Montreal news

• Laval extends electric-vehicle subsidy in response to high demand

  15-10-2018 23:57 via cbc.ca
  Laval estimates that those vehicles will amount to an annual reduction of 455 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, or the equivalent of taking nine heavy trucks off the roads for a year.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Tomas Plekanec earns high praise from Canadiens teammates

  15-10-2018 23:40
  It’s thanks to Tomas Plekanec that Victor Mete now feels guilty any time he eats a french fry.
  After being selected by the Canadiens in the fourth round (100th overall) of the 2016 NHL Draft, Mete showed up at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard for his first evaluation camp. Plekanec, who was spending the summer in Montreal, arrived one day and took seven or eight of the new Canadiens prospects out for lunch at the nearby Quartier DIX30.
  “He ordered a bunch of food for all of us and
  
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• Down to the wire for cannabis stores in Quebec

  15-10-2018 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Oct 15: Quebec cannabis stores are set to open across the province on Wednesday, but will they be ready? As Global’s Brayden Jagger Haines reports, even though some store are still under construction, the SQDC says they will be open on time.
  
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• Sex assaults on autistic girl: Window washer gets 78-month jail term

  15-10-2018 23:27
  A window washer from Notre-Dame-de-Grâce who sexually assaulted a severely autistic girl over a period of six years while working inside her family’s home was sentenced to a 78-month prison term on Monday.
  Erik Branz’s face turned red and he fixed his gaze downward as Quebec Court Judge Nathalie Fafard sentenced him for a series of crimes she characterized as “disturbing and shocking.”
  In 2017, the Montreal police began to investigate Branz, now 47, after two of his
  
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• McGill study shows lasting effects of pot

  15-10-2018 23:25 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Oct 15: A study released by McGill University suggests one in five drivers believe they drive better when high. That same study shows that the effects of pot can last for hours after consumption. As Global’s Anne Leclair reports, one lawyer says the courts will have a problem prosecuting drivers who are caught under...
  
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• Man who helped manufacture illegal firearms in LaSalle facing possible 4-year sentence

  15-10-2018 23:25
  A man who helped manufacture many illegal semi-automatic firearms at a factory in LaSalle faces the possibility of a four-year prison term for his crimes.
  Daniel Spain, 51, appeared before Quebec Court Judge Mélanie Hébert at the Montreal courthouse on Monday for what was supposed to be the start of sentence arguments in his case. Instead, his lawyer, Joseph Elfassy, filed a motion arguing that the three-year mandatory minimum sentence he client already faces is unconstitutional.
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• Allison Hanes: Let's kickstart a transportation revolution in Quebec

  15-10-2018 23:24
  News that the planet is hurtling toward climate catastrophe faster and sooner than expected arrives at an auspicious time for Quebec.
  Here we are, with a brand new government, a booming economy and brimming public coffers. Here we are with vast reserves of hydro power and transportation as a significant source of our toxic emissions.
  To be sure, Quebec faces tremendous challenges in doing its part to mitigate the impact of devastating global warming, which the International Panel on Climate Chan
  
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• Watch: Take an up-close look at beluga whales in Hudson Bay

  15-10-2018 23:23
  Every year, tens of thousands of beluga whales come to frolic and mate in Hudson Bay. Take an up-close look as some belugas greet whale watchers off the coast of Churchill, Manitoba.
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  Quebec study shows belugas increasingly infected with feline parasite
  
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• 'National tribute' to be held for pioneering Quebec feminist Lise Payette

  15-10-2018 23:14
  The provincial government announced Monday it will hold a “national tribute” this month to the memory of Lise Payette, the former Parti Québécois cabinet minister, feminist and writer who died Sept. 5 at the age of 87.
  Those who wish to offer their sympathies to Payette’s family and sign a book of condolences can do so on Oct. 20 from 8:30 a.m. until noon at Montreal city hall at 245 Notre-Dame St. E.
  Then, at 3 p.m., the provincial government will hold a tribute
  
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• Still standing in Pierrefonds after historic flooding

  15-10-2018 23:13 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Oct 15: A Pierrefonds man is still waiting for the Quebec government’s help nearly 18 months after spring flooding damaged his home. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, André Lavigne says he hopes the province lets him rebuild his home — even though it’s located on a flood plain.
  
