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• Alouettes: 'I'll be much better next season,' Johnny Manziel vows

  04-11-2018 23:44
  There was one constant with Johnny Manziel this season: the media attention. It was there on the day he arrived in Montreal, when the Alouettes were on the road and on Sunday, when players cleaned out their lockers at Olympic Stadium for the final time this season, and he was the first to speak following team meetings.
  Manziel, who has been well trained, knows what to say to the fourth estate. But how well he progresses during his second season with the Als — and he constantly has maintain
  
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• Vigil held for NDG man killed by police

  04-11-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Mourners gathered in Montreal's Trenholme Park and walked to the corner where Nicholas Gibbs was shot five times by Montreal police.
  
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• Quebec City offers lesson in overcoming hate for victims of Pittsburgh shooting

  04-11-2018 23:17 via cbc.ca
  A city healing from a deadly attack on one of its religious minorities is showing the way forward to a another city where the pain from a similar attack is still fresh.
  
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• Quebec’s police watchdog investigates car chase that seriously injured suspect

  04-11-2018 23:05 via globalnews.ca
  The 46-year-old man, who was suspected of crashing into a vehicle, allegedly collided with two different cars before hitting a tree as he attempted to flee police.
  
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• Jack Todd: Shrinking stadium puts Alouettes back where they started

  04-11-2018 22:59
  It seemed like a reasonable idea at the time.
  The Alouettes were hot. Percival Molson Stadium was too small. Owner Bob Wetenhall was tired of losing money.
  Former team president Larry Smith convinced city and provincial governments to pony up the lion’s share of the $29 million needed to expand the tired old stadium by 5,000 seats.
  As stadium boondoggles go, it was small change: you only have to hike a few steps up Mount Royal and look east to see what billion-dollar fiascos look like. Whe
  
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• 'They created an expectation': Quebec artists still waiting for Netflix investments

  04-11-2018 22:51 via cbc.ca
  So far, none of the Quebec-based production companies or unions representing actors, directors or writers contacted by The Canadian Press said they have heard of any French-language movie or television series in development by Netflix in the province.
  
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• Montreal man who strangled his girlfriend found guilty of 2nd-degree murder

  04-11-2018 21:13 via cbc.ca
  Jonathan Mahautière admitted to killing 17-year-old Gabrielle Dufresne-Élie in June 2014. At issue in the trial was whether Mahautière would be convicted of second-degree murder, manslaughter or found not criminally responsible,
  
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• Guy Laliberté creating pyramid-shaped entertainment venue in the Old Port

  04-11-2018 20:39 via globalnews.ca
  Baptized as "PY1," the pyramid is a new project under the direction of Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil and Lune Rouge Entertainment.
  
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• Power being restored after strong winds cause outages across Quebec

  04-11-2018 20:26
  Stong winds caused many power outages in Quebec Saturday night and Sunday morning.
  As of 8:00 a.m. Sunday, nearly 14,000 Hydro-Québec customers were still without electricity. The Montreal area was hardest hit, with more than 4,100 households lacking power at 8 a.m.
  By 2:20 p.m. power had still not been restored to 2,399 households across Quebec, of which 101 were in Montreal..
  Many of the power outages were caused by branches falling on electrical lines.
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• Meet the 14-year-old Quebec farmer behind Joe Beef's high-end lamb dishes

  04-11-2018 20:10 via cbc.ca
  Louis Bilodeau, 14, started raising sheep two years ago, and now supplies lamb meat to one of Montreal’s best-known restaurants — Joe Beef.
  
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• Vigil planned Sunday for N.D.G. man killed by police

  04-11-2018 19:06
  Family members of Nicholas Gibbs and their supporters are organizing a vigil Sunday afternoon for the 23-year-old man who was killed by police in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in August.
  The family announced this week it is suing the city for just over $1 million over the death of Gibbs, a father of three who was shot after allegedly threatening police with a knife.
  A cellphone video of part of the police intervention shows that police fired five shots at Gibbs, including two while his back was turn
  
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• Quebec artists still waiting for Netflix investments

  04-11-2018 18:15 via globalnews.ca
  On the English side, Netflix has made significant moves in Canada over the last year but Quebec companies are still waiting.
  
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• N.S. judge says pair sentenced for opium trafficking are ‘good candidates for rehabilitation’

  04-11-2018 17:55 via globalnews.ca
  Mithusha Poobalasingam and Geevan Nagendran were arrested in Halifax in June 2017 and charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking opium after officers in Montreal intercepted a package containing drugs concealed in children's backpacks, lunch bags, and spools of fabric.
  
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• Quebec’s first male midwife feeling at home in uncharted territory

  04-11-2018 17:42 via globalnews.ca
  Louis Maltais turned heads earlier this year when he became the first Quebec man to enter and complete the province's only university-level midwife training program.
  
