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• Proper backpacks important for children

  22-08-2018 23:56 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Aug 22: Quebec parents are heading to the store in search of school supplies as summer comes to an end. As Global’s Brayden Jagger Haines reports, the Association of Chiropractors warns children are carrying too much weight on their backs.
  
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• IKEA opening in Quebec City draws hundreds of eager shoppers

  22-08-2018 23:54 via globalnews.ca
  Hundreds of shoppers waited in line for the opening of Ikea's 14th Canadian warehouse in Quebec City.
  
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• How Quebec parties compare on diversity

  22-08-2018 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Aug 22: Quebec identity, immigration and asylum seekers are likely to be major election issues during this fall’s campaign. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, here is how the parties stack up so far when it comes to diversity.
  
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• Green access road prompts heated debate

  22-08-2018 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Aug 22: A planned green access road for cyclists and public transit users in the West Island has some drivers seeing red. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, the plan led to a bitter exchange at Montreal city council between the Plante administration and the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro.
  
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• Pedestrian dies after being hit by truck in St-Laurent

  22-08-2018 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
  A woman died after being hit by a truck in St-Laurent Wednesday afternoon.
  Montreal police say the woman was attempting to cross Marcel-Laurin Blvd. at Thimens Blvd. around 3:20 p.m. She was believed to have been crossing the street when the truck attempted to turn into a nearby construction site.
  Police say both the pedestrian and the truck had been obeying traffic lights at the time. Inspectors with Montreal police’s collision investigation division were dispatched to the scene to determ
  
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• Quebec Liberals choose 2 new candidates

  22-08-2018 23:49 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Aug 22: The Quebec Liberals have unveiled two new candidates in Montreal on the eve of the election campaign. As Global’s Phil Carpenter reports, Greg Kelley is hoping to follow in his father’s footsteps while Jennifer Maccarone hopes to preserve English-language institutions in the province.
  
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• WestJet cancelling service between Montreal and Quebec City

  22-08-2018 23:22 via globalnews.ca
  WestJet Airlines is cancelling service between Montreal and Quebec City this fall because of weaker-than-expected demand.
  
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• Canadiens on the bubble: Nikita Scherbak in tough to earn roster spot

  22-08-2018 23:21 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens are going into training camp with more bodies than they need to fill the 23 roster spots when their season begins on Oct. 3 against the Maple Leafs in Toronto. This is the first in a five-part series about players who are on the bubble to earn a roster spot.
  At 22, right-winger Nikita Scherbak is at the crossroads of his career. A first-round draft choice in 2014, Scherbak has played 29 NHL games and it appeared he had made a breakthrough after he was recalled from the AHL’s
  
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• Pedestrian dead after being hit by truck in Saint-Laurent

  22-08-2018 23:09 via globalnews.ca
  A pedestrian has died after she was struck by a truck in the Saint-Laurent borough late Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• Jack White found a new look on tour thanks to Montreal's Lüz Studio

  22-08-2018 23:08 via montrealgazette.com
  The entire visual design for Jack White’s Boarding House Reach world tour was created in a nondescript building in Rosemont.
  Matthieu Larivée’s Lüz Studio has done the production and lighting design for tours featuring Broken Bells, Panic! At the Disco and Foster the People, but snaring the job to create the visuals for White’s tour is the biggest gig yet for the happening Montreal company.
  White’s tour kicked off in April in his hometown of Detroit and touche
  
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• Allegations of police mistreatment of Indigenous people have gone nowhere, inquiry hears

  22-08-2018 23:04 via cbc.ca
  So far, none of the 54 complaints handled by Montreal police have led to charges, and Quebec's director of criminal and penal prosecutions (DPCP) will not say how many are being analyzed at this time.
  
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• If elected, Québec solidaire vows to legalize jiu-jitsu competitions

  22-08-2018 22:58 via montrealgazette.com
  On the eve of Quebec’s general election, Québec solidaire has announced its support for the legalization of jiu-jitsu competitions.
  As a result of a 2013 amendment to the Canadian Criminal Code, only combat sports recognized by the International Olympic Committee are legal.
  Provinces, however, can legalize and regulate non-Olympic disciplines. Québec solidaire indicated in a statement on its website Wednesday that it would do just that with jiu-jitsu.
  While promoters have att
  
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• What's in a slogan? Quebec's 4 main parties try to entice voters with one word or more

  22-08-2018 22:44 via cbc.ca
  Three of the four parties — Coalition Avenir Québec, Parti Québécois and Québec Solidaire — have gone with one-word appeals to voters, while the Liberals have a wordier slogan.
  
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• Quebec political parties lack diversity ahead of fall election campaign

  22-08-2018 22:43 via globalnews.ca
  Almost 50 per cent of Quebec's candidates are women. However, the parties fall short when it comes to recruiting visible minorities.
  
