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• Laval offering $2,000 grant for electric-car buyers

  20-04-2018 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Laval is offering a $2,000 grant to any of its citizens who want to buy a fully electric car, making it the first municipality in Canada to do so. In conjuction with Quebec’s Roulez électrique program that gives buyers of an all-electric vehicle an $8,000 grant, Laval residents can save $10,000 of the cost off a vehicle like the Nissan Leaf, which retails at $36,000, or the smaller Smart fortwo that sells for $29,000. 
  Laval Mayor Marc Demers made the announcement F
  
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• Enrolment up at EMSB schools

  20-04-2018 23:47 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Apr 20: Enrolment in the EMSB is up for the first time in 15 years. As Global’s Gloria Henriquez reports, there have been so many applications, that schools are being forced to turn away potential students.
  
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• Electric vehicles exposition on this weekend at Place Bonaventure

  20-04-2018 23:42 via montrealgazette.com
  For those toying with the idea of buying an electric car or just interested in seeing what they’re all about, the Montreal Electrical Vehicle Show is running this weekend at Place Bonaventure downtown. More than 25 types of electric and hybrid cars will be on display at the exposition, now in its second year, as well as electric scooters, motorcycles, boats, snowmobiles and bikes.
  There will be an indoor and an outdoor track for those interested in trying out the vehicles — since man
  
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• Province green lights highway 19 extension

  20-04-2018 23:29 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec announces highway 19 extension north of Montreal.
  
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• Seniors lace up for hockey fundraiser

  20-04-2018 23:28 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Apr 20: Age is just a number as senior hockey players gear up for the 49th annual Pointe-Claire Oldtimers Tournament. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• Editorial: Loss in Bill 99 constitutionality case is ultimately a win

  20-04-2018 23:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Keith Henderson may have lost his court challenge against Bill 99, but Justice Claude Dallaire’s nuanced decision Thursday in the long-running case ultimately leaves him a winner. It allows just about everyone else to declare victory, too. 
  The law, enacted in 2000 by the Parti Québécois government of the day, asserted Quebecers’ right to determine their future. Underpinning Henderson’s challenge was the concern that certain articles might be used a
  
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• Man sentenced to 12 months in jail for torching car of former president of Quebec City mosque

  20-04-2018 23:11 via cbc.ca
  Mathieu Bilodeau, 34, pleaded guilty in February to setting fire to the car of Mohamed Labidi, the former president of the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre where last year's deadly attack took place.
  
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• Kahnawake residents clean neighbourhood

  20-04-2018 22:49 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Apr 20: Residents in Kahnawake are cleaning up their neighbourhood as part of an annual event by the Eastern Door newspaper. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Crown calls Richard Henry Bain a terrorist while seeking increase in sentence

  20-04-2018 22:32 via montrealgazette.com
  A document filed in court outlining the arguments the Crown intends to make when the Quebec Court of Appeal will hear arguments on Richard Henry Bain’s sentence refers to the convicted murderer as a terrorist at least a few times. 
  Bain was convicted of second-degree murder for having fatally shot stagehand Denis Blanchette, who was working at the Metropolis concert hall on Sept. 4, 2012, while then Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois was delivering a speech following
  
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• Quebec City police say two year old girl was stabbed to death

  20-04-2018 22:28 via globalnews.ca
  Police say a two-year-old Quebec girl who died in hospital after being found in a garbage can had been stabbed.
  
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• Quebec school boards say they’re not ready for new surge of asylum seekers

  20-04-2018 22:04 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec schools are feeling the pressure as asylum-seeking families with young children continue to cross the U.S. border.
  
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• Toddler found dead in Quebec City had been stabbed, police confirm

  20-04-2018 21:55 via cbc.ca
  Police are asking residents whose garbage bins have gone missing to contact 911 as part of their investigation into the death of two-year-old Rosalie Gagnon on Wednesday. An autopsy has confirmed she died of stab wounds.
  
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• 5 Montreal stories guaranteed to make you smile this week: April 20

  20-04-2018 20:55 via globalnews.ca
  One family has learned to communicate with their son, who has autism, through Disney movies.
  
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• Eugenie Bouchard to play Fed Cup tie in Montreal

  20-04-2018 20:46 via cbc.ca
  Eugenie Bouchard will take on Kateryna Bondarenko in the opening singles matches of Canada's Fed Cup tie against Ukraine on Saturday in Montreal.
  
