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• Justin Trudeau takes part in reopening of Quebec City armoury

  12-05-2018 23:23 via cbc.ca
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Quebec City on Saturday, where he celebrated the return of the oldest French-Canadian regiment still in existence to its modernized armoury.
  
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• Former Bloc leader Michel Gauthier joins Conservatives

  12-05-2018 23:10 via globalnews.ca
  The former MP says he's no longer a sovereigntist and believes the Conservative party is the best one to serve Quebec's interests.
  
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• Montreal filmmaker and Gazette columnist Kevin Tierney dies at 67

  12-05-2018 22:46 via montrealgazette.com
  The city has lost an original: Filmmaker and Montreal Gazette columnist Kevin Tierney passed away early Saturday morning following a valiant three-year battle with cancer. He was 67.
  Though perhaps best known for producing and co-writing the bilingual box-office hit Bon Cop, Bad Cop, Tierney was a major cultural force in the city ­ on both sides of the linguistic divide.
  No matter the cause, Tierney was quick to offer his services, be it with the Cinémathèque québé
  
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• Protesters demonstrate in Montreal against the use of electric shock therapy in psychiatry

  12-05-2018 22:42 via globalnews.ca
  In Quebec, the group Pare-chocs contends that 11,000 ECT treatments were administered in 2017, up by 1,000 over the previous year.
  
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• Lachine holds public forum on development of east end

  12-05-2018 22:16 via globalnews.ca
  Lachine residents were invited to a forum on Saturday to gather opinions on a massive development in the borough's east end.
  
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• Kevin Tierney, producer of Bon Cop, Bad Cop, dead at 67

  12-05-2018 21:15 via cbc.ca
  Kevin Tierney, a pioneering Montreal film producer and writer, has died. His credits include Bon Cop, Bad Cop, the highest-grossing producer ever made.
  
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• Kevin Tierney, Bon Cop, Bad Cop producer, dead at 67

  12-05-2018 21:15 via cbc.ca
  Kevin Tierney, a prominent Montreal film producer and writer, has died. He was 67.
  
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• 'Let me tell you, it's going to rock,' says Manon Massé on being candidate for premier

  12-05-2018 19:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Québec Solidaire made it official on Saturday: MNA Manon Massé will be its candidate for the position of Quebec premier in the Oct. 1 provincial election.
  “It is with the greatest determination that I accept the mandate you’re giving me this morning,” Massé told delegates at a party meeting in Quebec City. 
  “I can’t wait to take on Mr. Couillard, Mr. Legault and Mr. Lisée. Let me tell you, it’s going to rock.”
  Massé
  
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• Allison Hanes: To Mom, with gratitude and apologies

  12-05-2018 19:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I had to become a mother myself to fully appreciate my own.
  This is probably not an original realization, but in the quest to blaze our own trails as modern women, we are too often blind to such truths until they smack us in the face. And dealing with the challenges of raising small children is just the wake-up call I needed to cast my own youthful antics in a fresh light and fill me with gratitude for my mom’s extraordinary patience.
  I was the Difficult Child, according to the title of a
  
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• Body of man in his 30s found in St. Lawrence River near Montreal

  12-05-2018 18:51 via montrealgazette.com
  The body of a man in his 30s was found in the St. Lawrence River on Saturday morning.
  It was discovered just before 10 a.m. by people working on a boat near the de la Concorde bridge, which links Île-Sainte-Hélène and Montreal, said Montreal police spokesperson Raphaël Bergeron.
  Bergeron said no obvious injuries were found on the body. Police are trying to determine the man’s identity and the cause of death, he added.
  
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• Man arrested in connection with Montreal homicide hospitalized with self-inflicted injuries

  12-05-2018 18:48 via globalnews.ca
  The arrest came after his father's body was discovered in a ditch in Montreal's Saint-Laurent borough earlier in the day.
  