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• Quebec's underground cannabis market isn't all 'bikers and Mafia,' grower says

  15-10-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
  Observers are watching closely to see how legalization affects the province’s well-established black market, from street dealers peddling dime bags outside Metro stations to the high-end growers who deliver a range of strains directly to your door.
  
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• Quebec's 'mom and pop' cannabis growers seek place of their own in era of legalization

  15-10-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
  Observers are watching closely to see how legalization affects the province’s well-established black market, from street dealers peddling dime bags outside Metro stations to the high-end growers who deliver a range of strains directly to your door.
  
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• Watch out for falling tree limbs: Montreal to be hit by high winds tonight

  15-10-2018 22:32 via cbc.ca
  Environment Canada says "very strong" winds will be gusting up to 80 km/h this evening and overnight.
  
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• Montreal’s Olympic Stadium to host pre-season games between Jays and Brewers

  15-10-2018 22:14 via globalnews.ca
  It's the sixth straight year that the Blue Jays have played exhibition games at Olympic Stadium,
  
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• Suspended vice admiral’s lawyers demand government produce secret documents

  15-10-2018 22:11 via globalnews.ca
  Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's legal team is demanding the federal government release dozens of documents that officials have deemed cabinet secrets, but which Norman's lawyers say they need to properly defend their client in court.
  
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• Cannabis will be legal, but please be sober as judges, murder-trial jurors told

  15-10-2018 21:15
  A Quebec Superior Court judge has asked seven women and five men selected as the jury to hear a murder trial at the Montreal courthouse to avoid partaking in cannabis even if its recreational use will become legal on Wednesday.
  “It is a new reality we are facing,” Justice Hélène Di Salvo said Monday morning as the trial of Sébastien Grenon, 35, was set to begin. Grenon is charged with the first-degree murder of Benoît Denis, who was killed May 13, 2010, in
  
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• STM takes a ride down memory lane with Opus card

  15-10-2018 20:56
  The day after a massive sale of vintage bus and métro items in Montreal, the Société de transport de Montréal took the opportunity Monday to highlight some impressive numbers regarding the Opus card, the transit pass that is celebrating its 10th birthday this year:More than 10 million Opus cards have been issued over the last decade.
  More than 5.5 billion Opus scans have been registered.
  More than one million Opus cards are used each month.
  Each weekday, the Opus
  
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• Montreal lawyer suspended for role in defrauding elderly woman

  15-10-2018 20:39
  A lawyer has been suspended for 18 months for his role in defrauding an 89-year-old woman between 2013 and 2014, according to a judgment recently made public by the Quebec bar’s disciplinary council.
  Charles Gelber, who has been practising law for more than 30 years in the province, pleaded guilty to nine complaints of breaching the code of ethics and the professional code of conduct for members of the Quebec bar.
  The complaints stem from Gelber’s role in using falsified informa
  
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• Quebec unions urge incoming CAQ government to adopt $15 minimum wage

  15-10-2018 20:34 via globalnews.ca
  Unions and community groups are urging the new Quebec government to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, even though during the campaign, the CAQ said it was against the idea.
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Tomas Plekanec set to play in his 1,000th NHL game

  15-10-2018 20:32
  Canadiens Game Day is a new feature this season in which we will follow the Habs during every home game from the morning skate in Brossard through the post-game interviews at the Bell Centre, updating throughout the day with all the news, quotes, notes and opinion you’re looking for:
  Tomas Plekanec will play in his 1,000th NHL regular-season game when the Canadiens face the Detroit Red Wings Monday night at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).
  The 35-year-old centre, who
  
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• Canada to allow cannabis smoking at campsites in national parks

  15-10-2018 20:28 via globalnews.ca
  Parks Canada says campers will be allowed to smoke cannabis at registered campsites in national parks across Canada.
  