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• Don Macpherson: A major-league boondoggle for Montreal

  20-04-2018 20:43 via montrealgazette.com
  On Wednesday, Montrealers awoke to see snow on the ground and hear a forecast of a high temperature that would feel like 3 degrees Celsius.
  It was three weeks into the major-league baseball season. Boosters of a proposed new ballpark say Montreal has proven it’s a baseball city by filling (or this year, half-filling) the indoor Olympic Stadium for a couple of pre-season games. But on Wednesday, none was heard waxing poetic about the pleasures of taking in the summer game in an open-air bal
  
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• It's springtime in Montreal and it ain't pretty

  20-04-2018 20:41 via cbc.ca
  With a high of 7 C today and sunny, double-digit temperatures in the forecast every day until Tuesday, what’s left of the snow has begun to melt, leaving streets riddled with trash and drenched in water.
  
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• In Kanesatake, a marijuana dispensary sprouts on Mohawk land

  20-04-2018 20:25 via montrealgazette.com
  There’s no turning back now.
  The thought looped its way around Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas’s mind as he sorted through a pile of narcotics. It was, he thought, surreal to see the freezer bags sprawled out in his shop, each stuffed with fragrant, yellowish-green buds.
  Nicholas opened the first-ever medical marijuana dispensary in the Kanesatake Mohawk territory on Friday.
  The dispensary is, strictly speaking, illegal. It puts Nicholas at odds with the provincial police who patrol Kane
  
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• Laval offers citizens $2K subsidy to plug in to electric car trend

  20-04-2018 20:21 via cbc.ca
  In what it's calling a first for a Canadian city, Laval is offering its citizens a $2,000 subsidy for the purchase of an electric vehicle and $400 for electric bicycles.
  
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• Montreal’s anglo rappers are ready for their breakthrough

  20-04-2018 19:55 via montrealgazette.com
  If Toronto can become a rap music hotbed, why can’t Montreal?
  Although the city’s francophone rap scene is booming — expect to hear Loud’s Toutes les femmes savent danser everywhere this summer — the anglophone rap contingent is still waiting for a breakthrough moment.
  There are talented young Montreal rappers who create music and videos that are every bit as slick and professional as their American counterparts. Without the same linguistic barriers as the francopho
  
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• Teen breaks silence about sexual misconduct allegations against Gerry Sklavounos

  20-04-2018 19:41 via globalnews.ca
  An 18-year-old woman has broken her silence, saying she was involved in alleged sexual misconduct against Quebec politician Gerry Sklavounos.
  
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• Kent Park murder: Driver to serve 17 months for his role

  20-04-2018 19:09 via montrealgazette.com
  A man who was behind the wheel of a sports utility vehicle when one of his passengers shot and killed a man following a dispute over a woman was sentenced to an eight-year prison term Friday. 
  With time served factored in, Shorn Carr, 36, of Montreal, is left with a term of little more than 17 months for his role in the death of Fehmi Sen.
  The 28-year-old man was gunned down near Kent Park in N.D.G. on May 30, 2013.
  While delivering his sentence, Superior Court Justice Guy Cournoyer at
  
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• Kahnawake residents rally for annual neighbourhood cleanup

  20-04-2018 18:53 via globalnews.ca
  People in Kahnawake joined together to clean up their community.
  
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• ‘Our hero, Azzedine Soufiane’: Quebec City mosque shooting victim lauded at sentencing hearing

  20-04-2018 18:42 via globalnews.ca
  During court procedures, more was learned about the final moments of Soufiane's life - and the pain his death has caused his friends and family.
  
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• Review: Louise Pitre’s Édith Piaf soars in The Angel and the Sparrow

  20-04-2018 18:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Feathers fly when the Little Sparrow meets the Blue Angel in a story of the relationship between two legendary chanteuses. And at the risk of being ungallant to one of them, there’s a clear winner by the end of it.
  In Broadway director Gordon Greenberg’s enjoyable production of the German musical biopic The Angel and the Sparrow, playing at the Segal Centre through May 6, Louise Pitre caps her many stage incarnations of Édith Piaf with a remarkable, heart-raking portrayal of a
  
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• South Shore, West Island boards brace for possible school bus strike

