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• Local breweries dodge provincial sales limits to launch ‘Gerard Comeau’ beer, with hopes of going national

  12-07-2018 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  Ottawa's Flora Hall Brewing and Gatineau's Brasserie du Bas-Canada brewed the new beer in two locations so they could sell it in both Ontario and Quebec.
  
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• South Shore communities issue watering ban

  12-07-2018 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Jul 12: A few communities on Montreal’s South Shore have decided to ban the use of water outdoors. As Global’s Brayden Jagger Haines reports, the cities say the move is necessary — but not all residents are on board.
  
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• Poll: Does excluding cars from an access road to W.I. REM station make sense?

  12-07-2018 23:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Some Montrealers living in the West Island have been fuming ever since they learned that Mayor Valérie Plante’s administration plans to exclude cars from using the access road connecting Pierrefonds and Kirkland to the new light rail system (REM).
  Many West Island residents use their vehicles, with public transit in their particular area not being great.
  Forcing residents to use transit to get to the REM station would probably increase their commute time substantially
  
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• Montrealers weigh in on bringing back the Expos

  12-07-2018 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Jul 12: A few communities on Montreal’s South Shore have decided to ban the use of water outdoors. As Global’s Brayden Jagger Haines reports, the cities say the move is necessary — but not all residents are on board.
  
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• Laval launches electric assist bike program

  12-07-2018 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Jul 12: A new pilot project in Laval encourages residents to jump on a bike instead of using a car to get around the city. As Global’s Phil Carpenter reports, while the bike-sharing system is a lot like BIXI, there is one major difference.
  
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• Laval gets new made-in-Quebec electric bike-sharing service

  12-07-2018 23:27 via cbc.ca
  Users over the age of 18 can register for a magnetic key which they'll use to unlock the bike, get the mobile app or get a temporary unlock code on site.
  
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• Beloeil man's parole eligibility set at 12 years in girlfriend's death

  12-07-2018 23:10 via montrealgazette.com
  A man who killed his pregnant girlfriend in 2015 was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 12 years on Thursday at the Ste-Hyacinthe courthouse.
  Alexandre Gendron was convicted of second-degree murder for strangling his girlfriend, Cheryl Bau-Tremblay, in early August 2015. She was four months pregnant at the time.
  Court documents revealed that Gendron was a recovering alcoholic who relapsed in July 2015. He was apparently drinking beer constantly.
  During his trial, the j
  
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• Suspect in death of Cédrika Provencher target of elaborate, years-long investigation, documents show

  12-07-2018 22:59 via cbc.ca
  Police used phone taps, undercover agents and a fake contest to try to nail Jonathan Bettez, the man they suspect is connected to the 2007 disappearance of nine-year-old Cédrika Provencher, newly released court documents show.
  
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• Revenue Quebec wants Montreal World Film Festival to pay up or shut down

  12-07-2018 22:28 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal World Film Festival is in deep trouble with Quebec’s tax man.
  An injunction filed by Revenue Quebec on June 27 asked the Quebec Superior Court to shut down the festival due to unpaid taxes.
  Court documents revealed that as of May 23, 2018, the festival owes $499,000 in unpaid taxes to Revenue Quebec.
  The injunction may prevent the festival from staging its 42nd edition, currently scheduled to take place from Aug. 23 to Sept. 3, 2018.
  The festival’s debt has been pil
  
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• Laval rolls out electric bike-sharing program

  12-07-2018 22:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal can keep its Bixis.
  Laval has a brand-new bike-sharing program, and those bikes have electric pedal assist.
  The city unveiled a pilot project on Thursday to provide 40 electric bicycles, stationed at the Montmorency, Cartier and De La Concorde métro stations, as well as the Carrefour Laval bus terminal.
  “This is a great way for our loyal users to enjoy the summer weather, be active and enjoy a bike ride,” said David De Cotis, the president of the Sociét&ea
  
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• •Big contest news for BT Montreal fans! You could WIN* a hair makeover and shopping spree worth $2,000 brought to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-07-2018 22:18
  •Big contest news for BT Montreal fans! You could WIN* a hair makeover and shopping spree worth $2,000brought to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Watch: This Montreal family is sailing alone to the Caribbean

  12-07-2018 22:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Moving your young family out of its home, buying a sailboat and embarking on a year-long solo excursion to the Caribbean is the kind of thing lots of people talk about but few actually do.
  Carole Plouffe and her husband, Benoit Plamondon, are the rare members of that latter category.
  They’re currently living on a 35-foot-long sailboat in Montreal’s La Ronde marina with their two youngest kids, 12-year-old Ludvik and eight-year-old Kilian, before setting off on their big adventur
  
