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• Bernard St-Laurent to receive Lifetime Achievement Award

  02-05-2018 23:44 via cbc.ca
  Award will be presented at the RTDNA national conference and gala in Toronto on May 25.
  
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• Will more Quebec Anglos run in the next election?

  02-05-2018 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, May 2: With many Quebec MNAs not running again, could there be more Anglophone candidates in the next election? As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, there is a lot of speculation about recruiting more English Quebecers.
  
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• Terminally-ill refugee wants family by his side as he undergoes cancer treatment

  02-05-2018 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, May 2: A terminally-ill refugee’s request for his family to come to Canada temporarily to visit him from Lebanon has been denied. As Global’s Anne Leclair reports, his lawyer and doctors are asking the federal government to make an exception based on compassion.
  
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• Quebec Liberals recruiting more anglophone candidates?

  02-05-2018 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  The Liberals in the Westmount-Saint-Louis riding are reportedly recruiting an anglophone candidate, even if current MNA Jacques Chagnon hasn't stepped down.
  
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• Canadiens sign Lukas Vejdemo to two-year contract

  02-05-2018 23:24 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Canadiens announced Wednesday that they’ve signed 22-year-old Swedish centre Lukas Vejdemo to a two-year entry-level contract (2018-19 and 2019-20).
  The contract comes with a cap hit of $792,500, which includes a $92,500 signing bonus in each of the two years. It’s a two-way deal. Vejdemo will earn $70,000 a season if he plays in Laval with the AHL’s Rocket.Vejdemo tallied a career-high 10 goals and 22 points in 47 regular-season games with Djurgarden of the Swedi
  
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• STM head scolds union for vandalism, intimidation as maintenance workers rev up for overtime strike

  02-05-2018 23:05 via cbc.ca
  The executive director of Montreal's public transit agency used a Wednesday news conference to chastize union members for breaking windows and other unsavoury tactics in the past few weeks as they prepare to refuse overtime.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Alexandre Despatie goes from backyard pool to Hall of Fame

  02-05-2018 22:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Alexandre Despatie was only 3 or 4 years old when he got his first perfect-10 mark in diving.
  The judging, however, was rigged.
  Despatie learned to dive in his family’s backyard pool in Laval-sur-le-Lac, competing against his older sister, Anouk.
  “We used to pretend we were in the Olympics,” Despatie recalled. “The only way I would go inside is if I got my perfect 10. So I guess my grandmother knew that and when she was tired of it she’d just give me a 10.”
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• Quebec floods: How residents on 5th Avenue are coping one year later

  02-05-2018 22:53 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, May 2: It’s been one year since a Roxboro resident was arrested for building a temporary dyke to stop water from flooding his street. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, residents want a permanent dyke on 5th Avenue to prevent future flooding.
  
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• Beyond the Plate with chef Dyan Solomon: Love and restaurants

  02-05-2018 22:49 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the first instalment in the monthly series Beyond the Plate, looking at the motivations and passions of local chefs. This week: Dyan Solomon (Olive et Gourmando, Foxy).
  There is something about loss and the depths of despair that can bring on change and heal like no balm ever could.
  It was exactly three years ago that I lost my father. A deadly and unforgiving brain tumour took him at the age of 71.
  The lessons from my father are profound. In fact, they continue to shape me every day.
  My
  
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• Heavy rainfall means possible flooding in some Quebec regions

  02-05-2018 22:36 via cbc.ca
  Quebec City, the Laurentians, Charlevoix, La Tuque and Abitibi-Témiscamingue are among the regions under a rainfall warning today.
  
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• Hydro-Québec rethinks hooking up cryptominers, leaving would-be bitcoin miners in the dark

  02-05-2018 22:25 via cbc.ca
  After investing more than $80,000 to get his cryptocurrency mining business off the ground, Eric Sheffren stands to lose it all. Swamped by requests from would-be bitcoin miners, Hydro-Québec has put all applications on hold.
  
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• Cryptominers are stuck in limbo as Hydro-Québec suspends requests for power

  02-05-2018 22:25 via cbc.ca
  After investing more than $80,000 to get his cryptocurrency mining business off the ground, Eric Sheffren stands to lose it all. Swamped by requests from would-be bitcoin miners, Hydro-Québec has put all applications on hold.
  
