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• Bill 62: Religious accommodation falls to public agencies, Quebec says

  09-05-2018 23:59 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Public organizations across the province will have to designate accommodations officers who will handle requests for religious accommodations under the province’s new state neutrality act.
  But the government has rejected calls for strict and detailed rules, saying when it comes to religious freedoms, there is no one size-fits-all solution.
  Seven months after adopting Bill 62, a law obliging public services to be delivered and received with the face visible, Justice Minister
  
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• Richard Henry Bain’s sentence appeal to be heard by panel of 5 judges

  09-05-2018 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's 2012 election-night shooter Richard Henry Bain will have his appeal heard by a special panel of five judges.
  
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• Political leaders at odds over proportional representation

  09-05-2018 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, May 9: If elected, opposition leaders are promising to change how we vote. As Global’s Elysia Bryan-Baynes reports, the Liberals say a system of proportional representation will dilute power for Quebec’s Anglophone communities.
  
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• Community garden flourishes thanks to volunteers

  09-05-2018 23:23 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, May 9: The People’s Potato community garden is back up and running for its 19th season. As Global’s Cora MacDonald reports, the Concordia University initiative serves free vegan meals at the downtown campus daily thanks to the kindness of volunteers.
  
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• Montreal 2018 Ride of Silence: Cyclist's mother pleads for patience, awareness

  09-05-2018 23:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Seven months after her 18-year-old son was killed in a collision with an SUV on Mount Royal, Catherine Bergeron agreed to take on the role of cycling safety spokesperson to give her tragedy meaning.
  Taking the microphone Wednesday at the chalet on Mount Royal, while tourists sunbathed outside and her son’s girlfriend cried quietly in the audience, Bergeron asked drivers and cyclists to be patient, to be polite, and most of all, to be aware and take responsibility for their actions. 
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• #GreatMTLer: Michael Penner rises to the top of Hydro-Québec

  09-05-2018 23:09 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, May 9: After a successful career as a city lawyer, Michael Penner is the first Anglophone ever to be appointed chairman of Hydro-Québec. Global News Montreal Senior Anchor Jamie Orchard speaks to this great Montrealer about his unconventional success story.
  
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• Montreal to get more electric car charging stations

  09-05-2018 23:05 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, May 9: Montreal will add 200 more charging stations for electric cars this summer. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, some Montrealers are worried the move will make finding parking more difficult around the city.
  
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• Helping hand for man travelling world by bike after Laval robbery

  09-05-2018 23:05 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, May 9: A Chinese man travelling the world by bicycle hit a roadblock in Laval after his bike and supplies were stolen. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, Montrealers have been coming out to help since Global News covered his ordeal.
  
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• Man charged in Dorval resident's death once slashed a friend's throat

  09-05-2018 22:56 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal resident who was charged last week with murdering a man near the Lionel Groulx métro station last year has a lengthy criminal record, including a conviction for having used a broken beer bottle to slash his friend’s throat. 
  Dominique Carrière, 51, was charged on May 3 with the second-degree murder of Donald Louis Marsman, a 49-year-old Dorval resident who was stabbed, early in the morning of May 16, and found lying in a pool of blood near the intersection of
  
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• Opinion: On home cultivation of cannabis, a call for mutual respect

  09-05-2018 22:49 via montrealgazette.com
  The government of Quebec recently reiterated its position on the legalization of cannabis. Among other things, it reiterated that, in order to be enforced effectively, the provincial and federal legislative provisions that are to be adopted must be free from any ambiguity.
  One could certainly restate the arguments underpinning Quebec’s decisions concerning the regulation of cannabis. 
  But those arguments have not been the focus of the debate over the past several days.
  Rather, in its
  
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• Like it or not, 200 more electric car charging stations coming to Montreal

  09-05-2018 22:48 via globalnews.ca
  The city of Montreal will be installing 200 charging stations for electric cars by the end of 2018.
  
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• Bill 62: Quebec releases criteria for requesting religious accommodation

  09-05-2018 22:44 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec government has released its guidelines on how it will assess requests for religious accommodation under Bill 62, the law concerning face coverings and use of public services.
  
