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• Adele Sorella trial: 'It wasn't natural,' cop says of children's deaths

  19-11-2018 23:57
  LAVAL — The information coming through on Georges Picard’s emergency radio kept shifting.
  At first, the call was about two children who had fallen ill. Then it escalated: the two children were in a coma, and finally, he learned, they were in cardiac arrest.
  But by the time Picard, then an Urgences-Santé doctor with 20 years experience, arrived at Adele Sorella’s home in Laval, he knew it was too late.
  Paramedics had already called off any resuscitation attempts. The girl
  
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• Marvin Rotrand ousted again from STM board

  19-11-2018 23:49 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Nov 19: Longtime city councillor Marvin Rotrand has been ousted from the STM’s board of directors. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, this isn’t the first time Rotrand has been replaced.
  
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• Doctor and paramedics thought girls were poisoned, jury at Adele Sorella trial hears

  19-11-2018 23:43 via cbc.ca
  The Urgences-Santé doctor who declared Adele Sorella’s two daughters dead in their home on March 31, 2009 says he believed at the time that they did not die of natural causes.
  
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• Montreal priest on trial for sexual assault

  19-11-2018 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Nov 19: The trial for a priest accused of sexual assault got underway Monday at the Montreal courthouse. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, Brian Boucher was arrested and charged in march 2017 and is facing several charges of sexual assault and sexual touching.
  
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• François Legault and Doug Ford meet for first time

  19-11-2018 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Nov 19: Quebec Premier François Legault and Ontario Premier Doug Ford met for the first time in Toronto on Monday. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher explains, Legault was unable to convince his anglophone counterpart to reverse his decision to abolish Ontario’s office of the French language service commissioner.
  
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• CEGEP students to protest Wednesday against unpaid internships

  19-11-2018 23:39
  Striking CEGEP students will hold a demonstration in Montreal on Wednesday afternoon to protest against unpaid internships.
  Thousands of CEGEP students are on strike across the province this week as part of pressure tactics to obtain pay for mandatory internships and to ensure that their working conditions are covered by the province’s labour standards law.
  Amelie Poirier, an activist with the committee, known by its French acronym CUTE, said unpaid internships are most common in fiel
  
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• Schwartz's turns back clock on prices to mark anniversary

  19-11-2018 23:23
  London’s Financial Times once trumpeted: “A beef on rye to freeze to death for!” in describing a Schwartz’s smoked-meat sandwich.
  We’ll find out soon enough.
  To mark its 90th anniversary, the Montreal Hebrew Delicatessen — much better known as Schwartz’s — on the Main will be turning back the clock on its prices and offering a smoked-meat sandwich, fries and a Coke for $1.09 on Tuesday between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
  Lineups could extend from one end of
  
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• Silence on STM crisis puts Plante administration under fire

  19-11-2018 22:54
  The Plante administration came under fire Monday for its continued silence on the crisis plaguing the city’s fleet of buses.
  The Montreal Gazette published several reports last week highlighting the problematic maintenance and repairs of the roughly 1,800 buses in the Société de transport de Montréal’s fleet. Among the revelations were that buses run out of gas daily, they break down twice or three times as frequently as those in Laval, Toronto and New
  
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• Trial begins for Montreal priest accused of sexual assault

  19-11-2018 22:39 via globalnews.ca
  Father Brian Boucher was arrested and charged in March 2017.
  
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• Bittersweet morning skate for Canadiens' Deslauriers, Alzner

  19-11-2018 22:31
  At the end of each Canadiens practice or morning skate, one player is picked to lead the team stretch at centre ice.
  But after the morning stretch in Brossard ahead of Monday night’s game against the Washington Capitals at the Bell Centre, Nicolas Deslauriers and Karl Alzner were both in the middle of the centre-ice faceoff circle leading the stretch. They were face to face and both players were smiling.
  What’s up with that?
  “Well, Karl used to play there (in Washington) so he
  
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• Get ready for another test of the wireless emergency alert system

  19-11-2018 22:10 via cbc.ca
  Emergency officials will conduct another test of the country's new wireless alert system later this month, after an initial test in May failed to reach some mobile users.
  