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• Opinion: It's essential to stop hate in its tracks

  02-05-2018 22:18 via montrealgazette.com
  On Jan. 29, 2017, Alexandre Bissonnette shot to death six Canadian Muslims in the Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City. Nineteen others were wounded, many seriously.  
  During the first part of Bissonnette’s sentencing hearing last month, the Crown entered as evidence the websites frequented by Bissonnette in the period prior to his attack. A large number of them were neo-Nazi and white supremacist, sharing one common denominator: Islamophobia.
  They preach a worldview that
  
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• Alleged Hells Angel sought after drug bust turns himself in

  02-05-2018 21:55 via montrealgazette.com
  An alleged Hells Angel from Ontario surrendered himself to authorities at the Montreal courthouse Wednesday morning after being sought for more than a week in connection with a large drug bust carried out by Quebec police last week. 
  Louis Matte, 52, made a brief appearance before a Quebec Court judge during a hearing where a series of conditions were imposed on him if he wants to be released. One of the conditions required him to make a $20,000 deposit. He was taken into custody and will b
  
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• Quebec Floods: Roxboro residents still fighting for permanent fix, one year later

  02-05-2018 21:49 via globalnews.ca
  Residents on 5th avenue north in Roxboro say one year after the spring floods, not much has changed.
  
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• Quebec shopping centre bans unaccompanied minors following merchant complaints

  02-05-2018 21:26 via globalnews.ca
  Le Carrefour du Cap shopping centre refused to comment on its decision.
  
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• Pointe-Claire homeowners won’t have to pay extra dues for living near REM stations

  02-05-2018 21:05 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Pointe-Claire says that residents living close to two future stations of the Réseau express métropolitain (REM) will not have to pay dues after a letter sent out earlier this week spurred confusion among homeowners.
  
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• Opinion: CAQ's school governance plan respects English community's rights

  02-05-2018 21:02 via montrealgazette.com
  A few weeks ago, the Coalition Avenir Québec unveiled a comprehensive policy on the important issue of the governance of the education system in Quebec.
  One of the proposals in this plan, as you may have read in these pages (“School boards are key to English education rights” Opinion, May 1) and elsewhere, proposes the abolition of school boards, the elimination of elections of school trustees and the creation, in their place, of service centres for schools.
  For the CAQ, educa
  
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• Defence lawyer uses baseball bat to make point in manslaughter case

  02-05-2018 20:59 via montrealgazette.com
  A defence lawyer representing an Île-Bizard resident accused of manslaughter slammed a baseball bat onto a desk twice before he began arguing that his client should be acquitted because he was acting in self-defence.
  “Imagine that’s your head. What would you do,” Gregory Leslie asked the startled jury after he used a Louisville Slugger to produce two loud bangs that were probably heard outside the courtroom at the Montreal courthouse.
  Leslie appeared to have prepared for
  
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• Zampino, ex-No. 2 at city hall, and co-accused acquitted in Contrecoeur fraud case

  02-05-2018 20:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Frank Zampino, the former No. 2 politician at Montreal city hall, and his co-accused were acquitted on all charges in connection with the Contrecoeur land deal on Wednesday.
  In an 88-page ruling that took Court of Quebec Judge Yvan Poulin all morning to read out in court, the judge refuted every one of the Crown’s arguments that there was fraud, conspiracy and breach of trust in the 2007 sale of the city-owned land at a discounted price to a construction firm.
  Poulin also called Zampino&rs
  
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• Laval residents take dim view of public cannabis use, survey suggests

  02-05-2018 20:55 via montrealgazette.com
  A survey conducted by the city of Laval of its residents’ attitudes about cannabis suggests most of those residents want public consumption of the soon-to-be-legalized drug to be strictly controlled and, in some cases, banned altogether.
  In fact, more than half of respondents don’t think cannabis should be legalized.
  The survey of 400 respondents was conducted March 29-April 2 to prepare local ground rules on where cannabis can be consumed and sold once it’s legal to do so. May
  
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• Quebec's dropout rates can't be compared with Ontario's: minister

  02-05-2018 20:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Comparing Quebec’s education system with that of Ontario is the equivalent of comparing apples with oranges, Education Minister Sébastien Proulx said Wednesday in the wake of a report critical of Quebec’s high dropout rate.
  That report, produced by the Institut du Québec, indicates that the graduation rate in Quebec is the lowest of all 10 provinces and that the situation faced by boys, handicapped students and pupils with learning disabilities is particularly worrisome
  
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• Quebec floods: Pierrefonds-Roxboro installs ‘muscle wall’ to prevent future disaster

  02-05-2018 20:48 via globalnews.ca
  A "muscle wall" has been installed in an attempt to prevent flooding in Pierrefonds-Roxboro.
  
