Montreal news

• PQ candidate Michelle Blanc under fire for racist tweet

  30-08-2018 23:59 via cbc.ca
  In a tweet addressing the telecom company Bell, Blanc used a slur against black people while complaining that a customer service representative addressed her as "monsieur."
  
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• .@eppman looks at what this could mean for Canadian taxpayers. https://t.co/E8WZPbMJWM

  30-08-2018 23:57
  
  .@eppman looks at what this could mean for Canadian taxpayers. https://t.co/E8WZPbMJWM
  
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• Genie Bouchard ousted in 2nd round at U.S. Open

  30-08-2018 23:53 via cbc.ca
  After rolling through three U.S. Open qualifying matches and posting an easy first-round victory, Canada's Eugenie Bouchard lost 6-4, 6-3 to Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic in the second round Thursday.
  
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• Cleanup begins after powerful summer storm hits Montreal

  30-08-2018 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  The storm was part of a line of fast-moving thunderstorms that moved across the city from eastern Ontario. 
  
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• Violent storm leaves elderly stranded at West Island residence

  30-08-2018 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Aug 30: A violent summer storm left thousands of Quebecers in the dark – including the elderly at Château Dollard. As Global’s Brayden Jagger Haines reports, some residents spent the evening stranded on the second floor with no help after firefighters failed to assist in the evacuation.
  
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• St-Hubert Airport launches new runway

  30-08-2018 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Aug 30: The airport in St-Hubert has launched a brand new $17-million runway in the hopes new business will take off. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, officials want low-cost airlines to use the South Shore airport.
  
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• Dorval bar opening sparks concern at Inuit housing centre

  30-08-2018 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Aug 30: An Inuit housing centre in Dorval is sounding the alarm about a new bar opening in the area. As Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports, the Ullivik Health Centre believes the bar owner is specifically targeting their clientele in a move that could prove damaging to their health.
  
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• Quebec election: Priorities clear on trade call with PM, Couillard says

  30-08-2018 23:35 via montrealgazette.com
  LAC-MÉGANTIC — Quebec incumbent premier Philippe Couillard was close-lipped and terse on the details of a conference call held Thursday afternoon with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the other premiers regarding trade talks with the United States.
  All parties promised “total silence,” he said. “We are at a very delicate moment in the negotiations.”
  “What I can tell you is the main preoccupations of Quebec are known,” he said. “My
  
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• Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital in bad shape

  30-08-2018 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Aug 30: The Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital’s façade is riddled with cracks and bricks are coming loose. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, while patients are being treated inside, crews are working outside to install a gigantic metal bandaid.
  
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• Clean up begins after powerful summer storm

  30-08-2018 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Aug 30: Montrealers are cleaning up after a brief but powerful storm struck the province on Wednesday. As Global’s Phil Carpenter reports, the storm led to massive power outages and downed trees – and it even damaged homes in Pointe-Claire.
  
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• Canadiens' top pick Jesper Kotkaniemi among 30 invited to rookie camp

  30-08-2018 23:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Centre Jesperi Kotkaniemi will launch his bid for an NHL job when he joins 29 other players at the Canadiens’ rookie camp on Sept. 6.
  Kotkaniemi, who was selected third overall at the NHL Entry Draft in June, has a contract with Assat in the Finnish Elite League, but there’s an out clause that allows him to jump to the NHL.
  Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin has been careful not to raise the expectations for Kotkaniemi, 18, but said the youngster will get an opportunity to make
  
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• Lack of detention facilities in Quebec's North violates charter rights, says Superior Court

  30-08-2018 23:13 via cbc.ca
  People convicted of minor crimes that can result in an intermittent sentence — which are typically served on weekends — would have to pay to fly 1,237 kilometres south to the Amos detention centre each time.
  
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• ‘He loves Montreal’: Max Pacioretty’s agent denies trade request

  30-08-2018 23:07 via globalnews.ca
  Max Pacioretty's agent has denied a report saying his client has asked to be traded.
  
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• ‘Too close for comfort’: Inuit housing centre worried about new bar

  30-08-2018 22:41 via globalnews.ca
  A bar opening near an Inuit housing centre has administrators concerned. Ullivik provides housing to Inuit from Quebec's North while they receive medical treatment. They fear the bar is specifically targeting Inuit clientele, and could prove damaging to their health.
  
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• Saint-Hubert Airport upgrades runway to attract ultra-low-cost carriers

  30-08-2018 22:41 via cbc.ca
  The Saint-Hubert Airport in Longueuil is growing; it will now be able to accommodate larger planes and passenger flights.
  
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• Montreal mom, daughter reported missing in California

  30-08-2018 22:17 via cbc.ca
  Authorities are searching for a Montreal woman and her daughter who were reported missing after arriving in California for a camping trip.
  
