Montreal news

• Three construction bosses given 96 hours to report to detention

  16-11-2018 23:52
  The Quebec Court of Appeal has ordered three executives with a construction company to begin serving time behind bars for having defrauded municipalities out of millions of dollars by obtaining municipal contracts through collusion.
  In a decision delivered on Friday, the appellate court agreed with the Crown’s argument that Quebec Court Judge Stéphane Godri, went too easy on the three men — including Pasquale Fedele, the president of CIV-BEC — by sentencing them earlier
  
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• McGill opens retail school named for Aldo Bensadoun

  16-11-2018 23:52
  When Aldo Bensadoun was a McGill University student, he daydreamed about one day being as successful as the legendary business families whose names graced buildings at the university, he said.
  “I was always impressed by previous generations, the Bronfmans, the Molsons, and when I was in school,” he said, “I said, ‘my god, could you imagine, maybe one day I might be able to do that?”
  Now, Bensadoun, the founder of the footwear empire that bears his first name, h
  
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• Quebec minister says province prepared to help Bombardier

  16-11-2018 23:45 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec Economy and Innovation Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon talks about Bombardier. The comments came hours after the head of Quebec’s aerospace union called on the province to intervene.
  
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• STM maintenance union's walkout was illegal, Quebec tribunal rules

  16-11-2018 23:32
  It isn’t a daily occurrence for a bus to run out of fuel. In fact, it’s more frequent than that, according to figures provided Friday by the Société de transport de Montréal.
  Earlier this week, Renée Amilcar, the STM’s executive director of buses said it was a rare occurrence for a bus to run out of gas. However, the STM statistics contradict Amilcar’s assertion. Within the last three months, there was an average of 1.3 reports per day of
  
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• Helping West Island women change their lives

  16-11-2018 23:27 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Nov 16: The West Island Women’s Shelter helps hundreds of women and children every year. Whether it is to offer shelter, counselling or help in leaving an abusive relationship. As Global’s Gloria Henriquez explains, for some women finally finding a place to turn can completely change their lives.
  
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• CAQ and Quebec City building bridges

  16-11-2018 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Nov 16: Controversy is brewing over a CAQ election promise to build “the third link” — a highway connecting Quebec City’s North Shore to its South Shore. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, some experts say building more roads actually makes traffic worse.
  
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• 'Trip of my lifetime' led to $75K Cundill prize for Joseph Conrad book

  16-11-2018 23:21
  When Maya Jasanoff set off down the Congo River into Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, she wasn’t necessarily thinking about the mythical Kurtz, or the brutal trade in ivory over which he ruled.
  “It was the trip of my lifetime,” Jasanoff said. “I was meeting people, talking to them and being in the moment. I had to remind myself that I was writing about Conrad.”
  But the Harvard professor did follow in Conrad’s footsteps, some 128 years later, to Africa
  
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• Aldo gives $25M to new McGill University business school

  16-11-2018 23:19 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Nov 16: A new business school named after the founder of the Aldo shoe empire has opened at McGill. Aldo Bensadoun and his family donated $25 million to the university to found the new retail school. As Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports, the goal is to train the next generation of retail leaders.
  
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• In the workplace, it pays to speak both English and French

  16-11-2018 22:52
  If you want to be better off, it’s best to be bilingual.
  A new analysis of Canada’s 2016 census indicates those who know and use both of Canada’s official languages at work earn more than their unilingual counterparts.
  Among allophones in particular, the statistics show that knowledge of both languages translates into a considerable jump in salary.
  Bilingual anglophones and francophones with a bachelor’s degree in Quebec make roughly eight per cent more than their uniling
  
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• Quebec government worried about elimination of Ontario's French Language commissioner

  16-11-2018 22:36 via cbc.ca
  The news that Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government will abolish Ontario's Office of the French Language Services Commissioner is not sitting well in Quebec.
  
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• Surprise strike by STM maintenance workers ruled illegal

  16-11-2018 22:24 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's administrative labour tribunal has ruled a surprise strike by STM maintenance workers was illegal.
  
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• Rejected by voters, PQ gathers for weekend group therapy session

  16-11-2018 22:24
  QUEBEC — Let the soul-searching begin.
  One and a half months after their party obtained the worst electoral score in its 50 year history, members of the Parti Québécois are to gather in Montreal on Saturday to figure out what went wrong and what the future holds.
  Described by some as a day-long “group therapy” session for a party still in shock, the meeting will assemble riding presidents from all the regions plus the PQ brass for an official postmortem.
  Among the
  
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• Aldo Group founder donates $25M to new McGill University business school

  16-11-2018 22:10 via globalnews.ca
  Aldo Bensadoun, founder of the Aldo Group, has donated $25 million to McGill University to fund a new business program, the Bensadoun School of Retail Management.
  