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• Liberals have taken Montreal for granted for too long: CAQ leader François Legault

  12-05-2018 18:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault says Liberals have taken Montreal for granted for too long.
  As proof the party of Premier Philippe Couillard has ignored the city, Legault pointed to the state of schools.
  “Schools in the Commission scolaire de Montréal are among the worst in Quebec,” Legault said Saturday. “They’re in ruins. The Liberals have allowed schools to degrade for too long. More and more families are thinking of movin
  
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• Former Bloc Québécois leader Michel Gauthier renounces sovereignty, joins Conservatives

  12-05-2018 18:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Former Bloc Québécois leader Michel Gauthier says he is turning his back on the sovereignist option and joining the federal Conservatives.
  He will make the announcement when the Quebec wing of the Conservative Party of Canada meets in St-Hyacinthe this weekend.
  In an interview with La Presse, Gauthier said he will actively campaign alongside Quebec Conservative candidates in the 2019 elections, but will not be a candidate.
  Gauthier, who was MP for Roberval from 1993 to 2007 and lea
  
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• Trans fashion student says Lasalle College mishandled her request to use a preferred name

  12-05-2018 17:42 via cbc.ca
  Mia Alba won't participate in end-of-year showcase since her legal name is used in the event's program.
  
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• Vigil underway in Montreal to mark 2-month anniversary of Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou’s disappearance

  12-05-2018 17:13 via globalnews.ca
  Kouakou, 10, left his family's home on March 12 to walk to a friend's house and hasn't been seen since.
  
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• Vigil held in Montreal to mark 2-month anniversary of Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou’s disappearance

  12-05-2018 17:13 via globalnews.ca
  Kouakou, 10, left his family's home on March 12 to walk to a friend's house and hasn't been seen since.
  
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• Anti-racists to march in Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie against neo-Nazi

  12-05-2018 17:04 via montrealgazette.com
  A protest is expected to take place Saturday afternoon against a Montrealer who is one of North America’s most influential neo-Nazis.
  Organizers say they will gather at Beaubien métro station at 5 p.m., before marching through the streets of Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie borough.
  In a press release, the organizers said the demonstration is “an initiative of some Montreal anti-racists, including concerned residents of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie.”
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• CAQ's lead over Liberals is stabilizing but election still 'unpredictable,' pollster says

  12-05-2018 16:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Less than five months before Quebecers go to the polls, the Coalition Avenir Québec’s lead is stabilizing, while the Liberals are slipping and the province’s two other parties continue to stagnate, a new poll shows.
  But more than half — 53 per cent — of voters say they could still change their minds before the Oct. 1 election, according to the survey by Léger Marketing.
  “This is the most unpredictable campaign in a long time,” Léger presid
  
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• Quebec families with more than 2 parents fight for recognition

  12-05-2018 16:30 via cbc.ca
  More and more families are adopting non-traditional parenting situations, but Quebec birth certificates can only include the names of two parents.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Joël Bouchard sure looks like a good fit with Canadiens

  12-05-2018 16:24 via montrealgazette.com
  BOISBRIAND — Joël Bouchard landed a pretty sweet job as an RDS analyst for Canadiens games after his 14-year NHL playing career ended.
  It’s the kind of job any former player would love, staying involved in the game while watching the action up-close from beside the Canadiens’ backup goalie at the end of the bench. There’s not a ton of pressure and you’re one of the few media people who gets to travel on the Canadiens’ charter flights and stay in the same
  
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• ICYMI: @aloeblacc was in our BT studios to perform his hit song "Wake Me Up"! See the full clip:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-05-2018 16:00
  ICYMI: @aloeblacc was in our BT studios to perform his hit song "Wake Me Up"! See the full clip:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 7 big recent wins for Canadian music artists

  12-05-2018 15:00 via globalnews.ca
  There's so many major accomplishments coming from Canadian artists, it's hard to narrow down just a few.
  
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• Vigil Saturday for missing 10-year-old boy: 'Ariel will return to us.'

