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• Quebec's securities regulator investigating transactions at Bombardier

  15-11-2018 23:42 via cbc.ca
  The AMF says it is reviewing transactions related to a new securities program put in place in August.
  
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• Police target Hells Angels-linked bikers in Montreal, Laval; 13 arrested

  15-11-2018 23:41
  An anti-drug operation involving five police forces and targeting a criminal biker gang linked to the Hells Angels saw 14 arrests and as many raids carried out Thursday as part of an investigation sparked by a string of fentanyl overdose deaths in 2017.
  Montreal police say there were 12 raids carried out in Montreal, including at a car parts shop on Henri-Bourassa Blvd. E. in Montréal-Est, while two sites were raided in Laval. The focus of the raids was the Minotaures West-Montreal,
  
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• South Shore Legion here to stay

  15-11-2018 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Nov 15: The Otterburn Park Legion branch has been a fixture in the community for 73 years but some fear it would lose its not-for-profit status. As Global’s Dan Spector explains, the city says it has no intention of stopping the service it gives to the Legion.
  
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• Emotional support dogs at Montreal airport

  15-11-2018 23:27 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Nov 15: Passengers flying out of Trudeau Airport might notice some new staff roaming the corridors. Thirty YUL snuggle dogs will be available to help soothe the fears of anxious flyers as they wait to board their flights. As Global’s Brayden Jagger Haines reports, this furry snuggle squad is on board to help.
  
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• Construction set to slow down in Montreal

  15-11-2018 23:23 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Nov 15: The City of Montreal says it plans to slow down road construction, saying that residents are tired of seeing orange cones at every turn. As Global’s Amanda Jelowicki explains, that means construction projects will last longer but will be done better.
  
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• So far in 2018, CBSA has deported 296 failed irregular border crossers; another 534 ready to go

  15-11-2018 22:32 via globalnews.ca
  The total number of 'failed irregular-arrival asylum claimants' deported by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) between Jan. 1 and Nov. 5, 2018, was 296.
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Carey Price back in goal against Flames

  15-11-2018 22:27
  CALGARY — It’s official: Carey Price will be back in goal for the Canadiens Thursday night against the Calgary Flames at the Scotiabank Saddledome (9 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).
  Coach Claude Julien confirmed after Thursday’s morning skate that Price will start after being replaced by Antti Niemi for the last two games while Price worked on improving his mental game, which he said has been his biggest problem. Price has allowed at least four goals in each of his last four g
  
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• Sun Youth moves to new home on Parc Ave.

  15-11-2018 22:23
  With a small mountain of boxes packed and a fleet of moving trucks ready to go, Sun Youth is moving to a new location Friday.
  The Montreal charity has been a mainstay on the lower Plateau for 37 years; serving food and clothing up to 200 families each day and providing 20,000 people with Christmas gifts each holiday season.
  But now that an elementary school is set to take over Sun Youth’s St-Urbain St. headquarters, it’s moving about three kilometres north to 6,700 Parc Ave. Its spor
  
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• 'I wish I could turn back time': Nunavik man's arrest cost him final visit with his dying mother

  15-11-2018 22:19 via cbc.ca
  Johnny Anautak and other witnesses testifying in Kuujjuarapik, Que., this week recounted strained relations with the Kativik Regional Police Force, slamming officers' handling of delicate situations like a suicide intervention.
  
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• Years more roadwork ahead: Montreal extends construction plan to a decade

  15-11-2018 22:17 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal is abandoning a plan to redo 500 km of the city's road network every year, saying it would cause too much traffic chaos. It will redo 300 km a year instead.
  
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• Why some mothers keep using cannabis during pregnancy and breastfeeding

  15-11-2018 22:00 via cbc.ca
  Three mothers tell Daybreak's Shari Okeke why they continued to use cannabis while pregnant and breastfeeding and how their children are doing so far.
  
