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• Quebec Liberals tout strong economy at party meeting ahead of October election

  02-06-2018 23:56 via cbc.ca
  Philippe Couillard says the ruling Liberal party has "proven itself," and it will defend Quebec's economic interests in the face of instability in the U.S., as it seeks to project confidence ahead of the Oct. 1 election.
  
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• Ottawa still hesitant to commemorate mosque shooting with anti-Islamophobia day

  02-06-2018 23:01 via cbc.ca
  After receiving a recommendation in February to mark January 29 as a national day against Islamophobia, the federal government has still not decided how it will respond.
  
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• Bloc members have until midnight to vote on leader's future

  02-06-2018 22:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Members of the Bloc Québécois have until midnight on Saturday to decide on the future of their party and on the leadership of Martine Ouellet, who has been embroiled in a crisis for several months.
  The results of the referendum on the future of the party will be announced on Sunday afternoon at Bloc headquarters in Montreal. Ouellet is expected to speak after the results are revealed.
  Bloc members who have called for Ouellet to resign as leader and for a “refounding” of
  
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• New buildings and big changes coming for English schools in Quebec City region

  02-06-2018 22:47 via cbc.ca
  St-Vincent elementary school will be moved to Quebec City's south shore in 2020, offering public education in English in Lévis for the first time.
  
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• Trump's troubling tariffs hang over upcoming G7 summit in Quebec

  02-06-2018 22:32 via cbc.ca
  The dispute over U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs is driving a wedge in the G7, laying the groundwork for a potential clash among its leaders next week in Quebec's Charlevoix region.
  
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• Terry Fox Elementary School collects local bikes for global use

  02-06-2018 22:29 via globalnews.ca
  The ninth annual bike collectionemptied out the backyards and garages of Laval homes so that disadvantaged people abroad could have a set of wheels they could use.
  
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• Mount Royal sees a mix of drivers and cyclists despite barred car traffic

  02-06-2018 21:43 via montrealgazette.com
  “How the hell do I get to the other side?” yelled an angry driver, swerving away from a parked police van that blocked cars — but not pedestrians, cyclists and buses — from continuing along Camillien-Houde Way/Remembrance Rd.
  Montreal’s controversial pilot project prohibiting through traffic on the mountain started Saturday with officers continuously waving drivers away from the blockade.
  “I need to get to the (Notre-Dame-des-Neiges) cemetery,” said John
  
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• Grilling up the taste of summer at Ribfest in Greenfield Park

  02-06-2018 21:25 via globalnews.ca
  Is the secret to a great barbecue all in the sauce?
  
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• NHL Combine: Top centre Kotkaniemi poses a dilemma for the Habs

  02-06-2018 21:04 via montrealgazette.com
  BUFFALO — The Montreal Canadiens are very interested in Finnish centre Jesperi Kotkaniemi, and that poses a dilemma for the team.
  Montreal will have the third pick in the opening round of the NHL draft on June 22 in Dallas. If they follow their time-honoured tradition of selecting the best player available, it’s not Kotkaniemi. While the Finn’s stock had risen since mid-season, most scouts rank him outside the top 10 although many regard him as the top centre in a draft dominat
  
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• Montreal film La Chute de Sparte aims to be not (just) another teen movie

  02-06-2018 21:00 via cbc.ca
  La Chute de Sparte, or The Fall of Sparta in English, based on the hit teen novel by Quebec artist Biz, deals with bullying, suicide and the pressures of high school life.
  
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• Montreal police seek public's help finding missing 58-year-old woman

  02-06-2018 20:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are asking for the public’s help as they look for a missing person.
  Mohanarani Rajadurai, 58, hasn’t been seen since she left her home on Friday around noon
  She is of South Asian descent and is described as being just under 5 ft tall, 134 pounds, having brown eyes and black hair.
  Rajadurai was driving a 2012 Toyota RAV4, with the Quebec licence plate number N04 HLK.
  She was wearing black pants, a blue camisole and a beige fleece sweater.
  Police said she suffers from m
  
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• Montreal police search for missing 58-year-old woman

  02-06-2018 20:06 via cbc.ca
  Her name is Mohanarani Rajaduri, and she was last seen wearing black trousers, a blue camisole, a beige sweatshirt and black golf shoes.
  
