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• Service interruptions or bad behaviour on the Metro?

  24-10-2018 23:57 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Oct 24: Montreal’s public transit authority wants to reduce the number of delays on its Metro lines. In an attempt to educate users, the agency has come up with seven short videos outlining the main causes for the delays. As Global’s Phil Carpenter explains, users might be surprised to know what is behind all...
  
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• Five Montreal vegetarian-friendly restaurants make Top 50 list

  24-10-2018 23:50
  Five vegetarian-friendly restaurants in Montreal have made OpenTable’s list of the Top 50 in Canada.OpenTable, a provider of online restaurant reservations, is headquartered in San Francisco and “has bookable restaurants in more than 20 countries.”According to a press release issued Wednesday, OpenTable says “Canada’s 50 Best Restaurants with Vegetarian Options is generated solely from more than 550,000 restaurant reviews collected from verified OpenTable diner
  
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• Watch: There must be clear consequences for Khashoggi killing, PM says

  24-10-2018 23:45
  Justin Trudeau was asked again on Wednesday about the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The prime minister says the federal government is “extremely concerned” about the situation.
  
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• Quebec ombudsman sounds the alarm on Inuit education

  24-10-2018 23:43
  Quebec is failing miserably at providing Inuit children with access to quality education, according to a report released Wednesday.
  Classes are regularly cancelled for lack of teachers, children are forced to learn math and science in their second or sometimes third language and special needs students linger for years without services.
  To make matters worse, the report found that some children live in such overcrowded homes that they “sleep in shifts” most nights and can barely stay
  
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• Watch: Poloz says central bank changing approach to interest rate hikes

  24-10-2018 23:40
  As it raised its benchmark interest rate to 1.75 per cent on Wednesday, the Bank of Canada sent a signal suggesting a more aggressive approach to future hikes. Bank governor Stephen Poloz says that pace will depend on the data.
  
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• Will the CAQ ban civil servants from wearing the chador?

  24-10-2018 23:32 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Oct 24: The new CAQ government is studying the idea of banning public employees from wearing a traditional Muslim body covering. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher explains, the government isn’t sure banning the chador will pass the test in court — or in the court of public opinion.
  
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• Pierrefonds flood victim hopes to rebuild home

  24-10-2018 23:23 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Oct 24: A Pierrefonds man who was hoping to rebuild his home, which was damaged by floods in May 2017, has hit a wall. André Lavigne recently found out that the province says he doesn’t have the right to ask to rebuild but as Global’s Billy Shields explains, Lavigne still has hope.
  
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• Analyze This: Canadiens among NHL's best at controlling shots

  24-10-2018 23:06
  With almost 10 per cent of the season in the books, we can take a look at how key players have been performing for the Canadiens. It’s still quite early, but clear patterns are emerging that we can analyze.
  It’s worth noting that the Canadiens are No. 5 in the NHL when it comes to controlling shots, with 53.9-per-cent control of the overall shots this season. This indicates their play sustainable and the Canadiens have earned their position as Atlantic Division leaders.
  The more shot
  
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• Waste Reduction Week: 10 ways to reduce your household footprint

  24-10-2018 22:54
  It’s Waste Reduction Week in Quebec, and boy do we need it. Quebecers produce 724 kilos of waste per inhabitant, according to Festival Zéro Déchet, the second edition of which takes place Nov. 2 to 4 at Marché Bonsecours. (Admission is free; tickets available at eventbrite.ca)
  Created by two zero-waste bloggers, last year’s first edition drew 7,000 people. For more information, visit festivalzerodechet.ca
  The festival’s all-female organizing team also creat
  
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• Jean-Marc Vallée signs on for Lennon and Ono movie

  24-10-2018 22:49
  Montreal director Jean-Marc Vallée has signed on to turn John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s love story into a new movie.
  Studio heads at Universal Pictures are in negotiations to option the rights to the untitled drama, written by Anthony McCarten — the brains behind the new Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, and the Big Little Lies director is slated to take charge of the project.
  McCarten, who also adapted Darkest Hour and The Theory of Everything for the big screen, will produce
  
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• Easing the pain for South Shore drivers

  24-10-2018 22:47 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Oct 24: Construction, reduced lanes and difficult public transportation has made getting on to the Island of Montreal difficult for South Shore drivers. As Global’s Tim Sargeant explains, the mayors of Chateauguay and neighbouring municipalities want Transport Quebec to do more to help ease the congestion pain. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
  
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• Quebec gun control groups question federal commitment to proposed handgun ban

  24-10-2018 22:44 via globalnews.ca
  Groups representing survivors and families of victims of Quebec mass shootings say they fear a federal consultation on a possible ban of handguns and assault weapons is coming too late to accomplish anything.
  