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• West Island Women’s Shelter gala helps survivors get back on their feet

  16-11-2018 21:52 via globalnews.ca
  The West Island Women's Shelter aims to eliminate conjugal violence and its impact on women and children.
  
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• Road to the Vanier: Laval hosts X-Men, Flory's Huskies visit Mustangs

  16-11-2018 21:46
  Every opposing coach in the Canada West football pre-season coaches’ poll had the Saskatchewan Huskies ranked last among conference teams. Each one of those coaches is out of the post-season mix altogether.
  The Huskies proved the naysayers wrong this year by taking the conference title and earning a berth in the national semifinal Mitchell Bowl  on Saturday (4 p.m., SN360, TVA Sports 2) against the Ontario champion Western Mustangs.
  “Like I’ve said many times out here, we&
  
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• Nunavik crisis: Ottawa investing $6M to quadruple treatment capacity

  16-11-2018 21:36
  Despite Nunavik having some of the highest rates of drug and alcohol use in Canada, there is just one treatment centre to serve the 14 villages along Quebec’s northern coast.
  The Isuarsivik treatment centre is run out of a 70-year-old military base in Kuujjuaq that has nine beds and a skeleton staff to serve a region twice the size of England. Each year, they’re forced to turn aside more people than they can accept.
  But now, in response to a suicide crisis that has rocked the region,
  
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• Editorial: Standing in solidarity with Franco-Ontarians

  16-11-2018 21:29
  The Ontario government’s decision to abolish the Office of the French Language Services Commissioner and cancel plans to create a French-language university is a bitter setback to Franco-Ontarians, whose long and valiant struggle for services in their language has inspired official-language minorities across the country.
  And it comes at a time when francophones in New Brunswick and anglophones in Quebec are apprehensive about what might be in store from their own newly elected provinc
  
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• Santa Claus parade to bring Christmas magic to Montreal Saturday

  16-11-2018 21:08 via cbc.ca
  The parade starts at 11 a.m., heading east down Ste-Catherine Street from Fort Street and ending at 1:30 p.m. at St-Urbain Street.
  
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• Santa Claus parade brings Christmas magic to Montreal

  16-11-2018 21:08 via cbc.ca
  The parade starts at 11 a.m., heading east down Ste-Catherine Street from Fort Street and ending at 1:30 p.m. at St-Urbain Street.
  
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• Quebec prepared to help Bombardier, minister says after CEO meeting

  16-11-2018 20:59 via globalnews.ca
  The Quebec government says it is prepared to work with Bombardier if it needs help.
  
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• Bombardier CEO holds off on a cash request from Quebec

  16-11-2018 20:59 via globalnews.ca
  The Quebec government says it is prepared to work with Bombardier if it needs help.
  
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• STM maintenance workers' wildcat strike deemed illegal

  16-11-2018 20:57 via cbc.ca
  The Quebec labour tribunal has ordered the union representing maintenance workers, the STM-CSN, to take all necessary measures to put an end to the illegal pressure tactics.
  
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• What the Puck: Riding the Canadiens' roller-coaster

  16-11-2018 20:42
  This season’s Montreal Canadiens are an enigma. Or let’s put it another way: What a difference a period makes.
  Leading up to the Habs’ Thursday night bout against the Flames at the Saddledome in Calgary, fans were feeling a little nervous, with most of the chatter focused on what was going on upstairs with the highest-paid goalie in the National Hockey League. As has been the case for most of the past decade, the Canadiens go where Price takes them.
  So if he’s sinking bac
  
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• Montreal police seek potential victims of sex assault suspect

  16-11-2018 20:32
  Montreal police have turned to the public in an effort to find potential victims of a sexual assault suspect who was arrested on Nov. 8 after a series of attacks in the borough of St-Laurent.
  Sobhi Akra, 35, is suspected by police of having committed at least eight sexual assaults. Police allege he would follow his victims discreetly before groping them and then running away. Investigators say they have reason to believe there are other victims.
  Anyone who thinks they were a victim is urged
  
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• SAQ employees on strike until Monday

  16-11-2018 20:29 via globalnews.ca
  The union says striking employees will picket in front of the 45 stores being kept open by management.
  
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• Experts say Third Link in Quebec City will just cause more traffic

  16-11-2018 20:19 via globalnews.ca
  This debate over Quebec City's Third Link has become a full-on clash of cultures between two diverging political camps in the province.
  