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• Montreal police locate missing 58-year-old woman

  02-06-2018 20:06 via cbc.ca
  Mohanarani Rajaduri was found by Montreal police Wednesday. She is safe and sound.
  
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• Canadiens’ prospective draft picks for 2018: Benoit-Olivier Groulx, centre

  02-06-2018 20:02 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.
  Benoit-Olivier Groulx, centre
  Height/weight: 6-foot-1, 195 pounds
  NHL Central Scouting Rank: No. 20 among North American
  
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• Canadiens’ prospective draft picks for 2018: K'Andre Miller, defence

  02-06-2018 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  In addition to the No. 3 overall pick in the NHL entry draft, the Canadiens have four selections in the second round. Up until the draft on June 22-23 in Dallas, we continue our look at draft prospects with profiles of players who may pique the Canadiens’ interest in Round 2. Weigh in on their potential in the comments section below.
  K’Andre Miller, defenceman
  Height/weight: 6-foot-4, 206 pounds
  NHL Central Scouting Rank: No. 23 among North American skaters
  What the scouts are saying
  
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• Quebec to finance $394M reserved bus lane to Laval

  02-06-2018 19:44 via cbc.ca
  The project, slated to be completed by 2022, will service around 70,000 people.
  
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  02-06-2018 19:25
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• Man missing after Friday night swim in Soulanges Canal

  02-06-2018 19:23 via montrealgazette.com
  A man who had taken a nighttime dip in Soulanges Canal with friends late Friday seems to have disappeared into the water.
  Witnesses called provincial police at about 11 p.m. to report the man, about 20 years old, jumped into the water near Pointe-des-cascades, and never resurfaced.
  Police and firefighters resumed their search Saturday after a the initial search-and-rescue team turned up nothing by 1 a.m.
  Swimming in the canal is prohibited because of dangerous currents in the water.
  This is not
  
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• Montreal tenants told to vacate homes without notice in ongoing Roominex property dispute

  02-06-2018 18:36 via cbc.ca
  Tenants who have been renting rooms from the online agency Roominex were contacted on Thursday and told they had only a matter of hours to vacate or else their belongings would be seized.
  
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• SQ divers search for missing swimmer in Pointe-des-Cascades

  02-06-2018 17:50 via globalnews.ca
  The young man failed to surface after jumping off the locks into the waters of the Soulanges Canal with a group of four other youth at around 11 p.m. on Friday.
  
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• SQ divers recover body of missing swimmer in Pointe-des-Cascades

  02-06-2018 17:50 via globalnews.ca
  The young man failed to surface after jumping off the locks into the waters of the Soulanges Canal with a group of four other youth at around 11 p.m. on Friday.
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals to present cutting-edge platform, Taillefer says

  02-06-2018 17:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s Liberals will present a cutting-edge election platform that will surprise voters, the party’s election chairman says.
  Conceding the battle over who best incarnates Quebecer’s desire for change is raging, Alexandre Taillefer warned about the perils of “wanting change for the sake of change.”
  Quebecers still want a government that is “serious, which has its hands on the wheel,” ready to deal with looming economic uncertainty, Taillefer said, resur
  
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• Canadiens GM talks with Max Pacioretty's agent about contract extension

  02-06-2018 17:14 via montrealgazette.com
  TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger reported on Friday that Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin has had talks with the agent for captain Max Pacioretty about a possible contract extension.
  Pacioretty has one season remaining on his six-year, US$27-million contract with a salary-cap hit of $4.5 million. After four straight 30-goal seasons, Pacioretty slumped this season with only 17 goals in 64 games.
  “The trade speculation in Montreal on captain Max Pacioretty has been consistent I would say since wel
  
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• Man hoping for donations to pursue damage claim after racist attack

  02-06-2018 16:49 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal man is launching a crowdfunding campaign to take his case to the Human Rights Tribunal to get damages from the man who attacked him while shouting racist slurs.
  Harrold Acquah, who is black, was delivering newspapers in Pointe St-Charles early one June morning in 2013 when Garry Wheatley assaulted him. Acquah recounted how Wheatley, who is white, shouted the N-word at him and punched him repeatedly in the neck and jaw even after he had fallen to the ground.
  “I’ve lived her
  
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• After neglect complaints, Gaétan Barrette visits Laval nursing home

