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• Quebec agrees to replace French-only highway signs with pictograms

  11-09-2018 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  People who live in Montreal generally understand what they mean, but what about all the people who have no understanding of French?
  
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• Canadiens' TV ad rates down 29 per cent as fans tune out bad team

  11-09-2018 23:39 via cbc.ca
  Advertising rates for Montreal Canadiens games have plummeted due to audience fallout after the Habs' lacklustre performance last season, one media company says.
  
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• Campaign signs on 'sacred' Black Rock site to be removed after outcry

  11-09-2018 23:39 via cbc.ca
  Members of Montreal’s Irish community say that new campaign posters on a sacred site commemorating the death of 6,000 Irish people is disrespectful — and they should be removed immediately.
  
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• Quebec election notebook: Desecrating graves, list-checking and campaign strikes

  11-09-2018 23:36
  Victor Boyle started hearing about it early Tuesday morning via Facebook.
  Large election signs — two touting the Parti Québécois, one the Liberals — had popped up next to the Black Rock in the median of Bridge St. near the Victoria Bridge.One of the most solemn places for Montreal’s Irish community, the boulder commemorates the 6,000 poor Irish immigrants who escaped the Great Famine only to die of typhus in Montreal. They were buried in mass graves
  
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• 3 Quebec school boards say they're ready to teach new sex-ed program

  11-09-2018 23:30 via cbc.ca
  Three Montreal-area school boards say they're ready to teach Quebec's new sex-ed curriculum, but some teachers' unions say educators aren't prepared to implement it this school year.
  
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• Quebec election blog Sept. 11: Irish denounce campaign signs in Black Rock cemetery

  11-09-2018 23:27
  This was the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Tuesday, Sept. 11.4:45 p.m.: Pre-election strikes?
  Quebec’s two major television networks may be hit by strikes during the election campaign.
  About 800 workers at TVA, including journalists and administrative workers, may strike on Sept. 22.
  That’s the same day that 3,000 employees at Radio-Canada, including journalists and technicians, are to hold a meeting and perhaps hold a strike vote, Le Devoir
  
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• Quebec election: Couillard vows to stick to values of 'majority of Quebecers'

  11-09-2018 23:04
  The polls may show that Quebecers want change, but Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard insists that’s what his government has been giving them.
  “Look at Quebec today, in 2018, compared with Quebec in 2014,” he said on Tuesday. “Quebec has been transformed by the policies and the good management of our government.”
  But a poll released on Tuesday morning suggests that message isn’t resonating with voters and that, as the provincial election campaign reaches its ha
  
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• 'Get our voices heard': 2 Inuit women make history in Quebec election

  11-09-2018 23:01 via cbc.ca
  Two women make history as the first female Inuit candidates in a Quebec election.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Brendan Gallagher should be next captain of the Canadiens

  11-09-2018 22:59
  If I had a vote for the next captain of the Canadiens it would go to Brendan Gallagher.
  Of course, I don’t have a vote and I don’t think any of the Canadiens players will, either, when the team gets around to naming a new captain to replace Max Pacioretty, who was traded to the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday. Expect management to name the next captain.
  Pacioretty was voted captain by his teammates three years ago, but he wouldn’t have been GM Marc Bergevin’s choice. Berge
  
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• Threat that closed Beaconsfield High was aimed at U.S. school

  11-09-2018 22:03
  Beaconsfield High School was closed Tuesday morning after Montreal police alerted school officials about a social media post that threatened students.
  But the threat against BHS on the West Island was unfounded, police said on Tuesday afternoon following an investigation.
  There was a threat made on Monday against a high school with the initials BHS, but it was directed at students at Brunswick High School in Georgia.
  Parents of children in schools with the initials BHS from Kentucky to Ontario w
  
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• Gertrude Bourdon in tight race in Quebec City riding Jean-Lesage

  11-09-2018 22:02 via globalnews.ca
  Gertrude Bourdon, Liberal candidate in Jean-Lesage in Quebec City, will become the next health minister if the Liberals form the government. But she has to get elected first. 
  
