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• Doug Ford backtracks on some cuts to Ontario francophone services

  23-11-2018 23:57
  TORONTO — After days of backlash over its cuts to institutions serving francophones, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government says it’s making changes meant to recognize the “significant and ongoing” contributions of the Franco-Ontarian community.
  In a statement issued Friday evening, Premier Doug Ford says his government is creating the position of French-Language Services Commissioner within the provincial ombudsman’s office, and seeking to turn the off
  
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• No bail for eight men charged in West Island car thefts

  23-11-2018 23:56
  Eight men arrested as suspects in a luxury car theft ring that operated around Trudeau airport in Dorval will spend the weekend behind bars after the Crown objected to their release on Friday.
  During their brief appearance before a Quebec Court judge at the Montreal courthouse, the men learned that their cases would be carried over to Monday for a formality hearing merely to fix a future date for bail hearings. One of the men charged on Friday, Louis Bouchard, 59, of Longueuil, is already charge
  
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• Trial ends for Montreal priest accused of sexual assault

  23-11-2018 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Nov 23: A TMR priest accused of sexually assaulting minors finished testifying in his own defense on Friday. As Global’s Amanda Jelowicki explains, Father Brian Boucher’s fate is now in the hands of a judge.
  
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• Montreal city councillor mocked for knowledge of cars

  23-11-2018 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Nov 23: Montreal city councillor Lisa Christensen was made fun of by fellow councillor Richard Guay for her knowledge of cars. As Dan Spector reports — others were outraged that someone would make those kinds of comments.
  
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• Greenfield Park councillor sounds alarm bells over charity fraud

  23-11-2018 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Nov 23: A Greenfield Park councillor is warning residents to be vigilant when people come door-to-door asking for funds or other donations. One person is suspected of trying to fraudulently collect from home owners. Brayden Jagger Haines reports.
  
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• Ford government backtracks on some cuts affecting Ontario Francophones

  23-11-2018 23:34 via cbc.ca
  After a backlash, Premier Doug Ford's government announced Friday afternoon it will take a number of steps to bolster the French language in Ontario, although it's still cutting funding for a French language university.
  
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• Complainant motivated by revenge, argues lawyer for Montreal priest on trial for sex crimes

  23-11-2018 23:25 via cbc.ca
  Quebec court Judge Patricia Campagnone is faced with two completely contradictory versions of events in the trial of a Montreal Catholic priest charged with harassing and sexually assaulting a former altar boy in his parish.
  
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• Priest claims sexual abuse allegations are a complete fabrication; judge to decide case in January

  23-11-2018 23:05 via globalnews.ca
  The trial of a Montreal Catholic priest accused of multiple counts of sexual assault against minors wrapped up at the Montreal courthouse Friday.
  
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• Small city, big power: Mayor of Montreal suburb accused of threats, abusing authority

  23-11-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
  Radio-Canada’s investigative program, Enquête, has uncovered alleged threats, bullying and abuses of power by Chambly Mayor Denis Lavoie.
  
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• City Coun. Lisa Christensen finds positive in sexist comment against her at city hall

  23-11-2018 22:46 via globalnews.ca
  The recipient of a sexist remark at city hall is looking on the bright side.
  
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• Theatre review: Enough wit and female fury to fuel second Doll's House

  23-11-2018 22:35
  It’s generally agreed that when Nora Helmer slams the door on her sham marriage, it closes Ibsen’s 1879 classic A Doll’s House on a resounding note of finality. Playwright Lucas Hnath would beg to differ, and he’s done so not by having a quiet word, but by writing a mischievous sequel. Nora is back, and this time she’s … well, exactly why is she back?
  Keeping us guessing is part of the fun of A Doll’s House, Part 2 (playing at Segal to Dec. 9). Hnath&rs
  
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• 16 years for man who murdered Rwandan refugee over small drug debt

  23-11-2018 22:22
  When he was just six years old, Gilbert Nshimiyumukiza saw his parents executed in the Rwandan genocide.
  On Friday, Nshimiyumukiza’s own death — inside an apartment in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough, over a small drug debt — was also characterized as an execution.
  “It resembles an execution, a senseless drug slaying,” Justice Michel Pennou said at the Montreal courthouse while ordering that Jermaine Gero, 44 — who shot the unarmed Rwandan refugee at almost
  
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• STM taken to task over major order of hybrid buses

  23-11-2018 22:10
  Environmentalists and industry insiders are taking issue with the city’s decision to order nearly 1,000 hybrid buses, saying there there are cleaner and cheaper alternatives available.
  In June, the Société de transport de Montréal was the lead bidder in a nearly $3 billion purchase order for 2,355 hybrid buses on behalf itself and eight other transit agencies in the province. The STM will receive 830 of the buses, to be delivered between the years 2020 and 2024. The ne
  