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• Restaurant review: At Clairon, Quebec ingredients are clear winners

  15-11-2018 22:00
  Clairon
  ★★1/2 out of ★★★★
  $$$
  Address: 432 Rachel St. E. (Near Rivard St.)
  Phone: 514-840-5706
  Website: claironrestaurant.com
  Open: Tues.-Sun. 5 to 11 p.m.
  Wheelchair access: One step at the door
  Licensed: Yes
  Reservations: Recommended 
  Cards: All major
  Vegetarian-friendly: Yes
  Parking: On the street with meters
  Price range: Small plates $47 for three or $17 each; desserts $7
  The choices for young chefs opening up restaurants these days are limi
  
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• Update: Legault suggests boycott as paint-maker Sico announces shutdowns

  15-11-2018 21:32
  BOSTON — Quebec Premier Francois Legault has raised the possibility of a boycott against paint manufacturer Sico, which announced Thursday it will relocate to Ontario.
  The 81-year-old company said it plans to close its plant in Quebec City and distribution centre in the Montreal area next September, eliminating 125 jobs.
  Legault said during an economic mission to Boston on Thursday he does “not know whether Quebecers should continue to buy from Sico” when it’s made out of
  
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• Snowfall on the way for Montreal

  15-11-2018 21:28 via globalnews.ca
  After an unseasonable cold snap, another blast of winter weather is on the way.
  
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• After killing it in France, Sugar Sammy wants to conquer the U.S.

  15-11-2018 20:59
  It’s been tough times in France this past week. After U.S. President Trump came under attack for skipping a visit to a French cemetery of American soldiers last weekend, the Donald shot back in a Twitter attack taking on French President Macron for his views on nationalism and even threatening to impose high tariffs on French wine. Trump ended one Twitter barrage with: “MAKE FRANCE GREAT AGAIN!”
  To which, a voice in the French wilderness responded on Twitter: “Don’t
  
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• Opinion: Changes needed to win Quebecers' confidence in police watchdog

  15-11-2018 20:54
  Police oversight agencies exist to ensure that violent encounters between officers and civilians are independently and properly investigated. When oversight agencies invoke their mandate, the police services whose officers’ actions are subject to investigation are expected to follow the procedures set out in legislation.However, recent reports that the head of Quebec’s Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes has complained to four police services that they had not followe
  
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• Top court won't hear case of Montreal murder trial scrapped after delays

  15-11-2018 20:34
  The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the Crown’s appeal in the case of Sivaloganathan Thanabalasingham, who avoided trial in Montreal for the murder of his wife because of excessive delays in getting a hearing.
  As is usual, the high court did not give its reasons for refusing to hear the case.The course of the Thanabalasingham case was complex. The accused was released in April 2017, just before his trial was scheduled to start. He was freed after a Superior Court justice ruled t
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: It's not too soon to plan holiday volunteering

  15-11-2018 20:31
  The holiday season is around the corner, and whether you celebrate Christmas or you don’t, it’s a great time of year to volunteer.
  Some of the happiest and most amazing people I know are those who donate not only money, but their time. Some are retired, but others give back when they can, in their own way.
  Volunteering not only aids the less fortunate, but helps to foster a sense of community and of pride — particularly when our local elected officials lead by example. On the W
  
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• Quebec City police officers honoured for response to 2017 mosque shooting

  15-11-2018 20:19 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec Police Awards pay tribute to two officers who raced to the scene of a mass shooting in Quebec City on Jan. 29, 2017.
  
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• Supreme Court of Canada to hear Laval métro escalator case

  15-11-2018 20:14
  OTTAWA — The case of a woman who received two tickets and was arrested because she didn’t hold an escalator handrail in a Laval métro station is going to the Supreme Court of Canada.
  The case stems from an incident on May 13, 2009, when the appellant, Bela Kosoian, was stopped by an inspector at the Montmorency station because she wasn’t respecting a pictogram instructing riders to hold the railing of the escalator.
  Kosoian argued that the pictogram with the word &l
  
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• Class action lawsuit over McDonald’s Happy Meal toys approved by Quebec judge

  15-11-2018 19:38 via globalnews.ca
  A judge has authorized a lawsuit to proceed against McDonald's Canada over the marketing of Happy Meals to Quebec children.
  
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• Pets at PET Airport to make air travel less stressful

  15-11-2018 19:23 via cbc.ca
  If you're feeling stressed the next time you pass through Trudeau International Airport, look for the wagging tail.
  
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• Pets at PET Airport make air travel less stressful

  15-11-2018 19:23 via cbc.ca
  If you're feeling stressed the next time you pass through Trudeau International Airport, look for the wagging tail.
  
