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• Longueuil police get extra assistance from little helpers

  04-07-2018 23:47 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jul 4: Children at a Longueuil day camp got the chance to see what it takes to be a police officer. As Global’s Cora MacDonald reports, police patrolled around Michel Chartrand Park with a dozen little helpers on hand to assist them in their mission.
  
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• Refugee claimant with cancer reunited with family

  04-07-2018 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jul 4: When a refugee claimant found out he had Stage 4 colorectal cancer after crossing the border, his wife and children were initially denied entry to Canada. As Global’s Anne Leclair reports, the family was recently reunited after spending eight months apart.
  
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• 650 investigations underway following illegal crane operator strike

  04-07-2018 23:32 via montrealgazette.com
  The number of investigations related to the illegal Quebec crane operators strike in June is continuing to rise drastically.
  The total number of files the Commission de la construction du Québec has launched against crane operators in relation to the walkout has increased from 150 to 650, with more on the horizon as investigations continue, CCQ spokesperson Mélanie Malenfant said Wednesday.
  She specified that the files are of a criminal nature, considering the illegality of the str
  
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• Who is most at risk of death during a heat wave like Eastern Canada’s?

  04-07-2018 23:28 via globalnews.ca
  The heatwave battering Eastern and Central Canada this week has claimed the lives of as many as 17 people, all of whom officials say were either seniors or adults suffering from chronic illness. 
  
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• Heat wave in Montreal has claimed 12 lives, authorities say

  04-07-2018 23:18 via montrealgazette.com
  The number of deaths in the Montreal area linked to the ongoing heat wave climbed to 12 as of Wednesday afternoon.
  Urgences-santé is pleading with the public to call 911 only in case of a genuine emergency, and Mayor Valérie Plante called on Montrealers to look out for neighbours vulnerable to the effects of the record-breaking temperatures.
  Santé Montreal confirmed the Montreal death toll Wednesday afternoon, doubling the total of six from just a day before.
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• Quebec company that helped build new World Trade Centre hurt by Trump's steel tariffs

  04-07-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
  A Canadian steel company that helped build the new World Trade Centre is feeling betrayed by U.S. tariffs on steel - and by the justification offered for those measures.
  
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• Conservative leader rejected calls to kick Maxime Bernier from caucus

  04-07-2018 22:51 via cbc.ca
  A Conservative MP says he wanted Andrew Scheer to kick the openly defiant Maxime Bernier out of the federal caucus last month, but the Tory leader refused, insisting that his outspoken former leadership rival has an important role to play within the party.
  
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• Modified sentence allows sex abuser to be interviewed by Theo Fleury

  04-07-2018 22:46 via montrealgazette.com
  The Parole Board of Canada has modified one of the conditions imposed on former junior hockey coach Graham James to allow the players he sexually abused to communicate with him while he continues to serve his sentence in Montreal.
  The parole board recently made the decision while reviewing the conditions it set when James, 64, was released on full parole in September 2016 following a hearing at a federal penitentiary in Laval.
  His first sentence, a 42-month prison term, began in 1997 and expired
  
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• More than 70 animals dead in Quebec SPCA fire

  04-07-2018 22:39 via cbc.ca
  The SPCA of Western Quebec says over 70 animals died when its shelter in the Aylmer sector of Gatineau was destroyed by fire Monday night.
  
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• Beaconsfield plans to go ahead with leaf blower ban despite resident outcry

  04-07-2018 22:29 via globalnews.ca
  Beaconsfield officials say they plan to go ahead with their summertime leaf blowers ban.
  
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• City urged to protect 'key piece' of Irish history

  04-07-2018 22:25 via montrealgazette.com
  A prominent Irish community leader says the HEC Montréal business school is not doing enough to preserve a key piece of local history as it plans a new downtown pavilion on the former site of a 19th-century home for the destitute.
  “From what I understand, they want to build on the entire site and put a little sign there saying this is the former location of St. Bridget’s Refuge,” Fergus Keyes said Wednesday.
  “Well, I don’t think that’s enough
  
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• Montreal police issue Canada-wide arrest warrant for alleged pimp

