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  16-05-2018 23:19
  
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• 'It's a problem of race': Tennis player Françoise Abanda says she's a victim of discrimination

  16-05-2018 23:19 via cbc.ca
  The highest ranking female Canadian tennis player, Françoise Abanda, says she'll never receive the same recognition as fellow Montrealer Eugenie Bouchard because of her skin colour.
  
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• Daycare workers to strike Thursday in Montreal and Laval

  16-05-2018 23:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Employees at 61 publicly-funded daycares in Montreal and Laval will stage a strike on Thursday because they’re unhappy with contract talks. Workers have been without a collective agreement since March 2015.
  The strike will affect about 6,000 children in daycares affiliated with the Confédération des syndicats nationaux.
  As of 9 a.m., about 1,350 workers are expected to assemble for a meeting at the Palais des congrès to hear about the latest bargaining report, and deci
  
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• Sugar Sammy's five favourite places to hang out in Montreal

  16-05-2018 23:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Where does Montreal comedian Sugar Sammy, back in town after a self-imposed exile in Paris, insist on going every time he comes back home? 
  We got the man behind such beloved shows as You’re Gonna Rire and En français svp! to dish on his favourite places to hang out in the city. These are his absolute must-visits. 
  So even if you’re not a comedian beloved by audiences in Canada, France, Belgium, and Switzerland — to name just a few locales — Sugar Sammy&r
  
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• Vineyard owned by former politician Alfonso Gagliano wins awards

  16-05-2018 23:07 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s a four-medal streak for Alfonso Gagliano and his vineyard in the Eastern Townships.
  The former federal cabinet minister, known for his role in the sponsorship scandal that rocked the Liberal government of Jean Chrétien, now has accolades for four 2016 wines produced by Gagliano Vineyards: three silvers and a bronze awarded by the Finger Lakes International Wine Competition 2018 in New York.
  The prizes were announced last week after judges tasted the wines in late March.
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• N.D.G. woman who hit girl while driving drunk to be sentenced in June

  16-05-2018 23:04 via montrealgazette.com
  A Notre-Dame-de-Grâce resident who struck a 13-year-old girl while impaired and behind the wheel of large sports-utility vehicle will learn next month whether she will have to serve time behind bars for her drunken rampage through the streets of LaSalle. 
  Stephanie Fryer, 49, struck the girl on Aug. 11, 2014, after climbing into her boyfriend’s Cadillac Escalade while she was drunk. Before striking the teenager, who was walking along a sidewalk with her mother, the Escalade stru
  
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• Françoise Abanda says lack of media coverage is 'because I am black'

  16-05-2018 22:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Eugenie Bouchard complained last month that she’s not getting enough positive coverage from the media.
  Now, fellow Montrealer Françoise Abanda is upset because she’s not getting any coverage.
  Abanda, who has emerged as the top-ranked Canadian women’s tennis player because Bouchard’s ranking has been in freefall, spoke on a conference call from Trnava, Slovakia, Wednesday afternoon after she tweeted that she doesn’t receive the same media treatment as Genie Bo
  
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• Montreal to name park after Habs great Dickie Moore

  16-05-2018 22:52 via montrealgazette.com
  The city will name a park in northern Outremont after hockey great Dickie Moore.
  The new park will be in the neighbourhood taking shape near the Université de Montréal’s new science and engineering campus.
  The executive committee authorized the decision Wednesday.
  In addition to the campus, the new neighbourhood planned on former rail yards and a decrepit industrial zone will include 1,300 housing units.
  Moore, who played left wing with the Montreal Canadiens from 1
  
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• Cigarettes in flower pots caused 60 fires in Montreal last year

  16-05-2018 22:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Cigarettes butted out in flower pots and planters caused at least 60 fires in Montreal last year, as well as the blaze that forced the evacuation of the Le Devoir newspaper offices this week.
  With spring in bloom, Montreal’s fire department is holding its annual “No cigarette butts in pots!” information campaign for two weeks in May, with firefighters attending distribution centres for flowers and compost to spread information. 
  They counsel smokers to never put out a
  
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• Abanda: ‘I will never get the same treatment (as Bouchard) because I am black’

  16-05-2018 22:33 via globalnews.ca
  Canadian Françoise Abanda says she's experienced racism in tennis -- but the 21-year-old from Montreal said her Twitter comments about discrimination on Wednesday weren't aimed at fellow player Eugenie Bouchard.
  
