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• Focus Montreal: Corruption within UPAC?

  09-06-2018 23:58 via globalnews.ca
  Independent analyst Annie Trudel joins Global’s Raquel Fletcher to discuss her new book, ‘Jeux de Coulisses,’ which delves into the culture of corruption in Quebec.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Vettel gives Ferrari fans a reason to cheer in Montreal

  09-06-2018 23:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Ferrari’s home base is in Maranello, Italy, but Montreal must also feel like home to the Formula One team.
  After Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel won the pole position Saturday for Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix, there was a roar from the stands at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve that sounded like one at the Bell Centre after the Canadiens score a goal.
  That’s if Canadiens fans still remember what that sounds like.
  Vettel won the pole position with a course-record time of one minu
  
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• Zurkowsky: 'A new year' for Alouettes, but same old sputtering offence from 2017

  09-06-2018 23:22 via montrealgazette.com
  The optimist would say it’s only the exhibition season — and he would be correct.
  The pessismist, however, would indicate the Alouettes’ starting offence, through portions of two exhibition games, produced the grand total of one touchdown and three field goals. And he would be correct.
  We’ll begin to discover, starting next Saturday night in Vancouver when Montreal launches its regular season, whether it was prescient to be optimistic or pessimistic. And, even then, try t
  
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• Risky job of arborist on display at Dorval’s tree festival

  09-06-2018 23:17 via globalnews.ca
  The Dorval Tree Festival took place Saturday.
  
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• Justin Trudeau, Quebec police chief defend heavy deployment for G7

  09-06-2018 22:38 via globalnews.ca
  Aside from controversial U.S. President Donald Trump, the presence most likely to dominate this weekend's G7 Summits in Quebec is that of police.
  
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• Quebec City ready to get back to normal after G7 summit

  09-06-2018 22:20 via globalnews.ca
  The violent protests feared to take place in the capital city during the G7 summit never happened. By Saturday, Quebec City was ready to get back to normal.
  
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• Johnny Manziel sparks Ticats to pre-season win in Montreal

  09-06-2018 22:19 via globalnews.ca
  Johnny Manziel threw his first touchdown in the CFL to propel the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to a 30-15 pre-season victory over the Montreal Alouettes.
  
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• Missing South Shore woman, 78, found near Maine, N.B. borders

  09-06-2018 22:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Police on the South Shore have called off a search for a 78-year-old Montreal woman who went missing Friday night after she ended up being located in a town 450 kilometres east of the city she was last seen in.
  The Régie Intermunicipale de Police de Roussillon called off the search for Lilianne Paradis Pinet, 78, after getting word from the Sûreté du Quebec she had been found in Pohénégamook, a town in Quebec near its borders with both New Brunswick an
  
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• Sebastian Vettel takes Canadian GP pole in record-setting fashion

  09-06-2018 22:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Sebastian Vettel set a course record in qualifying on Saturday to win pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix.
  Vettel powered his Ferrari around the 4.361-kilometre Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in one minute, 10.776 seconds.
  The German will start in the favoured position on the front row of the grid for Sunday’s race alongside Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes.
  Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Mercedes ace Lewis Hamilton, who ended a run of three straight Canadian poles, were third and fourth
  
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• Vettel takes pole position at Canadian Grand Prix Qualifiers

  09-06-2018 21:58 via globalnews.ca
  Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel set a course record lap-time of one minute and 10.776 seconds during Saturday's Canadian Grand Prix Qualifiers.
  
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• Montreal's Lance Stroll finishes 17th in qualifying for Canadian Grand Prix

  09-06-2018 21:51 via montrealgazette.com
  It was a short workday Saturday for Lance Stroll at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
  The Montreal native, who drives for the Williams Formula One team, failed to advance past the first qualifying session for the Canadian Grand Prix after finishing 17th. It marks the fifth time in seven races this season that the 19-year-old has failed to advance past Q1 while driving a Williams car that has had plenty of issues.
  “It is frustrating at the moment,” Stroll said. “We’re not where w
  
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• Sebastian Vettel sets course record to claim pole for Montreal Grand Prix

  09-06-2018 21:40 via cbc.ca
  Sebastian Vettel set a course record in qualifying on Saturday to win pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix. Vettel powered his Ferrari around the 4.361-kilometre Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in one minute 10.776 seconds.
  
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• Montreal Fringe Festival brings personal stories to the stage

  09-06-2018 21:30 via cbc.ca
  Two Montreal-based playwrights/actors are bringing a real and vulnerable element to their performances at the ongoing Fringe Festival.
  
