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• Impact players need to keep their eyes on the prize, head coach says

  21-09-2018 23:54
  As the Montreal Impact drive toward the Major Soccer League playoffs, coach Rémi Garde has sent a clear message to his players — don’t let confidence turn into complacency.
  Winners of two in a row, the Montreal Impact are feeling positive heading into the final five games of the season, starting Saturday against New York City FC (7:30 p.m., TVA Sports).
  Montreal (12-14-3) is holding on to the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, four points clear of seventh-place D.C.
  
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• Quebec Liberal leader defends $75 weekly grocery bill comments

  21-09-2018 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Sep 21: Quebec Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard claims it is possible for a parent and two teenagers to survive on $75 of groceries each week. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, Couillard had to defend his stance on the campaign trail.
  
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• Tornado in Ottawa-Gatineau leaves tens of thousands without power, 6 in hospital

  21-09-2018 23:49 via cbc.ca
  Two people remained in critical condition in hospital and more than 170,000 were still without power Saturday, a day after a tornado ripped through parts of the Ottawa and Gatineau, Que., area.
  
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• 'Looks as if there was never a house there': Ottawa-Gatineau tornado causes mass power outages, 6 in hospital

  21-09-2018 23:49 via cbc.ca
  Two people remained in critical condition in hospital and tens of thousands were still without power Saturday, a day after a tornado ripped through parts of the Ottawa and Gatineau, Que., area.
  
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• 'Devastating' tornado tears through Ottawa-Gatineau

  21-09-2018 23:49 via cbc.ca
  A tornado tore through parts of Ottawa and Gatineau, Que., on Friday, leaving two people in critical condition, flattening buildings and knocking out power for almost 150,000 homes and businesses.
  
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• SQ has located one of the vehicles sought in Sutton kidnapping

  21-09-2018 23:21
  One of two vehicles the Sûreté du Québec were searching for in connection with the abduction of a 12-year-old girl in Sutton on Wednesday morning has been found.
  The SQ located the Dodge Caravan on Friday morning, however the police force provided no details of how or where the vehicle was found.
  The details are part of the investigation, SQ spokesperson Sgt. Ingrid Asselin said. There have been no arrests in connection with the case, she added.
  The authorities are still
  
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• Montreal culinary artisans help Accueil Bonneau show off their honey

  21-09-2018 23:16
  Sweet treats made with honey produced at an urban beehive operated by Accueil Bonneau will be on the menu on Sunday afternoon as the Mois du miel de Bonneau is launched in the Old Port.
  From Oct. 1 through 31, six of Montreal’s top chocolate, pastry and ice cream artisans — Les chocolats de Chloé, Patrice Pâtissier, Les Givrés, Crémy pâtisserie, La Fabrique Arhoma and Fous Desserts — will use honey harvested by the apprentice
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée asks anglos to take a chance on PQ

  21-09-2018 23:14
  Jean-François Lisée is in the political fight of his life.
  With just days to go before the Oct. 1 election, the Parti Québécois leader has to close a nearly double-digit polling gap if he hopes to become the next premier. And he must do so while fending off a challenge from a sovereignist party on his left flank.
  But perhaps the party’s biggest obstacle isn’t the front-running Coalition Avenir Québec, their arch-rival Liberals or Québec solid
  
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• Québec Solidaire reveals immigration platform

  21-09-2018 23:12 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Sep 21: Québec Solidaire has unveiled their immigration platform a day after the third and final debate. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, the party said it was not going to talk about the issue at all – but now they will.
  
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• Montreal parents worried about quality of teachers

  21-09-2018 23:12 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Sep 21: In Montreal’s west end, some parents are worried their kids’ teachers aren’t making the grade. As Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports, Roslyn Elementary School in Westmount started the year with several permanent positions unfilled. The school board says it’s a struggle to find qualified staff.
  
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• Montreal marathon, Champlain Bridge closure to create traffic headache this weekend

  21-09-2018 23:10 via cbc.ca
  Weekend motorists headed into Montreal should be ready for traffic as, along with Turcot Interchange work that gets underway Friday night, the Champlain Bridge will be closed Sunday morning — all while the Montreal marathon runs through the city.
  
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• Weather warning: Threat of thunderstorm, winds of up to 90 km/h

  21-09-2018 23:06
  Environment Canada says an intense cold front tracking over Quebec will produce wind gusts of up to 90 km/h on Friday evening.
  The federal agency is warning that any object that could be damaged or turned into a projectile by high winds should be secured and that the intensity of the expected winds can cause branches to break off trees.
  The wind warning includes the greater Montreal region, Richelieu Valley, the Laurentians and Lanaudière, Mauricie, Bois-Francs, Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean,
  
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• Train safety: Exo to close three Montreal pedestrian crossings

  21-09-2018 22:58
  In the wake of a Sept. 5 collision that killed a 13-year-old boy, Exo — the region’s train authority — is closing three pedestrian crossings at three stations on the Deux-Montagnes Line.
  While Exo won’t speculate on the cause of the Sept. 5 fatality, police reports have reported the boy had earbuds on and was looking at his phone.
  Since the death, Exo posted 12 guards at the six crossings at the Bois-Franc, Du Ruisseau and Roxboro—Pierrefonds stations — the on
  
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• Stu Cowan: Canadiens' Max Domi: 'I didn't mean to hurt him.' Really?

