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• Corus Entertainment teams up with Twitter to produce social media videos

  31-05-2018 23:59 via globalnews.ca
  The series is aimed at Twitter users and millennials and will feature Corus personalities and brands.
  
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• Accurso companies were at top of Laval kickback list, trial told

  31-05-2018 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Two companies owned by Antonio Accurso were the biggest contributors of kickbacks to the system of collusion created by the city of Laval, a witness said at the construction magnate’s jury trial on Thursday.
  Several engineering firms and construction companies were involved in the corrupt system — between 1996 and 2010 — in which the city run by then-mayor Gilles Vaillancourt predetermined which company would be awarded a contract, before it was ever put to public tender. In tu
  
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• Condo project at former Green Hornet bar site draws Pointe-Claire residents’ ire

  31-05-2018 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  As a condo tower goes up on Lakeshore, a group of Pointe-Claire residents are unsettled by what could happen later should other plans be approved.
  
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• Big dog wins over hearts at McGill University

  31-05-2018 23:47 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, May 31: Confiture, a big fluffy white dog, has become a huge celebrity at McGill University. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, what started as a problem for the big boy’s parents has turned into a special relationship with students on campus.
  
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• Quebec City region to get brand new English school

  31-05-2018 23:40 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, May 31: The Anglophone community in the Quebec City region is getting a brand new elementary school. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, it follows an announcement today that the province is investing $965 million into school infrastructure.
  
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• Q&A: Jean Chrétien weighs in on Quebec politics ahead of election season

  31-05-2018 23:30 via cbc.ca
  This week, the former Liberal party leader sat down with the host of CBC Montreal's Daybreak, Mike Finnerty, to talk about the political climate in Quebec in the lead-up to October election.
  
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• Quebec City region to get new English elementary school

  31-05-2018 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  The government announced on Thursday that it is investing $965 million into school infrastructure.
  
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• Pointe-Claire residents worried about new condo development

  31-05-2018 23:25 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, May 31: A new housing project in a quiet residential neighbourhood is creating a lot of controversy. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, a 70-unit condo building slated for Pointe-Claire is going onto the old site of the Green Hornet Bar, which closed two years ago.
  
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• By the numbers: This weekend's Go Bike Montréal Festival

  31-05-2018 23:20 via montrealgazette.com
  The annual Go Bike Montréal Festival, with its flagship Tour de l’Île de Montréal ride, will fill the city’s streets with thousands of cyclists this weekend. Here is the bike lovers’ festival by the numbers:
  25,000: Cyclists that Vélo Québec expects to join Sunday’s Tour de l’Île de Montréal.
  15,000: Cyclists expected to join Friday’s evening ride, Tour la Nuit.
  308: The total number of kilometres M
  
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• Video: What steel and aluminum tariffs mean to Canada

  31-05-2018 23:17 via montrealgazette.com
  The Trump administration says it is going ahead with plans to hit Canada with hefty tariffs on steel and aluminum. Here’s what that means to our economy.
  
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• Canadiens’ prospective draft picks for 2018: Bode Wilde

  31-05-2018 23:12 via montrealgazette.com
  During the weeks leading up to the NHL Entry Draft, we’re taking a look at players who might be selected by the Montreal Canadiens. The team has five selections in the first two rounds, including the No. 3 overall pick. Check back daily from Wednesday to Sunday up until the draft on June 22-23 in Dallas, and weigh in on their potential in the comments section below.
  Bode Wilde, defenceman
  Height/weight: 6-foot-2, 196 pounds
  NHL Central Scouting Rank: No. 17 among North American skater
  
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• First Nations hockey team subjected to racist taunts, slurs at Quebec City tournament

  31-05-2018 22:58 via cbc.ca
  A team of Indigenous hockey players, parents and supporters experienced racist taunts and slurs while at a hockey tournament in Quebec City.
  
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• CAA-Québec warns of dangers related to using old car seats, encourages recycling them instead

  31-05-2018 22:32 via globalnews.ca
  CAA Quebec launches a program to collect and recycle expired car seats. It hopes to reduce the number of expired car seats on the road, which it says is dangerous.
  
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• Restaurant review: Saiko Bistrot Izakaya is heaven for sushi purists

  31-05-2018 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Saiko Bistrot Izakaya
  ★★★ out of ★★★★
  $$$-$$$$
  1065 Beaver Hall Hill
  Phone: 438-386-7888
  Website: sai-ko.ca
  Open: Lunch Tues.-Fri. from 11:45 a.m.; dinner daily from 6 p.m.
  Wheelchair access: Yes
  Licensed: Yes
  Reservations: Essential
  Cards: All major
  Vegetarian-friendly: yes
  Parking: On the surrounding streets
  Price range: Two-course lunch menu $16-$29. Dinner: appetizers $6-$25; main courses $27-$32; desserts $6-$8. Five-course omakase menu $85.
  Th
  
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• Paramedic who was first responder at mosque shooting dies by suicide

  31-05-2018 22:00 via cbc.ca
  The life of Andréanne Leblanc, a paramedic who treated the wounded after the January 2017 mosque shooting in Quebec City, came unravelled in the months that followed the attack. Her mother blames untreated PTSD.
  
