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• More Turcot Interchange troubles ahead with unprecedented closures

  06-09-2018 23:50 via globalnews.ca
  About a dozen more weekend closures are planned for the Turcot in the months ahead -- the biggest coming in November.
  
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• Turcot project: Weekday closures in November will cause massive gridlock

  06-09-2018 23:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Motorists driving to or from downtown Montreal via Highway 20 around Remembrance Day weekend should make other plans or risk a commute they won’t soon forget.
  Transport Quebec is taking the unprecedented step of closing segments of the Turcot Interchange during the weekday rush hours, from the morning of Friday, Nov. 8 to Monday evening, Nov. 13, to allow for the dismantling of part of the expressway that runs over Highway 20.
  Till now, major work on the Turcot has been done on weekends to
  
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• Teenager dies after being struck by commuter train

  06-09-2018 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Sep 6: A 13-year-old boy is dead after he was struck by a commuter train Wednesday at the Bois-Franc station in Saint-Laurent. As Global’s Phil Carpenter reports, Montreal police say they believe the boy may have been distracted.
  
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• Montreal drivers beware: major road closures ahead

  06-09-2018 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Sep 6: The headaches of driving through the Turcot Interchange could soon get a lot worse. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, major highway closures are projected for several weekends this fall – and authorities are urging drivers to avoid the area during these crucial times.
  
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• Québec Solidaire promises massive $25B public transit expansion for Montreal

  06-09-2018 23:05 via cbc.ca
  The plan includes the construction of the proposed Pink Metro line, extending all existing Metro lines, building two new tramways, adding passenger ferries to the South Shore, and adding dedicated express bus lanes.
  
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• Teen struck by train at Bois Franc station could have been distracted: police

  06-09-2018 22:41 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal police say they believe a 13-year-old boy who was killed by a commuter train may have been distracted.
  
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• Hidden ownership loopholes make Canada a “pawn in global game of money laundering” report says

  06-09-2018 21:47 via globalnews.ca
  A new report says Canada must establish a registry identifying hidden owners of real estate in order to combat money laundering
  
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• Two men admit to killing Rwandan refugee over simple drug debt

  06-09-2018 21:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Two men who were set to undergo a lengthy murder trial before a jury next week at the Montreal courthouse opted instead on Thursday to admit to their roles in the violent death of Gilbert Nshimiyumukiza, a Rwandan refugee who had come to Canada to avoid the violence he witnessed in his home country.
  Nshimiyumukiza arrived in Montreal in 2009 looking to begin a new life after he witnessed his parents be killed as part of the genocide that ripped Rwanda apart. His new life in Canada began well but
  
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• Get ready for major Turcot Interchange closures over Remembrance Day weekend

  06-09-2018 21:42 via cbc.ca
  Sections of highways 15 and 20 and the new Route 136 at the Turcot Interchange will be closed in November as an elevated stretch of Highway 15 is dismantled.
  
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• The Pollcast: How the first weeks of Quebec's election went down

  06-09-2018 21:33 via cbc.ca
  On the latest episode of the Pollcast, the CBC's Jonathan Montpetit breaks down the first weeks of the Quebec election campaign, and Abacus Data's David Coletto discusses Canadians' views on NAFTA and the TransMountain pipeline expansion.
  
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• Montreal's anglo theatre scene turns over a new leaf with fall season

  06-09-2018 21:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Two Broadway smashes (the musical Once and A Doll’s House, Part 2) and two hits from London’s Royal Court Theatre (Choir Boy and The Children) lead Montreal’s anglo theatre season this fall. There’s plenty of diversity, too, with Black Theatre Workshop and Teesri Duniya Theatre leading the way, plus circus, clowns, encore performances from last summer’s Fringe festival and a visit from China’s leading theatre company. It’s also heartening to see two of o
  
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• Live – Quebec election blog: Researchers forecast a CAQ minority government

  06-09-2018 21:25 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Thursday, Sept. 6. It will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected]:20 p.m.: Number crunching
  Benjamin Forest has crunched the numbers and says he can make an educated guess about how your riding and the 124 others across Quebec would have voted if the election had been held last week.
  And the McGill associate geography professor says he can tell you with some certainty that Fran&cce
  
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• 'I want to come back for a good fight': ex-UFC champ Georges St-Pierre