  21-09-2018 22:56
  “I didn’t mean to hurt him.”
  Those words are spoken by just about every NHL player who is suspended for injuring an opponent and the Canadiens’ Max Domi is no exception.
  “It’s a real tough situation, obviously, for everyone involved,” Domi said after practice Friday in Brossard about being suspended by the NHL for five pre-season games after sucker-punching Florida defenceman Aaron Ekblad in the face during a 5-2 loss to the Panthers Wednesday night at t
  
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• Jean-Francois Lisée continues attack on new target: Québec Solidaire

  21-09-2018 22:56 via cbc.ca
  Lisée wouldn't backing off Friday from his questioning — first introduced at Thursday's leaders debate — of who's "really pulling the strings" in rival party Québec Solidaire.
  
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• Meet the Montreal barber who turns a haircut into a Caribbean dance party

  21-09-2018 22:55 via cbc.ca
  Step inside Barberito on a Friday evening and it will sound more like a Caribbean nightclub than a Montreal hair salon.
  
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• Woman killed by car in Costco parking lot in Terrebonne

  21-09-2018 22:54
  A 68-year-old woman walking in the parking lot of a Costco store in Terrebonne was struck and killed by a car on Friday.
  The incident happened just after 11 a.m., Terrebonne police said.
  The woman was pronounced dead in hospital.
  The 72-year-old driver was questioned by the police, who say they are interviewing witnesses at the busy store on Montée des Pionniers in the north shore municipality.
  There have been no arrests.
  
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• Sûreté du Québec won't order officers to remove offensive symbol from uniforms

  21-09-2018 22:30 via cbc.ca
  Quebec’s provincial police executive won’t give the order to its members to stop wearing a symbol on their uniforms which the force itself describes as “affront” to Indigenous communities.
  
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• Couillard doubles down on notion that $75 weekly grocery bill is possible

  21-09-2018 21:04 via globalnews.ca
  One day after being ridiculed for saying it was possible to feed a family of three on $75 a week, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard is maintaining his stance.
  
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• Editorial: Religious freedom is a matter of rights

  21-09-2018 20:44
  Of all of the important issues in this campaign, one was largely flying under the radar — until it was the subject of a highly revealing exchange in Thursday’s third and final debate. Until then, precious little had been said about the fact that three of the four main parties vying for votes Oct. 1 would forbid those wielding state authority from wearing visible signs of their religions.
  That lack of discussion was disconcerting. In the 2014 election, the Parti Québécoi
  
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• iPhone fans line up for new phone, Apple Watch

  21-09-2018 20:18 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Sep 21: Die-hard iPhone fans lined up in the rain at the Apple store in Montreal hoping to get their hands on two new products. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports.
  
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• What the Puck: Max Domi suspension digs deeper hole for Canadiens

  21-09-2018 20:10
  Canadiens newcomer Max Domi should be ashamed of himself.
  But I’m not giving up on the kid. He still could contribute to this team, as long as he learns a hard lesson from what happened this week. Much as it pains me to agree with one of the highest-profile members of the Toronto media hockey mafia, I have to admit that TSN’s Darren Dreger nailed it when he said: “There’s no game where a sucker punch like that is acceptable … that is a dangerous, dangerous non-hock
  
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• Quebec Solidaire wades into immigration debate on Day 30 of campaign

  21-09-2018 20:04 via globalnews.ca
  A day after the third and final leaders debate, Quebec Solidaire has unveiled their immigration platform. Up until now, the party has said it was not going to talk about the issue at all.
  
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• iPhone fans brave bad weather to get new phone, Apple Watch

  21-09-2018 19:54 via globalnews.ca
  iPhone fans lined up in the rain at the Apple store on Ste. Catherine Street, hoping to get their hands on two new products which just went on sale
  
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• Dance: Sex, death and gamekeepers as Lady Chatterley and Giselle ignite the stage

  21-09-2018 19:45
  There’s an old joke about religious puritans forbidding sex standing up because it might lead to dancing. English choreographer Cathy Marston is unlikely to endear herself to such people with her newly commissioned ballet Lady Chatterley’s Lover, the world première of which opens Les Grands Ballets’ 2018/19 season in October. It is, of course, based on one of the most celebrated erotic novels in world literature and, previously, one of the most maligned.
  It wasn’t
  
