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• Alouettes' final home game will be bittersweet for aging veterans

  27-10-2018 22:33
  Luc Brodeur-Jourdain is virtually certain he’ll cry Sunday afternoon after playing what could be the final home game of his distinguished 10-year career.
  After all, the veteran Alouettes’ centre cried Saturday morning after addressing the team.
  “He did cry. I was almost crying, too,” Montreal head coach Mike Sherman said. “He told people how much and how important being a Montreal Alouette meant to him. I wanted the younger players to hear that. His tears were gener
  
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• Montrealers host winter clothing drive for asylum seekers

  27-10-2018 22:05 via globalnews.ca
  When Olivia Viveros realized how many newcomers arrive in Montreal unprepared, she teamed up with non-profit Welcome Collective to host a winter clothing drive.
  
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• Three-alarm fire in residential building forces closing of Queen Mary Rd.

  27-10-2018 21:27
  A woman burning incense in her apartment on the top floor of a three-storey residential building is believed to have been at the origin of what turned into a three-alarm fire on Queen Mary Rd. on Saturday morning.
  About 80 firefighters were called in to extinguish the blaze sometime around 8 a.m.
  Damage from the fire was limited to the nine-unit building where it originated and the effort to extinguish it forced the closing of Queen Mary Rd., near Côte-des-Neiges Rd.
  A spokesperson for the
  
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• Quebec paramedics reach union contract deal

  27-10-2018 20:08
  The Fédération des employés du préhospitalier du Québec, which represents paramedics, announced it has reached an agreement with the Association des propriétaires d’ambulances régionaux and the Corporation des services d’ambulance du Québec on a new contract.
  About 2,000 paramedics, dispatchers and support staff across Quebec are affected by the agreement. The new seven-year contract ends in 2022. It includes a mo
  
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• With 1 word a day, this man is teaching the world how to speak Inuktitut

  27-10-2018 20:00 via cbc.ca
  Angus Andersen never makes it back to where he was raised, because it’s too expensive. But he still remembers what it was like during the old times and he does what he can to pass it on.
  
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• 3-alarm fire forces evacuation of 20 people in Côte-des-Neiges-NDG

  27-10-2018 19:53 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal firefighters said the fire broke out around 8 a.m. on the third floor of the building, located on Queen Mary Road.
  
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• Biologists rush to help Montreal snake species threatened by real estate boom

  27-10-2018 19:35 via globalnews.ca
  A Quebec biologist is highlighting the need to save some of Montreal's open areas from development in order to protect a rare snake that is found nowhere in the province except in the Greater Montreal area.
  
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• Canadiens vs. Bruins: Hudon, Alzner in; Shaw, Juulsen out

  27-10-2018 19:32
  BOSTON — Charles Hudon says he hopes that he can apply what he learned during his three games as a healthy scratch in Saturday’s game against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden (7 p.m., Sportsnet One, Citytv, TVA Sports, TSN 690 Radio).
  “You see things differently when you’re not on the ice,” said Hudon, who will replace Andrew Shaw on the fourth line. “You can see where we did things good and where we had little mistakes.”
  There’s also a change o
  
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• Gang leaders Gregory Woolley, Lou Sprinces Cadet plead guilty to cocaine trafficking charges

  27-10-2018 18:28
  Two men, including one who is alleged to be one of the more influential gangsters in Montreal, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges as the case brought against them was about to go before a jury.
  Gregory Woolley, 46, of St-Hubert, and his longtime associate Dany (Lou) Sprinces Cadet, 48, of Mirabel, were both sentenced to overall prison terms of eight years Friday evening at the Gouin courthouse after they pleaded guilty to a series of charges filed against them in Project Magot. With time
  
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• Dollard elementary school holds 50th reunion celebration

  27-10-2018 18:11
  Wilder Penfield Elementary School in Dollard-des-Ormeaux is holding a reunion celebration Friday, Nov. 2 to celebrate the school’s 50th anniversary.
  Reunion organizers are ready to welcome hundreds of former students and teachers from Wilder Penfield, which first opened its doors to students in 1968 in the Westminster neighbourhood of Dollard.
  The event begins at 6:30 p.m. in the school gymnasium.
  Chantale Robinson, a teacher at the school, is part of the committee organizing the 50-year c
  
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• Fire forces evacuation of Côte-des-Neiges apartment building

  27-10-2018 18:04 via cbc.ca
  About 20 people were forced out of their homes on Queen Mary Road, but firefighters say the building isn't a total loss.
  
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• Three-alarm fire in residential building forces closure of Queen Mary Rd.

