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• Swastika spotted in Parc-Ex prompts community protest

  05-05-2018 23:41 via cbc.ca
  Just days after a Nazi flag was spotted flying in their neighbourhood, Parc-Extension community members and anti-racist advocates are holding a demonstration to condemn this "act of hatred."
  
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• Condo owners denounce Nazi flag-waver, but decline to identify him

  05-05-2018 23:31 via montrealgazette.com
  The board of directors of co-owners of a condominium in Parc-Extension say they cannot publicly identify a man who waved a Nazi flag from the roof of their building earlier this week.
  The man was spotted and photographed waving a flag bearing a swastika, the emblem of the German Nazi party, from atop the building on Hutchison St. on Tuesday by participants in a May Day march. The participants tried to enter the condo building to confront the man, but were stopped by police. 
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• Montreal conference aims to inspire women to become architects of their own lives

  05-05-2018 22:53 via globalnews.ca
  A conference for women, by women, was held in Montreal Saturday.
  
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• Crane operators protest in front of Couillard’s Montreal office

  05-05-2018 22:49 via globalnews.ca
  Crane operators drove their rigs through the streets of Montreal today to protest new regulations that govern how workers are trained.
  
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• Montreal Impact rout Revolution 4-2 to snap four-game losing streak

  05-05-2018 22:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Anthony Jackson-Hamel scored his first two goals of the season and Ignacio Piatti had a goal and three assists as the Impact defeated the New England Revolution Saturday at Saputo Stadium. The victory ends a four-game losing streak as the Impact’s record improved to 3-6-0.
  The victory came after a week in which coach Rémi Garde said he wanted to see more effort from his team in practice and he challenged his team against Saturday.
  “We wanted to win the second half and we were
  
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• Gatineau Park delays opening date for campgrounds and parkways

  05-05-2018 22:21 via cbc.ca
  Campers with reservations in Gatineau Park next weekend will have to reschedule or cancel their plans because spring cleanup has delayed the opening of park's campsites.
  
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• Impact end 4-game slide with win over Revolution

  05-05-2018 21:51 via cbc.ca
  Anthony Jackson-Hamel scored twice and Raheem Edwards had another as the Montreal Impact ended a four-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the New England Revolution on Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Man, 45, dies after Pierrefonds hit-and-run

  05-05-2018 21:42 via montrealgazette.com
  A 45-year-old man has died after a Friday night hit-and-run in Pierrefonds. 
  SPVM spokesperson Manuel Couture said police were contacted around 10:30 p.m. about a pedestrian who had been struck by a car at the intersection of Pierrefonds Blvd. and Ste-Anne St.
  The victim was taken to hospital in critical condition, but he was pronounced dead early on Saturday afternoon.
  The driver of the car stopped briefly before leaving the scene, Couture said.
  On Saturday afternoon, police said they
  
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• Almost 8,000 Montrealers still without power as strong winds wreak havoc

  05-05-2018 20:15 via montrealgazette.com
  “It’s Windsday, see,” Gopher warns Winnie the Pooh in the Disney classic The Blustery Day, advising him to skeedaddle.
  The children’s story is a rollicking good time, but Environment Canada was serious about its wind warning, which covered the Montreal, Laval, Longueuil and Châteauguay regions on Friday.
  While the expected thunderstorms never arrived Friday night, wind gusts reached a peak of 94 kilometres and hour and created havoc. The strong winds knocked do
  
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• Pedestrian dies after hit-and-run collision in Pierrefonds Friday night

  05-05-2018 18:48 via globalnews.ca
  At the time of the collision, the area was plunged in darkness due to a power outage.
  
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• Pedestrian critically injured in Pierrefonds hit-and-run collision Friday night

  05-05-2018 18:48 via globalnews.ca
  At the time of the collision, the area was plunged in darkness due to a power outage.
  
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• Almost 15,000 Montrealers still without power as strong winds wreak havoc

  05-05-2018 18:14 via montrealgazette.com
  “It’s Windsday, see,” Gopher warns Winnie the Pooh in the Disney classic The Blustery Day, advising him to skeedaddle.
  The children’s story is a rollicking good time, but Environment Canada was serious about its wind warning, which covered the Montreal, Laval, Longueuil and Châteauguay regions on Friday.
  While the expected thunderstorms never arrived Friday night, wind gusts reached a peak of 94 kilometres and hour and created havoc. The strong winds knocked do
  
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• Violent wind storm causes extensive damage, brings neighbours together

  05-05-2018 18:06 via globalnews.ca
  Over 100,000 customers were still without power late Saturday morning after a wind storm blew through Quebec.
  
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• Montreal sweeping up after wind storm downs trees, causes power outages

  05-05-2018 18:06 via globalnews.ca
  Over 100,000 customers were still without power late Saturday morning after a wind storm blew through Quebec.
  
