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• Bacary Sagna joined Impact because 'I wanted to experience something new'

  14-08-2018 23:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Rémi Garde’s European connections are continuing to pay dividends for the Montreal Impact.
  When the Impact began retooling for the 2018 season, Garde’s longtime association with Lyon led to the club signing players like Rod Fanni, Rudy Camacho, Saphir Taider and Zakaria Diallo.
  The latest addition to the club, right back Bacary Sagna, also has a French pedigree, but his connection to Garde stems form their shared relationship with longtime Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.
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• West Island group holds free info session for seniors

  14-08-2018 23:43 via globalnews.ca
  A free information fair was held at the borough's cultural centre and was put on by the West Island Senior Advocacy and is part of the Seniors Liaisons
  
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• Jeanne-Mance Park softball players take legal action against the city

  14-08-2018 23:35 via montrealgazette.com
  A group of softball players campaigning to bring back a field in Jeanne-Mance Park has taken legal action against the city of Montreal.
  Six softball players filed an application for judicial review in Quebec Superior Court on Friday, saying that the city removed the park’s northern softball diamond in an unlawful and unfair way.
  “We feel like the city doesn’t intend to do anything to recognize that it was a mistake and to repair that mistake, so we feel like it’s our last
  
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• Quebec union leader vows to fight removal of pre-election signs

  14-08-2018 23:20 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Aug 14: A judge will not grant an injunction for a group of unions whose pre-election posters were torn down by the City of Quebec. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, one union leader says the fight will continue – even after the provincial election is over.
  
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• Quebec gives financial boost to English-speaking community

  14-08-2018 23:20 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Aug 14: Quebec’s English-speaking community is getting $7 million from the province. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, the financial boost will be invested to support a network of organizations working with anglophones in Quebec.
  
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• West Island community calendar for the week of Aug. 15

  14-08-2018 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Galleries and exhibitions
  The Peter B. Yeomans Cultural Centre, 1401 Lakeshore Dr. in Dorval, presents the exhibition Traditions and Continuity by Sophie Roy. Continues until Aug. 24. Call 514-633-4071.
  The Stewart Hall Art Gallery, 176 Lakeshore Rd. in Pointe-Claire, presents the exhibition Making a Stand. Revisited Pedestals — Part III. Continues until Aug. 26. Call 514-630-1220.
  Maison Lantier, 11 Lantier Road, Kirkland. Art Sale by members of the Kirkland Artist Assoc., an outdoor
  
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• Police arrest man blocking traffic on Highway 440 in Laval

  14-08-2018 22:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police have apprehended an armed man who was blocking traffic on Highway 440.
  The man was in a depressed state, according to the police. He was armed with a rifle and was in a vehicle.
  The incident began just before 3:30 p.m. Tuesday on the highway, near Blvd. des Laurentides. The highway is closed in that area.
  Police say the operation is still underway.
  #Lavalopération À sécuriser le périmètre. Toujours en contact avec l'homme armé, négoci
  
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• Allison Hanes: Starting school with all kids on the same footing

  14-08-2018 22:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Back to school is going to be a little easier this fall for Adebusola Abiola Adeniyi’s three children.
  For starters, they have brand new sneakers and backpacks loaded with supplies, after standing in line at the Welcome Hall Mission in St-Henri yesterday. They were among thousands of needy families stocking up in a festive atmosphere that included balloons, cotton candy and pulsating music.
  And just as important, the trio will be starting Grade 5, Secondary 1 and Secondary 3 on the first d
  
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• Quebec unveils where $7M earmarked for Anglos will be invested

  14-08-2018 22:43 via cbc.ca
  Community Health and Social Services network, ELAN, Literacy Québec, Senior Action Québec will receive funds, said Kathleen Weil, the minister responsible for relations with English-speaking Quebecers.
  
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• Armed man blocking traffic on Highway 440 in Laval: police

  14-08-2018 22:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police say they are negotiating with an armed man who is blocking traffic on Highway 440.
  The man is in a depressed state, according to the police. He is armed with a rifle and is in a vehicle.
  The incident began just before 3:30 p.m. Tuesday on the highway, near Blvd. des Laurentides. The highway is closed in that area.
  #Lavalopération À sécuriser le périmètre. Toujours en contact avec l'homme armé, négociation en cours. pic.twitter.com/Apb
  
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• Man arrested after police operation closes down Highway 440 in Laval

  14-08-2018 22:29 via globalnews.ca
  Laval police are asking the public to avoid the area due to an armed individual.
  
