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• Denis Coderre to make his post-mayoral radio debut

  03-05-2018 23:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Former mayor Denis Coderre is coming to a radio near you.
  Coderre will appear on the popular French-language station 98.5 FM starting Monday, on morning man Paul Arcand’s show Puisqu’il faut se lever.
  He will start by replacing broadcaster and former Parti Québécois politician Pierre Curzi for a few days while Curzi is away, the station announced on its website Thursday morning.
  Coderre will debate issues of the day with Mario Dumont — another ex-politician &mdash
  
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• What's with all the ex-politicians on TV and radio?

  03-05-2018 23:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Ex-mayor Denis Coderre is among dozens of former Quebec politicians who have made the leap from government to media.
  “It’s been going on for decades,” said veteran CBC Radio political journalist Bernard St-Laurent.
  Among the Quebec politicians to transition to radio, TV or print media:Former Action démocratique du Québec leader Mario Dumont, now a host at news network LCN and contributor to 98.5 FM
  Former Parti Québécois minister Bernard Drainville,
  
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• C.D.N.-N.D.G. seeks solutions for tenants stuck in prohibited rooming houses

  03-05-2018 23:49 via montrealgazette.com
  In the wake of an apartment complex fire that uncovered numerous prohibited rooming houses, the borough of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce is trying to ensure the residents don’t lose their homes. 
  “The people that were living there, at least they had a place to stay,” borough manager Stéphane Plante said Thursday. “If we go there in a couple days and say ‘Too bad, we’re closing the place,’ we will end up with people in
  
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• Ex-SQ officer Éric Deslauriers sentenced to 4 years for teen's death

  03-05-2018 23:43 via cbc.ca
  A former provincial police officer, Éric Deslauriers, has been sentenced to four years for manslaughter after shooting to death a 17-year-old suspected car thief in the parking lot of a Laurentians high school in 2014.
  
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• Urban chicken coops on the rise in Montreal

  03-05-2018 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, May 3: Urban agriculture enthusiasts are embracing chicken coops in Montreal. As Global’s Phil Carpenter reports, one organization worries that city hens and roosters will be abandoned.
  
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• CAQ defends plan to reform school board system

  03-05-2018 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, May 3: The Coalition Avenir Québec continues to promote its education plan, which includes abolishing school boards. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, the party says English Quebecers should not be afraid of its plan to reform the school board system.
  
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• CAQ could form minority government, but still lacks anglophone support

  03-05-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  A new Ipsos poll released Thursday shows that if an election was held now, the Coalition Avenir Quebec would form a minority government.
  
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• Canadiens forward Jake Evans undergoes sports hernia surgery

  03-05-2018 23:01 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Canadiens announced that forward Jake Evans underwent surgery Wednesday to repair a sports hernia (abdominal wall muscle tear).
  David Mulder, the Canadiens’ team doctor, performed the procedure at the Montreal General Hospital. Evans’s recovery period is expected to be 12 weeks. 
  Evans, 21, was selected in the 7th round, 207th overall by the Habs in 2014. He agreed to a two-year entry level contract on April 9. 
  The forward completed his four-year NCAA car
  
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• Urban chickens get state-of-the-art coops through POC POC

  03-05-2018 22:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Mélanie Charbonneau and her family didn’t have any pets, but when she read an article about urban chickens, her first thought was: ‘Why not?’
  So last summer, her family and four neighbouring families in the Rosemont/Petite-Patrie borough signed up for a pilot project run by POC POC to try out the Montreal startup’s urban chicken coops. They received a state-of-the-art coop, three chickens and enough food to keep the animals going between May and October.
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• Beaconsfield considers leaf blower ban

  03-05-2018 22:52 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, May 3: Many residents of Beaconsfield can’t stand the noise or pollution created by leaf blowers. As Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports, the city is now considering banning gas-powered leaf blowers for the summer.
  
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• #GreatMTLer: Nathalie Bondil takes charge at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

  03-05-2018 22:48 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, May 3: As director and chief curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), Nathalie Bondil is a busy woman. Global News Montreal Senior Anchor Jamie Orchard speaks to this great Montrealer about how she’s not afraid to take creative chances.
  
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• Beaconsfield moving to ban leaf blowers

  03-05-2018 22:31 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Beaconsfield is considering a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers in the summer months.
  
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• Sunwing inquiry now expanded to include flights from Montreal

  03-05-2018 22:21 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian Transportation Agency is now including Sunwing Vacation flights from Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in its inquiry.
  
