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• Brothers probably died of fentanyl overdose in Montreal parking lot: coroner

  17-04-2018 23:51 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec coroner has confirmed the suspicions of Montreal police who discovered the bodies of two men in a car at a gas station parking lot last August — brothers Gilles and Yves Faucher died of a drug overdose probably made fatal by fentanyl.
  The bodies of the two men, both from the Lac-Mégantic area, were discovered on the morning of Aug. 24, 2017, in a car parked in a gas station parking lot on De Maisonneuve Blvd. near De Lorimier Ave.
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• Montreal fire department primarily white, male francophones

  17-04-2018 23:43 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Apr 17: Most of the people working at Montreal’s Fire Department have three things in common: they are white, male and francophone. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, the department said it is trying to change its image.
  
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• Daycare workers in Montreal and Laval to stage two-day strike

  17-04-2018 23:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Employees at 61 publicly-funded daycares in Montreal and Laval will stage a two-day strike on Wednesday and Thursday because they’re unhappy with contract talks. Their last contract was up in 2015.
  The strike will affect about 6,000 children in daycares affiliated with the Confédération des syndicats nationaux.
  Workers will stage a protest on Wednesday morning outside the Pie-IX métro station and then picket outside the office of the Association Patronale des CPE, the
  
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• Detours cause headache for Saint-Henri residents

  17-04-2018 23:40 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Apr 17: Work to fix an unsafe pedestrian walkway in Montreal’s Saint-Henri neighbourhood is creating more headache than happiness – with increased detours and traffic in the surrounding area. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Quebec MNA withdraws from caucus after reports of sexual misconduct

  17-04-2018 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Apr 17: Quebec MNA Yves St-Denis has recused himself from the Liberal caucus to sit as an Independent after reports he sent a sexually explicit photo to a party employee. Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports.
  
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• Kramberger: Beaconsfield joins bid for some Smart Cities cash

  17-04-2018 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Beaconsfield has wisely opted to be part of a group bid in the Smart Cities Challenge, a federal program launched last fall that includes a potential $80 million in total for seed grants for the top innovative ideas.
  Beaconsfield announced last Friday that it has joined with the municipalities of Brossard, Châteauguay, Delson, Magog, St-Basile-le-Grand, Ste-Catherine, St-Constant and St-Lambert, in collaboration with the B-CITI firm, to submit an application to the Smart Cities Challenge (
  
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• CP strike could shut down three commuter train lines starting Saturday

  17-04-2018 23:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s regional transit agency says it’s concerned about the possibility of a strike at Canadian Pacific Rail, which could shut down service on three commuter rail lines. 
  Both the Teamsters Rail Conference, which represents conductors and locomotive engineers, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents signal maintainers, have received strike mandates from their members.
  The strike could begin just after midnight on Saturday.
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• West Island community calendar for the week of April 18

  17-04-2018 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Galleries and exhibitions
  Aikawa Restaurant, 55 Brunswick Blvd., in Dollard exhibits the works by members of the Artist’s Circle of the West Island until June 30. Visit facebook.com/events/211045182981099.
  The Kirkland Library, 17100 Hymus Blvd., presents an exhibition of paintings by Elke Attal, Lisa Marie Boissonneau, Nicole Dorion, Huguette Gabrial, Terri McKeown and Catherine Zanbaka. Continues to May 6. Call 514-630-2726, local 3216.
  Galerie de la ville, 12001 de Salaberry Blvd. in Do
  
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• Lakeshore Artists Association celebrates 30 years with fundraiser

  17-04-2018 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Lakeshore Artists Association has been exhibiting work by West Island artists for 30 years. It celebrates the milestone birthday with a spring exhibition and sale a Fritz Farm in Baie-D’Urfé, April 21-22. One third of the proceeds from sales plus all proceeds from an art raffle will benefit the community health organization NOVA West Island.
  NOVA offers at-home palliative care, bereavement programs, home support and adult day centres and support programs which benefit ALS and Al
  
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• Montreal's mostly white, male fire service vows to hire more women, people of colour

  17-04-2018 22:51 via cbc.ca
  Montreal’s fire service wants to triple its minuscule roster of female and visible minority firefighters by 2025.
  
