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• Stu Cowan: Sun is shining on Laurent Ciman with Los Angeles FC

  01-05-2018 23:51 via montrealgazette.com
  One of the first moves Rémi Garde made after taking over as the Impact’s head coach and director of player personnel last November was to trade central defender Laurent Ciman, who had earned the nickname “The General” and become a fan favourite during his three seasons in Montreal.
  Ciman’s agent described the trade, which came two weeks before Christmas, as a “kick in the teeth” to the player and his family. Ciman and his wife, Diana, were shocked and c
  
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• NDG Food Depot receives generous donation

  01-05-2018 23:40 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, May 1: One of the main reasons Montrealers go hungry is a lack of access to affordable food, and as Global’s Phil Carpenter reports, a group of organizations is working together to fix the problem.
  
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• Quebec floods: Lévis flood victims return home

  01-05-2018 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, May 1: Flood victims in Lévis, north of Quebec City, are counting themselves lucky after water levels began receding Tuesday. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, about 30 homes were evacuated, but residents are now returning to start clean-up operations.
  
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• Quebec floods: Residents still struggling one year later

  01-05-2018 23:01 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, May 1: It’s been one year since the devastating Quebec floods destroyed thousands of homes. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, some residents in Pierrefonds-Roxboro have had an especially difficult time.
  
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• Quebec Floods: water recedes in Levis

  01-05-2018 22:56 via globalnews.ca
  Flood victims in Levis, north of Quebec City, are counting themselves lucky. Water levels that forced the evacuation of 30 houses have receded.
  
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• All major parties to take part in first-ever televised English debate

  01-05-2018 21:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée, Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault and Québec Solidaire co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois all said Tuesday they are willing to take part in what would be the first-ever televised English-language debate between Quebec’s provincial party leaders.
  A consortium of English media outlets in Quebec that includes CBC, CJAD, CTV, Global and the Montreal Ga
  
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• Gas prices spike in Montreal

  01-05-2018 21:47 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, May 1: Gas prices jumped in Montreal this week — at almost $1.48 per litre. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Party leaders in Quebec agree to historic English-language debate

  01-05-2018 21:46 via cbc.ca
  Quebec is one step closer to having a first-ever televised provincial leaders debate in English, after leaders of all four parties in the National Assembly agreed to participate Tuesday.
  
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• ‘It makes no sense’: Lachine potholes remain despite several reports to the borough

  01-05-2018 21:31 via globalnews.ca
  One Montreal motorist is fuming over potholes along 43rd Avenue in Lachine, under the Côte-de-Liesse overpass. Despite reporting the pervasive pot holes to the borough on several occasions, one motorist is furious that nothing is being done.
  
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• After rooming-house fire, red tape may block CDN-NDG from taking action against landlord

  01-05-2018 21:27 via cbc.ca
  The landlord of an illegal rooming house in Côte-des-Neiges earned a sharp rebuke from the borough after a weekend fire, but the borough may be unable to issue fines.
  
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• No extra 'dues' for property owners near REM stations, Pointe-Claire says

  01-05-2018 21:18 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Pointe-Claire is reassuring about 1,000 of its property owners that they won’t have to pay for the privilege of living near stations of the future Réseau express métropolitain.
  Brigadoon Ave. residents Cameron and Wendy Tilson contacted the Montreal Gazette Monday after they received a letter from the city in the mail with the subject line: “Dues to be paid to the ARTM for REM stations.” The letter was sent out by Pointe-Claire to all owners of propert
  
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• West Island community calendar for the week of May 2

  01-05-2018 21:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Galleries and exhibitions
  Aikawa Restaurant, 55 Brunswick Blvd., in Dollard-des-Ormeaux 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 until Sunday. Call 514-630-2726, local 3216.
  Galerie de la ville, 12001 de Salab
  
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• Gas prices spike in Montreal by double digits

  01-05-2018 20:51 via globalnews.ca
  Motorists are seeing red after the cost of a litre of gas in Montreal jumped by double digits overnight.
  
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• Felix & Paul producing new Jurassic World VR project

  01-05-2018 20:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Hot Montreal virtual-reality producer Felix & Paul Studios announced Tuesday it is launching Jurassic World: Blue, a new virtual-reality project created by Felix & Paul, Universal Pictures and Facebook’s Oculus. The announcement was made at Facebook’s F8 technology development conference in San Jose, Calif.
  It is being launched in conjunction with the new Oculus Go VR headset and it can be played on Oculus Go and Oculus Rift.
  It is a two-part project, each four minutes, and f
  
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• Quebec party leaders agree to English-language debate ahead of provincial election

  01-05-2018 20:13 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard and Parti Québécois Leader Jean-François Lisée say they are willing to participate in an English-language debate ahead of the upcoming election in October, marking a historic first in the province.
  
