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• COMMENTARY: New premier, same old story: Quebec’s longtime anti-niqab efforts

  05-10-2018 23:57 via globalnews.ca
  The Quebec election is being described as a landmark shift in political power, the threat to ban religious symbols throughout the province’s public service sector is nothing new.
  
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• Montreal Impact must win all three remaining games to make playoffs, Taider says - The Globe and Mail

  05-10-2018 23:48
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  Montreal Impact must win all three remaining games to make playoffs, Taider says
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  Midfielder Saphir Taider believes the Montreal Impact need to win all three of their remaining games this season if they have any hope of making the playoffs. With the season on the line, Taider says Montreal can't drop a single point – starting ...
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• Vanquishing Crew at home Saturday crucial to Impact's playoff hopes

  05-10-2018 23:42
  Midfielder Saphir Taider believes the Montreal Impact need to win their three remaining games this season if they have any hope of making the MLS playoffs.
  With the season on the line, Taider says Montreal can’t drop a single point — starting Saturday at Saputo Stadium (3 p.m., TSN1, TSN4, TVA Sports, TSN 690 Radio) against the Columbus Crew — if the team wants to play playoff soccer in November.
  The playoff race in the Eastern Conference is effectively down to two teams &
  
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• Stu Cowan: A great day for the Alouettes despite their CFL-worst record

  05-10-2018 23:40
  “It’s a great day to be alive!” one of the players hollered Friday morning as the Alouettes went through a team stretching exercise at the start of practice outside Olympic Stadium.
  It was, indeed, a great October day with sunny skies and a temperature of 8 Celsius when the two-hour practice started. With a lot of hooting and hollering throughout the fast-paced practice it was hard to believe the 3-11 Alouettes have the worst record in the CFL.
  “A lot of my frustration is
  
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• New interim Liberal leader Pierre Arcand takes aim at CAQ and QS

  05-10-2018 23:35
  QUEBEC — Five days after its historic election loss, Quebec’s Liberals have picked a new interim leader to hold down the fort in the coming months.
  Emerging from a morning caucus meeting, Liberal caucus chairperson Filomena Rotiroti announced Mont-Royal—Outremont MNA Pierre Arcand has been selected. He was elected by a secret vote of the caucus.
  A veteran politician and former cabinet minister, Arcand immediately told reporters the Liberals plan to act as serious oppositio
  
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• Search continues for Jesse Galganov one year later

  05-10-2018 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Oct 5: The search for Jesse Galganov is still underway one year after the 22-year-old disappeared while in Peru. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, his dad hasn’t given up hope and has now increased the reward to $500,000 to find Jesse.
  
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• ‘Every day, it’s noise’: Dorval residents unhappy with noise barrier construction

  05-10-2018 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  The sound barrier is supposed to help keep noise out, but residents complain noise has only increased since construction of the acoustic screen began.
  
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• Montreal councillor calls on Legault to raise smoking age to 21

  05-10-2018 23:21
  Montreal city councillor Marvin Rotrand is calling on Quebec’s premier-designate to raise the legal age for purchasing cigarettes to 21 and to increase taxes on tobacco products.
  The push for the age increase coincides with the new provincial administration’s promise to raise the legal age for buying cannabis to 21.
  “It will be very difficult to explain to the population that you can buy tobacco products at a corner store at 18, but you have to be 21 to purchase marijuana in a
  
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• Quebec government transition begins

  05-10-2018 23:17 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Oct 5: The Quebec Liberal Party has a new interim leader after Philippe Couillard stepped down. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, the party has also kicked out MNA Guy Ouellette from caucus – even after Couillard said that wouldn’t happen.
  
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• 'It's a blessing': Chez Doris adds new building with $1-million donation

  05-10-2018 23:04
  After a life spent battling addictions and homelessness, Nora Mehringer was living in a Tupper St. apartment in the early 2000s when bedbugs infiltrated the entire building.
  The bugs had gotten into everything — even her purse, she says — and she had no choice but to leave her place behind.
  She packed what she could into two bags and knew where to go: Chez Doris, a day shelter for women in western downtown.
  The shelter’s staff let her shower, replaced her clothes, and made
  
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• Watch: Trudeau pledges to ensure thriving dairy industry post USMCA

  05-10-2018 22:53
  Justin Trudeau says he met with dairy farmers on Thursday to hear their concerns about the USMCA trade deal.The prime minister says he will work with producers to ensure the industry flourishes for generations to come.
  
