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• City plans to turn McGill College into public plaza

  02-08-2018 23:47 via cbc.ca
  McGill College Avenue in downtown Montreal will be redeveloped into a public square, but not without the input of citizens, Mayor Valérie Plante announced Thursday.
  
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• Butcher gets cut off Instagram

  02-08-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Aug 2: A young Montreal chef says she’s been harassed on social media by the Vegan community after posting provocative pictures of the meat she butchers. Cora MacDonald reports.
  
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• Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France kicks off

  02-08-2018 23:38 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Aug 2: A historic festival that showcases Quebec City’s 17th and 18th century heritage and culture has kicked off in the provincial capital. Global’s Raquel Fletcher travels back in time to New France.
  
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• Unique book-sharing initiative

  02-08-2018 23:25 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Aug 2: A grassroots book swap program to help integrate new arrivals is growing in popularity in the borough of Saint-Laurent. Global’s Phil Carpenter explains.
  
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• Lockdown at federal penitentiary in Drummondville comes to an end

  02-08-2018 23:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Life at a federal penitentiary in Drummondville returned to relative normalcy Thursday after the end of a lockdown ordered on Sunday, following the death of an inmate.
  A thorough search of the Drummond Institution, a medium-security penitentiary, was ordered after Jonathan Payeur, 32, an inmate with known ties to the Rock Machine biker gang, was found dead. Correctional Service Canada (CSC) has declined to say how Payeur died, but a report by Le Journal de Montréal, citing anonymous sourc
  
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• Frantz Benjamin running for office with provincial Liberals

  02-08-2018 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Aug 2: Montreal city councillor Frantz Benjamin is making the jump to provincial politics. The first black speaker for Montreal’s City Council announced his intention to run with the Quebec Liberal Party Thursday. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, he is the party’s candidate for the Northeast riding of Viau.
  
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• Quebec City festival takes visitors back to New France

  02-08-2018 23:09 via globalnews.ca
  Every year, the oldest city in Canada remembers its history with a festival that takes visitors back to its roots as New France.
  
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• Quebec Innu nation lifts barricade after reaching agreement with Tata Steel

  02-08-2018 23:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Members of the northern Quebec Innu nation of Matimekush-Lac John have lifted a barricade after reaching a deal with Tata Steel Minerals Canada regarding the environment, jobs and training, Chief Tshani Ambroise said Thursday.
  The Innu barricaded the entrance to the mining site for four nights and lifted the blockade late Wednesday after the deal was hammered out, Ambroise said in an interview.
  “We pretty much won all the major points we wanted to settle with the company,” said Ambro
  
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• Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie tries publicly shaming those who illegally dump trash

  02-08-2018 22:53 via cbc.ca
  Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie is the newest borough to adopt public-shaming tactics aimed at people who put their trash out off schedule or in illegal dump sites, like alleyways, rather than in front of their homes at the appropriate time.
  
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• Driver of Quebec dump truck loses control, plows into duplex below

  02-08-2018 22:39 via globalnews.ca
  The driver of a dump truck who was taking a curve on a steep road near Quebec City lost control of the vehicle and plowed into a duplex below.
  
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• Montreal star chef Stelio Perombelon is done with the restaurant world

  02-08-2018 22:07 via montrealgazette.com
  I first met Stelio Perombelon in 1997, in the small kitchen of the famous Montreal restaurant Les Caprices de Nicolas.
  There was major star power in that kitchen, starting with the late Nicolas Jongleux, for whom the restaurant was named. William Frachot took over after Jongleux’s departure, but moved back to France to run the restaurant in his family’s Hostellerie du Chapeau Rouge in Dijon, which boasts two Michelin stars.
  Perombelon was second in command under Frachot, and was prom
  
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• Truck rolls down hill, crushes duplex near Quebec City

  02-08-2018 21:50 via montrealgazette.com
  A truck driver lost control of his vehicle, crashed through a guardrail and rolled down a hill into a duplex in Château-Richer, near Quebec City, just before noon Thursday.
  The 12-wheeled truck smashed into the home, trapping a woman inside. Firefighters had to remove her from the building, but she was not injured.
  The Sûreté du Québec said the driver, a man in his 60s, sustained only minor injuries.
  Police said it would take at least several hours for the truck to be r
  
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• Plante wants McGill College space 'in all the tourist books'