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• Concordia grad earns Tony nomination for Harry Potter play set design

  05-05-2018 18:00 via cbc.ca
  Montrealer Christine Jones’ painstaking work to recreate the magic of Harry Potter on stage has paid off, earning her a 3rd career Tony nomination for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
  
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• Amis de la Montagne to hold annual Mount Royal cleanup on Sunday

  05-05-2018 17:53 via montrealgazette.com
  The Amis de la Montagne is holding its 27th annual clean-up of Mont Royal on Sunday.
  The non-profit group expects around 600 people to help it collect litter in the park’s wooded areas.
  Participants will also monitor the growth and health of trees in the park – particularly ash trees. 
  Earlier this year, the city announced it would be cutting down 4,000 ash trees, in an effort to stop the spread of the emerald ash borer, an invasive insect species that kills ash trees.
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• Blam! Pow!: Today's your day to get a free comic book in Montreal

  05-05-2018 17:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Free Comic Book Day is now upon us, and it is exactly what the name implies.
  Montrealers can get a free comic book just by walking into participating stores on May 5.
  For this year’s edition of the event, which began in 2002, fifty comic books will be included in the promotion.
  That selection includes a representative of the august Avengers franchise and a tie-in with the bonkers TV series Riverdale, which is a tie-in with the august Archie franchise. Visit freecomicbookday.com/StoreL
  
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• 'No tweezer food': Cooking with Olive et Gourmando and Foxy's Dyan Solomon

  05-05-2018 16:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Dyan Solomon, the owner of Montreal staple Olive et Gourmando and Foxy, likes “fish that looks like fish, meat that looks like meat.” 
  Rustic food, food that’s about ingredients, and those ingredients come from local farms. 
  Heidi Small joined Solomon on a visit to one of her providers, La Ferme des Quatre-Temps in Hemmingford. 
  If you want to see what enthusiasm for farm-to-table cooking looks like, witness Solomon’s reaction to the farm’s carrots.&n
  
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• Learn something new about a Montreal neighbourhood with free walking tours this weekend

  05-05-2018 16:31 via cbc.ca
  Tours are being offered by volunteers in French and English this weekend in honour of Jane Jacobs
  
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• ICYMI: @eliasmakos had the opportunity to chat with funnyman @sugarsammy in his hotel bed! Lucky for you - tickets… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-05-2018 16:00
  ICYMI: @eliasmakos had the opportunity to chat with funnyman @sugarsammy in his hotel bed! Lucky for you - tickets… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• N.D.G. fire leaves family without home

  05-05-2018 15:55 via montrealgazette.com
  An N.D.G. family has been taken in by the Red Cross after a house fire on Saturday morning.
  Firefighters were called to the house on Prince-of-Wales avenue at 6:17 a.m., after a fire broke out on the second floor, said Benoît Martel, operations chief at the Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal.
  The fire, which spread to the roof, left two dwellings uninhabitable.
  40 firefighters responded to the call.
  There were no injuries.
  The damage is estimated at $100,000
  
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• Jesse Galganov: New lead in the search for missing Montrealer

  05-05-2018 15:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Jesse Galganov’s mother will by flying to Peru next week to help in the search for her missing son.
  New intelligence has been discovered in an area where her son was last seen, Alisa Clamen told the Montreal Gazette this week.
  Galganov seems to have vanished without a trace. No one has responded to the family’s reward offer, now at US$30,000, to find him. The authorities suspect a criminal act behind his disappearance.
  Clamen said she is hoping for a miracle.
  “But I am pre
  
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• While you were sleeping: Home intruder bear just wanted snacks

  05-05-2018 14:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Also: Travel fares and Hydro-Québec bonuses
  Air Canada joined rival WestJet in severing ties with Montreal-based Hopper after the app’s suggestion it had sole access to “secret fares” caused confusion in the travel industry. Hopper, which notified when a fare matching their criteria becomes available, landed in hot water with other travel groups that sell air fares, such as travel agents and aggregator sites, when the company suggested earlier this week they were th
  
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• Family forced from home after fire breaks out in NDG

  05-05-2018 14:49 via cbc.ca
  One family was taken in by the Red Cross, after the building sustained about $100,000 worth of damages.
  
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• Family forced from home after fire breaks out in Côte Saint-Luc

  05-05-2018 14:49 via cbc.ca
  One family was taken in by the Red Cross, after the building sustained about $100,000 worth of damages.
  
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• The Week in Review: Slumlords, politicians, neo-Nazis, supremacists and victims

  05-05-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on all the big stories that happened this week in Montreal.
  After fire reveals unregistered rooming house, CDN-NDG mayor vows action against ‘slumlord’
  The borough of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce is promising to prosecute landlords who subdivide apartments into numerous units to maximize profits after a building fire over the weekend shed light on the practice. Twenty-one residents were forced to flee their residences Sunday morning when a fire broke out i
  
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• Shelter: Downsizing and upgrading in Notre-Dame-de-L’île-Perrot.