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• Montrealers sleep outside to raise money, awareness for city’s homeless

  05-10-2018 22:53 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Oct 5: A few dozen people stepped out of their own homes this week to sleep on the streets as part of a Dans la rue fundraiser. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, the massive outdoor sleepover is part of a public awareness campaign to help the city’s most vulnerable.
  
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• Dorval sound wall sparks concern

  05-10-2018 22:50 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Oct 5: Dorval residents are critical of a new sound wall being erected to block airport noise. As Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports, construction is almost finished – but residents say the wall isn’t effective so far.
  
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• Scared safe: Jarring new SAAQ campaign aims to surprise pedestrians

  05-10-2018 22:28
  It’s playful at first: Your body is reflected back at you as a skeleton on a screen set up inside a bus shelter.
  Then comes the screeching tires as your skeleton is hurled into the air by a speeding car.
  The jarring video using immersive technology at the corner of René-Lévesque and St-Laurent Blvds. Friday was meant to surprise pedestrians as part of an annual awareness campaign by the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec.
  Spokesperson Mario
  
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• Guy Ouellette expelled from Liberal caucus

  05-10-2018 21:35 via cbc.ca
  The MNA for the Laval riding of Chomedey will not be returning to the Liberal caucus, the Liberals announced on Friday.
  
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• 18-month jail term for sending bomb threats to Concordia University

  05-10-2018 21:26
  Hisham Saadi, who sent fake bomb threats that caused Concordia University to evacuate three of its buildings last year, has been sentenced to a prison term of 18 months.
  Quebec Court Judge Mélanie Hébert said Saadi — a student at the time — was thinking only of himself and did not consider the consequences of his actions when he sent letters to security at Concordia University and several Montreal media outlets.
  Saadi’s prison term will be followed by a period of
  
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• Roast turkey the old-fashioned way (a beginner's guide)

  05-10-2018 21:25
  Editor’s note: This story, an abridged version of which you have before you, was originally published in December 1997 in the runup to Christmas. If you’re fixing your first holiday turkey feast, these timeless basics know no season. Happy cooking and holiday feasting.
  MONTREAL – Danny Pitre’s mouth waters when he reminisces about the turkey dinners at his grandmother’s house. “It was always a festive occasion, a real spread, and my grandmother made this fant
  
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• Rosemont is trying to save its 561 tiny shoebox homes from extinction

  05-10-2018 20:53
  “There was an old woman who lived in a shoe … box house.”
  – with apologies to Mother Goose.
  You’ve seen them around, perhaps even done a double take as you passed one by. They seem like mirages, picturesque relics from another era — which is precisely what they are.
  Single-story “shoebox” homes, built at the turn of the 20th century, dot the Montreal cityscape, squeezed between duplexes and triplexes.
  But there are fewer than there used to be, and
  
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• Critic: Pastel's Worthy of Michelin Stars - Eater Montreal

  05-10-2018 20:47
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  Critic: Pastel's Worthy of Michelin Stars
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  Pastel, the new restaurant from restauranteur Kabir Kapoor and chef Jason Morris, received another rave review this past week from LaPresse critic Marie-Claude Lortie. Arriving in Old Montreal last June as a brighter counterpart to the owners' first ...
  
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• Québec solidaire ready to be the 'guard dog' against the CAQ

  05-10-2018 20:43
  Still glowing from her party’s election night gains, Manon Massé said Friday she’s ready to act as “a guard dog” against the Coalition Avenir Québec government.
  Massé, Québec solidaire’s co-spokesperson, said that while the Liberals and Parti Québecois are bogged down in leadership races and soul searching, her team is ready to fight the CAQ.
  “Their energy will be focused inward,” said Massé about the Liberals an
  
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• What the Puck: Youthful Habs show promise, but team is short on talent

  05-10-2018 20:40
  O.K., everybody take a Valium!
  That’s a great one-liner from René Lévesque in one of Aislin’s most famous cartoons, published at the height of anglo hysteria after the first election of the Parti Québécois in 1976. But I couldn’t help but think of that phrase Friday morning as the entire city appeared to be preparing for what Habs fans were dreaming was that inevitable Stanley Cup parade next spring. I exaggerate, but only slightly.
  You’d think
  
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• Chez Doris buys new building, hopes to expand services thanks to $1M donation

  05-10-2018 20:39 via cbc.ca
  Chez Doris, a women's day shelter located in downtown Montreal, will be expanding into a new building thanks to a $1-million donation from retired Montreal businessman Andrew Harper.
  
