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• Laval police find vehicle of missing 36-year-old man

  20-10-2018 23:45 via globalnews.ca
  Sylvain Lavoie was last seen leaving his workplace in Laval at around 10 p.m. on Oct. 16.
  
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• Montreal band Anemone robbed during tour stop in Portland - CTV News

  20-10-2018 22:38
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  Montreal band Anemone robbed during tour stop in Portland
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  A Montreal-based band is missing several of its instruments after being the victim of a theft while on tour in the United States on Thursday. In a Facebook post, Anemone said that while the band was in Portland, their van was broken into while it was ...and more »
  
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• Quebec provincial police officers agree to take off controversial red bands

  20-10-2018 21:47 via cbc.ca
  Provincial police officers have agreed to remove a symbol of solidarity implemented in support for their colleagues in Val-d'Or who were suspended over allegations of mistreatment by Indigenous women.
  
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• Focus Montreal: October 20 - Globalnews.ca

  20-10-2018 21:20
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  Focus Montreal: October 20
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  Focus Montreal introduces Montrealers to the people who are shaping our community by bringing their stories into focus. The program airs Saturday at 5:30 p.m., as well as Sunday at 7:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., and midnight. Take a look at who we're meeting ...
  
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• Focus Montreal: October 20

  20-10-2018 21:20 via globalnews.ca
  This week on Focus Montreal Global's senior anchor Jamie Orchard talks to a doctor who is speaking out about the benefits of medical cannabis; a pro-cannabis activist who launched a website being called the "Wine Spectator of Cannabis," and to McGill University about its new program aiming to help allophones become bilingual and better integrate into the job market.
  
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• 'I can't do this alone': Kids from Northern Quebec still taking medevac flights without parents

  20-10-2018 21:14 via cbc.ca
  Parents of a six-year-old Waswanipi boy, who was taken on a medevac flight to Montreal on his own in August, described the trauma their son experienced at Quebec's inquiry into the treatment of Indigenous people.
  
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• Tribute update: Mayor Valérie Plante salutes Lise Payette's courage

  20-10-2018 20:12
  Quebecers are paying tribute to Lise Payette on Saturday.
  A major figure in Quebec’s feminist movement, Payette was a journalist, a radio and television host, a TV writer and a former Parti Québécois minister. She died on Sept. 5 at the age of 87.
  Members of the family, as well as Premier François Legault and other dignitaries were expected to attend a ceremony organized by the Quebec government at 3 p.m. at the Imperial Cinema. The government granted Payette
  
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• Montreal's annual Night of the Homeless aims to raise awareness, help those in need

  20-10-2018 19:42 via cbc.ca
  Hundreds of Montrealers took part in a march aimed at raising awareness about the city's homeless population, Friday night.
  
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• Annual march raises homelessness awareness across the island of Montreal

  20-10-2018 19:42 via cbc.ca
  At an annual event raising awareness of homelessness in Montreal, elected officials and advocates took the opportunity to highlight that the problem of homelessness isn’t simply confined to the downtown.
  
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• Religious symbols: Montreal urged to pass 'motion of tolerance and inclusion' - Montreal Gazette

  20-10-2018 19:21
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  Religious symbols: Montreal urged to pass 'motion of tolerance and inclusion'
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• Religious symbols: Montreal urged to pass 'motion of tolerance and inclusion'

  20-10-2018 19:11
  No one says they can’t but a Montreal city councillor plans to present a motion at council next week affirming that members of the elected body have the right to wear religious symbols.
  Premier François Legault has said his new Coalition Avenir Québec government will soon introduce a “secularism law” that forbids some public employees — judges, Crown prosecutors, police officers, prison guards, and teachers — from wearing religious symbols at work.
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• This week on ‘Focus Montreal’: October 13

  20-10-2018 18:40 via globalnews.ca
  This week on Focus Montreal Global Montreal's Senior Anchor Jamie Orchard discusses the impact the CAQ could have on minorities in Quebec with the QCGN, the proposal that could give seniors in Côte Saint-Luc a better life and award the city $10 million to execute it and the Montreal-based duo, the Fitz-Patrick's sisters' North American tour.
  
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• Lise Payette remembered at national tribute in Montreal - Globalnews.ca

  20-10-2018 17:39
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  Lise Payette remembered at national tribute in Montreal
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  A national tribute is taking place in Montreal to honour revered Quebec feminist, author, journalist, politician and television personality Lise Payette. Multiple Quebec dignitaries, media personalities and members of the public headed to City Hall to ...
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• Lise Payette remembered at national tribute in Montreal

  20-10-2018 17:39 via globalnews.ca
  Multiple media personalities, Quebec dignitaries and members of the public headed to Montreal City Hall to sign a book and offer their condolences to the family.
  