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• Byelection: Chantal Bourgeois, Nadine Raymond to run for Project Montréal

  24-10-2018 22:41
  Mayor Valérie Plante’s Projet Montréal party is hoping to extend its reach in the north and east of the island in the Dec. 16 byelection.
  Two seats in city council are up for grabs since Chantal Rouleau, borough mayor of Rivière-des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles, and Frantz Benjamin, city councillor in St-Michel, were elected to the Quebec National Assembly on Oct. 1.  Rouleau is the new minister for Montreal and junior transportation minister in the Coalitio
  
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• South Shore mayors seek traffic solutions for Mercier Bridge

  24-10-2018 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  Mayors on Montreal's South Shore argue Transports Québec can do more to help combat traffic congestion on the Mercier Bridge.
  
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• Montreal construction zone snags hit-and-run driver

  24-10-2018 22:21
  One of Montreal’s notorious construction zones actually served some good.
  In May 2016, Aravindan Selvanayagam, 29, was on his way to work when he crashed his car into the back of another on westbound Highway 40, where it intersects with Highway 15 near Town of Mount Royal.
  But instead of staying put or checking on the other driver, Selvanayagam backed up and drove away.
  But he did not get very far before the police found him, as his lawyer revealed during a sentencing hearing on Wednesday.
  
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• Kahnawake youth to showcase work in Toronto at environmental film festival

  24-10-2018 22:00 via cbc.ca
  Three student films by Secondary II students at Kahnawake Survival School have been selected to screen in Toronto at Planet in Focus, Canada's largest environmental film festival.
  
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• Leukemia survivor makes good on her promise, creates Swab the World campaign

  24-10-2018 21:51 via globalnews.ca
  Leukemia survivor, Mai Duong, has launched the Swab the World foundation to help patients find stem cell matches.
  
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• Would an app help curb sexual harassment on the Montreal Metro?

  24-10-2018 21:35 via cbc.ca
  The STM is exploring creating a mobile geolocation app that would allow commuters to instantly report cases of sexual harassment on the bus or Metro, after the idea was proposed at city hall. But would it help address the problem?
  
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• Deux-Montagnes train delays have some commuters considering moving, changing jobs, retirement

  24-10-2018 20:44 via globalnews.ca
  People are just about fed up with regular delays on commuter trains.
  
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• Martin Patriquin: Sensibly, Legault is a Trudeau ally on carbon

  24-10-2018 20:20
  To enemies and some supporters alike, Premier François Legault is the closest we’ll ever get to Donald Trump. Though specious, the comparison nonetheless rings true in certain ways.
  Like the 45th U.S. president, Legault rode to power by exaggerating and demonizing the effects of immigration. And like Trump, Legault has made it a priority to reduce immigration numbers to satisfy his base, despite serving as a crucial renewal for an aging workforce. In this case, ideology has trumped
  
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• CAQ government to scuttle Anticosti heritage site process?

  24-10-2018 20:19
  Quebec’s new government seems on the verge of torpedoing a process aimed at having Anticosti Island designated a UNESCO world heritage site.
  Natural Resources and Energy Minister Jonatan Julien told reporters Wednesday the Coalition Avenir Québec government is open to examining potential oil and gas exploration projects in the region — contrary to the former Liberal government of Philippe Couillard, which ended resource exploration.
  The island is already on the short list of c
  
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• Quebec to prohibit all civil servants from wearing Muslim chador

  24-10-2018 20:17 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's new Coalition Avenir Québec government says it will go a step further in restricting religious symbols, prohibiting all public servants from wearing the chador.
  
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• Quebec to bar all civil servants from wearing Muslim chador

  24-10-2018 20:17 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's new Coalition Avenir Québec government says it will go a step further in restricting religious symbols, prohibiting all public servants from wearing the chador.
  
