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• An asylum seeker’s story: adjusting to life in Canada

  20-06-2018 23:57 via globalnews.ca
  Sylvia Eboigbodin endured a difficult journey getting to Canada. Pregnant and frightened, she sought asylum in our country. Now, she’s starting a new life in Montreal. Amanda Jelowicki has Sylvia’s story.
  
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• Sending mosque shooter to prison for life would go against Canadian values, lawyer argues

  20-06-2018 23:55 via cbc.ca
  Alexandre Bissonnette's defence lawyers are trying to persuade Quebec Superior Court Justice François Huot it would be unconstitutional to sentence the 28-year-old to consecutive life sentences for the murders of six men in January 2017.
  
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• 'I'm excited for what this season has to offer': Alouettes' Henoc Muamba

  20-06-2018 23:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Repeatedly throughout his career, Henoc Muamba has been victimized by the lucrative contracts he has signed, getting released before winter bonus payments owed to him would be paid.
  Although it happened with the Alouettes in February 2016 — before he was to receive a $60,000 bonus — the non-import middle-linebacker had no hesitation about returning to Montreal in April after he was released by Saskatchewan, also before he was scheduled to receive a payment.
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• Sun Youth co-founder Earl De La Perralle dies at 73

  20-06-2018 23:47 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jun 20: Sun Youth co-founder Earl De La Perralle has passed away from kidney failure at the age of 73. As Global’s Brayden Jagger Haines reports, the legacy of the coach, boss and father will continue to live on.
  
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• Lyme disease on the rise in Quebec

  20-06-2018 23:47 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jun 20: Lyme disease is growing in Quebec’s Montérégie region after cases nearly doubled between 2016 and 2017. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, the debilitating disease is transmitted by ticks that are also gaining ground in the area.
  
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• Small earthquake rattles parts of the Laurentians

  20-06-2018 23:45 via montrealgazette.com
  A magnitude 3.4 earthquake occurred Wednesday afternoon in the Laurentians, the federal Department of Natural Resources said.
  According to the ministry, the earthquake occurred at 12:15 p.m. and at a depth of 18 kilometres. Its epicentre was located 18 kilometres west of St-Jérôme.
  The quake was strong enough to be felt in the region, especially in Ste-Adèle and St-Sauveur, but not enough to cause damage, said Allison Bent, a seismologist with Earthquakes Canada.
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• U.S. treatment of migrant families sparks criticism across Canada

  20-06-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jun 20: U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to stop separating children from their parents as they cross the border – but trying to reunite the families torn apart will not be easy. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, the criticism of the White House policy from around the world and here...
  
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• Chorus of criticism continues against the U.S. despite reversal of border policy

  20-06-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order to stop separating families in migration crisis hasn't silenced critics.
  
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• Canadiens will open 2018-19 NHL season on Oct. 3 in Toronto

  20-06-2018 23:39 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens will open the 2018-19 NHL campaign in Toronto when they face the Maple Leafs on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the Air Canada Centre on the opening night of the season.
  The Canadiens’ home opener will be on Thursday, Oct. 11, when the Los Angeles Kings will visit the Bell Centre.
  Teams announced the dates for their home openers on Wednesday and the complete NHL schedule will be released on Thursday. The Canadiens will hold a pregame ceremony before their home opener, beginning at 7 p
  
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• Quebec warns that growing cannabis at home will still be illegal

  20-06-2018 23:35 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Growing pot at home in Quebec could land you a ticket from police because it will be illegal under the prevailing provincial cannabis law, the minister responsible for the legislation said Wednesday.
  But Lucie Charlebois questioned why Quebecers would even bother cultivating at home when Quebec will make high-quality legal product available in a few months at government-run cannabis stores around the corner.
  With the federal government announcing Wednesday it will be legal for Can
  
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• Quebec mosque shooting: Even murderers have rights, lawyer says