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• WestJet cancelling service between Montreal and Quebec City in fall

  22-08-2018 22:34 via cbc.ca
  WestJet Airlines is cancelling service between Montreal and Quebec City and cutting back on flights across its network as it reduces capacity to meet consumer demand while also trying to reverse its first quarterly loss in 13 years.
  
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• WestJet cancelling Montreal to Quebec service, cutting back on other routes

  22-08-2018 22:34 via cbc.ca
  WestJet Airlines is cancelling service between Montreal and Quebec City and cutting back on flights across its network as it reduces capacity to meet consumer demand while also trying to reverse its first quarterly loss in 13 years.
  
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• Instead of a campaign bus, Quebec's Green Party is using an old Civic

  22-08-2018 21:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Ahead of the official campaign launch in Quebec’s general election, the province’s parties are releasing details of their slogans and campaign vehicles.
  Generally, that means bus, buses and more buses — all festooned in party colours and logos.
  But the Green Party of Quebec has taken a different tact and announced that its campaign vehicle will be an old, blue Honda Civic.
  “Rather than booking a bus for our tour,” the party wrote on its Facebook page, “we&rsqu
  
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• Former hostage in Montreal Mafia dispute paroled in pot-smuggling case

  22-08-2018 21:54 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal man who was once held hostage for more than a month as part of a dispute that involved the highest levels of the Montreal Mafia has been granted parole on a lengthy sentence he received four years ago for smuggling cannabis into the U.S.
  Nicola (Nick) Varacalli, 70, was returned to Canada on June 8 by U.S. authorities after his application for a transfer to continue serving the 10-year prison term he received in 2014 in a U.S. court was accepted. The transfer was very beneficial to Va
  
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• PQ proposing $39-million lunch program for elementary schools

  22-08-2018 21:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Jean-François Lisée informally kicked off the provincial election Wednesday by making a sandwich; he cobbled together ham, cheese, iceberg lettuce, tomatoes and mayonnaise between two slices of whole wheat bread.
  Making lunches for your kids can be fun, he said, but eventually it will drive you crazy. And so, as his first promise of the six-week campaign, the Parti Québécois leader says he wants to liberate parents from the tyranny of sliced bread and juice boxes.
  The
  
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• PQ in favour of accommodating Muslim students: Jean-François Lisée

  22-08-2018 21:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Jean-François Lisée says he would be in favour of a plan to postpone a province-wide elementary school exam next year because it interferes with a Muslim holiday.
  The PQ leader weighed in Wednesday on a recent spat between a Montreal school board and the education ministry over the timing of a French exam.
  “The goal in this is for kids to succeed,” said Lisée, on the eve of Thursday’s provincial election campaign launch. “When a school board makes its
  
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• Greg Kelley to run for Liberals in Jacques-Cartier riding, his father MNA Geoff Kelley’s longtime riding https://t.co/2ppEa0ENz7

  22-08-2018 21:31
  
  Greg Kelley to run for Liberals in Jacques-Cartier riding, his father MNA Geoff Kelley’s longtime riding https://t.co/2ppEa0ENz7
  
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• Mayor unveils new mobility plan https://t.co/jf3SIRy3NB

  22-08-2018 21:27
  
  Mayor unveils new mobility plan https://t.co/jf3SIRy3NB
  
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• Police seek info about woman possibly forced into car in Griffintown

  22-08-2018 20:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are asking for the public’s help to explain an event that took place at 8:20 p.m. on Aug. 20 in Griffintown.
  Witnesses saw a woman walking west on Workman St., near Dominion St. when a car pulled up next to her, a man stepped out of the vehicle and put the woman in the front seat of the car. The man got into the back seat of the vehicle, which went south on Dominion St., turned right on Notre-Dame St. and continued westward. According to information obtained by the police,
  
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• Rosemère university student’s ‘skate cleanup’ challenging others to pick up garbage

  22-08-2018 20:50 via globalnews.ca
  A Rosemère university student has turned a Saturday night skate into a social media sensation after encouraging people to clean up their street.
  
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• Opinion: How makerspaces help prepare students for the gig economy

  22-08-2018 20:38 via montrealgazette.com
  As students and their teachers head back to school, many educators are reflecting on how they can help better prepare students to be valuable contributors in the 21st century. Citizens in the new gig economy will need to retrain more often, juggle several jobs, or invent their own.
  How can we equip our young people to be more resourceful, adaptable and resilient?
  One traditional practice — making things with your hands — shows promise. And for good reason.
  Learning through doing, or
  
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• Video: Visiting sheepdog evokes memories for seniors of beloved pets

  22-08-2018 20:34 via montrealgazette.com
  For Anita Szabadi-Gottesman, the best part about bringing Charlotte to visit vulnerable older adults is that it reminds them of their own family pets.
  “They just seem to come alive when they talk about dogs, and pet and talk to Charlotte,” said the owner of the four-year-old Old English sheepdog. “It’s very gratifying for me.”
  Charlotte’s visits are part of a drop-in program offered by the Cummings Centre to improve the well-being of participants who
  
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• Hydro-Québec reaches draft agreement to buy wind energy from Apuiat

  22-08-2018 20:34 via cbc.ca
  After its president expressed reservations about the 200-megawatt Apuiat wind energy project on Quebec's North Shore, Hydro-Québec, announced Wednesday it has reached a draft agreement with the project's promoters.
  