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• Armed man arrested after police operation shuts down Highway 440 in Laval

  14-08-2018 22:29 via globalnews.ca
  A police operation is now under control after an armed man was arrested during rush-hour traffic in Laval.
  
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• Ready or not, here they come: Electric Bixi bike pilot starts Wednesday

  14-08-2018 22:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Depending on who you ask, the prospect of electric Bixi bikes on Montreal streets is either terrific or terrifying.
  That prospect will become a reality on Wednesday, when Bixi says 20 electric bikes will be added to its bike-sharing network.
  Bixi had previously indicated that it would add 57 electrically powered bikes to its fleet this month.
  The battery-powered bicycles, which can be rented for the same price as any other Bixi and have a maximum speed of 29 km/h, are part of a pilot project to
  
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• Man to undergo evaluation following 'James Bond-style' boat theft

  14-08-2018 22:14 via montrealgazette.com
  A man has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after allegedly stealing a jet boat from the Old Port of Montreal in what was described by the boat’s owner as a scene straight out of a James Bond movie.
  Jack Kowalski said he has never witnessed anything like what happened last Monday in his 35 years of operating Lachine Rapids Tours, a company that offers boat rides on the St. Lawrence River in Old Montreal. When he arrived at the docks around 9 a.m. on Aug. 6, one of his e
  
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• Quebec teens barred by school after allegedly sharing explicit photos 

  14-08-2018 22:03 via montrealgazette.com
  A private high school near Quebec City has decided to not reinstate six students targeted by a police investigation alleging they shared explicit photos of three female classmates.
  Management at the Séminaire des Pères Maristes says the school made the decision because it was the only way to ensure a calm return to classes in a few weeks.
  The decision only affects three boys, as three other families willingly took their children out of the school when the allegations first sur
  
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• CDN-NDG borough council calls on city to improve road markings

  14-08-2018 22:00 via cbc.ca
  The Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough council has unanimously passed a motion calling on the City of Montreal to improve road markings, especially for crosswalks, school zones and bike lanes.
  
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• ‘This gives us a little bit of justice’: Quebec to support families of murder victims attend trials

  14-08-2018 21:45 via globalnews.ca
  The Quebec government is creating a financial support program for the loved ones of victims who died as a result of crime.
  
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• Quebec unveils financial assistance program for families of murder victims

  14-08-2018 21:45 via globalnews.ca
  The Quebec government is creating a financial support program for the loved ones of victims who died as a result of crime.
  
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• The glitch list: Ottawa to start reporting on typos in legislation

  14-08-2018 21:42 via cbc.ca
  Grammar warriors rejoice: the Department of Justice says it will start reporting every grammatical and typographical error it corrects in federal legislation after receiving a strongly-worded letter from a member of the public.
  
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• Quebec invests nearly $7 million in English-speaking community

  14-08-2018 21:37 via globalnews.ca
  The Quebec government has announced $7 million in funding for organizations offering services to English-speaking Quebecers.
  
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• Unions will keep fighting court battle over Quebec City pre-election posters

  14-08-2018 21:28 via globalnews.ca
  A judge will not grant an injunction for a group of unions whose posters were torn down by the City of Quebec, but they say they will continue fighting the issue in court.
  
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• ‘It’s a basic, fundamental city service’: Montreal to overhaul line-painting on city streets

  14-08-2018 21:15 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Montreal has adopted a new motion aimed at improving line-painting on city streets.
  
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• Bernard Trépanier, a.k.a. 'Mr. Three Per Cent,' dies at 79

  14-08-2018 20:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Bernard Trépanier, the former municipal political fundraiser who was identified at the Charbonneau Commission hearings as a key figure in corruption at Montreal city hall, has died.
  Trépanier, who was 79, was suffering from generalized cancer and had lapsed into a coma shortly before dying on Tuesday, said his lawyer, Daniel Rock.
  Trépanier was one of the men charged in the Faubourg Contrecoeur municipal real estate deal, but his case was postponed following his diagnosis of
  
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• Bernard Trépanier, key figure in Quebec corruption inquiry, dead at 79

  14-08-2018 20:50 via globalnews.ca
  A former political fundraiser in Montreal who became a central figure during Quebec's public inquiry into corruption in the construction sector has died at the age of 79.
  