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• Ogilvy Christmas window debuts at McCord Museum

  15-11-2018 19:15 via globalnews.ca
  The McCord Museum has taken on the Ogilvy Christmas window.
  
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• Longueuil has started dumping raw sewage into the St. Lawrence

  15-11-2018 19:05
  Longueuil started dumping raw sewage in the St. Lawrence River on Thursday.
  Why is this being done?
  Longueuil says it must remove and replace two six-metre-long sections of a sewage pipe at the bottom of the river that carries effluent from the mainland to a water-treatment plant on Île Charron. Workers discovered a leak in the 90-centimetre pipe in June. The cause is under investigation. Installed in 1990, the pipe was supposed to have a lifespan of 60 to 80 years.
  Where is the pipe?
  
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• Update: Legault calls for boycott as paint-maker Sico announces shutdowns

  15-11-2018 18:50
  Irritated by a decision by paint manufacturer Sico to move its distribution centre and plant to Ontario, Quebec Premier François Legault suggested on Thursday that the business be boycotted.
  Speaking to reporters during an economic mission to Boston, Legault said the Sico decision bothered him personally and wondered whether Quebecers should continue to purchase paint that doesn’t come from Quebec.
  Legault made his comments after Sico announced it would be closing its plant near Que
  
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• Court approves class action against McDonald's over Happy Meal toy marketing

  15-11-2018 18:37 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec Superior Court has given the green light to a class action against McDonald’s Restaurants — a lawsuit that accuses the fast-food chain of marketing to children in a province that banned the practice decades ago.
  
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• It starts at midnight: Snowfall warning issued for Montreal area

  15-11-2018 18:18
  They say it’ll start at midnight and by the time it’s over, there could be up to 15 centimetres of snow covering Montreal Island, and all the way south to the border.
  Environment Canada’s snowfall warning Thursday comes after several false starts where forecast snow barely had a chance to hit the ground before melting away. It said that although accumulation could be below 15 cm — which is the threshold at which it issues a warning — it’s the first big snowfal
  
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• Updated: 13 arrested as police target Hells Angels-linked bikers in Montreal, Laval

  15-11-2018 18:08
  An anti-drug operation involving four police forces and targeting a criminal biker gang linked to the Hells Angels saw 13 arrests and as many raids carried out Thursday as part of an investigation sparked by a string of fentanyl overdose deaths in 2017.
  Montreal police say there were 11 raids carried out in Montreal while two sites were raided in Laval. The focus of the raids was  the Minotaures Ouest-Montreal, a criminal biker gang affiliated with the Hells Angels.
  Police allege the g
  
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• Hotel Intel: New Alt+ reflects success of Brossard's DIX30

  15-11-2018 18:00
  I have read surveys that proclaim 70 per cent of travellers list shopping as their No. 1 pastime. Even if that number is off by half, it still means that browsing and buying are deeply meaningful to a lot of people — especially with the holidays approaching.
  Group Germain Hotels has pounced on this and recently opened Alt+ Hotel Quartier DIX30, its second property at the heart of the sprawling DIX30 shopping centre in Brossard.
  Alt+ is a new brand for the Quebec-based company, which operat
  
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• Five things to do in Montreal this weekend, Nov. 16-18

  15-11-2018 17:00
  The Children
  “Eda Holmes’s production of Lucy Kirkwood’s frighteningly timely morality play features irresistible performances from three of Canada’s finest,” writes Gazette theatre critic Jim Burke in his review, The Children shakes up the Centaur with a very English apocalypse. It’s on at the Centaur Theatre until Nov. 25.
  Undercover: Legends of Rock
  The music of Bon Jovi, Scorpions, Journey, Kansas, Iron Maiden, April Wine, Foreigner, Styx , AC-DC
  
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• Last chance to stock up before SAQ strike forces weekend dry spell

  15-11-2018 16:40
  Quebecers who suspect they’ll run out of wine or liquor between Thursday night and Monday morning are advised to stock up now before a three-day strike shuts down most of the province’s government-run liquor stores.
  The Société des alcools du Québec was reminding customers on Thursday that with the exception of whatever outlets can be kept open by management personnel, most of its retail operations will be shut down as unionized store and office personnel walk of
  
