote that the decision to authorize the sale was made by a senior staff member behind his back when he was economy minister.
  
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• Quebec mosque shooting: Judge refuses to release security camera videos

  11-04-2018 18:44 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – A judge has turned down a request from news media outlets for permission to broadcast parts of surveillance video footage of a Quebec City mosque from the night Alexandre Bissonnette killed six people there.
  Judge François Huot announced his decision Wednesday.
  A consortium of seven media outlets, including the Montreal Gazette, had requested permission to broadcast the videos.
  Huot is presiding over the trial of Alexandre Bissonnette, who last month admitted he walked into
  
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• Footage from Quebec City mosque shooting will not be made public: Judge

  11-04-2018 18:34 via globalnews.ca
  Video footage from the night of the deadly 2017 mosque shooting will not be made public, ruled a Quebec judge Wednesday.
  
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• Le Patin Libre brings contemporary ice dance ‘Threshold’ to Montreal

  11-04-2018 18:32 via globalnews.ca
  The ice dance troupe features former high-level figure skaters who combine athleticism and art.
  
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• Sûreté du Québec seeks potential victims of alleged child pornographer

  11-04-2018 18:27 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec man who promotes himself online as counsellor who works with at-risk children was charged last month with possession of child pornography.
  Sébastian Parlea, 42, of Rivière-Beaudette, was charged on March 28, the day after police seized a computer in his new home in Bainsville, Ont.
  Parlea had been charged in December with producing child pornography, showing pornography to juveniles and sexual contact while he lived in Rivière-Beaudette, a town near the Quebec-Ontar
  
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• Montreal money launderer sentenced to 5 years in jail, serves 2 months

  11-04-2018 18:06 via montrealgazette.com
  On January 30, Leng Ky Lech, a woman convicted of laundering millions of dollars for a notorious cocaine trafficker, was sentenced to a five-year prison term for not having paid a hefty fine related to her case. 
  On Tuesday, the Parole Board of Canada determined Lech, 55, should be released from the penitentiary she was brought to just two months ago. 
  Lech’s speedy release is based on how the Quebec Court judge who sentenced her in January interpreted a previous decision made by
  
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• Montreal-based skating troupe premieres new show

  11-04-2018 18:04 via globalnews.ca
  Le Patin Libre performs ‘Threshold’ at Montreal’s Aréna Saint-Louis from April 10 to April 22, 2018.
  
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• Catch up on what you missed on BT Montreal anytime - Check out btmontreal.ca/videos/

  11-04-2018 17:56
  Catch up on what you missed on BT Montreal anytime - Check out btmontreal.ca/videos/
  
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• Celebrity health advice: @realdrzach gives us the good and the bad btmontreal.ca/videos/celebri… https://t.co/ohDcGFO0E7

  11-04-2018 17:16
  
  Celebrity health advice: @realdrzach gives us the good and the bad btmontreal.ca/videos/celebri… https://t.co/ohDcGFO0E7
  
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• Chinese-Canadian rapper @hualimusic performs at Montreal Arts Interculturels this Friday btmontreal.ca/videos/chinese… https://t.co/evXNxm4xEU

  11-04-2018 17:07
  
  Chinese-Canadian rapper @hualimusic performs at Montreal Arts Interculturels this Friday btmontreal.ca/videos/chinese… https://t.co/evXNxm4xEU
  
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• We get the story behind “Quebec,” a photographic journey through the province from @MatDupuisPhoto and @NatGeoBooks… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 17:03
  We get the story behind “Quebec,” a photographic journey through the province from @MatDupuisPhoto and @NatGeoBooks… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Montreal police seek witnesses to altercation that led to homicide

  11-04-2018 16:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are looking for witnesses who may have seen an altercation on a city bus that led to a homicide on the evening of March 29 in Pointe-aux-Trembles.
  The altercation between a suspect and the victim occurred on Bus 189 as it was travelling on Notre-Dame St. near 8th Ave. The incident occurred between 8:25 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.
  The victim, a 23-year-old man, was stabbed in the upper body after he got off the bus.  He was treated in a hospital but died a few days later. The man was
  
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• I was against RONA sale, former Quebec economy minister wrote before his death

  11-04-2018 16:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A testament written by former Quebec economy minister Jacques Daoust and given to his political staff before his death indicates the sale of the provincial government’s stake in the RONA hardware chain to American interests haunted him to the end of his life.
  The document, obtained by the Québecor media chain, shows that Daoust was furious with his own government for having asked him to say publicly that he supported the sale, even though he opposed it. Daoust wrote that he fel
  
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• James Bay talks ‘Electric Light’

  11-04-2018 16:29 via globalnews.ca
  Singer-songwriter James Bay joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about his ‘Electric Light’ album and on the bill at Osheaga 2018.
  
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