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• Hydro-Québec reaches draft agreement to buy energy from Apuiat wind farm

  22-08-2018 20:34 via cbc.ca
  After its president expressed reservations about the 200-megawatt Apuiat wind energy project on Quebec's North Shore, Hydro-Québec, announced Wednesday it has reached a draft agreement with the project's promoters.
  
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• Kahnawake's draft cannabis legislation aimed at preventing problems that arose with tobacco

  22-08-2018 20:30 via cbc.ca
  As legalization of recreational marijuana approaches, the Kanien'kehá:ka community of Kahnawake, Que., is in the final stages of deciding how to regulate the burgeoning industry on the reserve.
  
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• Kahnawake residents get chance to weigh in on Mohawk Council's proposed cannabis legislation

  22-08-2018 20:30 via cbc.ca
  As legalization of recreational marijuana approaches, the Kanien'kehá:ka community of Kahnawake, Que., is in the final stages of deciding how to regulate the burgeoning industry on the reserve.
  
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• Rosemère university student challenging others to clean up their communities.

  22-08-2018 20:08 via globalnews.ca
  Marianne Riendeau is inspiring others to keep city streets clean after she posted some photos of herself rollerblading in Rosemère and picking up trash. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Anthony Calvillo's retirement began Alouettes' spiral into CFL cellar

  22-08-2018 19:18 via montrealgazette.com
  These are indeed troubled times for the Montreal Alouettes.
  They’ve lost six straight games and appear destined to miss the playoffs for a fourth straight season. It’s been a quick fall from grace for a club that long ruled the East Division and was one of the CFL’s model franchises.
  From 2000-12, the Alouettes finished atop the East nine times. They appeared in eight Grey Cup games, winning three.
  “(Owner) Bob Wetenhall did a great job of helping to save the CFL and the
  
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• Montreal North borough to euthanize dog that bit six people

  22-08-2018 19:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal North borough will euthanize a dog that bit six people last weekend.
  Borough officials have signed an order to euthanize the dog and are expected to deliver it to the owner on Wednesday, a press release from the borough said.
  The Montreal SPCA is caring for the dog and making sure he won’t hurt anyone else, the press release noted. Montreal North will assume the costs for euthanizing the animal.
  Related
  Dog that attacked children in Montreal North will be euthanized: reportsWo
  
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• Man charged with Laval murder, home invasion begins trial September

  22-08-2018 18:53 via montrealgazette.com
  A man charged with killing a teacher after invading his Laval home more than a decade ago will see his first-degree murder trial begin at the Montreal courthouse next month.
  Septimus Neverson, 55, faces charges related to the death of Jacques Sénécal, a 62-year-old painter and a teacher who was fatally shot inside his home in Laval’s Ste-Dorothée district on July 20, 2006. The accused was in court Wednesday morning for a pretrial hearing held before Superior Court
  
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• P.K. Subban trounced by retired NFL star Terrell Owens in footrace

  22-08-2018 18:49 via montrealgazette.com
  P.K. Subban, like many 29 year olds with Instagram accounts, is wont to post clips of his workouts.
  The nature of those workouts, however, is far from average.
  To pick but one example at not-exactly random, the former Montreal Canadiens star took on retired NFL receiver Terrell Owens in a footrace, because why not?
  As for the outcome on the track, suffice it to say that congratulations are in order for the 44-year-old Hall of Famer.
  #Subbanator vs #HallofFamer …. Hall of Fame always
  
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• A victim of brutality at the hands of officer 728 is awarded $25,000 youtu.be/adkqT1v5K3Y

  22-08-2018 18:45
  A victim of brutality at the hands of officer 728 is awarded $25,000 youtu.be/adkqT1v5K3Y
  
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• PQ kicks off campaign with promise of affordable lunch for every child

  22-08-2018 18:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Jean François Lisée kicked off the provincial elections Wednesday by making a sandwich; he cobbled together ham, cheese, iceberg lettuce, tomatoes and mayonnaise between two slices of whole wheat bread.
  Making lunches for your kids can be fun, he said, but eventually it’ll drive you crazy. And so, as his first promise of the six-week campaign, the Parti Québécois leader says he wants to liberate parents from the tyranny of sliced bread and juice boxes.
  The party
  
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• “Ingenious but very dangerous” use of dangling excavator prompts investigation youtu.be/yexpCwQqWJE

  22-08-2018 18:41
  “Ingenious but very dangerous” use of dangling excavator prompts investigation youtu.be/yexpCwQqWJE
  
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• Infrastructure agency hands $1.28B loan to Montreal rail project

  22-08-2018 18:39 via cbc.ca
  The nascent federal agency designed to find new ways to finance construction of transit systems is making its first investment in a multibillion-dollar electric rail system in Montreal.
  