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• Ex-Canadien Tomas Plekanec shows up for Maple Leafs in Game 3 win

  17-04-2018 22:51 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — Forward Tomas Plekanec was waiting for a chance to show Maple Leafs head coach Mike Babcock he was more than just a depth guy. He picked the right moment to prove himself.
  Looking to avoid an 0-3 series deficit against Boston, Plekanec had his best outing as a Leaf on Monday in Toronto’s Game 3 victory over the Bruins, much to Babcock’s satisfaction. He played 17:58 — the most ice time he’s had in 20 games with the Toronto since being acquired from Montrea
  
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• William and Emma were Quebec's most popular baby names in 2017

  17-04-2018 22:46 via montrealgazette.com
  William and Emma continued to be Quebec’s most popular baby names in 2017.
  There were 614 babies named Emma and 710 babies named William born in Quebec last year.
  The pair of first names have now topped Retraite Québec’s annual list for three years in a row. 
  William is actually the top boy’s name for the fifth year in a row. Logan came second. Raphaël and Léo are among the new entries on the Top-10 list for boy’s names.
  On the girls’ side, E
  
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• 'Mom' Boucher used code, hand gestures to plan jailhouse killing

  17-04-2018 22:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Former Hells Angel Maurice (Mom) Boucher admitted on Tuesday that he hatched a plot to kill one of the few criminals in Quebec who can claim to be his equal in terms of notoriety. 
  Boucher, 64, pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill Raynald Desjardins, a well known leader in the Montreal Mafia who played a leading role in a conspiracy to kill Mafioso Salvatore Montagna back in 2011. Boucher — who was behind bars when the plot was hatched in 2015 and is still serving life sentences for i
  
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• Montreal fire department aiming to recruit more women and members of cultural minorities

  17-04-2018 22:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s fire department is out of step with the city’s multicultural reality and women’s equality, its top managers acknowledged Tuesday at a meeting of the public security committee.
  “It’s a man’s world. It must be said,” said Suzanne Desjardins, director of health and well-being for the city as she presented a plan to recruit more women, minorities and First Nations into the department.
  In a city where one resident out of three belongs to a visible
  
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• What’s the plan for burned down Ristorante Linguini?

  17-04-2018 22:16 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Apr 17: The Town of Baie d’Urfé has ordered popular West Island Ristorante Linguini to clean up the debris on its site after a fire in 2016. Baie d’Urfe mayor Maria Tutino explains the situation.
  
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• Survivor of Quebec mosque shooting recounts how deadly night changed his life

  17-04-2018 21:52 via globalnews.ca
  Said Akjour recounted details from the nightsix fellow worshipers were gunned down and he was struck by a bullet in the shoulder.
  
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• South Shore school bus strike halts transportation

  17-04-2018 21:42 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Apr 17: Some school buses at Riverside School Board and the Commission Scolaire des Patriotes were halted Tuesday after drivers began a one-day strike. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• McGill professors back students, call for external investigation on misconduct allegations

  17-04-2018 21:39 via globalnews.ca
  Around 150 McGill University professors and academic staff have sent an open letter to the administration backing students' call for an external investigation.
  
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• Maurice ‘Mom’ Boucher pleads guilty to murder conspiracy charge involving rival

  17-04-2018 21:25 via globalnews.ca
  Maurice 'Mom' Boucher pleaded guilty to conspiring with two others to kill Raynald Desjardins.
  
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• Promenade Nocturne pour le foie / for liver

  17-04-2018 21:19 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian Liver Foundation, Montreal Chapter, invites you to participate in our first ever Promenade Nocturne on June 16th, 2018 in Foresta Lumina on behalf of a liver disease patient. Help us “uncover the shadows of liver disease” by raising funds for much needed liver research to benefit Quebec liver patients. To register as an...
  
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• Survivors, widow of mosque shooting asking for maximum sentence for Alexandre Bissonnette

  17-04-2018 21:14 via cbc.ca
  Saïd El-Amari, one of the survivors of the Quebec City mosque shooting, says he is frightened by the thought his children could one day live in a society where Alexandre Bissonnette would walk freely.
  
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• Survivors of mosque shooting call for maximum sentence

  17-04-2018 21:14 via cbc.ca
  Said El-Amari, one of the survivors of the Quebec City mosque shooting, says he is frightened by the thought his children could one day live in a society where Alexandre Bissonnette would walk freely.
  
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• 'I was living a nightmare' in aftermath of Quebec mosque shooting: widow

  17-04-2018 20:45 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – One of the women left widowed in the Quebec City mosque shooting last year said Tuesday that her children are terrified that she too will be the victim of a terrorist attack.
  Louiza Mohamed-Said was the first of the widows of the six men killed in the mosque attack to address the sentencing hearing for killer Alexandre Bissonnette.
  Mohamed-Said told Justice François Huot that the Jan. 29, 2017, attack was a hate crime aimed at terrifying the Muslim community and reject
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Town demands Linguini clean up site, plans to rebuild still on hold

  17-04-2018 20:44 via globalnews.ca
  Now that Montreal Police have completed an investigation into the cause of the Linguini Restaurant fire, the town of Baie d'Urfe will order it to clean up the site.
  