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• Montreal-area taxi companies call for greater subsidies for electric cars

  02-05-2018 20:44 via montrealgazette.com
  A group of Montreal-area taxi company owners is calling on the Quebec government to increase the subsidies for taxi drivers to buy electric vehicles.
  The group, which claims to represent 80 per cent of taxi drivers in the region, is calling on the province to add a $5,000 subsidy for taxi drivers. In addition to the $8,000 already available to the general population, that would bring the total subsidy to $13,000.
  In a news conference held in Outremont Wednesday, the owners of taxi companies that
  
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• Cruise ship cancellations deal economic blow to Gaspé, Sept-Îles

  02-05-2018 20:40 via cbc.ca
  Another spate of cruise ship stops to Quebec’s east coast have been cancelled despite efforts from Quebec tourist operators to soften their concerns over a nautical speed limit meant to protect the right whale.
  
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• Man bitten in face during dog attack in Repentigny

  02-05-2018 20:26 via montrealgazette.com
  A 29-year-old man had to be taken to a hospital and his face wounds closed with stitches after he was attacked by a dog Monday night in a residential neighbourhood in Repentigny.
  Repentigny police spokesperson Bruno Marier said the victim tried to intervene in a fight between two dogs when one them, suspected by police of being a pit bull breed, bit him.
  The victim’s injuries are not deemed to be life-threatening.
  Witness Véronique Richer told Radio-Canada that the dog lunged at its
  
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• PQ, CAQ unite in call for resignation of human-rights commission head

  02-05-2018 20:20 via montrealgazette.com
  The Parti Québécois and Coalition Avenir Québec are calling for the resignation of Quebec Human Rights Commission president Tamara Thermitus in the wake of a report that finds problems with the commission’s management of human resources and communications.
  The call for Thermitus to step down was made on Tuesday and followed the publication by Justice Minister Stéphanie Vallée of a report on the commission’s state of affairs.
  According to report auth
  
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• Emergency alert: Prepare yourself (and your wireless device) to be tested

  02-05-2018 20:17 via montrealgazette.com
  If your smartphone or other wireless device signals an unexpected alert on the morning of Monday, May 7, please do not panic.
  This is just a test.
  Government agencies across Canada will be issuing the first public awareness tests of Alert Ready’s new wireless public alerting capability during Emergency Preparedness Week. Participating provincial and territorial authorities will each distribute one province-wide or territorial public awareness test message over radio, television a
  
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• Take a musical world tour with the @becket_players! btmontreal.ca/videos/around-…

  02-05-2018 20:00
  Take a musical world tour with the @becket_players! btmontreal.ca/videos/around-…
  
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• Hippotherapy: how horses can help children with special needs. btmontreal.ca/videos/all-abo…

  02-05-2018 19:45
  Hippotherapy: how horses can help children with special needs. btmontreal.ca/videos/all-abo…
  
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• Former high level Montreal politician, construction magnate acquitted of fraud

  02-05-2018 19:41 via globalnews.ca
  The former No. 2 at Montreal's city hall, as well as several co-accused, have been acquitted of fraud and breach of trust charges.
  
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• Pointe-Claire honours Tony Proudfoot with new park

  02-05-2018 19:36 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Pointe-Claire has named a park in the new neighbourhood of Greenwich after Montreal Alouettes great Tony Proudfoot.
  
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• Montreal elementary school warns parents about silica-gel packets in snacks

  02-05-2018 19:32 via globalnews.ca
  Some students have been mistaking the small white packet for sea salt.
  
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• High-level strength training? Performance specialist @Coach_richthaw makes it easy! btmontreal.ca/videos/high-le…

  02-05-2018 19:30
  High-level strength training? Performance specialist @Coach_richthaw makes it easy! btmontreal.ca/videos/high-le…
  
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• Frank Zampino, 5 co-accused acquitted in Faubourg-Contrecoeur case

  02-05-2018 18:46 via cbc.ca
  A Quebec court judge has acquitted the former number two man at Montreal city hall and his five co-defendants, along with the company they worked for, in the Faubourg-Contrecoeur fraud and conspiracy case.
  
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• Perfect for the #NHLPlayoffs! Chef Natalia Machado transforms a classic salad into game-night grub. btmontreal.ca/videos/turn-yo…

  02-05-2018 18:45
  Perfect for the #NHLPlayoffs! Chef Natalia Machado transforms a classic salad into game-night grub. btmontreal.ca/videos/turn-yo…
  
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• Pierrefonds-Roxboro won’t renew public security contract

  02-05-2018 18:13 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal's Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough has decided to axe its public security budget.
  
