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• Max Domi carves out his own path with the Montreal Canadiens

  03-10-2018 23:59 via cbc.ca
  The recently acquired forward juggles his father's legacy, type 1 diabetes and a pre-season suspension, as he tries to cement himself as a cornerstone player for the new-look Habs.
  
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• Judge erred in ordering woman remove hijab: Quebec highest court

  03-10-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Oct 3: The Quebec Court of Appeal, the highest court in the province, has ruled that a woman who was ordered to remove her hijab in court three years should have been heard by the court. Global’s Anne Leclair reports.
  
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• Is Montreal ready for pot?

  03-10-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Oct 3: Smoking marijuana will be legal in Canada in less than two weeks. As Global’s Phil Carpenter reports, some Montreal boroughs are grappling with how to regulate recreational pot in their own jurisdictions.
  
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• How the CAQ broke through on the eastern flank of Fortress Montreal

  03-10-2018 23:39
  The east-end Mercier district is a long way from the tree-lined streets of west-end Montreal and the bright lights of Ste-Catherine St.
  Giant storage cylinders for crude oil dominate the landscape, criss-crossed by busy highways and boulevards.
  On Monday, voters in Bourget and neighbouring Pointe-aux-Trembles ridings were the landing points for the Coalition Avenir Québec’s siege of Fortress Montreal.
  The CAQ swept rural Quebec and the outer suburbs known as la couronne.
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• Allison Hanes: Diverse Montreal finds itself at odds with CAQ values

  03-10-2018 23:31
  Montreal suddenly feels like an island again.
  After Monday’s historic election of the first Coalition Avenir Québec government, the province is awash in light blue, the party’s signature colour. The CAQ, led by premier-elect François Legault, won 73 of the 125 seats in the National Assembly and took 37 per cent of the popular vote.
  But the wave that washed over Quebec only lapped at the shores of Montreal. The CAQ won only two ridings in the far east-end of the island,
  
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• Philippe Couillard may resign Thursday following election defeat

  03-10-2018 23:27
  QUEBEC — Stung by the Liberals’ election defeat Monday, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard could announce his resignation from politics Thursday.
  Quebec’s Liberals have called a special post-election caucus meeting Thursday afternoon in Quebec City. Defeated and elected Liberals are to attend along with Couillard.
  The Liberal leader has not been heard from since Monday evening when he said he would take a few days to reflect on his personal future in the wake of his government&r
  
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• CAQ doesn't intend to give up 3rd link for Quebec City, despite local grumbling

  03-10-2018 23:15 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's premier-designate will find a few people standing in the way of his plans to begin construction of a third link across the St. Lawrence River in Quebec City, with the election of two Québec Solidaire candidates in the region.
  
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• Philippe Couillard to quit politics, sources say

  03-10-2018 22:47 via cbc.ca
  The Liberal leader will step down from his post as the head of his party and give up his seat in the National Assembly as early as Thursday, sources have told Radio-Canada.
  
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• Serial killer ex-nurse Wettlaufer moved to psychiatric hospital with internet, music and sports: victim’s family

  03-10-2018 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  Serial killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer has been moved from prison to a secure psychiatric hospital in Montreal, which operates on an observation model using no weapons and with no traditional prison bars.
  
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• Trudeau says women shouldn’t be told what to wear as Legault plans to ban religious symbols

  03-10-2018 22:21 via globalnews.ca
  Trudeau says he wants Legualt to think carefully before using the notwithstanding clause to prevent public servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols at work.
  
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• CAQ proposed ban on religious garb called 'legalized discrimination'

  03-10-2018 22:21
  The head of a minority rights group warns if the incoming Coalition Avenir Québec acts on its proposed ban on religious symbols, it will be “very disturbing days ahead” for ethnic communities.
  “It will be open season on minority rights,” said Fo Niemi, the executive director of the Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations, adding that a law banning religious gear amounts to “legalized discrimination.”
  Since his election on Monday, premier-elect Fran
  
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• Judges, teachers wearing religious symbols risk losing jobs, CAQ says

  03-10-2018 22:20
  Premier-elect François Legault steered clear of the topic on Wednesday, but his plan to forbid some public employees from wearing religious symbols continued to dominate news about the Coalition Avenir Québec’s transition to power.
  The issue surfaced again after a CAQ MNA said public employees in positions of authority will have to transfer to other jobs or will be let go if they refuse to abide by a planned CAQ law that would forbid such workers from wearing religious symbol
  
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• NHL analytics explainer: Confused by Corsi? Puzzled by PDO?