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• Thousands of Quebec households without power after strong winds blast province

  04-11-2018 17:08 via globalnews.ca
  Hydro-Québec says its crews are working to fix the issues and are hoping the majority of their clients will have their power back throughout the day. 
  
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• Canadiens’ Shaw pays price for foolish penalties | HI/O Bonus

  04-11-2018 17:00
  In this bonus episode, our panelists — Gazette sports columnist Stu Cowan, CBC Daybreak’s Jessica Rusnak, former Canadien Chris Nilan and host Adam Susser — discuss how Canadiens head coach Claude Julien is holding all the players, including high-priced veterans, accountable for their discipline on the ice.
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• Robert Lafrenière explains decision to resign as UPAC chief

  04-11-2018 16:54
  Robert Lafrenière, who recently resigned as director of Quebec’s anti-corruption squad, says he made the decision to leave in early September.
  In an interview with La Presse, Lafrenière said he did not want to step down as head of UPAC during the election campaign, which could have been interpreted as a political decision.
  After a 45-year career, Lafrenière, 65, said he was leaving because of fatigue and stress, acknowledging that criticism of his performance had taken
  
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• Montreal area hardest hit as strong winds cause power outages across Quebec

  04-11-2018 16:25
  Stong winds caused many power outages in Quebec Saturday night and Sunday morning.
  As of 8:00 a.m. Sunday, nearly 14,000 Hydro-Québec customers were still without electricity. By 10 a.m. the number was down to 9,537.
  The Montreal area was hardest hit, with more than 4,100 households lacking power at 8 a.m., down to 1,011 at 10 a.m..
  There were nearly 3,000 in Chaudière-Appalaches, and more than 2,400 in the Gaspé-Magdalen Islands region.
  The Eastern townships and Saguenay-La
  
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• USMCA trade deal could lead to job growth in Quebec: Mouvement Desjardins

  04-11-2018 16:11
  The new free trade deal between Canada, the United States and Mexico (USMCA) should help with job growth in Quebec, according to Mouvement Desjardins chief economist Joëlle Noreau.
  She said the calming of tensions between the nations could have positive repercussions, but we’ll have to wait for the trade deal to be ratified in the spring.
  In Quebec, the unemployment rate dropped to 5.2 per cent in October.
  Noreau motes that over the last 12 months, Quebec’s job growth rate has b
  
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• Fitness: Why are pushups so hard, anyway?

  04-11-2018 14:56
  Exercises fall in and out of fashion, just like skirt lengths and hairstyles. But one exercise has managed to weather the fickleness of popularity and secure a spot in almost every list of 10 top exercises.
  Versatile and effective, the pushup is an upper-body exercise targeting the chest, shoulders and triceps. That said, anyone who has struggled through multiple reps knows they’re one of those exercises that everyone loves to hate. Yet whether you’re attempting a Rocky Balboa set of
  
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• BEI investigating high-speed police chase in Montreal

  04-11-2018 14:49
  The Bureau des Investigations Indépendants is investigating a high-speed police chase in which a 30-year-old man was seriously injured while being pursued by Montreal Police early Sunday.
  According to preliminary information provided to the BEI, at around 3:23 a.m., a civilian in a car stopped a police officer and pointed to a vehicle that he claimed had hit his car. The police officer approached the vehicle and turned on the police cruiser’s flashers, but the driver fled, driving t
  
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• Quebec's police watchdog investigating after man injured in overnight Montreal car chase

  04-11-2018 14:42 via cbc.ca
  Quebec’s Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), an institutional police watchdog, is investigating after a 30-year-old man was seriously injured in an overnight police chase in Montreal.
  
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• Schukov: Bottom line, mail delivery is an essential service 

  04-11-2018 14:00
  In our day-to-day goings-on, we usually grant essential service as a government-run, union infested amenity whose workers cannot really go on strike effectively — like policemen, firemen and doctors. (Have you ever seen a dentists’ strike?) I would classify that tier as the A-Team. The far less life-threatening-prevention B-Team includes postal workers and bus drivers. I am sure there are more but this scribble is about the bunch that irks me and my fellow citizens most: Canada Post.
  
