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• Eugenie Bouchard back on home court as Canada hosts Ukraine in Fed Cup

  16-04-2018 23:56 via montrealgazette.com
  The good news for Canada’s Fed Cup team is that Elina Svitolina, the No. 4 player in the Women’s Tennis Association rankings, will not be in Montreal this weekend when Canada faces Ukraine in a World Group II relegation tie.
  The bad news is that, even without Svitolina, Ukraine is the favourite in the best-of-five competition that will be played indoors at the Jarry Tennis Centre.
  “On paper, they have the stronger team, but we have Genie Bouchard playing for us and this is an i
  
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• Kahnawake student gets scholarship to Stanford University

  16-04-2018 23:45 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Apr 16: Sha’teiohserí:io Patton, a young woman from Kahnawake finishing her studies at John Abbott College, will soon be heading to Stanford University. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, the school is paying $69,000 of the 19-year-old’s tuition.
  
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• Alexandre Bissonnette searched mass attacks ahead of Quebec City mosque shooting

  16-04-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Apr 16: Prosecutors presented Alexandre Bissonnette’s internet history in the months leading up to the deadly shooting at a Quebec City mosque as part of sentencing arguments. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, the court heard he made hundreds of Google and YouTube searches about large-scale attacks and shooters.
  
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• X-Files' Gillian Anderson cancels Montreal Comiccon appearance

  16-04-2018 23:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Gillian Anderson won’t be at Montreal Comiccon after all. Organizers say her planned appearance conflicted with her filming schedule.
  Anderson had been booked to appear at Comiccon with X-Files co-star David Duchovny, who is still on the program. Two other X-Files alumni, Mitch Pileggi and William B. Davis, were announced as Comiccon guests on Monday.
  Montreal Comiccon takes place at Palais des congrès from Friday, July 6 to Sunday, July 8. For more details, visit montreal
  
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• Kraft Heinz moving operations to Ontario

  16-04-2018 23:18 via montrealgazette.com
  The Kraft Heinz firm will soon close its distribution centre in Vaudreuil-Dorion, putting close to 100 employees out of work.
  The food producer recently announced its plans to move its operations to a new and bigger 775,000-square-foot distribution centre in Milton, Ont.
  A company spokesman said the move was made as “an effort to better serve our customers.”
  The Vaudreuil-Dorion distribution centre, located on Marie-Curie St., is approximately 500,000 square feet.
  Layoffs w
  
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• Comedy traces attempt to transform a ramshackle fixer-upper

  16-04-2018 23:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Describing it as a dump would be generous. A good-natured slacker named Bruno has inherited a shack near a swamp from his dad and Bruno has a plan. He wants to transform it into a vacation destination and rent it out to family. Uh, not so fast.
  Such is the premise of humorist Lorne Elliott’s play The Fixer-Upper, based on his book of the same name. The play has a two-day run at Hudson Village Theatre, April 20-21 at 8 p.m.
  Elliott, a longtime Hudson resident, directs the play and shares st
  
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• 400 asylum seekers expected to enter Quebec every day this summer

  16-04-2018 23:06 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Apr 16: Quebec is calling on the federal government to help with the growing number of asylum seekers entering Canada via the Lacolle border. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, officials are expecting 400 people to cross the border every day this summer.
  
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• Quebec bar calls on province to change law drafting process

  16-04-2018 22:59 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec Bar Association, along with the Montreal bar, says the current process is flawed and doesn't respect the Canadian Constitution, making the province's laws and decrees null and void.
  
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• Not enough anglos at Montreal police

  16-04-2018 22:13 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Apr 16: Montreal police recruiters are refuting accusations that they do not do enough to entice ethnically diverse or multilingual graduates to stay in the province. As Dan Spector reports, this comes after the head of John Abbott’s police tech told Global News many Anglophones are leaving Quebec for the RCMP or Ontario Provincial...
  