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• Julie Lemieux: Canada's first transgender mayor explains how she's been accepted. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=Ol0yBy… https://t.co/Mw1p4h6jVS

  14-08-2018 20:45
  
  Julie Lemieux: Canada's first transgender mayor explains how she's been accepted. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=Ol0yBy… https://t.co/Mw1p4h6jVS
  
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• Federal legislation needed to declare housing a 'right,' says coalition

  14-08-2018 20:34 via cbc.ca
  A coalition that includes advocates for Canada's poor is calling on the Trudeau government to enshrine the right to housing in law.
  
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• Quebec gears up for October’s provincial election with Helen Fotopoulos. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=3JUceO… https://t.co/60kDer9eb0

  14-08-2018 20:33
  
  Quebec gears up for October’s provincial election with Helen Fotopoulos. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=3JUceO… https://t.co/60kDer9eb0
  
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• Bernard Trépanier, key figure in Charbonneau commission, dies

  14-08-2018 20:20 via cbc.ca
  Trépanier was facing charges including fraud and breach of trust in two cases in relation to the issuance of city construction contracts. A stay of proceedings in both trials was issued in June because Trépanier was receiving palliative care.
  
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• Scapegoat Carnivale’s Sapientia introduces object theater in Montreal. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=AQJnKW… https://t.co/LxuWFgve2i

  14-08-2018 20:18
  
  Scapegoat Carnivale’s Sapientia introduces object theater in Montreal. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=AQJnKW… https://t.co/LxuWFgve2i
  
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• Indigenous-led committee will help pick a new name for Amherst Street

  14-08-2018 20:06 via cbc.ca
  The street will be renamed after an Indigenous person who helped shape Montreal said city spokesperson Samuel-Philippe Dugré.
  
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• Monsef Derraji will run for Liberals in Nelligan to replace Coiteux

  14-08-2018 20:03 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – The Liberals have come up with a big-name candidate to run in the party stronghold riding of Nelligan.
  Sources said Tuesday that businessman Monsef Derraji will run for the party in the Oct. 1 provincial election.
  He will replace cabinet minister Martin Coiteux who has chosen to not seek re-election.
  Born in Morroco, Derraji is currently president and director general of the Regroupement des jeunes chambres de commerce du Québec. He has held the position since 2005.
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• Man to undergo psych eval following 'James Bond-style' boat theft

  14-08-2018 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A man has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after allegedly stealing a jet boat from the Old Port of Montreal in what was described by the boat’s owner as a scene straight out of a James Bond movie.
  Jack Kowalski said he has never witnessed anything like what happened last Monday in his 35 years of operating Lachine Rapids Tours, a company that offers boat rides on the St. Lawrence River in Old Montreal. When he arrived at the docks around 9 a.m. on Aug. 6, one of his e
  
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• Senneville organic farm serves up tasty produce to West Islanders

  14-08-2018 19:48 via globalnews.ca
  Almost a decade ago, Ramzy Kassouf left a career in finance to run Les Jardins Carya.
  
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• Stolen car crashes through one house, hits another on South Shore

  14-08-2018 19:40 via montrealgazette.com
  The Châteauguay police force is investigating after a stolen car rammed through one house and continued on to hit another in the town of Léry, roughly 30 kilometres southwest of Montreal.
  According to police spokesperson Martin Labrie, the car drove straight through a Lac-St-Louis Rd. home around 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday before crashing into a neighbouring house.
  Residents were home in both houses but none suffered any serious injuries, Labrie said. The car in question had be
  
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• Opinion: Plante deserves credit on green spaces, but more can be done

  14-08-2018 19:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante and the Projet Montréal administration should be praised for their ongoing efforts to protect wilderness, wetlands, green space and former farm land on the island.
  This includes recent land acquisitions to increase the size of the proposed national urban park that will include Angell Woods, all 365 hectares of the Anse-à-l’Orme wilderness/wetlands, threatened forests and fields in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue and the Morgan Arboretum; the plan to
  
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• François Legault promises $8.05 daily rate for subsidized daycare

  14-08-2018 19:29 via cbc.ca
  All Quebec parents, regardless of their income, would have access to the daily rate, according to the CAQ's proposal. That's a departure from the current system, which adjusts the costs according to a parent's taxable annual income.
  
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• Montreal wrestlers remember Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart

  14-08-2018 19:28 via montrealgazette.com
  By the time Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart came to the North Shore, his days of wrestling in front of sold-out arenas were behind him.
  Neidhart, who died Monday, is perhaps best remembered as the tag team partner of Brett “The Hitman” Hart and a regular on World Wrestling Federation broadcasts. In his heyday, he was the ultimate heel; known for his maniacal laugh, long goatee and bull-shouldered physique.
  He would not have looked out of place on a Viking ship, storming the shor
  
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• Kramberger: New West Island MNAs guaranteed, but who will they be?