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• Mother of paramedic found dead after mosque shooting wants more help for PTSD victims

  31-05-2018 22:00 via cbc.ca
  The life of Andréanne Leblanc, a paramedic who treated the wounded after the January 2017 mosque shooting in Quebec City, came unravelled in the months that followed the attack. Her mother blames untreated PTSD.
  
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• Can Bruce Springsteen's sax man convince The Boss to play Montreal?

  31-05-2018 21:53 via montrealgazette.com
  When Bruce Springsteen called up Jake Clemons the other day, Clemons mentioned to The Boss that the iconic rocker hadn’t played Montreal in ages.
  Clemons is the nephew of the late great Clarence “Big Man” Clemons, Springsteen’s longtime saxophonist, and Jake replaced his uncle as the sax player in Springsteen’s E Street Band in 2012. He has been touring with them ever since.
  Clemons moved to the Montreal area at the beginning of 2017, buying a house just northwest o
  
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• SQ seek public's help to locate teenager from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield

  31-05-2018 21:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s provincial police force is asking for the public’s help to locate a missing teenage girl from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
  Laury Leblanc, 16, was last seen on the morning of Saturday, May 26, on Jacques-Cartier St. in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, which is about 75 kilometres southwest of Montreal. She is believed to be travelling on foot or by public transit and could be in the Montreal region, according to the Sûreté de Québec.
  Leblanc is five feet, three
  
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• Analyze This: Carey Price's dismal 2017-18 season was likely an outlier

  31-05-2018 21:48 via montrealgazette.com
  There’s no doubt Montreal Canadiens netminder Carey Price had a rough year, but we’ll delve into that a little later in this article.
  First, we’re going to examine goaltender evaluation metrics.
  Since the National Hockey League started tracking the league-wide save percentage of goaltenders in 1983-84, there haven’t been many new developments in goaltender evaluation. And while a save percentage gives us a good idea of how a goalie has performed compared with their goals-
  
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• Drew Willy to pilot Alouettes' offence in exhibition opener at Ottawa

  31-05-2018 21:34 via montrealgazette.com
  We knew it was going to be Drew Willy and Matt Shiltz. Or Shiltz and Willy. The Alouettes really don’t have any other alternatives at quarterback.
  For one game, at least, head coach Mike Sherman has decided to start Willy, the veteran, when the Als launch their exhibition schedule Thursday at Ottawa (7:30 p.m., TSN, RDS, TSN Radio 690) to be followed at some point by second-year pro Shiltz. The other two pivots — Antonio Pipkin and Garrett Fugate, probably in that order —
  
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• Quebec, Ottawa must boost subsidies for major events, industry group says

  31-05-2018 21:07 via montrealgazette.com
  A group that represents major events in Quebec is calling on governments to provide more funding for the events industry.
  The Regroupement des événements majeurs, which represents 27 festivals and events in the province, says the level of funding doesn’t match the economic benefits created by its members.
  Seventeen of the group’s members, including the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Osheaga and the Carnaval de Québec, generated $290.8 million in economic b
  
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• Quebec's aluminium industry says U.S. tariffs hurt America first

  31-05-2018 21:06 via cbc.ca
  A group representing players in Quebec's aluminum industry says the United States is hurting its own industry by imposing tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum imports, beginning at midnight Thursday.
  
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• Prom night safety tips youtu.be/5rY7DGjqhsM

  31-05-2018 20:40
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• Honey from all across Montreal youtu.be/QgkSvrPIkdo https://t.co/chRFLNJnC4

  31-05-2018 20:40
  
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• Montreal Canadiens agree to terms with defenceman Valiev on 1-year contract

  31-05-2018 20:35 via globalnews.ca
  The Montreal Canadiens agreed to terms Thursday with defenceman Rinat Valiev on a one-year, two-way contract for next season.
  
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• Westmount loses injunction to stop construction of Turcot interchange

  31-05-2018 20:28 via globalnews.ca
  The city of Westmount loses round one in a legal fight to stop partial construction of the Turcot Interchange.
  
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• Mother says little girl forgotten by daycare workers, left outside in rain

  31-05-2018 20:19 via globalnews.ca
  Kawtar Afiri said she's distraught after finding her 18-month-old daughter crying and alone in the yard of her daycare.
  
