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• Montreal's CollectivLab offers means to make just about anything

  26-09-2018 23:57
  For a time, David Barabé held the world record for highest jump on a pogo stick.
  I met the engineer and inventor on Wednesday afternoon to discuss CollectivLab, the workshop and coworking space he has created for designers, engineers and creators to bring their concepts to fruition; but in perusing Barabé’s bio it was the above factoid that first demanded further investigation.
  “I was at the Université de Sherbrooke and had this idea in my head to develop a proje
  
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• Canada’s first bartender robot serves drinks with a twist

  26-09-2018 23:57 via globalnews.ca
  You’ve heard robots are going to take your job. Now Montreal is home to Canada’s first interactive bionic bartender. Amanda Jelowicki reports on the new, neat way to get drinks that’s causing a stir.
  
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• Montreal launches lawsuit over water meter contract

  26-09-2018 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 26: Montreal is trying to recover taxpayer dollars by suing former companies and individuals involved in the infamous water-meter scandal. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, the city is seeking more than $14 million it alleges it had to pay in damages and penalties.
  
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• Will more women be elected in Quebec?

  26-09-2018 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 26: Close to 50 per cent of candidates running in the Quebec provincial election are women. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, it’s the highest number of women ever – but it’s still highly likely that more men will be elected to the National Assembly.
  
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• Quebec mom wants stricter ATV laws after son’s tragic death

  26-09-2018 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 26: A Stanstead mother is fighting for stricter regulations when it comes to driving ATVs. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, her son died in a tragic accident while driving one in Saskatchewan — now she hopes to change legislation across the country.
  
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• Stu Cowan: TSN 690 Radio's Tony Marinaro is ready to get roasted

  26-09-2018 23:43
  It’s not a joke: Tony Marinaro of TSN 690 Radio has agreed to get roasted Thursday night.
  He might want to bring some protective equipment.
  During his 15 years on the air, Marinaro has become a sports talk-show host people in Montreal love or hate — or love to hate. Thursday night, people who love him — or maybe don’t — will get a chance to take shots at Marinaro at the “Is This a Joke? No, It’s a Roast!” event at Club Soda on St-Laurent Blvd.
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• Quebec election blog Sept. 26: Manon Massé invokes René Lévesque to attack PQ

  26-09-2018 23:35
  If you’re viewing this on the Montreal Gazette app, click here and scroll to the bottom of the page.
  If you’re viewing this in a mobile browser, scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the blog.
  This was our live blog about the Quebec election for Wednesday, Sept. 26.
  
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• Landmark $1 million expected to be raise for 32nd Shrine Bowl Canada

  26-09-2018 23:22 via globalnews.ca
  The Concordia Stingers will face off against the Université Laval's Rouge et Or for the annual 32nd Shrine Bowl Canada.
  
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• Concordia Stingers football team visits the Montreal Shriners Hospital

  26-09-2018 23:21 via globalnews.ca
  The Concordia Stingers football team handed out gifts and talked favourite superheroes with patients at the Shriners Hospital ahead of the 32nd annual Shrine Bowl Canada game.
  
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• Martin Patriquin: Quebec election already a victory for anglos, English

  26-09-2018 23:04
  We don’t yet know who will govern this beautiful, maddening province for the next four years, or whether this person will lead a majority government. But if there has been one enduring if largely unspoken narrative through the last five weeks, it is this: the English language, and anglophones, have already won.
  Before you throw down this newspaper (or your phone) either out of incredulity or disgust, hear me out — or at least travel back with me to 2014, the last time democracy summo
  
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• Quebec election: Liberal candidate used electoral list for birthday wishes

  26-09-2018 22:55
  ST-GEORGES-DE-BEAUCE — He has defended immigration, but Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard said his party has no specific plan, other than to say nice things, to help immigrants battle racism and discrimination within the regions.
  “The right way to do it is not to put labels on people but to talk about diversity as a positive factor in our lives and show repeatedly examples of this,” Couillard said Wednesday.
  Couillard has said the province needs more, not fewer immigrants, espe
  
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• How much do Quebecers really know about the upcoming election?

  26-09-2018 22:26 via globalnews.ca
  How much do Quebecers know about provincial politics?
  
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• Liberal star candidate Gertrude Bourdon says she’ll work on her English if elected

  26-09-2018 21:28 via globalnews.ca
  To date, Gertrude Bourdon has refused to answer questions in English. On Wednesday she was asked if she would answer in English if she becomes health minister and it concerns the anglophone community. 
  
