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• Romados re-opens after being closed down by the provincial government

  06-07-2018 23:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Popular Plateau Portuguese BBQ chicken restaurant Romados re-opened June 28 after being shut down for a month by the provincial government due to issues related to cleanliness and the temperature of its fridges.
  “We’re back to operating as normal,” said owner Manny Machado in a phone interview Friday.
  The city of Montreal’s food inspection department fined the restaurant three times last summer for infractions related to cleanliness and the temperature of its fridges. Mac
  
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• The force is going strong with Montreal Comiccon now in its 10th edition

  06-07-2018 23:47 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal Comiccon is in its 10th edition this year and the hype is real.
  
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• Death toll related to Quebec heat wave continues to rise

  06-07-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Jul 6: The scorching heat wave is being blamed for at least 50 deaths in Quebec. As Global’s Brayden Jagger Haines reports, the weather is finally cooling off but prevention measures remain in full swing.
  
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• Montreal Commicon kicks off at Palais des congrès

  06-07-2018 23:43 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Jul 6: With festival season taking over the city, Montreal’s long-awaited Comiccon is kicking off for the weekend. As Global’s Cora MacDonald reports, the pop culture fan convention is expected to draw a huge crowd of fans, cosplayers, and celebrities.
  
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• SQ searching for 7 fishermen missing in northern Quebec

  06-07-2018 23:32 via cbc.ca
  The Sûreté du Québec is searching the area in and around Lake Kachistasakaw near Radisson, Que., for a group of seven fishermen who were last seen Thursday morning.
  
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• Police find 7 fishermen reported missing in northern Quebec

  06-07-2018 23:32 via cbc.ca
  The Sûreté du Québec has located a group of seven fishermen who were reported missing after failing to return from a fishing trip in northern Quebec.
  
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• Montreal métro: Green Line shut down

  06-07-2018 23:05 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal métro is shut down on the Green Line between Lionel-Groulx and Honoré-Beaugrand due to a medical intervention.
  The Société de transport de Montréal says service should resume by 5:40 p.m.
  
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• Black actor defends her participation in controversial SLĀV

  06-07-2018 22:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Kattia Thony, one of the two black actors who were part of the cast of the controversial show SLĀV, has taken to social media to defend her decision to participate in the production which has since been canceled by the Montreal International Jazz Festival.
  In a message posted to Facebook on Wednesday, Thony wrote that not only did she have the right to take part in the project, but also a responsibility to do so.
  She wrote that the show included a scene fully devoted to Haiti, the
  
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• Parti Québécois upset that Quebecers allowed car vanity plates in English

  06-07-2018 22:45 via globalnews.ca
  Vanity car licence plates will be legal in Quebec within weeks but the Parti Québécois says drivers should be banned from inscribing statements or slogans on them in any language other than French.
  
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• Heat wave death toll reaches 54 in Quebec

  06-07-2018 22:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Despite the much-needed cooler weather, public health officials are still on high alert Friday as the week-long heat wave that contributed to the deaths of 54 Quebecers comes to an end.
  The new death toll, up from 33 the day before, was confirmed by a press attaché for Lucie Charlebois, the provincial minister for public health.
  A spokesperson for Santé Montréal confirmed that, as of Friday morning, 28 deaths in the city may have been related to the extreme heat. The others
  
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• Dunlevy: SLĀV director Robert Lepage just doesn't get it

  06-07-2018 22:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Poor Robert Lepage.
  The acclaimed Quebec director finally responded to the outcry leading to the cancellation of SLĀV, his “theatrical odyssey based on slave songs” in collaboration with singer Betty Bonifassi as part of the Montreal International Jazz Festival; and the resulting message is, to borrow a line from Monty Python’s The Holy Grail, “Help! Help! I’m being repressed!”
  It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
  In an elaborate statement releas
  
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• Montreal police find missing 11-year-old boy safe

  06-07-2018 22:17 via cbc.ca
  Montreal police have located a missing 11-year-old boy who left his home in Montreal North Friday morning. Police say he was found safe.
  
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• Gatineau goes dumpster diving to expose composting need

  06-07-2018 21:30 via cbc.ca
  The City of Gatineau went dumpster diving on Friday, hoping to show residents just how much compostable and recyclable material ends up in the city's landfill.
  
