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• Racist slurs at minor hockey tournament in Quebec City symptom of widespread problem

  01-06-2018 23:56 via cbc.ca
  First Nations leaders in Quebec say they are not surprised Indigenous players at a Quebec City minor hockey tournament last weekend were subjected to racist slurs, and they hope the event will spark conversations about rooting out racism in the sport.
  
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• What are Montreal's many, many potholes good for? Golf, apparently

  01-06-2018 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Conventional wisdom holds that Montreal’s potholes and orange traffic cones are painful and plentiful.
  But what if they could be used recreationally?
  That, at least, is the idea behind a new campaign from Golf Québec, which sees people using those local staples as impromptu golf courses.
  The potholes are somewhere between sand traps and holes. The cones are tunnels you have to putt through. It all looks very challenging.
  Should you feel compelled to try this at home, remember to che
  
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• Judge hammers 'law of outlaws' in sentencing men in jailhouse killing

  01-06-2018 23:48 via montrealgazette.com
  If criminals in a provincial detention centre can exercise enough control over the system to fatally beat a man and hide the crime for hours, society must respond with force, a Superior Court judge said on Friday while sentencing three men who killed a fellow inmate at the Montreal Detention Centre two years ago.
  Justice Hélène Di Salvo used terms like Omertà and “the law of silence” as she began to deliver sentences to Tarik Biji, 40, Jason Côté, 32
  
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• Chickens run afoul of the law in St-Lazare

  01-06-2018 23:45 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Jun 1: A controversy is brewing in St-Lazare over a couple’s unlawful chicken coop in their backyard. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, chicken coops are not allowed in the town unless you run an actual farm – but the cockfight has just begun.
  
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• Weekend traffic update: Turcot closings and cycling events

  01-06-2018 23:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s a look at this weekend’s road closings in Montreal.
  Turcot and Montreal West interchanges
  From 11:59 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday, Highway 720/ Route 136 and Highway 20 westbound will be completely closed between Exit 5 in the Ville-Marie tunnel and the entrance to Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Blvd. that is part of the Montreal West interchange.
  The westbound St-Antoine on-ramp at Rose-de-Lima will be closed starting at 10 p.m. Friday, while the eastbound St-Antoine and 
  
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• Montreal to get 2 new French schools

  01-06-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Jun 1: Downtown Montreal is going to get two brand new French-language elementary schools. As Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports, the move is part of a larger announcement by the Quebec government to invest in building, renovating and expanding schools.
  
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• Quebecer Céleste Dao misses the cut at Women's U.S. Open

  01-06-2018 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec teenager Céleste Dao won’t be playing this weekend at the 73rd Women’s U.S. Open Championship.
  After opening with an 11-over-par 83 on Thursday at the Shoal Creek Golf Club in Alabama, the 17-year-old from Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot fired an 8-over 80 on Friday at won’t make the cut at the second major tournament of the LPGA season.
  It was an impressive accomplishment for Dao just to qualify for the tournament since the member of the Summerlea Gol
  
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• G7 protests prompt concern

  01-06-2018 23:27 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Jun 1: Anti-G7 protests are already planned for this weekend in la Malbaie ahead of next week’s summit. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, police say the demonstrations are legal – but some are worried it won’t take long before they get out of hand.
  
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• Ex-ski coach Bertrand Charest’s victims win legal fight to have their names made public

  01-06-2018 22:54 via globalnews.ca
  Four of the women sexually assaulted by ex-national ski coach Bertrand Charest when they were his teenage students have been granted the right to have their names made public.
  
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• Anti-G7 protests planned for Quebec City

  01-06-2018 22:37 via globalnews.ca
  Anti-G7 protests are already planned. Quebec City police say they are legal, but some people are worried it won't take long before they get out of hand.
  
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• Montreal police seek man accused of touching buttocks of pre-teen girls

  01-06-2018 22:36 via cbc.ca
  The man, aged between 30 and 40, is alleged to be touching the buttocks of 10- to 12-year-old girls in public in the Plateau-Mont-Royal area, then fleeing.
  