  03-10-2018 21:55
  Analytics are used by NHL teams to help assess players, plot tactics and prepare for opponents. With these advanced statistics becoming more mainstream among fans and media, The Canadian Press takes a look at some of the more common terms in today’s hockey world.
  CORSI
  First developed by former Buffalo Sabres goalie coach Jim Corsi, this advanced statistic includes shots on goal and ones that were blocked by a defender or missed the net with teams playing 5-on-5. The statistic — offi
  
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• CAQ stands firm on religious symbol ban

  03-10-2018 21:47 via globalnews.ca
  Newly-elected CAQ MNA Geneviève Guilbault, says the party intends to go ahead with a law prohibiting public servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols.
  
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• Legault says he’ll raise Quebec’s marijuana age to 21

  03-10-2018 21:24 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's incoming premier says he'll follow through on a campaign promise to raise the province's minimum age to buy and possess cannabis from 18 to 21.
  
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• ‘We will do what we promised’: CAQ says party has clear mandate to ban religious symbols

  03-10-2018 21:23 via globalnews.ca
  The Coalition Avenir Québec says imposing a ban on wearing religious symbols for public employees in positions of authority was an election promise they plan to keep.
  
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• ‘We will do what we promised’: CAQ government would fire teachers, judges wearing religious symbols

  03-10-2018 21:23 via globalnews.ca
  The Coalition Avenir Québec says imposing a ban on wearing religious symbols for public employees in positions of authority was an election promise they plan to keep.
  
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• Quebec election: Gaétan Barrette as leader of the official opposition?

  03-10-2018 21:22
  Former health minister Gaétan Barrette will try to become leader of the official opposition in the next government, a reliable source has told the Presse Canadienne.
  However, other sources say Barrette’s potential candidacy is receiving less than unanimous support from the Liberal caucus, now reduced to 32 MNAs.
  Barrette, the health minister in the government of Philippe Couillard for four years, survived the Coalition Avenir Québec’s electoral sweep on Monday,Some Libe
  
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• Hells Angel turns himself in, pleads guilty to drug trafficking

  03-10-2018 21:21
  A full-patch member of the Hells Angels who had been sought in a major drug trafficking investigation turned himself in to authorities and pleaded guilty to six charges at the Montreal courthouse Wednesday.
  Stéphane Maheu, 47, of the biker gang’s South chapter, had been sought by members of the Escouade nationale de répression contre le crime organisé (ENRCO) since April.
  At the time, dozens of arrests were made in Project Objection, which targeted three drug
  
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• Allegra Chamber Music Concert

  03-10-2018 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  Dorothy Fieldman Fraiberg, piano Simon Aldrich, clarinet Alexander Lozowski, violin Bojana Milinov, viola Sheila Hannigan; cello Works by Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms & Robert Schumann
  
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• Habs veterans Karl Alzner, Tomas Plekanec won’t play in season opener

  03-10-2018 20:39 via globalnews.ca
  The Montreal Canadiens will make two long-serving NHLers healthy scratches for Wednesday night's season opener in Toronto against the Maple Leafs.
  
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• Quebec's highest court rules woman wearing hijab was entitled to be heard

  03-10-2018 20:13 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec Court of Appeal has ruled Rania El-Alloul, who was denied justice three years ago after a judge ordered her to remove her hijab, was entitled to be heard by the court.
  
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• Refusal to remove religious symbols could lead to job loss, CAQ says

  03-10-2018 19:57
  Public employees in authority positions who refuse to remove their religious symbols at work will have to transfer to other jobs or will be let go, Coalition Avenir Québec MNA Geneviève Guilbault said Wednesday.
  Guilbault, who is one of the party’s spokespeople during the transition to the new government, said police officers, judges, prison guards and teachers will be the authors of their own demise because they will be choosing to lose their jobs.
  The CAQ plans to introduce
  
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• Overpass inspection closes Highway 20 near St-Hyacinthe

  03-10-2018 19:51
  A section of Highway 20 West in the Montérégie has been closed indefinitely while officials inspect the structure of an overpass near the town of St-Simon, just east of St-Hyacinthe.
  The section of highway was closed as a precaution following an inspection of the viaduct on Monday night, Transport Quebec said in a news release.
  Motorists are being detoured away from St-Édouard St., causing a major traffic jam. That section of the highway is used by 25,000 cars a day, includi
  
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• Highway 20 West near Saint-Hyacinthe closed indefinitely due to faulty overpass

  03-10-2018 19:47 via cbc.ca
  Transports Québec has closed westbound lanes of Highway 20 just west of Highway 116 for an indefinite period after a Tuesday night inspection of the Rang Saint-Édouard overpass.
  
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• State shouldn't tell women what to wear, Trudeau says as Quebec promises ban on religious symbols

  03-10-2018 19:36 via cbc.ca
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is urging Quebec's incoming premier to be cautious about using the notwithstanding clause to prohibit public employees from wearing religious symbols such as a hijab or kippa.
  
