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• John Abbott College ceremony honours veterans, teaches kids

  08-11-2018 23:45 via globalnews.ca
  On Thursday John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue hosted its 13th annual Remembrance Day to honour military veterans.
  
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• John Abbott College ceremony honours veterans

  08-11-2018 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Nov 8: Hundreds of students were on hand Thursday to pay tribute to those who served our Country. As Global’s Phil Carpenter explains, the service, held at John Abbott College in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, honored former students who lost their lives in various wars
  
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• Montreal’s 2019 budget unveiled

  08-11-2018 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Nov 8: Taxes will be going up for most Montreal boroughs but not as much as last year. As Global’s Gloria Henriquez explains, the de-merged cities will feel the pinch though as they are asked to pay more towards shared services such as police and fire departments.
  
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• French play in English sparks controversy in Quebec City

  08-11-2018 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Nov 8: A Quebec City theatre is putting on a play in English despite criticism from the public. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, the main actor studied for 11 months to do the play in his second language.
  
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• Stu Cowan: Former Canadien Steve Bégin gets his high school degree

  08-11-2018 23:27
  When it comes to NHL players, Steve Bégin was as tough as they come. But on Thursday morning, the former Canadien was having a hard time holding back his tears.
  The reason: he finally received his high school graduation diploma at age 40.
  “I was a little emotional,” Bégin said following the official presentation from Quebec Minister of Education Jean-François Roberge at the Bell Centre’s Restaurant 9-4-10. “I’m always like this. There&
  
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• Montreal residents upset over no-parking signs

  08-11-2018 23:13 via globalnews.ca
  A group of residents in Pointe-St-Charles aren’t pleased after their block became off-limits for parking. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, city officials say they are looking into the situation.
  
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• English play in Quebec City challenges Francophone spectators

  08-11-2018 22:55 via globalnews.ca
  A Quebec City theatre is producing a play written and performed in English, even though many season ticket holders won't be able to understand the whole thing.
  
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• Montreal firefighters save 2 workers dangling on 17th floor after scaffolding collapse in Côte Saint-Luc

  08-11-2018 22:36 via globalnews.ca
  The Montreal Fire Department rescued two men stranded near the top of a high-rise in Cote Saint-Luc after a scaffolding collapse.
  
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• Pointe St-Charles residents angered after temporary no-parking signs placed on street

  08-11-2018 22:13 via globalnews.ca
  Pointe St-Charles residents along Rushbrooke Street are angered after city workers sprung no-parking signs on the whole block Monday night.
  
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• Montreal police seek help to ID body found in St-Lawrence River

  08-11-2018 22:11
  The Montreal police are trying to identify a man found dead in the St-Lawrence River, near Pointe-aux-Trembles, in late May.
  Police say the man was believed to be between 20 and 40 years old, around 200 pounds and six feet tall. 
  He had long black hair, but bald on top. He had a moustache, short beard, an earring in his left ear and wore a bracelet branded with the website underdoggers.com.
  He was wearing a T-shirt bearing an image of the Mona Lisa, and had a&n
  
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• Montreal’s La Presse plans to cut 37 jobs

  08-11-2018 22:06 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal-based La Presse is seeking to cut 37 jobs as part of cost-cutting operations.
  
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• Restaurant review: Right time, place for Fiorellino's Italian mastery

  08-11-2018 22:00
  Fiorellino
  ★★1/2 out of ★★★★
  $$-$$$
  Address: 381 Laurier Ave. W.
  Phone: 514-276-9593
  Open: Mon.-Fri. noon to 11 p.m., Sat.-Sun. 5 to 11 p.m.
  Website: fiorellino.ca
  Wheelchair access: No
  Licensed: Yes
  Reservations: Recommended
  Cards: All major
  Vegetarian-friendly: Yes
  Parking: On the street; several paying parking lots nearby.
  Price range: Appetizers $13-$28; pastas $19-$23; meat and fish $27-$30; pizzas $16-$22; desserts $2.50-$5
  When a famous restaurant
  