  27-10-2018 16:47
  A woman burning incense in her apartment on the top floor of a three-storey residential building is believed to have been at the origin of what turned into a three-alarm fire on Queen Mary Rd. Saturday morning.
  About 80 firefighters were called in to extinguish the blaze sometime around 8 a.m. Damage from the fire was limited to the nine-unit building where it originated and the effort to extinguish it forced the closure of Queen Mary Rd., near Côte-des-Neiges Rd.
  A spokesperson for the Mo
  
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• ‘I’d sworn never to go to Syria’: Stewart Bell on his journey to meet a captured Canadian ISIS fighter

  27-10-2018 16:00 via globalnews.ca
  When the investigative reporter received a tip that U.S.-backed Kurdish forces captured a notorious Canadian ISIS member, he headed to Syria to confirm it himself.
  
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• Janes Pub Style Chicken Burgers recalled across Canada after salmonella outbreak

  27-10-2018 15:59 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued a food recall warning Friday evening for Janes Pub Style Chicken Burgers after a salmonella outbreak was linked to 25 illnesses across the country.
  
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• Quebec City teen charmed his classmate into sending nude photos, prosecutor says

  27-10-2018 15:37 via cbc.ca
  A 14-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to luring after sexually explicit photos of teenage girls were shared among students at a Quebec City high school.
  
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• Montreal comptroller recommends borough mayor Giuliana Fumagalli be supervised

  27-10-2018 15:21
  Giuliana Fumagalli has accepted to be “accompanied” while exercising her duties as mayor of the Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough, following a recommendation of the city’s comptroller, the city announced on Friday evening.
  The comptroller’s report was ordered in August by Mayor Valérie Plante after allegations of workplace harassment against Fumagalli. At the same time, Fumagalli was excluded from the caucus of Plante’s Projet Montr&eac
  
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• Montrealer charged with inciting hatred against Jewish people

  27-10-2018 15:20
  A 55-year-old resident of the Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie borough has been charged with inciting hatred toward Jewish people and with uttering threats toward Céline Dion’s family.
  Robert Gosselin was arrested by the Montreal police earlier this week and made his first court appearance at the Montreal courthouse, where he faces three criminal charges in all, on Friday.
  According to court records, the Crown did not object to his release and he was allowed to be released as long as he co
  
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• Schukov: The origin of Halloween — a true tale

  27-10-2018 15:06
  Once upon a time, there was a village named Pumpkintown on the outskirts of a deep forest. Neighbouring towns shunned the villagers because they were goblins, ghosts, witches, mummies, ghouls, werewolves and investment counsellors.
  The “scaries” had been banished here by decree of the king. So eager was the ruler to please his subjects, he staged regular referendums, resulting in all kinds of unwanted items like spiders, bats, snakes and broccoli also being banished to Pumpkintown.
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• Quebec Education Ministry ignored pleas to help students in Nunavik succeed, ombudsman says

  27-10-2018 15:00 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec ombudsman is calling on the provincial government to step in to help Inuit students overcome the significant obstacles they face in getting an education in Quebec's far north.
  
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• Karl Lohnes: Stylish ideas to help make a home magazine worthy

  27-10-2018 15:00
  Have you moved into a new space or renovated your home, but it still doesn’t look like one of those fabulous places from a decorating magazine or television show? I hear it all the time: people spend time, money and effort on their homes but feel it still doesn’t have that camera-ready look. As a longtime magazine editor and television stylist, I’ve learned all the styling tricks that will make your space look complete and impressive. These easy designer and stylist tricks will
  
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• Mail carriers in the Magdalen Islands hit the picket line

  27-10-2018 14:07 via cbc.ca
  The Canadian Union of Postal Workers, which represents 50,000 postal employees, launched rotating walkouts on Monday to pressure Canada Post into accepting contract changes.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Yeah, that World Series game eventually ended

  27-10-2018 14:06
  Here’s what happened while you were having some much deserved rest.
  Seven hours and 20 minutes. 561 pitches. 18 innings. That’s how long it took the Los Angeles Dodgers to defeat the Boston Red Sox in Game 3 of the World Series, the longest World Series game ever. It ended like this:
  Seven hours and 20 minutes later, Max calls game. #WALKOFF pic.twitter.com/L4J2BFNSpd
  — MLB (@MLB) October 27, 2018Canada Post strikes continue. Yeah, even on Saturday. After Sherbrooke yesterday,
  
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• Week in Review: Bad tip, pot stocks, truck whack and snakes!

