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• Shriners Hospital gets helping hand

  19-06-2018 23:50 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Jun 19: The Shriners Hospital is getting a new financial boost from the Quebec government to the tune of $13.7 million per year for five years. As Global’s Gloria Henriquez reports, the money is expected to improve patient care.
  
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• Towering Montreal preteen impresses even NBA stars

  19-06-2018 23:45 via cbc.ca
  A grinning Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray posed for a selfie at last weekend's regional finals for the Jr. NBA world championship in St. Catharines, Ont., with a 12-year-old boy.
  
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• On the hunt for the letter A

  19-06-2018 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Jun 19: A custom-made decoration of the letter A has gone missing from a Pointe-Claire Village sushi restaurant. As Global’s Cora MacDonald reports, Avocado’s owners are asking for the public’s help to locate the beloved work of art.
  
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• Commuters say #merciMR63 on the last original métro car runs

  19-06-2018 23:26 via montrealgazette.com
  All aboard! It’s the end of an era for the Montreal métro system as the network’s original train cars, the MR-63s, are being retired this week after 52 years of service.
  The last MR-63 train is making a series of victory laps through Thursday, with farewell rush-hour runs on each of our city’s subway lines. Similar to the MR-73, which came along in the mid-‘70s and are still running alongside the new MPM-10 or Azur trains, the blue and white MR-63 is recognizable b
  
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• My goal is always to help people: Vanier College valedictorian

  19-06-2018 23:23 via montrealgazette.com
  When 17-year-old Kreztorv Patricio Fugaban and his family arrived in Montreal from the Philippines in late January of 2013, it was as frigid out as it had been hot in his hometown of Calaban. With only a thin jacket, he recalled, “it was so cold; I had no idea.”
  They had only their clothes “and some money in our pockets.” He couldn’t speak English well, and he knew no French. For the first few months he, his parents and his two brothers bunked in with an uncle who s
  
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• Formula E ticket sales were known immediately after race: Montreal auditor general

  19-06-2018 23:22 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal's auditor general Michèle Galipeau says that organizers of the controversial Formula E race knew the next day how many tickets had been sold.
  
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• Beaconsfield looks to ban smoking in public

  19-06-2018 23:16 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Jun 19: Beaconsfield is set to become the latest Montreal suburb to crack down on smoking in public. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, the city wants to eliminate smoking from all parks and parking lots.
  
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• Is RoboCup the robotic soccer match Montreal didn't know it needed?

  19-06-2018 23:11 via montrealgazette.com
  We could soon be adding professional soccer player to the list of jobs that are replaced by robots in the future. At least, that might come true if RoboCup gets its way.
  The RoboCup is a robotics competition — running until June 22 at Montreal’s Palais des congrès — that invites young robot designers from around the world to present and share their work.
  Setup Day in #RoboCup2018 #GentleBots pic.twitter.com/Tx1XStKlYf
  — Jonathan Ginés (@Jonathan_Gines)
  
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• Man faces charges in storming of Vice Quebec newsroom

  19-06-2018 23:02 via montrealgazette.com
  MONTREAL — A 34-year-old man was arrested in connection with an incident in May when members of a nationalist, far-right group stormed the Montreal newsroom of Vice Quebec, police said Tuesday.
  Montreal police spokeswoman Véronique Dubuc said the suspect is facing charges of breaking and entering, mischief, criminal harassment and intimidation.
  The man was arrested in Quebec City Monday at the behest of the Montreal police and released on a promise to appear in court at a later date
  
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• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts buzzing with activity as bees take up residence on roof

  19-06-2018 22:58 via cbc.ca
  By the end of the summer, 100,000 bees will be living on the roof of the museum's Peace Pavilion on Bishop Street, pollinating trees and plants in a five-kilometre radius.
  
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• Beaconsfield to become latest Montreal suburb to crack down on smoking in public

  19-06-2018 22:58 via globalnews.ca
  Soon, smoking will only be allowed on streets, sidewalks and alleys in Beaconsfield.
  
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• Part of Bonaventure Expressway to close for repairs over long weekend

  19-06-2018 22:56 via montrealgazette.com
  A portion of the Bonaventure Expressway toward downtown will be closed for structural and surface repairs during the Fête nationale long weekend.
  The closure, just after Exit 2, begins Friday at 10 p.m. and ends June 26 at 5 a.m. One of the two lanes toward the Champlain Bridge will also be closed.
  Drivers are advised to get off at Exit 2 and take des Moulins Rd. before getting back on the expressway.
  