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• They may have recently retired from competitive figure skating, but duo @Rad85E and @mhjd_85 are in Montreal today… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 18:07
  They may have recently retired from competitive figure skating, but duo @Rad85E and @mhjd_85 are in Montreal today… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Being dressy and chic these days doesn’t mean five-inch heels or bow ties... @karolinajez shares fashion for all oc… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 18:03
  Being dressy and chic these days doesn’t mean five-inch heels or bow ties... @karolinajez shares fashion for all oc… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Beyond the Plate with Heidi Small

  02-05-2018 17:41 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal Gazette columnist Heidi Small tells Global’s Laura Casella & Kim Sullivan all about her recently launched monthly series featuring our city’s finest chefs. A true all access adventure for Montreal food lovers.
  
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• I Surrender: Céline Dion to release new music Thursday

  02-05-2018 17:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Céline Dion has a new song on the way.
  According to the singer’s social media accounts, her latest track will be released on May 3. 
  Good Morning America indicated the song’s corresponding music video will be shown on its Thursday episode.
  Earlier this spring, Dion cancelled all her concerts until late May after revealing she’d been suffering from a middle ear disorder of the Eustachian tube for more than a year.
  She is due to resume her Las Vegas show May 22 before
  
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• Dunlevy: Montreal filmmaker puts politics aside in debut feature Ava

  02-05-2018 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Sadaf Foroughi felt at home, last Thursday afternoon, sitting in the café of our city’s art house movie mecca, the Cinémathèque québécoise, where her film Ava opens Friday.
  “For me, Ava is an art house film,” said the Iranian Montrealer, who has lived here for nearly a decade.
  It’s also a completely independent film, having received no production help from Canada’s major funding agencies. Shot in Iran with local actors, on a shoest
  
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• Lower St-Lawrence town reeling after volunteer firefighter killed

  02-05-2018 17:22 via cbc.ca
  Carmel Moreault, 54, died from his injuries after he was struck by a water-filled ventilation pipe while fighting a fire at the Norampac cardboard plant in Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac.
  
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• Firefighter dies after being injured in blaze at Quebec packaging plant

  02-05-2018 17:22 via cbc.ca
  One of 40 firefighters called to a blaze at a packaging plant in Temiscouata-sur-le-Lac Tuesday evening was transported to hospital after suffering serious injuries where he was later pronounced dead.
  
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• Alleged Hells Angel from Ontario surrenders himself in Montreal courthouse

  02-05-2018 17:04 via montrealgazette.com
  An alleged Hells Angel from Ontario surrendered himself to authorities at the Montreal courthouse Wednesday morning after being sought for more than a week in connection with a large drug bust carried out by Quebec police last week. 
  Louis Matte, 52, made a brief appearance before a Quebec Court judge during a hearing where a series of conditions were imposed on him if he wants to be released. One of the conditions required him to make a $20,000 deposit. He was taken into custody and will b
  
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• Talking Mommy burnout with Erica Diamond

  02-05-2018 17:01 via globalnews.ca
  Parenting expert Erica Diamond showcases 5 easy techniques to get your children to listen and keep your cool without raising your voice, in order to avoid having a mommy burnout.
  
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• 13th Sketchfest officially marks the beginning of festival season

  02-05-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  There are two seasons in Montreal: winter and festival, wherein we celebrate the latter with gusto for six months after enduring the former for six months.
  Winter ended earlier this week — or so we are inclined to believe. And summer festival season begins Thursday with the 13th annual Montréal Sketchfest, the city’s largest and longest celebration of the art of sketch comedy.
  Unlike other festival directors, however, Sketchfest’s Erin Hall doesn’t boast about this
  
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• Curious about Montreal? There's still time to register for Jane's Walks

  02-05-2018 16:46 via montrealgazette.com
  If you’d like to see a side of the city you’ve probably never noticed, you still have time to register for this year’s Montreal edition of Jane’s Walks.
  The program of free guided tours offers nearly 100 walks through 18 boroughs and suburbs. The two-hour excursions offer insights into a neighbourhood’s history, development and future.
  Over the past 10 years, 605 Jane’s Walks have allowed more than 11,000 Montrealers a different perspective on their city.
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• Montreal food bank’s new kitchen to turn wasted food into nutritious meals

  02-05-2018 16:39 via globalnews.ca
  Last December Montreal's 375th Anniversary committee donated $740,000 to help Moisson Montreal preserve food.
  
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• 'Secret fares' and mobiles apps will change the way you fly

  02-05-2018 16:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Jump onto Expedia or Priceline to search for a flight and you’ll likely see an “opaque” fare: A price, but no carrier or even the exact time. How does this help you, one may ask? Well it’s not meant to help you — it’s meant to help the airlines.
  These mysterious fares are a tool that can help carriers move seats they have a hard time selling. This strategy is turning even more complex with “secret fares,” the next evolution in the airlines&rsq
  
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