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• First Nations athlete says McGill's Redmen name needs to change

  15-10-2018 20:23 via cbc.ca
  A McGill University task force last year recommended removing the Redmen name from its varsity men's teams. Students advocating for the name change plan to demonstrate on campus on Oct. 31.
  
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• Blue Jays to mark 50th anniversary of Expos with two games at Big O

  15-10-2018 20:22
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays will close out their 2019 pre-season schedule with a pair of games in Montreal against the Milwaukee Brewers.
  It will mark the sixth straight year that the Blue Jays have played exhibition games at Olympic Stadium, the former home of the Expos, who departed for Washington after the 2004 season to become the Nationals.
  The games are scheduled for March 25 and 26, event promoter Evenko said Monday in a release.
  “Montreal is a city with great baseball his
  
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• Lise Ravary: On being a liberal conservative contrarian

  15-10-2018 20:18
  A first edition of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty sits permanently by my computer, along with Political Liberalism by American philosopher John Rawls, who best theorized modern liberalism. My third desktop intellectual companion is British philosopher Sir Roger Scruton, whose essay The Meaning of Conservatism made me realize years ago that this liberal was also a conservative, albeit one of the traditional variety.
  Nothing to do with free market conservatives, or the heartless fanatics who
  
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• Woman in critical but stable condition after being struck by car on Guy St.

  15-10-2018 20:11
  Montreal police are investigating an accident Monday morning at a downtown intersection that left a 28-year-old woman with serious injuries.
  The incident occurred a little before 6:40 a.m. at the corner of Guy and Notre Dame Sts. Police say that as a motorist travelling west on Notre Dame turned to head south, he struck a woman who was crossing Guy.
  The 25-year-old driver is being questioned by police and accident reconstruction experts have been deployed at the scene.
  The woman is listed as bei
  
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• Unions urge premier-designate Legault to rethink civil service cuts

  15-10-2018 20:01
  Quebec’s public sector unions are urging premier-designate François Legault to rethink a campaign pledge to cut 5,000 jobs in the province’s public sector.
  The unions, citing cuts already made under the Liberal government, made their plea on Monday.
  Christian Daigle, president of the Syndicat de la fonction publique du Québec, warned that cuts made by the previous government had already translated into a lack of services available in the province’s regions an
  
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• Update: Man shot to death through apartment door near Monkland Village

  15-10-2018 19:53
  Montreal police are investigating the city’s 22nd homicide of the year after a man was found dead Monday morning in an apartment building in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, just a block from where police found the victim of an attempted murder a day earlier.
  Police were called to the four-storey apartment building on Décarie Blvd. just north of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Ave. at 8:45 a.m. by a person who noticed a bullet hole in the door of an apartment in the building.
  Police had to forc
  
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• 235 trees to be removed from Lachine Canal as part of renovations

  15-10-2018 19:47 via globalnews.ca
  The trees are set to be felled as part of an ongoing $170-million project to renovate the canal's crumbling infrastructure.
  
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• StatsCan says businesses spent $14B on cybersecurity in 2017

  15-10-2018 19:35 via cbc.ca
  The survey found that more than one in five companies said they were impacted by a cyberattack last year, with large businesses more than twice as likely as small ones to be apparent targets.
  
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• How your cat could be making beluga whales sick

  15-10-2018 19:31 via globalnews.ca
  Toxoplasmosis is an increasingly prevalent disease affecting a wide range of marine mammals, and the only definitive hosts of the parasite that causes it are felines -- both wild and domesticated.
  
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• Lachine Canal trees on the cutting block

  15-10-2018 19:05 via globalnews.ca
  Parks Canada is set to cut down hundreds of trees on the Lachine Canal, as part of an ongoing construction project. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, some residents are unhappy with the decision.
  