  04-07-2018 21:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police have issued a Canada-wide arrest warrant for an 18-year-old man who has been charged with pimping.
  Police say David Maignan, who is also known as Lingo, could be in Montreal or western Canada. They also suspect Maignan might have other victims.
  Maignan, who was charged with procurement of a person under the age of 18, advertising sexual services and receiving a material benefit derived from sexual services, would allegedly visit apartments put up for rent.
  He is bilingual, h
  
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• Airbus says first results of C Series partnership with Bombardier will be proven at airshow

  04-07-2018 21:27 via cbc.ca
  The CEO of Airbus says it will reveal the first results of its majority stake in Bombardier Inc.'s C Series program at an upcoming international airshow near London.
  
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• Airbus says Bombardier C Series orders and name change is on the horizon

  04-07-2018 21:27 via cbc.ca
  Tangible results of Airbus' majority stake in Bombardier Inc.'s C Series program will soon be revealed with the announcement of new orders and a name change, the aerospace giant's CEO said Wednesday.
  
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• Hot jobs, cool job: What happens when you can't escape the weather?

  04-07-2018 21:22 via montrealgazette.com
  During a heat wave that’s breaking records for July temperatures, the Montreal Gazette talked with some Montrealers whose jobs give them no relief — and one that still requires a jacket and toque.
  Construction
  Jocelyn Boucher bores into concrete at his work site in Ahuntsic on Wednesday, July 4, 2018.
  Mike Lasorsa is installing ceramic walls and floors on the sixth floor of an apartment building. It’s so hot at work he changes his shirt three times a day.
  People who live in the
  
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• Watch the @mtlccirque segment here: youtube.com/watch?v=R7PS2E… twitter.com/mtlccirque/sta…

  04-07-2018 21:06
  Watch the @mtlccirque segment here: youtube.com/watch?v=R7PS2E… twitter.com/mtlccirque/sta…
  
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• Quebec putting up $15 million to study Montreal transit priorities

  04-07-2018 20:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Transport Minister André Fortin announced Wednesday the government will invest nearly $15 million to study nine public transit projects that Montreal and regional mayors identified as the top priorities for the greater Montreal region.
  Among the projects being studied are:The proposal by Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante’s Projet Montréal party to create a new métro Pink Line running from the south-west to the north-east through the city
  Extending the Yellow
  
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• Montreal turns into hot spot for Chinese real estate shoppers: Juwai report

  04-07-2018 20:45 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal was the hot Canadian real estate market for Chinese nationals last year as interest slipped in Toronto and Vancouver following the introduction of foreign buyers taxes, says a report from a website for buyers of overseas properties.
  
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• Quebec investing up to $15M to study public transit projects, including Montreal's Pink line

  04-07-2018 20:38 via cbc.ca
  The Pink line project, a proposed, 29-kilometre Metro line from Montreal North to Lachine, was a key part of Valérie Plante's mayoral campaign.
  
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• Son of grand chief of the Cree Nation in Quebec killed in motorcross accident

  04-07-2018 20:23 via cbc.ca
  Nathaniel James Bosum, the 28-year-old son of Abel Bosum, the grand chief of the Cree Nation in Quebec, was killed over the long weekend while competing in a motocross event, a sport he first got involved in at the age of five.
  
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• Pat Hickey: It's time for the Canadiens to re-sign Max Pacioretty

  04-07-2018 20:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Why would the Canadiens think about trading a productive player in the prime of his career?
  At a time when free agents avoid Montreal as if it were ground zero for the plague — hello, John Tavares and bonjour, Paul Stastny — why would the Canadiens think about trading a player who wants to play here, one who has embraced the city and the pressure that accompanies playing hockey here?
  Why would the Canadiens think about trading a player who has invested his time and money in making th
  
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• Opinion: Teachers can play key role against hatred, radicalization

  04-07-2018 20:13 via montrealgazette.com
  “Why do Canadians hate Muslims?”
  Rima is a nine-year-old refugee from Iraq. She had overheard her parents talking about a young Muslim woman who was on public transit when a stranger asked, “Why are you wearing a hijab?” and then spat on her and told her to “go home.”
  Joseph then raises his hand and asks, “Why would that guy in Quebec City kill people in a mosque?”
  You are their Grade 4 teacher and you thought you would open up a discussion about f
  