  05-05-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Angela Dennett Rice recalls that when she came to Canada in 1976, it was more or less by accident. She had suffered a broken romance and knew she had to get away from her native Dorset, England, where she lived in a “little country town”. She was prepared to “do anything” and “go anywhere”. Among the options she considered was moving to South Africa or working on a cruise ship. In the end, she got a job as a nanny in Montreal.
  She landed in the West Island, wh
  
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• Pardon My French: For Graham Fraser, 'a language I had to understand'

  05-05-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  In this series of columns, one-time Alliance Quebec president and media personality Royal Orr reflects on his relationship with his second language.
  There’s something of the Oxford don or even an English country gentleman in Graham Fraser. It’s enhanced by the post-retirement beard he now sports, tastefully trimmed, and by his courteous manner and sunny greeting as he slides into a booth at the Elgin Street Diner in Ottawa.
  It’s a bit foolhardy to set oneself the task of interv
  
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• Neighbourhood walkabout: Plateau couple loves the people, the bakeries, parks

  05-05-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Inside our houses, apartments and condos, we surround ourselves with things that we like and items that have personal significance. In fact, it’s been said that one’s home is an extension of one’s self. Couldn’t it also be said that the neighbourhoods in which we choose to live are an extension of not only our homes but also ourselves?
  If you are among the estimated 130,000 people planning a move during Montreal’s traditional moving season, you probably aren’t
  
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• More than 23,000 Montrealers still without power as strong winds wreak havoc

  05-05-2018 13:24 via montrealgazette.com
  “It’s Windsday, see,” Gopher warns Winnie the Pooh in the Disney classic The Blustery Day, advising him to skeedaddle.
  The children’s story is a rollicking good time, but Environment Canada was serious about its wind warning, which covered the Montreal, Laval, Longueuil and Châteauguay regions on Friday.
  While the expected thunderstorms never arrived Friday night, wind gusts reached a peak of 94 kilometres and hour and created havoc. The strong winds knocked do
  
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• The calm before the G7 Summit: La Malbaie braces for world leaders' arrival

  05-05-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  LA MALBAIE – His home has been tagged the safest in Canada.
  When Rosaire Tremblay retired and bought his bright red and white house in Pointe-au-Pic on the shores of the St. Lawrence River, he never dreamed he would one day find himself alone in a top-level security zone of a major international event: the Group of Seven Summit (G7).
  Today, Tremblay’s house is on a kind of island, behind the three-metre-tall security fence built around the Manoir Richelieu and the Casino de Charlevoi
  
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• Montreal neo-Nazi, outed this week, was lead cheerleader for deadly U.S. cell

  05-05-2018 13:00 via cbc.ca
  A leading neo-Nazi propagandist, who was identified this week as a Montrealer, is being described as the "primary publicist" of a radical U.S. group that has been linked to the murders of five people.
  
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• Josh Freed: Projet Montréal's duty to consult is being usurped by its anti-car agenda

  05-05-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  There’s only one month to go before we lose a Montreal summer experience we’ve all grown up with: driving over the mountain.
  Earlier this week, Mount Royal’s cemeteries both joined the mountain of opposition against the road’s closing. They say it will make life difficult for people to visit family’s graves — legions who come each year.
  The cemeteries join Les Amis de la montagne, who also dispute the closing. The only mountain-lovers who haven’t protest
  
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• Thousands without power across Quebec after high winds take down trees

  05-05-2018 12:58 via cbc.ca
  Hydro-Québec is working to restore power to households after strong winds took down trees and power lines.
  
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• 200,000 clients are without power across the province this morning

  05-05-2018 12:58 via cbc.ca
  Hydro-Québec is working to restore power to households after strong winds took down trees and lines.
  
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• 195,000 clients are without power across the province this morning

  05-05-2018 12:58 via cbc.ca
  Hydro-Québec is working to restore power to households after strong winds took down trees and lines.
  
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• Man, 45, in critical condition after Pierrefonds hit and run

  05-05-2018 12:41 via cbc.ca
  Police say they were contacted around 10:30 p.m. about a pedestrian who was hit by a vehicle crossing Ste-Anne Street at the corner of Pierrefonds Boulevard.
  
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• 45-year-old man dies after Pierrefonds hit and run

  05-05-2018 12:41 via cbc.ca
  Police say they were contacted around 10:30 p.m. about a pedestrian who was hit by a vehicle crossing Ste-Anne Street at the corner of Pierrefonds Boulevard.
  
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• 45-year-old man dead after Pierrefonds hit and run

  05-05-2018 12:41 via cbc.ca
  Police say they were contacted around 10:30 p.m. about a pedestrian who was hit by a vehicle crossing Ste-Anne Street at the corner of Pierrefonds Boulevard.
  
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• Made-in-Quebec skills test helps foreign engineers prove their worth in new job market

  05-05-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Idir Merakeb has worked as an engineer all over the world, but after landing in Quebec in 2016, the only job he could find was at a call centre — until he took a skills test and landed a job in the Beauce.
  
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