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• Quebec Solidaire MNA drives SUV despite controversial comments about traffic and the environment

  19-11-2018 22:05 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec City MNA Catherine Dorion has recently bought a 2015 Subaru Crosstrek SUV, despite her outspokenness about driving and pollution, Global News has confirmed. 
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Habs in a playoff spot 20 games into season

  19-11-2018 21:13
  Heading into Monday night’s game against the Washington Capitals at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio) the Canadiens had an 11-6-3 record and held the second wild-card playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. They were also tied with the Boston Bruins for the seventh-best record in the NHL.
  Not many people — if anyone — predicted that before the season started.
  “I think It’s more about we’re really kind of trying to move forward and plugging
  
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• Quebec students launch week-long protest against unpaid internships

  19-11-2018 21:09 via cbc.ca
  More than 54,000 Quebec CEGEP and university students walked out of class and away from their internships Monday, and many will stay out for the rest of the week.
  
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• What the Puck: Canadiens GM's summer gambles pay surprising dividends

  19-11-2018 20:59
  Are you having fun yet? Of course you are.
  For the past couple of years, the chatter Sunday night in the dressing room of my beer-league team — the legendary F-Men — was all about how ridiculously bad the Canadiens were and how GM Marc Bergevin needed to be put in the ejection seat at his earliest convenience.
  This season, there’s no Habs grumbling and instead lots of talk about the astonishing Max Domi, the almost-as-surprising Tomas Tatar and the flashy, if still enigmatic, J
  
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• Watch: Sneak preview of Les 7 doigts de la main's new show, Passagers

  19-11-2018 20:55
  Trains aren’t just a site of commuter frustration.
  They can also be powerful symbols for motion and travel and change.
  Passagers, the new show from circus company Les 7 doigts de la main, focuses on that second interpretation.
  Running from Nov. 14, 2018, through Jan. 5, 2019, at Montreal’s TOHU before heading off to France in the spring, the show represents the sort of interactions that can take place in a train cabin — albeit with more circus techniques, theatricality and musi
  
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• ‘Monstrous’ allegations of forced sterilization of Indigenous women must be examined: NDP

  19-11-2018 20:50 via globalnews.ca
  The federal NDP said coerced sterilization of Indigenous women clearly breaches human-rights standards and Ottawa must take steps to address the issue.
  
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• Update: CEGEP students to protest Wednesday against unpaid internships

  19-11-2018 20:42
  Striking CEGEP students will hold a demonstration in Montreal on Wednesday afternoon to protest against unpaid internships.
  Thousands of CEGEP students are on strike across the province this week as part of pressure tactics to obtain pay for mandatory internships and to ensure that their working conditions are covered by the province’s labour standards law.
  Classes were cancelled at Cégep du Vieux-Montréal on Monday as students staged a strike over unpaid internships that are
  
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• Police seek Montreal man suspected of assault, sex crimes

  19-11-2018 20:41
  A Canada-wide arrest warrant has been issued for a Montreal man who is facing charges of assault, receiving a material benefit derived from sexual services, advertising sexual services and procurement.
  Louis Edcar Augustin, 28, could be in the greater Montreal area or in Ontario, police say.
  Augustin is about six feet tall and weighs about 190 pounds. He speaks French and Creole. Police consider him violent and said anyone who sees him should call 911.
  A reward of up to $2,000 will be offered fo
  
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• 'A prisoner in my own life': Alleged assault victim testifies at trial of Fr. Brian Boucher

  19-11-2018 20:35 via cbc.ca
  A witness at the sexual assault trial of a Montreal priest, Brian Boucher, 57, said he was assaulted for three years by Boucher, who was his parish priest and a close friend of his family, beginning when he was 12 years old.
  
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• More than 50,000 Quebec students to strike seeking pay for internships

  19-11-2018 20:27 via globalnews.ca
  Thousands of post-secondary students in Quebec are on strike to protest against unpaid internships.
  
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• More than 50,000 Quebec students to strike over unpaid internships

  19-11-2018 20:27 via globalnews.ca
  Thousands of post-secondary students in Quebec are on strike to protest against unpaid internships.
  