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• Lachine Canal bike path intersection raising concerns

  04-07-2018 19:55 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jul 4: A four-way intersection on the Lachine Canal bike path near the Atwater Market is raising concerns among cyclists, pedestrians and residents. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Deborah Cox, Todrick Hall, Peaches to perform at Montréal Pride 2018

  04-07-2018 19:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Montréal Pride is bringing free outdoor shows to two stages next month in celebration of LGBTQ+ people and communities around the world.
  Performers include Deborah Cox, Todrick Hall, Calum Scott, Mia Martina, Samantha Fox, Peaches, Bianca Del Rio, Big Freedia, Ada Vox and Princess Nokia.
  The performances will take place at stages at the Parc des Faubourgs by the Jacques Cartier Bridge.
  Local performers include Milk & Bone, Laurence Nerbonne, Sylvie Desgroseill
  
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• Cyclists, residents seek better signage at Lachine Canal bike path intersection

  04-07-2018 19:43 via globalnews.ca
  A dangerous intersection is raising eyebrows along the Lachine Canal.
  
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• Scarlett Johansson faces new backlash over upcoming trans role

  04-07-2018 19:25 via cbc.ca
  Scarlett Johansson is facing backlash for her acting choices once again, but has defended her decision to portray a transgender man in an upcoming movie.
  
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• Martin Patriquin: More measures needed to deter traffic on Mount Royal

  04-07-2018 18:58 via montrealgazette.com
  A visit to the park atop Mount Royal these days provides the usual delights. Families picnic, couples frolic, school buses disgorge eager, clueless elementary school students onto the trails. Cyclists sport a wee bit too much Spandex.
  All is normal save for one thing. Hardly a month after the Plante administration made the allegedly radical decision to ban through traffic over the mountain, a decidedly un-radical thing has happened: Mount Royal Park sounds like a park.
  No longer does the white n
  
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• Upcoming Turcot closures guaranteed to be ‘a major hindrance’

  04-07-2018 18:10 via globalnews.ca
  More closures are coming to the area around the Turcot Interchange.
  
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• St-Hubert restaurants to eliminate plastic straws in August

  04-07-2018 18:01 via montrealgazette.com
  The St-Hubert restaurant chain has joined a growing movement to eliminate the use of plastic drinking straws.
  The iconic Quebec restaurant chain made the announcement Wednesday, noting that other restaurant brands that belong to the RECIPE Unlimited Corporation (formerly Cara Operations) would adopt the same policy. Those restaurants include Harvey’s, The Keg, Swiss Chalet and East Side Mario’s.
  Single use plastic drinking draws and the inability of many centres to recycle
  
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• Beyond the Plate with Candide's fearless forager John Winter Russell

  04-07-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the third instalment in the monthly series Beyond the Plate, looking at the motivations and passions of local chefs. This week: John Winter Russell of Candide.
  I am drawn to metaphors, specifically the juicy ones filled with valuable life lessons.
  Likening chef John Winter Russell’s life — toiling in hot and tempestuous kitchens — to Voltaire’s Candide might help explain Russell’s choice of name for his restaurant, Candide (551 St-Martin St. in Lit
  
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• Montreal heat wave has claimed 11 lives, authorities say

  04-07-2018 17:52 via montrealgazette.com
  The number of deaths attributable to Montreal’s ongoing heatwave climbed to 11 as of Wednesday morning, as Urgences-Santé pleaded with the public only to call 911 in case of a genuine emergency and Mayor Valerie Plante called upon Montrealers to look out for neighbours vulnerable to the effects of the record-breaking temperatures.
  Santé Montreal confirmed the death toll Wednesday morning, a total that stood at six just a day before.
  Dr. Mylène Drouin, head of the regio
  
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• All SLĀV performances cancelled by Montreal Jazz Fest following controversy

  04-07-2018 17:45 via globalnews.ca
  All performances of controversial show 'SLĀV: a theatrical odyssey based on slave songs' have been cancelled following multiple protests.
  