  02-06-2018 16:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Health Minister Gaétan Barrette visited Laval nursing home CHSLD Ste-Dorothée, where employees and patients’ relatives complained this week of residents getting poor treatment.
  Barrette was accompanied Friday by Francine Charbonneau, the minister responsible for seniors, and Monique Sauvé, Member of Parliament for Fabre, who wanted to see for themselves the union’s allegations that seniors are neglected because of a lack of staff.
  Earlier in the day,&nb
  
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• ICYMI: @Animatch_ stopped by to give us all the details about their fundraiser - it's happening today! Watch the cl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-06-2018 16:00
  ICYMI: @Animatch_ stopped by to give us all the details about their fundraiser - it's happening today! Watch the cl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Cyclist fined $381 for missing reflectors intends to contest tickets

  02-06-2018 15:07 via cbc.ca
  Adasz said was given three tickets — one for each reflector and the breaks, which didn’t work properly — totalling $381 dollars in fines.
  
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• Borduas back in the spotlight with $3.6M sale of 1956 work

  02-06-2018 15:00 via cbc.ca
  Despite his departure from Quebec, he is revered in the province as one of the fathers of the Quiet Revolution. With this week’s $3.6 million sale of one of his works, his importance in Canadian art history may be redefined.
  
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• Montreal's longest-running real estate fiasco

  02-06-2018 14:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Part One of a seven-part series
  Almost from the time that farmer Jean-Baptiste Pépin built a homestead and raised seven children on the edge of the river in the eastern extremity of Montreal Island in the early 19th century, the Rivière-des-Prairies district’s vast uninhabited land has stoked many imaginations. 
  It has also fattened many wallets. 
  But within this real estate Klondike, one property owner has managed to lose millions of dollars multiple
  
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• Montreal traffic: 6 spots you'll want to avoid on Saturday

  02-06-2018 14:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s a look at today’s closures and blockages in Montreal.
  — The five-month ban on through traffic on Mount Royal starts today. That means only a limited number of vehicles, like emergency vehicles, buses, and funeral cortèges, will be allowed to use a 550-metre stretch of road between Beaver Lake and Smith House, near the chalet lookout. Until Oct. 31, cars will be allowed to access Mount Royal from Remembrance Rd. to the west or Camillien-Houde Way to
  
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• Concordia study: Exercise might help breast-cancer survivors avoid recurrence

  02-06-2018 14:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Why should you exercise after cancer treatment?
  Many studies have shown the undeniable benefits of exercise in improving overall health and quality of life, and in reducing the number of deaths from disease, especially colon, endometrial and breast cancer. However new research out of Concordia University on women with breast cancer suggests a link between physical activity and resistance to breast cancer recurrence.
  Published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine journal this week, the&
  
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• The Week in Review: ePrix, anglos, oh dear, destitute, doughnuts

  02-06-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on all the big stories that happened this week in Montreal.
  Coderre did not follow rules on Formula E: inspector general
  Former mayor Denis Coderre’s office set up a non-profit organization to skirt the law on awarding contracts for the 2017 Formula E electric-car race, Montreal’s inspector general says in a scathing report. “The Inspector General concludes that the NPO ‘Montreal c’est électrique’ (MCE) was used to circumvent the rules on the a
  
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• Still dancing at 70: Montreal's Paul-André Fortier shows how it's done

  02-06-2018 14:00 via cbc.ca
  Not many professional dancers are still on stage past their 40s, but at the age of 70, Paul-André Fortier is performing his last dance for Festival TransAmériques.
  
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• Shelter: Nuns' Island townhouse offered couple more family space

  02-06-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  François Lévesque loves Nuns’ Island. As a child, he visited the Verdun neighbourhood many times and he has lived there most of his adult life. Now 53 and a telecom professional, he recalls that when he was a boy, the island was mostly farmland. He remembers building ‘forts’ on the land that once belonged to the nuns after whom the island is named.
  Recently, while chatting to a neighbour, Lévesque discovered that the backyard swimming pool outside the townh
  
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• R.D.P. land fiasco: Series timeline