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• Cinemania: 5 films to see in the festival's final weekend

  08-11-2018 21:58
  The 24th edition of Cinemania is coming to a close, but there are still some gems to take in.
  As usual, Montreal’s festival of French films — (almost) all shown with English subtitles — reels in highlights from Cannes and other international fests.
  Here are five films to catch before the weekend’s out. Screenings are at the Imperial Cinema, unless otherwise noted.
  Le monde est à toi (The World Is Yours, Friday at 8:30 p.m. and Saturday at 6 p.m.). Known for his pro
  
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• 'I don't have a plan B': Quebec's Bombardier workers await their fate after latest round of cuts

  08-11-2018 21:43 via cbc.ca
  The Montreal-based aeronautics giant announced Thursday it would be cutting 5,000 jobs. Half of them will be in Quebec. But when and who will be affected isn't clear.
  
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• STM to ramp up service on Orange, Green line to ease rush-hour crunch

  08-11-2018 20:45 via cbc.ca
  Montreal's public transit agency is promising to boost the number of Metros running during the morning rush hour on the jam-packed Green and Orange lines.
  
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• Montreal budget highlights: Taxes are going up, but not as much as you feared

  08-11-2018 20:43
  Montreal property taxes are going up next year, though not by as much as last time.
  Most businesses will see a drop in taxes thanks to a change in how non-residential building owners are charged.
  And more money is being poured into repairs to roads and water infrastructure.
  “This budget will make a difference in the lives of our citizens today and for the generations to come,” Mayor Valérie Plante said as she unveiled Montreal’s $5.7-billion budget for 2019 on Thurs
  
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• Brace yourselves: Snow is coming to parts of southern Quebec

  08-11-2018 20:14 via cbc.ca
  A major low-pressure system is coming from the United States, first hitting the western part of the province Friday afternoon before moving eastward overnight, according to Environment Canada.
  
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• Update: We’ll help laid off Bombardier workers find jobs, Legault says

  08-11-2018 20:09
  QUEBEC — News that Bombardier is slashing 5,000 jobs — including 2,500 in Quebec — as part of a restructuring plan landed with a thud Thursday, sparking anger from workers and calls for action by opposition politicians.
  Arriving for a meeting with Saguenay Mayor Josée Néron, Quebec Premier François Legault said he has spoken to both the president of Bombardier and the head of the union.
  “It’s a sad day but I assured both we will do everything po
  
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• N.D.G. woman to be charged in theft from Montreal Canadiens' group

  08-11-2018 20:06
  A 27-year-old Notre-Dame-de-Grâce resident is scheduled to make her first appearance at the Montreal courthouse next week on a charge alleging she stole a large sum of money from the company that owns the Montreal Canadiens.
  The accused, who does not have a criminal record, is alleged to have stolen “more than $5,000” from l’Aréna des Canadiens on April 8, the day after the Canadiens finished their regular season at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto against the Mapl
  
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• Kahnawake students honour Mohawk veterans with handmade wreaths and poppies

  08-11-2018 19:54 via cbc.ca
  Kateri School marks Aboriginal Veterans Day by inviting members of the Royal Canadian Legion's Mohawk branch 219 to speak to their students.
  
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• Nunavik crisis: 124 people have died by suicide since 2010

  08-11-2018 19:24
  At least 124 people in Nunavik have taken their lives in the past nine years.
  The latest numbers on northern suicide, provided by the Quebec coroner, point to a longstanding crisis that appears to be getting worse.
  The region went from having 13 suicide deaths per year, in 2015, to 16 the following year and 22 in 2017.
  Roughly one in 100 people in Quebec’s North are taking their own lives — a statistic that doesn’t include suicide attempts or self-harming behaviour.
  If tha
  
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• Social Notes: Costumed for CURE Foundation fundraiser