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• Côte-des-Neiges resident sentenced for stockpile of AK47 parts

  21-09-2018 19:35
  A 49-year-old man who was found to be in possession of the parts required to assemble enough automatic assault rifles to supply a small army was sentenced on Friday to an overall 10-year prison term.
  Anatoliy Vdovin, a man who was prone to making rude outbursts while two of his criminal cases were before the courts, shrugged off the sentence Quebec Court Judge Linda Despots delivered at the Montreal courthouse and reminded her that he has requested an appeal of her decision to convict him.
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• Conservative Party of Quebec tries to win over voters with tax cuts, education reform

  21-09-2018 19:06 via cbc.ca
  Pouliot, who has been the party leader since 2013, is running in the Quebec City riding of Chauveau. He is one of several fringe parties competing to take a portion of the votes away from the four main contenders.
  
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• SQ find van connected to Sutton kidnapping of 12-year-old girl

  21-09-2018 19:01 via cbc.ca
  Quebec’s provincial police have located one of two vehicles that, they say, are connected to the Wednesday’s ransom-motivated kidnapping.
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée takes aim at Québec solidaire's 'free ride'

  21-09-2018 18:58
  Is Québec solidaire getting a free ride in this election?
  “Yes!”
  It was an uncharacteristically curt answer from the Parti Québécois leader. Jean-François Lisée continued his line of attack Friday against the party that’s been creeping up the polls as voters prepare to cast their ballots on Oct. 1.
  “There’s very little scrutiny … no one really asks the question of who their chief is,” Lisée said. “The pers
  
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• Will Smith to jump out of a helicopter for his 50th birthday

  21-09-2018 18:53 via globalnews.ca
  If you ever wanted to bungee jump out of a helicopter with Will Smith, now's your chance.
  
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• Twelve years for Lachine man who killed girlfriend's son with spear

  21-09-2018 18:53
  A 44-year-old Lachine resident received a sentence of more than 12 years on Friday after a Quebec Superior Court judge determined he is remorseful and had expressed sincere regret for having killed his girlfriend’s adult son in a drunken rage.
  Philippe Gloutney was facing the possibility of a lengthier sentence because he also stabbed his girlfriend, Christine Brooks, with the same spear he used to kill her 38-year-old son, Lee-Christopher Larocque, on Nov. 6, 2015. Last week Crown prosecu
  
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• Quebec election: QS says Liberals diverting federal immigration funds

  21-09-2018 18:50
  Québec Solidaire co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said on Friday that the Quebec Liberal government “diverted federal funding” destined for immigration integration programs in the province.
  Nadeau-Dubois made the claim as he unveiled his party’s plans to better integrate immigrants into Quebec society.
  According to QS, the amount of money spent since 2004 by Quebec’s immigration ministry on integration programs is far less than that provided by Ottawa, and Nad
  
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• Macpherson: Free-falling Frank's barf-bag campaign

  21-09-2018 18:17
  Baseball great Yogi Berra said two things that apply to the Oct. 1 Quebec general election.
  One is “it ain’t over ‘til it’s over.” But if you hear a politician quote that one, then according to Macpherson’s First Rule of Politics, it already is over, at least for them.
  Berra also said, explaining why he was blinded by the early-setting sun in an October-afternoon World Series game, that “it gets late early out there.”
  And it’s getting late ea
  
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• Wine: Bordeaux had a very good year in 2015

  21-09-2018 18:00
  After the stunning perfection of the 2010 vintage, the Bordeaux region ran through a string of so-so vintages up to 2015. They weren’t bad, but none of them offered up the luxurious fruit of 2009, which was ideal for you California lovers, or the beautiful freshness and structure of 2010, which I preferred.However, as 2015’s Bordeaux begin to roll into SAQ stores, from what I have tasted, the wines seem to offer a bit of both 2009 and 2010. While I have tasted only 30 or so, they str
  
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• Top pick Jesperi Kotkaniemi needs more home cooking | HI/O Bonus

  21-09-2018 18:00
  In this bonus episode, our panelists — Gazette sports columnists Stu Cowan, CBC Daybreak’s Jessica Rusnak, former Canadien Chris Nilan and host Adam Susser — debate the best way to develop Montreal Canadiens top draft pick Jesperi Kotkaniemi.
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: Sept. 21, 2018

  21-09-2018 18:00
  Every week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings.
  Under $15
  Alicante 2017, Laderas de El Sequé, Bodegas Artadi, Spain red, $14.95, SAQ # 10359201. Need power for a low price? This is great. Still quite grapey, so the fruit is very upfront. Tannins are ripe but give impressive length and coat the mouth nicely without drying. Dark-fruited with a hint of balsamic, giving it personality. Great barbecue wine. Grape variety:&n
  
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• Quebec election: Couillard announces new green initiatives