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• Montreal International Jazz Festival cancels all remaining SLĀV shows

  04-07-2018 17:38 via montrealgazette.com
  After more than a week of protest and controversy, the Montreal International Jazz Festival has cancelled the remaining performances of SLĀV, “a theatrical odyssey based on slave songs,” by director Robert Lepage, his company Ex Machina and singer Betty Bonifassi.
  The show has been the subject of complaints of cultural appropriation and cultural insensitivity.
  “Since the beginning of SLĀV performances, the festival team has been shaken and strongly affected by all the
  
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• Jazz Fest cancels SLĀV after widespread criticism and protests

  04-07-2018 17:33 via cbc.ca
  Critics have accused the show, which features African-American slave songs, of cultural appropriation.
  
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• Jazz Fest cancels, apologizes to those 'hurt' by SLĀV after widespread criticism

  04-07-2018 17:33 via cbc.ca
  Show's remaining performances cancelled in response to critics who have accused it of cultural appropriation.
  
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• Refreshing summer salads from @cookingwithv https://t.co/kavIQCzVHK

  04-07-2018 17:26
  
  Refreshing summer salads from @cookingwithv https://t.co/kavIQCzVHK
  
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• Happy Birthday, USA! We discuss why we're so concerned about you with Graham Dodds from @Concordia https://t.co/YB9K84LFc2

  04-07-2018 17:11
  
  Happy Birthday, USA! We discuss why we're so concerned about you with Graham Dodds from @Concordia https://t.co/YB9K84LFc2
  
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• 12 dead in Montreal area as heat continues to envelope Eastern, Central Canada

  04-07-2018 17:03 via globalnews.ca
  Urgences-Santé says it has received 1,200 calls per day in Montreal and nearby Laval over the past four days, which is 30 per cent more than on usual busy days.
  
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• 11 dead in Montreal area as heat continues to envelope Eastern, Central Canada

  04-07-2018 17:03 via globalnews.ca
  Urgences-Santé says it has received 1,200 calls per day in Montreal and nearby Laval over the past four days, which is 30 per cent more than on usual busy days.
  
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• How the team at BT is beating the heat: Refreshing spray mists! https://t.co/jwTZR1lWAc

  04-07-2018 16:45
  
  How the team at BT is beating the heat: Refreshing spray mists! https://t.co/jwTZR1lWAc
  
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• Pointe-Claire resident hoping to save Pioneer bar

  04-07-2018 16:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Paul Parfett has lived and worked around the corner from the Pioneer bar in the Pointe-Claire Village for some three decades.
  His one-man auto service shop, a converted old horse stable on Ste-Anne Ave., is a stone’s throw from the Pioneer.
  Parfett is opposed to a proposed project that will see the Pioneer demolished to make way for condos on Lakeshore Rd.
  He started a petition to save the iconic Pioneer, and is part of a group of concerned citizens who fear the condo project, if built, wi
  
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• All we have is now

  04-07-2018 15:32 via globalnews.ca
  Nomad President Jason Rodi joins Global’s Andrea Howick and Kim Sullivan to talk about a new interactive live movie experience at NOMAD Nation.
  
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• Looking for a place to keep cool during the heat wave?

  04-07-2018 15:24 via globalnews.ca
  Most public facilities and sports complexes are air-conditioned, providing a great place to bring the family and have some fun while you keep cool.
  
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• Summer activities to keep your kids occupied

  04-07-2018 15:16 via globalnews.ca
  Join parenting expert Erica Diamond and Global’s Andrea Howick as they discuss ways to keep your kids busy – and off their screens – all summer.
  
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• Update: Pink Line included in Quebec's $15M Montreal transit study: report

  04-07-2018 15:14 via montrealgazette.com
  The Couillard government has earmarked close to $15 million to study the expansion of the Montreal area’s transit network, Radio-Canada reported Wednesday, including Mayor Valérie Plante’s proposed “Pink Line” — a métro extension that would run in a southwest to northeast route across the existing subway system.
  The funds — $14.7 million — will also be spent on examining the possible expansion of the métro’s Yellow (Montreal-Lo
  
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• #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/ub5eKN5lPw

  04-07-2018 14:38
  
  #BTMTL #needtoknow VIDEO: Your news, weather, traffic update at 8:30 https://t.co/ub5eKN5lPw
  
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