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• New online musical Roledex can help you find any Montreal artist

  19-06-2018 22:00 via cbc.ca
  In line with the spirit of buying local products or supporting local business, Katalogue is a free online platform dedicated to promoting local musicians.
  
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• Aventurer Caroline Cote describes her challenges through Quebec's powerlines. Full interview:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  19-06-2018 21:50
  Aventurer Caroline Cote describes her challenges through Quebec's powerlines. Full interview:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Photographer embarks on canoe trip into 19th century, from Montreal to Thunder Bay

  19-06-2018 21:49 via cbc.ca
  A Canadian photographer is recreating the journey of a female painter who captured the last days of the voyageurs.
  
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• Photographer embarks on canoe trip into 19th century

  19-06-2018 21:49 via cbc.ca
  A Canadian photographer is recreating the journey of a female painter who captured the last days of the voyageurs.
  
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• Bruce Hills discusses the last seven months of changes at Just for Laughs. Full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=NDvOd8… https://t.co/ncuNZdp8TZ

  19-06-2018 21:34
  
  Bruce Hills discusses the last seven months of changes at Just for Laughs. Full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=NDvOd8… https://t.co/ncuNZdp8TZ
  
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• Quebec premier urges crane operators back to work as ‘illegal’ strike continues

  19-06-2018 21:32 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is warning the province's crane operators there will be consequences for what he called an illegal strike, which has entered its second day.
  
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• Major water outage in Pierrefonds leaves residents without drinking water

  19-06-2018 21:13 via cbc.ca
  About 100 homes in Montreal's Pierrefonds area in the West Island are still without drinking water after a water main break early Tuesday morning.
  
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• Visits to Montreal’s 4 supervised drug injection sites double since last summer

  19-06-2018 20:54 via globalnews.ca
  Public health authorities are saying visits to Montreal's four supervised drug injections sites have more than doubled since they opened last summer.
  
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• Jury begins deliberations in Tony Accurso's fraud and corruption trial in Laval

  19-06-2018 20:52 via cbc.ca
  The Crown alleges that between 1996 and 2010, the 66-year-old former construction boss was part of a system of collusion that eliminated all competition for municipal contracts in Laval.
  
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• Why didn't Alex Galchenyuk work for the Canadiens? Try asking his father

  19-06-2018 20:37 via montrealgazette.com
  There’s no reason for anyone to be shocked or surprised by the departure of Alex Galchenyuk.
  Galchenyuk was on the trading block for more than a year and he would have been gone sooner if general manager Marc Bergevin hadn’t been holding out for a better return. As it was, the Canadiens probably didn’t get fair value when they obtained Max Domi from the Arizona Coyotes, but they did get market value.
  No other team was willing to give up more for Galchenyuk, a talented offensive
  
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• Trois-Rivières teen accused of aggressive assault released

  19-06-2018 20:11 via montrealgazette.com
  A 16-year-old teenager from Trois-Rivières was released Tuesday after having been accused of assault and theft the day before.
  The young man is suspected of having aggressively beaten Jeremy Courchesne Arsenault, 16, at the Trois-Rivières port park last Friday.
  The Crown prosecutor, Hippolite Brin, initially intended to oppose the teen’s release but arrived at a compromise following discussions with the defence.
  The conditions of his release will be in full effect as the accu
  
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• Sheldon Souray's life might have looked perfect, but it wasn't

  19-06-2018 20:08 via montrealgazette.com
  From the outside looking in, it appeared Sheldon Souray had a pretty perfect life.
  The 6-foot-4, 233-pound defenceman with the movie-star good looks played 14 seasons in the NHL — including six with the Canadiens — and earned more than US$40 million. He was married for five years to former Baywatch actress Angelica Bridges and they had two beautiful daughters together before divorcing in 2007. He later spent three years in a relationship with Barbie Blank, a former WWE star who used
  
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• National sports organizations have to report allegations of abuse immediately

  19-06-2018 19:56 via cbc.ca
  Sports Minister Kirsty Duncan says national sporting organizations will lose their federal funding if they don't immediately disclose to her office any allegations of abuse or harassment that occur within their ran
  
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• Montreal group pushes for changes to ‘inadequate’ high school history curriculum

  19-06-2018 19:55 via globalnews.ca
  "It's actually reinforcing negative stereotypes."
  