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• Alouettes QB Jeff Mathews draws inspiration from sister's courage

  06-07-2018 21:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Jeff Mathews doesn’t want the story portrayed as a tragedy, knowing it would upset his big sister Katie. But how can it be painted any other way?
  In May 2006, Katie Mathews fractured her neck and sustained injuries to her spinal cord in an automobile accident that left her paralyzed. She was a passenger in the vehicle. The driver swerved abruptly to avoid missing a highway exit, flipping the car, the roof collapsing on Katie. The driver sustained a broken her leg.
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• ANALYSIS: A gang member’s perspective on Canada’s gun violence

  06-07-2018 21:23 via globalnews.ca
  Gangland shootings are on the rise in Canada. This is Why.
  
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• Lac-Mégantic commemorates 5-year anniversary of tragedy

  06-07-2018 20:48 via cbc.ca
  Five years after the devastating train derailment, the community is coming together to heal.
  
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• Free in Montreal, July 7-8: From fireworks to circus acts

  06-07-2018 20:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch a free show at the jazz fest
  The Montreal International Jazz Festival wraps up on Saturday, but there are still plenty of free shows you can catch. Grammy Award-winning band The War on Drugs will be performing on the TD Stage on June 7 at 9:30 p.m. You can check out the full festival schedule here.
   
  Take a chance on the first of the summer’s fireworks shows
  Fireworks are expensive, but luckily, you only have to show up to enjoy this show. Starting June 7 and happening twice a w
  
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• What the Puck: Promises, promises — Canadiens' inaction speaks volumes

  06-07-2018 19:54 via montrealgazette.com
  The gap between what Geoff Molson says and what the Montreal Canadiens organization actually does just keeps widening.
  Words matter. If you are going to make promises, don’t renege on them. Habs fans feel betrayed today and with good reason. The Montreal Canadiens is not just another company. It is one of the most important brands in Quebec and the people of this province have a heavy emotional investment in their hockey team. This is our team.
  Molson heads a consortium that owns this Nati
  
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• Traffic nightmares forecast for Décarie Expressway in N.D.G.

  06-07-2018 19:54 via montrealgazette.com
  You know the traffic news is going to be bad when Transports Québec takes out half-page newspaper ads in Montreal dailies telling you it’s going to be bad.
  “MAJOR HINDRANCE” reads one headline in Thursday’s papers. “Expect delays” reads another. The warnings bookend an image of Montreal’s unofficial logo, a squat orange-and-white striped construction cone. On its website, the provincial transport ministry warns motorists to expect “seve
  
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• Editorial: Vanity licence plates are welcome, in any language

  06-07-2018 19:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Whatever else one can say about Quebec’s French Language Charter, it has never curbed personal free speech in languages other than French.
  Now that the province is finally introducing vanity licence plates — at $250 a pop, a great way to raise revenue for the government, on a voluntary basis — it makes perfect sense that the messages on them can be in English and other languages. These are personal messages, on individuals’ private vehicles. They will be subject to the us
  
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• Editorial: Open Door, open hearts

  06-07-2018 19:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Thank heavens for Notre Dame de La Salette Roman Catholic church on Parc Ave. When all too often “love thy neighbour” is taken merely as a philosophical aspiration, the church’s pastor and his parishioners are walking the talk, welcoming a drop-in centre for homeless people that itself was threatened with homelessness.
  The Open Door has been doing wonderful work for 30 years at its present location in St. Stephen’s Anglican Church at Dorchester Blvd. and Atwater Ave. But
  
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• Accurso asks for release while he appeals Laval corruption conviction

  06-07-2018 19:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Construction entrepreneur Antonio Accurso has filed a request to be released from a penitentiary while he appeals his conviction and the sentence he received on Thursday for his role in Laval’s municipal corruption.
  Accurso, 66, received a four-year prison term for taking part in the system of collusion created by former Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt through which contracts were awarded, between 1996 and 2010, to dozens of companies before they were put to tender. Accurso’s lawyer,
  
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• Traffic on Mercier Bridge improves after trucks banned, public transit fares waived

  06-07-2018 19:10 via globalnews.ca
  With a ban on big trucks and free public transit, it seems things have improved.
  
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• Canadiens need Price at his best or all bets are off | HI/O Bonus

  06-07-2018 19:10 via montrealgazette.com
  In this bonus episode, the panel discusses how the Habs’ future, at least in the short-term, all depends on Carey Price.
  Missed this week’s show? Watch it here.
  
