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• Turcot demolition will make Nov. 9-12 very bad days for drivers

  26-10-2018 23:43
  The next time you’re stuck in traffic in the Turcot Interchange, take a moment to appreciate the scenery, because in the next few months it’s going to be changing dramatically.
  The $3.7-billion Turcot project is as much a demolition project as one to rebuild the junctions between Highways 15, 20 and the Ville-Marie Interchange in the centre of the city. Between now and next summer, crews will be demolishing roughly 150,000 cubic metres of concrete, from the roughly 300,000 cubic
  
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• Polio-like virus strikes Quebec children

  26-10-2018 23:43 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Oct 26: A rare polio-like virus has been striking children across the U.S. and in several Canadian provinces, including Quebec. Global Montreal Senior Anchor Jamie Orchard speaks to Dr. Christos Karatzios, an infectious diseases specialist from the Montreal Children’s Hospital, about acute flaccid myelitis.
  
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• Cannabis stores will only be open from Thursday to Sunday, SQDC says

  26-10-2018 23:31
  After only nine days of operations, the Société québécoise du cannabis announced on Friday that a lack of supply has forced it to reduce the operating hours of its 12 sales outlets to four days a week.
  Beginning Monday and until further notice, the dozen SQDC stores in Quebec will be closed Monday to Wednesday and open during scheduled operating hours from Thursday to Sunday.
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• No pain, no gain on the Turcot Interchange

  26-10-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Oct 26: Transports Québec and the engineering firm responsible for building the new Turcot Interchange gave reporters a sneak peak of the construction to date. So far, two-thirds of the construction is completed but there is still major work to be done. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, officials warn there are more road closures...
  
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• François Legault ‘may be open’ to Valérie Plante’s Pink line — but only if it’s cheaper

  26-10-2018 23:28 via globalnews.ca
  Premier François Legault and Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante held their first official meeting today, spending over an hour talking about a variety of subjects.
  
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• Quebec premier François Legault meets Montreal mayor

  26-10-2018 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Oct 26: Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante and New Quebec Premier François Legault sat down for their first face-to-face meeting since Legault’s Oct.1 election win. As Global’s Amanda Jelowicki explains, building the Pink line, developing the east end and the future of English school boards were on the agenda at this meeting.
  
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• Cannabis across Canada: Volume and price of online recreational pot orders

  26-10-2018 23:14 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian Press tried to order the cheapest available gram or pre-roll of dried flower in each province and territory during the afternoon of Oct. 17.
  
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• Early Halloween treat in Pierrefonds-Roxboro

  26-10-2018 23:06
  Pierrefonds homeowner Tim Coochey — known in the neighbourhood as “Mr. Halloween” — is once again putting on his Halloween best.Coochey lives on Des Maçons St., a street devastated by spring flooding in 2017. He managed to salvage the Halloween decorations and has once again installed his haunted house.Everybody is welcome, with a special shout out to children who braved the flood fallout in the neighbourhood. 
  A pre-Halloween look at the ghostly yard and
  
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• Failcamp embraces failure, with an eye toward future success

  26-10-2018 23:02
  A hundred people from Montreal’s business community gathered in downtown Montreal on Friday afternoon to talk about failure.
  The occasion was the fifth annual Failcamp, a half-day conference devoted to falling on your face.
  “We want to give an opportunity to people who have tried things, who have tried to change the world, to talk about times when it hasn’t been easy,” said event co-founder Francis Gosselin, of Groupe Sage Consulting.
  “The idea is talk about failure
  
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• Inside the CFL: Als' Woody Baron opens new door with children's book

  26-10-2018 22:20
  The career of a pro athlete, in most cases, comes and goes in what must seem like the blink of an eye. But a name and legacy can last forever.
  Woody Baron, a rookie defensive tackle with the Alouettes, remembers the joy and adulation he felt this summer when he saw his name on the hardcover of #JustaGobbler, a 38-page children’s book he co-authored with his uncle, James Baron, and Henry Taylor. Published by Virginia-based Mascot Books, it brought to fruition a two-year project.
  Baron, who
  
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• ‘We didn’t have a choice’: SAQ employees walk off the job in surprise strike Friday

  26-10-2018 22:17 via globalnews.ca
  Société des Alcools du Québec (SAQ) workers staged a surprise strike early Friday afternoon.
  