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• Cerebral Alouette Henoc Muamba sees parallels between football and life

  12-07-2018 22:05 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — Henoc Muamba has emerged as one of the CFL’s top defensive players, but he didn’t always enjoy the physical nature of football.
  In fact early on, the Montreal Alouettes’ star linebacker went to great lengths to avoid contact. Muamba’s first love was basketball and when he took up football in Grade 10 in Mississauga, Ont., as a running back he actively steered clear of getting hit to save himself for the hardwood.
  “I hated the contact ironically enoug
  
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• Restaurant reviews: Add Ssense and Colette cafés to your shopping list

  12-07-2018 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  From the magnificent Harrods Food Hall in London to the impossibly chic Freds at Barneys in New York, department store dining has always been a treat. Montrealers have long enjoyed such noshing. Eaton’s Ninth Floor Restaurant, that still-shuttered art deco palace, is the epitome of the genre, and the classic Woolworth’s lunch counter a distant but fun memory for those of us who watched Laverne & Shirley and bought ice cream at Perrette (ask your parents). Despite the obvious demi
  
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• Montreal real estate: Griffintown condo tower to get a 21-storey mural

  12-07-2018 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A new condo project under construction in Griffintown won’t be just be another boring tower. It will be a large-scale work of art, with the building itself as the canvas.
  Val-David artist René Derouin has been commissioned to transform the façade of the MaryRobert into a 62-metre-high mural imprinted on the glass of the condominiums’ balconies, creating what will be Quebec’s largest public art project in a real-estate development project.
  “I am very lucky to
  
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• Bookworms give way to bedbugs as Montreal’s largest library deals with outbreak

  12-07-2018 21:22 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal's Grande Bibliotheque has been dealing with a bedbug invasion for the past few weeks, but the library's executive director says she is confident it has a handle on the pest problem.
  
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• Quebec blocks asylum seekers from public daycare network, alarming advocates

  12-07-2018 20:44 via cbc.ca
  Asylum seekers are no longer eligible to put their children in subsidized daycare in Quebec, making it difficult for single parents to get off welfare and into the workforce while waiting for their refugee claim to be heard.
  
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• Parc Safari welcomes 4 cheetah cubs (and yes, there’s video)

  12-07-2018 20:33 via globalnews.ca
  Parc Safari has welcomed four new furry members to its family.
  
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• STM's new plan for Metro buskers will restrict 'freedom of expression,' performer says

  12-07-2018 20:03 via cbc.ca
  Musicians in Montreal’s Metro system are concerned the STM will impose a new and more restrictive system for booking spots.
  
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• STM's new plan for Metro buskers could restrict 'freedom of expression,' performer says

  12-07-2018 20:03 via cbc.ca
  Musicians in Montreal’s Metro system are concerned the STM will impose a new and more restrictive system for booking spots.
  
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• New English language TV newscast to launch in Montreal this fall

  12-07-2018 19:41 via montrealgazette.com
  A new nightly news program in English is coming to Montreal this September.
  Rogers Media announced it will launch CityNews Montreal, one of six local programs in cities across the country, on Sept. 3.
  CityNews Montreal will feature two one-hour-long TV broadcasts every night of the week: CityNews at Six and CityNews Tonight at 11.
  CityNews Montreal announced that four journalists had joined their team: Akil Alleyne, Andrew Brennan, Emily Campbell and Giordano Cescutti will work as vide
  
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• Wedding bells in Quebec: Cultural imperatives trump common-law norm

  12-07-2018 19:37 via montrealgazette.com
  When Eluza Maria Gomes came from Brazil to Quebec she adapted quickly to her new society. She learned to speak fluent French, studied to become a special-education teacher, and, because she was dating a French-Canadian dairy farmer, the former literature professor found herself helping to care for 60 cows that reside on a farm 90 minutes outside of Montreal.
  But there was one cultural norm distinct to Quebec she was not prepared to adopt: common-law union.
  “In Brazil, we get married,&rdquo
  
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• Brownstein: Neuroses rule at Just for Laugh's Ethnic Show

  12-07-2018 19:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Neurotics pretty much always rock in comedy, regardless of the context of the show. Such was the case once again as the 36th Just for Laughs fest kicked off with its ever-popular Ethnic Show series Wednesday night at Club Soda.
  Show closer Orny Adams, whose Jewish roots are incidental to his act, was worth the price of admission alone as the veteran New York City standup unravelled hysterically, to the delight of the crowd.
  Adams claimed that every bad decision he had made in his life was the re
  
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• Sexual assault charges dropped against Montreal teenagers

  12-07-2018 19:22 via cbc.ca
  Two teenagers accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl with two others at house party in Montreal North have had those charges withdrawn.
  