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• Liberal Nicola Di Iorio: absent from House, present at cannabis event

  24-10-2018 19:46
  While he says he’s reflecting over his future as a Liberal member of parliament, Nicola Di Iorio is to speak on Friday at a cannabis industry trade show in Montreal in his capacity as a business lawyer.
  The Montreal MP has raised eyebrows over the course of the year with his changes of heart over whether to stay in politics. He has not been seen on Parliament Hill since the session resumed in September.
  Last spring, Di Iorio announced he would be giving up his Commons seat, but later said
  
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• Swab for Ellie: Helping a 6-year-old Montrealer in the fight for her life

  24-10-2018 19:27 via globalnews.ca
  News of Ellie’s condition has already caused a spike in Héma Québec’s donor registrations and caught the attention of a former Habs defenseman.
  
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• Willa may rain down on Montreal as season's first nor'easter

  24-10-2018 19:14
  Hurricane Willa is no more. Downgraded to a tropical storm, the weather system that devastated parts of Mexico dissipated around 10 a.m. Wednesday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
  Nevertheless, the storm that originated in the Pacific Ocean will continue its slow journey toward the Atlantic — via Florida, New York and Montreal — in the form of strong wind, rain storms and possibly the season’s first nor’easter. Or, as Mét&ea
  
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• CAQ wants to hike legal age for cannabis to 21 by March, minister says

  24-10-2018 19:06
  QUEBEC — The new Coalition Avenir Québec government plans to tighten the rules on cannabis consumption, including increasing the legal age to consume from 18 to 21, within 100 days.
  Confirming he will be the minister handling the issue, junior health minister Lionel Carmant said the government considers the issue a question of public health and will act as soon as it can to change the rules created by the previous Liberal regime.
  Carmant said he will “do everything in his powe
  
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• Commuters fed up with Deux-Montagnes train delays

  24-10-2018 19:05 via globalnews.ca
  Delays on the Deux-Montagnes commuter trains have become a regular occurrence and commuters are fed up. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, some are even wondering if they need to move or change jobs to avoid having to take the train.
  
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• Canadiens' Antti Niemi to start in goal against Sabres in Buffalo

  24-10-2018 18:54
  Antti Niemi will start in goal when the Canadiens face the Buffalo Sabres Thursday at the KeyBank Centre (7 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).
  It will be the third start this season for Niemi, who has a 2-0 record despite some ordinary numbers. He has a 2.88 goals-against average and an .893 save percentage.
  He was pressed into service this season when Carey Price had the flu. In his season debut, he recovered from a shaky start to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 in a shootout on Oct. 13. He stop
  
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• Driver arrested, passenger dead after crash on Papineau Blvd. in Laval

  24-10-2018 18:23
  A 34-year-old car passenger is dead and the 27-year-old man behind the wheel of the car facing a charge of impaired driving after an early morning car crash on Papineau Blvd. in Laval.
  The incident occurred at 4:50 a.m. Police say the car containing the two men was heading north on Papineau Blvd. when it collided with a southbound street sweeping truck.
  The 34-year-old passenger in the car died of his injuries several hours after the crash while the driver will face a charge of impaired driving.
  
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• Montreal transit system says proper etiquette will reduce delays

  24-10-2018 18:22 via globalnews.ca
  The STM says that over 5,653 minutes of service shutdowns last year, affecting over 4 million users, were customer-related.
  
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• Chador is on the list of religious symbols to be banned: CAQ

  24-10-2018 18:21
  QUEBEC – The Legault government plans to ban public servants from wearing the chador.
  Clarifying the list of religious symbols that will soon be on the outs, the Coalition Avenir Québec government minister responsible for the issue confirmed Wednesday the chador has to go.
  A chador is a large piece of cloth wrapped around the head and upper body, leaving only the face visible. Such clothing, rarely seen in Quebec, is worn mainly by Muslim women.
  “Our position has always been c
  
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• Opinion: Should you take a daily Aspirin? It depends …

  24-10-2018 18:06
  A series of recent studies has made people ask whether acetylsalicylic acid, better known as Aspirin, really is beneficial for your heart. As most people know, Aspirin is fixture in the field of cardiology and is routinely prescribed to people with heart disease. However, it was a relatively late arrival to the field. The ISIS-2 study, which showed that giving patients Aspirin after a heart attack improved survival, was only published in 1988. Nevertheless, subsequent studies, and a large meta-a
  
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• Montreal mayor announces who will run under Projet Montréal banner

  24-10-2018 18:04
  Chantal Bourgeois will run with Projet Montréal for the mayor’s job in Rivière-des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles. The post was left vacant by Chantal Rouleau, the new minister for the metropolis in François Legault’s government, in the Dec. 16 byelection.
  Nadine Raymond will run for city councillor in the St-Michel district, vacated by Frantz Benjamin.
  Mayor Valérie Plante introduced the two candidates at Projet Montréal headquarters in St-Henr
  
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• Quebec wants to expand religious symbol ban, blocking Muslim garments in civil service

  24-10-2018 18:00 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's new government wants to block Muslim women who work in the civil service from wearing the chador, a shawl-like piece of clothing that covers the head and body, and the niqab, which also covers the face.
  
