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• New configuration for reserved lane leading to Champlain Bridge

  12-11-2018 23:54
  Monday was the first day that car traffic was reduced to one lane over the span of one kilometre on the Champlain Bridge-bound Bonaventure Expressway, because the lanes are being reconfigured.
  As part of the project to build the new Champlain Bridge, the reserved lane for buses heading toward the bridge will be on the left lane of the Bonaventure, leaving drivers with just one lane in between exits 3 and 4.
  This new configuration will be in place from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. during rush hours. Dr
  
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• Body found in Rivière-des-Prairies after screams prompt search

  12-11-2018 23:53
  Rescuers retrieved the body of a woman on Monday afternoon after searching for her since the morning in the Rivière des Prairies along the Montreal North borough.
  Residents on Gouin Blvd. near Sir Wilfrid Laurier Ave. reported hearing a woman’s screams coming from the waterway.
  Firefighters deployed their nautical rescue team and Montreal police joined the effort.
  
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• Victim dies a month after attack; homicide charges expected

  12-11-2018 23:39
  A coroner has determined that an 80-year-old man who died on Friday did so as a result of the injuries he suffered when he was attacked more than a month ago in the Ville-Marie borough.
  Montreal police spokesperson Andrée-Anne Picard said homicide investigators will meet with prosecutors to determine what should happen to the charges Jean Bourbonnais, 41, already faces in the Oct. 10 attack on Rainer Franz. The elderly man was found lying on a sidewalk on Hope Ave., near Hector (Toe) Blak
  
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• Kirkland man ordered to undergo psychiatric assessment after Friday's shooting of boy, 5, and man, 69

  12-11-2018 23:13 via cbc.ca
  The 36-year-old man is facing a total of six charges, including two for the attempted murders of a five-year-old who was shot and of a three year-old boy who was also in the house at the time of the shooting.
  
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• Lachine man charged with threatening a Journal de Montréal reporter

  12-11-2018 23:07
  A 22-year-old Lachine man has been charged with uttering threats at a Journal de Montréal reporter to prevent him from reporting on his court case.
  Jessy Dylan Lapointe, who’s being held at the Montreal Detention Centre, made a brief appearance via video linkup before Quebec Court Judge Sonia Mastro Matteo at the Montreal courthouse on Monday.
  The accused is already serving a sentence he received in October after he pleaded guilty to three charges involving two young women and a min
  
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• Accused in Kirkland shooting to undergo further psychiatric evaluation

  12-11-2018 22:37
  A West Island man who was charged after his five-year-old son and father-in-law were shot in a Kirkland home last Friday has been ordered detained at the Philippe-Pinel Institute where he is to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
  Quebec Court Judge Marie-Josée Di Lallo issued the order Monday as the 36-year-old Dollard-des-Ormeaux resident made a brief appearance at the Montreal courthouse.
  The man, who has two sons, is accused of trying to kill both. He faces six charges in all: two counts
  
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• Ensemble Montréal wants to ban applause at city council meetings

  12-11-2018 22:32
  Banning clapping in city council would create a more respectful atmosphere and save more time for the important business at hand, the municipal opposition argues.
  The Ensemble Montréal party is hoping the city of Montreal will follow the Quebec National Assembly’s lead by banning applause during council meetings.
  Ending “the use of applause to demonstrate support or disapproval during question periods would decrease partisanship, eliminate any perception of antagonism bet
  
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• Donation bucket for war veterans stolen from Montreal West florist

  12-11-2018 22:26 via cbc.ca
  Alex Yoo, the owner of Marché des Fleurs Westminster, is asking for the public's help in identifying the thieves caught on his shop's security video making off with donations.
  
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• Montrealer Alyson Charles wins World Cup gold in 1,000 metres

  12-11-2018 22:02
  SALT LAKE CITY — Montreal’s Alyson Charles won the first gold medal of her career in the women’s 1,000 metres on Sunday at a World Cup speedskating event.
  She found the top of the podium after skating through the morning repechage rounds, earning first-place performances in all five of her races in the distance.
  “Winning a gold medal in my second World Cup is really incredible and far above my expectations for myself,” Charles said.
  “At the start of the season
  
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• Youth protection officials failed suicidal Salluit teen, Quebec coroner concludes

  12-11-2018 21:51 via cbc.ca
  The coroner looking into the death of Rhoda Tunu Parr, 14, concluded Quebec's youth protection service provided inadequate followup after the teen had expressed suicidal thoughts. He said it could be symptomatic of a larger problem in Nunavik.
  