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• Johnny Manziel throws 1st CFL TD in Ticats' pre-season win over Alouettes

  09-06-2018 21:28 via cbc.ca
  Johnny Manziel went 12-for-20 for 88 yards and a touchdown as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats scored 30 unanswered points to defeat the Montreal Alouettes 30-15 Saturday afternoon in the second and final pre-season game for both teams.
  
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• Montreal Alouettes lay another egg in final exhibition game

  09-06-2018 21:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Well, at least the Alouettes scored a touchdown this week.
  Otherwise, there wasn’t much to be inspired about Saturday afternoon, as Montreal concluded its exhibition schedule with a 30-15 loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats before 12,325 Molson Stadium spectators.
  Not that it matters much at this point, but the Als lost both of their exhibition games. And they failed to score a touchdown in the first one, at Ottawa.
  The Als, who launch their regular-season next Saturday night, in Vancouver, mu
  
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• G7 summit: Labour unions, activists rally in Quebec City

  09-06-2018 21:05 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — After two days of protests from anti-capitalism activists over the G7 summit, it was labour unions and community activists who travelled to Quebec City on Saturday to have their voices heard.
  With a march toward the U.S. consulate planned for later in the afternoon, union representatives and activist groups started gathering outside the National Assembly around the lunch hour.
  Here’s what some had to say about this weekend’s G7 summit, and why they feel
  
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• Gay Village's iconic rainbow ball canopy to be retired at summer's end

  09-06-2018 20:13 via montrealgazette.com
  The rows of multi-coloured balls hanging over a long stretch of Ste-Catherine St. in the city’s Gay Village will be taken down at the end of the summer.
  The art installation, created by Claude Cormier, an award-winning landscape architect, debuted in 2011 with a series of pink balls hung over a one-kilometre stretch of the roadway in the heart of the village. Last year, those balls were replaced by 170,000 multi-coloured balls designed to look like a rainbow. The rainbow, installed as part
  
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• Montreal police fear for the safety of missing 14-year-old girl

  09-06-2018 19:31 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal police is renewing it efforts to locate 14-year-old Océanne Dinardo, ho went missing earlier this week, and expressed concern she is “hanging out with the wrong crowd.”
  On Saturday, the police force tweeted that they fear for her safety and called on the public to retweet images of her as well as her description.
  Earlier this week, the Montreal police said Dinardo left her family’s home in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough at around 2 p.m. on Tuesday and had
  
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• Toronto's Nicholas Latifi passes first Formula One test at Canadian GP

  09-06-2018 18:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Nicholas Latifi’s big grin as he exited pit lane for his first official Formula One session in Montreal still hadn’t worn off three hours after he stepped from the car, and it’s not likely to disappear anytime soon.
  “I really enjoyed it — I’m going to keep smiling for the rest of the weekend,” he said.
  “There isn’t a better way to have my first official session. The only thing that could top this would be getting to race in Formula One and co
  
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• Tourists in Quebec City get a taste of G7 fallout

  09-06-2018 18:00 via cbc.ca
  Romantic strolls down cobbled streets, horse-drawn carriage rides, coffee on an outdoor patio - these all postcard images tourists expect to see when they visit Quebec City. Riot police and boarded up storefronts, not so much.
  
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• Court of Appeal reduces homicide sentences for street gang members

  09-06-2018 17:50 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec Court of Appeal has reduced the sentences of two street gang members who killed an innocent man after ruling the sentencing judge erred by allowing their immigration status to be an aggravating factor while determining their prison terms.
  Raymond Ellis, a 25-year-old Montreal businessman, was killed on Oct. 23, 2005, by a group of men who were part of a Blues-affiliated street gang. The attack happened inside an after-hours club on St-Denis St. where Ellis, a graduate of Dawson Colleg
  
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• Winning Lotto Max ticket sold in Quebec, $60 million prize

  09-06-2018 17:44 via globalnews.ca
  After going unclaimed for several weeks, Friday night's Lotto Max $60 million jackpot was won in Quebec.
  
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• G7 summit: Trump leaves as he arrived, alone and mired in controversy

  09-06-2018 17:24 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – He arrived mired in controversy and left the same way.
  U.S. President Donald Trump was to re-board Airforce One parked at CFB Bagotville Saturday morning, bound for Singapore after spending less than 24 hours on Canadian soil at the G7 summit.
  And true to his nonchalant attitude toward the event, he managed to spark more malaise among his world counterparts by arriving late Saturday for a working breakfast of the summit’s General Equality Advisory Council.
  According to pool
  
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• Loop Sessions: Montreal's 'church' for beatmakers

  09-06-2018 17:00 via cbc.ca
  Beatmaking can be a solitary endeavour, but Montreal's Loop Sessions event has become a "church" where beatmakers can congregate and make music as a community.
  