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• Montreal police seek help finding missing 29-year-old man

  04-11-2018 13:50
  Montreal police are turning to the public in an effort to find Mitchell Paré.
  The 29 year old was last seen around 2 a.m. in his home on Osborne St. in Verdun. Police say they are concerned for his safety.
  Paré stands 5’6″ tall and weighs 135 pounds. He has brown hair and blue eyes.
  He has three tattoos: a scorpion symbol on his right forearm, the word “Irish” on his neck” and a clover on his left hand.
  Anyone with information about his whereabouts is
  
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• While you were sleeping: Escaped llama found after months on the lam

  04-11-2018 13:34
  Here’s what happened while the clocks were engaged in trickeration.
  It’s time to talk about flu season. The government kicked off its flu shot program on Thursday, offering free vaccinations to the most at-risk patients. There are some modifications to the program. For instance, it isn’t recommended that healthy people between 60 and 74 must get the shot but, but it will be offered on demand. Those targeted by the program are adults aged 75 and older, or children betw
  
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• Three traffic hotspots to avoid on Sunday

  04-11-2018 13:00
  Roadwork will make driving a hassle today. Here are the locations in play.
  Highway 40
  Parts of the highway will be completely closed in both directions until Monday at 5 a.m.
  Eastbound, the closing will be between St-Jean Blvd. and Highway 13.
  Westbound, the closing will affect the section between Highway 13 and Sources Blvd.
  Detours will be in place, but Transport Quebec is urging motorists to avoid the area if possible.
  Turcot Interchange
  Four ramps will be closed:From the Décarie
  
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• Montreal police search for missing Verdun man

  04-11-2018 12:41 via cbc.ca
  Mitchell Paré, 29, was last seen on Sunday at around 2 a.m. in his Verdun home on Osborne Street.
  
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• Montreal police find missing Verdun man safe

  04-11-2018 12:41 via cbc.ca
  The 29-year-old was found safe by Montreal police after he'd been reported missing from his Verdun neighbourhood.
  
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• Montreal weather: Here comes the sun

  04-11-2018 12:30
  With the recent spate of rainy weather, it’s nice to see the sun peek out again as it will be mainly sunny with a light breeze.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of 6.
  Tonight: A few clouds and a low of 0.
  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 posted on Instagram by @rob_cou.
  Quote of the day:There wa
  
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• Royal Canadian Legion launches digital poppy

  04-11-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  The Royal Canadian Legion is embracing the digital age with a new virtual version of the symbolic poppy.
  
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• Quebec Eastern Townships man opens private forest to others, in spirit of reconciliation

  04-11-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Terry Loucks's property in Stanstead Township is the first "healing forest" to be created in Quebec, part of a Canada-wide initiative launched in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
  
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• Giving my children Cree names is a powerful act of reclamation

  04-11-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  The political doesn't get much more personal than speaking the names of my children every day, says Chelsea Vowel.
  
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• Glenmount residents mull relaunching bid to secede from Montreal and become TMR citizens

  04-11-2018 11:00 via cbc.ca
  For generations, people living in the Montreal enclave of Glenmount have had priority access to the Town of Mount Royal's sports and recreation facilities and programming, but that longstanding agreement is set to expire in December.
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Lightning goalie ruins the party as Habs lose 4-1

  04-11-2018 05:00
  Canadiens Game Day is a new feature this season in which we will follow the Habs during every home game from the morning skate in Brossard through the post-game interviews at the Bell Centre, updating throughout the day with all the news, quotes, notes and opinion you’re looking for:
  Max Domi scored for the Canadiens only 58 seconds into the first period and the Bell Centre was all set for a Saturday night party.
  Tampa Bay goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy ended up ruining it and the Lightning bea
  
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• Zurkowsky: Alouettes rookie coach Sherman looks forward to next year

  04-11-2018 04:55
  HAMILTON — When all was said and done, John Bowman surprisingly didn’t end up crying. And the veteran Alouettes’ rush-end refused to reveal whether this was the final game of his 13-year Canadian Football League career.
  “I had no time to cry. We came out panicked. We had a last-minute ratio change. We didn’t have time to gather our thoughts and the coaches were talking to us so I wasn’t able to process it,” Bowman said following the Als’ season-end
  
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• In the Habs' Room: Price tips hat to Lightning sniper Stamkos

  04-11-2018 04:35
  Nicolas Deslauriers said he can’t remember ever taking a boarding penalty and he’s trying to figure out why he was sent off after hitting Tampa Bay defenceman Ryan McDonagh.
  “I’m going to have to look at it again, but I thought it was a good check,” Deslauriers said. “I always count after the guy makes a pass and I didn’t get to two. He looked back and he saw me coming, he knew I was going to hit him, but he turned away.”
  A few seasons back, t
  
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• Stamkos scores twice, leads Tampa Bay Lightning past Montreal Canadiens 4-1

  04-11-2018 04:01 via globalnews.ca
  The Lightning skated past the Canadiens, with Steven Stamkos leading the team with two goals to result in their 4-1 win.
  
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• Call of the Wilde: Habs Got Goalied.

  04-11-2018 03:42 via globalnews.ca
  Carey Price hasn't had to steal a game this season. He had to on this night, but the Tampa keeper stole it instead.
  
