Montreal news

• Massive Turcot closures scheduled for end of week

  06-11-2018 23:58 via globalnews.ca
  The most disruptive closure in the history of the Turcot Interchange is slated to begin Thursday. Officials are encouraging people to take public transit or just stay home.
  
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• Important archeological discovery in Quebec City

  06-11-2018 23:57 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Nov 6: A 325-year-old palisade, thought to be one of the first fortifications of Old Quebec has been discovered in Quebec City. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher explains, the wall was built by 500 of the early inhabitants to prevent an invasion by the British.
  
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• CDN-NDG borough opts not to go smoke free

  06-11-2018 23:56 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Nov 6: The borough of Cote-des-Neiges-NDG has voted against banning smoking in public spaces. In an effort to limit where people can smoke cannabis, the opposition wanted to tighten up the rules for smoking in public. As Global’s Phil Carpenter explains, the borough feels that banning smoking in parks is too restrictive.
  
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• The Kevin: Tierney legacy lives on with renamed literary award

  06-11-2018 23:44
  The legacy of late filmmaker and Montreal Gazette columnist Kevin Tierney lives on with one of the largest anglo-Quebec literary prizes being renamed in his honour.
  The Kevin, the $3,000 first-prize winner of Infinithéâtre’s 11th Write-On-Q! playwriting competition, has been awarded to Alex Poch-Goldin for Make Up. According to the jury, the play is “a provocative and insightful commentary on modern relationships with an emphasis on the use of technology.”
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• Laval Rocket captain Byron Froese using life in minors as motivation

  06-11-2018 23:08
  Byron Froese might never be a star, but of the 110 National Hockey League games he has played over eight years, 48 came with the Canadiens last season.
  On Tuesday morning, following an early 60-minute practice at Place Bell, Froese and his Laval Rocket teammates were preparing for a nearly 400-kilometre bus trip to Utica, N.Y., and a game Wednesday night. Then it’ll be another six hours by bus to Cleveland the following day for a pair of weekend games. The organization will take a cha
  
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• What's happening in the West Island area this week

  06-11-2018 23:00
  Galleries and exhibitions
  The Stewart Hall Art Gallery, 176 Lakeshore Rd., Pointe-Claire, presents the 2019 Art Rental Collection, a wide selection of artworks by more than 75 artists. Continues until Dec. 2. Call 514-630-1220, ext. 1778.
  Galerie de la ville, 12001 de Salaberry Blvd., in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, presents an exhibition in various media exploring the subject of time by visual artists from the group Le Cercle 9. Continues until Nov. 18. Call 514-684-1012.
  The Kirkland Library, 17100 Hy
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens at Rangers

  06-11-2018 23:00
  Can the surprise team of the early NHL season make it two road wins in a row … on consecutive nights?
  We’ll find out Tuesday, when the Canadiens – fresh off that thrilling Shootout win against the Islanders – face the Rangers.
  After Antti Niemi’s heroics against the Islanders, Carey Price will be back in the nets.
  And while minimal travel is involved in getting from Brooklyn to Manhattan, fans will be able to gauge how a smallish team performs in the second half of
  
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• Major Turcot Interchange closure ahead

  06-11-2018 22:46 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Nov 6: Drivers beware: getting in to the city will be a bit chaotic as of Friday. That’s because a portion of the Turcot Interchange will be taken down between Thursday night and Tuesday morning. As Global’s Billy Shields explains, commuters are being asked to stay away.
  
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• Trump's shadow looms over Americans in Montreal who cast ballots in U.S. midterms

  06-11-2018 22:28 via cbc.ca
  McGill University students Mackenzie Budman and Andrew Figueiredo say Donald Trump's presidency influenced the way they voted in the U.S. midterm elections.
  
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• Jury selection underway for Adele Sorella, the Laval woman accused of killing her children

  06-11-2018 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  Jury selection is underway for a trial involving Adele Sorella. She is accused of first-degree murder in the 2009 deaths of her two children.
  
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• Alouettes rusher William Stanback named a CFL top performer of week

  06-11-2018 21:04
  TORONTO — Montreal Alouettes running-back William Stanback, Edmonton quarterback Mike Reilly and Eskimos running-back CJ Gable were named the CFL’s top performers for the final week of the 2018 regular season on Tuesday.
  Stanback had 31 rushing yards on six carries and 103 receiving yards on five receptions as Montreal defeated Hamilton 30-28 on Saturday. Montreal ended the season with back-to-back wins, a silver lining in a campaign that saw them finish 5-13 and miss the playoffs fo
  
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• Next Montreal police chief should be external hire, recommends Martin Prud’homme

  06-11-2018 21:03 via globalnews.ca
  The recommendation is that the next chief be one of two deputies brought in from outside forces.
  