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• Montreal mom, daughter found after being reported missing in California

  30-08-2018 22:17 via cbc.ca
  A Montreal woman and her daughter who were reported missing after arriving in California for a camping trip have been found safe and sound.
  
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• Canadian mom, daughter reported missing in California

  30-08-2018 22:17 via cbc.ca
  Authorities are searching for a Canadian woman and her daughter who were reported missing after arriving in California for a camping trip.
  
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• Brendan Kelly: Former Habs coach Therrien joins on-air team at 91.9 FM

  30-08-2018 22:13 via montrealgazette.com
  I’m warming up to Michel Therrien.
  It’s the oddest thing. The former coach of the Canadiens, who was fired by Habs general manager Marc Bergevin on Valentine’s Day in 2017, has been doing a column on Jean-Charles Lajoie’s afternoon show on the francophone sports radio station 91.9 FM since Monday, and I’m really liking it.
  I spent years writing columns suggesting Therrien should be fired, and I had big issues with his confrontational style with journalists. But now
  
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• Restaurant review: Pigor's young talents are in fine balance

  30-08-2018 22:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Restaurant Pigor
  ★★★ out of ★★★★
  $$$
  Address: 3780 Wellington St., Verdun (Near LaSalle Blvd.)
  Phone: 514-907-0816
  Website: restaurantpigor.com
  Open: Tues.-Thurs. 6 to 10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 6 to 11 p.m.
  Wheelchair access: Yes
  Licensed: Yes
  Reservations: Essential
  Cards: All major
  Vegetarian-friendly: Not especially
  Parking: On surrounding streets
  Price range: Cold and warm plates $14-$20; hot plates $23-$30; desserts $10.
  Restaurant critics r
  
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• Decision Quebec: Here are the top 5 stories from Week 1 on the campaign trail

  30-08-2018 21:59 via globalnews.ca
  Political leaders from all parties have been crisscrossing the province in hopes of swaying voters ahead of the Oct. 1 election.
  
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• St-Hubert Airport launches new runway in bid to become Montreal’s No. 2

  30-08-2018 21:39 via globalnews.ca
  For years, Trudeau Airport in Dorval has been the only true player for passenger air traffic. Officials in St-Hubert are hoping a runway expansion could change that.
  
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• Max Pacioretty's agent refutes rumours of trade request

  30-08-2018 21:39 via cbc.ca
  Agent Allan Walsh said Tuesday on his verified account on Twitter that the Canadiens captain has repeatedly expressed his wish to stay in Montreal.
  
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• Quebec election: PQ wants 240,000 people working from home by 2025

  30-08-2018 21:30 via montrealgazette.com
  If you hate putting on pants and schlepping your way to the office five times a week, the Parti Québécois has a proposition for you.
  The PQ wants to give employers a tax credit to let employees work from home up to two days a week.
  Under the plan, the government would give companies a $400 tax credit for each worker who uses remote network technology to dial into the office.
  PQ Leader Jean-François Lisée said Thursday his party drafted the plan after consulting a stud
  
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• Live – Quebec election: PQ candidate in Twitter trouble is a social-media expert

  30-08-2018 21:28 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Thursday, Aug. 30. This post will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected]:20 p.m.: Liberal signs defaced
  Une centaine de mes pancartes ont été volées ou vandalisées la nuit dernière. Clairement, une action organisée et planifiée! Quel mépris envers la démocratie!#PolQc #Qc2018 #Quebec2018 #MauriceRichard pic.twitter.com/
  
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• Canadian mother and daughter go missing during camping trip in California

  30-08-2018 21:27 via globalnews.ca
  Authorities are searching for a Canadian woman and her daughter who were reported missing after arriving in California for a camping trip.
  
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• Baby remains discovered in Westmount home likely hidden pregnancy from 1940s: coroner

  30-08-2018 21:12 via globalnews.ca
  A Quebec coroner says the mummified remains of a baby found hidden in the basement ceiling of a Montreal-area home was most likely a hidden pregnancy dating back to the late 1940s.
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée says he will not ask for PQ candidate's resignation

  30-08-2018 20:45 via montrealgazette.com
  A blogger and frequent critic of the Parti Québécois has issued a cease-and-desist letter to the party after one of its candidates suggested he is a pedophile.
  In a tweet posted late Wednesday, PQ candidate Michelle Blanc claimed Cégep professor Xavier Camus “likes 15-year-old girls.” Camus is the blogger who unearthed a series of embarrassing, Islamophobic social media posts from PQ candidate Pierre Marcotte.
  Before he became a candidate in the Drummon
  
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• Live – Quebec election: Another candidate down