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• What the Puck: As many predicted, Canadiens' defence hits speed bump

  23-11-2018 21:24
  Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin wants to have his cake and eat it, too.
  He wants — many of us would say “needs” — to rebuild the team he’s damaged so badly, but he doesn’t want to pay the price of a genuine rebuild. So what he’s trying to do is pull off a mini-rebuild, what he likes to call “a reset,” and still make it into the playoffs where, as he likes to boast, anything can happen.
  But it’s not a well thought through pl
  
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• Montreal found liable for broken ankle after woman slipped on icy sidewalk

  23-11-2018 21:08 via cbc.ca
  The City of Montreal has been ordered to pay nearly $30,000 to a resident who broke her ankle after slipping on an icy sidewalk in January 2016.
  
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• Black Friday sales hit Montreal

  23-11-2018 21:02 via globalnews.ca
  Black Friday is underway in Montreal. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, shoppers are lining up for deals.
  
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• Number of romaine lettuce E. coli cases in Canada grows to 22

  23-11-2018 20:59 via globalnews.ca
  Since health officials first warned about eating romaine lettuce, there have been four new cases of E. coli related to the salad greens.
  
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• 22 people sickened by E. coli in romaine lettuce, Canadian officials say

  23-11-2018 20:59 via globalnews.ca
  Since health officials first warned about eating romaine lettuce, there have been four new cases of E. coli related to the salad greens.
  
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• Montreal shoppers line up for Black Friday sales

  23-11-2018 20:47 via globalnews.ca
  Black Friday shoppers lined up for holiday deals in Montreal. The promotion has become a fixture for a decade now in Montreal.
  
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• Manon Massé will have right to vehicle and chauffeur

  23-11-2018 20:33
  Whether you’re on the left, in the centre or on the right of the political spectrum, the security needs are the same for everyone. The parliamentary leader of Québec solidaire, Manon Massé, will therefore have the right like anyone else to a vehicle with a driver and bodyguard.
  However her critics may feel about it, Massé confirmed this recommendation by the Public Safety Ministry.
  Like the interim leader of the Parti Québécois, Pascal Bérub&e
  
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• There's a laundry list of road closures to watch out for this weekend

  23-11-2018 20:19 via cbc.ca
  It's going to be another difficult weekend for drivers, with closures affecting a number of routes in and around the city.
  
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• Minister orders investigation into Chambly mayor

  23-11-2018 20:14
  Quebec’s municipal commission has launched an investigation into Chambly mayor Denis Lavoie in the wake of a televised report where Lavoie is accused of abusing his authority.
  A spokesperson for Municipal Affairs Minister Andrée Laforest confirmed that the minister had made the request that the commission probe Lavoie, and that Laforest was “very concerned” by what she had heard during the episode of Enquête aired on Radio-Canada on Thursday evening.
  During the rep
  
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• 3 more cases of E. coli illness from romaine lettuce confirmed in Canada

  23-11-2018 20:09 via cbc.ca
  The total number of confirmed cases in Canada is now 22.
  
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• Macpherson: At the Hockey Jersey Summit, different colours, same team

  23-11-2018 20:00
  In a familiar ritual as Canadian as drunken curlers, the premiers of Quebec and Ontario exchanged jerseys for the cameras before their first meeting in Toronto this week.
  From Quebec, the business-as-usual mood of the visuals looked surreal, considering that François Legault had been expected to deliver a stern message to Doug Ford.
  This province’s politico-media class was in an uproar over the Ford government’s cancellation of what would have been Ontario’s first all-Fr
  
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• Victoria Bridge impaired driving checks lead to three arrests

  23-11-2018 19:49
  Three people were arrested late Thursday and early Friday as police from Montreal and Longueuil deployed impaired driving spot check checkpoints at both ends of the Victoria Bridge.
  Between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. a total of 175 vehicles were checked. Two drivers were arrested for impaired driving under the influence of alcohol while a third was arrested for being under the influence of drugs.
  The roadblocks are part of an ongoing program launched by Quebec police forces on Oct. 17 — the day re
  
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• Mont Tremblant at 80: a milestone year for milestone resort

  23-11-2018 19:48
  Mont Tremblant made history 80 winters ago with the first chairlift in Canada, and since then has steadily and significantly changed the landscape of Quebec tourism.
  The evolution has continued this year thanks to Tremblant’s new owner, Alterra Mountain Company, which has invested $17 million in lifts, trails and restaurants in arguably the largest resort area in eastern Canada.
  The mountain’s natural magic is the constant: the snow, the steeps and the sweeping views of the Laurentia
  
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• Vanier Cup battle of undefeated as Rouge et Or host Mustangs