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• Sexual assault charges dropped against 4 Montreal teenagers

  12-07-2018 19:22 via cbc.ca
  Two teenagers accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl with two others at house party in Montreal North have had those charges withdrawn.
  
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• 2 Montreal teenagers plead guilty to child porn, sexual assault charges dropped

  12-07-2018 19:22 via cbc.ca
  A 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy, among four youths accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl at house party in Montreal North last spring, have pleaded guilty to a single charge of producing child pornography.
  
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• Pierrefonds Boulevard construction has residents feeling trapped

  12-07-2018 19:13 via globalnews.ca
  Construction on Pierrefonds Boulevard will go on until November.
  
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• Baby cheetahs: Four new furry faces at Parc Safari

  12-07-2018 19:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s cheetah population continues to grow following the birth of four cheetah cubs at Parc Safari in Hemmingford on May 3.
  The new additions, females Imani and Ilanga and males Bemba and Malik, joined the 13 felines already housed in the park’s Cheetah Research and Reproduction Centre, and will be on public display for the first time on Saturday, July 21. They were named in honour of the animal’s African heritage.
  The Quebec zoo took in eight animals from South Africa in 20
  
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• Montreal VR studio teams up with NASA, Russia to send you into space

  12-07-2018 19:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Felix & Paul Studios, the happening Montreal-based virtual-reality producer, premieres the second episode of Space Explorers on Thursday.
  “Space Explorers is probably (Felix & Paul’s) most ambitious endeavour in terms of the complexity of the production and the scope of the production,” said Félix Lajeunesse, the studio’s co-founder and creative director as well as one of the directors of Space Explorers. The show is also directed by the studio’s othe
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: Mayor out to lunch with REM plan for West Island

  12-07-2018 18:58 via montrealgazette.com
  West Islanders are reeling after learning the administration of Mayor Valérie Plante plans to exclude cars from the access road connecting Pierrefonds and Kirkland to the new light rail system (REM).
  The decision is entirely out of touch with the reality of living on the West Island, where transit is good but not great — and where residents rely heavily on their vehicles.
  As someone born and raised in the West Island, I have longed for a quicker way to get downtown. There are some g
  
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• Tiny balloon catheter stops bleeding, can help save lives of trauma patients

  12-07-2018 18:42 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — By the time Gaven Mayo got to a Montreal hospital after a bullet from a high-powered rifle ripped through his thigh, he had lost a massive amount of blood and by his own account was hovering between life and death.
  But the 27-year-old from the Kahnawake First Nation attributes the fact that he didn’t die to a simple device that can immediately arrest severe bleeding, giving surgeons time to repair the damage from traumatic injuries and saving lives that otherwise might have
  
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• Half of pediatricians say their young patients have used cannabis: survey

  12-07-2018 18:35 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — About half of pediatric doctors surveyed about cannabis say they’ve encountered a young patient who had used marijuana for a medical reason.
  The questionnaire for the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program found 419 of 835 respondents had a patient who had used either authorized or unauthorized cannabis for some sort of medical relief.
  The one-time study did not detail how many cases involved unauthorized use, the nature of the condition being treated nor the ages of the
  
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• Former construction boss Tony Accurso granted bail pending appeal

  12-07-2018 18:19 via cbc.ca
  On Thurday, a judge ruled Tony Accurso will be allowed out of jail until his appeal can be heard. He is bound by several conditions, including not leaving the province.
  
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• Tony Accurso granted bail while he appeals fraud conviction, sentence

  12-07-2018 18:16 via globalnews.ca
  He isa required to surrender his passport, remain in Quebec and is banned from possessing weapons.
  
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• 18 crazy films at 22nd Fantasia festival, from Nicolas Cage to kung fu

  12-07-2018 18:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Be afraid. Be very afraid. But also be enthralled, absorbed and thoroughly entertained by the 22nd Fantasia International Film Festival, which brings 125 features and 220 shorts to the screens of Concordia University, from Thursday, July 12 to Thursday, Aug. 2.
  To help you wade through the barrage of horror films, thrillers, action flicks, skewed comedies and off-the-wall Asian fare, the Montreal Gazette asked Fantasia programmers to reveal their top picks from this year’s crop.
  For t
  
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• Dramatic birth on front lawn brings neighbours together

  12-07-2018 18:00 via cbc.ca
  A premature baby's dramatic entrance into the world on the front lawn of his parents' home in Gatineau, Que., helped bring a neighbourhood together, residents say.
  