  21-09-2018 17:43
  Quebec Liberal Party Leader Philippe Couillard’s focus shifted to the environment Friday, announcing a slew of green measures while campaigning in Verdun.
  Among the pledges, Couillard said a Liberal government would offer additional funding to municipalities to add more recycling bins next to public garbages, invest more in modernizing recycling centres and ban plastic straws in bars and restaurants.
  Couillard also said the Liberals would put in place a new chief environmental inspect
  
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• No charges against Montreal police for 2017 fatal Côte-St-Luc shooting

  21-09-2018 17:34
  Montreal police did not commit any criminal act when they fatally shot a man at the end of pursuit that took place in June 2017, Quebec’s director of criminal prosecutions (DPCP) announced on Friday.
  The Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales arrived at its conclusion after examining an report on the incident prepared by Quebec’s Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), which is assigned to probe any police operation in the province where death or injurie
  
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• Gord Downie biographer wanted 'to tell why we cared so much about this man' and the Tragically Hip

  21-09-2018 17:30
  It hardly needs recapping, fresh as it is in Canada’s collective memory, but the basic facts are this: the singer and lyricist of our most popular band is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer; the band’s valedictory national tour is the scene of large-scale emotional catharsis; fully one-third of the country watches the final concert on TV; the singer then takes it upon himself, in the little time he has left, to complete an artistic reconciliation project addressing the national sha
  
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• Quebec election: Advance polls are open until Sept. 27

  21-09-2018 16:30
  The advance polling period for Quebec’s general election opened Friday and will continue until Sept. 27, the province’s director of elections (DGE) has announced.
  Quebec electors who think they will be unable to cast their ballot on voting day — Oct. 1 — can do so over seven days before then: Friday, Sept. 21 between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 22 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 23 and Monday, Sept. 24 between 9:30 a.m. and 8 p.m.; Tuesday, Sept. 25 and We
  
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• Weekend Entertainment: Aqua and the Rock N Roll Marathon

  21-09-2018 16:27 via globalnews.ca
  From Aqua’s Rewind Tour to the Rock N Roll Marathon, Global’s Jay Walker and Kim Sullivan have got your weekend covered.
  
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• Foodie Friday: A Taste of Bali in the Plateau

  21-09-2018 16:27 via globalnews.ca
  Five years after leaving Canada for the laid-back paradise of Bali, Restaurant owner Kevin Latrem is bringing his Balinese resto concept to Montreal. Find out more when he joins Global’s Laura Casella on Foodie Friday.
  
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• Playing Hard – The Game Just Got Real

  21-09-2018 16:02 via globalnews.ca
  Billed as a unique behind-the-scenes look into the heart of the gigantic video game industry, join “Playing Hard” director and Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan for a sneak peek at this powerful documentary.
  
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• POP Montreal: 10 top picks, from hip hop to Brit rock

  21-09-2018 16:00
  POP Montreal has shows big and small from Sept. 26 to 30. Here are 10 hot tips, helpfully sorted by style.
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  Socalled’s Porn POP (Thursday, Sept. 27, 11 p.m., Cinéma L’amour, 4015 St-Laurent Blvd., $20). In the “only at POP Montreal” department, Montreal klez-hop hero Socalled presents his directorial debut, The Housesitter, a gay erotic film starring Valentin Braun and River Wilson, with live piano and vocal accompaniment by Socalled himself.
  Hip hop
  Waahl
  
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• Loto-Québec workers call off strike action

  21-09-2018 16:00
  The 450 unionized professionals employed by Loto-Québec have called off a nine-day strike that was to begin Saturday.
  The professionals — in computer, communications, finance, sales and marketing, legal and real estate divisions — are members of the Syndicat des professionnels du gouvernement du Québec.
  They have been without a contract since March 31, 2015.
   
  
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• The newest Dragon in the Den

  21-09-2018 15:53 via globalnews.ca
  What’s it like to be the latest Dragon on The Dragon’s Den? Montreal entrepreneur and entertainment mogul Vincenzo Guzzo talks to Global’s Laura Casella about joining the hosts of Canada’s biggest reality business show.
  
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• Decision Quebec: Voters taking positions after debates

  21-09-2018 15:50 via globalnews.ca
  Liberals up. CAQ down. What’s driving the change in voting intentions by Quebecers? Join Ipsos Quebec Director-General Sebastien Dallaire and Global’s Laura Casella for analysis of where the election is going after three leader’s debates.
  
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• Bladder cancer walk

  21-09-2018 15:37 via globalnews.ca
  Join Global’s Laura Casella and her guests as they talk about the danger and prevalence of bladder cancer and the upcoming Bladder Cancer Walk.
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Friday, September 21

  21-09-2018 15:34 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Friday, September 21.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Friday, September 21

  21-09-2018 15:27 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Friday, September 21.
  
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