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• Montreal public transit authority pulls etiquette announcements from Metro cars

  05-11-2018 23:59 via globalnews.ca
  The STM has pulled a series of public service announcements on Metro cars.
  
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• “No Stone Left Alone” performance by Spirit of Vimy award winning songwriter

  05-11-2018 23:58 via globalnews.ca
  Singer Rebecca Lappa performs her original tribute song called “No Stone Left Alone” for the first time at the remembrance ceremony in Edmonton.
  
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• Watch: Trudeau visits Tsilhqot’in and apologizes for hanging of chiefs

  05-11-2018 23:56
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized to the Tsilhqot’in community for the hanging of six chiefs more than 150 years ago in an emotional ceremony Friday that one chief said brought an end to a “difficult journey.”
  
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• Acquittal in Quebec child porn case won't be appealed

  05-11-2018 23:37
  Quebec’s office of criminal prosecutions (DPCP) won’t appeal the judgment that acquitted Jonathan Bettez of all the child pornography charges he faced.
  DPCP spokesperson Jean Pascal Boucher confirmed the decision Monday, saying a team of experienced prosecutors made the decision after a rigorous analysis of the case’s facts and law.
  Quebec Court Judge Jacques Lacoursière acquitted Bettez on Oct. 12. On the same day, he struck down the search warrants that
  
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• Watch: Montrealers react after Mount Royal is reopened to traffic

  05-11-2018 23:36
  The pilot project eliminating through traffic on Mount Royal was a success, Mayor Valérie Plante’s administration claims in a preliminary report. Montrealers talk about the closing and the reopening.
  Related
  Brownstein: Mount Royal route reopens, but for how long?Quieter and safer: Montreal calls Mount Royal pilot project a success
  
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• Work on super reserved bus lane begins

  05-11-2018 23:20 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Nov 5: Work is set to start this week on a new express bus lane that will run along Pie-IX Boulevard. As Global’s Tim Sargeant explains, the line will span 11 kilometres between St-Martin Boulevard in Laval and Montreal’s east end. But riders shouldn’t get their hopes up just yet since construction is expected...
  
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• 9 Rona stores shuttered, Legault urged to bring down the hammer

  05-11-2018 23:17
  The Parti Québécois and Québec Solidaire are calling for François Legault’s government to review the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec’s mandate in the wake of news that U.S. hardware giant Lowe’s is closing nine Rona stores in Quebec.
  The Caisse de dépôt must do more in the future to prevent Quebec businesses from being sold to foreign interests, the parties said on Monday.
  Québec Solidaire’s spokes
  
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• ​'It was a big shock': 9 Rona stores closing across Quebec

  05-11-2018 23:11 via cbc.ca
  ​Nine Rona stores across Quebec are set to close as the home retailer giant announced Monday it would be culling 31 of its underperforming Lowe's and Rona stores across the country.
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens at Islanders

  05-11-2018 23:05
  The Canadiens aren’t the only surprise of the early NHL season.
  The New York Islanders, whom the Canadiens visit in Brooklyn Monday night, are 8-4-1 – good for top spot in the tough Metropolitan Division.
  The no-longer-woeful Islanders have won five straight, most recently 3-1 over New Jersey Saturday night … while the Canadiens were losing to Tampa Bay.
  The Islanders have a gaudy goal differential of plus-12, tying Tampa Bay for tops in the Eastern Conference. (The Canadiens
  
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• CFL amends celebration rule to ban alcohol, drugs after Gott’s beer chug at Redblacks game

  05-11-2018 23:05 via globalnews.ca
  While the CFL didn't fine the Ottawa Redblacks offensive lineman for chugging a beer last Friday night after a touchdown against the Toronto Argos, the league revised its celebration policy on Monday.
  
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• Technical director Adam Braz leaves Montreal Impact

  05-11-2018 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  Technical director Adam Braz has left the Montreal Impact.
  
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• Lise Ravary: No comparison between chadors and high heels

  05-11-2018 22:43
  Change of plans. I was going to write about my colleague, Quebec journalist Denise Bombardier who published her autobiography, Une vie sans peur et sans regret (no fears, no regrets) last week in Montreal and in Paris. The book is already on bestseller lists in both cities, and for very good reasons.
  But my profile of Quebec’s Barbara Walters will have to wait.
  The deep and deepening divide between anglophones and francophones on the issue of secularism and the wearing of religious signs b
  
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• No stone left alone in Montreal

  05-11-2018 22:39 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Nov 5: Honouring a legacy, Montreal-area students laid 17,000 poppies on the headstones of fallen soldiers at the National Field of Honour in Pointe-Claire. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, students say they’ve learned a lot from this experience.
  