  06-09-2018 20:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Fans hoping to see Quebecer Georges St-Pierre fight Conor McGregor or Khabib Nurmagomedov might be disappointed.
  The former UFC welterweight and middleweight champion played down reports he was interested in meeting the winner of the McGregor-Nurmagomedov showdown slated for UFC 229 on Oct. 6 in Las Vegas.
  “I didn’t say I was going to do it,” St-Pierre said Thursday. “People headlined me the wrong way, to sell articles. That’s the society we live in.”
  It doesn
  
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• Main prosecutors quit Viens Commission on Quebec's treatment of Indigenous people

  06-09-2018 20:53 via cbc.ca
  Christian Leblanc and Marie-Josée Barry-Gosselin served as chief counsel and assistant chief counsel of the Viens Commission, respectively. Their resignations go into effect Sept. 7.
  
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• N.D.G. massage therapist sentenced to 18 months for sexual assaults

  06-09-2018 20:48 via montrealgazette.com
  A man who operated as a massage therapist in Notre Dame de Graçe for years has been sentenced to an 18-month prison term for having sexually assaulted seven of his clients.
  David Kost admitted to having abused the women who sought his services to deal with pain they were experiencing. He operated his business out of his home. Quebec Court Judge Denis Mondor noted that the sexual assaults were carried out over a period of four years, from 2012 to 2016, and listed this as an aggravating fac
  
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• Opinion: Urban Indigenous people's concerns are all too often overlooked

  06-09-2018 20:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Many people seem to have the impression that Indigenous people in Quebec all live in communities (also called “reserves” within the meaning of the Indian Act of 1876). This is far from the reality. In fact, more than half of the Indigenous population resides in urban centres; some were born in the city and have always lived there, while others move there by choice to pursue their life goals. There continues to be a need to raise awareness of this reality among the various g
  
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• Exo customers get a break, thanks to a decade-old class action suit

  06-09-2018 20:43 via montrealgazette.com
  It might seem like a long time coming, but commuter-train users who were inconvenienced during a strike by Société de Transport de Montréal maintenance workers more than 10 years have won compensation for all riders this October.
  During the May 2007 strike, Agence métropolitaine de transport service was stopped during rush hour and at night. A class-action lawsuit targeted the STM, AMT and Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain.
  All Ex
  
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• Oscar-winner Spike Lee to attend Montreal International Black Film Festival

  06-09-2018 20:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Spike Lee will talk about his journey as a filmmaker and discuss technology and the world’s socio-economic environment during an appearance at the Montreal International Black Film Festival Sept. 26.
  Academy Award-winning Lee has been a guest at the festival two other times. He won the Grand Prix du Jury at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for BlacKkKlansman.
  Canada’s largest black film festival runs from Sept. 25-30 and features more than 70 films from 25 countries.
  The conversati
  
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• Postmedia says lockout imminent if union members vote no to new deal

  06-09-2018 20:32 via globalnews.ca
  In a letter released Thursday to unionized employees, Postmedia says that if a final offer proposed by the company is voted down then they will lock out employees on Sept. 10.
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ denies immigration plan aims to split families

  06-09-2018 20:28 via montrealgazette.com
  St-ALPHONSE-RODRIGUEZ — Elderly immigrants arriving in Quebec to join their families would be exempted from having to pass the new French tests that a Coalition Avenir Québec government plans to impose.
  And separating immigrant parents from their children, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration did in Mexico earlier this year, is out of the question here, CAQ Leader François Legault said.
  A day after saying he wants to extend his immigration reduction plan to i
  
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• Quebec farmers remind Ottawa their future's on the line at NAFTA talks

  06-09-2018 20:17 via cbc.ca
  Canada's farmers are getting older, and young farmers fear concessions made at the NAFTA table may make it far harder for them to stay in business.
  
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• David Saint-Jacques says family is biggest priority ahead of space station mission

  06-09-2018 19:26 via cbc.ca
  The first Canadian astronaut set to head to the International Space Station since Chris Hadfield is in the final stretch.
  
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• Montreal going to Supreme Court over 11-year-old, unpaid $83,000 bill

  06-09-2018 19:11 via montrealgazette.com
  An unpaid bill of $83,000 dating from 2007 will see the city of Montreal before the Supreme Court of Canada over the next few months.
  The high court agreed on Thursday to hear the case, which will pit the city against Octane, a Montreal public relations firm.
  Octane is claiming the $83,000 for the lease of technical equipment used during the launch in May of 2007 of the city transportation plan unveiled by then mayor Gérald Tremblay.
  Octane was also suing Richard Thériault, then th
  
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• Major gas leak in Côte Saint-Luc forces evacuations and power outages

  06-09-2018 19:05 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal firefighters responded to a major gas leak Thursday morning on Kildare Road near Cavendish Boulevard.
  