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• Opinion: Let's hope Quebec withstands global rise of intolerant politics

  26-09-2018 21:14
  At a volatile time in global politics, every jurisdiction’s election can have ramifications beyond its borders. Quebec’s is no different.
  The Oct. 1 election is a test of the province’s capacity to withstand the global rise of populist, intolerant politics.
  We need to be vigilant.
  All around us, the forces of division are gaining strength. Around the world, political parties are assuming power with campaign records and legislative agendas centred on fear and division. While Que
  
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• Quebec mother fighting for tougher ATV regulations after son’s death

  26-09-2018 21:10 via globalnews.ca
  A Quebec mother is fighting for stricter ATV regulations after her son's death last year.
  
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• Police seek suspect in Plateau-Mont-Royal sexual assault

  26-09-2018 21:07
  Montreal police have made public a composite sketch in an effort to track down the suspect in a sexual assault committed May 19, 2018 in the borough of Plateau-Mont-Royal.
  Police are seeking a white male aged 50-60. He has a thin face and salt and pepper hair cut longer at the top of his head. He was unshaven at the time of the incident and was wearing mid-length burnt orange, black and white plaid jacket and a yellow scarf.
  Anyone with any information on the suspect or his whereabouts is urged
  
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• Quebec election: Where each party stands on the seven biggest issues

  26-09-2018 21:03
  When they go to the polls on Oct. 1, Quebecers will have a lot to consider. 
  To help prepare, we’ve compiled the stances taken by the four parties that currently have seats in the National Assembly.
  Click on one of the following issues to skip ahead to its chapter: the economy, immigration, education, health care, identity, sovereignty and the environment/mobility.
  Economy
  A worker grinds a piece of metal in a factory in Quebec City, Tuesday, February 28, 2012.
  Liberals
  
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• Quebec election: Threat forces Quebec City candidate off campaign trail

  26-09-2018 20:30
  An independent candidate running in the Quebec City area has been obliged to limit his campaign trail to his front door after learning from local police he has been the target of an online threat.
  Ali Dahan is running in the riding of Jean-Talon and has already seen his campaign posters riddled last week with projectiles from an air gun.
  However, last Friday local police informed Dahan that the publicity surrounding that vandalism had led to comments being left on a news site, one of which they
  
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• LIVE – Quebec election: Manon Massé invokes René Lévesque to attack PQ

  26-09-2018 20:28
  If you’re viewing this on the Montreal Gazette app, click here and scroll to the bottom of the page.
  If you’re viewing this in a mobile browser, scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the blog.
  This was our live blog about the Quebec election for Wednesday, Sept. 26.
  
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• City of Montreal launches $14M lawsuit over water meter contract cancelled in 2009

  26-09-2018 20:25 via cbc.ca
  The City of Montreal is seeking more than $14 million in damages from individuals and companies involved in Montreal's cancelled $356-million water meter contract.
  
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• Vaudreuil-Soulanges starts composting

  26-09-2018 20:01 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 26: Vaudreuil-Soulanges is working to reduce the amount of food waste sent to landfills. Global’s Phil Carpenter finds out how.
  
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• Quebec election: After wife's comments, Legault declines to compare Trudeaus

  26-09-2018 19:51
  TADOUSSAC — Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault wouldn’t say on Wednesday whether he thinks Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is competent.
  Questions about Legault’s opinion on Trudeau came after an audio recording emerged of Isabelle Brais, Legault’s wife, speaking at a pre-campaign event in Westmount.
  During her Aug. 14 speech, Brais said it would be difficult for Quebec to work with Trudeau and that while his “father was brilli
  
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• Vaudreuil-Soulanges starts food waste collection for composting

  26-09-2018 19:45 via globalnews.ca
  It fits into a broader provincial effort to recover up to sixty per cent of organic waste by 2020. 
  
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• Wife of CAQ leader apologizes for calling Justin Trudeau incompetent

  26-09-2018 19:31 via globalnews.ca
  Isabelle Brais has apologized for questioning the prime minister's intellect at a Montreal fundraising event last month.
  
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• Are cannabis cafés the solution to limits on pot smoking set by Quebec towns and cities?

  26-09-2018 18:31 via cbc.ca
  The mayor of Saint-Jérôme thinks so.
  
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• Quebec election: Attacks on QS show other parties are scared, Massé says

  26-09-2018 18:30
  In a show of electoral force with six days left in the campaign, Québec solidaire gathered more than two dozen of its Montreal candidates downtown Wednesday to mark themselves as the only progressive force in Quebec, and to dismiss recent attempts to paint them as a party of Marxists.
  “The fact that the old political class is bringing out the heavy artillery shows they are scared,” party spokesperson Manon Massé said. “They are hearing on the streets that people a
  
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• LIVE – Quebec election: Québec solidaire candidate is a Matrixist

  26-09-2018 18:25
  If you’re viewing this on the Montreal Gazette app, click here and scroll to the bottom of the page.
  If you’re viewing this in a mobile browser, scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the blog.
  This was our live blog about the Quebec election for Wednesday, Sept. 26.
  
