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• Permit snafu wreaks havoc for NDG café owners

  18-05-2018 23:54 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, May 18: The new owners of a small café in NDG are in trouble with the city over the permit they inherited. As Global’s Cora MacDonald reports, support from the community could keep Maté Latte on Sherbrooke Street from closing shop.
  
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• Traffic sign squabble leaves Anjou drivers seeing black

  18-05-2018 23:50 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, May 18: Anjou drivers say they have been getting ticketed due to a new traffic sign in the area. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, the sign now appears to have been vandalized to make it less clear – but police say the black paint came from the borough itself.
  
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• C2 Montréal takes brainstorming to new heights

  18-05-2018 23:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Richard St-Pierre wants to make people a little uncomfortable.
  That, says the president of C2, helps ignite the “little spark” of creativity. 
  “If you bring people to the limit of their comfort zone, something new will emerge,” St-Pierre said.
  Now in its seventh year, C2 Montréal, the business conference created by advertising agency Sid Lee and the Cirque du Soleil, has become known for its “labs” — participative activities, like busine
  
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• Are more nurse practitioners coming to Quebec?

  18-05-2018 23:46 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, May 18: Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard says the province should hire more nurse practitioners to see patients who don’t have a family doctor. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, the proposal could signal a shift in health policy for the Liberals just four months ahead of the election.
  
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• Animal adoption non-profit Animatch needs a new home

  18-05-2018 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  Animatch has until the end of the summer to move and is calling on the community for help.
  
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• Kayak kid takes on rough waters, navigating Lachine Rapids like a pro

  18-05-2018 23:35 via cbc.ca
  It's a family event when former Olympic athlete Corran Addison and his son Kaïlix hit the water.
  
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• Quebec premier considers hiring more nurse practitioners

  18-05-2018 23:29 via globalnews.ca
  Premier Philippe Couillard says nurse practitioners can see patients who don't have a family doctor, something the PQ has been calling for.
  
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• Animatch on the move

  18-05-2018 23:17 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, May 18: After nearly 20 years in Les Cèdres, a popular animal adoption centre is looking for a new home. As Global’s Gloria Henriquez reports, Animatch has until the end of the summer to move and is calling on the community for help.
  
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• Jury selection complete, Tony Accurso's fraud trial gets underway in Laval

  18-05-2018 23:05 via cbc.ca
  With the jury selection done, opening arguments in the trial of Tony Accurso got underway Friday afternoon at the Laval courthouse.
  
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• Victim of Quebec singer Luck Mervil tells court she felt completely at his mercy

  18-05-2018 23:01 via globalnews.ca
  The defence and Crown are recommending a six-month sentence in the community for Luck Mervil.
  
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• ‘I lived in shame’: Victim of Quebec singer Luck Mervil tells court she felt completely at his mercy

  18-05-2018 23:01 via globalnews.ca
  The defence and Crown are recommending a six-month sentence in the community for Luck Mervil.
  
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• Confusing Châteauguay road sign caused Hamilton woman's death, family claims in lawsuit

  18-05-2018 22:56 via cbc.ca
  The family of a Hamilton woman who was killed in a head-on collision on Highway 30 in Châteauguay last year is blaming Quebec's Transport Ministry for her death.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Family of terminally-ill refugee claimant granted temporary resident permits

  18-05-2018 22:45 via globalnews.ca
  A terminally-ill refugee claimant from Lebanon has just been granted his dying wish by the federal government.
  
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• Larry Carrière now has a new role with Canadiens

  18-05-2018 22:16 via montrealgazette.com
  When the Canadiens named Joël Bouchard as the new had coach of the Laval Rocket on Thursday they also announced that Larry Carrière will no longer be general manager of the AHL farm team.
  Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin said Carrière will act as director of player personnel with the Rocket and will also retain his position as senior advisor for hockey operations. 
  What exactly does that mean?
  “Last year was the first year in Laval (after the AHL franchise moved from
  
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• Driving this long weekend? You'll want to follow these Montreal traffic tips

  18-05-2018 22:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Whether you’re taking a leisurely drive or heading out to the cottage, here are some spots you’ll want to avoid if you’re driving this long weekend.
  South Shore
  Highway 25 South between Exit 4 (Souligny Ave. W. downtown) and Highway 132 on the South Shore — including the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel — will be closed from Friday at 11:59 p.m. until Tuesday at 5 a.m. 
  This will also affect the Souligny Ave. E. access to Highway 25 South and the tunnel,
  
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• Quebecers to have access to their health information online

  18-05-2018 21:57 via globalnews.ca
  Quebecers will now be able to access their health information online with the Quebec health booklet.
  