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• Major gas leak in Côte Saint-Luc forces evacuations and power cuts

  06-09-2018 19:05 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal firefighters responded to a major gas leak Thursday morning on Kildare Road near Cavendish Boulevard.
  
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• Brownstein: Chelsea Handler brings pot-and-politics tour to Montreal

  06-09-2018 18:58 via montrealgazette.com
  There had been some speculation that comedian and political activist Chelsea Handler was undertaking a seven-city tour of Canada this fall because she just might be motivated to bolt the U.S. for these relatively more placid parts.
  “I’m always considering moving to Canada, but I just have to figure out which coast I want to go to — which coast will be less affected by climate change,” says a somewhat serious-sounding Handler, who will be hitting Théâtre St-De
  
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• Live – Quebec election blog: Small-people association speaks out against 'dwarf' event

  06-09-2018 18:35 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Thursday, Sept. 6. It will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected]:35 a.m. Small people speak out
  A Quebec association that represents people of short stature is speaking out.
  It’s reacting to articles about a bar owner (and now ex-CAQ candidate) who regularly held Nain-Jean-Baptiste events that featured small people (nain is French for dwarf) on Quebec’s June 24th holi
  
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• Free in Montreal Sept. 7-9: Dance, food, fashion, repeat

  06-09-2018 18:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Mad Heads and more
  This weekend’s Ukrainian Festival in Parc Beaubien has some pretty rich programming, from dance ensembles to rock bands to traditional music to Ukrainian cuisine. And that’s just the beginning.
  Rendez-vous with your Caribbean neighbours
  Speaking of art, dance and gastronomy, Afrofest Montreal is an open-air event celebrating the Afro-Caribbean and Haitian communities of Montreal. Expect drumming, dancing and workshops Saturday and Sunday at Espace Mushagalusa and F
  
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• Turcot project: Unprecedented weekday closure coming in November

  06-09-2018 18:19 via montrealgazette.com
  Transports Quebec is taking the unprecedented step of closing large parts of the Turcot Interchange during the weekday rush hours, from Friday morning, Nov. 8, up to an including Monday evening, Nov. 13.
  They are strongly advising motorists to find alternative routes or modes of transportation, particularly public transportation, to avoid what is expected to be massive gridlock.
  As part of the multi-year rebuilding of the Turcot, expected to be completed at the end of 2020, the old Highway 15 &m
  
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• Montreal police release surveillance video in bid to catch arsonist

  06-09-2018 18:17 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal police arson squad have made public a surveillance camera video in an effort to track down a man who set fire to a car parked in a private driveway in Dollard-des-Ormeaux.
  The 29-second clip shows the man walking onto the driveway from the street, producing a container of flammable fluid and then pouring it into the channel between the vehicle’s windshield and hood. He then ignites the fluid and flees.
  The incident occurred around 1:15 a.m. on May 31.
  Anyone with any informati
  
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• TIFF 2018: Xavier Dolan, Kim Nguyen lead strong Quebec contingent

  06-09-2018 18:16 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — Every year is a big year for Quebec films at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and 2018 is no exception.
  High-profile English-language releases from two of our province’s best-known directors, a return to form from the legendary Denys Arcand and a handful of notable indie gems will screen at the mammoth movie event, which kicks off Thursday and runs through Sept. 16.
  TIFF lucked out this year as Xavier Dolan’s long-awaited English debut The Death and Lif
  
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• Montreal police looking for suspect who set fire to SUV in DDO

  06-09-2018 18:13 via cbc.ca
  Security camera footage released by police shows a man pouring liquid on the hood of a parked SUV and setting it on fire. The incident took place in May in Dollard-des-Ormeaux.
  