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• Victims of Quebec City legionnaire's outbreak may see just $4.5M of $7.5M settlement

  16-11-2018 20:11 via cbc.ca
  Even the judge who authorized a $7.5-million settlement for victims of the 2012 legionnaires' outbreak that killed 14 people expressed astonishment that plaintiffs have been asked to pay out 39 per cent in lawyers' fees and court costs.
  
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• Class-action lawyers for victims of Quebec City legionnaire's outbreak demand $3M of $7.5M settlement

  16-11-2018 20:11 via cbc.ca
  Even the judge who authorized a $7.5-million settlement for victims of the 2012 legionnaires' outbreak that killed 14 people expressed astonishment that plaintiffs have been asked to pay out 39 per cent in lawyers' fees and court costs.
  
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• Montreal auto shops slammed as winter weather arrives

  16-11-2018 19:44 via globalnews.ca
  The year's first major snowfall came a month before the Dec. 15 snow tire deadline.
  
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• Keep this: Your guide to surviving a Montreal winter

  16-11-2018 19:42
  Shovelling, driving, power-failure survival guide
  Shovelling can be bad for your back — and your heart.
  Shovelling
  Shovellers have more to fear than ill-timed city snow plows undoing hours of work.
  The combination of physical exertion and cold weather can increase the risk of a heart attack, especially in inactive people and those with heart disease.
  “Scooping heavy, wet snow raises your heart rate quickly,” the Heart and Stroke Foundation warns. “Add in cold te
  
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• Northern Montreal Borough Bans New Wood-Fired Ovens in Restaurants - Eater Montreal

  16-11-2018 19:33
  Eater Montreal
  Northern Montreal Borough Bans New Wood-Fired Ovens in Restaurants
  Eater Montreal
  AHUNTSIC-CARTIERVILLE — In what could be shaping up to be the next multi-chapter restaurant-centric drama in Montreal, the borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville has voted to ban new restaurants with wood-fired ovens and grills, reports the CBC.
  
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• Quebec optimistic it will reach agreement with federal government to lower immigration levels

  16-11-2018 19:20 via globalnews.ca
  The CAQ promised to cut immigration levels by 20 per cent from 50,000 to 40,000; now they have until next month to reach an agreement with the feds.
  
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• 'Open for business': Quebec willing to invest more in Bombardier

  16-11-2018 18:54
  Quebec’s economy minister said the provincial government would be open to investing more in Bombardier, following a meeting with the company’s president and CEO, Alain Bellemare, on Friday morning.
  “There’s no requirement for us to invest,” Pierre Fitzgibbon said Friday morning, but he said he made it clear to Bellemare “that would there be a requirement, would there be an opportunity, we would be open for business.”
  The aerospace industry is &ldquo
  
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• 9/11 Museum exhibit tells story of Mohawk ironworkers' contribution to New York City

  16-11-2018 18:30 via cbc.ca
  A special exhibition at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum opening Friday highlights the contribution of Mohawk ironworkers to New York City.
  
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• Impact sign pair of Quebec prospects to Homegrown Player contracts

  16-11-2018 18:18
  The Montreal Impact announced on Friday that defender Daniel Kinumbe and midfielder Clément Bayiha signed their first MLS contracts as Major League Soccer Homegrown Players for next season. The deals include three option years.
  “Daniel Kinumbe and Clément Bayiha are two young players with good potential,” Impact head coach Rémi Garde said in a release. “They put a lot of work in training during the 2018 preseason with the pros and I think they have an inter
  
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• STM maintenance union's walkout was an illegal strike, Quebec tribunal rules

  16-11-2018 18:17
  Quebec’s workplace tribunal has ruled Thursday’s walkout by about 500 maintenance workers at the city’s transit agency was an illegal strike.
  The action only lasted an hour and a half, but the Tribunal administratif du travail ruled the co-ordinated action by employees at seven of the city’s bus maintenance centres and its main métro maintenance centre went against the pressure tactics the union was permitted in an earlier ruling by the essential services council.
  