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• Montreal Is Getting A Giant "Las Vegas Style" Nightclub (Photos) - MTL Blog (blog)

  05-10-2018 20:35
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  Montreal Is Getting A Giant "Las Vegas Style" Nightclub (Photos)
  MTL Blog (blog)
  It's common knowledge that Montreal is known as a hub for nightlife. This grows out of a couple facts about Montreal that makes this city particularly conducive to a rich noctural culture. READ ALSO: Downtown Montreal Might Be Getting Its Very Own Ski ...
  
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• New 58-storey residential highrise will challenge Montreal's skyline

  05-10-2018 20:15
  Construction and real-estate development firm Broccolini unveiled more details on Friday of what will appear on the $100-million plot of downtown real estate it purchased last January.
  Dubbed Victoria sur la Parc, the 58-storey highrise that promoters are calling the tallest residential building in the Montreal area will sit within the quadrilateral formed by Robert-Bourassa Blvd. (formerly University St.), and St-Jacques, Notre-Dame and Gauvin Sts. The tower will neighbour the 36-storey head of
  
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• New 58-storey residential highrise will challenge Montreal's skyline - Montreal Gazette

  05-10-2018 19:52
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  New 58-storey residential highrise will challenge Montreal's skyline
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• Canadiens' Jesperi Kotkaniemi gets faceoff tips ahead of Penguins game

  05-10-2018 19:52
  PITTSBURGH — While Canadiens head coach Claude Julien said he’ll wait until Saturday morning to confirm his lineup for Saturday’s game against the Penguins, it appears that he will go with the same lineup that played Wednesday night in Toronto and that means Karl Alzner, Tomas Plekanec and Nikita Scherbak will be healthy scratches.
  The Canadiens practised for about an hour at PPG Paints Arena with an emphasis on special teams. There was some extra tutoring on faceoffs for rooki
  
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• Quebec MNA Guy Ouellette ousted from the Quebec Liberal Party caucus

  05-10-2018 19:50 via globalnews.ca
  The caucus president explained she read the letter to party members and following that, they made the "unanimous" decision to oust the MNA-elect for Chomedey.
  
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• Quebec Liberal Party appoints Pierre Arcand as interim leader

  05-10-2018 19:40 via globalnews.ca
  The Quebec Liberal Party has appointed Pierre Arcand as interim leader while they set the groundwork for an eventual leadership race. 
  
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• Watch: Is François Legault’s economic plan good for Quebec businesses?

  05-10-2018 19:33
  Less than a week after the Quebec provincial election, some business groups are already expressing concern about what the new CAQ government means for the economy.
  Montreal Gazette business reporter Jacob Serebrin talks about Quebec Premier-designate Francois Legault’s economic plan and its implications for the business community.
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  Employers' groups urge Legault to focus on province's labour shortageLegault gets moving on what's next for QuebecLegault vows to raise cannabis age to 2
  
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• Macpherson: Quebec is a house divided against itself

  05-10-2018 19:15
  Quebec society is a house divided against itself, not only in its politics, but between its people. And the divisions, along lines of geography, culture and values, were starkly exposed in this week’s general election.
  In the seat distribution, you can see the divisions between culturally diverse Montreal and French Quebec, non-francophones and francophones, and inclusiveness and cultural nationalism.
  And it’s Montreal, non-francophones and inclusiveness that have ended up on the los
  
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• Quebec Liberal Party chooses MNA Pierre Arcand as interim leader

  05-10-2018 19:00
  QUEBEC — Five days after its historic election loss, Quebec’s Liberals have picked a new interim leader to hold down the fort in the coming months.
  Emerging from a morning caucus meeting, Liberal caucus chairperson Filomena Rotiroti announced Mont Royal MNA Pierre Arcand has been selected. He was elected by a vote of the remaining 32 members of the Liberal caucus.
  Arcand said the Liberals will be a strong opposition.
  “We will rebuild the party and be strong in all regions
  
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• Quebec ban on religious symbols would be 'catastrophic': anglo groups

  05-10-2018 18:59
  Disturbing, disruptive, divisive, catastrophic.
  Those are some of the words the head of a network of Quebec anglophone groups used Friday to describe the incoming Coalition Avenir Québec government’s plan to ban the wearing of religious symbols on the job by public employees in positions of authority.
  Under Premier-designate François Legault’s proposed new law, elementary and high school teachers, police officers, prosecutors, judges and prison guards would have to remo
  
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• Pierre Arcand named interim leader of Quebec Liberals

  05-10-2018 18:54 via cbc.ca
  The newly elected members of the Liberal Party voted for Pierre Arcand during their first caucus meeting on Friday morning, as they embark on a long soul-searching exercise after their electoral defeat.
  