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• Five men arrested as police bust heroin-trafficking ring in Montreal

  01-06-2018 22:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Five men were arrested in Montreal Thursday as police dismantled what they described as a “very active” heroin trafficking ring.
  The men, aged between 24 and 38, are expected to be charged with drug trafficking, drug possession and possession of prohibited firearms.
  The operation was launched in February after a tip from the public and was a joint effort between the Montreal, Laval and Mirabel police forces.
  Officers conducted seven raids in the northern and western parts of Mon
  
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• COMMENTARY: In tech we trust

  01-06-2018 22:13 via globalnews.ca
  Most Canadians say technology is inherently neutral, and that it’s how people use it that makes it a force for good or bad, Mike Colledge says.
  
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• Ottawa to give $50M to Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba for asylum seeker costs

  01-06-2018 22:09 via globalnews.ca
  The federal government will provide $50 million to Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba to help pay for some of the costs they have borne as a result of the influx of asylum seekers illegally crossing the Canada-U.S. border.
  
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• Feds to give $50M to provinces to help cope with illegal asylum seekers

  01-06-2018 22:09 via globalnews.ca
  The federal government will provide $50 million to Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba to help pay for some of the costs they have borne as a result of the influx of asylum seekers illegally crossing the Canada-U.S. border.
  
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• Downtown Montreal to get 2 new schools, but elsewhere classrooms still bursting at seams

  01-06-2018 22:04 via cbc.ca
  Education Minister Sébastien Proulx unveiled plans for a new school on the old Grey Nuns site and the renovation of the vacant Académie Bourget, part of a $608-million fund for school expansions this year.
  
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• Partial closure of Camillien-Houde Way begins Saturday

  01-06-2018 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Jun 1: A portion of Camillien-Houde Way on Mount Royal will be closed off to traffic starting this weekend. As Global’s Phil Carpenter reports, the pilot project is a source of both criticism and praise.
  
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• Watch: Bizarde's 'edgy, authentic and eclectic' hair salon is peak Montreal

  01-06-2018 21:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Few places embody Montreal’s ethos more than Bizarde hair salon.
  Dating back to its opening as Coupe Bizzarre in 1986, the salon has been edgy, but in a warm and accessible way.
  Yannick Ross first visited the salon in 1990. He has now worked there as a hairdresser for 17 years and has customers ranging from two to 81 years old.
  “It seemed like a place full of free, creative, alternative people,” he says.
  Asked to describe Bizarde’s style, current owner Véronique Cr
  
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• Bertrand Charest case: Geneviève Simard, 3 others win right to speak out

  01-06-2018 20:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Former Canadian Olympic skier Geneviève Simard and three other women who were sexually assaulted by former national ski coach Bertrand Charest have had publication bans on their identities lifted so they can share their experiences in the interests of preventing similar abuse on athletes.
  The four women were among the nine victims Charest was convicted of sexually assaulting during the 1990s.
  Simard was the first of the victims to file a complaint against Charest and the case against him
  
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• Opinion: Quebec Liberals can't afford to rest on economic laurels

  01-06-2018 20:27 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec Liberal government needs to adopt more ambitious social goals, and commit the resources necessary to achieve them. It needs to do this both to better serve Quebecers and to win the next election.
  Premier Philippe Couillard appears to be counting mainly on the government’s economic record to get the Liberals re-elected. It’s true that the government has balanced the budget and unemployment is low. But a common impression is that this was achieved at the expense of public se
  
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• Former Montreal police chief Philippe Pichet sues to get his job back

  01-06-2018 20:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Philippe Pichet has filed a lawsuit against the city of Montreal and the province’s public security ministry, demanding his reinstatement as police chief and contending his suspension last December was neither explained nor justified.
  Pichet, who was named police chief in 2015 by then mayor Denis Coderre, was suspended with salary Dec. 6, 2017 in the wake of a scathing, government-ordered report detailing an apparently dysfunctional police command structure riven by personal and profession
  
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• What the Puck: Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin has to nail it at the draft

  01-06-2018 20:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Enough is enough.
  June 9 is the 25th anniversary of the Montreal Canadiens’ last Stanley Cup win, taking Game 5 against the Los Angeles Kings and bringing the Cup back to our city for a record 24th time. Since then, nada.
  In fact, in the quarter century since Patrick Roy hoisted the Cup at the old Forum, producing one of the most iconic photos in Habs history, most of the celebrating has been seen on video — in dozens of pregame montages created by the team’s PR staff to toast
  
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• Partial closure of Camillien-Houde kicks off Saturday

  01-06-2018 20:03 via globalnews.ca
  As of Saturday a section of Remembrance Road between Beaver Lake and Smith House, will be closed, making it impossible for driver to cross Mont Royal.
  