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• Alouettes' Stefan Logan, Chip Cox hope to remain for team's turnaround

  05-11-2018 22:36
  While John Bowman, one of the Alouettes’ oldest players, contemplates his future two other greybeards said they plan to continue playing.
  Stefan Logan and Chip Cox certainly hope that means they return to Montreal.
  “I’ll retire when I feel like retiring,” a defiant Cox, the Als’ strong-side linebacker, said Sunday. “I’ll feel like I’m getting old when my numbers start to decline.”
  Cox, 35, re-signed with the team in June but, coming off a kne
  
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• Laval University wants to improve the student experience

  05-11-2018 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Nov 5: With its new state of the art science lab freshly inaugurated, Laval University in Quebec City wants to do more to entice foreign and domestic students. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, the university wants to remain current and is considering offering more courses in English to broaden its academic reach.
  
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• No Stone Left Alone: Montreal students lay poppies for Remembrance Day

  05-11-2018 22:31 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal students participated in No Stone Left Alone, a Remembrance Day ceremony, in Pointe-Claire.
  
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• Woman at centre of pit bull attack sentenced for drug trafficking

  05-11-2018 22:16
  Frances Richardson, who saw two of her grandchildren attacked by a dog she was looking after, has been sentenced to perform 100 hours of community service for drug trafficking.
  The 62-year-old St-Michel resident made headlines this summer when the dog she was looking after first bit her four-year-old granddaughter on the head, then severely injured her seven-year-old grandson after she took the first child to the hospital.
  The Montreal police report on the Aug. 19 incident describes the animal a
  
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• Read her lips: Plante vows no tax hike beyond inflation rate

  05-11-2018 22:09
  Mayor Valérie Plante is promising not to increase taxes beyond the inflation rate — and this time, she says, she really means it.
  The Plante administration came under fire last year for reneging on an election promise not to raise taxes by more than the inflation rate.
  But there will be no nasty surprises when the 2019 budget is tabled Thursday, she told reporters Monday after greeting travellers in Bonaventure métro station during the morning rush hour to mark the first anni
  
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• Impact technical director Adam Braz leaves MLS club

  05-11-2018 22:04
  The Montreal Impact announced on Monday that the club and its technical director, Adam Braz, ended their relationship by mutual agreement.
  “It’s an amicable separation that was done in the utmost respect,” Montreal Impact president Joey Saputo said in a release. “I thought it was important to make changes to optimize our technical structure. Different new opportunities were offered to Adam, but he preferred to decline them. I wish to thank him for his work and his profess
  
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• Purebreds put best paw forward at annual dog championship in St-Lazare

  05-11-2018 22:00
  Dog breeders and handlers from across North America gathered in St-Lazare last weekend to vie for a coveted Best In Show title at the United Kennel Club’s annual all-breed championship show.
  Event secretary Diana Edwards said the conformation competition included over 1,300 purebred dogs, including sporting dogs, hounds, working dogs, terriers, toy dogs, non-sporting dogs and herding dogs.
  During the competition, a panel of expert judges from Mexico, Manitoba, and the Maritimes scrutinized
  
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• Muse announces ‘Simulation Theory’ world tour, with 3 Canadian dates

  05-11-2018 21:41 via globalnews.ca
  Muse's 2019 tour is expected to be their biggest production yet, incorporating a blend of sci-fi inspired visual elements.
  
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• STM shuts métro door on Michèle's irksome public service announcements

  05-11-2018 21:11
  The STM has stopped broadcasting public service announcements by the actress Michèle Deslauriers about — well, it’s not clear what they were about because many métro passengers couldn’t hear them.
  Spokesperson Philippe Déry told TVA the announcements had been tested before their launch, but they were cancelled because the STM couldn’t guarantee adequate audio quality across its network.
  In an Oct. 23 news release, the STM said the “Conseils
  
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• What the Puck: GM Bergevin won this summer but past blunders haunt Habs

  05-11-2018 21:08
  I’m not ready to forgive Marc Bergevin or to give him my vote as general manager of the year.
  Before the season started, there was no small amount of animosity toward the Montreal Canadiens’ GM from a big chunk of the fan base. For reasons known only to my psychiatrist, I spend far too much time listening to sports-radio phone-in shows and on a daily basis, in Canada’s two official languages, I’d hear folks just tearing a strip off the best-dressed GM in the National Hock
  
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• Bloc Québécois to rebuild and may even look for a new name

  05-11-2018 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  After a tumultuous year, the Bloc Québécois plans to rebuild.
  
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• Montreal mural honours Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin

  05-11-2018 21:02 via cbc.ca
  Designed by emerging Atikamekw artist Meky Ottawa, the city's newest mural pays tribute to the legendary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin.
  