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• Social Notes: end-of-season sizzle from Jewish General, Grands Ballets

  06-07-2018 19:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Is it my imagination, or did this social season fly by quicker than Ariana Grande’s engagement? Not done yet, though. Today we share still more magnificent mentionables. What a fun- and fund-raising ville we are.
  BEAUTIFUL BENEFIT EVE: The annual Canadian Red Cross fundraising event was its usual spring supreme, enthralling over 500 high-profile guests in May with a Dick Walsh-produced soirée at Alexandra Pier titled A Humanitarian Port of Call. The exc
  
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• Laval Rocket hires Alexandre Burrows as an assistant coach

  06-07-2018 18:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Alexandre Burrows has hung up his skates and has a new job now with the AHL’s Laval Rocket.
  The Rocket announced on Friday that Burrows has been hired as an assistant coach under new head coach Joël Bouchard. Burrows played 13 seasons in the NHL as a forward after never being drafted and posted 6-8-14 totals in 71 games last season with the Ottawa Senators. On June 26, the Senators bought out the final season of the 37-year-old’s two-year, US$5-million contract. In 913 career re
  
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• JFL exclusive: Trevor Noah on standup, Trump and fake news

  06-07-2018 18:56 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s hard to believe Trevor Noah has been in the anchor throne of the Emmy Award-winning Daily Show for less than three years. He handles the hosting role with such poise and aplomb that many might assume he’s been sitting there for over a decade.
  “Sometimes it feels like it’s been just one month,” Noah muses in a phone interview from New York.
  His mild protestation notwithstanding, it’s been no small task for Noah — who joined the show as a corresponden
  
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• Montreal police look for other potential victims of ambulance technician charged with sexual assault

  06-07-2018 18:50 via cbc.ca
  Sylvain Depairon, who worked as an ambulance technician, was arrested and charged with two counts of sexual assault.
  
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• Buchignani: Hamilton hopes for happy homecoming at British Grand Prix

  06-07-2018 18:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Lewis Hamilton says he wants Mercedes to be bulletproof from now on. We get it. Given the events of last weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, he must have felt like a passenger in Bonnie and Clyde’s ill-fated 1934 Ford sedan.
  It’s not just that his Mercedes broke down during the race, as did that of teammate Valtteri Bottas, marking the first Mercedes double retirement since 2016.
  It’s that the team’s strategy as the chaos unfolded was riddled with holes.
  In the end, at a
  
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• 50 people now dead due to sweltering Quebec heat wave

  06-07-2018 18:18 via globalnews.ca
  There are now 50 reported deaths that have been linked to the heat wave that blanketed Quebec over the last few days.
  
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• Group sees fivefold increase in reports of potential hate crimes in Quebec since 2015

  06-07-2018 18:08 via cbc.ca
  Over the last two years, a Montreal-based group that works to prevent radicalization leading to violence has seen a fivefold increase in reports of potential cases of hate crimes and radicalization.
  
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• Parti Québécois backs Robert Lepage over cancelled SLĀV at jazz fest

  06-07-2018 17:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Award-winning director Robert Lepage has broken his silence over a decision by the Montreal International Jazz Festival to shut down his controversial production SLĀV after just three performances, saying the move was a “direct blow to artistic freedom.”
  Hours after his statement was posted, the Parti Québécois threw its support behind Lepage, with leader Jean-François Lisée likening the cancellation to censorship and MNA Maka Kotto describing it as
  
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• 5 Montreal stories guaranteed to make you smile this week: July 6

  06-07-2018 17:49 via globalnews.ca
  There was a heartfelt reunion between a man and his family.
  
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• Heat wave death toll reaches 50 in Quebec

  06-07-2018 17:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Despite the much-needed cooler weather, public health officials are still on high alert Friday as the week-long heat wave that contributed to the deaths of 50 Quebecers comes to an end.
  The new death toll, up from 33 the day before, was confirmed by a press attaché for Lucie Charlebois, the provincial minister for public health.
  A spokesperson for Santé Montréal confirmed that as of Friday morning, 28 deaths in the city may have been related to the extreme heat.
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• At least 54 heat-related deaths in Quebec as hot spell comes to an end

  06-07-2018 17:43 via cbc.ca
  At least 54 people have died in the past six days, possible victims of a heat wave that consumed southern Quebec and saw temperatures in the mid to low 30s for nearly a week.
  
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• At least 44 heat-related deaths in Quebec as hot spell comes to an end

  06-07-2018 17:43 via cbc.ca
  Many of the deceased were over the age of 65 and had histories of physical or mental health problems, fitting the profile of those who are more at risk.
  
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• Ontario mother collecting love letters from around the world for her husband

  06-07-2018 17:42 via globalnews.ca
  An Ontario woman is asking digital friends from around the world to help her with a love project for her husband.
  