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• 'Going too fast' with legal cannabis imperils our children: Pierre Lavoie

  20-10-2018 17:19
  Healthy lifestyle advocate Pierre Lavoie, whose namesake Grand défi walks take place this weekend, says he doesn’t want to sound alarmist, but he believes that legalizing cannabis undoes the good he’s been doing in Quebec for the last 10 years.
  He said Ottawa should have been content with decriminalizing cannabis and then waiting a year to even consider legalizing it, to better analyze the impact on young people.
  “It’s scary. We’re going too fast,”
  
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• Icelandair makes emergency landing in Quebec after cockpit window shattered

  20-10-2018 17:18 via globalnews.ca
  Pilots flying a packed Icelandair flight had to make an emergency landing north of Quebec city Friday night after a cockpit window smashed in mid-air.
  
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• Montreal Canadiens: Carey Price is on the hunt for another milestone - A Winning Habit

  20-10-2018 17:04
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  Montreal Canadiens: Carey Price is on the hunt for another milestone
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  The Montreal Canadiens are looking for their fourth win in a row and Carey Price can further establish himself in the record books with that result. The 2017/18 season was a tough one for the Montreal Canadiens and Carey Price. The team was losing ...
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• Most Quebec provincial parks to allow dogs, starting this spring

  20-10-2018 17:00 via cbc.ca
  Beginning in mid-March, most provincial parks will be open to leashed dogs as long as their owners adhere to certain rules and stick to designated paths.
  
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• Canadiens' Andrew Shaw is one proud papa

  20-10-2018 17:00
  The Canadiens’ Andrew Shaw is one proud papa.
  Shaw’s wife, Chaunette Boulerice, gave birth to their first child in June — a girl named Andy. Shaw and Boulerice first met in high school in Belleville, Ont., and were married last summer.
  Shaw joked after practice Friday in Brossard that he can’t believe how beautiful Andy is, considering half of her genetics come from him.
  “She’s so beautiful,” Shaw said.
  Shaw posted a photo of Andy on Instagram after prac
  
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• Quebec pays tribute to Lise Payette on Saturday

  20-10-2018 15:55
  Quebec will pay tribute to Lise Payette on Saturday.
  A major figure in Quebec’s feminist movement, Payette was a journalist, a radio and television host, a TV writer and a former Parti Québécois minister. She died on Sept. 5 at the age of 87.
  A ceremony organized by the Quebec government will be held at 3 p.m. at the Imperial Cinema, in the presence of members of his family, as well as Premier François Legault and other dignitaries.
  The public can sign a condolenc
  
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• Icelandair plane makes emergency landing in Bagotville due to cracked window

  20-10-2018 15:37 via cbc.ca
  Icelandair says one of its planes made an emergency landing in Quebec late Friday night because of a cracked cockpit window.
  
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• CAQ government urged to fight poverty, homelessness

  20-10-2018 15:20
  The Night of the Homeless took place Friday night in 40 Quebec cities to raise awareness about homelessness.
  Organizers called on Premier François Legault’s new Coalition Avenir Québec government to commit to the fight against poverty and homelessness.
  They noted that during the election campaign, Legault said he wanted to “put money back in the pockets of taxpayers.”
  The advocates for the homeless say this will not help nearly 40 per cent of Quebecers who ar
  
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• 400 exhibitors expected at international tourism show at Place Bonaventure

  20-10-2018 15:03
  More than 400 exhibitors are expected to participate in this weekend’s 30th Salon Tourisme Voyages International at Place Bonaventure in Montreal.
  One hundred countries are represented.
  Destinations little known to Quebecers are in the spotlight this year, including French Polynesia, Uzbekistan, Kenya and Ecuador.
  Nearly 300 presentations will also be given.
  The event attracts about 36,000 visitors every year.
  In the first six months of 2018, international tourism grew by six per cent
  
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• Karl Lohnes: Styling tricks to help make your shelves more attractive

  20-10-2018 15:00
  Bookcases and storage shelves can be the perfect backdrop to many areas in your home. Although shelves often contain books, others simply store or display favourite keepsakes. A good “design eye” enables you to arrange all of your items and create a pleasing view. But let those shelves get overcrowded, and you end up creating the look of a going-out-of-business knick-knack shop. These design ideas and styling tricks will help prevent your favourite things from looking like they&rsquo
  
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• Tribute held to honour late Quebec politician and feminist Lise Payette

  20-10-2018 14:26 via cbc.ca
  ​A public tribute was held Saturday for Lise Payette, the celebrated journalist, feminist and former Parti Québécois minister, who died last month at the age of 87.
  