  12-05-2018 14:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Family, friends and strangers are expected at a vigil Saturday, the two-month anniversary of the disappearance of 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou.
  Ariel was last seen on March 12 while entering Parc des Bateliers, which parallels the Rivière-des-Prairies in north-end Montreal. Surveillance cameras have images of him entering the park, but not leaving it.
  The vigil begins at 11 a.m. at Sainte-Odèle Church, 4545 de Salaberry St., near Guertin St.
  “Please come a
  
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• Laval police seeking missing 17-year-old boy

  12-05-2018 14:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police are asking for the public’s help in their search for a missing 17-year-old boy.
  Maxime Ménard was last seen on Friday evening.
  “He suffers from a disease that could put him at risk if he does not take his medication,” Laval police said.
  Ménard uses public transit to get around and he may be in downtown Montreal.
  Police said he is white, is six-foot-one and weighs 205 pounds. He is blond and has blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a dark coat, shorts a
  
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• While you were sleeping: Polls open in Iraq, rebel attacks in Myanmar

  12-05-2018 14:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Polls opened across Iraq on Saturday in the first national election since the declaration of victory over the Islamic State group.
  After hours of low voter turnout, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi partially lifted a security curfew to encourage more people to come to the polls. After weeks of official campaigning, no clear front-runner has emerged as al-Abadi faces stiff competition from political parties with closer ties to Iran.
  The curfew had been in place since midnight the night before
  
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• The Week in Review: ER, CAQ, Bill 62, PQ and 'Mom'

  12-05-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on all the big stories that happened this week in Montreal.
  Little improvement in number of patients waiting 24 hours in ERs: stats
  A year after Health Minister Gaétan Barrette warned hospitals he would no longer tolerate emergency-room patients languishing on gurneys for longer than 24 hours, the government’s own statistics show little to no improvement. As of 11 a.m. Monday, 408 patients across Quebec were reported to be receiving care on gurneys for at least 24 hour
  
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• The video crusader: one citizen's battle to film council meetings in the spirit of transparency

  12-05-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  As he has every month for the past several years, on Jan. 15, Francisco Moreno made his way to LaSalle’s borough hall for its monthly council meeting. It was the first one of the year but also significant in another way: for the first time ever, the meeting was being filmed and streamed online. 
  For Moreno, the meeting was a personal victory of sorts. For roughly nine years, the 54-year-old masonry contractor had argued the borough should either stream its meetings
  
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• Shelter: Following many paths to Old Montreal condo

  12-05-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Magda Frederik, who is in her late 50s, has an eclectic background. But having lived in and travelled to many places and studied widely, she has settled in Old Montreal
  She was born on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao but her father worked for the United Nations, so she and her brother went to “lots of different schools, in lots of different countries”.
  At 17, Frederik moved to Quebec City where she studied political science at Laval University. She later switched to
  
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• Royal Orr: Appreciating the bridge-builders

  12-05-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I drove into Montreal earlier this week to listen to the former mayor of Montreal, Denis Coderre, give the keynote address at the Victor and Sheila Goldbloom Symposium. The blurb announcing the event promised that, “in keeping with the legacy of Dr. Victor Goldbloom, (Coderre) will focus on building bridges between people of different backgrounds and religions.”
  These days, when you come to the city from the Eastern Townships, one of the guaranteed pleasures is trackin
  
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• Dr. Alice Benjamin, a pioneer in obstetrics-gynecology, to be honoured

  12-05-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Over a career spanning four decades, Dr. Alice Benjamin estimates she’s delivered more than 10,000 babies, many of them born prematurely. Yet as she approaches retirement, she says she never tires of welcoming a newborn into the world.
  On Sunday, the 72-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist will be honoured for her life’s work, which includes co-founding a prenatal clinic in 1979 at the Royal Victoria Hospital for women with gestational diabetes — the first such clinic in Canada.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Joel Bouchard sure looks like a good fit with Canadiens

  12-05-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  BOISBRIAND — Joel Bouchard landed a pretty sweet job as an RDS analyst for Canadiens games after his 14-year NHL playing career ended.
  It’s the kind of job any former player would love, staying involved in the game while watching the action up-close from beside the Canadiens’ backup goalie at the end of the bench. There’s not a ton of pressure and you’re one of the few media people who gets to travel on the Canadiens’ charter flights and stay in the same five-
  