  30-08-2018 20:02 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Thursday, Aug. 30. This post will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected] p.m.: Another candidate down
  The Conservative Party of Quebec (yes, they exist) has dumped a candidate who made headlines with a strange video that went viral and for posting disturbing comments on social media.
  In the video, Philippe Laplante says the high price of fuel doesn’t bother him because he can
  
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• Canadiens captain Max Pacioretty rejected trade to Kings, source says

  30-08-2018 19:31 via montrealgazette.com
  A source close to Max Pacioretty has thrown ice water on a Radio-Canada report that the Canadiens captain asked to be traded many times in the recent past.
  The story flies in the face of Pacioretty’s insistence that he wants to stay in Montreal, where he and his family have made their full-time home for several years.
  It is also curious because Pacioretty rejected a deal that would have sent him to the Los Angeles Kings prior to the NHL Entry Draft in June.
  “The deal was done,”
  
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• Quebec election: PQ candidate implies party critic is a pedophile

  30-08-2018 19:14 via montrealgazette.com
  A Parti Québécois star candidate has apologized for suggesting one of the party’s fiercest critics is a pedophile.
  In a tweet posted late Wednesday, Michelle Blanc claimed Cégep professor Xavier Camus “likes 15-year-old girls.” Camus is the blogger who unearthed a series of embarrassing, Islamophobic social media posts from PQ candidate Pierre Marcotte.
  Before he became a candidate in the Drummond—Bois-Franc riding, Marcotte wrote that Islam
  
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• Opinion: Here's what to do about Montreal's traffic nightmare

  30-08-2018 19:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Mobility Montreal. Talk about an oxymoron! We dream of mitigating our traffic woes, but what we have is a recurring nightmare that keeps getting worse. And, sorry, there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, at least until 2020. Yes, we now have a mobility squad, something I suggested in this space exactly two years ago, but what is missing is a more global approach and a sense of urgency. What we desperately need is a single person to take ownership of the mobility file with the related kn
  
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• Quebec police officers could soon test drivers' saliva for cannabis

  30-08-2018 18:55 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's Public Security Ministry says it will offer financial support for police in Quebec who want to purchase a device that tests drivers' saliva for THC, the active ingredient in cannabis. But the test is not without critics.
  
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• The day after the storm – 6,200 remain without power in Montreal and South Shore

  30-08-2018 18:43 via montrealgazette.com
  As Quebecers picked up the pieces — and branches — shaken loose by the storm front that bulldozed across Montreal Wednesday, Hydro-Québec reported that almost 6,300 customers remained without power as of 12:30 p.m. Thursday.
  Most of those affected live in Montreal (3,354 clients) and the South Shore (2,942 clients) and indicated how much work the power utility had done since 6 a.m., when 15,000 clients were without power in those areas.
  On Wednesday afternoon and at the height
  
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• Quebec to open two cannabis stores downtown, third on L'Acadie Blvd.

  30-08-2018 18:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC), the provincial agency that will oversee the sale of marijuana in Quebec, announced on Thursday it will open three sales outlets in Montreal — two of them downtown — once legalization is official on Oct. 17.
  The downtown stores will be located at 970 Ste-Catherine St. W. and 830 Ste-Catherine St. E., while the third Montreal outlet will be at 9250 L’Acadie Blvd.
  The SQDC announced that sales outlets would als
  
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• Environment Canada confirms tornado touched down in Saint-Julien

  30-08-2018 18:29 via globalnews.ca
  An EF2 tornado with winds between 180 and 220 kilometres an hour touched down in the small community of Saint-Julien on Wednesday.
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: Quebec election is time to engage, not just complain

  30-08-2018 18:28 via montrealgazette.com
  As we enter the second week of Quebec’s election campaign, I am realizing that when it comes to elections, Quebecers largely fall into two camps. The first group consists of those in the know. They read the papers, watch video footage from the campaign, plan on following the debates and observe the parties’ moves very carefully. It seems, however, such people are few and far between. The much larger second group seem only to know that elections are coming up, having noticed all the p
  
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• Canadiens who must improve: Blue-line future is now for Mete, Juulsen

  30-08-2018 18:23 via montrealgazette.com
  After missing the playoffs by a country mile last season, it’s obvious the Canadiens must be better in 2018-19. And the burden of improvement will fall heavily on some players more than others. This is the second in a series of five stories on players who could hold the key to a turnaround.
  Most of the players in this group are coming off seasons that fell short of expectations. That was not the case for young defencemen Victor Mete and Noah Juulsen. They took advantage of opportunities to
  
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• Quebec election: QS pledges to protect 10% of province's waterways