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• Lise Ravary: Francophones aren't 'just another community'

  19-11-2018 20:11
  I’ve felt a cold, dry anger rise in me twice in the last month. I’m not prone to excessive emotion, but when politicians question who I am at my deepest core, I lose it.
  Yes, identity matters.
  I got mad at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s statement on the passing of  former Quebec premier Bernard Landry. It was a good message except for one line: “After leaving politics, he (Landry) remained an active member of his community.”
  The original must have been written
  
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• 'In a spirit of openness,' Montreal mayor makes her agenda public

  19-11-2018 20:09
  If you’re ever curious about what your mayor is up to, her daily agenda is available online.
  Mayor Valérie Plante announced Monday that her public appearances, meetings with dignitaries and announcements will be posted one day in advance as part of her administration’s efforts to be more transparent.
  However, her plans are subject to last-minute changes, her office warned.
  “In a spirit of openness and transparency, we want to give citizens an overview of the mayor’
  
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• Quebec premier says he asked Doug Ford to reconsider cuts to French services

  19-11-2018 18:56 via globalnews.ca
  François Legault, whose Coalition Avenir Quebec swept to power last month, is making his first official visit to Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
  
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• Doug Ford meets with Quebec Premier Francois Legault

  19-11-2018 18:56 via globalnews.ca
  Francois Legault, whose Coalition Avenir Quebec swept to power last month, is making his first official visit to Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
  
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• Save Mr. Ryan: Students rally for beloved Loyola teacher with brain tumour

  19-11-2018 18:55
  An online fundraising campaign for a popular Loyola High School teacher who was diagnosed with a brain tumour four days ago has already surpassed its $100,000 goal and elicited an outpouring of love and support from students and parents.
  It has become the No. 1 fundraiser in Canada on the GoFundMe site, with $116,700 raised as of Monday morning.
  “The response has been incredible,” said his wife, Nathalie Fauteux, from Sean Ryan’s bedside at the Montreal Neurological Institute a
  
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• Greenfield Park residents upset over decision to cordon off benches on Churchill Blvd.

  19-11-2018 18:38 via globalnews.ca
  A decision to cordon off public benches on Churchill Boulevard have residents angered they now have nowhere to sit on the thoroughfare.
  
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• Céline Dion launches gender-neutral clothing line for children

  19-11-2018 18:27 via globalnews.ca
  And there's no pink or blue clothing in sight.
  
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• Yellow Pages ends worker lockout after deal ratified

  19-11-2018 17:36 via globalnews.ca
  The Fédération des travailleurs du Québec (FTQ), the union representing the workers, announced separately that the deal was ratified by 65 per cent of the members who voted Sunday in Laval, Que.
  
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• Jack Todd: Price-Halak debate remains flashpoint for Canadiens fans

  19-11-2018 17:18
  It was, I thought, an innocent tweet — and a rather obvious one.
  All I did was to compare the statistics of one Jaro Halak (who is in a surprising battle with Tuukka Rask for the No. 1 goaltender’s job with the Boston Bruins) and one Carey Price.
  This was prior to the back-to-back wins Price posted in Calgary and Vancouver, games that might represent a dramatic turnaround in his form — or simply an isolated peak in an up-and-down season. The statistics, I thought, spoke for the
  
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• Plante administration ousts Marvin Rotrand from STM board of directors

  19-11-2018 17:04 via cbc.ca
  Westmount’s former mayor, Peter Trent, and Catherine Morency, an engineering professor at Polytechnique Montréal, have been tapped to join the board in his stead.
  
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• Bombardier rebounds as Citigroup says AMF probe ‘appears routine’

  19-11-2018 17:02
  Bombardier Inc. shares jumped the most in a year after a Citigroup analyst said Friday’s 20-per-cent drop was excessive because a regulatory review of the company’s executive stock-sale plan “appears routine.”
  Bombardier’s Class B stock jumped 23 per cent to $2.04 at 10:09 a.m. in Toronto, the biggest increase since last November. Bonds also rose, snapping a six-day decline.
  Quebec’s Autorité des marchés financiers said late Thursday it was revie
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: Grilled cod with lime and tarragon made easy

  19-11-2018 17:00
  Fish specialist John Bil, who died recently in Toronto, has left his mark on his industry with his handsome cookbook, Ship To Shore: Straight Talk from the Seafood Counter (House of Anansi, $34.95).
  His goal was to “demystify” fish and its cooking, and he succeeds with his combination of careful information about all the popular species, including a clean bill of health he gives to most farm-raised varieties.
  His simple grilled recipe, which starts with simmering up a quick seasoning
  