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• Couillard, Lisée agree to English-language debate ahead of Quebec election

  01-05-2018 20:13 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard and Parti Québécois Leader Jean-François Lisée say they are willing to participate in an English-language debate ahead of the upcoming election in October, marking a historic first in the province.
  
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• Crown makes closing arguments in trial of trio accused in inmate's death

  01-05-2018 20:06 via montrealgazette.com
  One of the inmates charged with murdering a man inside the Montreal Detention Centre appeared to be running the sector where Michel Barrette was killed two years ago. 
  Prosecutor Louis Bouthillier asked the jury hearing the trial of Tarik (No Limit) Biji, 39, and two other men to recall what witnesses said of Biji and to pay attention to his body language — captured on surveillance cameras inside the P6 sector he was serving time in — before and after Barrette was beaten to deat
  
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• Couillard downplays Liberal losses as reports claim Lessard, Heurtel to quit politics

  01-05-2018 20:02 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Premier Philippe Couillard is downplaying losses to his Liberal team as the provincial election nears and says he will have fresh new players ready to hit the ice soon.
  With unconfirmed reports he may be about to lose two more key cabinet ministers, David Heurtel in immigration and Laurent Lessard in agriculture, Couillard said it’s normal to lose players along the way.
  Politics is a tough business and not everyone wants to keep at it for years and years, he said.
  “Thi
  
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• Chelsea Manning to speak at C2 Montreal this month

  01-05-2018 19:05 via globalnews.ca
  Organizers of an annual Montreal business conference say American whistleblower Chelsea Manning is scheduled to participate in this year's event.
  
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• Couillard, Lisée agree to take part in English leaders' debate

  01-05-2018 18:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard and Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée said Tuesday they are willing to take part in what would be the first-ever televised English-language debate between Quebec’s provincial party leaders.
  “I’d be very happy to do this. It would actually be normal that we conduct a debate in English. I hope it will take place,” Couillard told reporters in Quebec City.
  A consortium of English media outlets in Quebec th
  
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• Seven ex-Bloc Québécois MPs considering forming new party

  01-05-2018 18:50 via globalnews.ca
  The decision comes two days after Ouellet accused the seven of spreading "fake news'' about her.
  
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• Celine Cooper: Competing visions are at root of Bloc Québécois's woes

  01-05-2018 18:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Is Martine Ouellet to blame for the internal tensions roiling the Bloc Québécois?
  The Bloc leader, who was acclaimed to the position last year, has been under fire for refusing to step down after seven dissident MPs left the caucus last February, and for ignoring an open letter in Le Devoir signed by about 20 former Bloc MPs, including former leader Gilles Duceppe, calling on her to resign. They argue that she is a divisive, ineffective voice for Quebec in Ottawa. &n
  
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• Ottawa says no ‘formal’ talks underway on U.S.-Canada border agreement

  01-05-2018 18:36 via globalnews.ca
  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reviewing a Canadian proposal to amend the Safe Third Country Agreement, Global News has confirmed, but Ottawa denies there are formal talks.
  
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• Mohawk community’s ‘marry out, get out’ law ruled unconstitutional

  01-05-2018 18:35 via globalnews.ca
  A Quebec judge has ruled that a Mohawk community's so-called ''marry out, get out'' law is unconstitutional.
  
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• Ex-Bloc MPs could form new federal party

  01-05-2018 18:35 via cbc.ca
  The seven MPs who quit the Bloc Québécois earlier this year plan on starting their own federal party.
  
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• 'Something broke inside me': ex-mayor Coderre opens up on election loss

  01-05-2018 18:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Former mayor Denis Coderre acknowledges in a TV interview that he was a broken man after his election loss to Valérie Plante.
  In an interview with Paul Arcand on the TVA program Conversation secrète, to be aired Sunday after the final episode of La Voix, Coderre says he felt “very, very bad” after losing the election.
  In an extract posted online, Coderre has red-rimmed eyes and sheds tears. “For sure, something broke inside me,” he tells the popular rad
  
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• Province-wide school bus strike set for May 15

  01-05-2018 18:28 via cbc.ca
  More than 2,100 of Quebec's school bus drivers will walk off the job on the first of six planned general strike days.
  