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• Hotel Intel: Feel the bliss without the high at cannabis-centric spa

  06-09-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Are you in the market for a blissed out cannabis experience?
  I have the perfect place. You can chill all day in your bathrobe. And, if you get the munchies, there are homemade chocolate chip cookies and banana bread. Plus, you’ll be relaxed to the max. But this trip is not about getting stoned on pot.
  It’s about a sojourn to Ste. Anne’s Spa, the epitome of a gracious getaway. It’s a deluxe country estate in central Ontario, embracing picturesque meadows and gently ro
  
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• Five things to do in Montreal Sept. 7-9: Eat, drink and dance, dance, dance

  06-09-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It looks like a perfect weekend to be out and about in the city, with sunny skies and seasonal temperatures — but cool in the evenings, so don’t forget to bring a sweater or jacket.
  Rythmopolis
  In what is being billed as “a multisensory, immersive and participative experience of the most avant-garde,” Rythmopolis is serving up music and digital art featuring some 50 percussionists with “interconnected projections responding to the impulses of the musicians
  
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• Live – Quebec election blog: PQ celebrates golden jubilee as voters look to new parties

  06-09-2018 17:15 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Thursday, Sept. 6. It will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected]:15 a.m.: Farmers, children and transit
  The Liberals are reaching out to farmers, promising a new tax credit for farmers, prevent speculation on farmland and adjust financial.
  The Parti Québécois will be talking about its agriculture policy later today.
  The Coalition Avenir Québec says it will&nb
  
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• UPDATE: Tributes pour in for former PQ cabinet minister Lise Payette

  06-09-2018 17:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Lise Payette, a Quebec journalist, broadcaster, author and former Parti Québécois cabinet minister died Wednesday at the age of 87.
  Payette held several portfolios in a succession of PQ governments, including status of women, consumer affairs and social development.
  Among her most enduring contributions while in government was a revision of the Quebec Civil Code that no longer made it obligatory for a woman to assume her husband’s family name, the creation of no-fault automob
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ vows to boost aid to parents of disabled children

  06-09-2018 17:12 via montrealgazette.com
  St-ALFONSE-DE-RODRIQUEZ — A Coalition Avenir Québec government would boost a government aid program for parents of disabled children by $22 million.
  The money would allow more Quebec parents to access the subsidy, CAQ Leader François Legault told reporters.
  “We will leave nobody behind,” Legault said. “The aid we’re offering will be adjusted depending on the severity of the child’s handicap.”
  The CAQ plan responds to complaints by the paren
  
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• 'It's not fair': Cree council calls referendum on controversial powwow

  06-09-2018 17:11 via cbc.ca
  In a move threatening to divide neighbours in a small Cree village in Quebec, residents are being asked to vote on whether a traditional powwow should be allowed to go ahead.
  
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• Côte-St-Luc gas leak cuts power to 12,000 homes

  06-09-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A gas leak at Cavendish Blvd. and Kildare Rd. in Côte-St-Luc forced Hydro-Québec to cut power to 12,000 clients in Montreal’s west end Thursday morning.
  The leak occurred around 8 a.m. and firefighters required that power in the area be shut before they attempted to cap the breach.
  The blackout affects users in Hampstead, Côte-St-Luc and much of the Monkland Village neighbourhood in N.D.G.
  By 10 a.m. Hydro-Québec was reporting the number of clients affec
  
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• Trying to make a Beatles’ dream come true

  06-09-2018 16:53 via globalnews.ca
  After playing his idol in a Beatles tribute band for 16 years, Montrealer John Oriettas appealed to the real Paul McCartney to play with him on stage. Find out more with Global’s Laura Casella and Montreal musician John Oriettas.
  
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• Home offices to fit your lifestyle

  06-09-2018 16:36 via globalnews.ca
  Always wanted a home office but lack the space? Global’s Laura Casella and décor expert Karl Lohnes discuss the perfect home office or study nook, no matter the size of your dwelling.
  
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• Canada's dairy farmers could be Trudeau's NAFTA bargaining chip

  06-09-2018 16:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Henry Holtmann has seen this before — Canada carving off access to its dairy market as a bargaining chip, and using it in trade talks. Now it could happen again.
  More than 2,500 kilometres from Washington, the third-generation Canadian dairy farmer is closely watching North American Free Trade Agreement talks, where U.S. President Donald Trump has taken aim repeatedly at his sector. Canada could once again barter away a piece of its restricted — and lucrative — dairy market, ov
  
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• Showcasing emerging Montreal artists

  06-09-2018 16:11 via globalnews.ca
  Meet the winner of this year’s Montreal regional Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series and find out more about emerging artists in the city with art curator Matthew Israel and Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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