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• Bill 62: Quebec releases criteria for requesting, granting religious accommodation

  09-05-2018 22:44 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec government has released its guidelines on how it will assess requests for religious accommodation under Bill 62, the law concerning face coverings and use of public services.
  
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• Just days left BT Montreal fans! You could score a trip to hockey’s most-anticipated event! @Scotiabank is giving a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-05-2018 22:41
  Just days left BT Montreal fans! You could score a trip to hockey’s most-anticipated event! @Scotiabank is giving a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Barr Brothers, Broken Social Scene will headline Mile Ex End fest

  09-05-2018 22:38 via montrealgazette.com
  For its second edition, the Mile Ex End Festival is expanding from one to three weekends and it is widening its programming from just alternative music to include comedy and food and drink. The event will once again take place under the Rosemont/Van Horne overpass just east of St-Laurent Blvd.
  The Mile Ex End Music Festival runs Sept. 1 and 2 from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. and the artists confirmed so far include Broken Social Scene, the Barr Brothers, Tire le coyote, Rhye, Charlotte Day Wilson, CRi, He
  
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• Bloc rebels announce new party name and abandon the separatist program

  09-05-2018 22:27 via cbc.ca
  The seven members of Parliament who split from the Bloc Québécois have released the name of their new federal party — Quebec Debout — and say they no longer believe it's their job to promote Quebec separatism at the federal level.
  
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• SQ asking for help to find missing teen from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield

  09-05-2018 22:23 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec is asking for the public’s help in locating 16-year-old Alexia Gauthier of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield.
  She was last seen at around 3:30 p.m. on May 5, when she left home on foot. Her family is concerned for her health and safety.
  Gauthier is 5-feet-11 (1.8 metres), weighs about 145 pounds (66 kg), has brown hair and brown eyes, and was last seen was wearing black clothing and carrying a knapsack.
  Anyone with information that could help locate this pe
  
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• Mobility squads to get traffic moving around construction sites this summer: city

  09-05-2018 22:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Mayor Valérie Plante said Wednesday the city will soon set up “mobility squads” to improve traffic flow around construction sites.
  Plante promised during the election campaign that as the “mayor of mobility,” she would create the squads to keep traffic moving around construction sites and road projects across the city.
  “You remember that during the election campaign we talked about the mobility squad, which was based on the principle … that we all shar
  
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• Alouettes' Ryan Bomben moves on from trade shock, focuses on new season

  09-05-2018 22:18 via montrealgazette.com
  If Ryan Bomben was ecstatic three years ago upon being traded from the Alouettes to Hamilton — the deal provided the southern Ontario native an opportunity to play at home — he didn’t have the same enthusiasm last week, after learning he’d been dealt back to Montreal.
  That night, and for about 24 hours, he was in shock.
  “Obviously I had no idea it was coming. I hadn’t heard anything from Hamilton to indicate I might be getting traded,” Bomben told the Mo
  
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• Motorcyclist gets 18 demerit points, licence suspended for driving twice the speed limit

  09-05-2018 21:49 via montrealgazette.com
  A motorcyclist was fined $1,789, got 18 demerit points and had his licence suspended for seven days on Tuesday afternoon after a Sûreté du Québec officer caught him driving at twice the speed limit on Highway 138.
  The motorcyclist, a 23-year-old from Valleyfield, was driving on a section of the highway near Rankin Rd. in Godmanchester when the officer clocked him doing more than 185 kilometres per hour in a zone where the speed limit is 90 kilometres per hour.
  With the a
  
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• Family of Ariel Kouakou launch new campaign to find missing boy

  09-05-2018 21:08 via cbc.ca
  The family of 10-year-old Ariel Kouakou is launching new efforts to bolster the search for their missing son, last seen March 12, in collaboration with the Missing Children’s Network and borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville.
  