  02-08-2018 21:34 via montrealgazette.com
  A six-week public consultation process for a future public space on McGill College Ave. is set to begin in September, the city of Montreal announced Thursday.
  The city’s vision for the public space, which Mayor Valérie Plante hopes will become “a signature of Montreal,” includes four distinct sections along the avenue.“We want to make sure that this place will be in all the tourist books,” she said.
  Plante would not say how much of the street is set to become
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: Moose, coyotes and Montreal's green spaces

  02-08-2018 21:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Why did the moose cross the road? Presumably to get to the other side. In Kirkland last weekend, a moose was recorded on video walking around a suburban street by residents, who called 911, for lack of any better idea. (In fact, the proper number to call would have been Quebec’s wildlife ministry at 1-800-463-2191.)
  Around the same time as that moose had to be tranquillized and relocated, the news broke that elsewhere in Montreal, there had been three coyote attacks in
  
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• Opinion: It's time to admit 'war on drugs' has failed

  02-08-2018 21:07 via montrealgazette.com
  The pending legalization of recreational cannabis has opened peoples’ minds to the idea of responsible regulation of other drugs. At the same time, public-health officials from Toronto and Montreal have publicly endorsed ending the criminalization of people who use drugs, as a key tool for implementing a public-health response to the opioid crisis.
  The window of opportunity is now wide open, and a real debate is beginning.
  But what are the options for dealing with the realities of illegal
  
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• Frantz Benjamin to run for Liberals in 2018 Quebec election

  02-08-2018 20:56 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal city councillor Frantz Benjamin says he's ready to move on to a bigger stage.
  
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• Plante envisions McGill College as displayed 'in all the tourist books'

  02-08-2018 20:17 via montrealgazette.com
  A six-week public consultation process for a future public space on McGill College Ave. is set to begin in September, the city of Montreal announced Thursday.
  The city’s vision for the public space, which Mayor Valérie Plante hopes will become “a signature of Montreal,” includes four distinct sections along the avenue.“We want to make sure that this place will be in all the tourist books,” she said.
  Plante would not say how much of the street is set to become
  
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• Ottawa’s plan to help overwhelmed cities deal with asylum seekers still weeks away

  02-08-2018 20:12 via globalnews.ca
  A long-promised triage system aimed at redirecting irregular border crossers from crowded shelters in Montreal and Toronto will not be in place until as late as the end of September.
  
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• 'It's ridiculous. It's Picasso': Facebook reviewing anti-nudity policy after blocking Montreal museum ad

  02-08-2018 20:12 via cbc.ca
  Social media giant Facebook is reviewing its nudity policy after the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts complained the site kept blocking its ads for a Picasso exhibit.
  
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• Watch: How to make the most of your time at Osheaga

  02-08-2018 19:04 via montrealgazette.com
  If you’re going to Osheaga this weekend, you have plenty to look forward to.
  Before you treat yourself to the likes of St. Vincent, Alvvays and Post Malone, though, it’s probably best to do some preparation.
  If you’re coming to the festival from outside of Montreal, you’ll probably want to figure out how to get to the festival. (Hint: there are three-day transit passes.) Also: welcome!
  Then there are practical considerations, like laying out your schedule, dressing for su
  
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• Côte-de-Neiges-NDG to lower speed limits

  02-08-2018 18:59 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Aug 2: New speed limits will be implemented by the end of 2018 in an effort to improve safety. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Three new cannabis sales outlets announced for Quebec

  02-08-2018 18:57 via montrealgazette.com
  The Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC), the government agency responsible for overseeing the sale of recreational marijuana in the province, announced on Thursday that it has added three new sales outlets as it continues to establish a retail network in time for legalization.
  The SQDC says it has signed leases for stores in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Mirabel and the Ste-Foy district of Quebec City.
  The announcement brings to nine the number of Quebec stores that will s
  
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• Raif Badawi’s sister arrested in Saudi Arabia: Amnesty International

  02-08-2018 18:44 via globalnews.ca
  The sister of jailed blogger Raif Badawi has been arrested in Saudi Arabia, according to Amnesty International.
  