  20-06-2018 23:32 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Murderers, even multiple murderers like Alexandre Bissonnette, have rights and can be rehabilitated, the Quebec City mosque killer’s lawyer argued Wednesday.
  And it would contravene the Charter of Rights — and Canadian values — to impose the legally allowed maximum sentence on Bissonnette, defence lawyer Charles-Olivier Gosselin said.
  That would be life in prison without the possibility of parole for 150 years (six consecutive 25-year sentences).
  Gossel
  
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• Kelly: Quebecers have to wait for English version of new Arcand film

  20-06-2018 23:06 via montrealgazette.com
  The latest film from Oscar-winning Montreal writer-director Denys Arcand will be launched en français only here in Quebec next week. La chute de l’empire américain (The Fall of the American Empire) will be given a major release across Quebec on Thursday, June 28.
  But in spite of the fact that Arcand is the Québécois filmmaker best known and most loved by anglo audiences ici, distributor Les Films Séville will not be opening a single copy with English subt
  
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• Fire department tries to rescue man on Mount Royal at risk of falling

  20-06-2018 22:40 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal fire department said they’re waiting for help from the police to remove an apparently intoxicated man who was wandering off trail on Mount Royal this afternoon.
  Bystanders called 911 when they saw the man wandering off trail and acting erratically on the steep terrain near the Belvedere lookout on the mountain.
  The man was not co-operating with authorities, and a fire department spokesperson said they’re concerned he might fall.
  The fire department asked pedestrians to a
  
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• Dunlevy: My pre-jazz fest bike ride with Mayor Valérie Plante

  20-06-2018 22:28 via montrealgazette.com
  I biked up Camillien-Houde Way for the first time, Wednesday morning. The occasion was a Montreal International Jazz Festival press conference in the presence of Mayor Valérie Plante.
  It seemed fitting, therefore, to forgo the jazz fest press shuttle and make my own way to the lookout over downtown by cycling up the route that has become one of the defining issues of Plante’s first year in office.
  Camillien-Houde was closed to through traffic at the beginning of June as part of a si
  
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• Dunlevy: How to stay alive as a cyclist in Montreal

  20-06-2018 22:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Yes, Montreal is an ever more bike-friendly city; but as demonstrated with heart-wrenching gravity by the recent death of Urgences Santé dispatcher Valérie Bertrand Desrochers on her way to work, city cycling can be dangerous.
  It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it, but it does mean we should put all the chances on our side.
  With that in mind, here are 11 city cycling safety tips that may save your life, from an avid, everyday, year-round commuting cyclist.Take the bik
  
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• Starlight Foundation's boat has been stolen

  20-06-2018 22:14 via montrealgazette.com
  A specially modified boat belonging to the Starlight Foundation that was used to take sick children out on the water has been stolen.
  The boat, a 26-foot Princeton pro craft pontoon valued at $75,000, was stolen from the foundation’s headquarters on the TransCanada Highway in Dorval last Thursday night.
  Workers from the organization arrived at headquarters early on Friday morning and found the storage gate open, the lock cut and the boat missing.
  Surveillance footage taken that night showe
  
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• Driving habits called into question as trial of SQ officer involved in fatal crash draws to a close

  20-06-2018 21:38 via cbc.ca
  SQ officer Patrick Ouellet’s lawyer Nadine Touma has focused on the conduct of the victim’s father, Mike Belance, and whether he made errors driving the day of the collision. But the Crown says the way Ouellet was driving that day was “objectively dangerous.”
  
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• Defence argues SQ officer who crashed into car carrying 5-year-old boy was just doing his job

  20-06-2018 21:38 via cbc.ca
  SQ officer Patrick Ouellet’s lawyer Nadine Touma has focused on the conduct of the victim’s father, Mike Belance, and whether he made errors driving the day of the collision.
  
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• Conservatives can ‘win anywhere,’ Scheer says in welcoming Richard Martel

  20-06-2018 21:18 via globalnews.ca
  Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer welcomed the newest member of his caucus on Wednesday, saying Richard Martel's byelection victory on Monday is a harbinger of things to come.
  