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• Camillien-Houde closure to begin Saturday

  01-06-2018 20:03 via globalnews.ca
  As of Saturday a section of Remembrance Road between Beaver Lake and Smith House, will be closed, making it impossible for driver to cross Mont Royal.
  
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• Don Macpherson: When lawyers flout the rule of law

  01-06-2018 19:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Of all members of society, lawyers have a particular duty to uphold the rule of law. Yet recently, in a controversy involving language, hundreds of Quebec lawyers took the position that the law of the land, in the form of the Canadian Constitution, should be ignored.
  The controversy arose from a lawsuit filed in April by the provincial and Montreal bar associations. The aim of the lawsuit is to eliminate confusion arising from differences between the French and English versions of Quebec legal t
  
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• Driver killed following hit-and-run in St-Isidore

  01-06-2018 19:53 via globalnews.ca
  A 24-year-old man is dead after he was ejected from his car in an overnight hit-and-run in the Montérégie on Friday.
  
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• Hussen pledges $50M to help Montreal and other cities house asylum seekers

  01-06-2018 19:30 via cbc.ca
  The Liberal government is providing $50 million to Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba to help ease a housing crunch caused by an influx of asylum seekers.
  
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• Victims of ex-ski coach Bertrand Charest want publication ban on their identities lifted

  01-06-2018 18:54 via cbc.ca
  In court documents obtained by the CBC, the four women, who Charest sexually assaulted in the 1990s, say they want to speak publicly to help other victims.
  
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• 4 sexual assault victims of Bertrand Charest want chance to speak out

  01-06-2018 18:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Four of the victims who were sexually assaulted by Bertrand Charest while he was a national ski coach will request to have the publication bans placed on their identities lifted in Quebec Superior Court on Friday.
  The four have filed a motion seeking to lift the bans because they are “convinced that by sharing their sad experience with the public they will be able to further the cause of prevention and harassment of sexual assaults in the sports milieu and keep this from happening to other
  
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• 'We need schools': Spaces to be created for 1,000 students in downtown Montreal

  01-06-2018 18:17 via montrealgazette.com
  After years of waiting, children living in the western part of downtown Montreal will soon have not one, but two new schools.
  Education Minister Sébastien Proulx, Mayor Valérie Plante and Commission Scolaire de Montreal chairperson Catherine Harel-Bourdon were on hand at one of the new sites Friday for the announcement.
  The first will be at the former Academie Bourget, a heritage site on de la Montagne St. It will receive a $21-million retrofit to become a primary school with two p
  
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• Canadiens’ prospective draft picks for 2018: Noah Dobson, defenceman

  01-06-2018 18:03 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.
  Noah Dobson, defenceman
  Height/weight: 6-foot-3, 179 pounds
  NHL Central Scouting Rank: No. 4 among North American skater
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: June 1, 2018

  01-06-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Each week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings.
  Under $16
  Rioja 2017, Genoli, Ijalba, Spain white, $15.20, SAQ # 883033. New vintage, same great value. The 2017 strikes me as a touch riper, with less citrus and more stone fruit notes. There’s more body as well, and a touch of spice on the finish. Perhaps less of a classic minerality on the finish; rather, it has a certain saltiness. For the price, you can’t do much
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw: Yes, rosé is a real wine

  01-06-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  In the hierarchy of wine styles, red and white remain at the top. Few people have a problem drinking either with or before a meal, aging them in a cellar or paying more than they would normally pay for a bottle of wine.
  Sparkling wines come next, though most people consider them only when it’s time to celebrate. My beloved orange wines are thought of by many as an oddity and a fad, much like “natural,” no-sulphite wines.
  And rosé? Well, they are at the bottom of the heap
  
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• NHL career likely over for former Canadiens captain Brian Gionta

  01-06-2018 17:50 via montrealgazette.com
  It looks like Brian Gionta’s NHL career is likely over after 16 seasons.
  The former Canadiens captain played 20 games with the Boston Bruins this season, scoring two goals and adding five assists, after being captain of Team USA at the PyeongChang Olympics. The 39-year-old Gionta only dressed for one of the Bruins’ 12 playoff games and was pointless.
  On Thursday, Bruins GM Don Sweeney said he would not be offering Gionta a new contract.Former Canadiens GM Bob Gainey signed Giont
  
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• Teens leave parents in Nova Scotia to chase soccer dreams in Montreal

  01-06-2018 17:34 via cbc.ca
  Oscar's parents are in Nova Scotia, while he's living in Montreal with his stepmother in hopes of becoming a professional soccer player.
  