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• Samantha Higgins homicide: Judges uphold first-degree murder charge

  05-10-2018 18:44
  Nicholas Fontanelli, accused of first-degree murder in the July 2015 death of Samantha Higgins, has failed in his effort to be tried on a reduced charge when his case goes before a jury.
  Three Quebec Court of Appeal judges were unanimous in a decision released Friday: the basis for the appeal was “ill-founded.”
  Defence lawyer Marc Labelle had argued the Crown failed to produce evidence during Fontanelli’s preliminary inquiry to merit having him tried for first-degree murde
  
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• Critical report on pediatric cancer trial is unjust: Ste-Justine Hospital

  05-10-2018 18:41
  Ste-Justine Hospital officials defended on Friday their handling of a clinical trial for children suffering from terminal cancer following a report by Radio-Canada’s investigative program, Enquête.
  Health Canada inspectors took the rare step of suspending the so-called DEC-GEN clinical trial in November 2016 after uncovering 76 irregularities.
  “Overcoming pediatric cancers is an ambitious goal that drives our health-care teams and researchers on a daily basis,” Isabelle D
  
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• François Legault heading to La Francophonie summit in Armenia

  05-10-2018 18:30 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's premier-elect François Legault is travelling to Yerevan, Armenia to attend the XVII Francophonie Summit from Oct. 11 to 13.
  
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• High court rules Quebec legislature guards fired for voyeurism can grieve

  05-10-2018 18:28 via globalnews.ca
  The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that three former security guards at the Quebec legislature can grieve their firings after they were found to be using a camera to spy on patrons of a neighbouring hotel.
  
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• Opinion: It's time for anglos to belatedly accept the CAQ's outreach

  05-10-2018 18:18
  The Coalition Avenir Québec’s flirt with the anglophone community earlier this year never blossomed into much of a relationship. Despite intentions by the CAQ to broaden its base to include anglo participation, as well as our community’s own frustration with being taken for granted by the Quebec Liberal Party, any initiative to consolidate relations quickly fell apart once the election campaign began.
  This election was free of any angst about separation or the fear of electing
  
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• Centaur Theatre at 50: golden age for a Montreal institution - Montreal Gazette

  05-10-2018 18:16
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  Centaur Theatre at 50: golden age for a Montreal institution
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  The big success of McCall's tenure — apart from winning the Grand Prix du Conseil des arts de Montréal for a 2006 season of Montreal plays — was, of course, Steve Galluccio's Mambo Italiano in 2002. Actually, as McCall explains, “big success” rather ...and more »
  
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• Centaur Theatre at 50: golden age for a Montreal institution

  05-10-2018 18:15
  Just as it did in its very first production, Centaur Theatre is taking us to school five decades on.
  Inaugurated in 1968, the Centaur launched in 1969 with an adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark’s classic novel set in a posh Scottish girls’ school. Now its golden-anniversary season opens with Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy, which is set in a Chicago prep school and tells the story of a young gay student making his way through Obama’s era of hope a
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: Oct. 5, 2018

  05-10-2018 18:00
  Every week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings.
  Under $15
  Catalunya 2016, Sangre de Toro, Torres, Spain red, $12.65, SAQ # 6585. Always one of the better inexpensive reds at the SAQ. The latest vintage of this Torres classic seems even silkier and drier than previous vintages. Loaded with red fruits. Just enough tannin to give it some structure. This drinks so easy. Residual sugar: 2 g/L. Grape varieties: garnacha, cariñena
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw: Visiting Armenia, the cradle of wine culture

  05-10-2018 18:00
  When I told people I was going to Armenia, most asked why. My response was that it was the birthplace of wine.The greater region of the Caucasus, the area between the Black and Caspian seas, is the cradle of vitis vinifera, the grape species used in winemaking. According to Vahe Keushguerian, referred to by some as the godfather of modern Armenian wine, genetic markers show that all vinifera is from this region.
  In 2007, an archeological site was discovered in Armenia that is known as the Areni-
  
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