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• Update: Missing Inuit woman found by off-duty Montreal cop

  02-08-2018 18:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Nearly a week after leaving a Saint-Laurent police station and just hours after police posted a missing persons alert, 48-year-old Mina Iquasiak Aculiak has been found.
  Montreal police said Aculiak was found at the corner of Crémazie Blvd. and Bloomfield Ave., by an off-duty police officer.
  Street workers had feared the worst in the case of an Inuk woman last seen leaving a police station in St-Laurent last Friday.
  The woman, 48-year-old Mina Iquasiak Aculiak, speaks neither Fre
  
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• Maxime Bernier's campaign debts are now paid off — but the fundraising continues

  02-08-2018 18:32 via cbc.ca
  Maxime Bernier, runner-up to Andrew Scheer in the 2017 Conservative leadership race, is now debt-free.
  
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• Man collared by UPAC in Jewish General Hospital scam granted parole

  02-08-2018 18:18 via montrealgazette.com
  The owner of a renovation company who pleaded guilty in a UPAC case that revealed the Jewish General Hospital was billed for work actually done on the homes of several people, including a few of its administrators, has been granted early parole.
  The Parole Board of Canada ordered that Gilbert Leizerovici, 54, of Côte-St-Luc, perform community service during the first four months out of eight he is required to spend on day parole at a halfway house before he is granted a full release.
  He wa
  
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• Gildan shares up 16 per cent after Q2 results beat record quarterly sales

  02-08-2018 17:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Clothing maker Gildan Activewear Inc. shares are up 16 per cent after the company reported record second-quarter sales and profits that beat expectations on the back of strong performance in key growth areas, including fashion basics and international markets.
  Net earnings amounted to $109 million, or 51 cents per diluted share, up from $107.7 million, or 48 cents per share, during the same period last year.
  Quarterly revenue rose seven per cent to $764.1 million, driven by a 17 per cent increas
  
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• Montreal police find Inuk woman who vanished six days ago

  02-08-2018 17:21 via globalnews.ca
  A 48-year-old Indigenous woman who vanished six days ago has been found.
  
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• Inuk woman missing since being released by cops

  02-08-2018 17:21 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal police are looking for a missing 48-year-old Indigenous woman who vanished six days ago.
  
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• Max Domi says Montreal Canadiens have 'pieces it takes to win'

  02-08-2018 17:03 via cbc.ca
  The Montreal Canadiens scored the third-least amount of goals last season and finished fourth from the bottom in the league's standings. But recently-acquired winger Max Domi is hopeful next year's team can find the back of the net with greater frequency, especially if he can have a bounce-back campaign of his own.
  
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• Free in Montreal Aug 3-5: Free tennis matches and Poutinefest

  02-08-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Take advantage of Tennis Canada’s free family weekend
  Tennis Canada and sponsor IGA give Montrealers a chance to see some of the top women’s tennis players in the world with free admission during the Rogers Cup family weekend, Aug, 3-5 at the Jarry Tennis Centre. The gates open at 10 a.m. each day and the action begins at 11. Friday’s action is limited to practice sessions while there will be qualifying matches on Saturday and Sunday with 40 players attempting to earn one of of
  
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• As Johnny Manziel prepares for action, a look at previous high profile CFL debuts

  02-08-2018 16:34 via cbc.ca
  On Friday night, Montreal Alouettes QB Johnny Manziel will make his long-awaited debut when the Hamilton Tiger-Cats pay a visit to Percival Stadium (7:30 p.m. ET). He will also join a long list of American players who attempted to make their mark in Canada.
  
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• Triage system for border crossers in Montreal, Toronto shelters won't be ready until September

  02-08-2018 16:16 via cbc.ca
  A long-promised triage system aimed at redirecting illegal border crossers from crowded shelters in Montreal and Toronto will not be in place until as late as the end of September.
  
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• Five things to do in Montreal this weekend that aren't Osheaga

  02-08-2018 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It is, as you’ve probably heard by now, Osheaga weekend in Montreal. If you’ve secured tickets, have fun! But if you don’t want to go or couldn’t get passes, there are lots of other, quieter events in Montreal this weekend.
  Here are five decidedly non-Osheaga ideas to make the most of your weekend. Napping is also an option.
  Balenciaga: Master of Couture
  Explore the work of fashion icon Cristóbal Balenciaga with this new exhibit at the McCord Museum. Previousl
  
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• Celebrating Montreal Italian Week with Marco Calliari

  02-08-2018 15:46 via globalnews.ca
  Singer/songwriter Marco Calliari stops by our Global News Morning studios to perform & to preview Montreal Italian Week, a festival that’s fun for whole ‘famiglia’!
  