  08-11-2018 19:16
  Ever since childhood, I’ve had a major thing for dressing up, which naturally leads to a predilection for Halloween. So you can imagine the annual exhilaration when all that costume charisma is harnessed by esteemed evenings like the inaugural Costumes for CURE Icon Event at Espace 3550, benefiting the CURE Foundation’s fight against breast cancer.For your dressed-up, glammed-up pleasure, voilà — the reveal of this new dazzler on the masked fall lineup.The
  
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• The Great War as it really looked: colour photos bring past to life

  08-11-2018 19:13
  Memorizing In Flanders Fields as a student, and keeping that memory alive into adulthood, is one thing; knowing that the Montreal Canadiens’ unofficial motto (“To you from failing hands we throw the torch …”) is from John McRae’s iconic poem will get you bonus points. Wearing a poppy pin for a couple of weeks every November can only be good. But at a time when technology and social media have us all living in a perpetual present tense, a little more is needed to ke
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: It's time to install those winter tires

  08-11-2018 19:00
  It’s a four-letter word that makes many people cringe. With the trees shedding their leaves, pumpkin-spice everything at your local coffee shop and the cooler weather settling in, it’s only a matter of time before the snow hits. According to meteorologists’ reports, the snow is supposed to begin as of next week, and there is no telling how many snowstorms we may see between now and Dec. 15, the deadline for the installation of winter tires.
  If you’ve already lived th
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Paul Byron now listed as week-to-week

  08-11-2018 18:58
  Canadiens forward Paul Byron, who has missed the last four games with a lower-body injury, is now listed as week-to-week by the team.
  The Canadiens also announced at Thursday’s morning skate in Brossard that forward Joel Armia had an MRI on the knee he injured during Tuesday night’s 5-3 loss to the Rangers in New York and that they were still waiting for the results.
  The Canadiens called up forward Kenny Agostino from the AHL’s Laval Rocket on Wednesday and he’s expected
  
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• Police investigate sexual extortion case involving game ‘Fortnite’

  08-11-2018 18:33 via globalnews.ca
  The Richelieu-Saint-Laurent police force reports four recent cases.
  
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• Opinion: Canadian veterans' homelessness is solvable

  08-11-2018 18:30
  Every November, poppies appear on lapels across the city as we remember the men and women of the Canadian military killed in conflicts around the world, as well as those who have served and continue to serve. Of those fortunate enough to return to civilian life, some transitioned with ease, and others with difficulty.
  Among those who struggled include veterans who have ended up on the street. We don’t think we need to underscore just how unacceptable it is that those who were ready to lay
  
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• Update: Bombardier employees frustrated by lack of information on layoffs

  08-11-2018 18:12
  QUEBEC — News that Bombardier is slashing 5,000 jobs — including 2,500 in Quebec — as part of a restructuring plan landed with a thud Thursday, sparking anger from workers and calls for action by opposition politicians.
  The head of the Unifor union representing 1,900 workers at the Bombardier completion centre in Montreal — where they work on the Global series of planes — says the layoffs represent a worrisome sign for the overall outlook of the aircraft industry.
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• Habs prospect Nick Suzuki, centrepiece in Max Pacioretty trade, 'has it all'

  08-11-2018 18:11 via cbc.ca
  Former Canadiens captain Max Pacioretty returns to Montreal Saturday night for the first time since being traded to Vegas while forward prospect Nick Suzuki, the key return in the deal for the Habs, is flourishing in his fourth junior season with Owen Sound of the OHL.
  