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• Stu Cowan: Celebrating Mother's Day and the beauty of sports

  12-05-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  On Tuesday, Martin St. Louis tweeted out a photo of his mother and wrote: “I can’t believe it’s been 4 years. Thank you for keeping an eye on all of us. We miss you mom. Une belle caresse et un gros bec! Happy Mother’s Day in advance! I know you watching the @TBLightning and you have no idea who scores the goals still, you just want the team to win. xox”
  Four years ago, St. Louis was playing for the New York Rangers against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Con
  
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• One of Quebec's only farm animal sanctuaries is fighting for survival

  12-05-2018 13:00 via cbc.ca
  For the past two years, Catherine Gagnieux has been caring for farm animals destined for the slaughterhouse. But she's struggling to
  
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• Montrealer's battle with anorexia inspired Peau Sauvage photo project

  12-05-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It started with a pair of jeans.When she was 14, Roberta Terry was out shopping with her mother. She had picked out a pair of Size 38 jeans to try in the change room. 
  “It wouldn’t even go up my thighs, and I had a panic attack,” recalled Terry. “I started punching the walls and screaming and yelling that I was so fat, and from that moment on I would never eat again without feeling guilty.”
  Terry was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, and her parents sought
  
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• Josh Freed: Dr. Josh responds to his car-hating critics

  12-05-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Dear Dr. Josh:
  Last week you wrote another Neanderthal column saying we should leave the mountain road open to poisonous cars and murderous drivers. Are you an idiot — or just an environmental criminal?
  Yours respectfully,
  — Auto-exhausted
  Dear Exhausted: I got plenty of angry mail last week after mentioning how many complaints I’d received about closing Mount Royal. Now, other readers are accusing me of being “a car-head”, “auto addict” or in the words
  
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• City hall to close for renovations for the first time since 1920s

  12-05-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Mayor Valérie Plante will, no doubt, be sure to avoid the mistakes of the last mayor to undertake a major renovation of city hall.
  In 1992, then mayor Jean Doré’s $23-million revamp came to symbolize his administration’s free-spending ways in the midst of an economic downturn. The uproar over a $300,000 window in the mayor’s office and self-flushing urinals in the washrooms contributed to Doré’s defeat in 1994.
  Now, the heritage building at 275 Notre-
  
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• Why we're still talking about the phantom threat of voter fraud

  12-05-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Much depends on how you view the actual threat of voter fraud - and whether you think eliminating that threat is worth making it harder for some Canadians to vote.
  
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• WestJet and Air Canada: How little separates the airlines anymore

  12-05-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  As WestJet airline revamps its operations, the formerly scrappy upstart is becoming more and more like its rival, Air Canada, which has in turn adapted to be more like Westjet.
  
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• New guidelines not enough to fix Quebec's face-covering ban, lawyer says

  12-05-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's new guidelines on religious accommodation have failed to ease concerns about whether Muslim women will be able to access public services — such as riding a bus — if they wear a niqab or burka.
  
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• Driver dies after missing curve near St-Jérôme

  12-05-2018 05:52 via montrealgazette.com
   
  A man age between 30 and 40 died Friday night after his vehicle made a highway exit on Highway 15 heading north near St-Jérôme in the Laurentians.The driver lost control of his truck in a curve shortly after 9 p.m. The vehicle, to which a trailer was attached, left the road and rolled over on Highway 117.The victim was alone in the vehicle.The Sûreté du Québec has opened an investigation.
   