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• Montreal grinds recycled glass into sidewalk concrete

  03-05-2018 22:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal has announced that as part of its ongoing effort to increase sustainable development, it has begun to use powdered glass as an ingredient in the concrete used in the construction of sidewalks.
  The new recipe follows a collaboration with the Université de Sherbrooke that saw the durability and efficiency of sidewalks using the recycled ingredient tested repeatedly before its usefulness was confirmed.
  The city intends to use powdered glass concrete in eight in
  
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• UPDATE: Police investigating neo-Nazi recruiting in Montreal, Mayor Plante says

  03-05-2018 22:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police have opened an investigation into local neo-Nazi recruiting practices reported Thursday by the Montreal Gazette, according to Mayor Valérie Plante.
  “We are extremely concerned about The Gazette’s revelations, as well as the rise of far-right movements here and around the world,” Plante told the Montreal Gazette Thursday, while also confirming the police investigation.
  “Any hateful and neo-Nazi propaganda obviously has no place in Montreal, it goes a
  
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• 6 Quebec students aged 12 to 14 arrested for alleged child porn offences

  03-05-2018 22:12 via globalnews.ca
  They allegedly were distributing photos of young girls.
  
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• Six Quebec seminary students arrested for alleged child-porn offences

  03-05-2018 22:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec City police say they have arrested six seminary students aged between 12 and 14 for alleged possession and distribution of child pornography.
  They allegedly were distributing intimate photos of young girls.
  The six were arrested Wednesday and freed on a promise to appear at a later date. They are prohibited from all contact with the alleged victims.
  Police were alerted in mid-April by authorities at the Séminaire des Pères Maristes.
  On Thursday morning, Quebec education mini
  
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• Trampoline bounces between 'le' and 'la,' rules Quebec's language watchdog

  03-05-2018 21:24 via cbc.ca
  In a recent update, the Office québécois de la langue française said it had used historical analysis to determine it's acceptable to jump between "le trampoline'' and "la trampoline'' when referring to the springy exercise platform.
  
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• ‘Le trampoline’ and ‘la trampoline’ both correct: OQLF

  03-05-2018 21:24 via globalnews.ca
  The word was first given the feminine gender in Quebec and the masculine in Europe.
  
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• Trudeau vows cannabis will be legal by summer as senators urge delay

  03-05-2018 21:21 via cbc.ca
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday recreational cannabis use will be legal by summer, despite calls by some senators to put off legalization by up to a year to allow for further consultation with Indigenous communities.
  
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• SQ officer who fatally shot teen in Ste-Adèle sentenced to 4 years

  03-05-2018 20:59 via montrealgazette.com
  A Sûreté du Québec officer convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting a 17-year-old in 2014 was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday — the minimum sentence possible for the crime.
  Éric Deslauriers, 46, was found guilty last September following a two-week trial.
  On the morning of Jan. 22, 2014, Deslauriers was patrolling Ste-Adèle in search of a stolen vehicle police believed was linked to a series of ATM robberies. He found the car entering a hig
  
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• Opinion: City's new plan for Ste-Catherine St. falls short

  03-05-2018 20:59 via montrealgazette.com
  The principal objective of the Ste-Catherine St. W. revitalization project was always to ensure the economic vitality of Quebec’s most prestigious commercial artery for the next 50 years.
  What Mayor Valérie Plante proposed last week is a commendable urban redevelopment project, but lacks any “signature” elements that would distinguish it from other commercial streets. This distinctiveness is fundamental to attract and retain a new customer base.
  Turning McGill College Av
  
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• DHC/ART: Bharti Kher's bindis are watching you watching them

  03-05-2018 20:50 via montrealgazette.com
  “Remember also that the work looks back at you,” Bharti Kher says in the program to her sensorially extravagant exhibit Points de départ, points qui lient, at Old Montreal’s DHC/Art Foundation for Contemporary Art.
  While seemingly a simple quip, her statement feels aptly provocative and even profound, after viewing the striking works on display. Fusing vibrant colours, contrasting textures, disparate mediums and styles, the artist’s creations seep under your skin,
  
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• Brownstein: No shortage of corporate intrigue in book about former Molson boss