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• McGill University professors back students' call for sexual-misconduct investigation

  16-04-2018 22:12 via montrealgazette.com
  A group of McGill University professors is calling on the school’s administration to launch an external investigation into how the university handles sexual-misconduct allegations.
  They sent a letter, signed by 148 professors and faculty members, to the university administration Monday.
  On April 4, the Students Society of McGill University called on the university administration to launch a third-party investigation into what they call the “mismanagement” of sexual-misconduct a
  
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• Update: Quebec mosque killer confided he wished he had shot more people

  16-04-2018 21:29 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Quebec mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette told a prison social worker last fall that he regretted not having shot more people when he opened fire in a mosque in January 2017.
  Bissonnette met with social worker Guylaine Cayouette on Sept. 20, 2017, after a nurse told her that Bissonnette was not feeling well.
  According to a statement from Cayouette that was read in court at Bissonnette’s sentencing hearing Monday, Cayouette said Bissonnette told her that it’s not
  
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• Montreal case against the "Prince of Pot" pushed back to May

  16-04-2018 21:24 via montrealgazette.com
  The case brought against Marc Emery, the man who opened a series of marijuana dispensaries in Montreal while the federal government was taking its first steps toward legalizing the drug has been pushed back to next month. 
  According to court records, the trial of Marc Emery, 60, the man who has dubbed himself the Prince of Pot, was scheduled to begin at the Montreal courthouse on Monday. But, following a brief hearing, the case was carried over to May 30. 
  In December 2016, Emery opene
  
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• Man serving time for warden's murder in 1978 to get first taste of freedom

  16-04-2018 21:21 via montrealgazette.com
  One of Quebec’s most notorious inmates serving time at a federal penitentiary will be getting a slight taste of freedom for the first time in four decades. 
  Gerald Gauthier, 72, was recently granted permission to leave a penitentiary without an escort for the first time since his arrest in 1978 for the murder of Michel Roy, a prison warden who was killed while he was clearing snow in front of his home in Pointe-aux-Trembles. Gauthier, who was illegally at large at the time, went to Ro
  
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• We've reached our limit to house undocumented asylum seekers, Quebec says

  16-04-2018 21:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec warned the federal government on Monday that it has reached the limit of its capacity to process undocumented asylum seekers entering Canada through Quebec and will enforce that limit in its temporary shelters beginning April 24.
  Quebec has 1,850 spaces in its four temporary shelters in Montreal, and 75 per cent of those spaces are already occupied. Quebec Immigration Minister David Heurtel said Monday that capacity will not be allowed to pass 85 per cent in order to maintain space a
  
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• Spring flower arranging workshop and demo

  16-04-2018 21:13 via globalnews.ca
  View a flower-arranging demo and then be inspired to interpret this arrangement in either watercolour or acrylic. Materials included. Cost $36 member/ $50 guest.
  
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• tips and tricks for using your iPhone

  16-04-2018 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  Bring your iPhone. 4 session course cost $75 for all 4 sessions.
  
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• The violin music of Nicolo Paganini

  16-04-2018 20:57 via globalnews.ca
  A music appreciation course. Cost $16.
  
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• McGill profs back students in call for investigation into sexual misconduct allegations

  16-04-2018 20:44 via cbc.ca
  Nearly 150 McGill University professors have come out in support of the student union in its call for an external investigation into the handling of complaints of sexual misconduct involving faculty members.
  
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• Cummings Centre Fine Arts Exhibition and Sale

  16-04-2018 20:41 via globalnews.ca
  Outstanding student art works will be on display and for sale. Vernissage 4:30pm April 23 at 5700 Westbury. Exhibition continues 9:30am-4:30pm Aprl 24 and 9:30am-12pm Apr. 25
  
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• Alexandre Bissonnette ‘regrets’ not shooting more people in Quebec mosque attack

  16-04-2018 20:27 via globalnews.ca
  Alexandre Bissonnette looked at YouTube videos, Donald Trump's Twitter account and collected multiple photos of firearms.
  
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• Opinion: I’m not going to delete Facebook, and here’s why

  16-04-2018 20:08 via montrealgazette.com
  The #DeleteFacebook movement, in which users were encouraged to abandon the social-media leviathan in the face of privacy scandals, came from a position of male privilege.
  Calls to back away from Facebook have echoed for years, but privacy warriors doubled down this month after reports a British data-mining firm, Cambridge Analytica, had used Facebook to gather personal data that it then used on behalf of political clients.
  The outrage — much of it on Facebook and rival Twitter — dem
  
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• Montreal to drop $1.2B on roadwork, find ways to make getting around less terrible

  16-04-2018 20:02 via cbc.ca
  The Plante administration says it’s going to try to make sure all the construction won't be too disruptive for Montrealers.
  