  30-08-2018 18:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Québec solidaire pledged on Thursday to protect 10 per cent of the province’s waterways should it form the next government.
  The protections, which would be in place by 2020, would guard protected areas against pollution, overfishing and shipping traffic.
  Speaking in Rimouski, party co-spokesperson Manon Massé said each protected zone would cover at least 100 square kilometres and include sectors where fishing is forbidden and industrial activity banned.
  Massé noted tha
  
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• Quebec election: No conflict with loan since CAQ not in power: Legault

  30-08-2018 18:03 via montrealgazette.com
  If elected, a Coalition Avenir Québec government would offer subsidized glasses and contact lenses for children — that’s the announcement party leader François Legault tried to make Thursday morning in Rivière-du-Loup, but the press conference quickly derailed as reporters grilled him about his party’s latest scandal.
  “It was a mistake,” Legault said in reference to a loan CAQ MNA Éric Caire accepted from the mayor of a town in his riding
  
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• Westmount skeletal remains: Hidden pregnancy likely, coroner says

  30-08-2018 17:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Around December 1948, the body of a newborn baby girl, including part of her umbilical cord, was carefully wrapped in newspapers and placed in the furnace-room ceiling of a home on Victoria Ave. in Westmount.
  But who was the mother? Was the baby stillborn or was she killed? Why was the body hidden?
  Seventy years after the final resting place was sealed up and a year and a half after it was accidentally discovered, a coroner says the mystery may never be solved.
  The mummified body was found in Ja
  
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• Laval police seek missing teen who may be headed for U.S.

  30-08-2018 16:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police have turned to the public in an effort to find 17-year-old Sébastien Wisler Rosima, who was last seen in Laval on Aug. 15.
  Rosima crossed into Canada from the United States last year with a relative and has since expressed a desire to return to the U.S., believing he can find other family members there.
  He speaks English, stands five-feet-nine-inches tall and weighs 140 pounds.
  Anyone with any information on his whereabouts is urged to call 450-662-4636 or 911 and mention fi
  
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• Quebec election: Couillard promises GP for 90 per cent of Quebecers

  30-08-2018 16:31 via montrealgazette.com
  ST-GEORGES — Liberal leader Philippe Couillard promised Thursday to inject $200 million into home health care services, hire more nurses aides and ensure 90 per cent of Quebecers have access to a family doctor by the end of his term.
  At the same time, he said the government would follow through on threats to penalize family doctors and specialists if provincial objectives aren’t met by the end of the year.
  Health Minister Gaétan Barrette had warned family doctors could see the
  
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• Things to do without a car

  30-08-2018 15:54 via globalnews.ca
  No car? No Problem! Lifestyle contributor Christine Beaudoin joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about all the things you can do in and around Montreal when you don’t have a car.
  
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• Back to school organization

  30-08-2018 15:54 via globalnews.ca
  Schools in, and so is the paperwork and school supplies! Keep it all organized with tips from professional organizer Allison Weigensberg and Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Le Burger Week

  30-08-2018 15:46 via globalnews.ca
  Ready for a great burger? Montreal’s Le Burger Week gets underway this weekend with more burger versions than you could dream of. Find out more from Executive chef Natalia Machado and Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Concordia wrestlers head off to World Championships

  30-08-2018 15:46 via globalnews.ca
  Several Concordia University student athletes are heading off to the World Championships in Brazil. Meet them along with their coach Rob Moore and Global’s Kim Sullivan.
  
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• Quebec reinforces contingent battling forest fires in B.C.

  30-08-2018 15:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s forest fire protection agency (SOPFEU) announced Thursday it has deployed two more teams of firefighters to help colleagues in British Columbia who have spent the past few weeks battling forest fires in their province.
  A new contingent composed of 20 forest firefighters with an initial deployment of four firefighters and a SOPFEU representative were scheduled to leave late Thursday for Prince George, about 800 kilometres north of Vancouver.
  The reinforcement brings to 69 the numbe
  
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• While you were sleeping: Montrealers without power and children saved from manholes

  30-08-2018 14:46 via montrealgazette.com
  The morning after – 15,000 without power in Montreal and South Shore
  As Quebecers picked up the pieces — and branches — shaken loose by the storm front that bulldozed across Montreal Wednesday, Hydro-Québec reported that 15,000 customers remained without power as of 6 a.m. Thursday.
  Most of those affected live in Montreal (7,716 clients) and the South Shore (5,111 clients) and it was not immediately clear Thursday morning when power would be restored to their homes and b
  
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• Here’s what’s making headlines, #Montreal: Your news, weather, & traffic update for 8:30am https://t.co/whAh0ETW96

  30-08-2018 14:34
  
  Here’s what’s making headlines, #Montreal: Your news, weather, & traffic update for 8:30am https://t.co/whAh0ETW96
  
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