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• New order for Bombardier Alstom Metro cars in Montreal won’t prevent job cuts

  12-11-2018 21:49 via globalnews.ca
  A $448-million order for a Bombardier-Alstom consortium won't save at least 100 Bombardier workers from layoffs.
  
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• 10-year-old Montrealer finds spider never before seen in Quebec

  12-11-2018 20:55 via cbc.ca
  Arachnologist Pierre Paquin says the Trachelas tranquillus found in an alleyway behind a school in Rosemont could have hitched a ride with humans from somewhere south of the border.
  
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• Quebec CEGEP athletes suspended after anti-Muslim video shared on social media

  12-11-2018 20:43 via globalnews.ca
  CEGEP de Sainte-Foy has suspended four members of its women's basketball team after a video criticizing immigrants and Muslims was shared on social media.
  
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• Update: Order for Azur métro cars won’t prevent Bombardier layoffs

  12-11-2018 20:41
  A $448-million order by Montreal’s transport agency for more Azur métro cars from a Bombardier-Alstom consortium won’t save at least 100 Bombardier Inc. workers from layoffs.
  The fate of the plant in La Pocatière, which houses the company’s railway division, had been uncertain since the loss of a lucrative Montreal electric train contract and a lack of orders.
  The fresh deal announced Monday for 153 rail cars follows Bombardier’s announcement of company-wide
  
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• Watch: How to combat opioid overdoses with naloxone

  12-11-2018 20:36
  Naloxone is an antidote to opioid overdoses.
  It’s something McGill social work student Richard Davy thinks everyone should know how to administer. He’s been offering free clinics to that effect at the McGill Social Work Student Association.
  In this video, he goes through the basics of what to do if you encounter someone experiencing an opioid overdose.
  And if you don’t think that could happen to you, Davy urges you to think again.
  “We all live in the greater Montreal area
  
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• Repairs to force partial shutdown of southbound Highway 13 this weekend

  12-11-2018 20:34
  Repairs and maintenance to overpasses on Highway 13 that span Highway 40 and St-François Rd. have forced some road closures in the area beginning this Friday night.
  Beginning at 10 p.m. Friday and continuing until 10 a.m. Saturday, southbound Highway 13 will be completely closed to traffic between Exit 6 (A-40 / Québec / Ottawa / Gatineau) and the access ramp from eastbound Highway 40.
  The ramp from westbound Highway 40 toward southbound Highway 13 will also be
  
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• Sun Life Building offering free weekend tours as part of its centennial

  12-11-2018 20:20
  To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Sun Life Building in Montreal, Sun Life Financial is inviting the public to participate in free tours of the building on the weekends of Nov. 24-25 and Dec. 1-2.
  Heritage Montreal guides will take visitors on tours highlighting the building’s unique architectural features and lesser-known historical facts behind the Quebec heritage treasure.
  The tours are being offered free of charge, by reservation only, and space is
  
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• Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee dead at 95

  12-11-2018 20:15 via cbc.ca
  Stan Lee, who dreamed up Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk and a cavalcade of other Marvel Comics superheroes that became mythic figures in pop culture with soaring success at the movie box office, has died at the age of 95.
  
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• Marvel Comics co-creator Stan Lee dead at 95

  12-11-2018 20:15 via cbc.ca
  Stan Lee, who dreamed up Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk and a cavalcade of other Marvel Comics superheroes that became mythic figures in pop culture with soaring success at the movie box office, died at the age of 95, his daughter said Monday.
  
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• What the Puck: Max Pacioretty's return to Montreal reopens trade wound

  12-11-2018 19:52
  Max Pacioretty returned to town during the weekend and re-ignited the controversy over his departure from Montreal.
  You can be forgiven for missing this given that Habs talk was dominated by all of the chatter around their US$84-million goaltender and the team’s decision to sit him to give him time to work on his issues “upstairs.” More on that later.
  The former Canadiens captain had a decent night in his first game as a Vegas Golden Knight at the Bell Centre, with a game-high
  
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• McGill Redmen: Tensions mount as students vote on controversial name

  12-11-2018 19:52
  Even if students vote Monday to keep McGill University’s controversial team nickname, the campaign to change it will rage on.
  Tomas Jirousek is a student athlete leading the fight to change the McGill Redmen’s name because he says that, throughout the university’s history, it’s been used to dehumanize Indigenous people.
  Whether or not his side prevails in a campus-wide referendum to change the name Monday, he says the fight goes well beyond McGill’s boundaries.
  