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• Opinion: Remembering Claude Ryan

  16-04-2018 19:55 via montrealgazette.com
  I read Royal Orr’s Saturday column (“Ryan brought linguistic peace to Quebec“) with nostalgia, broad agreement, but a few reservations. The nostalgia came in recalling our CJAD debate shortly before the 1989 Quebec election. I was one of the four Equality Party candidates who won seats in it. Orr argued, roughly, that Quebec anglos could catch more flies with honey than vinegar. I was more abrasive, arguing that Robert Bourassa’s recent surrender to nationalist fevers had
  
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• New format, fresh faces coming to Global News Montreal

  16-04-2018 19:32 via globalnews.ca
  Find out what's new and what's changing at Global News Montreal.
  
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• Quebec City mosque shooter scoured Internet for references to Islam, mass murderers and immigration

  16-04-2018 19:31 via cbc.ca
  Alexandre Bissonnette spent hours in front of his computer screen looking up mass shootings, Islam and American immigration policies in the days leading up to the fatal shooting at a Quebec City mosque.
  
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• Quebec City mosque shooter obsessed with mass murderers since adolescence

  16-04-2018 19:31 via cbc.ca
  Alexandre Bissonnette's obsession with mass murderers started when he was an adolescent, and he had wanted to be carry out a mass killing ever since, a Quebec City courtroom heard on Monday.
  
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• Quebec company settles with province over botched snowplow deal

  16-04-2018 19:28 via cbc.ca
  A Quebec manufacturing company that narrowly won then abruptly lost a contract to supply snowplows to New Brunswick has reached an out-of-court settlement with the province.
  
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• Montreal’s ‘La Factry’ school of creativity plots out growth

  16-04-2018 19:20 via globalnews.ca
  The first of its kind in Canada, La Factry offers a growing range of classes and programs to help stimulate creativity.
  
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• Montreal’s Factry school of creativity plots out growth

  16-04-2018 19:20 via globalnews.ca
  The first of its kind in Canada, Factry offers a growing range of classes and programs to help stimulate creativity.
  
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• Montreal police responds to accusation they don’t do enough to recruit anglos

  16-04-2018 19:05 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal police have responded to former officer Paul Chablo's claim that the force doesn't do enough to recruit anglophones and visible minorities.
  
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• Montreal police respond to accusation they don’t do enough to recruit anglos

  16-04-2018 19:05 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal police have responded to former officer Paul Chablo's claim that the force doesn't do enough to recruit anglophones and visible minorities.
  
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• Quebec presses for help from feds amid anticipated jump in asylum seekers

  16-04-2018 18:52 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec government says it's unable to handle the droves of asylum seekers who continue to cross into the province and is calling on the federal government for help. ​
  
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• National Gallery wants to buy Jacques-Louis David painting with proceeds from Chagall sale

  16-04-2018 18:44 via cbc.ca
  The National Gallery of Canada wants to buy a Jacques-Louis David painting with the money it will get by selling a Marc Chagall piece.
  
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• Quebec mosque shooter was obsessed with Trump, Muslims, feminists

  16-04-2018 18:12 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Evidence from Alexandre Bissonnette’s computer presented in court Monday indicates the Quebec mosque shooter was obsessed with U.S. President Donald Trump, Muslims, Dylann Roof, mass shootings and feminists.
  Bissonnette was checking Trump’s Twitter feed and reading news about Trump on a daily basis, according to evidence presented at his sentencing hearing in Quebec City.
  Also on Bissonnette’s laptop was a selfie of Bissonnette wearing a Trump hat, prosecuto
  
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• Quebec Bar files motion calling on province to change law drafting process

  16-04-2018 18:06 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's law society is heading to court to challenge the way the provincial government goes about drafting and passing laws.
  
