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• McGill students say they were racially profiled by OPP

  28-11-2018 23:46 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Nov 28: Three Rwandan McGill University students say they were pulled over by Ontario Provincial Police on Nov. 21. As Global’s Elysia Bryan-Baynes reports, the students claim the police officer abused his authority in a situation that the Center for Research Action on Race Relations is calling it one of the most contemptable cases...
  
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• Montreal parents to sue city, school board over teen drowning death

  28-11-2018 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Nov 28: The parents of a teenage boy who drowned in a Rosemont-Petite-Patrie pool last February say they plan to sue the city of Montreal. The family of Blessing Claude Moukoko says it doesn’t understand how the teen could have been left unsupervised in a pool when it was obvious he did not know...
  
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• Laval woman killed by snowplow

  28-11-2018 23:32 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Nov 28: A 62-year-old Laval woman was killed Wednesday morning, when she was struck by a snow plow clearing the parking lot of the gas station where she worked. As Global’s Dan Spector explains, the woman was on a break from her job when the accident occurred.
  
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• Montreal police release key witnesses in fatal robbery in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve - Globalnews.ca

  28-11-2018 23:23
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  Montreal police release key witnesses in fatal robbery in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
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  WATCH ABOVE: One man is dead after witnesses said they chased him down following a robbery at a depanneur in Montreal's east end. Police are treating the death as a homicide. X. - A A +. Listen. Montreal police say they have released the three ...
  Suspect in east-end robbery becomes Montreal's 28th homicide victimMontreal Gazette
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• Confirmed: REM will sideline 747 express bus to airport

  28-11-2018 23:17
  The Société de transport de Montréal will kill its popular express airport bus for all but four hours during the day once the new Réseau express métropolitain electric train comes online.
  That will probably mean a longer and costlier trip to the airport for thousands who currently board the 747 bus that makes 11 stops between the Berri-UQÀM métro and bus terminal and the airport.
  Once completed, the REM will extend from Deux-Montagn
  
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• Factory sirens will wail in Montreal-wide drill Thursday at 2 p.m.

  28-11-2018 23:10
  Sirens at nine factories across the island of Montreal will be activated for three minutes at 2 p.m. Thursday as part of a civil protection drill.
  The siren warnings are to take place in the event of a toxic leak at one of the plants, and civil protection authorities stress that in the event of a real emergency, anyone within earshot of those sirens is to get indoors as quickly as possible and close all doors and windows.
  The sirens that will sound on Thursday are at food processing plants in Ri
  
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• Factory sirens will wail in Montreal-wide drill Thursday at 2 pm - Montreal Gazette

  28-11-2018 23:07
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  Factory sirens will wail in Montreal-wide drill Thursday at 2 pm
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  Sirens at nine factories across the island of Montreal will be activated for three minutes at 2 p.m. Thursday as part of a civil protection drill. The siren warnings are to take place in the event of a toxic leak at one of the plants, and civil ...
  Montreal to practice public alert drills across city ThursdayGlobalnews.caall 2 news articles »
  
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• Karl Alzner finds bright side after Canadiens send him to Laval Rocket

  28-11-2018 22:32
  It’s not a shock that Karl Alzner had a big smile on his face when he met with the media Wednesday morning in Laval.
  Alzner obviously wasn’t happy the Canadiens demoted him to the AHL’s Laval Rocket after he cleared NHL waivers on Tuesday, but the veteran defenceman is one of those people who always looks at the bright side of life. He’s also one of the nicest guys you will ever meet.
  “I’m always in a good mood,” Alzner told reporters at Place Bell ahead
  
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• A vision of photography: sweeping MMFA exhibition is the fruit of a personal pursuit

  28-11-2018 22:26
  “It’s about the image, about an immediate emotional response.”Jack Lazare was trying to describe what makes him want to buy a work of photography, and to share it with as many people as possible. If he was having a bit of trouble articulating the criteria, perhaps it’s because it’s not an intellectual thing.
  “I’ve realized lately that I’m guided subconsciously by the Keats poem (Ode on a Grecian Urn) that says, ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,
  
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• McGill student charged with stunt driving vows to fight ‘abusive driving while black’ OPP case

  28-11-2018 22:13 via globalnews.ca
  The Rwandan student denies the charges and said he plans to do whatever he can to make it to his court appearance in Brockville.
  