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• Tribute being held to honour Quebec politician and feminist Lise Payette

  20-10-2018 14:26 via cbc.ca
  A national tribute is being held today for Lise Payette, the celebrated journalist, feminist and former Parti Québécois minister, who died last month at 87.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Khashoggi death confirmed, billionaire released

  20-10-2018 14:25
  You up? Here are a couple of stories from the overnight desk to rub the sleep out of your eyes.
  Saudis confirm journalist’s death in a ‘fistfight’: After mounting international speculation about the fate of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, not seen since entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Saudi Arabia claimed that the Washington Post contributor last seen on Oct. 2 was killed in a “fistfight” at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The kingdom also said that 18 suspec
  
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• Week in Review: Pet pot, Phil, protest and prosecutor

  20-10-2018 14:00
  Catch up on what stories you might have missed this week in Montreal.You shouldn’t drive even 5 hours after smoking cannabis: McGill study
  Smoking marijuana increases the risk young drivers will get into a car crash even five hours after they last inhaled, a new study has determined. The McGill University research study released Monday, two days before cannabis will be legalized in Canada, found performance declined as much as five hours after smoking one joint. Driving per
  
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• Shelter: Heritage charm with a modern polish in Westmount

  20-10-2018 14:00
  Kathryn Pistilli grew up in Westmount, but in her 20s she moved around — first to the United States to study, then back to Montreal. After that, she went to the University of London in the UK to do a degree in economics. When she had completed only one year of study, she withdrew, opting instead for a job that she “didn’t want to pass up.”
  The job in question involved moving to Madrid and writing about business-related topics. Leading American publications such as Forbes
  
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• Public ban on smoking cannabis would lead to inequity, say experts

  20-10-2018 14:00 via cbc.ca
  A ban on smoking cannabis in public would leave marginalized people with nowhere to light up without breaking the rules, making them vulnerable to being over-policed, say community workers and activists.
  
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• 100th anniversary: Fulfilling the dream of the Mount Royal Tunnel

  20-10-2018 14:00
  It was a crazy idea, but one that shaped downtown Montreal and gave birth to the region’s first transit-oriented suburb.
  Sunday will mark 100 years since the first passenger train was pulled through the Mount Royal Tunnel. Its construction was a remarkable engineering feat, especially for the time, and at 4.9 kilometres, it is still one of the world’s longest train tunnels.
  The tunnel shaped downtown Montreal, making it possible to build Place Ville Marie and the Queen Elizabeth Hote
  
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• Quebec Crown admits errors in prosecuting ex-ski coach Bertrand Charest's case

  20-10-2018 13:49 via cbc.ca
  In recently-file court documents, Quebec's Crown attorney conceded that it's possible the judge should not have found Bertrand Charest guilty of 10 out of 37 charges.
  
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• Alouettes at Toronto Argonauts: Five things you should know - Montreal Gazette

  20-10-2018 13:01
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  Alouettes at Toronto Argonauts: Five things you should know
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• Soup — and life — à la Josée di Stasio

  20-10-2018 13:00
  If people are comfortable approaching Josée di Stasio when they see her out and about, at markets or at cafés, it’s probably because they feel they know her from their time together in the kitchen, she suggests.
  OK, so they were at home and she was at a stove in a television studio, cooking with a high-profile chef on À la di Stasio, the long-running show that won all kinds of awards and made her a household name.
  “But it was as if they were sitting across the co
  
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• Montreal weather: Clouds, showers and quite windy

  20-10-2018 13:00
  Mainly cloudy with 60-per-cent chance of showers with a strong southwest wind at 30 km/h, gusting to 50.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of 12 and the UV index will be 2, or low.
  Tonight: Clouds will stick around as will a 60-per-cent chance of showers in the evening. Low plus 1 with risk of frost.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by tagging them with #ThisMtl. We’ll feature one per day right here in the morning fil
  
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• Josh Freed: Pot is here, and I’m already over it

  20-10-2018 13:00
  Congratulations Canadians, or should I say Cannabians?
  It’s been three days since Legal Weed Wednesday, a date that’s now been called “historic” so often we may need to declare a national holiday to celebrate it.
  There have been major news stories everywhere from the U.S. to India and Australia. A German paper proclaimed Canada a “pothead paradise.” The South China Morning Post cried “O, cannabis!”
  BBC’s website showed a maple leaf flag repla
  
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• Four key roadways to avoid on Saturday

  20-10-2018 13:00
  Here’s what will be closed today:
  Turcot Interchange
  The Highway 15 North ramp, coming from the Champlain Bridge, to Highway 20 West, toward Dorval, will be closed completely.
  The Highway 15 South ramp to Highway 20 West will also be closed.
  The ramp from Highway 20 East to Highway 15 North will be closed completely; as will the Highway 720/Route 136 West ramp for Highway 15 North.
  The southbound ramp from the Décarie for Route 136 East/Highway 720 will also be closed.
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• Alouettes at Toronto Argonauts: Five things you should know