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• Mohawks vote on whether to allow legal cannabis in Kahnawake

  26-10-2018 21:29
  As the first crops of legal cannabis fly off the shelves in and around Montreal, leaders in the Kahnawake territory are easing their way into the market.
  The Mohawk community is voting this week on whether to even allow weed to be sold on the territory. Polls will close Saturday afternoon and, by Monday, the band council will know where it stands on the cannabis question.
  “People in town, they’re really reserved and cautious on the recreational side (of cannabis),” said Gina De
  
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• No weed, and now no wine: SAQ employees launch surprise strike Friday afternoon

  26-10-2018 21:27
  About 5,500 workers at Quebec’s provincially run liquor stores went on strike as of 2 p.m. Friday.
  The action is part of 18 days of one-day strikes authorized last month by the union representing employees at the Société des Alcools du Québec. In practice, that means SAQ outlets across the province will either have to use managers to step in to keep the stores open or close up shop for the day.
  The workers should be back on the job as of Saturday, accord
  
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• SAQ employees stage surprise strike Friday

  26-10-2018 21:14 via cbc.ca
  This is not the first time that the union has announced a sudden strike action with no warning. On Sept. 9, employees went on strike for the day and closed a great number of stores in the province.
  
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• Smiles, but also sticking points after Plante and Legault's first meeting

  26-10-2018 20:50
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante and Premier François Legault emerged all smiles Friday from their first face-to-face meeting since the Oct 1. provincial election.
  They both lauded a new “partnership” to develop the east end of Montreal, including a tramway that would — eventually — run into downtown, the decontamination of waterfront sites and the redesign of Notre-Dame St. E., including a “global plan” for transportation, housing, green space and
  
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• Quebec slashes cannabis store hours due to shortages

  26-10-2018 20:38 via globalnews.ca
  The Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC) announced on Friday it will slash its operating hours by nearly half due to supply shortages.
  
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• What the Puck: Canadiens' 'character' players a drag on fourth line

  26-10-2018 20:20
  Everyone is mad at Canadiens forward Andrew Shaw today, but I’m directing my ire toward head coach Claude Julien.
  Shaw has been an utter disaster this week. He took two penalties in the game against the Calgary Flames Tuesday and then on Thursday in Buffalo, he took an incredibly stupid penalty near the end of the second period, a move that as much as anything else cost the Habs a game they should’ve won.
  Shaw was called for holding Sabres defenceman Jake McCabe near centre ice and a
  
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• Weekend traffic migraines plague Mercier, Turcot and Saint-Pierre interchanges

  26-10-2018 20:08
  Construction and maintenance work on a bridge and two traffic circles lead this weekend’s list of detours and road closures.The Kahnawake-bound lanes of the Mercier Bridge will be completely closed to traffic from 10 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday for maintenance work. The Montreal-bound lanes of the span will be open to two-way traffic during that period. The reserved lane from Airlie St. will only be accessible to buses between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
  Construction on the Tu
  
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• Cannabis stores will only be open from Thursday to Sunday, SQDC announces

  26-10-2018 20:04
  After just nine days of operations, the Société québécoise du cannabis announced on Friday that a lack of supply has forced it to reduce the operating hours of its 12 sales outlets to four days a week.
  Beginning Monday and until further notice, the dozen SQDC stores in Quebec will be closed Monday to Wednesday and open during scheduled operating hours from Thursday to Sunday.
  The decision to reduce the operating schedule comes after supply problems — present fro
  
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• BEI opens investigation into 'detonation' that killed woman in Kuujjuaq

  26-10-2018 20:02 via cbc.ca
  The Bureau of independent investigations (BEI) is taking over a case in Kuujjuaq after a woman who'd barricaded herself in a building was found dead inside.
  
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• How to survive Turcot closures on Remembrance Day weekend

  26-10-2018 20:00 via cbc.ca
  Drivers heading to and from Montreal’s West Island will have a Remembrance Day weekend they won’t soon forget, as the Turcot Interchange will be closed in three directions over a five-day period.
  
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• Remembrance Day poppy campaign begins in Montreal

  26-10-2018 19:51 via globalnews.ca
  With Remembrance Day around the corner, Branch 14 of the Royal Montreal Regiment launched their annual campaign Friday morning. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, the poppy is getting an upgrade in 2018.
  
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• What's the difference between a hijab, chador, niqab and burka?

  26-10-2018 19:45
  Muslim women in various head coverings.
  Head coverings in modern times are mostly associated with Muslim women. Some Christian and Jewish women also wear headscarves.
  The hijab was originally worn as a gesture of modesty, though some women also use it to publicly identify themselves as Muslim.
  “There are Arab or Muslim women who choose to wear the hijab as an expression of their cultural identity,” according to the website Arabs in America.
  Still others choose not to wear the hi
  
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• Remembrance Day poppies now on sale in Montreal and online

  26-10-2018 19:24 via globalnews.ca
  Starting today, you can buy a poppy and make a donation to support Canadian veterans.
  
