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• Montreal unveils new details in plan to build reserved bus lane to Laval

  14-04-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
  Montreal says it is working on developing Pie-IX Boulevard to accommodate a reserved bus route to Laval, known as the BRT project. About 70,000 passengers are expected to take the bus every day.
  
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• ‘I was shocked’: Montreal cyclist furious after close encounter with STM bus

  14-04-2018 22:54 via globalnews.ca
  A cyclist is speaking out after a video he shot of an STM bus nearly grazing him went viral online.
  
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• Spinning with celebrities in Montreal to raise funds for breast cancer research

  14-04-2018 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  Spinning classes were held at the MAA Sporting Club to raise funds for the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation and to promote healthy living.
  
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• Spinning with celebrities in Montreal to raise funds for breast cancer

  14-04-2018 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  Spinning classes were held at the MAA Sporting Club to raise funds for the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation and to promote healthy living.
  
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• Impact cant handle Red Bulls, suffer 4th loss of season

  14-04-2018 21:51 via cbc.ca
  Bradley Wright-Phillips had a goal and an assist on Saturday and the New York Red Bulls beat the Montreal Impact 3-1. Wright-Phillips opened the scoring for the Red Bulls (3-2-0) in the fifth minute, beating goalkeeper Evan Bush into the upper right corner.
  
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• Media celebrities, sports personalities lace up for 15th annual Montreal Media Hockey Marathon

  14-04-2018 20:55 via globalnews.ca
  The 15th edition of the Montreal Media Hockey Marathon was held at the Pierrefonds Sportsplexe on Saturday.
  
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• STM investigating after video shows Montreal bus grazing cyclist downtown

  14-04-2018 20:22 via cbc.ca
  Stefan Popovic, 44, filed a complaint with the STM after he was nearly struck by a Montreal city bus while riding his bike to work on Wednesday morning on Sherbrooke Street West.
  
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• STM investigating after video shows Montreal bus closely passing cyclist downtown

  14-04-2018 20:22 via cbc.ca
  Stefan Popovic, 44, filed a complaint with the STM after a Montreal city bus came close to touching him while he was riding his bike to work on Wednesday morning on Sherbrooke Street West.
  
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• Sunday storm could bring '24 hours of freezing rain': meteorologist

  14-04-2018 19:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Ready or not, a spring storm is coming. You can’t hide.
  On Saturday, Environment Canada issued freezing rain warnings for southern Ontario, where power outages are expected.
  The storm should hit Quebec on Sunday. It’ll continue in a north-east direction across the province through Tuesday.
  Meteorologist Steve Boily says temperatures will hover around zero. This stands to change the type of precipitation experienced in the Montreal region. 
  “Going to work on Monday may be c
  
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• Quebec politicians decry federal response to Kinder Morgan pipeline extension

  14-04-2018 18:36 via cbc.ca
  Jean-Marc Fournier and Philippe Couillard have called on Ottawa to work with provincial governments on the pipeline impasse.
  
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• New fair highlights Montreal’s wealth of activities for people with special needs

  14-04-2018 18:32 via globalnews.ca
  The Fun for All Fair showcases recreational activities that are inclusive and adapted for people with different abilities.
  
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• Tel-jeunes 'helpers' from 21 schools gather to combat teen distress

  14-04-2018 18:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Around 300 adolescents from 21 Quebec secondary schools are participating in a conference in Montreal this weekend for Tel-jeunes’ “helpers.” 
  The event, which takes place every two years, brings together young people who watch for signs of distress in their colleagues at school.
  The “helpers” program was created nearly 20 years ago to respond to the needs of young people who want to support their friends. The adolescents are assisted by professional trainers f
  
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• $11M and counting: Where will money for Humboldt Broncos go?

  14-04-2018 18:00 via cbc.ca
  As donations from an online fundraising campaign for the Humboldt Broncos surpass $11 million, people are thinking about where that money will go and how it can best be used to help the families of those killed in the April 6 bus crash, as well as rebuild the lives of those who were injured.
  
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• Workplace safety campaign addresses commercial fishing risks

  14-04-2018 17:16 via montrealgazette.com
  As Quebec’s commercial fishing season kicks off, the Commission des normes, de l’équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CNESST) is reminding captains of the importance of securely equipping their ships so as to avoid accidents. 
  CNESST stresses that fishermen are particularly exposed to bad weather, the threat of fire and sinking and  dangers caused by fishing gear.
  The risk of falling overboard is one of the biggest hazard
  
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• John Abbott College launches Social Entrepreneurship Competition

  14-04-2018 17:03 via globalnews.ca
  John Abbott College, in partnership with West Island Community Shares, officially launched the first Social Entrepreneurship Competition on Friday.
  
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• Impact looking for rare win in New Jersey as rivalry with Red Bulls continues

  14-04-2018 16:57 via globalnews.ca
  The Impact have played eight times at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J., since joining Major League Soccer in 2012 and have lost them all, being outscored 25-7 along the way.
  