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• Dunlevy: How to stay alive as a cyclist in Montreal - Montreal Gazette

  20-06-2018 21:16 via montrealgazette.com
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  Dunlevy: How to stay alive as a cyclist in Montreal
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  From an avid, everyday, year-round commuting cyclist, here are 11 city cycling safety tips that may save your life. T'Cha Dunlevy, Montreal Gazette. Updated: June 20, 2018. Share Adjust Comment Print. Yes, Montreal is an ever more bike-friendly city ...
  
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• NDG Food Depot gets new name, expanded mandate

  20-06-2018 21:09 via cbc.ca
  Now called the Depot Community Food Centre, the 30-year-old agency in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood is partnering with a Canada-wide network of anti-poverty groups.
  
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• Trudeau names former Radio-Canada broadcaster Julie Miville-Dechêne to the Senate

  20-06-2018 21:06 via cbc.ca
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is appointing former journalist and public servant Julie Miville-Dechêne to fill a Senate vacancy from Quebec.
  
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• Quebec City ranks fastest internet in Canada as Montreal trails at 14th

  20-06-2018 21:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec City soars above the rest of Canada in an internet speed test — with Montreal trailing behind at 14th.
  Tech website PCMag used data from its online speed test to gather just under 12,000 results between September 2017 and June 5, 2018 to figure out which city has the fastest internet speed in Canada.
  According to the results, Quebec City leads the pack with an average of over three times the speed in Gatineau, the runner up. Toronto and Ottawa placed sixth and eighth, respectively,
  
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• More action, fewer committees: CAQ promises $10B for transportation

  20-06-2018 20:48 via montrealgazette.com
  A Coalition Avenir Québec government could ignore any transportation plan currently being drafted by the region’s body governing transportation.
  If his party wins the Oct. 1 election, CAQ leader François Legault said he would put in place a $10-billion 10-year plan for such projects as completing a decades-delayed revamp of Notre-Dame St. in the East End, building a $1.8-billion tramway connecting Pointe-aux-Trembles to the downtown core, and extending the future Résea
  
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• Lyme disease becomes more common as Quebec climate warms up

  20-06-2018 20:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Lyme disease is becoming more common in southern Quebec as the climate heats up, warned the public health department for the Montérégie on Wednesday.
  The number of confirmed cases doubled in the last year, increasing from 56 in 2016 to 102 in 2017.
  The disease is largely present in the Montérégie region — one third of cases in Quebec are reported there — though some cases have been reported in Estrie, Outaouais and in the Centre-du-Québec area.
  For
  
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• Sun Youth co-founder Earl De La Perralle remembered for contributions to Montreal sports scene

  20-06-2018 20:27 via cbc.ca
  Earl De La Perralle is being remembered on social media by his former athletes, Montreal politicians and community members as a kind-hearted man and caring coach who dedicated his life to building sports programs in the city.
  
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• Jean Talon Market merchants speak out against plans for public square

  20-06-2018 20:22 via globalnews.ca
  The borough wants to build a public square on the west side of the market next to Casgrain Avenue. 
  
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• Montreal, St-Lambert vow to work together on concert-noise complaints - Montreal Gazette

  20-06-2018 20:20 via montrealgazette.com
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  Fans dance along to Major Lazer during the Osheaga Music and Arts Festival at Parc Jean Drapeau in Montreal on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017. Peter McCabe / MONTREAL GAZETTE. Share Adjust Comment Print. Montreal and St-Lambert promised Wednesday ...
  
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• Montreal, St-Lambert vow to work together on concert-noise complaints

  20-06-2018 20:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal and St-Lambert promised Wednesday to work together to address long-standing complaints by South Shore residents over loud music coming from Parc Jean-Drapeau.
  “From now on, we will work hand in hand to manage noise related to summer concerts,” officials from the two municipalities and the Société du Parc Jean-Drapeau, which runs the island park, said in a joint statement.
  It added that residents’ quality of life is a top priority and vowed “to find
  
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• Montreal housing market not dominated by foreign buyers: report - CTV News

  20-06-2018 20:04 via montreal.ctvnews.ca
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  Montreal housing market not dominated by foreign buyers: report
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  Despite fears of foreign buyers driving up prices in the Montreal housing market, a new report shows that only two per cent of those buying homes in the city are from elsewhere. The housing report, which was conducted by the Canadian Mortgage and ...
  