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• CAQ Taps Ian Lafrenière as Star Candidate youtu.be/lygTZePlOJc

  22-08-2018 18:39
  CAQ Taps Ian Lafrenière as Star Candidate youtu.be/lygTZePlOJc
  
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• Fatal shooting shatters peace in quiet N.D.G. neighbourhood

  22-08-2018 18:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Witnesses described a chaotic scene in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on Tuesday night when Montreal police shot and killed a 23-year-old man who they say threatened officers with a knife.
  About 8:15 p.m., Montreal police were called to the corner of Montclair Ave. and de Maisonneuve Blvd. where two men were fighting.
  Events unfolded right outside Gabriel Cyr’s apartment. Cyr heard screaming: a man’s voice shouting “shoot me,” followed by the sound of someone speaking fra
  
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• Opinion: It's time to get Canada off Saudi oil

  22-08-2018 18:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Canada’s spat with Saudi Arabia raises an obvious question. Why is Canada, sitting on the world’s third-largest oil reserves, importing some 87,000 barrels of oil per day from Saudi Arabia, a country with a terrible civil rights record?
  Saudi Arabia is some 9,625 kilometres from Quebec, where Saudi oil is imported to Canada. Wouldn’t it be nice if Eastern Canada got its oil from a democratic country with an excellent record on civil rights and environmental protection, lik
  
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• The Montreal Canadiens are getting a new centre ice logo this season

  22-08-2018 17:56 via montrealgazette.com
  You may notice something is different at the Bell Centre this season.
  No, not the team; short of swapping Alex Galchenyuk for Max Domi, it’s pretty much the same as last season.
  The change, you see, is not so much happening on the ice as underneath it.
  “We have something special this year,” ice expert François Martindale explained in the team’s Instagram story. “We have a full logo. We used to have two small ones, now we have a big one.”
  Indeed, the ico
  
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• SAQ strike: These are the 19 Montreal stores staying open

  22-08-2018 17:48 via montrealgazette.com
  The Société des alcools du Québec’s unionized workers walked off the job this morning in the second of six possible strike days.
  The union’s contract expired in March 2017. At the end of June, the SAQ’s 5,500 unionized employees voted 91 per cent in favour of the six strike days.
  Seventy-three SAQ stores across the province will be staffed by managers and remain open during the strike on Aug. 22.
  The following Montreal locations are still open:Beaubien
  
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• Suspicious package found under patrol car at Longueuil police headquarters

  22-08-2018 17:28 via globalnews.ca
  Officers with the Sûreté du Québec's bomb disposal unit are on site to assess the contents of the package.
  
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• 'Sérieusement': This isn't an acid flashback, it's the PQ campaign bus

  22-08-2018 17:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Fish, birds, a lighthouse and a construction crane. Hot pink ribbons and streaks of sea-foam green. A woman plays a guitar that could be a rhubarb stalk, while her hair morphs into long streams of water.
  It’s not a game of Exquisite corpse — it’s the Parti Québécois’s new electoral campaign bus.
  The PQ unveiled the bus on Tuesday, and it is colourful.
  “To all those who want to make Quebecers believe that this election is played out in advance
  
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• Montreal Alouettes go from model franchise to the CFL basement

  22-08-2018 16:51 via cbc.ca
  These are indeed troubled times for the Montreal Alouettes. They've lost six straight games and appear destined to miss the playoffs for a fourth straight season. It's been a quick fall from grace for a club that long ruled the East Division and was one of the CFL's model franchises.
  
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• SAQs across Quebec closed as employees walk off the job for 2nd strike day

  22-08-2018 16:47 via globalnews.ca
  Wednesday's walkout is aimed at putting pressure on the province to force the Crown corporation to settle with its employees, who have been without a contract since March 2017.
  
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• Saint-Henri group wants to turn abandoned Canada Malting site into social housing

  22-08-2018 16:37 via cbc.ca
  In a neighbourhood that’s gentrifying quickly, the old malting factory is an appealing site for community organizations hoping to secure affordable housing for Saint-Henri’s lower income residents.
  
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• Back-to-school checklist

  22-08-2018 16:20 via globalnews.ca
  Do you have everything ready for your children’s return to school? Watch Global’s Laura Casella and life coach Erica Diamond to make sure you’ve got the right tools to help your kids excel.
  
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