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• Freezing rain warning lifted: Now it's just a rainy day in Montreal

  16-04-2018 18:01 via montrealgazette.com
  What began as a morning of school cancellations, windshield maintenance and fears for the worst was by midday Monday officially designated as another grey, blustery, rainy day in April.
  Six hours after issuing a freezing rain warning for the Montreal area, Environment Canada lifted that warning after it became apparent that the cause of concern had quite literally melted away.
  Which isn’t to say Monday morning didn’t start with a glaze of ice-driven dread as Montrealers woke up to a
  
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• Quebec says 400 asylum seekers a day could enter province this summer

  16-04-2018 17:38 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec is calling on the federal government to help with the growing number of asylum seekers entering Canada through non-designated ports of entries.
  
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• Montreal sets aside $1 billion to upgrade roads, water mains, sewers

  16-04-2018 17:38 via montrealgazette.com
  As part of its long-term plan to modernize Montreal’s aging infrastructure, the city will spend more than $1 billion in 2018 to repair and upgrade roads, water mains and sewers.
  The amount is $490 million more than what was spent in 2017.
  The city will spend $542 million repairing and repaving roads and sidewalks and will upgrade bridges, tunnels and viaducts.
  It will also spend $348 million on repairing the antiquated waterworks network and sewer systems.
  City officials say they know the
  
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• Learn how to make homemade baked doughnuts 🍩🍩🍩 btmontreal.ca/videos/learn-h… https://t.co/62VsYPRP3D

  16-04-2018 17:36
  
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• It’s the 10th annual Ride to Conquer Cancer @CycloDefi btmontreal.ca/videos/its-the… https://t.co/88piHNGqOj

  16-04-2018 17:31
  
  It’s the 10th annual Ride to Conquer Cancer @CycloDefi btmontreal.ca/videos/its-the… https://t.co/88piHNGqOj
  
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• Sluggish Canadian stock market presents opportunity for investors - We speak to @TonyLoffreda. Full video:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-04-2018 17:25
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• South Shore school bus drivers to strike on Tuesday

  16-04-2018 17:02 via montrealgazette.com
  About 2,000 students attending classes at the Des Patriotes and Riverside school boards on the South Shore of Montreal will have a day off on Tuesday as their school bus drivers carry out a one-day walkout.
  The drivers, whose union is affiliated with the FTQ, already have a strike mandate that allows them to go as far as engaging in an unlimited walkout if necessary. However the union has opted thus far for a one-day work action.
  Union spokesperson Benoit Hamilton said that as of Monday, no
  
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• Ste-Justine toddler death probably due to wrong injection: coroner

  16-04-2018 16:42 via montrealgazette.com
  The “most probable” explanation for the death in 2016 of 23-month-old cancer patient being treated for cancer at Ste-Justine Hospital was that a nurse accidentally administered an injection of potassium rather than saline to the child after he had received a previous injection of medication, a Quebec coroner has concluded.
  Ghali Chorfi was being treated for a form of cancer that had attacked one of his kidneys and had been responding to treatment. On Dec. 12, 2016, the boy was given
  
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• Our Mother's Day Makeover Contest is back! https://t.co/GJDFQZuBvT

  16-04-2018 16:11
  
  Our Mother's Day Makeover Contest is back! https://t.co/GJDFQZuBvT
  
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• Ice storm disrupts Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport

  16-04-2018 15:29 via globalnews.ca
  An April ice storm caused flight delays and had travellers scrambling for alternative options. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Should we spend more for organic?

  16-04-2018 15:22 via globalnews.ca
  What exactly does organic mean and should we spend extra to get it? Global’s Laura Casella asks registered nutritionist Sylvia Meo.
  
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• Montreal cinema goes to the dogs https://t.co/aOGDlrYq7f

  16-04-2018 15:11
  
  Montreal cinema goes to the dogs https://t.co/aOGDlrYq7f
  
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• Boston Marathon marks 5th anniversary of bombings https://t.co/l9gs1bu0lb

  16-04-2018 14:41
  
  Boston Marathon marks 5th anniversary of bombings https://t.co/l9gs1bu0lb
  
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• #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/KnQ2g4UhS6

  16-04-2018 14:38
  
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• Grooming your dog to help keep its coat healthy

  16-04-2018 14:34 via globalnews.ca
  Moroccan Pooch co-founders Ashley Reeves and Michelle Boyer join Global’s Kim Sullivan with their line of dog grooming products.
  
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