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• Quebec cannabis stores to close 3 days a week due to chronic shortages

  26-10-2018 19:18 via cbc.ca
  The Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC) has announced that as of Monday, the opening hours at its brick-and-mortar stores will be trimmed due to shortages.
  
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• Macpherson: Why don't the CAQ Fashion Police go after high heels, too?

  26-10-2018 19:14
  Apparently, François Legault’s new Coalition Avenir Québec government has already addressed all the province’s real problems. Because, less than a week after taking office, it was already turning its attention to an imaginary one.
  In Quebec, Muslim women who wear the chador, a shawl that covers the body and the head except for the face, are so rare that the media illustrate stories about them with visuals from abroad. As far as anybody knows, there are none in the provi
  
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• Opinion: What about the symbols of the cult of impossible femininity?

  26-10-2018 19:12
  From the archives: This oped was first published in the Montreal Gazette on Sept. 21, 2013 in response to the Parti Québécois’s Charter of Values:
  The proposed Charter of Quebec Values plans to eliminate the personal display of religious symbols from the Quebec public service. Apparently this is necessary to confirm the secular neutrality of our state. The government’s posters in the métro suggest that this is a vital gesture to promote the “sacred” e
  
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• Poor work ethic sidetracks Habs’ Scherbak | HI/O Bonus

  26-10-2018 19:09
  In this bonus episode, our panelists — Gazette sports columnist Stu Cowan, CBC Daybreak’s Jessica Rusnak, former Canadien Chris Nilan and host Adam Susser — try to make sense of Nikita Scherbak.
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• 'It can create anxiety': School boards differ on lockdown practice drills

  26-10-2018 19:02 via cbc.ca
  The Commission scolaire de Montréal is letting its schools decide on a case-by-case basis whether to hold lockdown drills, but the English Montreal School Board says the drills are important to prepare staff and students for an emergency.
  
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• Man who protected Mob boss during shootout gets day parole

  26-10-2018 18:33
  The man who was acting as a bodyguard to Mob boss Raynald Desjardins when an attempt was made on his life in Laval seven years ago has been granted day parole on the sentence he is serving for his role in the reckless exchange of gunfire with the hitman.
  Jonathan Mignacca, 33, appeared before the Parole Board of Canada this week at a penitentiary in Laval where he convinced two board members that he has significantly changed his life.
  In September 2011, Desjardins, a leader in the Montreal Mafia
  
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• Buchignani: Mexico welcomes Formula One title fight that isn't

  26-10-2018 18:24
  Despite his best efforts, it seems, Sebastian Vettel is still alive in the 2018 Formula One drivers’ championship.
  Barely.
  Even if the Ferrari driver wins this weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix, it probably will not be enough to put off the inevitable.
  That’s because Lewis Hamilton needs only to steer his Mercedes to seventh place or better to secure the title with two races to spare, no matter where his rival finishes. In other words, Hamilton could probably jog around the Autodrom
  
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• N.D.G. family's Halloween haunted-house display is worth a detour

  26-10-2018 18:16
  With skeletons wearing yellow vests and hard hats and holding shovels, surrounded by orange traffic cones, one Notre-Dame-de-Grâce family has picked perhaps the scariest possible theme for a haunted house: the never-ending Montreal construction nightmare.
  The display in front of the Monkland Ave. home is itself a cause of traffic congestion. People routinely slow down or park their cars and get out to admire the display, which is an annual labour of love for Jean-François Clout
  
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• Literary awards: Paige Cooper's striking stories demanded to be written

  26-10-2018 18:15
  “I’m overwhelmed.”Paige Cooper’s sense of disorientation is understandable. From a writer with a profile confined mostly to keen readers of Canadian literary journals, in a matter of weeks she has become the consensus newcomer of the year, with her debut story collection Zolitude (Biblioasis, 236 pages, $19.95) long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, a finalist for the fiction category of the Governor General’s Literary Awards and a double QWF Awards finalist,
  
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• Taxi driver charged with sexually assaulting Gatineau para-transit user

  26-10-2018 18:14 via cbc.ca
  Gatineau police have charged a 48-year-old man with the sexual assault of a teen living with severe disabilities.
  
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• Where to find the ghosts and ghoulies this Halloween in Montreal

  26-10-2018 18:04
  There is history in the streets of Montreal: It is there, all round us — and where there is history, there are often spirits and ghosts. Somehow they make their presence felt more strongly around Halloween than at any other time — usually to children but sometimes also to grown-ups.
  Here is a brief round-up of Montreal activities related to Halloween and spirits.
  The 2018 Pumpkin Ball at the Botanical Garden.
  For children
  The Great Pumpkin Ball, daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Squ
  
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• François Legault, Valérie Plante to talk Pink line, religious symbols at 1st official meeting

  26-10-2018 18:04 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's premier and the mayor of the province's largest city don't see eye to eye on a variety of issues, but both have expressed an interest in working together.
  