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• Quebec government wants to take religious symbol rules further, banning Muslim chador in civil service

  24-10-2018 18:00 via cbc.ca
  Quebec’s new government wants to ban Muslim women who work in the civil service from wearing the chador, a shawl-like piece of clothing that covers the head and body.
  
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• Quebec government wants to take religious symbol ban further, blocking Muslim chador in civil service

  24-10-2018 18:00 via cbc.ca
  Quebec’s new government wants to ban Muslim women who work in the civil service from wearing the chador, a shawl-like piece of clothing that covers the head and body.
  
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• The youth wing wants Quebec Liberals to get serious about the environment

  24-10-2018 17:21
  The caucus of the Quebec Liberal Party is welcoming a proposal by party youth wing president Stéphane Stril that protection of the environment become the ninth “official value” of the party.
  In an interview with the TVA news network on Wednesday, Stril said that the environment should be at the forefront of the next Liberal leadership race, adding that no candidate for that leadership can expect to win without paying attention to the youth wing’s propositions.
  Liberal MN
  
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• Tugboat operators at Port of Montreal threaten to strike

  24-10-2018 17:05
  Tugboat captains who work at the Port of Montreal are threatening pressure tactics and strike action after failing to agree to a new contact with their employer, Océan Remorquage Montréal.
  The 11 captains are holding out for a higher salary increase, says Luc Laberge, a union representative with the Syndicat des Métallos.
  The tugboats help ships dock and undock at wharfs in the St. Lawrence River. They also provide ship escorts, emergency assistance and firefighting services
  
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• Swabbing for Ellie

  24-10-2018 16:32 via globalnews.ca
  Six-year-old Ellie White desperately needs a bone marrow donor to help her fight a second round of a severe form of leukemia. Her family has put out a call for a matching donor. Find out what you can do to help Ellie as Barbara White joins Global’s Laura Casella & Kim Sullivan to talk about...
  
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• What are girls learning from fairy tales

  24-10-2018 16:22 via globalnews.ca
  Are animated features starring princesses, princes and villains sending the wrong messages to girls? Join parenting columnist Erica Diamond and Global’s Laura Casella as they discuss the negative messages that these fairy tales teach today’s girls.
  
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• Fighting debit card fraud

  24-10-2018 16:15 via globalnews.ca
  Online payment fraud is a growing threat, and the scams aren’t always easy to spot. Join Interac client management director Rachel Jolicoeur and Global’s Kim Sullivan to find out how you can fight back against fraud.
  
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• Pot stocks: are they a good investment

  24-10-2018 16:08 via globalnews.ca
  Since legalization pot stocks are being hyped as a great investment. Are they? Join Assante Capital investment advisor Michael Martella and Global’s Laura Casella to get the skinny on pot as an investment.
  
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• Bank of Canada raises key interest rate — and hints at more to come

  24-10-2018 16:00 via cbc.ca
  The Bank of Canada has raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point for the fifth time since last summer, pushing up the cost of borrowing for Canadians.
  
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• Bank of Canada raises interest rate for 5th time since 2017

  24-10-2018 16:00 via cbc.ca
  The Bank of Canada has raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point for the fifth time since last summer, pushing up the cost of borrowing for Canadians.
  
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• That stolen beer is no good, so don't drink it, Unibroue warns

  24-10-2018 15:54
  Quebec’s largest craft beer maker says several pallets of beer bottles that were meant to be destroyed have been stolen and should not be consumed.
  The stolen bottles of Unibroue Rousse may contain small particles from the plastic liner of the bottle cap, Unibroue Brewery says.
  The pallets of beer, which were stored in a trailer in a vendor’s yard, were stolen before the vendor could dispose of them.
  Any bottle that bears the production date code D2018Q should not be consumed. The pr
  
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