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• Updated: Missing Farnham man found safe and sound

  26-09-2018 18:10
  Montreal police say a 50-year-old Farnham resident who hadn’t been seen since driving out of Lachine Tuesday afternoon, has been found safe and sound.
  He left his home Tuesday morning to drive a friend back to Lachine. However he hadn’t been seen since leaving the borough at 2 p.m.
  Cormier’s family was concerned for his safety because he underwent a heart transplant two years ago and needs regularly to take his heart medication.
  
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• Weather is stable across Canada, except south of Montreal

  26-09-2018 18:08
  On an otherwise quiet day, weather wise, Environment Canada issued severe thunderstorm watches that could include large hail and heavy rain over a swath of land south and southeast of Montreal.
  The watch covers the Beauce, Drummondville, Eastern Townships, Richelieu Valley-Saint-Hyacinthe and Vaudreuil-Soulanges-Huntingdon regions.
  “Boaters may be surprised by strong gusts over bodies of water,” the federal agency warns, reminding Quebecers that severe thunderstorms can pro
  
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• POP Montreal: Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry gets back to nature

  26-09-2018 17:45
  I had an hour to kill before interviewing Richard Reed Parry a couple weeks back, so I headed to Jeanne-Mance Park, where I sat on a bench and took in the gently sweeping sounds of the Arcade Fire member’s second solo album, Quiet River of Dust, Vol. 1.
  Let me first say, this never happens. Sad but true, I don’t spend my days wandering city parks listening to music. And yet, to borrow a line Parry used a few times during our talk, “it’s not a coincidence.”
  The singe
  
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• Injured Alex Galchenyuk listed as "week-to-week" by Coyotes

  26-09-2018 17:44
  The Arizona Coyotes have listed centre Alex Galchenyuk as “week-to-week” with a lower-body injury, meaning he is not expected to be ready to start the NHL regular season.
  The Coyotes acquired Galchenyuk from the Canadiens this summer in exchange for Max Domi.
  Galchenyuk, who had a history of knee injuries while in Montreal, suffered the latest injury during the Coyotes’ 4-2 pre-season win over the Los Angeles Kings last Tuesday. Galchnyuk scored two goals in the game.
  “In
  
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• Quebec election: PQ’s Lisée defends rogue attack on Québec solidaire

  26-09-2018 17:43
  ROUYN-NORANDA — Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée found himself on the hot seat Wednesday, defending his recent attacks against Québec solidaire, after reportedly being reamed out by his party’s executive for the aggressive stance.
  Radio broadcaster and former PQ cabinet minister Bernard Drainville said on his morning show on 98.5 that Lisée decided to attack the QS spokesperson in last Thursday’s televised leaders debate witho
  
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• Quebec election: Tech glitches are slowing down some advance polls

  26-09-2018 17:37
  Computer problems have slowed the process of advance polling at voting stations in educational establishments and some designated offices of Quebec’s director of elections (DGE), election officials announced Wednesday morning.
  The computers are being used by election officials at these sites to allow voters — including students in CEGEP and universities — to cast their ballots in advanced polls outside the ridings where they live by allowing scrutineers to verify if the voter&r
  
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• A peek inside the Montreal Biôdome renovations

  26-09-2018 17:32 via cbc.ca
  Director Yves Paris says the renovated Biodôme will offer visitors an “experience of discovery.”
  
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• Party leaders disclose financial assets ahead of Quebec election

  26-09-2018 17:28 via globalnews.ca
  The leaders of Quebec's major parties have disclosed the details of their personal finances just one week before the Quebec election.
  
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• McGill is the world's 44th best university: report

  26-09-2018 17:17
  Montreal has two of the world’s 100 best universities, according to the 2019 edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which were released on Tuesday.
  McGill was tied for 44th overall after having come 42nd in the previous two years.
  The Université de Montréal, meanwhile, improved on last year’s 108th place in the rankings by tying for 90th.
  Concordia, which was in the 601-800 range overall, has historically fared better in the Times Higher Educat
  
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• François Legault's wife says Justin Trudeau isn't 'competent'

  26-09-2018 16:42 via cbc.ca
  Isabelle Brais has apologized after taking a shot at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a pre-campaign fundraiser last month.
  