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• The Right Chemistry: Beware of self-proclaimed health experts

  01-06-2018 17:33 via montrealgazette.com
  I don’t get angry easily. Yes, I get annoyed when I see homeopaths promoting absurd “nosodes” as alternatives to vaccines, chiropractors “adjusting” babies’ spines, televangelists hawking “Miracle Spring Water” for protection from disease, and scientifically illiterate bloggers claiming that any food ingredient with an unpronounceable name should not be consumed. My annoyance, however, has recently switched to anger in two particular cases in which
  
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• #MTLFriday challenge: Is Montreal your playground?

  01-06-2018 17:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Every Friday, we invite our readers to show us the Montreal they know by participating in a #mtlfriday challenge on social media.
  This week, inspired by a photo of Nelson Mandela Park, we want to know what playgrounds mean to you. Maybe it’s a childhood memory or maybe the city’s your playground; all interpretations are valid.
  To particpate, all you have to do is take a picture related to this theme and post it on Facebook or Instagram with the hashtag #mtlfriday_playground.
  You
  
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• Montreal to get 2 new French elementary schools

  01-06-2018 17:24 via globalnews.ca
  The Quebec government is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the Montreal region to build, renovate and expand schools. 
  
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• Quebec Crown won't appeal acquittals in Faubourg-Contrecoeur fraud case

  01-06-2018 17:08 via cbc.ca
  In a tweet, the DPCP confirmed that after a “meticulous” analysis of the legal issues, it has decided not to appeal the decision.
  
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• FUN DAY

  01-06-2018 17:06 via globalnews.ca
  Inflatables Mini electric cars Face Painting 11am-4pm Montreal Fire Truck Events 2-5pm Costello Irish Dancers Barbecue, cotton candy, popcorn And much more! All proceeds will benefit Fondation de l’Hôpital général du Lakeshore – LGH Foundation
  
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• U2's fervour was made for Montreal, but are they saints or sinners?

  01-06-2018 17:05 via montrealgazette.com
  These four Irishmen walk into a bar …
  Then an arena, then a stadium. Then back to the arena and 1,000 more of them. And they keep doing it. For 40 years.
  U2 has generated a host of one-offs in its existence, but this — 42 years without a lineup change since the band’s formation in 1976 — will never transpire again. It speaks to their singular trajectory from ambitious Irish nerds to legendary rock power brokers with presidential and papal phone numbers.
  So it made p
  
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• Keep up with the latest from BT Montreal on your smartphone, tablet or Smart TV - subscribe to our channel on YouTu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-06-2018 16:39
  Keep up with the latest from BT Montreal on your smartphone, tablet or Smart TV - subscribe to our channel on YouTu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Quebec earmarks $2.3 billion for school renovations and construction

  01-06-2018 16:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Related
  Downtown Montreal to get 2 new elementary schools
  The provincial government has budgeted $2.3 billion for school construction and renovation between 2018-2019, Quebec Education Minister Sébastien Proulx announced Thursday.
  Quebec school boards are being invited to submit their projects to the Education Ministry for consideration.
  Proulx said the government is attacking the issue of the dilapidated state of many Quebec schools, but acknowledged the full extent of the problem has ye
  
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• Florence K releases new album

  01-06-2018 16:10 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal singer-songwriter Florence K joins Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan to talk about her new album and play her latest single!
  
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• Downtown Montreal to get 2 new elementary schools

  01-06-2018 16:09 via montrealgazette.com
  After years of waiting, children living in the western part of downtown Montreal will soon have two new schools.
  Education Minister Sébastien Proulx, Mayor Valérie Plante and Commission Scolaire de Montreal chairperson Catherine Harel-Bourdon were on hand at one of the new sites Friday for the announcement.
  The first will be at the former Academie Bourget on de la Montagne St., which will receive a $21-million retrofit to become a primary school with 12 classes and a gym.
  Another e
  
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