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• This Montreal Lobster Bar Is Offering $2 Oysters Every Wednesday - MTL Blog (blog)

  20-06-2018 19:58 via mtlblog.com
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  This Montreal Lobster Bar Is Offering $2 Oysters Every Wednesday
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  It's just about lunchtime, and I'm getting hungry! Montreal has a ton of restaurants, bars and great specials every day. Somebody once told me there is 1 restaurant for every 6 people in Montreal's total population. Now, I don't know how true this ...
  
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• Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin needs to score big at upcoming draft

  20-06-2018 19:55 via montrealgazette.com
  To use a baseball analogy, the Canadiens head into this weekend’s NHL entry draft needing a home run, a couple of doubles and a stolen base.
  General manager Marc Bergevin has committed to a policy of building through the draft, but after six years of construction, the Canadiens look like a fixer-upper.
  This year’s draft offers a rare opportunity to fill some of the holes in the Canadiens’ roster, either through savvy drafting or by using their many picks to acquire established
  
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• Jean Talon Market merchants against plan for public square

  20-06-2018 19:49 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jun 20: Some merchants at the Jean Talon market are not happy about new plans to build a public square. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports.
  
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• Verdun beach project delayed as officials test water quality, wait for fish to spawn

  20-06-2018 19:36 via cbc.ca
  Swimmers still can't use the public beach originally slated to open in 2017 as part of Montreal's 375th anniversary celebration because of water quality concerns.
  
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• Watch: Montreal's original métro cars take one last victory lap

  20-06-2018 19:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Farewell, MR-63, you served Montreal well.
  The last of the city’s original métro train cars are taking richly deserved victory laps this week. After Thursday’s rush hour, time will be up on their 52-year career.
  Maybe you never took the time to appreciate the MR-63, with its horizontal headlights and fragrant wooden brake pads, in all the rush hours before this week. That is not the relationship we enjoy with métro cars. We experience them one frantic commute at a time.
  
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• Revenue Quebec goes after drug dealer | Montreal Gazette - Montreal Gazette

  20-06-2018 19:21 via montrealgazette.com
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  The agency has taken steps to seize three cars, properties and have Bruno Varin declared owner of a building that is in his daughter's name.
  Montreal drug dealer likely to have numerous properties, vehicles seized due to unreported incomeCTV Newsall 2 news articles »
  
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• Montreal drug dealer who failed to report income will have property seized

  20-06-2018 19:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Revenue Quebec will seize possessions of Bruno Varin, a Montreal drug dealer who the agency found to have had $4 million in unreported income.
  In efforts to make back the money it is owed, the agency has begun taking steps to seize three cars and properties owned by Varin, it said in a statement issued Wednesday.
  It also said that it’s trying to have him declared owner of a building that is in his daughter’s name.
  Revenue Quebec collaborated with the proceeds of crime division of the
  
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• West Island man will be tried for manslaughter in 2019

  20-06-2018 19:14 via montrealgazette.com
  A jury trial date has been set for fall 2019 for a Kirkland resident who was charged with manslaughter last year after a 70-year-old man died following an altercation in a bar.
  During a hearing held at the Montreal courthouse on Tuesday, Superior Court Justice Pierre Labrie set aside more than two weeks, beginning on Sept. 3, 2019, for the trial of Glen Crossley, 48.
  Albert Arsenault, a 70 year old man who died in September 2016.
  Crossley was arrested in 2017 following a Montreal police investig
  
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• Watch: A World Cup without Italy at Montreal's Momesso

  20-06-2018 19:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Italians are hurting after their team failed to qualify for the World Cup.
  Among those feeling the pain is Paulo Momesso, owner of the famed Momesso’s cappuccino and submarine sandwich emporium in the heart of N.D.G.’s Little Italy.
  In World Cups gone by — including the 2006 event when the Italian squad took its fourth winning title — Momesso’s was packed, day and night, with jubilant fans knocking back cappuccinos, Sambucas and subs.
  “I remember having to ope
  
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• National Film Board funds 35 Indigenous-led projects; says more work to be done

  20-06-2018 19:10 via cbc.ca
  The National Film Board of Canada says it has made gains towards fostering Indigenous talent, but there's more work to be done.
  