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• The Right Chemistry: D30 is a remarkable non-Newtonian fluid

  06-07-2018 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  It wasn’t hard to get the subjects’ permission for the experiment. That’s because they were dead. Scientists at the British company D30 (pronounced D-three-oh) wrapped the fingers of cadavers in their flagship product, a bright orange putty, and proceed to bang away with a hammer. The grisly experiment was designed to determine the force the bones in the finger could withstand without breaking. The intent was to have the dead help the living.
  Oil rig workers often suffer injuri
  
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• Montreal ace Félix Auger-Aliassime shuns grass for more time on clay

  06-07-2018 17:19 via montrealgazette.com
  After bowing out in the second round of qualifying at the French Open, Félix Auger-Aliassime sat down with his coaches and decided to make a short-term change with a long-term goal in mind.
  The 17-year-old from Montreal opted to extend his run on clay courts and skip the grass-court season. It’s a move that appears to be paying off.
  Auger-Aliassime won an ATP Challenger tournament in Lyon, France, after his appearance at Roland Garros and reached the final a week later in Blois, Fra
  
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• Montreal cops seek sex-assault victims after ambulance worker charged

  06-07-2018 16:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Police are urging victims of a sex-assault suspect who worked as an ambulance technician to step forward.
  Sylvain Depairon is alleged to have committed two sexual assaults between June and November of last year while transporting patients by ambulance.
  Depairon was charged Thursday by videoconference in the Montreal courthouse and remains in custody.
  Investigators with the Montreal police sex crimes unit and St-Jérôme police are asking other possible victims to call 911 or visit the
  
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• Watch: Beyond the Plate with chef John Winter Russell

  06-07-2018 16:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Host Heidi Small takes us into the world of some of Montreal’s top chefs, exploring what really motivates them. In the third episode, she goes on a forest foraging adventure with chef John Winter Russell of Candide restaurant.
  
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• Pop boy band New City reveals the story behind how their latest single came about. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=4xod5I… https://t.co/rFGeglMbpu

  06-07-2018 16:16
  
  Pop boy band New City reveals the story behind how their latest single came about. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=4xod5I… https://t.co/rFGeglMbpu
  
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• Doctor Benjamin has birthed thousands of babies, reveals her favorite moment of delivery. Watch:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-07-2018 15:58
  Doctor Benjamin has birthed thousands of babies, reveals her favorite moment of delivery. Watch:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Photographer searching for couple captured in Quebec City proposal photo

  06-07-2018 15:42 via globalnews.ca
  A photographer is searching for a couple whose Quebec City proposal he captured on camera so he can give them the photos.
  
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• Photographer searching for couple captured in Quebec City proposal

  06-07-2018 15:42 via globalnews.ca
  A photographer is searching for a couple whose Quebec City proposal he captured on camera.
  
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• Montreal goes crazy for Comiccon

  06-07-2018 15:37 via globalnews.ca
  Calling all sci-fi geeks and comic book fans! Montreal Comiccon is coming this weekend, and Global’s Andrea Howick and Kim Sullivan get the lowdown from Supernatural’s Crowly.
  
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• Meet Beaconsfield’s canine crime-fighters

  06-07-2018 15:37 via globalnews.ca
  Jay Walker joins Global’s Kim Sullivan to talk about a fun-filled weekend, including Comiccon, The Mont Tremblant Blues Festival and even a visit with Beaconsfield’s K-9 unit.
  
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• Montreal unemployment rate drops to lowest level since December

  06-07-2018 15:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Four the fourth consecutive month, Montreal had a lower unemployment rate than Toronto in June.
  The unemployment rate in the Montreal region dropped 0.4 percentage points from 6.2 per cent in May to 5.8 per cent in June, Statistics Canada said on Friday.
  This is the lowest unemployment rate reported in the region since December, and it’s the fourth time in seven months that the city’s unemployment rate has been below six per cent.
  Before December 2017, the unemployment rate
  
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• Watch: Seniors invade the Beachclub, groove to Joël Denis's music

  06-07-2018 15:32 via montrealgazette.com
  For the third year in a row, seniors from Chartwell retirement residences got to party at Pointe-Calumet’s Beachclub.
  Around 500 seniors over the age of 70, from Quebec and Ontario, were in attendance.
  On hand to provide entertainment was Quebec singer Joël Denis.
  Denis previewed some of the songs from his upcoming show, Formidable.
  
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• Robert Lepage says decision to cancel SLAV show a blow to artistic freedom

  06-07-2018 15:32 via globalnews.ca
  Lepage says theatre is based on the principle of someone playing someone else or pretending to be someone else and when that's no longer permitted, the very essence of theatre is rendered meaningless.
  
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