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• François Legault, Valérie Plante talk Pink line, religious symbols at 1st official meeting

  26-10-2018 18:04 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's premier and the mayor of the province's largest city don't see eye to eye on a variety of issues, but have pledged to work together.
  
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• Zacharkiw: Raw Wine fair proves natural wines aren’t only for insiders

  26-10-2018 18:00
  Last week I wrote about Le Salon des vins d’importation privée, taking place this weekend at Marché Bonsecours. If you want even more tastings, there are two other opportunities next week, although one of the events — the Raw Wine fair — is already sold out. I will talk about it below, because the fact that the public tasting is so popular is significant.
  But first, La Grande Dégustation de Montréal, which takes place Nov. 2 and 3 at Place Bonaventur
  
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• Montreal's annual Rocky Horror tradition kicks off Friday evening at Cinéma Impérial

  26-10-2018 18:00 via cbc.ca
  It's not a sight you often see in a church: a group of actors wearing fishnets stockings and high heels, dancing and belting out tunes of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: Oct. 26, 2018

  26-10-2018 18:00
  Every week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings.
  Under $15
  Malbec 2016, Barrel Select, Mendoza, Norton, Argentina red, $13.95, SAQ # 860429. Very tailored and refined, but well done. You get just enough red fruit, fresh acids, that rich mid-palate and a finish that is moderately tannic. Very good for under $15. Residual sugar: 2.3 g/L. Grape variety: malbec. Serve at: 16 C. Drink now. Food pairing ideas: beef brochet
  
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• Ready or not, wintry weather is heading toward Quebec

  26-10-2018 17:45 via cbc.ca
  A mixture of snow, ice pellets and freezing rain should affect southern, western and central Quebec through Saturday night, according to Environment Canada.
  
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• Carlos Leitão doesn't plan to jump ship to run for federal Liberals

  26-10-2018 17:39
  QUEBEC — Former Liberal Finance Minister Carlos Leitão says he has no plans to jump ship and run for the federal Liberals in 2019 election.
  In a tweet Friday morning, Leitão said he received a clear mandate from the voters of Robert Baldwin Oct. 1 and he intends to complete it, which means he will represent the riding for the next four years.
  Rumours on Leitão’s future started to swirl Friday following comments made by 98.5 FM political analyst Bernard Drainville
  
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• CAQ MNA Claire Samson mulling stepping away from politics

  26-10-2018 17:38 via globalnews.ca
  With a background as a high-profile executive in media circles, Samson believed she would be a shoe-in for communications minister.
  
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• Son of Tony Accurso killed in Laurentians car crash

  26-10-2018 16:29
  A 38-year-old man was arrested early Friday and is expected to face charges of impaired driving and dangerous driving causing death in the wake of a crash that left his 43-year-old passenger dead.
  The victim has been identified as James Accurso, oldest son of former Quebec construction magnate Tony Accurso.
  The incident occurred around 12:45 a.m. on Highway 370 near Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson in the Laurentians. The vehicle driven by the suspect, a resident of Sainte-Marguerite-du
  
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• Quebec's free flu shot program to be restored for healthy infants, seniors

  26-10-2018 15:56
  Less than a month after the provincial government decided Quebec would no longer provide healthy infants and seniors with free flu shots, Quebec Health Minister Danielle McCann on Friday reversed the decision, saying that authorities want to offer “this protection against the consequences of the flu virus to the greatest possible number of persons.”
  The decision to end free seasonal flu shots to healthy infants from six months to 23 months as well as to healthy adults from the ages o
  
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• Son of Tony Accurso killed in Laurentians crash

  26-10-2018 15:55 via globalnews.ca
  The driver has been arrested and faces possible charges of reckless driving causing death and driving under the influence of alcohol.
  
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• Montreal Arab World festival

  26-10-2018 15:50 via globalnews.ca
  Middle East meets West during Montreal’s 19th annual Arab World Festival! Join Global’s Laura Casella and her guests to find about more about this colourful festival bringing together many cultures from Montreal’s Arab communities.
  
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• Weekend Halloween activities for the family

  26-10-2018 15:47 via globalnews.ca
  Ghosts, goblins and monsters are everywhere around Montreal this weekend! Join Global’s Kim Sullivan along with entertainment columnist Jay Walker for the best Halloween attractions and events.
  
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