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• How a Mafia-linked drug smuggler ended up behind bars after 18 years on the lam

  20-06-2018 19:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Last summer, Norman Rosenblum returned to Canada after having been a fugitive for 18 years. He had skipped out on a sentence he was serving for having brokered, along with members of the Hells Angels and the Montreal Mafia, one of the biggest cocaine deals ever investigated in this country.
  He knew he was a wanted man and that Canadian authorities had been advised he would be arriving in June last year. He expected to be placed in shackles the second he crossed the border, but no one resembling
  
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• 2026 World Cup Venues (Part 2): Olympic Stadium, Montreal - Waking The Red (blog)

  20-06-2018 18:44 via wakingthered.com
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  Canada isn't in the World Cup right now, but that won't stop us making it all about us. Now that we know Canada will be co-hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup alongside the U.S. and Mexico, we thought it would be a good idea to look at the state of our ...
  
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• Jennifer Aniston Spotted Filming A New Movie In Montreal - MTL Blog (blog)

  20-06-2018 18:43 via mtlblog.com
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  Jennifer Aniston Spotted Filming A New Movie In Montreal
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  Netflix's new movie, Murder Mystery, starring Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler has begun production in Montreal. If you were paying attention, Adam Sandler was shooting scenes for his newest Netflix movie yesterday around the Plateau. It had been said ...
  
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• When it comes to exercising, you need to banish the “I am too busy” excuse - @KTrotterFitness explains how… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-06-2018 18:08
  When it comes to exercising, you need to banish the “I am too busy” excuse - @KTrotterFitness explains how… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Montreal's traffic situation: We get the details from @RickLeckner youtu.be/7qv-th7j_Q0 https://t.co/sPy0Xu4svF

  20-06-2018 18:03
  
  Montreal's traffic situation: We get the details from @RickLeckner youtu.be/7qv-th7j_Q0 https://t.co/sPy0Xu4svF
  
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• Martin Patriquin: Weaponized public opinion and the damage done

  20-06-2018 17:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Public opinion has been used to justify any number of atrocities and overindulgences, from internment to environmental degradation to the scapegoating of religious minorities. Being on the side of a given majority — a demographic, jurisdiction or country — is a narcotic for too many politicians, in large part because it is amnesia-inducing. History’s cruelties mean little to anyone relying on the loudest voices for support.
  It is the reason why America is putting children in ca
  
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• Montreal Jazz Festival expands beyond downtown starting in 2019

  20-06-2018 17:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal International Jazz Festival is expanding beyond downtown starting next year.
  In addition to downtown venues and the outdoor stages in the Quartier des Spectacles, the city will erect an outdoor stage in a different borough each year.
  The move happens in time for the festival’s 40th edition.
  Which borough will be home to a stage in 2019 has not yet been announced.
  The city says the move is a way to make the festival more accessible to all Montrealers.
  The 2018 edition of the fe
  
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• Quebec mosque shooter’s sentencing hearings debate cumulative sentences

  20-06-2018 17:23 via globalnews.ca
  The Crown formally sought a 150-year jail sentence for Alexandre Bissonnette.
  
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• Quebec mosque shooter’s sentencing hearing to debate cumulative sentences

  20-06-2018 17:23 via globalnews.ca
  The Crown formally sought a 150-year jail sentence for Alexandre Bissonnette.
  
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• Defence argues 150 years in prison for Quebec mosque shooter would deprive him of hope

  20-06-2018 17:23 via globalnews.ca
  The Crown formally sought a 150-year jail sentence for Alexandre Bissonnette.
  
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