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• Province of Quebec says it is improving compensation program for victims

  14-04-2018 16:34 via globalnews.ca
  Nearly a year after the devastating spring floods, the province says it is trying to improve its compensation program for victims of disasters.
  
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• #ICYMI He opened for Justin Timberlake! @FrancescoYates was in studio this week talking about his newest single. Wa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-04-2018 16:00
  #ICYMI He opened for Justin Timberlake! @FrancescoYates was in studio this week talking about his newest single. Wa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Karl Lohnes: Dreaming of a perfect headboard for your bedroom

  14-04-2018 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Welcome to Week 6 of my mission to fix the 10 most common decorating mistakes. Last week I shone some bright lighting ideas for the home. This week we sneak into the bedroom and tackle the focal point: the headboard. I am surprised at how many people do not have a headboard, but this piece is a must-have to create the head of the bed and complete the look of a properly decorated bedroom.
  The Basics
  Headboards were originally used to keep drafts away from sleepers. Today they’re a design el
  
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• Champlain, Turcot construction prompts major weekend road closures in Montreal

  14-04-2018 15:00 via cbc.ca
  Get ready for more traffic headaches this weekend, Montrealers.
  
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• Vettel takes another pole in China; Lance Stroll 18th

  14-04-2018 14:56 via montrealgazette.com
  SHANGHAI — It’s still early, but it looks like Ferrari is back.
  Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel claimed pole position for Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix, where the German will be going for his third straight victory to open the Formula One season.
  Vettel and Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen will start on the first row in Shanghai. Mercedes, which has dominated the last four seasons, will start on the second row with Valtteri Bottas ahead of No. 4 Lewis Hamilton — the defendi
  
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• This is Salluit: A future of hope

  14-04-2018 14:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Last winter, reporter Christopher Curtis travelled to the small community of Salluit in northern Quebec. This is the last part of his seven-part series This Is Salluit.
  SALLUIT, QUE. — They boarded the aircraft with their hands shackled together.
  The first young man squared his shoulders and scowled as the officer guided him to the back of the plane. A second, much larger prisoner tagged along. But this one made no pretence of toughness — he bowed his head and gently mouthed “e
  
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• The Week in Review: Blue Line, crossing the line, mosque videos, hijab hot seat and bike detour

  14-04-2018 14:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on all the big stories that happened this week in Montreal.
  Montreal métro: Green light for Blue Line extension
  After 40 years of empty promises, Premier Philippe Couillard and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to St-Léonard on Monday to announce the Montreal métro’s Blue Line will be extended eastward for five stops, to be opened in 2026. Couillard stressed this pledge could be trusted because it comes with a significant amount of cash attached: $365 millio
  
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• While you were sleeping: U.S., Britain, France launch airstrikes against Syria

  14-04-2018 14:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Also: Processing Alexandre Bissonnette’s police interrogation and Lachine Canal bike detours.
  The former president of the Centre culturel islamique de Quebec said “anti-Muslim rhetoric” in media spurred Alexandre Bissonnette to murder six men at a Quebec City mosque. The recording of Bissonnette’s police interrogation was made public at his sentencing hearing on Friday. In the video, he tells police that he feared Canada was on the verge of accepting more refugees who wou
  
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• Shelter: At the crossroads of high tech and antiques in the Plateau

  14-04-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Caspian Kilkelly recalls that throughout his childhood he was surrounded by “nerdy people”.
  His grandfather was an engineer and, he was told, tracked the launch of the Soviet-built Sputnik satellite on Oct. 4, 1957, by observing it through a telescope and listening to its beeping signal on the radio. For his part, Kilkelly’s father loves to play around with radios and computers.
  So it seemed inevitable that Caspian would end up in a job that involves technology — alb
  
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• Montrealers sharpen their hatchets for axe throwing leagues

  14-04-2018 14:00 via cbc.ca
  Max Machado owns two axes: a hatchet and a big axe. But they're not for chopping wood — they're for throwing at indoor targets.
  
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• Josh Freed: Trip down memory lane often paved with falsehoods

  14-04-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  What were you doing on 9/11 — the day of the World Trade Center bombing?
  You probably remember it with unusual clarity: How you found out, who was with you, where you were.
  Yet you’re probably wrong about much of it.
  In a study done days after the bombing, a New York professor surveyed more than 3,000 people about how they spent the day. Then she asked them the identical questions one year later — and almost half the answers had changed.
  Soon after the bombing, one typical woma
  
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• CAQ drops West Island candidate Karen Cliffe

  14-04-2018 13:09 via montrealgazette.com
  The Coalition Avenir Québec has dropped a candidate that was to represent the party in the West Island riding of Nelligan because she failed to “say the whole truth about her professional past.”
  The candidacy of Karen Cliffe was cancelled after an investigation, the party announced in a statement issued Friday afternoon, after leader François Legault held a news conference in La Pocatière. The party said it would not issue any further comment on the situation.
  Cl
  
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• Boom in the Beauce: How migrant workers are helping southern Quebec thrive

  14-04-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  A pork processing plant in Vallée-Jonction, Que., has recruited workers from the two island nations off the coast of eastern Africa to help fill a gap in workers. People in town are working hard to make them feel welcome and encourage them to stay.
  