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• QWF marks 20 (or 30) years of celebrating Quebec's anglo authors

  16-11-2018 18:15
  It was the end of one era and the beginning of another. Sort of.
  In 1998, after transitioning from the 10-years-extant QSPELL Awards, the newly named Quebec Writers’ Federation’s QWF Literary Awards were launched. The winner in the fiction category that inaugural year couldn’t have been more appropriately iconic: Mordecai Richler, for Barney’s Version. While no one at the time could have imagined that the celebrated novel would be Richler’s last major published work
  
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• Wine: Ventoux and Luberon present a cooler side of Rhône

  16-11-2018 18:00
  Last week I wrote about the Costières de Nîmes. While the French appellation is technically part of the Côtes du Rhône region, I found that wines from the southern part shared more characteristics of those from the neighbouring Languedoc. It’s a great lesson in terroir, and how different soils and climate can give the same blend of grapes a distinctive character.
  While I was touring the southern Rhône a few weeks ago, I also visited two of its other appellati
  
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• Macpherson: Voting changes would further weaken anglos politically

  16-11-2018 18:00
  Already under-represented in the National Assembly, Quebec’s English-speaking minority may soon see its political influence in the province weakened further.
  The minister responsible for electoral reform in the Legault government, Sonia LeBel, recently reiterated the governing Coalition Avenir Québec party’s pre-election commitment to propose legislation next year to change the province’s voting system.
  Jointly with the Parti Québécois and the Québec
  
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• Shaw adds key ingredient to Canadiens’ mix | HI/O Bonus

  16-11-2018 17:00
  In this bonus episode, our panelists — Gazette sports columnist Pat Hickey, CBC Daybreak’s Jessica Rusnak, Hockey Inside/Out live game blogger Mike Boone and host Adam Susser — look at forward Andrew Shaw and if he’ll return to the form he showed with the Chicago Blackhawks.
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• Bus transporting elementary school students overturns on Highway 15

  16-11-2018 16:48 via cbc.ca
  Road conditions may have played a part in the incident, but that is to be confirmed, police say.
  
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• Weekend traffic: Three major spans to South Shore affected by roadwork

  16-11-2018 16:35
  If you are planning to travel from Montreal to the South Shore this weekend, plan ahead and plan carefully as three of the four major spans will be affected by major road work.
  Mercier Bridge
  The bridge will undergo repair and maintenance work between 1 a.m. Saturday and 5 a.m. Monday. The span toward Kahnawake will be closed completely and only one lane in the opposite direction will be open. By default, the same work will close the entrance to Airlie St. where the roadway connects with Highway
  
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• Snowfall warning issued for Montreal area

  16-11-2018 16:33 via globalnews.ca
  Though snowfall amounts may stay below the expected 15 centimetres, Environment Canada warns the weather will still impact driving conditions.
  
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• Let’s Rock For Kids!

  16-11-2018 16:26 via globalnews.ca
  The Montreal West Curling Club is putting on a fundraising concert this Saturday November 17 called ‘Let’s Rock for Kids’. One of the headliners, musician Tyler Watson, previews the event and sings one of his tunes!
  
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• Jay Walker’s weekend entertainment featuring Santa

  16-11-2018 16:26 via globalnews.ca
  From the Downtown Santa Claus Parade to the 25th anniversary Cirque Éloize ! Jay Walker has your weekend entertainment with Global’s Gloria Henriquez.
  
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• Bombardier shares take a morning hit after AMF investigation revealed

  16-11-2018 16:24
  A day after Quebec’s securities regulator announced an investigation into transactions involving shares held by company executives, Bombardier shares dropped by about 13 per cent in value Friday morning on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
  Shares in the Quebec multinational were trading at about $1.82 at 10 a.m. Friday, a drop of 27 cents of 12.92 per cent compared with Thursday’s close.
  On Thursday, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) confirmed it had launched an inves
  
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• West-end Hydro outage now narrowed to Monkland Village

  16-11-2018 16:19
  A power outage that occurred at 6:15 a.m. Friday and left more than 3,700 homes and businesses without electricity in Notre-Dame-de Grâce, Hampstead and Côte St. Luc has been narrowed to about 1,700 clients in the Monkland Village area.
  Hydro-Québec had no immediate details on the cause of the blackout, which originally struck businesses and residences contained within a perimeter formed roughly by Sherbrooke St., Queen Mary Rd., Cavendish Blvd. and the rail yards in C&oc
  
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• Foodie Friday: Fieldstone restaurant

  16-11-2018 15:55 via globalnews.ca
  It’s foodie friday! And we’re tasting fusion dishes with influences from Cambodia & Mexico with Fieldstone restaurant!
  
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• Decluttering your closet with Big Brothers Big Sisters home pick-up

  16-11-2018 15:55 via globalnews.ca
  Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Montreal are encouraging the public to clean their closets and to register for their used clothing home pick-up service in order to reduce their environmental footprint! Global’s Laura Casella sits down with a representative to talk all about this initiative.
  
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