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• CBC warns past, current staff personal data may be at risk after break-in, theft of computer

  16-05-2018 22:20 via cbc.ca
  The CBC is warning more than 20,000 of its past, present and contract employees that their personal and financial information may be at risk after a break-in and the theft of computer equipment.
  
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• Montreal Children’s Hospital surgeon first Canadian elected to American pediatric surgery board

  16-05-2018 21:45 via globalnews.ca
  Dr. Pramod Puligandla is the first Canadian ever to be elected to the Pediatric Surgery Board of the American Board of Surgery.
  
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• Alt-right in Montreal: Anti-fascists ramp up fight against neo-Nazis

  16-05-2018 20:44 via montrealgazette.com
  They parked across the street from his apartment.
  No one got out of the car at first. Instead, the anti-fascists waited for more than half an hour, hoping to catch a glimpse of someone coming in or out of the building, hoping to ID their target: Zeiger.
  For nine months they chased the infamous neo-Nazi — scouring the web for clues that might link him to someone in the real world.
  Their search took them to weird places: from YouTube videos about magic Nazi frogs to a series of Quebec funera
  
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• Canada’s smallest bar? Old Montreal watering hole has space for 9

  16-05-2018 20:42 via montrealgazette.com
  El Pequeño lives up to its name.
  The Cuban bar, with its name Spanish for small or tiny, is a former gift shop and has a capacity of 11 — including its two bartenders. 
  It’s Quebec’s smallest bar, and owner Marc Demers says they’re trying to verify that it’s the smallest in Canada.
  Reported by T’Cha Dunlevy, video by Dave Sidaway.
  
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• Dickie Moore Park could soon be reality in Parc-Ex

  16-05-2018 20:30 via cbc.ca
  Montreal's executive committee wants to honour the former Montreal Canadiens great who helped win six Stanley Cups in the 1950s by naming a park after the left-winger in the neighbourhood where he grew up.
  
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• Gymnastics coach arrested in Edmonton for alleged sex crimes in Montreal

  16-05-2018 20:29 via globalnews.ca
  Michel Arsenault was arrested in Edmonton on Wednesday by Quebec detectives and local authorities.
  
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• Sponsored:The evolution from accountant to privileged adviser

  16-05-2018 20:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Accountants have always played the role of adviser to their clients, but with increased accessibility of data and the lightning-quick speed at which information becomes available, more than ever accountants are relied upon to provide answers.
  “Accountants need to be more analytical with the information they’re presented with, to provide a better quality of service than just stating actual facts. That’s because facts are probably something your client already knows,” said
  
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• 'Life gets better': Beatrice Deer on grief, growth and her music

  16-05-2018 20:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Beatrice Deer says her latest album, My All to You, is about faith and trying to get to a better place.
  The singer and musician, who was born in Quaqtaq and now lives in Montreal, lost her brother and two sisters before her 15th birthday, and spent much of her adulthood consumed by grief.
  “I miss my brother, I miss my sisters, but I don’t suffer anymore from grief,” Deer says. “Grief destroys people, but the good news is that we can recover from that, we can rebuild. We j
  
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• Video: How Montreal's self-cleaning toilets operate

  16-05-2018 20:08 via montrealgazette.com
  The city’s first new free toilet is open for doing your business.
  Officials from the downtown Ville-Marie borough inaugurated the self-cleaning loo at Papineau métro station Tuesday morning.
  Here’s a look inside the new toilets, more of which will open across the city in coming months.
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  Keeping it clean: How Montreal's public toilets workPlante vows to review Chinatown public-toilet projectOh, the places you’ll go! Public toilets return to Montreal
  