  20-04-2018 18:17 via montrealgazette.com
  More than 6,500 students attending classes in five school boards on the South Shore and in the West Island may face an unlimited school bus strike beginning Monday.
  The general strike, voted for by school bus drivers represented by the Teamsters-FTQ, had been postponed three times to give negotiations a chance.
  On Friday morning, the union remained uncertain whether a general strike would start Monday, noting the final word rests with the membership, which is expected to vote on the final o
  
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• Wine: Quebecers plant roots in Oregon

  20-04-2018 18:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Back in 1986, a Colorado wine merchant named Michael Etzel purchased a 35-hectare farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley and planted pinot noir. His partner, and brother-in-law, was famed U.S. wine critic Robert Parker Jr. Their venture was named Beaux Frères, and part of their success can be attributed to a Quebecer.The first harvests from Beaux Frères were sold to other wineries. In 1990, Quebecer Robert Roy invested in the business, on the condition that they build a wine
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: April 20, 2018

  20-04-2018 18:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Every week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings.
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  Barbera d’Asti 2016, Costalunga, Bersano, Italy red, $13.75, SAQ # 506824. The classics are back in vogue, and few wineries have stayed true to traditional barbera like Bersano. True barbera expression of cherry fruit, bright acidity and a faint herbal note. This rules any tomato sauce. Keep it cool. Grape variety: barbera. Residual sugar: 2 g/L. Serve at: 15 C. Drink
  
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• Nine face drug-trafficking charges after Montreal police raids

  20-04-2018 18:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Nine persons have been arrested and face a series of charges linked to illegal drug trafficking after a series of raids in the city’s east end.
  The raids, which saw police seize quantities of crack cocaine, marijuana and $30,000 in cash on Thursday, followed a six-week investigation sparked by complaints from citizens and local businesses in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district.
  Raids were launched in residences and vehicles in the districts of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Mercier and Pointe-aux-T
  
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• Celebrations: April 20, 2018 https://t.co/NhbJwbM8sZ

  20-04-2018 17:48
  
  Celebrations: April 20, 2018 https://t.co/NhbJwbM8sZ
  
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• Quebec mosque shooting: 'Your father was a hero,' judge tells daughter of man who tried to stop attack

  20-04-2018 17:21 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Jan. 29, 2017, was a normal day at the Soufiane household in Quebec City.
  Azzeddine Soufiane left the home to close the family store, and then pray at the Quebec City mosque. “Bye-bye, my princess,” he said to his seven-year-old daughter as he walked out the door.
  A few hours later, he was dead. Hailed as a hero, Soufiane was shot to death when he tried to stop Alexandre Bissonnette as he fired at terrified worshippers in the mosque.
  On Thursday, his 14-year-old daught
  
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• Betty and Bernard S. Shapiro Family Lecture Series featuring Jean Twenge

  20-04-2018 17:06 via globalnews.ca
  Dr. Jean Twenge, the internationally recognized psychologist and researcher on adolescence and technology, offers up-to-date research and tips that may make a difference in how we interact with our phones and each other. This free public lecture will help us understand the effects of our smartphones on our families, relationships, and behaviour. Parents and their...
  
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• Laval is going Green - Deputy Mayor @ddecotis explains how https://t.co/XMPgCZH3Ds

  20-04-2018 17:05
  
  Laval is going Green - Deputy Mayor @ddecotis explains how https://t.co/XMPgCZH3Ds
  
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• Video: @nadiastar on teaching kids how (and what) to recycle #EarthDay btmontreal.ca/videos/teachin… https://t.co/lmoVYUt75R

  20-04-2018 17:02
  
  Video: @nadiastar on teaching kids how (and what) to recycle #EarthDay btmontreal.ca/videos/teachin… https://t.co/lmoVYUt75R
  
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• Brownstein: Despite star power, Seth Rogen’s Netflix show is less than stellar

  20-04-2018 16:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealers, be warned: Seth Rogen’s Hilarity for Charity show, which is now streaming on Netflix, is definitely not to be confused with the Just for Laughs gala of the same name, one of the highlights of the 2014 fest.
  This latest, like the JFL show, was a fundraiser for Alzheimer’s research and awareness. Hilarity for Charity was founded by Rogen and his wife, Lauren Miller Rogen, as a tribute to her mother who had been beset with the disease.
  But while this Rogen-hosted spectacle,
  
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• Weekend traffic: Champlain-Turcot double whammy, Part 2