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• Montreal police interim chief releases report looking into internal practices

  06-11-2018 21:03 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal's interim police chief Martin Prud'homme says there is still a lot of work to do.
  
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• John Abbott holds joint Remembrance Day with Ste-Anne's vets

  06-11-2018 21:00
  The 13th joint Remembrance Day Ceremony will be held at John Abbott College in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue on Thursday, Nov. 8.
  Veterans will be present for the ceremony, along with students from Macdonald High School, McGill University — Macdonald campus, Edgewater and St. Patrick Elementary schools and JAC. 

  The public is invited to the one-hour, bilingual ceremony which begins at 10:15 a.m.
  Processions led by three different pipers will leave from MacDonald High, John Abbott and McGill&
  
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• After Rona closure news, Legault sets plan to guard Quebec head offices

  06-11-2018 21:00
  François Legault’s government is preparing a plan to keep Quebec companies’ head offices in the province.
  The action plan will be part of the announced review of the role played by Investissement Québec, the government’s financial arm, which will now have a specific mandate to maintain head offices in Quebec.
  Premier Legault addressed the issue during a news conference Tuesday after news broke Monday that nine Rona stores in Quebec are being shuttered by U.S.
  
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• Reminder: Weekend Turcot traffic hell to spill over into next week

  06-11-2018 20:38
  The Trudeau airport is telling passengers to plan to be three hours early for their flights.
  Sacred Heart School of Montreal — which has a large West Island contingent, is telling parents to consider carpooling or public transit.
  These are two examples of preparations being made for upcoming worse-than-usual traffic on Montreal’s roads. While motorists are becoming accustomed to major highway closures over the weekend as part of the reconstruction of the Turcot Interchange, the next
  
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• Obituary: Former Quebec premier, PQ leader Bernard Landry has died at 81

  06-11-2018 20:35
  QUEBEC — When it comes to his political legacy, history will likely show Bernard Landry was a better co-pilot than a pilot.
  Yet, in the last years of his life, Landry would often express regrets at having resigned the leadership of the Parti Québécois in 2005 after obtaining a low confidence vote from the party rank-and-file.
  “I should have reflected at least one night before resigning,” Landry told an interviewer in 2015. “I loved that job. I am heartsick.
  
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• Former Quebec premier, dedicated sovereignist Bernard Landry dead at 81

  06-11-2018 20:28 via cbc.ca
  Bernard Landry, who took over the leadership of the Parti Québécois from Lucien Bouchard in 2001, was the 28th premier of Quebec, from 2001 until 2003. He was a stalwart of Quebec's sovereignty movement.
  
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• Former Quebec premier Bernard Landry dead at 81

  06-11-2018 20:28 via cbc.ca
  Bernard Landry, who took over the leadership of the Parti Québécois from Lucien Bouchard in 2001, was the 28th premier of Quebec, from 2001 until 2003. He was a stalwart of Quebec's sovereignty movement.
  
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• Bernard Landry dead at 81

  06-11-2018 20:26 via globalnews.ca
  Former Quebec premier Bernard Landry has died at the age of 81.
  
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• Liberal MP Nicola Di Iorio announces resignation after parliament absence

  06-11-2018 19:59 via globalnews.ca
  Liberal MP Nicola Di Iorio announced his resignation on Tuesday after being absent from parliament for more than a month.
  
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• McCann promises nurses more jobs, no more mandatory overtime

  06-11-2018 19:52
  Health Minister Danielle McCann is assuring nurses that mandatory overtime will be abolished and more full-time jobs will be created under the new Coalition Avenir Québec government.
  “I intend to very quickly to assess your workload,” McCann said Tuesday in a speech to the 2,700 members of the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec, which is holding a convention in Montreal.
  “I am extremely concerned by the increase in the number of sick leaves
  
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• Opinion: It's high time for McGill to drop Redmen team name

  06-11-2018 19:51
  As members of the McGill Indigenous community, we were disappointed, though unsurprised, to read the article by four alumni supporting the continued use of the Redmen name for the university’s men’s sports teams (“McGill’s Redmen bear name of school colour” Opinion, Nov. 1).
  McGill University’s own Provost’s Task Force on Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education stated unequivocally in 2017 that the name needs to be eliminated, detailing its egregious
  
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• Elusive Liberal MP Nicola Di Iorio resigning January 2019

  06-11-2018 19:51 via cbc.ca
  Liberal MP Nicola Di Iorio, who has has not been seen in Parliament since the House resumed sitting Sept. 17, is resigning.
  