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• Brownstein: Just for Laughs boss Howie Mandel preaches global domination

  16-05-2018 19:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Any doubts skeptics may have harboured about Howie Mandel’s new role as co-owner of Just for Laughs/Juste pour rire should be dashed: the Canadian comic couldn’t be more passionate about building the festival brand, both on the anglo and franco sides. 
  “Do you know about Coachella?” Mandel asks, referring to the famed California music and arts festival.
  Before a response is possible, he continues: “Few people have actually been to it, but everybody seems to kno
  
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• Péladeau to Taillefer: If you can't take the heat …

  16-05-2018 19:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Businessman turned Quebec Liberal campaign chair Alexandre Taillefer believes media mogul Pierre Karl Péladeau exerts a “certain influence” on the work carried out by reporters and columnists at the Journal de Montréal.
  Taillefer made the assertion during an interview Wednesday on 98.5 FM radio.
  Péladeau, a former leader of the Parti Québécois, is controlling shareholder of the Quebecor media chain that includes the Journal de Montréal.
  
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• Ex-gymnastics coach Michel Arsenault to face sexual assault charges related to 6 former Montreal athletes

  16-05-2018 19:49 via cbc.ca
  Former gymnastics coach Michel Arsenault was arrested in his Edmonton home Wednesday on seven charges, stemming from sexual assaults in Montreal in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  
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• Liberal election campaign chair says PKP uses his media as a political weapon

  16-05-2018 19:40 via globalnews.ca
  Alexandre Taillefer says journalists who work for PKP are encouraged to fall in line with their owner's political views and interests.
  
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• Are these livestreaming baby falcons Montreal's answer to Fiona the Hippo?

  16-05-2018 19:39 via montrealgazette.com
  These are exciting times at the Université de Montréal’s falcon nest.
  Bird lovers have spent the week taking in the sight of young falcons hatching from their eggs.
  Two entered this realm on Monday. A third joined them Wednesday morning.
  Around noon, the falcons’ Facebook page indicated that a fourth egg had started to crack, meaning that all of this year’s eggs are on track to hatch.Going four-for-four would represent a marked change in fortune from the last coup
  
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• Body found after major fire in LaSalle

  16-05-2018 19:06 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, May 16: Police have found a body of a woman in the debris of a fire in Montreal’s Lasalle borough. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Fire destroys CEGEP student residence building in Gaspé

  16-05-2018 18:47 via cbc.ca
  A fire in a student residence building at the CEGEP de la Gaspésie et des Îles's Gaspé campus was still burning Wednesday afternoon, hours after it began — forcing the evacuation of 280 students and shutting down the entire campus.
  
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• New part-owner @howiemandel says Just for Laughs is a gift youtube.com/watch?v=gq1KJ8… https://t.co/jebRrZ6fOe

  16-05-2018 18:32
  
  New part-owner @howiemandel says Just for Laughs is a gift youtube.com/watch?v=gq1KJ8… https://t.co/jebRrZ6fOe
  
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• Montreal rapper @AfroWasiu is linking up with basketball star LeBron James this playoff season for an original NBA… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-05-2018 18:24
  Montreal rapper @AfroWasiu is linking up with basketball star LeBron James this playoff season for an original NBA… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• We’re gearing up for summer! Check out Chef Natalia Machado's light and delicious tartar served-up tapas style youtube.com/watch?v=_SMtcT…

  16-05-2018 18:20
  We’re gearing up for summer! Check out Chef Natalia Machado's light and delicious tartar served-up tapas style youtube.com/watch?v=_SMtcT…
  
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• Tomorrow's your chance to wrest control of the Jacques-Cartier Bridge