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• Comedian @sugarsammy on hotels and his love life - Full interview btmontreal.ca/videos/sugar-s… https://t.co/bVQs47clFX

  01-05-2018 18:11
  
  Comedian @sugarsammy on hotels and his love life - Full interview btmontreal.ca/videos/sugar-s… https://t.co/bVQs47clFX
  
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• Aesthetic surgery gets an upgrade: Bodytite & Facetite btmontreal.ca/videos/innovat… https://t.co/ezhvS3hHcQ

  01-05-2018 18:01
  
  Aesthetic surgery gets an upgrade: Bodytite & Facetite btmontreal.ca/videos/innovat… https://t.co/ezhvS3hHcQ
  
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• West Island flood watch: We get an update from Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough mayor @BeisJim btmontreal.ca/videos/pierref…

  01-05-2018 17:53
  West Island flood watch: We get an update from Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough mayor @BeisJim btmontreal.ca/videos/pierref…
  
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• Flood threat recedes on most Quebec waterways, but authorities keep watch

  01-05-2018 17:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Most of the Quebec waterways placed under flood watch by civil authorities were seeing their water levels drop Tuesday morning.
  But there are still numerous rivers and streams where higher than normal water levels continue and minor flooding has been reported at numerous sites, according to Hydro-Météo, the flood risk monitoring service.
  The service notes on its website that river beds north of the St. Lawrence River and east of Quebec City are still being fed by snow melt and the
  
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• Improving mental health services - We speak to Liz Wiener from @wisewomencanada btmontreal.ca/videos/improvi… https://t.co/e6PQwq2hcm

  01-05-2018 17:48
  
  Improving mental health services - We speak to Liz Wiener from @wisewomencanada btmontreal.ca/videos/improvi… https://t.co/e6PQwq2hcm
  
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• BT in Bed: @eliasmakos gets cozy with @sugarsammy - Full interview: btmontreal.ca/videos/sugar-s… https://t.co/b0VGa8m5Wx

  01-05-2018 17:37
  
  BT in Bed: @eliasmakos gets cozy with @sugarsammy - Full interview: btmontreal.ca/videos/sugar-s… https://t.co/b0VGa8m5Wx
  
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• Chelsea Manning granted visa to speak at Montreal event, organizers say

  01-05-2018 17:28 via cbc.ca
  After being denied entry into Canada last fall, organizers of an annual conference in Montreal say former U.S. intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been granted a visa to speak at their event later this month.
  
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• Rick Dudley leaves Canadiens to join Hurricanes' front office

  01-05-2018 17:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Rick Dudley, the Canadiens senior vice-president, hockey operations, has left the team to take a similar position for the Carolina Hurricanes. Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon announced the hiring of the 69-year-old Dudley Tuesday morning in Raleigh. 
  “I would like to thank Rick Dudley for his contributions to the Canadiens organization over the last six years. His vast hockey knowledge and extensive experience have been key assets to our team,” said general manager Marc Bergevin.&nb
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: Rich flavour on a budget with Herbes de Provence Chicken

  01-05-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Ask a budget-minded meal provider how often chicken is on their menu and the answer, usually, is: whenever it’s on special at the supermarket.Breasts are the favourite chicken cut for U.S. cookbook author Karrie Truman. Thirteen of the chicken recipes in her book, Seriously Good Freezer Meals (Robert Rose, $29.95), are for chicken breasts. Thighs, which many prefer for their added flavour and moisture, rate two recipes, and there are five dishes made with sliced, chopped or ground chicken.
  
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• Beauty with a purpose: Tina Khadivi represents Quebec at the Miss World Canada pageant btmontreal.ca/videos/beauty-… https://t.co/sZVIfZ5w5i

  01-05-2018 16:54
  
  Beauty with a purpose: Tina Khadivi represents Quebec at the Miss World Canada pageant btmontreal.ca/videos/beauty-… https://t.co/sZVIfZ5w5i
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Tuesday, May 1st

  01-05-2018 16:29 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Tuesday, May 1st
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Tuesday, May 1st

  01-05-2018 16:26 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Tuesday, May 1st
  
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• Foolproof Mother’s Day gift ideas from him

  01-05-2018 16:22 via globalnews.ca
  Richard Cazeau shares his shopping tips for finding the best personalized gifts for every type of mom with Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Sugar Sammy: new stand-up tour!

  01-05-2018 16:15 via globalnews.ca
  One of the hottest comedians on the international circuit has a brand-new worldwide tour, and he’s kicking it off right here in his hometown of Montreal. Global’s Laura Casella catches up with the charismatic Sugar Sammy.
  
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• Sugar Sammy: new stand-up special!

  01-05-2018 16:15 via globalnews.ca
  One of the hottest comedians on the international circuit has a brand-new special released on disc and digital download. Global’s Laura Casella catches up with the charismatic Sugar Sammy.
  
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• Gas prices spike again in Montreal

  01-05-2018 16:08 via globalnews.ca
  Gas prices climbed more than twelve cents overnight Tuesday reaching near the all-time high for Montreal. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Pilates for summer bodies with Suaad Ghadban

  01-05-2018 16:04 via globalnews.ca
  Looking for an amazing way to work your entire body while being safe and preventing injuries? Fitness columnist Suuad Ghadban shows Global’s Kim Sullivan some fantastic pilates classes that are offered in Montreal.
  
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