  02-06-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Part 1: early to mid-1980s
  In 1981, Jean Drapeau’s administration issues an order for the city to acquire hundreds of vacant lots of land in a rectangle between Perras and Maurice-Duplessis Blvds., on either side of Marc-Aurèle Fortin Blvd. in Rivière-des-Prairies, “at double the evaluation.” The city buys the section north of Maurice-Duplessis with an $8-million budget in 1983 and 1984. During its final days in power in 1986, the Drapeau administration
  
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• While you were sleeping: Panda freed from pen to mate just wants snacks

  02-06-2018 13:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on the news from overnight.
  Longueuil police are seeking witnesses to find a suspect after an attempted kidnapping in Brossard. According to police at around 7:30 p.m. Thursday, a teenager who had just got off a bus noticed a vehicle driven by a man was following at low speed. Fearing for her safety, she began to run and the man left his van to chase after her. Evidence collected by police after Thursday’s attempted kidnapping is similar to an attempted kidnapping o
  
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• Police search for man who disappeared while night swimming in Soulanges Canal

  02-06-2018 13:12 via cbc.ca
  According to provincial police, they received a call at around 11 p.m. from friends of the man, who said they couldn’t find their friend.
  
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• Police, firefighters search for missing man in Soulanges Canal

  02-06-2018 13:12 via cbc.ca
  According to provincial police, they received a call at around 11 p.m. from friends of the man, who said they couldn’t find their friend.
  
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• Police divers find body of man in Soulanges Canal

  02-06-2018 13:12 via cbc.ca
  Swimming in the canal is prohibited, but some people still do despite signs and barriers warning people against it.
  
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• What do the new tariffs on U.S. products mean for your wallet?

  02-06-2018 13:07 via montrealgazette.com
  New tariffs on a wide variety of goods imported from the United States won’t have an immediate impact on consumers, experts say, but the unprecedented trade war between Canada and the U.S. could have a long-term negative impact.
  On Thursday, the Canadian government announced a 25 per cent tariff on imports of iron and steel products, along with 10 per cent tariff on imports of a wide variety of consumer goods — a list that includes whisky, chocolate, toilet paper and playing car
  
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• Allison Hanes: Welcoming new money, new thinking about schools

  02-06-2018 13:04 via montrealgazette.com
  A few steps away from a nightclub and next to a busy hotel, children who live in the heart of downtown Montreal will finally be getting a school.
  The disused Académie Bourget, a heritage building on de la Montagne St., will get a $21-million facelift to create two pre-kindergarten classes, 12 primary classes and a gymnasium. While it may seem like an unorthodox location, it is one of two brand new public schools to be built in the thriving Peter-McGill district of Ville-Marie borough, whe
  
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• Josh Freed: Life would be better with a fast-forward option

  02-06-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I was out with some guys the other day when one asked: “Didja see the great basketball game last night?”
  But I cut him off instantly and said: “Shhh. Don’t mention the score, please! I haven’t seen the game yet — I taped it.”
  Then the guy stared at me and said: “Are you crazy? How can you watch a game that’s been over for 16 hours? It’s like you’re living in the past.”
  Exactly — and that’s just how I like it. I t
  
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• Inuit leader sounds alarm about tuberculosis epidemic in the North

  02-06-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  One of the country’s youngest Inuit leaders was in Montreal Friday to sound the alarm about a public health crisis unfolding under our noses.
  Natan Obed is all too familiar with the tuberculosis outbreak spreading across the North — a few years back, he lost a cousin to the disease and his son was recently exposed to it at daycare. The boy went through nine months of treatment to keep the infection at bay.
  “The reality, in Inuit communities, is that it affects all social status
  
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• 1993 Stanley Cup archive: Canadiens lose Game 1 to Los Angeles Kings

  02-06-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It has been 25 years since the Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup. Leading up to the anniversary on June 9, we’ll be tracking the Habs’ route to victory with articles from the Montreal Gazette archives. 
  June 2, 1993
  Original headline: King-sized shocker; Robitaille stars as Habs take tumble in opener
  Wayne Gretzky starred for both teams — but a happy homecoming for Luc Robitaille left the Montreal Canadiens with an unhappy hangover last night.
  Montreal nativ
  
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• Mont-Royal Avenue brings 100 inflatable pools to annual sidewalk sale

  02-06-2018 11:00 via cbc.ca
  The four-day event means the closing of the whole street to vehicles, leaving the 2-kilometre stretch accessible to pedestrians.
  
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