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• 1,000-km relay for mental health to reach Montreal on Saturday

  09-06-2018 16:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Seven days after it started, a 1,000-kilometre-long relay from Gaspé to Montreal, will reach its conclusion on Saturday afternoon.
  The 17 runners were aiming to raise awareness of the ways Quebecers can take care of their mental health by highlighting Mouvement Santé metal Québec’s (MSMQ) seven tips for recharging, which are available on the organization’s website.
  They have also raised $10,000 to support of a MSMQ project for youths.
  The runners say they wa
  
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• ICYMI: Their @thenfb film is a poem to the planet. 'Metamorphosis' is a documentary by filmmakers Velcrow & Nova. I… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-06-2018 16:00
  ICYMI: Their @thenfb film is a poem to the planet. 'Metamorphosis' is a documentary by filmmakers Velcrow & Nova. I… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• South Shore police seek public's help locating missing 78-year-old woman

  09-06-2018 15:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Police on the South Shore are seeking help from the public as they try to locate a Montreal woman who has been missing since Friday.
  Lilianne Paradis Pinet, 78, visited her sister in Ste-Catherine, a town 20 kilometres south of Montreal, for most of the day on Friday and left by car at 9 p.m. The Ville-Émard resident has not been seen since and her family is concerned, the Régie Intermunicipale de Police de Roussillon stated in a release issued Saturday morning. She was supposed to
  
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• Shelter: Active grandmother enjoys downsized comfort in Côte-St-Luc condo

  09-06-2018 14:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Dale Leary is 77, but looks much younger. To keep fit, she swims every day in her condo’s pool and enjoys an enviable lifestyle. Long retired from her job at Dawson College, where she worked for the director of student services, she spends the summer at a family cottage in Muskoka, Ont., the province in which she grew up. Leary also spends winters in Florida, returning to Montreal only in the spring and autumn.
  Her life hasn’t always been a bed of roses. In 2000, she lost her husband
  
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• The Week in Review: Aging, disgusting, banning, overcrowding, cooking

  09-06-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on all the big stories that happened this week in Montreal.
  The hiring of nurses isn’t keeping pace with Quebec’s greying demographic
  The number of nurses working in Quebec is falling behind the steady increase in the province’s population since 2010, a review of census and other data shows. The situation is worse than at first glance, as the population is not only increasing but it’s aging as well — imposing a greater burden on resources like nursing as ne
  
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• R.D.P. land fiasco points to decades of troubling patterns at city hall

  09-06-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Part Seven of a seven-part series
  When the bids were opened to sell the last large chunk of the Marc-Aurèle Fortin site in early 2006, it had been a quarter of a century since city hall first issued an expropriation order to acquire vacant land inside a rectangle that it had drawn on the eastern end of Montreal Island.
  And it had been 20 years since the city had launched the first public call for tenders to sell a section of that land.
  Looking back, there were similarities between th
  
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• While you were sleeping: Pig found near Dunkin' Donuts, named 'Pork Roll'

  09-06-2018 13:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were getting some refreshing shut-eye.
  A motorcyclist in his 40s was clinging to life on Friday night after colliding with a vehicle on Route 339 in St-Roch-Ouest, Lanaudière. The head-on collision took place just before 4 p.m., according to the Sûreté du Québec. The motorcyclist and the driver of the vehicle, who suffered minor injuries, were transported to hospital. The causes and circumstances of the accident remain to be determi
  
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• Josh Freed: Montreal drops ball by closing field of neighbourhood dreams

  09-06-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  They’ve closed a small baseball diamond down my street, in one of the most unneighbourly acts I can recall.
  I’ve lingered by the little softball field in Jeanne Mance Park for decades and loved its one-of-a-kind community feel — its jumble of languages, its male/female mix, its tiny barbecue dishing out hotdogs to hungry players, passersby and homeless.
  The North Field softball game was the most spontaneous and special Montreal neighbourhood event I know of, along with the Tam-
  
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• Canadiens’ prospective draft picks for 2018: Jesse Ylonen, right wing

  09-06-2018 13:15 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 Thursday to Monday up until the draft on June 22-23 in Dallas, and weigh in on their potential in the comments section below.
  Jesse Ylonen, right wing
  Height/weight: 6-foot, 173 pounds
  NHL Central Scouting Rank: No. 28 among European sk
  
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• Montreal weather: Sunny and warm — soak it up