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• What the Puck: Canadiens need bigger changes, new blueprint for glory

  18-05-2018 21:53 via montrealgazette.com
  These are interesting times for the Montreal Canadiens.
  As promised by Geoff Molson, there have been some big changes since the end of the disastrous 2017-18 season and so far they’ve all been good moves. But it isn’t enough.
  As I learned in Management 101, I’ll start with the positives. Molson and general manager Marc Bergevin finally bit the bullet and fired two of Bergevin’s buddies, Laval Rocket coach Sylvain Lefebvre and Habs assistant coach Jean-Jacques Daigneault.
  
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• Banged up Impact defence tasked with stopping super Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  18-05-2018 21:27 via globalnews.ca
  As if injuries and a losing record weren't enough for the Montreal Impact to worry about, now they have to go up against one of soccer's most prolific scorers -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
  
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• Teens discover the power of the mic at Montreal music studio

  18-05-2018 21:26 via cbc.ca
  Teens are leading every aspect of producing their own music at NBS Studio in Cote-des-Neiges.
  
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• Motorsports Star Patrick Carpentier Joins Forces with CARSTAR and BASF to Help Quebec Drivers Increase Safety on the Road and Reduce Distracted Driving

  18-05-2018 21:01 via globalnews.ca
  Carpentier and CARSTAR are teaming up to help Quebec drivers improve their safety on the road through appearances, educational events and safe-driving sessions, just in time for the summer travel season, which marks the highest three months of vehicle accidents from June through August. Quebec City, Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Noon – 2 p.m. Safe...
  
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• Editorial: CAQ's immigration plan is bad politics, not good policy

  18-05-2018 20:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Coalition Avenir Québec’s newly revealed proposals on immigration make no sense, but making sense doesn’t seem to be their purpose. The party’s apparent aim is political: to win votes by tapping into the fears of some Quebecers that their language and culture are threatened by newcomers. Many residents of other parts of Quebec seem to have a distorted view of the realities in Montreal. Suspicions run deep that the metropolis remains a sea of English, and that minorities
  
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• 6 designers, 4 people, and a cheese that connect the royal wedding to Montreal

  18-05-2018 20:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The royal wedding is nearly upon us, and despite involving a pairing of a prince and American actress who lived in Toronto, it actually has a lot of Montreal connections.
  Here, in exhaustive and exhilarating detail, are those connections:  
  Markle’s earrings in the couple’s engagement photo were from Montreal’s Birks
  Obviously all eyes during the soon-to-be royal couple’s engagement photo shoot were on a different piece of jewelry. But, for the record, Markle&rs
  
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• Coming Tuesday in Quebec: Your digital health file at your fingertips

  18-05-2018 20:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The provincial digital health portal giving Quebec patients access to their own data is set to launch Tuesday.
  Carnet santé Québec will be available on computers, tablets and smartphones, Health Minister Gaétan Barrette announced Friday.
  “The online service is a tool for the patient that will be simple, safe, secure — and free,” Barrette said. Much like an online bank account, only the client will be able to access his or her health data, he added.
  Ann
  
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• Montreal doctor suspended for giving students medical notes without proper assessment

  18-05-2018 19:56 via globalnews.ca
  Dr. Raymond Rezaie has had his license suspended for six months for writing medical notes and prescribing medication to students without properly assessing them.
  
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• Macpherson: François Legault's cynical immigrant-snitch scheme

  18-05-2018 19:39 via montrealgazette.com
  François Legault, the former Parti Québécois minister whose Coalition Avenir Québec party leads the pre-election polls, has discovered one of the advantages of Canada’s federal system: it allows a politician to pass the loonie to another level of government.
  This week, L’actualité magazine published the latest version of the CAQ’s immigration policy, featuring its threat to have immigrants expelled after four years in Quebec if they have not p
  
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• FTA serves up Ivo van Hove's epic Shakespearean feast Kings of War