  03-05-2018 20:41 via montrealgazette.com
  One might have every reason to assume that an opus about a major corporate figure penned by a member of that person’s family would be a saccharine-laced vanity project. Well, one ought not to assume in the case of the newly published Back to Beer … and Hockey: The Story of Eric Molson by Helen Antoniou, the daughter-in-law of Eric Molson.
  The book, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, is a staggeringly candid, page-turner peek into one of the most powerful famili
  
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• Impact's defence set to get a boost as Rod Fanni nears return

  03-05-2018 20:37 via montrealgazette.com
  The struggling Impact defence is expected to get a boost Saturday when French central defenders Rod Fanni and Rudy Camacho line up alongside each other for the first time. 
  Fanni, who has been bothered by what the MLS team has described as a “minor muscular” problem, said Thursday that he was close to returning to the lineup for Saturday’s game against the New England Revolution at Saputo Stadium (1 p.m. TVA Sports, TSN 69o Radio). 
  “I can say I’m okay now
  
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• Pierrefonds-Roxboro installs ‘muscle wall’ to prevent flooding

  03-05-2018 20:36 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, May 3: A “muscle wall” has been installed in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the devastating floods in Montreal’s Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Changing frequency: Former mayor Denis Coderre to make his radio debut

  03-05-2018 20:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Former mayor Denis Coderre is coming to a radio near you.
  Coderre will appear on the popular French-language station 98.5 FM starting Monday, on morning man Paul Arcand’s show Puisqu’il faut se lever.
  He will start by replacing broadcaster and former Parti Québécois politician Pierre Curzi for a few days while Curzi is away, the station announced on its website Thursday morning.
  Coderre will debate issues of the day with Mario Dumont — another ex-politician &mdash
  
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• Number of irregular border crossings spikes again in April, dwarfing last year’s total

  03-05-2018 19:52 via globalnews.ca
  Officials say they are still tabulating the number of people crossing the Canada-U.S. border between legal checkpoints in April, but it is expected to be "somewhere around" 2,500.
  
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• STM bus drivers, Metro operators vote for strike mandate

  03-05-2018 19:27 via cbc.ca
  The union representing 4,500 STM drivers and Metro operators have voted in favour of a strike mandate.
  
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• STM bus drivers, Metro operators vote 99% in favour of strike mandate

  03-05-2018 19:27 via cbc.ca
  The union representing 4,500 STM drivers and Metro operators has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike mandate.
  
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• STM bus drivers, Metro operators ponder strike mandate

  03-05-2018 19:27 via cbc.ca
  Today's vote comes one day after STM maintenance workers said yes to refusing to work overtime as a pressure tactic in stalled negotiations with Montreal's public transit authority.
  
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• 5 ways to spot spring in Montreal

  03-05-2018 19:12 via cbc.ca
  The long winter receded with April's gradual thaw, and now the May flowers are beginning to pop up all over the city.
  
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• With social media and the Internet, students today face a ton of distractions... but technology can also be helpfu… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-05-2018 18:55
  With social media and the Internet, students today face a ton of distractions...but technology can also be helpfu… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Quebec politicians on alert after revelation of neo-Nazi leader in Montreal

  03-05-2018 18:39 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – The province’s political class has expressed its concerns over news a prominent neo-Nazi has set up shop in Montreal and is recruiting and are calling for vigilance.
  “There’s no place in Quebec or elsewhere for Nazis or anything like this,”said Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée. “It’s very important that police in particular follow these groups closely to make sure that they don’t have the means to act
  
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• No more bouncing around: OQLF rules on trampoline gender

  03-05-2018 18:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s French-language watchdog has finally ruled: Francophones are not in error if they bounce up on le trampoline and then fall to earth toward la trampoline.
  The object in question can in fact be referred to in French in both the masculine and feminine gender without error, the agency says, because “both genders are possible.”
  In a long report on the issue, the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) examined the history of the word and fou
  
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• #GreatMTLer: Nathalie Bondil is an icon of Montreal’s art scene

  03-05-2018 18:36 via globalnews.ca
  Director and chief curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Nathalie Bondil, is not afraid to take creative chances when it comes to art.
  
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• Meet classical singer @giorgiafumanti! She just released her 10th album. btmontreal.ca/videos/classic…

  03-05-2018 18:15
  Meet classical singer @giorgiafumanti! She just released her 10th album. btmontreal.ca/videos/classic…
  
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• A composer and a comic book writer have reimagined Toronto and Montreal's hockey rivalry as an opera

  03-05-2018 18:15 via cbc.ca
  Yes, you read that right. See it to believe it: the film noir-inspired show heads to both cities this week.
  