  09-06-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Mainly sunny with aa light western breeze at 20 km/h in the afternoon.
  Environment Canada predicts a balmy high of 24 Celsius, and a UV index of 8, or very high.
  Tonight: Skies will remain clear with a low of 8.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by tagging them with #ThisMtl. We’ll feature one per day right here in the morning file. Today’s photo was posted on Instagram by @f1gpcanada.
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• Ferrari and the Habs: twice the pain for die-hard fans

  09-06-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Scuderia Ferrari and the Montreal Canadiens. Two storied sports franchises that share much in common, each an iconic brand with an illustrious past and passionate fan base.
  These days, though, there is less to cheer about in either camp, as both the Habs and the Prancing Horse struggle to regain their footing and find their way back to championship glory.
  It’s been a long drought for the respective faithful — 25 years since the Canadiens last hoisted Lord Stanley’s chalice and
  
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• Airbnb next door? Developer adjusts $30M Lachine Canal office project

  09-06-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It looks like residents of a condo complex on the Lachine Canal will have to get used to having Airbnb next door — not a short-term rental but the Montreal headquarters of the accommodation-sharing service.
  On Monday, the Sud-Ouest borough is expected to approve a motion that will remove the final hurdle in developer Groupe Mach’s plan to build a $30-million, six-storey office building in Pointe St-Charles.
  Groupe Mach officials have told neighbours and city officials that Airbn
  
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• What to expect at today's G7 protests in Quebec City

  09-06-2018 12:56 via cbc.ca
  Another round of anti-G7 demonstrations are lined up for Saturday, the summit's last day, after a quiet night in Quebec City.
  
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• Looking back on the Montreal Canadiens last Stanley Cup win, 25 years later

  09-06-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  CBC videographer Charles Contant was at the last Stanley Cup parade that Montreal ever held, in 1993 — and he has the photos to prove it.
  
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• 1993 Stanley Cup archive: Canadiens win final game and their 24th Cup

  09-06-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It has been 25 years since the Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup. Since May 26, we have been retracing the Habs’ route to victory with articles from the Montreal Gazette archives. Today is the anniversary of their last Cup win.
  Date: June 9, 1993Original headline: THAT WINNING HAB-IT; Canadiens claim their 24th title for Stanley Cup’s 100th birthday
  This infernally long season was over, and there was Kirk Muller, crying beautiful tears, and talking about what this
  
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• Trump arrives late and will leave early as G7 leaders talk gender, oceans and climate

  09-06-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  After a day dominated by trade talk, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shift the G7 conversation to other pressing global issues on Saturday — climate change and empowering women — but at least one leader has opted to skip part of the day’s meetings.
  
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• Trump arrives late and leaves early as G7 leaders talk gender, oceans and climate

  09-06-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  After an opening day dominated by trade talk, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shifted the G7 conversation to other pressing global issues on Saturday — climate change and empowering women — but at least one leader opted to skip part of the day's meetings.
  
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• G7 leaders to talk gender, oceans and climate change — Trump to skip out early

  09-06-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  After a day dominated by trade talk, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shift the G7 conversation to other pressing global issues on Saturday — climate change and empowering women — but at least one leader has opted to skip part of the day’s meetings.
  
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• What to do if you think you're being followed

  09-06-2018 04:43 via montrealgazette.com
  A man recently followed four women in Brossard, sometimes as they were leaving a bus, other times walking down the street. In one case, the suspect grabbed the woman from behind.
  Any incident of harassment or violence requires those involved to use their own judgment, but here’s what two professionals advise people to do if they think they’re being followed — or see someone they think is being followed.
  Ghyslain Vallières, spokesperson for the Longueuil police, says
  
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• In case you missed it, here is what happened on June 8

  09-06-2018 04:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal:Lesley Chesterman: Fearless Anthony Bourdain was in love with Montreal, our chefs
  When the news hit Friday morning of Anthony Bourdain’s passing, I was eating cheese and charcuterie at a stand at Vienna’s Naschmarkt while talking to shopkeepers and sipping a cool Austrian Riesling. It was the perfect Bourdain wannabe moment: drinking with alacrity, bonding with strangers over food, eating local. As we his fans knew, this so
  
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• G7 summit protesters play game of cat and mouse with Quebec City police

  09-06-2018 04:18 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC  —  In a day marked by short bursts of protests against this weekend’s G7 summit, it was an increased ire toward the heavy police presence throughout Quebec City that was most noticeable.
  For most of Friday, protesters played a large-scale game of cat and mouse with police as they held spontaneous “disruption” actions throughout the city. Each one brought short, tense confrontations with riot-gear-clad officers and more protester complaints of over-poli
  
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• Quebec politicians voice congratulations, express concern after Doug Ford takes Ontario

  09-06-2018 03:52 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec politicians offered both messages of support and concern after Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives swept Ontario with a stunning majority.
  
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