  18-05-2018 19:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Tom, Dick and two Harrys are at the centre of this year’s Festival TransAmériques, the annual jamboree of international cutting-edge performance, which fans out across the city from May 23 to June 7.
  Later in the festival, Michel Marc Bouchard’s gripping gay love/hate story Tom at the Farm gets an especially earthy and passionate Brazilian treatment in Tom na Fazenda (June 1 to 3, Maison Théâtre, 245 Ontario St. E).
  One of the opening shows of the FTA’s 12th
  
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• Rent-a-goalie app helps hockey teams across Canada find subs

  18-05-2018 19:23 via globalnews.ca
  At just about every level of hockey, goalies are a hot commodity. So, what do you do if your team's net minder bails? There's an app for that.
  
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• There are new rules for cyclists, drivers in Quebec. Do you know what they are?

  18-05-2018 19:08 via globalnews.ca
  If you ever take to the roads in Quebec, you might want to be aware of these new changes.
  
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• Quebecers will be able to access their medical files online starting next week

  18-05-2018 18:42 via cbc.ca
  Quebecers will be able access their medical files online starting next week, Health Minister Gaetan Barrette said Friday.
  
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• Luck Mervil sobs at sentencing hearing for sexually exploiting a minor

  18-05-2018 18:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Luck Mervil, the popular singer who pleaded guilty earlier this week to having sexually exploited a minor many years ago, broke down and cried while making a statement during his sentence hearing on Friday. 
  He spoke while he sobbed and told Quebec Court Judge Mélanie Hébert about a phone call he received after he entered the guilty plea on Monday. The principal of the school that his young son attends said he had heard what Mervil pleaded guilty to and said he might have to &
  
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• Alt-right in Montreal: The war against women

  18-05-2018 18:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Two years ago, Emer O’Toole logged on to Twitter and found she’d been swarmed with hateful messages.
  They came at her by the hundreds, a small army of mostly men calling her names and threatening her. One user Photoshopped her face onto the image of a naked woman with Froot Loops coming out of her anus.
  While she was able to laugh most of it off, the sheer volume of the attack was overwhelming.
  “It was a barrage of nonsensical, targeted harassment,” says O’Toole, a
  
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• Motorists, cyclists face more severe sanctions starting today

  18-05-2018 18:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s Transport Ministry is reminding motorists, cyclists and pedestrians that the slew of amendments tabled last month to the province’s highway code go into effect Friday.
  And many of those amendments increase the costs — financial and in demerit points — for violating the rules of the road.
  The changes contained in Bill 165 include more severe sanctions for cyclists and those using other non-motorized vehicles who break the regulations, for those who disobey the dir
  
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• Wine: Don't like acidic styles? Viognier fills the need for a "fatter white"

  18-05-2018 17:59 via montrealgazette.com
  A complaint I often hear from people who have yet to embrace white wine is that they find them “too acidic.” It’s true that pinot grigio and sauvignon blanc — part of the family of acidic whites, which represents the majority of white grape varieties — can make you pucker.
  Riesling, chenin blanc, albariño, sylvaner, aligoté, assyrtiko and viura are also white grapes that have acidity as a principle characteristic. But many other white wine styles aren&
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: May 18, 2018

  18-05-2018 17:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Every week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings.
  Under $16 
  Touraine 2017, Sauvignon Blanc, Château de Pocé, France white, $14.40, SAQ # 10689606. Riper styled Loire sauvignon blanc with lemon and white grapefruit, and very little green herbal notes. Dry, almost salty finish that keeps you coming back. Versatile wine that can carry you from apéritif through most lighter seafood and fish dishes. Grape variet
  
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• Indigenous experience is central to survey of Canada's landscape art

  18-05-2018 17:45 via montrealgazette.com
  On July 1, 1967, amid the feel-good pomp of Canada’s centennial celebrations, Chief Dan George stood up at an official ceremony at Empire Stadium in Vancouver and added a very different note to the party.“My nation was ignored in your history textbooks,” the Coast Salish leader said in his Lament for Confederation speech. “They were little more important in the history of Canada than the buffalo that ranged the plains.” 
  Victoria Dickenson remembers that day. I
  
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• A Q&A with new Laval Rocket coach Joël Bouchard