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• Cops are ignoring police watchdog rules, activists say

  05-11-2018 20:59
  Too many officers are thumbing their noses at Quebec’s police watchdog agency and undermining the credibility of the organization, civil rights groups say.
  The head of Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes has written letters to four police forces saying some officers are not respecting the rules on investigations into police shootings.
  The rights’ activists released the letters Monday and said many of the cases involved Montreal police officers flouting the rules.
  In some c
  
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• Horse's death strengthens resolve to end Montreal calèche industry: Plante

  05-11-2018 20:58
  The sudden collapse and death of a calèche horse in Old Montreal on Sunday afternoon is more confirmation that the city’s plan to put an end to the city’s calèche industry is the right thing to do, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante said Monday.
  “For me, it was already clear but now it is even more so,” Plante said.
  The horse collapsed around 3 p.m. Sunday on St-Jean St. near St-Sacrement St. By the time two officers from the Montreal Society for the Preve
  
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• Birthmark hosted by Teesri Duniya at MAI

  05-11-2018 20:49 via globalnews.ca
  Raised on biblical stories of how his Jewish ancestors fought oppression, and marked by childhood fears about the Holocaust, playwright Stephen Orlov began to ask himself why Jews, who had founded the state of Israel to end their oppression, were now dispossessing another people that had lived there for centuries. Birthmark delivers a compelling vision...
  
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• McGill student to offer free naloxone kit training workshops

  05-11-2018 20:37 via cbc.ca
  This week and next, free workshops are being held at McGill University to show people how to use naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote which is available for free at Quebec pharmacies without a prescription.
  
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• Quebec City’s Francophone Laval University considers offering classes in English

  05-11-2018 20:02 via globalnews.ca
  Laval University said it's considering offering more classes with English instruction in the physical and social sciences, business administration, as well as other areas.
  
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• Motorist dies in single-car crash in Lanaudière

  05-11-2018 20:02
  A man is dead after apparently losing control of his car while on a road near the town of L’Épiphanie in the Lanaudière region.
  The incident occurred at about 6 a.m. at curve on L’Achigan Rd., and the victim was declared dead at the scene.
  The vehicle crashed through a Hydro pole before coming to a stop in a ditch.
  Police suspect speed, fatigue, an illness or a combination of those factors may have contributed to the incident.
  It’s hoped an autopsy will shed light
  
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• This week on ‘Focus Montreal’: Nov. 3

  05-11-2018 19:52 via globalnews.ca
  Learn about the midterm elections in the U.S., hear from an infectious diseases specialist about a polio-like virus that attacks children and school boards question the feasibility of extending kindergarten to four-year-olds.
  
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• Quebec forces routinely break law requiring officers to report independently to police watchdog: BEI head

  05-11-2018 19:27 via cbc.ca
  Human rights and anti-police brutality groups have made public a series of letters that they say shows Quebec's system of investigating deaths and injuries at the hands of police is seriously flawed.
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Antti Niemi to start in goal against Islanders

  05-11-2018 19:27
  BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Antti Niemi will make his fourth start of the season when the Canadiens face the New York Islanders Monday (7 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio) at Barclays Centre.
  This is the opening game in the first back-to-back set this season for the Canadiens and that means that Carey Price will face the New York Rangers Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden.
  ‘When we have back-to-back games, we’re going to use both goaltenders,” said Canadiens head coach C
  
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• ‘It was just gut-wrenching’: Calèche horse dies on Montreal Old Port street

  05-11-2018 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  After a horse died in broad daylight Sunday afternoon, the debate again rages whether officials should get horse-drawn carriages off the city's streets sooner.
  
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• Horse dies in broad daylight on Montreal Old Port street corner

  05-11-2018 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  After a horse died in broad daylight Sunday afternoon, the debate again rages whether officials should get horse-drawn carriages off the city's streets sooner.
  
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• Rona shutdowns: PQ wants swift, firm reaction from Legault government

  05-11-2018 19:21
  The Parti Québécois says it expects a “very strong” reaction from the government of François Legault in the wake of news that U.S. hardware giant Lowe’s is closing nine Rona stores in Quebec.
  The shutdowns were announced at 7 a.m. Monday. The Canadian subsidiary of the North Carolina-based Lowe’s has not said how many workers will lose their jobs because of the closures.
  PQ finance critic Martin Ouellet said on Monday that the employees affected have
  
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• Rona pays the price — 31 stores — after rebuilding with Lowe's

  05-11-2018 19:21
  Rona has paid for the price for a restructuring by American hardware giant Lowe’s, with 24 of the outlets operating under the Rona brand being shut down across Canada — nine of them in Quebec.
  In total, 31 stores owned by Lowe’s — 27 of them deemed to be “underperforming” — will be shut down in Canada by the end of January. Nine of the stores are in Quebec, nine in Ontario, six in Newfoundland and Labrador, two in Alberta and one in British Columbia.
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• Opinion: Chronic homelessness need not exist in Montreal