  
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• Armada on brink of elimination in QMJHL final after home loss to Titan

  12-05-2018 04:14 via montrealgazette.com
  BOISBRIAND — A couple of hours before Game 5 of the President’s Cup final Friday night, Blainville-Boisbriand Armada coach Joel Bouchard was talking about the atmosphere at the Centre d’Excellence Sports Rousseau.
  “It’s a lot of fun for the kids to have the fans behind us and to make sure that you have the enthusiasm and the pop to come out of the gate,” Bouchard said. “It’s fun for the region — they’ve been supporting us for all t
  
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• 'Mom' Boucher gets new 10-year sentence, daughter to serve house arrest

  12-05-2018 03:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Maurice (Mom) Boucher was sentenced to a 10-year prison term on Friday for his leading role in a plot to murder Raynald Desjardins, an influential figure in the Montreal Mafia. 
  The sentence was part of a common suggestion presented to Superior Court Justice Éric Downs at the Gouin courthouse in northern Montreal by defence lawyer Mathieu Poissant and prosecutor Matthew Ferguson. 
  “All is good,” Boucher said when asked by Downs if he had anything to say before he off
  
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• Quebec judge invites province to recognize reality of multi-parent families

  12-05-2018 03:30 via globalnews.ca
  A Quebec judge is inviting provincial lawmakers to consider the possibility of multi-parent families after a complex legal fight involving a little girl and three adults.
  
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• Is Price pooped? Canadiens goalie starts off-season training — the potty kind

  12-05-2018 03:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens netminder Carey Price these days is helping his wife, Angela, potty train their two-year-old daughter, Liv.
  The little girl has been “hitting the terrible twos thing pretty hard,” Angela says on her Intagram account.
  “She had a major regression in potty training (peeing in the middle of a restaurant, twice),” Price’s wife goes on to report. 
  The young mother keeps her husband’s fans in the loop on Instagram on the progress of the training.
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• MNA Gerry Sklavounos will not seek re-election this fall

  12-05-2018 02:54 via cbc.ca
  A controversial MNA, who resigned from the Liberal caucus two years ago over sexual assault allegations, will not be running for re-election.
  
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• Man's death in St-Laurent's Technoparc considered a homicide

  12-05-2018 02:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police say the body found in a ditch in St-Laurent’s Technoparc early Friday morning is Montreal’s eighth homicide.
  Police identified the body as a 59-year-old man, and it showed signs of violence. The body was discovered by a passerby on Marie-Curie Ave. near Albert-Einstein St. at 5:45 a.m. Police have cordoned off Marie-Curie between Albert-Einstein and Frederick-Banting St. 
  At 2:45 p.m., provincial police arrested a man, 23, in connection with the death near Mont-L
  
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• Alleged Mafia leader free after prosecution drops drug trafficking case

  12-05-2018 02:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Alleged Mafia leader Andrea (Andrew) Scoppa walked out of the Montreal courthouse a free man on Friday after the Crown announced it would no longer prosecute him on charges alleging he was distributing cocaine to dealers while using condominiums inside the Tour des Canadiens as his base of operations. 
  Scoppa’s release will probably throw another twist into the ever-changing mysterious saga of who actually controls the Montreal Mafia. In February, Leonardo Rizzuto, 48, and Stefano Sol
  
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• Quebec circus school suspends teacher facing child-porn charges in Montreal

  12-05-2018 02:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s National Circus School announced Friday it has removed one of its teachers facing child porn and luring charges.
  Marcelo Berti Marques, 44, was arrested May 9 and charged a day later with luring children, inciting sexual contact, making sexually explicit material available to a child and possession of child pornography. He remains in custody. The victim is reportedly a student at the school.
  The school said Friday it learned of the charges through the media. In a statement, it sai
  
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• Federal, Quebec governments reveal new plan for Lac-Mégantic railway

  12-05-2018 02:07 via globalnews.ca
  Nearly five years after the deadly train disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, there’s a $133 million plan to reroute the rail line. Trains will stop running through the town in 2022, but as Mike Armstrong reports, not all residents are on board.
  
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• Body found in ditch near St-Laurent's Technoparc Montréal

  12-05-2018 01:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police say the body found in a ditch in St-Laurent’s Technoparc early Friday morning is Montreal’s eighth homicide.
  Police identified the body as a 59-year-old man, and it showed signs of violence. The body was discovered by a passerby on Marie-Curie Ave. near Albert-Einstein St. at 5:45 a.m. Police have cordoned off Marie-Curie between Albert-Einstein and Frederick-Banting St. 
  At 2:45 p.m., provincial police arrested a man, 23, in connection with the death near Mont L
  
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