  14-08-2018 19:21 via montrealgazette.com
  At least two new faces will represent the heart of the West Island in the National Assembly following the provincial election on Oct. 1.
  Of course, this is not that bold of a prediction. Two West Island MNAs — Geoffrey Kelley (Jacques-Cartier) and Martin Coiteux (Nelligan) — have already announced they will not seek re-election, each citing personal reasons.
  Kelley, who is the minister of native affairs, was first elected in 1994 and will not be seeking an eighth consecutive mandate.
  
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• Wind turbine project on Quebec's North Shore quickly spiralling into an election issue

  14-08-2018 19:04 via cbc.ca
  The Coalition Avenir Québec has decried the costs of the Apuiat project, which has been under negotiation since 2015. The Liberals, meanwhile, say it's "essential" for economic development in northern Quebec and for First Nations communities.
  
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• Opinion: I may not be young, but don't call me old

  14-08-2018 18:51 via montrealgazette.com
  “Did you notice how everyone has changed since last year?” my friend Bea asked. It was the first get-together in a year for our group of friends, all seniors. Bea had only to look in the mirror to see how she herself has changed. But the rest of our group had also undergone noticeable deterioration — more wrinkles here, a bent back there, thinned-down frames, newly acquired canes.
  I’ve changed, too. Lately, I have noticed how my gait has slowed down. I have lost a conside
  
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• Three of world's most liveable cities are Canadian — none are Montreal

  14-08-2018 18:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Three of the world’s 10 most liveable cities are in Canada, according to The Economist’s Global Liveability Index.
  Somehow, Montreal is not in that group.
  For the record, Vienna was named the most liveable city of 2018 with a score of 99.1 out of 100.
  As for the top 10’s Canadian contingent, Calgary was fourth, Vancouver finished sixth and Toronto tied with Tokyo for seventh.Cities are scored across five major dimensions: stability (25 per cent), healthcare (20 per cent), cultu
  
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• Les Jardins Carya: From finance to farming

  14-08-2018 18:30 via globalnews.ca
  Ramzy Kassouf left his job in finance to pursue a dream. As Billy Shield reports, the owner of Les Jardins Carya – an organic farm in Senneville – is starting to see the fruits of his labour.
  
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• A meal for the whole family! Mike Maggiore shows us how make a mean pulled pork. youtube.com/watch?v=Ys_4XY… https://t.co/6qefenoerH

  14-08-2018 18:06
  
  A meal for the whole family! Mike Maggiore shows us how make a mean pulled pork. youtube.com/watch?v=Ys_4XY… https://t.co/6qefenoerH
  
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• Stolen car crashes through Léry house before smashing into 2nd home

  14-08-2018 17:39 via globalnews.ca
  Labrie said the car had been stolen earlier in the evening, not far from the scene of the crash.
  
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• 'Where are you?' Montreal mother writes to daughter 40 years later

  14-08-2018 17:28 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal mother whose infant child disappeared 40 years ago this week has penned a letter to her daughter, asking her where she may be and hoping for her return.
  “It is so hard to live with this wait year after year. I am trying to never lose hope but this has marked our daily lives and left open wounds that do not heal,” Liliane Cyr writes in the letter to her daughter, Yohanna.
  “I am still without any news from you, always in the unknown, always asking myself questions
  
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• Former Habs enforcer Georges Laraque sashays away with drag contest win

  14-08-2018 17:14 via montrealgazette.com
  He may not be on the level of Drag Race greats like Katya Zamolodchikova, but former Montreal Canadiens enforcer Georges Laraque has won a drag competition.
  The NHL veteran donned a wedding dress for the celebrity contest held during Montréal Pride, lip synced to the tune of Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You and came out on top.
  After winning, Laraque announced onstage that he’d donate his winnings to local LGBTQ organizations.
  “In 2018, it is inconceivable t
  
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• Six O’Clock Solution: Pan-seared salmon à la Giada De Laurentiis

  14-08-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  When TV cook and restaurateur Giada De Laurentiis went back to her native Rome, it brought forth a host of memories of the family cooking from her childhood.Her eighth cookbook, Giada’s Italy (Clarkson Potter/Penguin Random House, $47), offers a feast of over 100 recipes that are both lusty and light, and writing that gives the sensation of shopping and cooking in Rome. It also includes excellent photographs by Aubrie Pick. 
  The chapter called Weeknights is a gold mine of fast dinner
  
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