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• Lise Ravary: Denise Bombardier is one tough cookie

  12-11-2018 19:32
  Last week, I said I was going to write about Quebec journalist and author Denise Bombardier. Promise made, promise kept.
  Who doesn’t know that she’s one of Quebec’s most fearless freethinkers, an intellectual powerhouse, a bestselling author as well as a pop-culture icon? An intellectual version of Barbara Walters.
  Her autobiography, Une vie sans peur et sans regret, which came out on Oct. 22 is already on its third printing. More than a personal memoir, it’s a histo
  
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• The mayhem that wasn’t: Commuters heed warnings to avoid Turcot

  12-11-2018 19:29
  It was even a surprise to Quebec’s Transport Ministry that so many motorists seemed to heed the warnings of gridlock and stayed off the roads.
  Transport Quebec spokesperson Martin Girard said the department saw nothing remotely close to the eight kilometres of gridlock its traffic-prediction models had forecast. In some parts of the city, traffic was even lighter than normal for a Monday morning rush hour.
  “It’s certainly not within the worst scenarios that we anticipated,&rdqu
  
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• Free trains and holiday seemed to soften ‘disruptive’ Turcot closures

  12-11-2018 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  It was billed as the "most disruptive" series of Turcot closures since work began to replace the interchange.
  
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• Joe Beef guides us through the apocalypse with a cookbook, and much more

  12-11-2018 19:24
  There’s a recipe named for Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the new Joe Beef cookbook, accompanied by a story from co-author David McMillan about how a compliment from Canada’s 15th prime minister — yes, Justin’s father — on a dish he’d prepared made him realize that cooking was the path for him.
  Another story, this one in the introduction to a recipe for a buttered turnip soup, describes a seemingly telepathic connection between McMillan and Frédéric M
  
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• Opinion: Let's get with the times on medical communications technology

  12-11-2018 19:19
  The principal method of communication between doctors in Quebec is still the fax machine. Quebec is years behind other provinces in deploying health-care technology. We also still use pagers and paper in the digital, mobile age.
  When I started working as a doctor in Quebec, just under a decade ago, we were still faxing requests to pharmacists for patients’ medication lists. If you were working in the emergency department, you had to hope that the patient having a heart attack had the
  
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• Trial begins for Quebec woman accused of killing two young daughters

  12-11-2018 19:16 via globalnews.ca
  She pleaded not guilty as the charges were read out.
  
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• Witness describes crime scene at Laval home as Adele Sorella's 1st-degree murder trial gets underway

  12-11-2018 19:09 via cbc.ca
  The 52-year-old Laval woman is facing two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her daughters Amanda, 9, and Sabrina, 8, in 2009.
  
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• Adele Sorella's trial for 1st-degree murder of her 2 daughters gets underway

  12-11-2018 19:09 via cbc.ca
  The 52-year-old Laval woman is facing two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her daughters Amanda, 9, and Sabrina, 8, in 2009.
  
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• Global News at 5:30: Nov 12

  12-11-2018 19:04 via globalnews.ca
  The Monday, November 12, 2018 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
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• Bombardier defends CEO’s absence from special meeting following layoffs

  12-11-2018 19:04 via globalnews.ca
  The minister tried to reassure Quebecers that the province's aerospace sector is healthy and growing.
  
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• No more Saks Off Fifth at Montreal Eaton Centre

  12-11-2018 18:57 via globalnews.ca
  Hudson's Bay Company says it will no longer open a Saks Off Fifth location at the Montreal Eaton Centre.
  
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• Veteran’s daughters blame government for father’s death

  12-11-2018 18:50 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Nov 12: The daughters of a World War Two veteran are blaming the government for their father’s recent death. This comes just two weeks after another veteran at the Ste-Anne’s Hospital filed a request for a class-action lawsuit over a deterioration of care. As Global’s Anne Leclair reports, families of veterans are demanding the...
  
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• ‘A sense of life’: Montrealers pay respects to ex-premier Bernard Landry

  12-11-2018 18:34
  The tributes to former Quebec premier Bernard Landry shifted to Montreal Monday with his body lying in state at Notre Dame Basilica.
  Landry’s flag-draped casket was carried into the Old Montreal church by a Sûreté du Québec honour guard shortly after 8 a.m.
  At 10 a.m. the doors swung open to members of the public to pay their respects. They have until 6 p.m. Monday to do. Landry’s state funeral will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the same location.
  By 10:30 a.m. a small
  
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• Adele Sorella pleads not guilty to murder charges as Laval trial begins

  12-11-2018 18:22
  LAVAL — Adele Sorella stood before the jury and, in a faint voice, pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in a case dating to 2009.
  With that, Sorella’s trial began Monday morning at the Laval courthouse.
  In her opening instructions, Superior Court Justice Sophie Bourque reminded the six women and six men of the jury of the important task ahead of them. 
  Bourque told the jurors to base their decision on what they hear in the courtroom and nothing
  
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• Montreal West flower shop turns to social media to track down alleged thief

  12-11-2018 18:21 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Nov 12: The owner of a Montreal West flower shop has turned to social media to try and find the person who allegedly stole a charity donation bucket. As Brayden Jagger Haines explains, the money collected is usually donated to the local Royal Canadian Legion branch.
  