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• Pipkin records 3 total TDs as Alouettes defeat Ticats

  04-11-2018 03:36 via cbc.ca
  Antonio Pipkin threw a touchdown pass and ran for two others as the Montreal Alouettes held on for a 30-28 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the regular-season finale for both teams Saturday night.
  
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• About last night … Tampa Bay romps to easy win

  04-11-2018 03:34
  The wheels may not be coming off the NHL’s early-season surprise team.
  But they’re getting loose.
  And fans might have to start thinking – with a degree of trepidation – about where the Montreal Canadiens will be when we’re all driving on winter tires.
  The team’s three-game homestand included that mind-blowing, crowd-rocking comeback win over the Stanley Cup champs.
  But the Canadiens were convincingly defeated in the other two games, by Dallas and, on Saturday
  
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• #ICYMI: Mohawk pot, zero waste, flu shots, other news

  04-11-2018 03:30
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.Is it truly the will of the people to see cannabis grown and sold on Mohawk land? That’s what Kenneth Deer wants to know as the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake is on the verge of tabling a law to regulate the sale of pot on the South Shore territory. Deer is an elder, a member of the Iroquois Longhouse and one of the chief opponents of legal recreational cannabis in Kahnawake. “It is not in ou
  
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• Alouettes end 5-13 season against Ticats with modest two-game winning streak

  04-11-2018 03:24
  HAMILTON — It had the feel of an exhibition game, which should have pleased Mike Sherman — the Alouettes’ head coach having complained three weeks of training camp and the two subsequent contests not long enough to evaluate talent.
  The Als completed their regular season Saturday night, defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 30-28 before an announced crowd of 23,381 at Tim Hortons Field.
  While Montreal missed the Canadian Football League playoffs for a fourth consecutive season and t
  
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• Stamkos was hot, but Price not so much in 4-1 loss to Lightning

  04-11-2018 03:07
  On a night when Tampa Bay goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy was showing why he’s the early favourite to win the Vezina Trophy the season, Carey Price needed to be perfect and he wasn’t.
  Steven Stamkos put two shots past Price and Vasilevskiy was perfect for the final 59 minutes of the game as the Lightning defeated the Canadiens 4-1 Saturday at the Bell Centre.
  The way Vasilevskiy was playing, Stamkos effectively put this game out of reach when he scored his second goal of the game at th
  
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• Liveblog: Tampa Bay beats Canadiens 4-1

  04-11-2018 02:51
  Steven Stamkos’s second of the game came when the third period wasn’t a minute old. Then in the late minutes of the period, Yanni Gourde sealed the deal.
  It took 58 seconds into the game for Max Domi to get the Canadiens on the board. Domi’s team-leading seventh came off one of his typical frenzied rushes.
  Tampa Bay’s vaunted power play had just ended at 13:42 of the first when Steven Stamkos beat Carey Price – for the 19th time! – with an unstoppable sho
  
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• Liveblog: Tampa Bay 2 – Canadiens 1 after two

  04-11-2018 01:55
  A scoreless second period sets up a fun third.
  It took 58 seconds for Max Domi to get the Canadiens on the board. Domi’s team-leading seventh came off one of his typical frenzied rushes.
  The Canadiens had 10 shots on Andrei Vasilevskiy in the first seven minutes, but domination didn’t last.
  Tampa Bay’s vaunted power play had just ended at 13:42 when Steven Stamkos beat Carey Price – for the 19th time! – with an unstoppable shot off a sweet Nikita Kucherov
  
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• Mohawk traditionalists oppose legal cannabis in Kahnawake

  04-11-2018 01:07
  Is it truly the will of the people to see cannabis grown and sold on Mohawk land?
  That’s what Kenneth Deer wants to know as the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake is on the verge of tabling a law to regulate the sale of pot on the South Shore territory.
  Deer is an elder, a member of the Iroquois Longhouse and one of the chief opponents of legal recreational cannabis in Kahnawake.
  “It is not in our culture, it is not in our traditions to use something like (cannabis),” Deer told the Mo
  
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• Quebec's 1st-ever death expo attempts to break taboo, offer comfort in afterlife

  04-11-2018 01:00 via cbc.ca
  Death happens to all of us, but we rarely talk about it, says the founder of Quebec's first-ever death expo called the Salon de la mort. She wants to break that taboo.
  
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• 'We'll fight to the end': Lasalle legion overwhelmed by outpouring of support

  04-11-2018 00:05 via cbc.ca
  Now with the 2018 poppy campaign in full swing, Ray Cormie is looking ahead to the Nov. 11 Remembrance Day memorials, which fall on the centennial of the armistice.
  
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