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• Montreal driver charged after truck crash, powdered nickel spill on Hwy 17

  02-08-2018 15:44 via globalnews.ca
  The OPP confirmed the affected stretch of Highway 17 near Deep River, Ont. has been re-opened. The crash closed the area to traffic in both directions for almost 12 hours.
  
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• Setting up the perfect grazing board for your summer party

  02-08-2018 15:29 via globalnews.ca
  “À la table” food stylist Hanna Hajilou shows Global’s Laura Casella how to set up the perfect grazing board for your next summer party.
  
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• Sûreté du Québec takes to the street to solve murder of Saguenay man

  02-08-2018 15:25 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec deployed a mobile command post in a residential neighbourhood in Saguenay late Wednesday in an effort to solve the murder of a young man in his 20s.
  Local police discovered the man’s body in a residence on Johanna St. in the Chicoutimi-Nord sector of the city at 3 p.m. Wednesday. They called in the SQ after marks of violence were seen on the man’s body.
  The man’s murder was confirmed by provincial police Thursday morning.
  Formal identifi
  
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• Cavalia Odysseo: The Cavalia Philosophy

  02-08-2018 15:25 via globalnews.ca
  Cavalia’s Odysseo show has taken over the base of the Jacques-Cartier Bridge with their extravagant tent. Global’s Kim Sullivan gets an inside look at the show with horse rider Chelsea Jordan.
  
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• Montreal butcher says vegan activists are harassing her online

  02-08-2018 15:07 via cbc.ca
  Dominique Rioux said she believes her photos show people where their food comes from, but some activists aren't OK with that.
  
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• NEXT: @nadiastar and Dr. Manoli on the benefits of breast milk. Watch: ow.ly/2Izm30ldY93

  02-08-2018 14:55
  NEXT: @nadiastar and Dr. Manoli on the benefits of breast milk. Watch: ow.ly/2Izm30ldY93
  
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• Here’s what’s making headlines, #Montreal: Your news, weather, & traffic update for 8:30am https://t.co/oNe3U8R84i

  02-08-2018 14:48
  
  Here’s what’s making headlines, #Montreal: Your news, weather, & traffic update for 8:30am https://t.co/oNe3U8R84i
  
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• Cavalia Odysseo: Creating a dream voyage

  02-08-2018 14:47 via globalnews.ca
  Join Global’s Kim Sullivan and rider Chelsea Jordan as they explore how the noble steeds of Cavalia spend their day and what they do to prepare for each show.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Thursday, August 2nd 2018

  02-08-2018 14:35 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Thursday, August 2nd 2018
  
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• While you were sleeping: Man without limbs crosses Canada on longboard

  02-08-2018 14:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were off in dreamland. 
  A man born without limbs crossed Canada, thanks to a longboard and the kindness of strangers. Chris Koch, a 39-year-old motivational speaker and farmer, set off from his hometown of Nanton, Alta., on July 8 and arrived in St-John’s, N.L., 18 days later. He completed the 6,338-km trip by alternating between boarding and relying on strangers for lifts. Yet, at no point did Koch ask people for a ride. “I didn&rs
  
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• NEXT: @NikkiBOnAir starts your month off on the right beat! With musical festivals right around the corner, find ou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-08-2018 14:30
  NEXT: @NikkiBOnAir starts your month off on the right beat! With musical festivals right around the corner, find ou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Bombardier eases cash burn as train, jet-parts sales climb

  02-08-2018 14:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Bombardier Inc. burned through less cash than expected in its last quarter as the majority owner of the C Series jetliner, buoyed by rising sales of aircraft parts and rail equipment.
  Revenue rose in the second quarter and Canada’s largest aerospace company reported a surprise profit, according to a statement Thursday. Bombardier also reaffirmed its sales, earnings and cash-flow targets for 2018 and 2020.
  The results boost chief executive officer Alain Bellemare’s drive to transform
  
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• It’s time to celebrate you! Here’s our BT Celebrations for July 31, 2018 https://t.co/mV8ORqyEDA

  02-08-2018 14:16
  
  It’s time to celebrate you! Here’s our BT Celebrations for July 31, 2018 https://t.co/mV8ORqyEDA
  
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