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• Downtown borough of Ville-Marie to add 1,000 bicycle stands

  09-05-2018 20:57 via montrealgazette.com
  The downtown borough of Ville-Marie will spend $2 million during the next four years on measures to improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists, and to encourage walking and cycling in the downtown core.
  This year, the borough plans to install 1,000 new bike stands, at a cost of $500,000, to augment the current inventory of 400 bike racks and 2,600 parking meters that double as bike stands. The new racks will be concentrated around schools, métro stations, shopping areas and cultural attr
  
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• Bye bye vanilla ice cream? Key ingredient's price now 'rather astronomical'

  09-05-2018 20:48 via cbc.ca
  Madagascar farmers say their crops are suffering from changing weather patterns and a greater world demand for the popular flavour.
  
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• A parent’s worst nightmare: SUDC, cousin of SIDS, claiming lives of children

  09-05-2018 20:04 via globalnews.ca
  Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood is the unexpected death of a child aged 12 months and older.
  
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• Former Bloc MPs to form new party called Quebec Debout

  09-05-2018 20:02 via globalnews.ca
  Their goal is to return to the Bloc's original mission, which was to defend Quebec's interests in Ottawa and to let provincial sovereigntist parties in Quebec handle the independence issue.
  
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• Quebec speeder slapped with hefty fine after police clock him at 240km/h

  09-05-2018 19:37 via globalnews.ca
  He was also handed a $2565 ticket and 30 demerit points.
  
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• Lac-Mégantic's neighbours say rail bypass will have negative impact on their lives

  09-05-2018 19:13 via cbc.ca
  Lac-Mégantic welcomes the news of government funding for a new rail bypass, but residents of neighbouring Nantes and Frontenac are furious to learn some home and business owners will be turfed from their land.
  
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• Man critically inured after fall on Mount Royal

  09-05-2018 19:10 via globalnews.ca
  The Montreal fire department sent a specialized team to rescue a man who fell about 10 metres into a ravine on Mount Royal Late Tuesday night.
  
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• Five judges to hear appeal of Richard Henry Bain's sentence

  09-05-2018 18:56 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec Court of Appeal has agreed with a request from the Crown that the appeal of Richard Henry Bain’s sentence be heard before a panel of five judges, instead of the usual three, because the Court will be reviewing its own precedents. 
  The appellate court delivered its decision on Wednesday after having heard arguments on the issue last week. According to the decision, Crown prosecutor Dennis Galiasatos argued that “such a panel is needed because it will be asking the Cour
  
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• Meet the people saving stray cats in Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension

  09-05-2018 18:52 via cbc.ca
  Stray cats may seem like a part of city life, but every spring, their numbers multiply, and many of them die. Now an SPCA program to sterilize and care for stray cats has come to Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension.
  
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• NDP leader says he was unaware of 'impropriety' allegations against Moore

  09-05-2018 18:33 via cbc.ca
  NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said neither he nor his team were aware of the inappropriate conduct allegations against caucus member Christine Moore, despite the complainant's claim that it was an open secret in Ottawa.
  
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• NDP leader addresses media after suspending MP Christine Moore

  09-05-2018 18:33 via cbc.ca
  NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is expected to address reporters after suspending Quebec MP Christine Moore from her duties following allegations she behaved inappropriately toward an Afghanistan veteran in 2013.
  
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• Rappelling emergency responders rescue man injured in fall on Mount Royal

  09-05-2018 18:32 via montrealgazette.com
  A young man in his 20s was seriously injured late Tuesday after he fell from a cliff on Mount Royal.
  The victim, who was discovered by a passerby at about 11:30 p.m., suffered serious head and upper-body injuries.
  Urgences Santé spokesperson François Labelle said on Wednesday that his service received a call to intervene at 11:43 p.m. and, working with Montreal firefighters, engaged in an hour-long rescue operation that saw paramedics from Urgences Santé’s Tactical-Med
  
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• Mother’s Day recipes! @cookingwithv joins us in the BT Kitchen to help you spoil your mom with some delicious dishe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-05-2018 18:31
  Mother’s Day recipes! @cookingwithv joins us in the BT Kitchen to help you spoil your mom with some delicious dishe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Quebec's auditor general calls out hospitals over surgery wait times

  09-05-2018 18:30 via cbc.ca
  Quebec’s auditor general is taking the provincial Health Ministry to task for making cancer patients wait longer than government-set targets and failing to take into consideration the urgency of the situation in setting surgery wait times.
  