  05-11-2018 19:09
  As we walk around our city, we see hundreds of people who are experiencing homelessness. In addition, hundreds of others live in a precarious existence, rooming with friends and acquaintances or in less than ideal conditions in apartments that are unsuitable.
  Given my role leading a large not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to eliminating chronic homelessness and hunger in Montreal, people sometimes ask me to explain what is going on. Part of the explanation is good news. Des
  
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• Student reflects on the importance of remembering our soldiers’ sacrifices

  05-11-2018 18:58 via globalnews.ca
  Student Emmanuela Owusu reads her reflection letter to the No Stone Left Alone memorial foundation about what remembrance means to her and the importance of recognizing the sacrifices soldiers make.
  
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• Road rage appeal rejected; Laval man who punched a driver will be jailed

  05-11-2018 18:49
  A Laval resident has been ordered to report to jail within 48 hours after the Quebec Court of Appeal rejected his request to overturn the verdict in a case where he was convicted of aggravated assault for having disfigured a much older man during a road rage incident.
  On Dec. 31, 2012, Jonathan Clermont, now 24, was driving a large pickup truck with a friend in the passenger seat when he cut off another driver as they were approaching an on-ramp to Highway 40 somewhere in Montreal. Both men exch
  
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• No Stone Left Alone remembrance ceremony

  05-11-2018 18:29 via globalnews.ca
  No Stone Left Alone held its annual remembrance ceremony in Edmonton and in more than 55 communities across Canada, getting closer to its goal to have a student place a poppy on the headstone of every Canadian who has served in the country’s armed forces.
  
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• MAP: These are the Rona and Lowe’s stores closing by February

  05-11-2018 18:00 via globalnews.ca
  The stores will be closed by the end of the company's fiscal year, Feb. 1, 2019. 
  
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• The Airbus ‘Whisperjet’ is too loud for Zurich residents

  05-11-2018 17:47
  Swiss Air greeted the arrival of its latest plane with great fanfare, dubbing the Airbus SE A220 model the “Whisperjet” and promising neighbourhoods around Zurich Airport that it would be 50 per cent quieter than older aircraft.
  But that tag has come back to haunt the Deutsche Lufthansa AG unit as the narrow-body’s twin engines emit what locals have described as a strange howling noise as it comes in to land, enraging people living on the flight path.
  “It’s even lou
  
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• Montreal cops are ignoring police watchdog rules: civil rights activists

  05-11-2018 17:32
  The head of Quebec’s police watchdog agency has written 10 letters to various police organizations saying some officers are not respecting the rules on investigations into police shootings.
  Civil rights groups released the letters on Monday, saying many of the cases involved Montreal police officers who have been flouting the rules.
  In some cases, officers were not isolated after a shooting and the implicated officers were together when they wrote reports that were submitted to the Bureau
  
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• Ariana Grande, Muse, Ozzy Osbourne to play Bell Centre (but not together)

  05-11-2018 17:01
  Promoter Evenko has kicked off the week by confirming a spate of shows for Montreal’s Bell Centre.
  As announced at the end of October, Ariana Grande will play the arena on Monday, April 1, as part of her Sweetener world tour. Tickets are now on sale, priced from $63.95 to $286.70.English trio Muse will bring its Simulation Theory tour to the Bell Centre on Saturday, March 30. Tickets start at $52.75 and go on sale Friday, Nov. 16 at noon.Ozzy Osbourne is allegedly retiring from global tour
  
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• Everything is on the table as Bloc Québécois plans to refresh its image

  05-11-2018 16:47
  Will the Bloc Québécois change its name and logo with less than a year before the federal election? That’s one of the questions the party’s 15,000 members will have to consider over the next few months.
  The party has launched a vast program to renew itself in the wake of the crisis that essentially paralyzed it for the past year. Everything is on the table — the party’s name, its image, its platform and its rules and regulations.
  Interim-leader Mario Be
  
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• Plante renews call for calèche ban after horse dies in Old Montreal

  05-11-2018 16:22 via cbc.ca
  After a horse that was pulling a calèche collapsed and died Sunday in Old Montreal, Mayor Valérie Plante says the animal's sudden death confirms her decision to prohibit the industry from operating in the city was the right choice.
  
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• 'It was gut wrenching,' says man who watched calèche horse die in Old Montreal

  05-11-2018 16:22 via cbc.ca
  Old Montreal resident Chris Romanyk heard Charlot dying before he saw the carriage horse Sunday afternoon, and now the city's mayor says the animal's death confirms the need for a municipal ban on the calèche industry.
  
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