  18-05-2018 17:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Joel Bouchard says he really learned how passionate Canadiens fans are about their team during the three years he worked as a hockey analyst for RDS.
  Bouchard recalled that everywhere he went in Quebec — to buy gas, get groceries, etc. — he would be stopped by fans who wanted to talk about the team. He said the passion of Canadiens fans is “indescribable”
  After being hired as the new head coach of the AHL’s Laval Rocket on Thursday, Bouchard talked about the lifetim
  
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• From plumbers to public transit: 10 of Montreal's biggest conferences

  18-05-2018 17:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal is certainly a tourism destination, but some visitors are mixing in a bit of business.
  More than 450 conferences, meetings and sporting events — with over 350,000 participants — were held here in 2017, according to Tourisme Montréal.
  That’s just a part of the broader business travel market, said Yves Lalumière, president and CEO of Tourisme Montréal.
  Around one in four visitors who stay in local hotels are here for business, he said. Thos
  
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• Nigeria to help bust 'myths' about illegal border crossings into Canada

  18-05-2018 17:30 via cbc.ca
  Nigeria has given assurances it will help dispel myths that illegally crossing from the U.S. is a shortcut to Canada and will issue travel documents to facilitate the removal of unsuccessful asylum seekers. Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen recently met with senior officials in Nigeria.
  
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• Montreal Gutsy Walk supports Chron’s & Colitis Canada @ayezducran youtu.be/vXa-IYICo7s https://t.co/Qsjyj0Nman

  18-05-2018 16:53
  
  Montreal Gutsy Walk supports Chron’s & Colitis Canada @ayezducran youtu.be/vXa-IYICo7s https://t.co/Qsjyj0Nman
  
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• Montreal singer Corneille releases new album

  18-05-2018 16:32 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal singer/songwriter Corneille talks to Global’s Laura Casella about how fatherhood has changed his outlook on life and influenced his new album.
  
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• Youth flocking to Montreal, now ranked 3rd best Canadian city for young people - We speak to Caro Loutfi from… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 16:31
  Youth flocking to Montreal, now ranked 3rd best Canadian city for young people - We speak to Caro Loutfi from… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 5 Montreal stories guaranteed to make you smile this week: May 18

  18-05-2018 16:27 via globalnews.ca
  Have you seen the new baby falcons at Université de Montréal?
  
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• Excitement reaches fever pitch at Windsor Castle - We speak to @CityMelanie live from England… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 16:18
  Excitement reaches fever pitch at Windsor Castle - We speak to @CityMelanie live from England… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 20% of married couples met at work! But time are changing. @DebbyCarreau shares the Dos and Don’ts of workplace rom… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 16:15
  20% of married couples met at work! But time are changing. @DebbyCarreau shares the Dos and Don’ts of workplace rom… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Montreal’s The Record Breakers @TheRBofficial open for @BonJovi youtu.be/UGpvM0SRNRc https://t.co/4cVuvBZbr8

  18-05-2018 16:11
  
  Montreal’s The Record Breakers @TheRBofficial open for @BonJovi youtu.be/UGpvM0SRNRc https://t.co/4cVuvBZbr8
  
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• Bon Jovi returns to Montreal

  18-05-2018 16:10 via globalnews.ca
  Bon Jovi is back in town, and LaRonde and Parc Safari are open! It’s an exciting weekend in Montreal entertainment – get the details from Global’s Kim Sullivan and Jay Walker.
  
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• Summer BBQ safety

  18-05-2018 15:59 via globalnews.ca
  Now that summer’s here, BBQ safety is most important. Find out what you need to know from Trauma Prevention Coordinator Liane Fransblow and Global’s Andrea Howick.
  
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• Chez Sophie gets a makeover

  18-05-2018 15:59 via globalnews.ca
  Check out the latest look and cuisine from Little Burgundy’s Chez Sophie restaurant with Chef Sophie Tabet, Sommelier Marco Marangi and Global’s Kim Sullivan.
  
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• Gunman kills 10 people at Texas high school, governor says

  18-05-2018 15:57 via cbc.ca
  A gunman killed 10 people and 10 others were injured at a Houston-area high school this morning, the state's governor has confirmed.
  
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• 8 to 10 killed in south Texas school shooting, 2 suspects arrested

  18-05-2018 15:57 via cbc.ca
  Two suspects have been arrested after gunfire broke out at a Houston-area high school this morning, killing eight to 10 people, most of them students, authorities say.
  
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