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• Dans la rue provides family services for misplaced youth

  19-06-2018 19:51 via globalnews.ca
  Dans la rue's Maggie Rochon and young mother Seven joined Global's Laura Casella to talk about the organization's lesser known family services.
  
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• Man arrested in connection with right-wing group storming Vice Quebec office

  19-06-2018 19:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Police have arrested a 34-year-old man in connection with an incident in May when members of a nationalist, far-right group stormed the Montreal newsroom of Vice Quebec.
  Montreal police spokeswoman Véronique Dubuc said Tuesday the suspect is facing charges of breaking and entering, mischief, criminal harassment and intimidation.
  The man was arrested in Quebec City Monday at the behest of the Montreal police and released on a promise to appear in court at a later date.
  About six members of
  
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• Crown recommends 150 year prison term for Quebec City mosque shooter

  19-06-2018 19:42 via globalnews.ca
  A single first-degree murder conviction carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.
  
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• Man to serve 8 years for sexually assaulting stepdaughter from age 6

  19-06-2018 19:41 via montrealgazette.com
  A man who sexually assaulted his stepdaughter for years, beginning when she was just six years old, was sentenced to an eight-year prison term at the Montreal courthouse on Tuesday.
  Kevin Brown, 43, who had expected to be heading to a penitentiary. He registered little emotion as one special constable grabbed a small bag of his belongings while another placed the large man in handcuffs and directed him toward the inside of a prisoner’s dock.
  “I have been waiting to see that for years
  
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• Montrealer James Piccoli captures the 33rd Tour de Beauce

  19-06-2018 19:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealer James Piccoli overcame a gap of 70 seconds on the final stage through the streets of St-Georges Sunday to win the 33rd Tour de Beauce.
  Piccoli won the criterium Saturday in Quebec City to climb into eighth place in the general classification. He made a breakaway on the final lap to finish fourth in the stage and his time was good enough to grab the general classification with an 11-second edge over Britain’s Daniel Whitehouse. American Sergey Tsvetkov, the leader going into the
  
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• Suspect arrested in connection with right wing group storming Vice Quebec office

  19-06-2018 19:34 via globalnews.ca
  About six members of anti-immigration group Atalante gained entry to Vice's newsroom in an apparent effort to intimidate journalists.
  
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• 12-year-old Montrealer, 6’10”, catches the eyes of NBA players

  19-06-2018 19:24 via globalnews.ca
  Olivier Rioux, who's two inches shy of the Toronto Raptors' tallest players, has been playing basketball since he was five.
  
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• Feds have spent over $5.7M on border shelter, security, humanitarian aid

  19-06-2018 19:05 via globalnews.ca
  Ottawa has spent over $5.7 million to ensure that asylum seekers have adequate food, shelter and medical care.
  
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• House committee says privacy laws should apply to political parties

  19-06-2018 18:50 via cbc.ca
  The House of Commons committee investigating the Cambridge Analytica scandal is recommending significant changes to Canada's privacy laws, including new rules to govern the activities of political parties.
  
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• Quebecers could wait up to a year for eating disorder treatment

  19-06-2018 18:34 via globalnews.ca
  Lise-Andrée Massé says it took eight years for her to recover from her eating disorder.
  
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• Sheldon Souray thankful for NHL's substance-abuse program

  19-06-2018 18:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Former Canadiens defenceman Sheldon Souray has high praise for the doctors involved with the NHL and NHL Players’ Association’s substance-abuse program who helped him get his life back on track after an addiction to painkillers.
  Souray said during an interview on Sunday that he has been sober for nine months now.
  “Last year at this time I was so sad,” Souray said over the phone from his summer home in Idaho. “I don’t know if depressed is the right word, but I
  
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• Take your tacos to the next level with @Ricardocuisine youtu.be/zuJzU9_JpCc

  19-06-2018 18:18
  Take your tacos to the next level with @Ricardocuisine youtu.be/zuJzU9_JpCc
  
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• Vladimir Guerrero is coming back to Montreal on Friday thanks to @ExposFest - Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=v5t8k8… https://t.co/Vri5yFgDye

  19-06-2018 18:04
  
  Vladimir Guerrero is coming back to Montreal on Friday thanks to @ExposFest - Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=v5t8k8… https://t.co/Vri5yFgDye
  
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• Quebec mosque shooting equivalent to terrorism, says prosecutor

  19-06-2018 17:48 via cbc.ca
  Alexandre Bissonnette targeted his victims because they were Muslim, Crown prosecutor Thomas Jacques argued in his closing arguments Tuesday, asking the judge to consider this as an aggravating factor in the sentence he will hand down.
  