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• François Legault should reflect before using notwithstanding clause on hijab ban, Trudeau says

  03-10-2018 19:36 via cbc.ca
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is urging Quebec's incoming premier to reflect carefully before using the notwithstanding clause to enforce a law that would prohibit public employees from wearing religious symbols such as a hijab or kipa.
  
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• Montreal plays principal role in aptly titled crime thriller Bad Blood

  03-10-2018 19:33
  It might not have the chests of all locals swelling with civic pride, but for those who have long bemoaned the fact that our city has played everything from Moscow to the moon, they will certainly concur that Montreal takes centre-stage in the aptly titled Bad Blood.
  The TV series — shot here as well as in Sudbury — is Canada’s answer to The Sopranos, with a dollop of The Godfather and Goodfellas.
  Season 1 focused on the Montreal-built empire of “reputed mobster” &m
  
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• Canadiens game day: Plekanec, Alzner and Scherbak scratched for opener

  03-10-2018 19:31
  Veterans Tomas Plekanec and Karl Alzner will be healthy scratches when the Canadiens open the regular season against the Toronto Maple Leafs Wednesday (7 p.m., Sportsnet, SN360, RDS, TSN 690 Radio). Nikita Scherbak will also be watching from the press box.
  “You feel a little sympathy for the guys but, in the end, we have to do what’s best for the team,” said head coach Claude Julien.
  This would have been NHL game No. 999 for Plekanec and it’s now likely that he will play
  
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• Boroughs adopting pot bylaws but Montreal not ready, opposition says

  03-10-2018 18:52
  Two weeks before recreational pot becomes legal in Canada, Montreal is not ready, the municipal opposition charged Wednesday.
  “Citizens are asking questions and asking us to act,” said Alan DeSousa, the borough mayor of St-Laurent and city councillor with the Ensemble Montréal party.
  DeSousa said St-Laurent will be adopting a bylaw amendment banning the use of cannabis in public places, and four other boroughs controlled by the opposition will do the same: Pierr
  
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• Martin Patriquin: CAQ's majority brings with it pros and cons

  03-10-2018 18:14
  First, the good news. By electing a majority government, Quebecers have bought themselves four years of political stability. We are not, as the polls suggested throughout the campaign, stuck with the inherent clash of egos and ideology inherent in a minority government. The Coalition Avenir Québec will have its share of missteps, screw-ups and faux pas. And yet the government won’t face imminent collapse as a result of its growing pains. It deserves that slack, on account of the str
  
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• Quebec high court rules judge wrong to order woman to remove hijab

  03-10-2018 18:11 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's highest court has ruled a woman who was denied justice three years ago after a judge ordered her to remove her hijab was entitled to be heard by the court.
  
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• Trudeau warns François Legault over use of the notwithstanding clause

  03-10-2018 17:54
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday warned Quebec premier-designate and Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault to think long and hard before using the notwithstanding clause to maintain unconstitutional legislation.
  On Tuesday, a day after winning power in the provincial election, Legault had indicated he was ready to resort to the clause as part of a ban on religious symbols worn by public servants in positions of authority.
  Trudeau warned on Wednesday that such a
  
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• Update: Missing teenager has been found, Montreal police say

  03-10-2018 17:53
  Update: The missing teenager has been found.
  Montreal police have turned to the public in an effort to find a teenager who went missing from her home on Sept. 30.
  She was last seen leaving home at about 3 p.m. and was supposed to be back by 7 p.m but never returned. Her family is concerned for her safety because she may be in the company of questionable acquaintances.
  Anyone with any information on her whereabouts or concerning her disappearance is urged to call 911, report to their local police
  
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• Montreal police seek 15 year old who went missing Sept. 30

  03-10-2018 17:15
  Montreal police have turned to the public in an effort to find Iris Badilescu, a 15 year old who went missing from her home on Sept. 30.
  Badilescu was last seen leaving home at about 3 p.m. and was supposed to be back by 7 p.m but never returned. Her family is concerned for her safety because she may be in the company of questionable acquaintances.
  Iris Badilescu
  Badilescu stands 5-foot-7 and weighs 110 pounds. When last seen she was wearing a black coat, white jeans, white Nike running shoes an
  
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• Updated: Orange Line service returning between Lionel-Groulx and Berri-UQAM

  03-10-2018 17:00
  Service is gradually returning on the métro’s Orange line. It had been shut down between Lionel-Groulx and Berri-UQAM stations after a medical emergency.
  Service gradually resuming on the orange line. #stminfo
  — STM Ligne Orange (@stm_Orange) October 3, 2018This story will be updated.
   