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• Get real: 11 essential events at Montreal documentary fest RIDM

  08-11-2018 18:06
  Documentary cinema is alive and well in Quebec, as evidenced by the 157 films in the 21st Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM), which takes place from Thursday, Nov. 8 through Sunday, Nov. 18.
  Of those, 50 — nearly a third — are by Quebec directors; and 81 — over half — are directed by women, making RIDM one of our city’s most gender-equitable film festivals.
  Far from the stuffy, talking-head stereotype of documentaries of old, today&
  
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• Hotel Intel: Wild Women Expeditions helps you conquer the wilderness

  08-11-2018 18:00
  Strong women wanted.
  Wild Women Expeditions will take you where you have never gone, or even imagined going.
  The travel company organizes 200 complex, challenging excursions — guided by women, for women — in nearly 30 countries, from Canada to Chile and Iceland to Indonesia.
  “Empowering women doesn’t only refer to the #MeToo movement,” said Jennifer Haddow, Wild Women Expeditions’ owner and director.
  “Conquering the wilderness helps w
  
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• Perjury, obstructing justice charges dropped against Montreal police officer

  08-11-2018 17:56
  A Montreal police officer accused of committing perjury and obstructing justice in a high-profile case brought against him and his partner saw the charges filed against him dropped this week.
  David Chartrand, 39, had been a member of the Montreal police for 11 years when he was arrested in July 2016 with his partner Fayçal Djelidi, 41. The case made headlines because both men were part of a squad that investigated street gangs and had access to police informants.
  The investigation that pr
  
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• 3 injured after car runs off road at Montreal General Hospital

  08-11-2018 17:40 via cbc.ca
  It was not immediately known if any pedestrians had been injured in the incident.
  
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• Montreal budget: More than 22,800 small businesses to get a tax break

  08-11-2018 17:22
  Small businesses will get a break this year, the city of Montreal said as it introduced a progressive property tax system for non-residential properties that will effectively reduce rates on non-residential properties with evaluations below $3 million.
  The new system, introduced in the municipal budget on Thursday, will reduce property taxes on the first $500,000 of a building’s evaluation by an average of 9.9 per cent.
  This will reduce property taxes for just over 22,800 small busine
  
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• Montreal budget: Businesses hurt by construction will be compensated

  08-11-2018 17:22
  Montrealers will see their property tax bills go up by an average of 1.7 per cent under a $5.7-billion budget unveiled Thursday.
  Unlike its 2018 budget, which broke Mayor Valérie Plante’s election pledge to keep increases within the inflation rate, the one for 2019 keeps that promise.
  The budget and the city’s $6.5-billion capital works program for the next three years “combine economic development, social justice and the protection of our environment,” Plante said
  
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• STM budget: More frequent bus, métro service promised

  08-11-2018 17:18
  The Société de transport de Montréal is promising more frequent service for buses and métros next year.
  In its budget unveiled Thursday, the STM commits to increasing service on the Orange and Green métro lines, reducing wait times to five minutes at most on weekdays.
  Métro wait times will be reduced further during morning and evening peak periods.
  The changes represent a 2.2-per-cent increase in service over 2018, the STM says.
  The agency also pledges t
  
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• La Presse seeks to eliminate 37 jobs through voluntary resignations

  08-11-2018 17:14
  Unionized employees of La Presse met Thursday morning at the Palais des Congrès after receiving a summons from their employer, and reportedly learned their company wants to eliminate 37 jobs through voluntary resignations.
  The job cuts are aimed at reducing labour costs and were announced as contract negotiations continue between La Presse, which earlier this year transformed itself into a non-profit organization, and its unionized personnel.
  La Presse employs about 240 people.
  Last May,
  
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• Montreal budget: Taxes are going up, but not as much as you feared

  08-11-2018 17:10
  Montreal property taxes are going up next year, though not by as much as last time.
  Most businesses will see a drop in taxes thanks to a change in how non-residential building owners are charged.
  And more money is being poured into repairs to roads and water infrastructure.
  “This budget will make a difference in the lives of our citizens today and for the generations to come,” Mayor Valérie Plante said as she unveiled Montreal’s $5.7-billion budget for 2019 on Thurs
  
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• Montreal budget 2019: Here’s what you need to know

  08-11-2018 17:10 via globalnews.ca
  Are your taxes going up? Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante presented her municipal budget Thursday.
  