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• Prosecutor wants mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette locked up for life

  19-06-2018 17:48 via cbc.ca
  "This unprecedented crime merits a punishment that reflects its horrible implications," prosecutor Thomas Jacques told the judge in a Quebec City courtroom Tuesday.
  
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• Crown wants mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette locked up for life

  19-06-2018 17:48 via cbc.ca
  "This unprecedented crime merits a punishment that reflects its horrible implications," prosecutor Thomas Jacques told the judge in a Quebec City courtroom Tuesday.
  
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• Six O’Clock Solution: Mussels With Thai Green Curry Broth

  19-06-2018 17:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Make the broth for this easy dish ahead of time and then all that’s needed is to bring it to a simmer and steam the mussels for under five minutes, writes Jennifer Segal in her new cookbook, Once Upon A Chef: 100 Tested, Perfected and Family-Approved Recipes (Chronicle/Raincoast, $39.95).
  This user-friendly book is geared toward busy meal providers who also want to give the occasional party. A blogger who was formerly a restaurant chef and is now a family cook living outside Washington, D.
  
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• Update: Suspended Montreal police chief resigns post, abandons lawsuit

  19-06-2018 17:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Suspended Montreal police chief Philippe Pichet has given up his battle to get his job back.
  Pichet has agreed to give up his former position as police chief and will remain in the city’s employ as chief inspector for the Service de police de la ville de Montréal (SPVM), Mayor Valérie Plante announced in a statement Tuesday morning.
  He is also abandoning a lawsuit he had launched against the city of Montreal and Quebec’s public security department, demanding his re
  
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• Woman, 78, dies after being struck by car on Papineau

  19-06-2018 17:37 via montrealgazette.com
  A 78-year-old woman died in hospital after being struck by a car while crossing Papineau Ave. in Rosemont early Tuesday morning.
  The woman was walking across the intersection of Papineau Ave. and St-Zotique St. around 6:30 a.m. when a car struck her while making a turn, Montreal police say.
  The woman was unconscious when officers arrived, police said. The driver, a 36-year-old man, was not injured but is in shock.
  Papineau Ave. was closed between Bélanger and Beaubien Sts. and St-Zotique
  
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• Opinion: Buy Canadian? Sure, but don't discount cupboard economics

  19-06-2018 17:33 via montrealgazette.com
  After the G7 summit, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau showed very Canadian diplomacy, poise and resilience in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s antics. But the Canadian public seems to be taking another approach.
  Everywhere on social media, Canadians are encouraging each other to go “Trump-free” — to shop for groceries without buying American products. Even some restaurants are jumping on the bandwagon by serving “Trump-free” dishes. These are interesting
  
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• Quebec mosque shooting: Crown wants 150-year sentence for Bissonnette

  19-06-2018 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The Crown says Alexandre Bissonnette, who killed six Muslim men in the Quebec City mosque shooting last year, should get life sentence with no chance for parole for 150 years — the harshest sentence since Canada abolished death penalty.
  Crown prosecutor Thomas Jacques told Quebec Superior Court Justice François Huot that Bissonnette’s crimes were unprecedented in Canadian history.
  “They were vile and repulsive,” Jacques said.
  Bissonnette, 28, has ple
  
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• Conservative riding head steps down after ties to Quebec far-right group revealed

  19-06-2018 17:25 via cbc.ca
  The Conservative Party of Canada has cut ties with the president of its Rivière-du-Nord riding association for his participation in La Meute, a far-right group known for its anti-immigration and anti-Muslim views.
  
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• Shriners Hospital to receive additional funding from Quebec government

  19-06-2018 17:21 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec government will increase its funding by $13.7 million per year to Shriners Hospital for Children.
  The additional funding is part of a five-year agreement between the hospital and the government, and brings the hospital’s annual funding to $23.9 million.
  Ministers Gaétan Barrette and Kathleen Weil announced the extra funding Tuesday morning at the children’s hospital.
  
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• Power restored after substation problem cuts off 10,000 Montrealers

  19-06-2018 17:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Power is back for the approximately 10,000 Montreal customers in the Outremont area who were affected by an equipment breakdown Tuesday morning.
  The breakdown occurred at the Beaumont substation, which is located in the Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough, Hydro-Québec spokesperson Jean-Philippe Rousseau said.
  He said that a crew was successful at restoring power for the affected customers but the root cause is still under investigation.
  
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