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• Will legal weed make a dent on the black market? @Tinatenneriello https://t.co/XneypPIuwr

  31-05-2018 20:10
  
  Will legal weed make a dent on the black market? @Tinatenneriello https://t.co/XneypPIuwr
  
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• Jeanne-Mance Park softball field closed for safety reasons

  31-05-2018 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  According to the city, the field didn't meet existing safety regulations for an adult ballpark.
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: Gas prices and 'slacktivism'

  31-05-2018 19:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal motorists have been hit with a significant spike in gas prices. While we’re all grumbling at the pumps, it seems we’re not upset enough to show up to a protest.
  At least that was the case this week with what had been billed as a large rally against the rise in gas prices. More than 5,000 people confirmed their attendance on Facebook; another 36,000 RSVP’d as interested in the event. Half a dozen police cars were lined up and ready for the anticipated crowds.
  The total
  
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• Update: Montreal’s bike path network gets more money, more kilometres

  31-05-2018 19:10 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal will spend $15 million on 48 cycling projects throughout the city this year and part of next, increasing the city’s bike path network by 33 kilometres. One-third of that amount will be paths protected by a physical barrier for the safety of cyclists, because fears of a lack of security are the main impediment keeping people taking up cycling in the city, said Marianne Giguère, the city’s associate executive committee member responsible for active transit.
  
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• Lack of palliative care pushing Quebecers toward medically assisted death, College of Physicians says

  31-05-2018 19:09 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's College of Physicians says a lack of doctors and uneven levels of palliative care service across the province has left some patients with little choice but to ask for medical help to die.
  
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• Your guide to Montreal’s summer traffic ban on Mount Royal

  31-05-2018 19:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Starting Saturday, Montrealers in personal-use vehicles will be barred from driving across Mount Royal.
  A five-month restriction on through traffic means that only a limited number of vehicles will be allowed to use a 550-metre stretch of road between Smith House, near the chalet lookout, and Beaver Lake.
  Here are answers to some key questions:
  When does the ban take effect and how will it work?
  Between June 2 and Oct. 31, cars will be allowed to access Mount Royal from Remembrance Rd.
  
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• Just like home: Patrice Bernier wants to see where his parents grew up

  31-05-2018 18:40 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, May 31: Patrice Bernier recalls his father telling him about this “magical island” he grew up on — also known as Haiti.
  
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• Just like home: Defying traditional gender roles

  31-05-2018 18:40 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, May 31: Men at work and women in the kitchen? Patrice Bernier, Nadege Bernier and Agrikol chef Paul Toussaint discuss the traditional gender roles still prevalent in Haitian culture.
  
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• Opinion: Why your most intimate health secrets may be at risk

  31-05-2018 18:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal was a wake-up call. Big Data companies allegedly influenced public opinion and undermined democracy, all by curating, harvesting and analyzing a vast array of data that people had willingly shared online. And the next battle in the war over data privacy will get far more personal than your tweets or Instagram photos.
  If having your social media profile sniffed out by sketchy political actors sounds bad enough, losing control over your most intimate health
  
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• Accurso trial: Witness says he worked both sides of Laval collusion scheme

  31-05-2018 18:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Take care of politics and politics will take care of you.
  That is an expression that always stuck with Jean Roberge, a man who worked both sides of Laval’s system of collusion when it came to awarding construction and engineering contracts. Roberge, 58, the former head of an engineering firm who went on to work for the city of Laval, testified on Thursday at the jury trial of Antonio Accurso, the construction magnate who is accused of being part of the corrupt system.
  Roberge was the head
  
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• Duplessis orphans have an advocate in novelist Joanna Goodman

  31-05-2018 18:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Joanna Goodman isn’t taking anything for granted. 
  “That was a special day for me,” said the Montreal-raised Toronto resident a few days after our initial interview in a café at Mont-Royal and St-Urbain. “I was sitting in a coffee shop, in my old neighbourhood, looking out at my old streets, being interviewed by the Montreal Gazette. The whole thing was so full-circle.”
  With deep roots in Quebec, the effusive author comes by her pride and nostalgia hones
  
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• Checking In: Hudson's Willow Inn transformed into a deluxe getaway

  31-05-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  You have heard this before: Auberge Willow in Hudson has enthusiastic new owners who have carried out an impressive makeover.
  This time, it’s for real. And it’s terrific.
  The news: The exterior sports an all-new, fresh look of white stucco, black lacquered trim and a sturdy steel roof.
  Almost all the interiors have been gutted down to the wall studs and the kitchens have been modernized to the max. The guest rooms have been transformed with cottage chic decor and they’re pretty
  
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• Free in Montreal: June 1-3, from music to beaches

  31-05-2018 17:49 via montrealgazette.com
  As the summer solstice approaches, more Montreal staples seem to open every week.That’s good news if you’re looking to enjoy the city without spending wildly.
  Here are four free things you can do to make the most of this weekend:
  Mount Royal Street Fair
  Two kilometres of Mount Royal Ave. will be closed to traffic from Thursday through Sunday, freeing up space for pedestrians and a bevy of stands. Stop by for kids’ activities and face painting or, if that’s not your demogr
  
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• The smell of progress? Quebec farmers told not to spread manure near G7

  31-05-2018 17:47 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — For many, it’s the sweet smell of spring but apparently not the world’s leaders.
  Farmers in the Charlevoix region near the site of next week’s posh G7 summit at the Fairmont Manoir Richelieu are being asked to refrain from spreading manure lest a world leader get a whiff of it during their stay.
  The agricultural newspaper La Terre de chez nous, founded in 1929, broke the story Wednesday, adding many farmers are none too happy about being told what they can and ca
  
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