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• Premier Legault dares Quebecers to embrace change in inaugural speech

  28-11-2018 22:12
  QUEBEC — Premier François Legault has pledged to govern Quebec with “pride and audacity” and dared Quebecers to embrace the kind of change he says Quebec needs.
  And he reached out to English-speaking Quebecers —  in English — inviting them “to define our common future together.”
  In his long-awaited opening speech or inaugural address to the National Assembly delivered Wednesday, Legault tapped into Quebecer’s sense of history and pride,
  
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• Analyze This: Fourth line, Kotkaniemi prove their value to Canadiens

  28-11-2018 21:49
  Though the Canadiens have received a surprising amount of offence from their forwards this season, the fourth line has struggled to provide any sort of worthwhile contribution to the team, either offensively or defensively.
  They were outshot, out-chanced and outscored on a nightly basis. In a league where you hope your bottom trio will tread water, they were clearly drowning in mismatches.
  Simply put, opponents relished the opportunity to face the Canadiens’ fourth line, and with good reas
  
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• Montreal to practice public alert drills across city Thursday

  28-11-2018 21:43 via globalnews.ca
  The city is holding a public alert exercise intended to prepare for a major industrial accident starting at 2 p.m. that will continue for about three minutes.
  
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• Quebec schools to be spared cuts during all 4 years of CAQ government, premier promises

  28-11-2018 21:27 via cbc.ca
  In a speech Wednesday outlining his legislative goals, Premier François Legault said the Coalition Avenir Québec won't make cuts to educations at any point during its four-year term.
  
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• Your weekly Wednesday book selection: Changing with the seasons

  28-11-2018 21:00 via cbc.ca
  This month, CBC book columnist Angus Byers has stories for you that will let you travel vicariously from beneath your duvet.
  
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• Looking for an escape? Here are 6 illustration books to add some colour to your weekend

  28-11-2018 21:00 via cbc.ca
  This month, CBC book columnist Angus Byers has stories for you that will let you travel vicariously from beneath your duvet.
  
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• Montreal couple returns from night out to find dozen strangers partying in their home - CBC.ca

  28-11-2018 20:47
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  Montreal couple returns from night out to find dozen strangers partying in their home
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  Thousands of dollars worth of valuables stolen, apartment trashed by people claiming to be short-term renters. CBC News · Posted: Nov 28, 2018 1:04 PM ET | Last Updated: November 28. Adam Mongrain says the uninvited strangers took food and drinks ...
  
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• Montreal to practice public alert drills across city Thursday - Global News

  28-11-2018 20:43
  Montreal to practice public alert drills across city Thursday  Global NewsThe city is holding a public alert exercise intended to prepare for a major industrial accident starting at 2 p.m. that will continue for about three minutes.
  
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• 2019 city budget: Montreal looking into banning Publisacs

  28-11-2018 20:38
  Montreal will look into the possibility of banning Publisacs — those plastic bags of weekly flyers that often end up in the recycling bin.
  The recommendation was in a report by the city’s finance and administration committee on Montreal’s 2019 budget, which is being debated by city council Wednesday.
  The committee, which submitted its report Tuesday after studying the $5.7-billion budget over two weeks, said the city should “evaluate the environmental and financial costs
  
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• Update: Family suing city, CSDM over 'nightmare' of son's drowning

  28-11-2018 20:33
  The family of Blessing Claudevy Moukoko, the 14-year-old Montreal boy who died after spending 38 minutes underwater, unnoticed, during his school swim class, announced Wednesday they will sue the city of Montreal and the Commission scolaire de Montréal.
  Blessing Moukoko died in February after drowning in a municipal pool in the Rosemont—La-Petite-Patrie borough.
  The boy’s mother, Evelyne Mavoungou-Tsonga, said Wednesday that her family has been in the dark for the past ni
  
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• Exorcist says Céline Dion's 'gender-free' kids' clothing is 'demonic'

  28-11-2018 20:15
  Over the course of her illustrious career, Céline Dion has duetted with Barbara Streisand, Andrea Bocelli, Peabo Bryson, Luciano Pavarotti, Destiny’s Child and Mariah Carey.
  That list of collaborators, one Catholic clergyman says, is missing a name: Satan.
  Monsignor John Esseff, the founder of an institute that trains exorcists and an exorcist himself, told the National Catholic Register that the Québécois icon’s new clothing line for kids has the &ldqu
  
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• Generators blamed for spate of carbon monoxide poisonings as Shawinigan left powerless by storm

  28-11-2018 20:02 via cbc.ca
  Since Tuesday, 45 centimetres of snow have fallen on ​Shawinigan. Some residents have been without power for more than 24 hours.
  
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• Martin Patriquin: A nationalist double standard on minority rights

  28-11-2018 20:01
  Many of the Journal de Montréal’s columnists have been falling over each other to denounce Doug Ford. Ontario’s 26th premier, you’ll recall, announced a couple weeks ago that he was cutting the province’s French-language services commissioner and shelving plans to build a francophone university. While the move came in for sharp criticism in pretty much all Quebec newspapers, the flurry of spit-inflected invective in the Frontenac Street tabloid was on a level
  
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• New Canadian surrogate rules: What’s being proposed?