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• Montreal only Canadian city to see housing price index rise in October

  15-11-2018 16:32
  Of the 11 major Canadian cities whose housing prices are tracked as part of the Teranet–National Bank National Composite House Price Index, only Montreal saw the index rise in October.
  The housing price index, which tracks the resale price of homes, for Montreal rose 0.2 per cent from September to October.
  It was up 5.02 per cent from October 2017.
  Among cities tracked as part of the composite index, only Victoria has seen prices rise faster this year. There, the index is up 
  
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• Lakes of Canada release new album

  15-11-2018 16:27 via globalnews.ca
  Lakes of Canada have just recently dropped their third full-length album ‘We Will Outlive the Sun’. Global’s Laura Casella discusses the inspiration behind the recording, alongside vocalists Jake Smith & Sarah Morasse.
  
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• Making Montreal streets people-friendly takes priority over pothole patching

  15-11-2018 16:25
  After spending the last several years focusing on patching potholes and maintaining the surface of its 4,000-kilometre network of crumbling roads, Montreal is shifting its roadwork strategy, putting more money into developing citizen-friendly roadways.
  In an overview of the city’s transport and infrastructure programs Thursday, city officials said the emphasis for the 2019-2021 capital works program will go toward changes that will affect the day-to-day living of residents: wider sidewalks
  
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• Decline in Carey Price’s play vexing for Canadiens | HI/O Show

  15-11-2018 16:12
  On this week’s show, our panelists — Gazette sports columnist Pat Hickey, CBC Daybreak’s Jessica Rusnak, Hockey Inside/Out live game blogger Mike Boone and host Adam Susser — take a look at the recent struggles of Canadiens’ goaltender Carey Price.
  They also weigh in on these topics:Oilers expose cracks in Canadiens’ veneer
  Young defenceman likely headed to Laval
  Max Domi helps Jonathan Drouin emerge from funk
  Habs need to seize chances out westRelated
  Stu Cow
  
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• Home prices dip 1.5 per cent in October compared to a year ago

  15-11-2018 16:09 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian Real Estate Association says sales were down 3.7 per cent from October of last year, driven by lower activity in B.C.
  
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• Paint-maker Sico to close Montreal distribution centre, Beauport plant

  15-11-2018 15:44
  Paint manufacturer Sico will close its plant in Beauport near Quebec City as well as its Montreal distribution centre as it moves its production operations to Ontario, a decision that has left the CSN union alliance worried that “quality” jobs are continuing to leave the province.
  PPG, Sico’s parent company, explained that the shutdowns are scheduled for September 2019 and are part of an effort to “optimize its manufacturing production and its distribution capacity based
  
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• ASPIRE 2 INSPIRE

  15-11-2018 15:33 via globalnews.ca
  Exclusive Business and Brunch Networking for Women
  
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• Teleconferencing will help move government jobs to the regions: Legault

  15-11-2018 15:18
  The Quebec government is counting on retirements and teleconferencing to increase the number of provincial bureaucrats working in Quebec’s regions, Premier François Legault said Wednesday.
  Speaking to representatives of the province’s regional municipal authorities, Legault confirmed that 5,000 public service jobs would be transferred to the regions over the next five years, a promise he made during the election campaign.
  Legault told reporters afterward he was counting on ret
  
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• Ogilvy’s Christmas window launches in new location.

  15-11-2018 15:18 via globalnews.ca
  The famous Ogilvy’s Christmas window has found a new home at the McCord Museum. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, the display kept all of its charm and is still impressing passersby.
  
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• How to choose the right floor level when buying a condo unit

  15-11-2018 15:18 via globalnews.ca
  Choosing between lower, middle, and upper floors can be tough, especially if you’re purchasing your first condo unit. Global’s Laura Casella sits down with RE/MAX Real Estate broker Shanna Garneau to break down the benefits and disadvantages of various floor levels.
  
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• Generations Foundation Food & Toy Drive

  15-11-2018 15:18 via globalnews.ca
  Global’s Kim Sullivan speaks with Mega Bloks senior vice-president Bisma Ansari about how her company is is giving back to children in need.
  
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