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• Who are the candidates for Montreal's police chief job?

  06-11-2018 19:44
  Montreal is looking for a new police chief, Quebec Public Security Minister Geneviève Guilbault said Tuesday.
  Guilbault confirmed that interim Montreal Police chief Martin Prud’homme will not stay on when his mandate expires at the end of the year and the Quebec government will support Montreal in the process of selecting a new police chief.
  In Prud’homme’s report, he recommends two members of an outside committee that oversees the police department: retired RC
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Players get to sleep in before facing Rangers

  06-11-2018 19:36
  The morning off was probably built into the schedule weeks ago, but the Canadiens were able to sleep in Tuesday morning secure in the knowledge that they had earned the extra rest.
  “I’m cancelling the morning skate for you (media) guys,” head coach Claude Julien joked after the Canadiens left Brooklyn, N.Y., Monday night with a 4-3 shootout win over the New York Islanders. The Canadiens came back from a 3-1 first-period deficit as they once again avoided a second consecutive lo
  
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• Hydro-Québec board members resign as CAQ government seeks to kill wind-energy deal

  06-11-2018 19:24 via cbc.ca
  Two members of Hydro-Québec's board of directors, including chair Michael Penner, have resigned amid reports the new provincial government is taking steps to cancel a wind-energy project they supported.
  
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• ‘Great sense of urgency’: Jewish leaders warn threats must be dealt with

  06-11-2018 19:20
  Leaders of Montreal’s Jewish community are keeping a close eye of the trial of a Montreal man who allegedly threatened to kill girls at a Jewish girls’ school.
  Robert Gosselin, 55, has been charged with inciting hatred toward Jewish people and threatening to cause death and bodily harm to Jews after anti-Semitic posts were written on the Facebook page of Le Journal de Montréal.
  The social media posts said: “A good Jew is only good for firewood” and “What matt
  
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• Extending the yellow line on Montreal’s Metro?

  06-11-2018 19:09 via globalnews.ca
  The Montreal Metro may see an extension of its yellow line.
  
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• Opinion: Let's make REM's construction safer for children

  06-11-2018 19:05
  The new REM light-rail system is Montreal’s most important public transit undertaking since the city’s métro was built more than a half century ago, with the potential to reduce traffic and emissions. And yet, construction of the REM station at Édouard-Montpetit does not seem to have been planned with the health of the public in mind.
  Located in an Outremont neighbourhood, right beside an elementary school and the Université de Montréal, the three-to-four-
  
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• Wanted: A new police chief for Montreal — must be vigilant

  06-11-2018 18:58
  Montreal is looking for a new police chief, Quebec Public Security minister Geneviève Guilbault said Tuesday.
  Guilbault confirmed that interim Montreal Police chief Martin Prud’homme will not stay on when his mandate expires at the end of the year and the Quebec government will support Montreal in the process of selecting a new police chief.
  She also unveiled Prud’homme’s final report on the troubled force, 11 months after he was named to the temporary post, replacing po
  
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• Quebec health minister promises nurses more jobs and an end to mandatory overtime

  06-11-2018 18:52
  Quebec Health Minister Danielle McCann on Tuesday reiterated her pledges to the province’s nurses that mandatory overtime will be abolished and more full-time jobs created, saying she will work quickly to realize both promises.
  “I intend to very quickly to assess your workload,” said McCann during a speech to the 2,700 members of the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec, which is holding a convention in Montreal. ” I am extremely concerned by t
  
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• Flu vaccination program launches in West Island

  06-11-2018 18:30
  Roll up your sleeve, it’s time for your annual flu shot.
  The Montreal West Island health network (CIUSSS) launched its seasonal flu vaccination campaign Tuesday at Bob Birnie Arena in Pointe-Claire.
  The campaign for the West Island and Dorval-Lachine-LaSalle networks continues till Dec. 15 at various locations.
  “We’ll be at nine sites over a six-week period,” said Nancy Lyons, head of health network’s flu vaccination program.
  “We go to sites near the popu
  
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• Archaeologists find one of Quebec City’s first fortresses

  06-11-2018 18:05 via globalnews.ca
  Officials are calling the discovery of the 325-year-old Palisade of Beaucours a major archaeological find.
  
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• Archaeologists find one of Quebec City’s first fortifications

  06-11-2018 18:05 via globalnews.ca
  Officials are calling the discovery of the 325-year-old Palisade of Beaucours a major archaeological find.
  
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• Pot insiders: Who’s already cashed out their cannabis stocks?