  16-05-2018 18:09 via montrealgazette.com
  A year has passed since Montreal’s 375th and Canada’s 150th anniversaries, which means it’s now time to celebrate the anniversary of those anniversaries. 
  Case in point: As of Thursday, the Jacques-Cartier Bridge’s light show, which was one of the flagship projects for those celebrations, will have been functioning for a year.
  To mark the occasion, the bridge is handing control over to the public.
  Well, sort of. You will not be empowered to make traffic-related decis
  
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• Hit the subscribe button! Get the best of Breakfast Television Montreal delivered to your smartphone, tablet, or Sm… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-05-2018 17:47
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• Have you seen a foam roller laying around at the gym, but you're not sure how to use it? @KTrotterFitness gives us… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-05-2018 17:42
  Have you seen a foam roller laying around at the gym, but you're not sure how to use it? @KTrotterFitness gives us… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Building a business with a dragon - We get the inside story of #ViitaProtection youtube.com/watch?v=M03xbY…

  16-05-2018 17:39
  Building a business with a dragon - We get the inside story of #ViitaProtection youtube.com/watch?v=M03xbY…
  
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• Rockfest founder's band Deadly Apples touring with Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson

  16-05-2018 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal band Deadly Apples, fronted by Montebello Rockfest founder Alex Martel, will open for Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson on their 30-date North American tour this summer. The tour is called Twins of Evil — The Second Coming and runs from July 11 to Aug. 29. The only Canadian date is at the Budweiser Stage in Toronto July 26. (Zombie and Manson will play the Heavy Montréal festival on July 28, but Deadly Apples aren’t on the bill.)
  Deadly Apples returned from a seven-ye
  
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• Canada’s smallest bar? Old Montreal watering hole seats 9

  16-05-2018 17:27 via montrealgazette.com
  El Pequeño lives up to its name.
  The Cuban bar, with its name Spanish for small or tiny, is a former gift shop and has a capacity of 11 — including its two bartenders. 
  It’s Quebec’s smallest bar, and owner Marc Demers says they’re trying to verify that it’s the smallest in Canada.
  Reported by T’Cha Dunlevy, video by Dave Sidaway.
  
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• Quebec mosque shooting: Victims commemorated with McGill bursary

  16-05-2018 17:26 via montrealgazette.com
  In an effort to “encourage greater tolerance and understanding in Quebec and Canada,” McGill University has established the Centre culturel islamique de Québec Memorial Award — a pair of $1,200 bursaries that will be given to McGill students who have fostered “the inclusion of Muslims within the larger Québécois and Canadian societies.”
  The award takes its name from the mosque in Quebec City that was the target of a January 2017 attack that left
  
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• Bloc Quebecois youth wing drops support for Martine Ouellet

  16-05-2018 17:06 via cbc.ca
  The youth wing of the Bloc Quebecois has become the latest group to withdraw its support for embattled leader Martine Ouellet, declaring Wednesday she's not the one to bring the crumbling sovereigntist party together again.
  
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• Sherbrooke cops bust cocaine, meth supply site

  16-05-2018 16:46 via montrealgazette.com
  A raid by Sherbrooke police has led to one arrest and the seizure of several kilos of cocaine and thousands of methamphetamine pills.
  The operation was carried out on a residence on Portland Blvd. in the city’s north end, and follows a series of raids conducted May 9 against an alleged drug ring that supplied cocaine to local dealers and couriers.
  Tuesday night’s raid saw police seize 3.75 kilos of cocaine — two kilos of it pressed into blocks — with a street value of mor
  
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• Charles Dutoit could lose Order of Montreal as new recipients named

  16-05-2018 16:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s executive committee has approved this year’s recipients of the order of Montreal.
  They include medical researcher Michel Chrétien, Olympic leader Richard Pound and Louise Roy, who in the 1980s and ’90s headed what is now the Société de transport de Montréal.
  The city is also taking steps to strip Charles Dutoit, former artistic director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM), of the Order of Montreal.
  In February, Mayor Vale&
  