  20-10-2018 13:00
  Here are five things you should know about the Alouettes-Toronto Argonauts game at BMO Field on Saturday (4 p.m., TSN, RDS, CJAD Radio 800).
  Matchup: Talk about the blind leading the blind. Both teams have 3-12 records and have been eliminated from the Canadian Football League playoffs — but at least the Argos can lay claim to winning last season’s Grey Cup, upsetting the favoured Calgary Stampeders at TD Place in Ottawa. The Als haven’t won the Cup, or appeared in the champion
  
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• 'The Buddhist Chef' serves up comfort food, tofu poutine at Montreal Vegan Festival

  20-10-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Jean-Philippe Cyr doesn't believe that going vegan should have to mean sacrificing all his favourite comfort foods. Cyr, a professional chef who lives in Joliette, Que., is best known to his English-language fans as The Buddhist Chef.
  
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• Montreal all-girls school honours missing and murdered Indigenous women with dress project

  20-10-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Inspired by the REDress Project, students at Trafalgar School for Girls created paper dresses to raise awareness across their school's community about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
  
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• Municipal byelections scheduled for Dec. 16

  20-10-2018 04:37
  The date has been set for byelections in two Montreal boroughs to replace a city councillor and a borough mayor who were elected to the National Assembly on Oct. 1.
  Both byelections will take place on Dec. 16.
  Residents of the Rivière-des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles borough will be electing new borough mayor to replace Chantal Rouleau.
  Residents of the Saint-Michel district of the Villeray—Saint-Michel—Parc-Extension borough will be electing a new city co
  
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• Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue bike path users can snack on the go thanks to public 'food forest'

  20-10-2018 04:34 via cbc.ca
  Runners, cyclists and walkers in a West Island suburb are now able to snack on the go — plucking fruit from trees, berries from bushes and herbs from the ground in what has been dubbed a “food forest.”
  
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• Lineups persist at SQDC on Day 3, even at closing time

  20-10-2018 04:21
  Friday was the third day of legal recreational cannabis sales in Montreal and a few minutes before closing time at the Société québécoise du cannabis on Ste-Catherine St. W., there were still about 150 people in line.
  But the store’s 9 p.m. closing time is being strictly enforced — with the help of at least a dozen police officers.
  Some knew they wouldn’t get in. A young woman near the back of the line was on the phone making plans to meet a bac
  
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• Alouettes QB Johnny Manziel confident that better days lie ahead

  20-10-2018 04:07
  TORONTO — Johnny Manziel wants the world — or at least the small portion that follows the Alouettes — to know there are brighter days ahead for the struggling team, as early as next season.
  Manziel denies he’s frustrated with the amount of times he’s getting hit and sacked, while claiming not to be bothered by his 0-5 record as the club’s starting quarterback.
  “The last three games, we’ve been right in the mix,” Manziel said. “Any frust
  
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• 29th Night of the Homeless marches through Montreal

  20-10-2018 03:51 via globalnews.ca
  The Night of the Homeless takes place in 40 cities around the world. In Montreal those who support the homeless marched through the streets. And for the 29th edition of the event- they had a special message for the new government in Quebec City. Elysia Bryan-Baynes reports.
  
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• Montrealers march with renewed urgency for the 29th Night of the Homeless

  20-10-2018 03:36 via globalnews.ca
  This year, the event takes on a different meaning for advocates, with a new provincial government in place in Quebec City.
  
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• Recall issued for bread from Montreal's Boulangerie Mariano

  20-10-2018 02:26
  The provincial government and the City of Montreal are warning the public about the possibility that bread sold by Boulangerie Mariano, located at 8870 Verville St., might contain pieces of wood.
  The bread was sold on or before Oct. 19, according to the warning issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the city’s food inspection division.
  The bread was either packaged or sold in bulk and has the label “Boulangerie chez Mariano.”
  People are advised not to con
  
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• Will anglos have a voice in government under François Legault's plan?

  20-10-2018 02:14
  As the former minister responsible for relations with English-speaking Quebecers, Kathleen Weil said the eradication of the ministerial position under the new government represents a step back for the English community.
  Newly sworn-in Quebec Premier François Legault announced Thursday he would take responsibility for the dossier, and was naming Laval MNA Christopher Skeete as his parliamentary assistant, responsible for the Secretariat for relations with English-speaking Quebecers.
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• Every station on Montreal métro's Orange Line now has LTE cellphone service

  20-10-2018 02:11
  Montrealers can now take a métro trip to Place Bell in Laval and never lose their cellphone signal.
  On Friday, the Société de transport de Montréal announced that the Montmorency station has become the 47th of its 68 stations to be added to the mobile network being set up by the big four wireless service providers — Bell, Rogers, Telus and Videotron. The connection means the Orange Line is now fully connected from one end to the other.
  The next step in the netwo
  
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