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• Opinion: A lack of understanding of laïcité isn't the problem

  17-04-2018 20:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Lise Ravary (“What laïcité is and what it is not” Opinion, April 13) contends that when it comes to the place of religion in society, Quebec prefers laïcité and integration while Canada (that is, the rest of Canada) opts for liberal tolerance leading to multiculturalism.
  In fact, Canada’s model of multiculturalism does not reject integration, nor does Quebec reject liberal tolerance.
  Rather, the Canadian approach to diversity does not require the abandon
  
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• Sylvain Lefebvre fired as head coach of Laval Rocket

  17-04-2018 20:13 via cbc.ca
  Sylvain Lefebvre has been fired as head coach of the Laval Rocket, the Montreal Canadiens' farm team.
  
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• CAQ candidate dumped by Legault's party in less than a week

  17-04-2018 20:06 via montrealgazette.com
  The political career of Karen Cliffe as a Coalition Avenir Québec candidate lasted less than a week.
  The CAQ announced last Monday (April 9) that Cliffe would be the party’s candidate in the West Island riding of Nelligan for next fall’s provincial election
  But by Friday the 13th, the CAQ had dumped Cliffe as a candidate.
  The initial controversy began Monday after the Journal de Québec published an article containing Twitter posts from Cliffe in which she criticized CNN
  
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• Celine Cooper: Keeping young families in Montreal

  17-04-2018 19:50 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s an evergreen question with an evergreen answer: How do you get young families to stay in Montreal? Well, it’s complicated. Perhaps more so than ever before. 
  Following up on a key campaign promise, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante recently announced a tax break for families wishing to buy homes in the city. 
  Starting June 1, 2018, a total of just over $21 million will be allocated annually to a program to support residential acquisition. It will provide financ
  
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• More electric cars, reduction in greenhouse gases part of Quebec government plan

  17-04-2018 19:20 via cbc.ca
  Liberal Premier Philippe Couillard is promising to increase the number of electric cars, improve road safety and lower greenhouse gas emissions as part of a long-term transportation plan.
  
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• Update: Liberal MNA facing sexual misconduct allegations leaves party caucus

  17-04-2018 19:02 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Liberal MNA Yves St-Denis has withdrawn from the party caucus in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct.
  St-Denis, the MNA for Argenteuil, withdrew following a report by Cogeco media that he sent a party employee a photo of a sexual act.
  The premier’s office confirmed Tuesday St-Denis, 54, has withdrawn from caucus.
  Sources said St-Denis was not given much of a choice, that he withdraw or be kicked out of the caucus.
  In a statement issued later, caucus chairperson Filo
  
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• Workers at dozens of daycares in Montreal and Laval to strike Wednesday

  17-04-2018 18:47 via cbc.ca
  Workers at 61 daycares in the Montreal and Laval area will begin a two-day strike Wednesday, affecting around 6,000 children and their parents.
  
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• Workers at dozens of daycares in Montreal and Laval on strike today, tomorrow

  17-04-2018 18:47 via cbc.ca
  Workers at 61 daycares in the Montreal and Laval area will begin a two-day strike Wednesday, affecting around 6,000 children and their parents.
  
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• Workers at 61 daycares in Montreal and Laval go on strike tomorrow

  17-04-2018 18:47 via cbc.ca
  About 1,500 daycare educators will be on strike for the next two days, starting Tuesday.
  
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• SQ officer suspended 35 days without pay after injuring three protesters in 2012

  17-04-2018 18:13 via montrealgazette.com
  A Sûreté du Québec constable blamed by the province’s police ethics committee for having injured three protesters during a demonstration in Victoriaville in May of 2012 has been suspended for 35 days without pay.
  Denis Burelle was found by the committee not to have used his projectile launcher with “prudence and discernment” during the incident. Ethics commissioner Richard Uticone ordered the sanction based on a joint recommendation from all parties aft
  
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• Lagarde brothers helped McGill win fourth national baseball crown

  17-04-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The powerhouse McGill University baseball team had a strong West Island connection this past season.
  Sasha Lagarde of Pierrefonds was recently named the most valuable player of the national-champion McGill Redmen at the team’s annual awards gala.
  Lagarde helped McGill capture its fourth consecutive national baseball crown.
  He won Tournament MVP honours after leading McGill to the Canadian Collegiate Baseball Association banner last fall.
  The 6-foot, 220-pound outfielder was also named
  
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• Six O’Clock Solution: Sizzlin’ Steak Fajitas

  17-04-2018 17:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Can I freeze it? That’s a much-asked question in the culinary domain. A U.S. cookbook author has answered it carefully in Seriously Good Freezer Meals: 150 Easy Recipes To Save Your Time, Money & Sanity (Robert Rose, $29.95).
  Karrie Truman has tested every recipe two ways: one for eating the dish right away, the other for freezing. As she demonstrates in her beautifully illustrated book, preparation techniques are different if you plan to freeze it. Some foods don’t behave well w
  
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• WTO panel rules against Canada in preliminary ruling in C Series dispute

  17-04-2018 17:58 via globalnews.ca
  Brazilian competitor Embraer S.A. launched the dispute alleging Bombardier's subsidies hurt the aviation industry.
  