  23-11-2018 19:33
  QUEBEC — League officials are calling Saturday’s Vanier Cup rematch between the reigning champion Western Mustangs and the host Laval Rouge et Or a dream final for university football.
  “You could not ask for a better matchup,” said Lisette Johnson-Stapley, chief sports officer of U Sports, the organizing body for Canadian university sports.
  It’s only the fifth time in the 54-year history of the Vanier Cup that teams undefeated in the season will meet in the league f
  
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• 70 years after Refus global, Françoise Sullivan remains revolutionary

  23-11-2018 19:00
  It’s been 70 years since a group of young Québécois artists calling themselves Les Automatistes lit a torch in the Grande Noirceur of the Duplessis era with their collective manifesto Refus global. It was, it’s generally agreed, the spark that ignited not just Québécois but Canadian modern art.
  Among the writers and signatories was the group’s last surviving member, Françoise Sullivan, whose spectacular and multi-faceted career — dancer,
  
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• Buchignani: Formula One season enters last lap. So what's next?

  23-11-2018 18:56
  After eight months and 21 races, the checkered flag comes down on the Formula One season at this weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
  Too bad the race means nothing, given that Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes have already secured the drivers’ and constructors’ championships for a record-matching fifth straight time.
  If nothing else, the event gives diehards one final fix as F1 goes into hibernation for the winter before it re-emerges in Australia in March.
  Between now and then, team fac
  
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• Books: Louise Penny crafts a thorough crime scene

  23-11-2018 18:37
  Ask anyone who has tried: creating a character who can stay convincing and compelling for a whole novel is hard. Maintaining that achievement with the same character over the course of multiple novels is an altogether taller order. But that’s exactly what Louise Penny has been doing since 2005 with Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, head of the Sûreté du Québec and denizen of the fictional Eastern Townships hamlet of Three Pines. Kingdom of the Blind (Minotaur, 400 pages,
  
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• Concordia's Murphy 'everything you could possibly want in a teacher'

  23-11-2018 18:20
  Well before the term “fake news” became so much a part of our contemporary lexicon, Dennis Murphy taught thousands of students over the years to be wary of false prophets bombarding media with their twisted notions of truth. Among the many courses Murphy taught at Concordia University’s Department of Communication Studies over a 40-year period, his most popular were Media Ethics and Propaganda, and they helped shape the professional lives of countless students who went on to su
  
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• Opinion: Romaine lettuce alert shows limits of our power over microbes

  23-11-2018 18:00
  In the wake of the most recent romaine lettuce E. coli warning, you may have sworn off Caesar salads and bleached out all potential life forms in your fridge’s vegetable drawer. Next time, you may well do likewise.
  Yes, it’s a safe bet that there will be a next time.
  It’s wrong to believe that we can control microbial life, because microbes are both everywhere and invisible. When food scares strike, we are painfully reminded that food policies and public hea
  
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• NHL scouts on notice as Océanic teen Alexis Lafrenière lights up QMJHL

  23-11-2018 17:57
  TORONTO — Serge Beausoleil might be the head coach of the Rimouski Océanic, but even he can feel like a student when forward Alexis Lafrenière hits the ice.
  “Sometimes I have to shut my mouth, I don’t want to put him in a box,” Beausoleil said.
  “I want him to be creative. He’s always two steps ahead when he plays and he sees a lot of things most hockey guys cannot see, so we have to let him play.”
  Lafrenière didn’t take long to
  
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• Manawan to get its own ambulance service after 20 years of lobbying

  23-11-2018 17:46 via cbc.ca
  The Atikamekw community of Manawan, in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, is finally getting its own ambulance service, putting an end to a period where people waited two hours or more for emergency services to arrive after a call.
  
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• Wine: Want to kick the sugar habit? Try grenache or merlot

  23-11-2018 17:45
  I run into lots of folks who are fans of red wines that have extra sugar in them. A “dry” red wine technically has under 4g/l, so if you are a fan of Liano (9g/l), Caymus (9.9g/l), Apothic (16g/l) or Ménage à Trois (13/l), then you are drinking extra sugar. Most had no idea that was the case. While some are fine with the extra sugar, many people I talk with would rather not be drinking those extra calories, or if they are diabetic, the extra fructose. So what do I sugge
  
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• Christmas basket fraudsters target Greenfield Park residents

  23-11-2018 17:44 via globalnews.ca
  Fraudsters are calling residents in Greenfield Park asking for money for the annual Christmas baskets.
  