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• Montreal weather: Something is coming, and it might be freezing rain

  12-11-2018 18:02
  The show begins at midnight.
  Environment Canada predicts that Monday’s increasing cloud cover will give way to snow mixed with rain as the clock strikes 12. The pre-dawn hours carry a risk of freezing rain till a subtle shift around 4 a.m., wherein precipitation becomes rain mixed with snow. That’s just before the area around the Turcot reopens, so drive carefully on your Tuesday-morning commute.
  About 2 centimetres of snow could fall. That’s about the width of two fingernails,
  
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• Typical Quebec cannabis users are young men, survey suggests

  12-11-2018 17:54
  It is an amendment to the federal cannabis law that has been sought by medical organizations in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada. But a decision by the Legault government to increase the minimum age for legal cannabis consumption to 21 from 18 could also blow a major hole through Quebec’s legal cannabis market, a survey by Quebec’s Institut de statistique suggests.
  The survey, conducted before cannabis legalization between March and June 2018, polled 10,000 respondents aged 15 and
  
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• Kirkland shooting suspect appears in court

  12-11-2018 17:43 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Nov 12: A 36-year-old Kirkland man charged with the attempted murder of his five and three-year-old sons on Friday made a brief court appearance on Monday. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo explains, the man underwent a psychological evaluation before his hearing.
  
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• 17 new AZUR trains on the way for Montreal’s Metro

  12-11-2018 17:27 via globalnews.ca
  The STM will acquire 153 new AZUR Metro cars as part of an updated deal with Bombardier-Alstom.
  
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• Montreal to get 153 new Azur metro cars in deal with Bombardier-Alstom consortium

  12-11-2018 17:15 via cbc.ca
  Nearly 170 Bombardier employees will be assigned to this new order, which will also involve 70 employees at the Alstom plant in Sorel-Tracy.
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: Morgh ba Zardchoobeh is 'everyday turmeric chicken'

  12-11-2018 17:00
  How to give a lift to simple, familiar foods could be the title of Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and Stories, by Los Angeles food blogger Naz Deravian (Flatiron/Raincoast, $45).
  The author left Iran at age 8, returns each summer to Vancouver where she grew up, but has never forgotten her heritage of lively, spiced food and happy times in the kitchen. Morgh ba Zardchoobeh or as she refers to it, “everyday turmeric chicken,” uses “the workhorse of our spice cabinet.” I
  
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• Kirkland man charged with attempted murder of his two children

  12-11-2018 16:52 via globalnews.ca
  The man has been charged with two counts of attempted murder.
  
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• Quebec will help match ex-Bombardier workers with aerospace openings

  12-11-2018 16:49
  The provincial government will work with Bombardier to help the 2,500 Quebecers the company plans to lay off find new jobs in the aerospace industry, Economy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon said on Monday morning.
  Bombardier will provide the government with detailed information about the affected workers and the government will use that information to work with other aerospace companies to match workers with open positions or access existing and training programs, Fitzgibbon said.
  Fitz
  
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• NHL, retired players reach tentative settlement in concussion lawsuit

  12-11-2018 16:46 via cbc.ca
  The NHL and lawyers for retired players say a tentative settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought against the league over head injuries.
  
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• Pick up a book and pedal as more Montreal libraries get bicycle desks

  12-11-2018 16:15 via cbc.ca
  A total of 57 bicycle desks, for adults and kids, are being set up in 45 municipal libraries as a way to help people concentrate while they read.
  
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• Visitation for former Quebec premier Bernard Landry held in Montreal

  12-11-2018 15:53 via globalnews.ca
  A visitation is being held for former Quebec premier Bernard Landry at Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica.
  
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• Drivers heed warnings about ‘unprecedented’ Turcot Interchange closures

  12-11-2018 15:48 via globalnews.ca
  Most Montreal drivers heeded officials’ warnings and left their cars at home during the last day of “unprecedented” closures on the Turcot Interchange. Global’s Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Got snow tires? Winter weather to bring flurries, freezing rain

  12-11-2018 15:44 via cbc.ca
  Montreal motorists who haven’t switched their summer tires for winter treads may regret their procrastination in the coming week, as snow is in the forecast.
  
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