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• Man charged in bizarre Mile End death and dismemberment led nomadic life

  11-09-2018 21:59
  A murder case brought against a travelling musician who is alleged to have killed and dismembered a fellow bandmate inside an apartment they were sharing in Mile End weeks before police even knew the victim was missing is scheduled to return before a judge at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday.
  Earlier this month, Raymond Henry Muller, 51, was charged with the first-degree murder of Cedric Gagnon, a fellow musician. According to reports, both men were part of a Montreal band called Pirates! Th
  
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• Russell Copeman is named QESBA executive director

  11-09-2018 21:57
  The Quebec English School Boards Association (QESBA) has named former politician Russell Copeman as its new executive director.
  The association — which represents 100,000 students in 340 elementary schools, high schools and adult and vocational centres across the province — made the announcement Tuesday. The position had been vacant for 17 months. Copeman was a longtime MNA for the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce riding and served as the Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dam
  
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• Comic Vision

  11-09-2018 21:25 via globalnews.ca
  Comic Vision is our coast to coast fundraising tour that turns laughter into results. Returning to Montreal, this year’s show at The Club Soda will be hosted by Jeff Schouela and headline comedians Gino Durante, David Pryde, and Mélanie Couture. This fundraising night supports the Foundation Fighting Blindness. Research into blinding eye diseases is advancing...
  
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• BHS parent recounts frightful morning after social media threat shuts down school

  11-09-2018 21:21 via globalnews.ca
  Christian Besner, parent of two Beaconsfield High School students recounts frightful morning after social media threat shuts down their school Tuesday morning.
  
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• Liberals promise free public transit for seniors and students

  11-09-2018 21:12 via cbc.ca
  Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard also announced plans for a 'Mobility Passport,' a single pass that would give Quebecers access to a variety of transit services across the province.
  
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• Watch — Quebec election: Straight talk on Manon Massé

  11-09-2018 21:10
  In the first of our profiles of the leaders of Quebec’s four major party leaders, Michelle Lalonde offered this extensive profile of Manon Massé, the co-spokesperson for Québec solidaire.
  Writes Lalonde: “Much has been made of the fact that Massé does not conform to the stereotype of the carefully groomed and packaged politician. She favours tunics and trousers over power suits or tailored dresses, she buys her clothes at friperies, and she doesn’t dye
  
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• Habs GM says Max Pacioretty asked for trade

  11-09-2018 21:09 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin said Monday that captain Max Pacioretty had requested a trade last season.
  
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• ‘Trades are part of the business’: Julien reacts to Pacioretty leaving Habs

  11-09-2018 21:04 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal Canadiens coach Claude Julien talks about the blockbuster Max Pacioretty trade at the Habs annual golf tournament.
  
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• Pacioretty trade took 2 months to complete and came down to wire

  11-09-2018 20:46
  While Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin obviously believes his team will have a better “attitude” now that Max Pacioretty is gone, Vegas Golden Knights GM George McPhee said he is thrilled to have the former Montreal captain on his team.
  After saying “attitude” was the biggest problem with the Canadiens’ last season when they finished 28th overall in the NHL standings, Bergevin traded his captain to the Golden Knights on Monday in exchange for veteran win
  
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• Quebec election notebook: Jobless numbers, debate prep and Pacioretty vs. Subban

  11-09-2018 20:44
  Last week, we put into context some of the numbers Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault uses when discussing immigrants and the French language.
  Here’s a look at another number.
  On Friday, Legault suggested 15 per cent of new immigrants to Quebec are unemployed during their first years in Quebec. He used the figure when discussing his plan to cut immigration by 20 per cent (10,000 fewer immigrants per year).
  But just as newcomers tend to le
  
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• Baby daughter helps Canadiens' Andrew Shaw deal with recovery

  11-09-2018 20:26
  Andrew Shaw loves being a new dad.
  “It’s good. The wife’s a little tired … she’s the one that gets up with her. But it’s fun,” Shaw said before the start of the Canadiens’ golf tournament Monday at Laval-sur-le-Lac. “It’s relaxing. It’s nice being in bed on a Saturday night in summer by 11 o’clock. She’s going to get you up pretty early, but it’s been fun. She’s awesome. She laughs a lot. She loves her foo
  
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• New Canadiens Tatar, Suzuki ready to make impact in Montreal

  11-09-2018 20:22 via cbc.ca
  Forwards Tomas Tatar and Nick Suzuki, acquired from the Vegas Golden Knights along with a draft pick in the deal for ex-captain Max Pacioretty early Monday morning, told reporters on Tuesday that they're pumped to hit the ice for camp later this week.
  