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• Love reading? Check out the Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair and Expozine

  23-11-2018 17:37
  A week after the bold and brash Salon du livre, book lovers have two more intimate events this weekend for literary shopping and shmoozing. And both are free.
  The Holiday Pop-up Book Fair, being held for the first time at Concordia University downtown, features a wine and cheese reception with celebrated actor and author Ann-Marie MacDonald. The fair will take place in the atrium of the McConnell Building.
  MacDonald was the inaugural Writer in Residence at the Mordecai Richler Reading Room in 20
  
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• The Right Chemistry: Ammonia emissions can be dangerous

  23-11-2018 17:30
  Once you have sniffed ammonia, you are not likely to forget its penetrating odour. Just ask the paramedics who responded to an emergency call from a home in Virginia: they were almost overcome by the powerful smell of the gas. They quickly transported the occupant, who was in respiratory distress, to hospital and alerted the Sheriff’s Department about the overpowering odour. Deputies wearing protective suits and breathing equipment found 40 chickens, three dogs and a cat occupying the prem
  
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• Weekend traffic: Three major spans to South Shore affected by roadwork - Montreal Gazette

  23-11-2018 17:00
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  Weekend traffic: Three major spans to South Shore affected by roadwork
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  Montréal, QC · store. JC Perreault - Kirkland. Kirkland, QC · store. Allegra Chamber Music. Montreal, QC · store. Perfect Prestige Renovations. Montréal, QC · store. Place Desaulniers. Longueuil, QC · store. Beaconsfield Artists Association ...
  
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• Classy Randy Tieman was one of a kind | HI/O Bonus

  23-11-2018 17:00
  In this bonus episode, our panelists — Gazette columnists Pat Hickey and Brendan Kelly along with CBC Daybreak’s Jessica Rusnak and host Adam Susser — share their favourite memories about beloved Montreal broadcaster Randy Tieman.
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• Eight arrested after Montreal police bust West Island car theft ring

  23-11-2018 16:49
  A series of raids conducted in and around Montreal Thursday has ended with eight arrests and the apparent breaking of a luxury car theft ring that operated around Trudeau airport in Dorval.
  Police conducted nine raids in total that targeted three residences and a trio of vehicles as well as a garage and two storage lockers in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines.
  Police also seized a collection of stolen car parts and technical documents linked to car theft. The raids were carried out after complaints of car th
  
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• Eight arrested after Montreal police bust West Island car theft ring - Montreal Gazette

  23-11-2018 16:32
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  Eight arrested after Montreal police bust West Island car theft ring
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  ... near Trudeau airport. The suspects are expected to appear in court Friday. Anyone with any information related to this investigation is urged to call 911, contact their local police station or call Info-Crime Montréal at 514-393-1133 or ...
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: Nov. 24, 2018

  23-11-2018 16:05
  Every week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings.
  Under $15
  Douro 2016, Coroa d’Ouro, Pocas, Portugal red, $13.75, SAQ # 743252. Nicely restrained Douro that manages to keep the fruit fresh and not fall into that stewed-fruit note that makes so many Douros a touch heavy. Nicely textured with just a hint of spice and dried herbs on the finish. Classy wine for cheap. Grape varieties: tinta barroca, touriga franca, touriga nacion
  
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• Postal union shuts down mail in Ottawa as Commons mulls back-to-work measures

  23-11-2018 15:45 via globalnews.ca
  The capital, as well as smaller towns in Ontario and British Columbia, and Sherbrooke, Que., are all being targeted by rotating strikes by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.
  
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• Unions ramp up pressure to block back-to-work bill for Canada Post employees

  23-11-2018 15:37 via cbc.ca
  Union leaders are mounting fierce opposition to Liberal legislation that would force Canada Post employees back to work, vowing to fight the government's actions in court and on the streets.
  
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• MPs vote to proceed with fast-tracking Canada Post back-to-work legislation through Commons

  23-11-2018 15:37 via cbc.ca
  Union leaders are mounting fierce opposition to Liberal legislation that would force Canada Post employees back to work, vowing to fight the government's actions in court and on the streets.
  
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• Holiday office party etiquette

  23-11-2018 15:35 via globalnews.ca
  Office holiday parties are just around the corner, etiquette expert Julie Blais Comeau joins Global’s Laura Casella to discuss things to keep in mind while you party with your co-workers.
  
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• Yo-Yo Ma in two places at once in Montreal Bach Festival

  23-11-2018 15:30
  Despite appearances, the fundamentals of space-time were in effect. Yo-Yo Ma did not sell out the Maison symphonique before the Montreal Bach Festival made tickets available, in February, to the cellist’s traversal of the Six Solo Suites on Dec. 7.
  But those tickets moved at something like the speed of light. Which led MBF artistic director Alexandra Scheibler to hatch the idea of outfitting St. James United Church with an HD screen and selling pew space (first come, first served) for a si
  
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• The changing face of retail

  23-11-2018 15:25 via globalnews.ca
  Just in time for Black Friday, McGill has launched a new school of retail management. Global’s Laura Casella speaks to the academic director to find out what this means for the changing retail industry in Quebec.
  
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• Black Friday in Montreal

  23-11-2018 15:25 via globalnews.ca
  Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving in October, not November. But Canadian retailers do put on sales for Black Friday. Global’s Billy Shields hit the streets to see how Montrealers are reacting to Black Friday sales.
  
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