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• Quebec's auditor general calls out hospitals over cancer surgery wait times

  09-05-2018 18:30 via cbc.ca
  Quebec’s auditor general is taking the provincial Health Ministry to task for making cancer patients wait longer than government-set targets and failing to take into consideration the urgency of the situation in setting surgery times.
  
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• 'Everything went through Biji': Bordeaux inmate's influence alleged to be key to murder

  09-05-2018 18:22 via montrealgazette.com
  The man who is alleged to have led a mob of inmates in the fatal beating of Michel Barrette at the Montreal Detention Centre was a prolific marijuana grower who has a habit of taking off his shirt to intimidate others. 
  “The evidence shows everything went through (Tarik) Biji in D6,” prosecutor Louis Bouthillier said during the Crown’s closing arguments last week in the first-degree murder trial of Biji and two other men accused of killing Barrette, 46, at the detention ce
  
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• Show Biz Chez Nous: Quebec NFB film heads to Cannes; Marie-Mai returns

  09-05-2018 17:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Patrick Bouchard’s The Subject, a National Film Board animated short that will screen at the Cannes Film Festival next week, took three years to make. In a highly unusual move, Bouchard made the movie without a screenplay. It is the only Canadian film screening in an official section at Cannes this year.
  “Having no screenplay made for a very risky challenge, both for me and for the NFB,” the Montreal filmmaker said in a recent interview at the Cinémathèque qu&eacu
  
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• Quebec's auditor-general blasts cancer surgery wait times, Hydro costs

  09-05-2018 17:51 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – Despite ambitious new targets set by the government, people are still waiting too long for cancer surgery. And Quebecers have overpaid Hydro-Québec for many years because its byzantine system for setting rates does not concord with the actual costs to the utility to produce it, auditor-general Guylaine Leclerc says.
  In a blistering report tabled in the National Assembly Wednesday, Leclerc wades into a wide range of new issues.
  The political choice of experimenting with
  
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• Investigation into Park-Ex murder attempt leads to drug raids, arrests

  09-05-2018 17:06 via montrealgazette.com
  An investigation into a murder attempt last November in Park-Extension led Montreal police to launch a series of raids that culminated last week in the arrests of three people and a seizure of cash and drugs.
  The murder attempt occurred on Nov. 20 and 10 days later, Aberham Butt, 25, was charged with attempted murder as well as weapons offences.
  However, the investigation led police to launch a series of raids between April 20 and May 2 in Park-Extension and Rosemont that culminated in the
  
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• The beautiful weather is back, have you tried training at the park? @Isabellekroeh with tips on making it fun! youtube.com/watch?v=zR8kWJ…

  09-05-2018 16:47
  The beautiful weather is back, have you tried training at the park? @Isabellekroeh with tips on making it fun! youtube.com/watch?v=zR8kWJ…
  
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• Free @BIXImontreal rides with @Fidomobile XTRA youtube.com/watch?v=2MhY0-…

  09-05-2018 16:41
  Free @BIXImontreal rides with @Fidomobile XTRA youtube.com/watch?v=2MhY0-…
  
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• Security top of mind as Charlevoix’s Manoir Richelieu prepares for G7 summit

  09-05-2018 16:40 via globalnews.ca
  Civil liberties groups have deplored the fact the RCMP has established an immense security perimeter and isn't allowing protesters to get anywhere near the hotel, increasing the likelihood, they say, of large-scale arrests.
  
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• Urban bus travel safer than automobile use, U de M study suggests

  09-05-2018 16:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Taking a city bus seems to be safer — four times safer — than using a car travelling along the same route, a study led by the Université de Montréal’s Public Health Research Institute (IRSPUM) concludes.
  The study looked at the risk of injury along the 10 busiest bus routes on the island of Montreal and showed that the risk is four times greater for car occupants than for bus occupants. The conclusion was based on an analysis of accident and injury reports compiled
  
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• No Choice: Author @katemckenna8 recounts 30-year fight for abortion rights youtube.com/watch?v=YbyDcG…

  09-05-2018 16:37
  No Choice: Author @katemckenna8 recounts 30-year fight for abortion rights youtube.com/watch?v=YbyDcG…
  
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