  27-10-2018 14:00
  Catch up on what stories you might have missed this week in Montreal.Montreal waitress harassed for refusing sexual advances from boss awarded $52,000
  A waitress who was harassed after refusing sexual advances from the owner of a Montreal restaurant has been awarded $52,000 by a Quebec labour relations tribunal. In a decision this month, the tribunal found Anissa Berrad had been humiliated and suffered psychological harassment in her workplace. When she was first hired by Nick Triandos, the own
  
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• The case of unclaimed body A-123076: 20 years later, a family heals

  27-10-2018 14:00
  Crewmen on a Canadian Coast Guard boat were the first to notice it: what looked like a body floating in the St-Lawrence River, off the shores of Varennes, about 30 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
  Reacting swiftly, they brought it to the nearest access point along the river, another dozen kilometres downstream to a small dock in the town of Verchères.
  Two officers from the local police force, called the Sûreté municipale de Ste-Julie at the time, were cal
  
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• Steamy Halloween tale

  27-10-2018 14:00
  Once upon a time, there was a village named Pumpkintown on the outskirts of a deep forest. Neighbouring towns shunned the villagers because they were goblins, ghosts, witches, mummies, ghouls, werewolves and investment counsellors.
  The “scaries” had been banished here by decree of the king. So eager was the ruler to please his subjects, he staged regular referendums, resulting in all kinds of unwanted items like spiders, bats, snakes and broccoli also being banished to Pumpkintown.
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• Shelter: Nuns' Island home offered perfect space for growing family

  27-10-2018 14:00
  For 10 years, Amélie Dion lived in Old Montreal, in a “really nice 900-square-foot condo” that was a stone’s throw from the Old Port. It was a fun neighbourhood and Dion, an actuary, was within walking distance of her work. In due course, she met Adam Reichert (now her spouse), who is a trader with a major Canadian bank. He also loved the location because he, too, was able to walk to work.
  As time went on and the couple discussed having a family, they realized that neith
  
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• City comptroller recommends embattled borough mayor be supervised while she works

  27-10-2018 13:47 via cbc.ca
  Montreal’s comptroller has released a progress report into his investigation into harassment allegations levvied at Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension Extension borough mayor Giuliana Fumagalli.
  
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• Two badly injured after train and car collide in Val-d'Or

  27-10-2018 13:44
  A collision between a car and a train resulted in two people being gravely injured Friday night in Val-d’Or.
  The injured are a man and a woman, who had to be removed from their vehicle by firefighters.
  The collision happened in the early evening at a level crossing on 7th St.
  The cause of the collision is not yet known.
  
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• Canada Post strike hits Îles-de-la-Madeleine Saturday

  27-10-2018 13:41
  The rotating strikes of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers continue, even on the weekend.
  Members of the local in Îles-de-la-Madeleine are off the job as of midnight on Saturday. They join colleagues in Sudbury, Niagara Falls and Vancouver.
  Picket likes are being set up Saturday.
  The union notes that talks are continuing, with mediators, and are asking the employer to negotiate “seriously.”
  Canada Post said in a statement Wednesday it has made “significant off
  
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• Josh Freed: Make your voice heard on the future of Mount Royal

  27-10-2018 13:30
  Yay! The mountain road reopens Nov. 1 and like many, I look forward to a fall foliage drive — while the route lasts.
  In November, the city’s consultation office will ask our opinion of the “pilot project” that blocked through-traffic for most vehicles. Here’s my official submission. I urge you to make your views known in the coming weeks — whatever side of the mountain road you’re on.
  I bike up the mountain several times a week on the dirt road and
  
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• Clothing drive aims to keep newcomers warm for their 1st Canadian winter

  27-10-2018 13:30 via cbc.ca
  On Saturday, more than 40 families of newcomers — many from the African countries of Nigeria and Mauritania — are invited to the Lajeunesse Community Centre in the Montreal neighbourhood of Villeray to pick up winter coats, boots, scarves, hats and gloves.
  
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• Traffic hotspots on Saturday you don't want to get stuck at

  27-10-2018 12:30
  Your usual list of detours and road closings for the weekend.
  The Kahnawake-bound lanes of the Mercier Bridge will be completely closed to traffic for maintenance work, but the Montreal-bound lanes of the span will be open. The reserved lane from Airlie St. will only be accessible to buses between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. Saturday.
  Construction on the Turcot Interchange will see the following exit ramps closed — exits for the A15 North (from the Champlain Bridge) and A20 West (toward Dorval), th
  
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• Montreal weather: Progressively worse as the day and night wear on

  27-10-2018 12:30
  A mix of sun and cloud, then becoming cloudy in the afternoon followed by rain.
  A northeast wind of 30 km/h, gusting to 50, will add to the mix.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of 4 and the UV index will be 2, or low.
  Tonight: Rain, snow and windy with a low of zero.
  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 file. Today’s photo was poste
  
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• Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to develop memorial register of residential school deaths

  27-10-2018 11:00 via cbc.ca
  The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) is embarking on "very sensitive, very serious, very emotional work," says its director, as it develops and maintains a register of student deaths at residential schools.
  
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• Here's what climate change could look like in Canada

  27-10-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Earth has already warmed by 1 C, but in Canada's north, the effects are much more pronounced. Climate change is here, experts say, and Canada can expect to suffer the consequences.
  