  06-11-2018 17:36
  Recreational cannabis has been legal for less than a month, but some insiders at companies supplying the Société québécoise du cannabis have already started to cash out.
  Even before the SQDC opened its doors, insiders at cannabis companies — a category that includes the officers and directors of a company as well as people who hold more than 10 per cent of its shares — had already sold millions of dollars worth of stock.
  A company’s insider
  
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• Democrats Abroad: Americans in our midst are consumed by U.S. midterms

  06-11-2018 17:23
  Are you, too, all ginned up about U.S. politics these days? Do you, too, find yourself gobbling up all manner of U.S. news and late-night talk shows? Are you, too, having issues with those who don’t share your point of view about the man occupying the Oval Office? Can you, too, differentiate between a Beto O’Rourke and a Ted Cruz?
  If you answered yes, you, too, have become most invested in Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections.
  So many Canadians, who, for the most part, used to conc
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: John Dory with Caponata

  06-11-2018 17:16
  John Dory with Caponata
  Serves 2
  A readable book of tempting recipes, colourful anecdotes, reports on each seafood and its status, and exceptional photographs, Ship to Shore: Straight Talk from the Seafood Counter is the fish cookbook we have long needed.
  John Bil, celebrated in the world of oysters and then as a straight-shooting seafood marketer and restaurateur, answers all our questions, species by species (House of Anansi, $34.95). Top chefs have endorsed this excellent book, which tackles
  
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• Ozzy Osbourne adds more dates to North American tour

  06-11-2018 17:16 via globalnews.ca
  The Prince of Darkness announced four Canadian stops with opening act Megadeth on the 'No More Tours 2' tour.
  
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• Man steals truck, uses owner's credit card to gas it up: Laval police

  06-11-2018 17:06
  Laval police have turned to the public in an effort to track down a truck thief who used his victim’s credit card to gas up the stolen vehicle just hours after taking it.
  The incident occurred May 11 and saw a Dodge Ram truck stolen from outside the victim’s home on Des Patriotes St. in the city’s Sainte-Rose district.
  The theft occurred sometime between 9 p.m. and 11:15 p.m., when the victim was visiting a friend. Later that evening the suspect, driving the stolen vehicle, sho
  
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• Lost for 325 years, archeologists find original Quebec City fortifications in near perfect condition

  06-11-2018 16:57 via cbc.ca
  The first major fortifications to be built by settlers in New France to protect Quebec City from an invasion have been discovered in the heart of the old city.
  
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• Long-lost 325-year-old Quebec City fortifications found by archeologists in near perfect condition

  06-11-2018 16:57 via cbc.ca
  The first major fortifications to be built by settlers in New France to protect Quebec City from an invasion have been discovered in the heart of the old city.
  
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• Archeologists discover fortifications in Quebec City dating back to 1693

  06-11-2018 16:57 via cbc.ca
  Some of the first fortifications to be built by settlers in New France to protect Quebec City from the British army, have been discovered in the heart of Old Quebec.
  
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• Drug-dealing grandmother sentenced; pit bull may get second chance in N.Y.

  06-11-2018 16:47
  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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• Quebec video artist and set designer wins $100,000 Siminovitch Prize

  06-11-2018 16:20 via globalnews.ca
  The co-artistic director of Montreal's UBU creative company was praised by the jury for "beautiful and highly original visions.''
  
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• Report into problems inside the Montreal police force expected to be released today

  06-11-2018 16:18 via cbc.ca
  As Martin Prud'homme's government-appointed, one-year mandate as chief of the SPVM comes to an end, his report into what he found is expected to be released today.
  
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• 'It is still fragile': Quebec makes public report on restructuring of SPVM

  06-11-2018 16:18 via cbc.ca
  One year after taking over as interim chief of the Montreal police service, Martin Prud'homme prepares to return to the SQ fold, but not before making several recommendations, including who should replace him.
  
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• Quebec designer Stéphanie Jasmin wins $100K Siminovitch Prize

  06-11-2018 15:56 via cbc.ca
  Quebec video artist and set designer Stéphanie Jasmin has won the $100,000 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre for her 'beautiful and highly original visions.'
  
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• New products for baby

  06-11-2018 15:40 via globalnews.ca
  The cold winter weather is almost upon us! How can you protect your skin – and your young one’s skin from dry air and wind? Caroline Elie showcases some great products for you to try alongside Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Starting off your fitness journey

  06-11-2018 15:37 via globalnews.ca
  Lacking confidence to kick off your fitness journey? Coach Adrian Davis shows Global’s Kim Sullivan some great no-fear exercises you can do to build your confidence along with your strength.
  
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