  
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• Pocket park in Snowdon named after old tramway

  03-10-2018 16:55
  The city of Montreal is renaming two pocket parks in Snowdon.
  José-Rizal Park, a tiny patch of green on the south side of Queen Mary Rd. between Earnscliffe and Clanranald Aves., will henceforth be known as Tramway-83 Park, to commemorate the former tramway whose tracks ran north-south between those streets before turning east on Queen Mary towards Décarie Blvd.
  The name José-Rizal, commemorating a Filipino poet and patriot, has already been transferred to part of M
  
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• Antoni from Queer Eye and/or Montreal celebrates National Newspaper Week

  03-10-2018 16:32
  You may know Antoni Porowski from Netflix’s tear-jerker of a Queer Eye reboot.
  Or maybe you just know the Fab Five member who can actually cook because he’s a Montrealer.
  Anyhow, here he is celebrating National Newspaper Week, which is an actual thing happening right now:Hmmmmm, that paper looks vaguely familiar.
  After a thorough investigation, we can find no fault with the above Instagram story. As you were.
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  6 Montreal foodie favourites from Queer Eye guy Antoni Porowsk
  
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• City of Pointe-Claire rejects development project to replace the Pioneer

  03-10-2018 16:09 via globalnews.ca
  Many Pointe-Claire residents are elated the proposed residential and commercial development project to tear down and replace the old Pioneer bar and restaurant was rejected by city council Tuesday evening.
  
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• Under CAQ, legal age to consume cannabis in Quebec will be 21 — eventually

  03-10-2018 15:58 via cbc.ca
  Ian Lafrenière, a newly elected CAQ MNA and former spokesperson for the Montreal police, said it will be tough to fulfil the promise to increase the legal age from 18 to 21 in two weeks, but it will happen eventually.
  
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• Essence of Time: A new album for Montreal jazz artist Johanne Desforges

  03-10-2018 15:57 via globalnews.ca
  It’s the Essence of Time for Montreal jazz artist Johanne Desforges as she releases a new album. Join Johanne Desforges and Global’s Laura Casella for some jazzy conversation and music.
  
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• New baby on the way: the big brother big sister talk

  03-10-2018 15:10 via globalnews.ca
  Baby number two is on the way! How do you prepare your child for the big event? Join Erica parenting contributor Erica Diamond and Global’s Laura casella for tips, tricks and great books to read together.
  
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• Even infrequent cannabis use by teens can impair learning skills: study

  03-10-2018 14:41
  Cannabis use by teenagers — even infrequent use — can affect the skills necessary to succeed in school, according to a study by Montreal’s Ste-Justine Hospital.
  Research conducted by the hospital and the Université de Montréal and published in the American Journal of Psychiatry shows that the effects of cannabis use can be observed on primary cognitive functions and seems to be more pronounced that those of alcohol.
  Alcohol and cannabis use have been associat
  
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• Rhonda’s Best of the West for October

  03-10-2018 14:38 via globalnews.ca
  It’s already October and fall events are filling the calendar in the West Island! Join West Island blogger Rhonda Massad and Global’s Kim Sullivan for October’s Best of the West. For complete details go to http://www.westislandblog.com
  
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• Tips and fall travel deals for families

  03-10-2018 14:32 via globalnews.ca
  Fall family travel is trendy right now, with families wanting to get out and explore. Find out some great tips – and deals – with family lifestyle blogger Jaime Damak and Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Decision Quebec: life in Opposition

  03-10-2018 14:25 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec’s political landscape changed dramatically in the election, especially for the outgoing Liberals. What will life be like in Opposition? Join Westmount-Saint-Louis Liberal MNA Jennifer Maccarone and Global’s Laura Casella to find out.
  
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• Educators await details on Legault's pre-kindergarten promise

  03-10-2018 14:16 via cbc.ca
  Educators and the groups that represent them are anxiously awaiting changes coming to the province’s education ministry.
  
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• Educators await details on François Legault's pre-kindergarten promise

  03-10-2018 14:16 via cbc.ca
  Critics question the CAQ's $311 million annual price tag for the program and whether it's achievable, given the shortage of space in many schools.
  
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• Ghouls and goblins give back at Halloween fundraisers in Hudson

  03-10-2018 14:00
  Ghouls and goblins are giving back this October, thanks to a pair of fundraising events happening the weekend before Halloween in Hudson.
  Registration is now open for both the second annual Hudson Witch Project on Oct. 27 and the Palliative Care Pumpkin-Carving Fundraiser on Oct. 28.
  Lea Durocher said the idea for the Hudson Witch Project began with a whimsical daydream she had while working at the home finishing shop she owns, Centre Décor Hudson.
  “It’s this goofy thing, and
  
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• While you were sleeping: Family reunited with dog after five years

  03-10-2018 13:55
  Here’s what happened while you were out cold.
  Quebec’s various business groups are trying to figure out what the new NAFTA means for them. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement gives U.S. producers access to 3.59 per cent of the Canadian dairy market, which means dairy farmers will have to reduce production. While it sounds small, it’s a real concession for farmers, said Pascal Thériault, who teaches in McGill’s Farm Management and Tech
  
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