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• Quebec election: Legault challenges Couillard on immigration

  11-09-2018 20:17
  LAVAL — A day after saying he doesn’t believe it’s the ballot question of the election, François Legault is challenging Quebec Liberal Party Leader Philippe Couillard to announce his plans for immigration in the province.
  “A campaign is an important moment to do debates, but Mr. Couillard doesn’t seem to want to do any debates on the number of immigrants,” the Coalition Avenir Québec leader said Tuesday morning.
  “I think Quebecers hav
  
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• Live – Quebec election blog: Irish denounce campaign signs in Black Rock cemetery

  11-09-2018 20:15
  This is the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Tuesday, Sept. 11. It will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected]:45 p.m.: Time to check the list
  This week, Elections Quebec is sending out voter-information kits to every household in the province.
  The package includes a list of people at your address who are registered to vote, as well as info about how to make changes to the electoral list and how and when to vote.
  You can also
  
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• West Island community calendar for the week of Sept. 12

  11-09-2018 20:00
  Galleries and exhibitions
  The Kirkland Library, 17100 Hymus Blvd., presents an exhibit of paintings by Andrea Lavoie until Sept. 29. Vernissage on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. Call 514-630-2726, local 3216.
  The Stewart Hall Art Gallery, 176 Lakeshore Rd. in Pointe-Claire, presents the exhibition Trajectoires. Continues until Oct. 14. Call 514-630-1220.
  Montreal Aviation Museum on McGill University’s Macdonald campus, 21111 Lakeshore Rd. in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, is open to the public on Mon
  
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• Montreal North businesses want to delay bike path

  11-09-2018 19:57 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Sep 11: A group of Montreal North businesses is asking borough council to take another look at a planned bike path. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports.
  
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• Quebec election: Free public transit for seniors, students: Liberals

  11-09-2018 19:46
  A re-elected Liberal government would give free public transit to seniors and students, leader Philippe Couillard said on Tuesday.
  The party would also develop an application and smart card system — like the Opus card used by the STM — that would be accepted by public transit agencies across the province.
  The Liberals would also encourage the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec to begin studying the expansion of the Réseau express métrop
  
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• Public Lecture – What mortality can teach us about living.

  11-09-2018 19:46 via globalnews.ca
  Speaker – Dr. Ira Byock
  
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• Canada-EU trade deal boosts container traffic at Montreal port: Officials

  11-09-2018 19:40 via globalnews.ca
  The free trade deal between Canada and the European Union has boosted container shipping and prompted a hiring spree at the docks.
  
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• Watch: Bergevin, Molson and Julien on the big trade and the next big C

  11-09-2018 19:19
  Hours after the Montreal Canadiens announced they had traded captain Max Pacioretty to the Las Vegas Golden Knights, the players and brass gathered for the hockey club’s annual golf tournament at Laval sur le Lac.
  The Montreal Gazette’s Stu Cowan and Pat Hickey, along with Dave Sidaway, asked general manager Marc Bergevin, franchise owner Geoff Molson and coach Claude Julien about the trade (and who asked for it), about incoming Habs Tomas Tatar and Nick Suzuki and who will wear
  
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• Quebec election campaign halfway done as 1st debate looms large

  11-09-2018 19:17 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's 39-day election campaign has reached the halfway point.
  
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• Will Gallagher be Habs’ next captain?

  11-09-2018 19:15 via globalnews.ca
  Brendan Gallagher addressed rumours he could be wearing the `C` for captain in light of Pacioretty trade at the Canadiens pre-season golf tournament.
  
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• Max Domi excited to play for Montreal Canadiens

  11-09-2018 19:15 via globalnews.ca
  Max Domi speaks to media at the annual Montreal Canadiens’ golf tournament about his new team.
  
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• An end to mandatory parking spots at new Ville-Marie housing developments

  11-09-2018 19:14 via cbc.ca
  Condo developers will no longer be required to build a minimum number of parking spots at new housing projects in Ville-Marie, as the Montreal borough plans to change that requirement today.
  
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• Montreal North businesses ask borough to delay Industriel Boul. bike path

  11-09-2018 19:03 via globalnews.ca
  Business owners in the area say a bike lane in the middle of an industrial area just doesn't make any sense.
  