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• Crown argues Adele Sorella had 'exclusive opportunity' to kill children

  19-11-2018 16:21
  Adele Sorella’s murder trial resumes Monday morning as the Crown continues to present its evidence in the case.
  The prosecution is arguing Sorella, 52, had the “exclusive opportunity” to kill her two children, Amanda, 9, and Sabrina, 8, on March 31, 2009.
  The jury has heard the two girls were found dead, side-by-side on the floor in the family’s playroom with no obvious signs of violence on their bodies.
  According to the Crown, Sorella was suicidal at the time while her h
  
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• CEGEP students strike over unpaid internships

  19-11-2018 15:59
  Classes are cancelled at Cégep du Vieux-Montréal on Monday as students are staging a strike over unpaid internships.
  The school’s administration said daytime and evening classes are cancelled, although the building and the labs are still open.
  Hundreds of students picketed in front of the school early Monday morning on the first day of a five-day strike. Students are demanding that they be paid for internships that they’re required to do as part of CEGEP and university
  
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• Marvin Rotrand ousted from STM board again

  19-11-2018 15:44 via globalnews.ca
  Marvin Rotrand is once again being replaced on the board of the Société de transport de Montréal.
  
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• Greenfield Park residents upset over fenced-in public benches

  19-11-2018 15:39 via globalnews.ca
  In an effort to keep snow removal crews from damaging public benches, the city of Greenfield Park has erected fences around them. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, residents are voicing their displeasure.
  
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• The importance of being CPR certified

  19-11-2018 15:36 via globalnews.ca
  Cardiac arrest is something that can happen at any time. Katrysha Gellis learned that the hard way, but quick action from a colleague saved her life. She tells Global’s Laura Casella about her goal to teach others how to save lives.
  
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• Office holiday parties in the #MeToo era

  19-11-2018 15:36 via globalnews.ca
  In a post #MeToo movement era, are holiday office parties still a thing? HR Specialist Sherri Rabinovitch joins Global’s Laura Casella to break down the dos and don’ts for the party season.
  
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• Helping young Quebecers butt out

  19-11-2018 15:26 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian Cancer Society has launched a pilot project to highlight the health effects of tobacco use on young adults. Global’s Kim Sullivan gets a demonstration of how the “Nico-Bar” shows the toxic cocktails hidden within each cigarette.
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Monday, November 19

  19-11-2018 15:19 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Monday, November 19
  
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• Union rejects Canada Post offer of 'cooling off' period with mediation amid strike

  19-11-2018 15:13 via cbc.ca
  Canada Post's largest union has rejected the mail carrier's proposal of a "cooling off" period followed by mediation that would have brought an end to all strike activity until January.
  
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• Canada Post pitches 'cooling off period' to halt strike while mediation happens

  19-11-2018 15:13 via cbc.ca
  Canada Post has proposed a "cooling-off period" with its largest union that would see rotating strikes put on hold through the holiday season while the two sides work with a government-appointed mediator to end the dispute.
  
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• Canada Post pitches 'cooling off period' that would shelve strike until February

  19-11-2018 15:13 via cbc.ca
  Canada Post has proposed a "cooling-off period" with its largest union that would see rotating strikes put on hold through the holiday season while the two sides work with a government-appointed mediator to end the dispute.
  
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• Velvet Code’s latest single

  19-11-2018 15:05 via globalnews.ca
  With a producer who discovered Lady Gaga, Canada’s own Velvet Code is making waves in the electropop scene. Global’s Andrea Howick finds out about his career and we hear a cut from his upcoming album.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Monday, November 19

  19-11-2018 15:05 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Monday, November 19
  
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• While you were sleeping: Camel stranded by snow cheers up drivers

  19-11-2018 13:47
  Here’s what happened while you enjoyed the last of the weekend.
  A farm employee died Sunday after being found half buried under grain on a farm in Marieville. Emergency services reached the farm around 4:45 p.m. to assist a man who was in critical condition. The man, in his 60s, was found by a colleague beneath grain delivered by a dump truck. Rescuers attempted to reanimate the unconscious man until he arrived at the hospital, where he was declared dead. The Commission des norme
  
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