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• JOMO is the new FOMO

  26-09-2018 15:37 via globalnews.ca
  Think everyone else is having fun except for you?. That’s FOMO – the fear of missing out. According to parenting expert Erica Diamond, the busy-ness is an illusion, and we should be JOMO instead. Find out what that means with Erica and Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Police believe deadly Laval shooting linked to organized crime

  26-09-2018 15:29
  A man was gunned down Tuesday evening in a homicide police believe to have been linked to organized crime.
  The first shots were heard at 8 p.m. at Fusion restaurant on Lévesque Blvd. The victim was taken to hospital after being struck by at least one bullet and later died of his wound.
  The Sûreté du Québec set up a command post by the restaurant and interviewed those who saw the shooting. Officially, police are not even confirming the victim’s age. However s
  
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• Front-yard flowers are gifts of beauty for neighbours and strangers

  26-09-2018 15:27
  It’s amazing what a few flowers can do for a place. Whether it’s hanging baskets strung up along a small-town Main Street, blooms bursting out from balcony flower boxes in a condo complex, or the ephemeral sparks of colour from the annuals planted among a neighbour’s shrubs, flowers are a telltale sign of a community that cares.
  While houseplants, private courtyards and backyard landscaping are lovely private luxuries, front-yard gardens and roadside plantings offer more than j
  
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• In rare step, OPP issue photo of unidentified man who died after Highway 417 incident

  26-09-2018 15:04 via globalnews.ca
  In what they are calling a 'unique step,' OPP have released a disturbing photograph of the victim, taken after he died, in hopes that someone can help them identify him.
  
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• Social media participant Genie Bouchard has a new tennis racket

  26-09-2018 15:02
  Montreal’s Eugenie Bouchard, who is attempting to return to her impressive 2014 form, has a new tennis racket.
  Sports equipment manufacturer Yonex announced on Tuesday that Bouchard signed with the company earlier in September.
  Her previous deal with racket supplier Babolat expired at the end of 2017 after reportedly going un-renewed.
  Using a variety of rackets in recent months has not inspired an improvement in her results.
  Bouchard, who Yonex’s press release notes was once ranked N
  
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• National Film Board Open House

  26-09-2018 14:49 via globalnews.ca
  Join Global’s Kim Sullivan and her guest to discover the National Film Board’s landmark studios and facilities as they hold an open house prior to their move downtown in 2019.
  
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• Montreal police seek missing Farnham man last seen in Lachine

  26-09-2018 14:28
  Montreal police have turned to the public for assistance in tracking down Joël Cormier, 50, a Farnham resident who hasn’t been seen since driving out of Lachine Tuesday afternoon.
  Cormier left his home Tuesday morning to drive a friend back to Lachine. However he hasn’t been seen since leaving the borough at 2 p.m.
  Cormier is a white anglophone who stands five-feet-eight-inches tall, weighs 140 pounds and has brown hair and green eyes.
  When last seen he was wearing prescription
  
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• Historic number of women candidates in Quebec might not mean more women MNAs

  26-09-2018 14:10 via globalnews.ca
  The 2018 Quebec election marks a historic number of women running. However, the most recent projections predict the makeup of the next national assembly will be much less diverse.
  
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• Safe-cracking Montreal burglar specialized in robbing universities

  26-09-2018 14:01
  A thief who recently admitted he got a thrill out of breaking into universities in Quebec and Ontario for years has been denied parole, in part because authorities learned he was able to secretly operate a company while serving the 29-month prison term he received last year.
  Over the past decade, Gerald Lawson Nicholls, 55, has broken into several universities and other educational institutions between Waterloo, Ont., and Trois-Rivières, a 760-kilometre stretch that runs from Highway 40 i
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Wednesday, September 26

  26-09-2018 14:01 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Wednesday, September 26.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Two-headed snake found, isn't just easy metaphor

  26-09-2018 13:45
  Here’s what happened while you counted sheep.
  A man was gunned down Tuesday evening in a homicide police believe was linked to organized crime. The first shots were heard at 8 p.m. at Fusion restaurant on Lévesque Blvd. The victim was taken to hospital after being struck by at least one bullet and later died of his wound. The Sûreté du Québec set up a command post by the restaurant and interviewed those who saw the shooting. There is no immediate i
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Wednesday, September 26

  26-09-2018 13:44 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Wednesday, September 26.
  
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• Mansonville woman dies in collision near Montérégie's Pike River

  26-09-2018 13:43
  A 57-year-old woman died Tuesday after the car she was driving collided with another vehicle on Highway 202 near Pike River in the Montérégie region.
  The incident occurred at 4:20 p.m. and the victim, a Mansonvile resident, has been identified as Leila Alexandra Reizes.
  A couple their 70s in the other vehicle suffered non-life threatening injuries. The cause of the accident is under investigation.
   
  
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