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• Brownstein: Pacioretty trade trumps all other talk in town, even about Trump

  11-09-2018 18:04
  Forget the Quebec election campaign. Forget NAFTA. Forget Oval Office lunacy. The Max Pacioretty trade seemed to pretty much trump other conversations in town Monday, even Trump talk.
  Though some weren’t aware of the players the Canadiens received from the Vegas Golden Knights in return for the former team captain — it was forward Tomas Tatar, junior prospect Nick Suzuki and a second-round pick at the 2019 NHL Entry Draft — mostly everyone had an opinion.
  Jon Cercone, co-owner
  
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• Update: Threat that closed Beaconsfield High might have originated in U.S.

  11-09-2018 17:57
  Beaconsfield High School was closed on Tuesday morning after Montreal police alerted school officials about a social media post that threatened students.
  Police are still investigating, but the violent threat against BHS on the West Island appears to have been unfounded. There was a threat made on Monday against a high school with the initials BHS, but it was directed at students at Brunswick High School in Georgia. However, Montreal police would not confirm that the threats were the same.
  Paren
  
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• Quebec's leading parties score lowest on environmental report card

  11-09-2018 17:50 via cbc.ca
  The Coalition Avenir Québec and the Liberals had the lowest scores in an evaluation of the political parties’ environmental policies, conducted by a coalition of environmental groups, including Équiterre and the David Suzuki Foundation.
  
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• Canadiens' Claude Julien faces new challenges as team rebuilds

  11-09-2018 17:35
  When Claude Julien was hired to replace Michel Therrien as coach of the Canadiens on Feb. 14, 2017, the team was still in first place in the Atlantic Division with a 31-19-8 record.
  The Canadiens were slumping, with a 1-5-1 record in their last seven games and were 18-18-7 since starting the season 13-1-1. The Canadiens went 16-7-1 under Julien to finish first in the Atlantic Division with 103 points before being eliminated in six games by the New York Rangers in the first round of the playoffs.
  
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• Quebec election: Restored IVF program would offer 1 free cycle, CAQ says

  11-09-2018 17:21
  LAVAL — A Coalition Avenir Québec government would look to reinstate a public IVF program and offer at least the first cycle for free to all Quebecers, leader François Legault announced Tuesday morning.
  Legault said the program would be offered as of 2020 and estimated the promise would cost the government $16 million. The Parti Québécois made a similar promise this campaign.
  Legault said the Liberal government cut Quebec’s public IVF program, wh
  
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• Live – Quebec election blog: Charts explain Legault's nationalist shift on immigration, French language

  11-09-2018 17:12
  This is the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Tuesday, Sept. 11. It will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected]:10 a.m.: Digging into the poll numbers
  Ah, now it makes sense.
  The reasons behind some of the recent campaign twists in the Coaltion Avenir Québec campaign are clearer thanks to the new Léger poll for the Montreal Gazette and Le Devoir.
  Last week, CAQ leader François Legault unexpectedly started
  
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• Montreal police confirm threat meant for U.S. school reason behind Beaconsfield High School shutdown

  11-09-2018 16:21 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal police received a call about threats that had allegedly been made on social media.
  
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• Beaconsfield High School closed as police investigate social media threats

  11-09-2018 16:21 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal police received a call about threats that had allegedly been made on social media.
  
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• Update: Beaconsfield High closed after threatening social media post

  11-09-2018 15:52
  Beaconsfield High School was closed on Tuesday morning after Montreal police alerted school officials about a threatening social media post.
  “Due to a posting on a social media platform concerning BHS, the police arrived and are around the school in an active investigation,” said Jim Hendry, a spokesperson for the Lester B. Pearson School Board.
  “Everybody is safe. We are waiting for police to give us more information.”
  Someone saw the post and transmitted the information
  
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• Quebec election: Free public transit for seniors, students, Liberals pledge

  11-09-2018 15:51
  A re-elected Liberal government would give free public transit to seniors and students, Leader Philippe Couillard said on Tuesday.
  The party would also develop an application and smart card system — like the Opus card used by the STM — that would be accepted by public transit agencies across the province.
  The Liberals would also encourage the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec to begin studying expanding the Réseau express métropolitain
  
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