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• Five things to do in Montreal area this weekend, Nov. 9-11

  08-11-2018 17:00
  Young the Giant
  The alternative rockers perform at Mtelus Friday at 8 p.m. Opening act: Lights.
  Blake Pouliot Plays the Sibelius Concerto
  Canadian violinist Blake Pouliot performs the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal at Maison Symphonique on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Bruckner’s Third Symphony completes the program. David Afkham conducts.
  Das Rheingold
  Opéra de Montréal performs Wagner’s masterful work, “
  
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• Update: Firefighters free workers dangling from Côte-St-Luc high-rise

  08-11-2018 16:44
  The Montreal fire department’s specialized rescue team has rescued a pair of workers who were left dangling 20-storeys from the ground Thursday morning after the scaffold they were working on partially collapsed.
  The incident occurred at about 8:15 a.m. at a high-rise at 5470 Cavendish Blvd. near Kildare Rd.
  After two hours, the workers, who were not injured, were taken to hospital as a precaution.
  The rescue forced traffic to be re-routed around the site, and Cavendish Blvd. southbou
  
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• Montrealers, here's how much your residential property tax rates are going up

  08-11-2018 16:44 via cbc.ca
  Here's a breakdown by borough for the average residential property tax rate increase.
  
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• A portrait artist’s retrospective

  08-11-2018 15:57 via globalnews.ca
  From the Kardashians to Celine Dion, and even Muhammad Ali, portrait artist Elisabetta Fantone joins Global’s Laura Casella to discuss recent career moves and month-long vernissage.
  
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• Get your entertaining groove on

  08-11-2018 15:56 via globalnews.ca
  The holiday season is about a month away and it’s time to start planning your parties. Décor expert Karl Lohnes joins Global’s Laura Casella to show the best ways to set up your home with guests in mind.
  
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• Kotkaniemi and Canadiens electrify the Bell Centre | HI/O Show

  08-11-2018 15:52
  On this week’s show, our panelists — Gazette sports columnists Stu Cowan, CBC Daybreak’s Jessica Rusnak, former Canadien Chris Nilan and host Adam Susser — reflect on the Habs’ fun start to the season.
  They weigh in on these topics:Habs’ young guns get fans on their feet
  Carey Price’s inconsistent play sounds alarm
  Max Domi thriving in Montreal spotlight
  Nikita Scherbak playing his way out of town
  Jesperi Kotkaniemi gains valuable experienceRelated
  
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• ‘Une catastrophe’: Bombardier layoff bombshell sparks anger, calls for action

  08-11-2018 15:47
  QUEBEC — News that Bombardier is slashing 5,000 jobs — including 2,500 in Quebec — as part of a restructuring plan landed with a thud Thursday, sparking anger from workers and calls for action by opposition politicians.
  Up first was interim Parti Québécois leader Pascal Bérubé, who immediately called on Premier François Legault to haul in Bombardier’s leaders to explain themselves.
  He also said Bombardier’s leaders should “wi
  
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• Firefighters rescue workers at top of Côte Saint-Luc apartment building

  08-11-2018 15:47 via cbc.ca
  The scaffold was hanging by its security cables when fire crews arrived at the building, on Cavendish near the corner of Kildare.
  
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• Sud-Ouest parking troubles

  08-11-2018 15:39 via globalnews.ca
  Residents in the Sud-Ouest aren’t happy with recent construction projects blocking parking in their neighbourhood. Global’s Billy Shields investigates.
  
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• State-of-the-art clinical simulation lab

  08-11-2018 15:37 via globalnews.ca
  The Lester B. Pearson School Board is showcasing a brand new clinical simulation lab. Global’s Kim Sullivan goes hands-on to see how it all works.
  
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• Hands-on at the clinical simulation lab

  08-11-2018 15:37 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan gets hands-on experience at the new clinical simulation lab in the Pearson Adult and Career Centre.
  
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