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• Update: 'Mom' Boucher used code, hand gestures to plan jailhouse killing

  17-04-2018 17:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Maurice “Mom” Boucher has pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill well-known crime figure Raynald Desjardins. 
  Boucher shouted “guilty!” when Justice Éric Downs asked him on Tuesday to confirm that he was pleading guilty to the conspiracy. This was because a microphone in the prisoner’s dock where Boucher was seated was not on when he first responded. 
  The failed plan proposed by Boucher was to assassinate Desjardins at the Ste-Anne-des-Plaines peniten
  
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• Quebec mosque shooter looked like he was playing a video game: survivor

  17-04-2018 17:32 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – Saïd Akjour was reading the Qur’an at the Quebec City mosque when he heard a loud noise that he thought was a truck going by.
  In fact, it was a gun being fired by Alexandre Bissonnette as he attacked people at the mosque in January 2017.
  Akjour said he thought of his son, now 7 years old, when he first saw Bissonnette and realized that a “massacre” was happening.
  “My son has a mother. He who has a mother has everything,” he said. “When I th
  
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• Brothers likely died of fentanyl overdose in Montreal parking lot: coroner

  17-04-2018 17:20 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec coroner has confirmed the suspicions of Montreal police who discovered the bodies of two men in a car at a gas station parking lot last August — brothers Gilles and Yves Faucher died of a drug overdose likely made fatal by fentanyl.
  The bodies of the two men, both from the Lac-Mégantic area, were discovered on the morning of Aug. 24, 2017, in a car parked in a gas station parking lot on De Maisonneuve Blvd. near De Lorimier Ave.
  Urgences Santé first responders c
  
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• Ex-Hells Angels chief 'Mom' Boucher pleads guilty to prison-hatched murder plot

  17-04-2018 17:14 via cbc.ca
  Ex-Hells Angels chief Maurice "Mom" Boucher has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder Raynald Desjardins, a high-ranking Mafia member, while both men were behind bars.
  
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• SQ officer suspended 35 days without pay for firing plastic bullets into crowd at 2012 protest

  17-04-2018 17:11 via cbc.ca
  Police ethics committee ruled in January that Const. Denis Burelle acted without "prudence, judgment."
  
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• 'It's a man's world': Montreal fire department is mostly male and white

  17-04-2018 16:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s fire department is out of step with equality for women and the city’s multicultural reality, its management acknowledged Tuesday at a meeting of the public security committee.
  “It’s a man’s world. It must be said,” said Suzanne Desjardins, director of health and wellbeing for the city as she presented a plan to include women, minorities and First Nations.
  Almost one Montrealer in three belongs to a visible minority, three out of five are first- or s
  
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• MNA leaves Liberals after admitting he sent pornographic photo to female staffer

  17-04-2018 16:53 via cbc.ca
  Yves St-Denis is leaving the party caucus and will sit as an independent. He said he considered the woman to be “one of the boys,” and he thought she wouldn’t take it the wrong way.
  
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• Liberal MNA admits he sent pornographic photo to female staffer

  17-04-2018 16:53 via cbc.ca
  Yves St-Denis is leaving the party caucus and will sit as an independent. He said he considered the woman to be “one of the boys,” and he thought she wouldn’t take it the wrong way.
  
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• Dressing for your body: From long & lean to hourglass, @zeeta has you covered! Full video: btmontreal.ca/videos/ https://t.co/49nOVFK9xU

  17-04-2018 16:42
  
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• Meaghan Benfeito leads the way at Gold Coast Games btmontreal.ca/videos/meaghan… https://t.co/sztHknUBak

  17-04-2018 16:36
  
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• Quebec Liberal MNA withdraws from caucus after reports of sexual misconduct

  17-04-2018 16:09 via globalnews.ca
  Yves St-Denis has left the Quebec Liberal caucus to sit as an independent after reports he sent a sexually-explicit photo to a party employee.
  
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• Eating great food for a great cause: We get the details on this year's Table of Hope from @jasonrockmansod &… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-04-2018 16:09
  Eating great food for a great cause: We get the details on this year's Table of Hope from @jasonrockmansod &… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Shorter commutes, fewer emissions feature in Quebec's 12-year transit plan

  17-04-2018 15:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard released his administration’s goals Tuesday in terms of sustainable mobility for the coming 12 years, including cutting commuting time, reducing the amount of household income spent on getting to and from work, cutting the number of vehicles with just one person inside and reducing the amount of gas used by 40 per cent for transport.
  Among the main objectives cited are:Ensuring 70 per cent of the population has access to at least four types of sustainable
  
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