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• Police looking for man who jumped into shark tank at Toronto aquarium

  15-10-2018 18:45
  Toronto police are looking to speak with a man who stripped naked and jumped into a shark tank at a popular tourist attraction.
  Spokeswoman Katrina Arrogante says police received a call at 10:31 p.m. on Friday for indecent exposure at Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada.
  She says by the time officers arrived seven minutes later, the man was gone.
  Arrogante says the man jumped into a massive tank on the main floor of the aquarium.
  Videos posted online show a man swimming in the tank as sharks pass
  
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• Shots fired, man found dead in apartment near Monkland Village in N.D.G.

  15-10-2018 18:44
  A Décarie Blvd. apartment block became the site of Montreal’s 22nd homicide of the year Monday, just one day after an attempted murder outside the same building.
  The murder was recorded after police were called to the apartment block, near Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Ave., around 8:45 a.m. after bullet holes were noticed in the door of one of the apartment units.
  Behind that door police found the victim, who had apparently been gunned down through the door and left for dead. Investiga
  
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• Quebec election campaign posters must be gone by 12:01 a.m. Wednesday

  15-10-2018 18:33
  If the faces of François Legault, Philippe Couillard, Jean-François Lisée, Manon Massé or any other provincial election candidate remains within your field of vision by 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, it will be against the law.
  Quebec’s Election Act stipulates that “all election posters and billboards must be removed not later than 15 days after polling day,” and if the campaign publicity remains posted after that deadline, the municipality where the poster i
  
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• Blue Jays to host NL Central champion Brewers in Montreal next spring

  15-10-2018 18:09 via cbc.ca
  The Blue Jays will close out their 2019 pre-season schedule with a pair of games in Montreal against the Milwaukee Brewers. Toronto's regular-season opener is set for March 28 against the visiting Detroit Tigers.
  
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• How the new CAQ government could impact Quebec minorities

  15-10-2018 18:06 via globalnews.ca
  Geoffrey Chambers of the Quebec Community Groups Network joins senior anchor Jamie Orchard to discuss how CAQ policies, especially the banning of religious symbols, could have a negative impact on minority groups in the province.
  
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• Opinion: Making Quebec a 'have' province is a worthy goal

  15-10-2018 17:49
  Quebec voters opted for a new direction when they elected the Coalition Avenir Québec into power Oct. 1. One objective of the new majority government when it takes office this week will be to end the province’s dependence on the federal equalization program. On the campaign trail, CAQ leader and premier-designate François Legault committed to this as a long-term goal.
  Equalization, often a touch point for heated rhetoric and regional tension, is a federal program that di
  
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• Young Canadian drivers at increased risk of car crash, even hours after getting high

  15-10-2018 17:36 via globalnews.ca
  In the wake of Canada's looming pot legalization on Wednesday, a new study says young drivers are at increased risk of a car crash five hours after getting high.
  
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• You shouldn't drive even 5 hours after smoking cannabis, study suggests

  15-10-2018 17:32
  Smoking marijuana increases the risk of crashing the car for young drivers even five hours after inhaling, a new study has determined.
  The McGill University research study found that performance declined significantly for things like reaction time as much as five hours after smoking one joint. Driving performance deteriorated when the subjects were exposed to road distractions.
  Using a driving simulator, researchers tested the abilities of 18-to-24-year-olds who identified themselves as occasion
  
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• Major crimes unit investigating Montreal’s 22nd homicide of 2018

  15-10-2018 17:25 via globalnews.ca
  Police are investing the death of a man Monday morning in an apartment located on Décarie Boulevard in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Côte-des-Nieges borough.
  
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• Living a toxin-free lifestyle

  15-10-2018 17:25 via globalnews.ca
  Dietitian and nutritionist Sylvia Meo joins Global’s Laura Casella with great ways to reduce your waste and adopt a less toxic lifestyle.
  
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