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• Smitheman Haunted Yard creates scares for another year in Pointe-Claire

  27-10-2018 04:48 via globalnews.ca
  It’s a Halloween tradition in Pointe-Claire. The Smitheman Family Haunted yard is once again decked out for the season. Global’s Elysia Bryan-Baynes and Jonah Aspler went to check out the sights and sounds.
  
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• #ICYMI: Turcot, Halloween and SAQ nightmares, other news

  27-10-2018 04:30
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.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, cr
  
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• Gérard Bouchard says CAQ not prepared for secularism debate

  27-10-2018 04:08
  François Legault’s government is not ready to lead a conversation about secularism in Quebec.
  That’s what Gérard Bouchard, one of the co-authors of Quebec’s 2008 report on reasonable accommodation, said Friday after a panel discussion organized by Le Devoir.
  “There are people in this government who arrived not entirely prepared and who are learning, right now, that Mr. Legault may have gone a bit far,” said Bouchard, the sociologist who presided over t
  
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• ‘If you’re scared of it, we have it here’: Spooky Smitheman yard back for 2018

  27-10-2018 03:12 via globalnews.ca
  What started out as a decoration rivalry between two brothers has now become a main attraction on Maywood Avenue in Pointe-Claire.
  
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• Medical cannabis users facing product shortages, higher prices

  27-10-2018 03:06
  For patients who have been legally using medical cannabis, the legalization of recreational pot appears to have come with some unpleasant side effects — shortages of product and the realization that prices are lower for recreational consumers.
  Individuals who have a doctor’s authorization can buy cannabis directly from licensed producers through a federally regulated system, but some of those producers are now running out of stock.
  On Friday evening, Nanaimo, B.C.
  
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• Montrealers brace for more traffic chaos as construction ramps up

  27-10-2018 02:13 via globalnews.ca
  While road construction season usually winds down with winter around the corner, work on three major projects in Montreal is ramping up. Drivers there have been dealing with painful detours for a long time, but as Mike Armstrong reports, it has never been this bad.
  
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• Jaroslav Halak making a bold bid to be Bruins' No. 1 goalie

  27-10-2018 02:06
  BOSTON — Jaroslav Halak says he’ll have the best seat in the house for the Canadiens-Bruins game Saturday at TD Garden (7 p.m., SN1, City-TV, TVA Sports, TSN-690 Radio).
  Halak will be rinkside as the backup to Bruins’ starting goaltender Tuukka Rask. Halak is No. 2 on the Boston depth chart, but a lot of people are wondering how long it will be before the 33-year-old Slovak will be promoted.
  In a scenario reminiscent of his 2010 season with the Canadiens when he stole the No. 1
  
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• Charles Hudon will re-enter Habs lineup in Boston, Claude Julien says

  27-10-2018 01:36
  BOSTON — Coaches are reluctant to make changes when a team is winning, but after not looking very good in a 4-3 loss in Buffalo Thursday night, there will be at least one new face in the Canadiens lineup for Saturday’s game against the Bruins (7 p.m., SN1, City-TV, TVA Sports, TSN-690 Radio).
  Canadiens coach Claude Julien confirmed that winger Charles Hudon will dress after three games as a healthy scratch.
  “There will probably be other changes, but I haven’t made any fin
  
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• SQ top brass denies any knowledge of wrongdoing in Val-d'Or before 2015 crisis

  27-10-2018 01:16 via cbc.ca
  Martin Prud'homme, who was the head of the Quebec provincial police force in 2015, said he had no reason to expect a wave of allegations of mistreatment would be made public against police officers in Val-d'Or, Que..
  
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• Montreal drivers warned that more congestion likely as Turcot project intensifies

  27-10-2018 00:38 via globalnews.ca
  The project is more than two-thirds finished, but there's a warning to drivers — a lot of traffic delays and detours are coming.
  
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• A first of its kind in Montreal

  27-10-2018 00:34 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Oct 26: In the nine days since cannabis consumption has been legal in Canada, there have been many highs and lows. This weekend, Montreal will host its first ever Cannabis Expo, a place where professionals in the industry will gather to share information. As Phil Carpenter reports, one of the main topics of discussion...
  
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• Best evidence in strangled-teen case is accused's own words: Crown

  27-10-2018 00:16
  The prosecutor in the murder trial of Jonathan Mahautière argued on Friday that the accused’s very own words are the best evidence to show that he knew he killed his girlfriend after having strangled her in a hotel room.
  While making his closing arguments in the trial that is nearing its end at the Montreal courthouse, Éric de Champlain focused on Mahautière’s claim that when he strangled Gabrielle Dufresne-Élie on June 7, 2014, he had lost control, was di
  
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• Watch: What's the difference between a hijab, chador, niqab and burka?

  27-10-2018 00:01
  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.
  
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