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• Mayor Plante denounces display of Nazi flag during Montreal's May Day protest

  03-05-2018 18:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is expressing shock after a photo of a Nazi flag being waved during a May Day demonstrations was posted online.
  Police were notified after a picture of a man brandishing the flag from the roof of a condo building was posted on the Parc-Ex Action Squad, a Facebook page for a neighbourhood group.
  The building was quickly identified and it was discovered the roof was accessible only by key.
  Plante weighed in on Twitter.
  “I am deeply shocked by this hateful
  
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• Checking In: Try some authentic Huron hospitality

  03-05-2018 17:59 via montrealgazette.com
  “Our philosophy is to share the best of what we have,” says Konrad Sioui, Great Chief of the Huron-Wendat Nation, a community that operates an outstanding tourism domain and also has inspired independent ventures.
  Here is a peek at two getaways:
  Hébergement aux Cinq Sens is a rustic yurt camp where lovers of the outdoors can enjoy basic First Nations experiences. It’s set in the splendid Mégantic region of the Eastern Townships, which is rich in lakes, mountains a
  
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• May is #MissingChildrensMonth @EnfantsRetour btmontreal.ca/videos/launch-…

  03-05-2018 17:45
  May is #MissingChildrensMonth @EnfantsRetour btmontreal.ca/videos/launch-…
  
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• Montreal grinds yesterday's glass into tomorrow's infrastructure

  03-05-2018 17:42 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal has announced that as part of its ongoing effort to increase sustainable development, it has begun to use powdered glass as an ingredient in the concrete used in the construction of sidewalks.
  The new recipe follows a collaboration with the Université de Sherbrooke that saw the durability and efficiency of sidewalks using the recycled ingredient tested repeatedly before its usefulness was confirmed.
  The city intends to use powdered glass concrete in eight in
  
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• Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who are definitely not a couple, charmed the Bell Centre

  03-05-2018 17:33 via montrealgazette.com
  You didn’t really think Canada would get over its love for Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who insist they are not in love with one another, after the Olympics, did you? 
  The pair, along with assorted other incredibly talented Olympians who have yet to fully break the Internet by dint of their romantic-but-not-actually connection, performed at the Bell Centre on Wednesday as part of the Stars on Ice Tour. 
  The Internet, in other words, was primed to gush over and read too much into
  
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• Public will have say on conversion of Lachine convent to subsidized housing

  03-05-2018 17:31 via montrealgazette.com
  The proposed conversion of the mother house of the Congrégation des Soeurs de Ste-Anne in Lachine into a subsidized-housing facility will be the object of public of hearings overseen by Montreal’s office of public consultations (OCPM).
  The conversion will include construction of a new residence to accommodate the sisters, while the main building is slated to be eventually transformed into housing units. A wing will be added to the complex and all three wings will be used to accommod
  
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• How student journalists broke the story about an alleged neo-Nazi in Montreal

  03-05-2018 17:26 via cbc.ca
  A prolific neo-Nazi figure known online as "Zeiger" appears to be an IT consultant living in Montreal, according to an exclusive investigation by the Montreal Gazette.
  
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• A spellbinding performance by crooner @mark_kingswood! btmontreal.ca/videos/mark-ki…

  03-05-2018 17:25
  A spellbinding performance by crooner @mark_kingswood! btmontreal.ca/videos/mark-ki…
  
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• Inquiry into Sunwing flight delays expanded to Montreal

  03-05-2018 17:13 via cbc.ca
  An inquiry is looking into whether Sunwing treated its passengers in a manner consistent with its terms and conditions.
  
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• 'Beat it, Spider-Man:' Céline Dion ribs Deadpool in new video

  03-05-2018 17:13 via cbc.ca
  Céline Dion has released a new song and music video for the Deadpool 2 soundtrack that combines heart and humour.
  
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• Montreal mayor shocked after Nazi flag displayed during May Day protest

  03-05-2018 17:09 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal's mayor is expressing shock after a photo of a Nazi flag being waved during a May Day demonstrations was posted online.
  
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• Throwing the perfect royal wedding party at home

  03-05-2018 16:22 via globalnews.ca
  ‘Weddingbells’ magazine Editor-in-Chief Alison McGill shows Global’s Laura Casella how to plan the perfect Royal Wedding viewing party with fun décor, dress code and fancy beverage and food ideas.
  
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