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• Peterborough Humane Society welcomes 15 dogs rescued from the South Korean dog meat trade.

  14-04-2018 04:35 via globalnews.ca
  The Peterborough Humane society has a shortage of dogs so it’s taken 15 of 80 dogs from Humane Society International in Montreal. The animals were to be slaughtered for the dog meat trade in South Korea.
  
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• ‘I wanted to save people’: Quebec City mosque shooter says he wanted to protect family from terrorists

  14-04-2018 04:16 via globalnews.ca
  Alexandre Bissonnette, the gunman who killed six men as they prayed at a mosque in Quebec City in 2017 told investigators a day after the shooting that he wanted to save lives and protect his family from terrorist attacks and that he didn’t do anything wrong. WARNING: Video contains disturbing content. Viewer discretion is advised.
  
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• 'Anti-Muslim rhetoric' in media spurred Alexandre Bissonnette to kill, Quebec mosque president says

  14-04-2018 02:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Alexandre Bissonnette told police it was his fear that Canada was on the verge of accepting more refugees who would commit terrorist acts that spurred him to murder six men and wound five others at a Quebec City mosque last year.
  Fixated on terrorist attacks around the world and taking anti-depressant medications, Bissonnette said it was a tweet from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promising to accept those refused by the United States that sent him over the edge. The day he saw that message, he t
  
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• Transgender Montrealer says police laughed at allegations of sexual assault, robbery

  14-04-2018 02:41 via cbc.ca
  A transgender person is still having nightmares after they say there were drugged, assaulted and robbed three weeks ago — and they don't believe Montreal police are taking the case seriously.
  
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• Father of slain police officer rips into gun bill in letter to Goodale

  14-04-2018 01:32 via cbc.ca
  The father of a police officer who was gunned down in Quebec is angered and disappointed by the Liberal government's firearms bill, saying there is nothing in the legislation that would have prevented his son's death.
  
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• Pardon My French: Claude Ryan's Bill 86 brought linguistic peace to Quebec

  14-04-2018 01:12 via montrealgazette.com
  In this series of columns, one-time Alliance Quebec president and media personality Royal Orr reflects on his relationship with his second language.
  Let us now speak of language peace-makers, for they shall be blessed.
  After Premier Robert Bourassa used the Notwithstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to maintain French-only commercial signs when that provision of Bill 101 was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1988, all hell broke loose.
  Ministers resigned, offices were bombed, angry vo
  
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• Quebec school board expresses regret over Jersey Day incident

  14-04-2018 00:52 via cbc.ca
  The Commission scolaire des Laurentides is expressing regret over an incident where a student was asked to leave class for wearing a sports jersey in support of the victims of a bus crash involving the Humboldt Broncos hockey team.
  
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• Impact looking for rare win in New Jersey on Saturday

  14-04-2018 00:35 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Impact are a different team under new coach Rémi Garde, but they hope it isn’t the same old result when they visit the New York Red Bulls on Saturday.
  The Impact have played eight times at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J., since joining Major League Soccer in 2012 and have lost them all, being outscored 25-7 along the way. That included a 4-0 loss last July.
  Then again, they won a playoff game there against the Red Bulls in 2016 en route to the Eastern Conference final.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin didn't make the grade this season

  14-04-2018 00:28 via montrealgazette.com
  While the Canadiens were doing final interviews Monday in their Brossard locker room, one of the reporters nudged me and pointed toward a small, knocked-over garbage can on the floor. In it was the locker nameplate for Ales Hemsky.
  It would have been a fitting photo to wrap up this dreadful Canadiens season, which saw them finish 28th in the overall NHL standings with a 29-40-13 record while ranking 29th in offence and 25th in defence.
  It’s not Hemsky’s fault the Canadiens missed the
  
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• Couillard wants Bombardier rail plant to get Montreal's new Azur contract

  14-04-2018 00:24 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec government will introduce a bill to thwart any legal challenges to Bombardier and Alstom being awarded an extension to a contract for the renewal of Montreal's subway car fleet, Premier Philippe Couillard said Friday.
  
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• Global News at 5:30: Apr 13

  14-04-2018 00:06 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, April 13, 2018 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
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• Richard Henry Bain was sentenced like a terrorist, his lawyer argues

  14-04-2018 00:02 via montrealgazette.com
  The lawyer who represented Richard Henry Bain in his murder trial plans to argue the convicted killer was sentenced as if the murder he carried out on the night of the provincial election six years ago was an act of terrorism. 
  Alan Guttman recently filed a summary of the arguments he intends to make before the Quebec Court of Appeal later this year. 
  On Sept. 4, 2012, the night of a provincial election, Bain arrived at the Metropolis concert hall where the Parti Québécoi
  
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