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• Brendan Kelly: Santa Teresa fest features Feist, Lil Uzi Vert

  16-05-2018 16:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Did you realize there was a cool alternative cultural scene in Ste-Thérèse? Yeah, neither did I.
  Julien Aidelbaum and Nycholas Fortin, however, know all about the neat things going on just north of Laval. That’s why these two enterprising guys from the area decided to create the Santa Teresa Festival, the second edition of which runs Friday through Sunday in Ste-Thérèse featuring a totally happening lineup. Artists on the bill include Feist, Lil Uzi Vert, Nick M
  
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• Royal Wedding watch: The latest from London with @CityMelanie youtube.com/watch?v=n8i9WE… https://t.co/SYNPVKcm4l

  16-05-2018 16:38
  
  Royal Wedding watch: The latest from London with @CityMelanie youtube.com/watch?v=n8i9WE… https://t.co/SYNPVKcm4l
  
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• A trio of baby falcons now live at Université de Montréal, and you can watch their every move

  16-05-2018 16:34 via cbc.ca
  Two of the baby birds, called eyasses, started breaking through their egg shells on Monday, a scene bird lovers were able to watch unfold thanks to a livestream.
  
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• CAQ immigration plan sets 3-year deadline on learning French, passing values test

  16-05-2018 16:31 via cbc.ca
  Leader François Legault says ensuring more people "integrate" into Quebec's cultural and labour force will be good for the province, but other parties are critical of the plan.
  
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• Just for Laughs adds Howie Mandel, Russell Peters, Ken Jeong to lineup

  16-05-2018 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Ownership has its privileges: Howie Mandel, the new co-owner of Just for Laughs, will make his fourth consecutive turn as a gala host at the festival this summer.
  On Wednesday Just for Laughs unveiled much of the lineup for its 36th edition, running July 11 to 29. Apart from Mandel, Russell Peters, another perennially popular fest performer, will be returning as well. Also joining the fray will be David Cross, Ken Jeong, Iliza, Kenya Barris, Maria Bamford and Roy Wood Jr.
  It had been previously
  
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• Bloc Québécois youth wing drops support for Martine Ouellet

  16-05-2018 15:59 via globalnews.ca
  The youth wing of the Bloc Québécois says it is withdrawing its support for embattled leader Martine Ouellet.
  
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• Summer cocktails made with tea

  16-05-2018 15:51 via globalnews.ca
  With or without alcohol, David’s Tea makes some great summer cocktails! Discover them all with Global’s Kim Sullivan and Laura Casella and William Dietz from David’s Tea.
  
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• Comeback for Coderre? 'They're still calling me Mr. Mayor'

  16-05-2018 15:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Two weeks after granting a wide-ranging interview on French-language television in the wake of his electoral defeat to Valérie Plante, Denis Coderre took the airwaves in English Wednesday, telling CJAD morning man Andrew Carter that even though his loss of the mayoralty stung, he has no regrets about his record at city hall.
  “They’re still calling me Mr. Mayor,” Coderre said when asked about his upset defeat to Plante last November. “That’s interesting. It me
  
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• Creating a peaceful bedtime routine

  16-05-2018 15:41 via globalnews.ca
  Longer days making it hard to settle your kids down for bedtime? Erica Diamond joins Global’s Laura Casella with a series of tips to help make your family bedtime a peaceful one.
  
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• Ode to Wonder: where discovery meets gratitude

  16-05-2018 15:34 via globalnews.ca
  Singer-songwriter Paula Toledo talks to Global’s Kim Sullivan about Ode to Wonder, a creative space for mental well-being and discovery, and an upcoming Laval TedxTalk.
  
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• The legal and parental ramifications of a birth certificate

  16-05-2018 15:24 via globalnews.ca
  Is three one too many parents for Quebec? Global’s Laura Casella looks at the legal aspects of birth certificates with family law attorney Reisa Khalifa.
  
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