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• Canadiens extend training-camp invitation to defenceman Simon Després

  12-07-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Canadiens announced Thursday that they have invited defenceman Simon Després to take part in their training camp on a professional tryout.
  The 26-year-old native of Laval spent the 2017-18 season in the Kontinental Hockey League with Bratislava Slovan, where he had four goals, seven assists, a minus-13 rating and 84 penalty minutes in 44 games.
  A native of Laval, Després was Pittsburgh’s first-round pick (No. 30 overall) in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.
  In 193 career
  
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• Checking In: Two Maine resorts offer the best of two worlds

  12-07-2018 17:59 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s summer in Goose Rocks Beach, Maine, and a sojourn is proposed in glorious, pastoral lodging. Designer decor, family ambience, a chance to reconnect with nature — I’m in.
  But here’s the hard part. Two outstanding establishments, two kilometres apart, fit the description. Their roots are the same, but they’re totally different.
  Hidden Pond is a luxurious resort village of private cottages with gourmet dining at Earth, restorative treatments at the Tree Spa and tw
  
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• Return of @Montreal_Expos takes next step with fan survey - We speak to @wjegher. Watch the interview… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-07-2018 17:45
  Return of @Montreal_Expos takes next step with fan survey - We speak to @wjegher. Watch the interview… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ian McGillis: Geneviève Castrée's A Bubble is a mother's lasting gift

  12-07-2018 17:31 via montrealgazette.com
  In 2015, Quebec-born writer, comics artist and musician Geneviève Castrée went to see a doctor. It was thought to be a standard postpartum checkup, not long after she had given birth to her first child. Instead, Castrée got something completely unexpected: a diagnosis of fourth-stage inoperable pancreatic cancer.She and husband Phil Elverum initiated crowdfunding to help with her care, but within a year the cancer claimed her. In the months leading up to her death, faced wit
  
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• Construction magnate Antonio Accurso will be freed pending collusion appeals

  12-07-2018 17:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Jailed construction magnate Antonio Accurso has been granted his release while appealing his recent conviction and four-year prison sentence.
  Quebec Court of Appeal Judge Manon Savard rendered her nine-page decision Thursday after hearing arguments from the Crown and defence this week.
  Accurso, detained since last week, will need to respect several conditions while released, including not leaving the province of Quebec.
  Last month, a jury found Accurso, 66, actively participated in a system
  
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• Bedbugs in your books: Many public places in Montreal are infested, expert says

  12-07-2018 17:13 via montrealgazette.com
  A bedbug infestation at Montreal’s Grande Bibliothèque points to a larger, city-wide problem, an exterminator says after the library had to close four sections and temporarily replace 300 fabric chairs with plastic ones. 
  Danielle Chagnon, the general director of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationale du Québec (BAnQ), said the problem began at the end of June. The library brought in an exterminator on June 22, at which point Chagnon said they realized the in
  
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• Michelin picks up Magog farm-tire-maker Camso for $1.45 billion

  12-07-2018 17:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Michelin agreed to buy Camso, a Canadian producer of rubber tracks for farm equipment and snowmobiles, for $1.45 billion as the French tiremaker bolsters its specialty-equipment business.
  The two companies’ off-road operations will be combined and run from Camso’s headquarters in Magog, Michelin said in a statement Thursday. Closely held Camso, which also makes tires for material-handling equipment, has sales of $1 billion.
  “This acquisition is a wonderful mutual opportunity,&r
  
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• Bad breath: what causes it and how to prevent it

  12-07-2018 16:59 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global’s Laura Casella test her own breath, alongside The Bad Breath Guru Dr. Harold Katz.
  
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• Entertain your friends, not the mosquitos: Tips for a bug-free backyard

  12-07-2018 16:52 via globalnews.ca
  Global News décor expert Karl Lohnes shows Laura Casella all the creative ways you can enjoy a mosquito-free day in your backyard paradise.
  
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• Plastic straw ban in Montreal? Petition calls on city to reduce waste

  12-07-2018 16:43 via globalnews.ca
  If Montreal were to ban plastic straws, it would join cities like Vancouver and Seattle, which have recently adopted city-wide bans.
  
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• Michelin agrees to buy Quebec off road tire maker Camso for $1.91 billion

  12-07-2018 16:42 via globalnews.ca
  The French-based tire giant says the acquisition will create the world's largest off-the-road division.
  
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• Meet Milan and Baïko, Granby Zoo’s Amur leopard cubs

  12-07-2018 16:40 via globalnews.ca
  Granby Zoo veterinarian Emilie Couture joins Global’s Kim Sullivan to talk about Milan and Baïko, whom mother Megan gave birth to with two separate C-sections.
  
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