  20-04-2018 16:49 via montrealgazette.com
  The weekend of April 21-22 will once again see the region’s two biggest roadwork projects wreak havoc on the highways around the city. Other roadwork will also force motorists off the beaten path. Here’s what to expect on the roads this weekend.
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  Because of work on the Turcot Interchange, the westbound Ville-Marie Expressway will be closed from the Robert-Bourassa/Champlain Bridge exit until the entrance at Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Blvd. at the Montreal West Interchange.
  The eastbo
  
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• We celebrate Earth Day with St. Monica School and @EnglishMTL btmontreal.ca/videos/celebra… https://t.co/TMqyc9EHEy

  20-04-2018 16:44
  
  We celebrate Earth Day with St. Monica School and @EnglishMTL btmontreal.ca/videos/celebra… https://t.co/TMqyc9EHEy
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Friday, April 20th.

  20-04-2018 16:43 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Friday, April 20th.
  
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• Extension of Laval's Highway 19 coming at last, province says

  20-04-2018 16:41 via cbc.ca
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard and Transport Minsiter André Fortin are set to announce details of the project this afternoon.
  
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• Previewing the FINA Diving World Series

  20-04-2018 16:36 via globalnews.ca
  Fresh off his medal-winning Commonwealth Games performance, diver Philippe Gagné and Global’s Laura Casella preview the upcoming FINA diving World Series at the Olympic Park.
  
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• Previewing the FINA Diving World Cup

  20-04-2018 16:36 via globalnews.ca
  Fresh off his medal-winning Commonwealth Games performance, diver Philippe Gagné and Global’s Laura Casella preview the upcoming FINA diving World Cup at the Olympic Park.
  
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• Video: @ThomasMulcair on what's next for him, and if Jagmeet Singh should run in Outremont https://t.co/J0LrPpW4Zc

  20-04-2018 16:32
  
  Video: @ThomasMulcair on what's next for him, and if Jagmeet Singh should run in Outremont https://t.co/J0LrPpW4Zc
  
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• $139.5M surplus proves tax hike was unnecessary: Montreal opposition

  20-04-2018 16:28 via montrealgazette.com
  The official opposition at Montreal city hall says that a $139.5-million surplus found in city coffers proves that a controversial tax hike deemed essential by the administration of Valérie Plante was unnecessary.
  “This large surplus shows not only that the former administration left Montreal in excellent financial health, but that Mayor Plante knew perfectly well that the city was headed toward a surplus when she prepared the budget for 2018,” opposition leader Lionel Perez s
  
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• Entertainment with Jay Walker: Spend this weekend outdoors

  20-04-2018 16:25 via globalnews.ca
  Spring has finally sprung! Jay Walker joins Global’s Kim Sullivan with a stellar list of weekend activities under the sun, including the Scotiabank 21K run!
  
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• Kahnawake Clean-Up

  20-04-2018 16:21 via globalnews.ca
  In honour of Earth Day this weekend, members of the Mohawk community are out picking up garbage and cleaning the streets. Global’s Dan Spector joins us from Kahnawake to find out more about the annual tradition.
  
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• Give your home an eco-friendly makeover with these tips from @repertoiredeco btmontreal.ca/videos/eco-fri… https://t.co/4GaUHZRj8P

  20-04-2018 16:20
  
  Give your home an eco-friendly makeover with these tips from @repertoiredeco btmontreal.ca/videos/eco-fri… https://t.co/4GaUHZRj8P
  
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• Getting the most out of your morning coffee

  20-04-2018 16:18 via globalnews.ca
  Light, medium or dark? Join barista Chantal Benoit and Global’s Laura Casella as they show you the science behind your coffee roast.
  
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• It's time to ditch your straw: Federal MP and Chairman of the Earth Day Board @ThomasMulcair on the impact of plast… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-04-2018 16:14
  It's time to ditch your straw: Federal MP and Chairman of the Earth Day Board @ThomasMulcair on the impact of plast… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Friday, April 20th.

  20-04-2018 16:14 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Friday, April 20th.
  
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• Montreal Electric Vehicle Show

  20-04-2018 16:07 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan talks to Louis Bernard, a co-promoter with the Montreal Electric Vehicle Show, the largest event of its kind!
  
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• Celebrating the uniqueness of people with autism

  20-04-2018 16:07 via globalnews.ca
  April is Autism Awareness Month and author Dr. Sazini Nzula is in studio with Global’s Laura Casella talking about her new book “Beautiful Inside and Out”.
  
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