  28-11-2018 19:39 via globalnews.ca
  Should women be allowed to be paid to carry someone else's baby?
  
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• Opinion: Transport Canada has done much to improve rail safety

  28-11-2018 19:37
  Bruce Campbell (“Lac-Mégantic lessons remain unlearned” Opinion, Nov. 28) suggests that the rail safety improvements that have been made since the July 6, 2013 tragedy “are modest at best.” I would like to outline all of the ways in which meaningful progress has been made by the government of Canada to improve rail safety and the transportation of dangerous goods. 
  Transport Canada has taken significant actions to further improve the safety of transporting dan
  
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• Amanda Simard says government ‘backtracking’ on Francophone issues not enough

  28-11-2018 19:36 via globalnews.ca
  Amanda Simard, a rookie legislator who represents a largely Franco-Ontarian riding, backed what she called an "important" Opposition motion that aimed to revive the university project and the commissioner's office, saying the province's "partial backtracking" on the issue wasn't enough.
  
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• Montreal couple returns from night out to find dozen strangers partying in their home - CBC News

  28-11-2018 19:04
  Montreal couple returns from night out to find dozen strangers partying in their home  CBC NewsA Montreal couple returned home after a recent evening out to discover their apartment filled with strangers having a party — drinking their alcohol, eating their ...
  
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• Montreal couple returns from night out to find dozen strangers partying in their home

  28-11-2018 19:04 via cbc.ca
  A Montreal couple returned home after a recent evening out to discover their apartment filled with strangers having a party — drinking their alcohol, eating their food, trashing their place and taking their stuff.
  
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• Montreal couple returns from night out to find a dozen strangers partying in their home

  28-11-2018 19:04 via cbc.ca
  A Montreal couple returned home after a recent evening out to discover their apartment filled with strangers having a party — drinking their alcohol, eating their food, trashing their place and taking their stuff.
  
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• Beyond the Plate: Le Bremner's Danny Smiles dreams his way to the top

  28-11-2018 18:56
  This is the eighth instalment in the monthly series Beyond the Plate, looking at the motivations and passions of local chefs. This month: Danny Smiles.
  Congratulations!Today is your day.You’re off to Great Places!You’re off and away!— Dr. Seuss; Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
  Danny Smiles was born Daniele Francis in May 1985, to immigrant parents: his father hailed from Egypt, his mother from Italy. Growing up in Anjou with two older sisters and a younger brother, “
  
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• Family of Montreal teen who drowned plans to sue school board, city

  28-11-2018 18:40 via globalnews.ca
  The family announced they also intend to start a foundation in Blessing's name.
  
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• Factory sirens will wail in Montreal-wide drill Thursday afternoon

  28-11-2018 18:35
  Sirens at nine factories across the island of Montreal will be activated for three minutes at 2 p.m. Thursday as part of a civil protection drill.
  The siren warnings are to take place in the event of a toxic leak at one of the plants, and civil protection authorities stress that in the event of a real emergency, anyone within earshot of those sirens is to get indoors as quickly as possible and close all doors and windows.
  The sirens that will sound on Thursday are at food processing plants in Ri
  
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• Royalmount mega-mall public consultation centres on hot topic — will it bring more traffic?

  28-11-2018 18:00 via cbc.ca
  The developer says the traffic concerns are overblown, but the city has found drivers can expect an extra 20 to 30 minutes of traffic on some highways.
  
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• Here are the most expensive — and cheapest — cities to rent in Canada

  28-11-2018 17:22 via globalnews.ca
  Rents are rising faster than inflation, as the vacancy rate dips to a near 10-year low, new CMHC report says.
  
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• Snow removal truck collision kills pedestrian in Laval

  28-11-2018 17:10 via globalnews.ca
  Laval police have not identified the victim but said she was an employee at the gas station who had started her shift just 45 minutes earlier.
  
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• Family of Montreal boy who drowned in swim class plans to sue - CTV News

  28-11-2018 17:07
  Family of Montreal boy who drowned in swim class plans to sue  CTV NewsThe family of a Montreal teen who drowned during a high school gym class say they intend to sue the school board and the city alleging negligence.
  
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• 'I can barely believe it,' says mother of Montreal teen who drowned during swim class

  28-11-2018 16:56 via cbc.ca
  The family of Blessing Moukoko, who drowned during his high school swimming class, is taking legal action. A coroner's report revealed the teen was likely at the bottom of the pool for almost 40 minutes.
  
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• Family of Montreal teen who drowned during swim class to sue city, school board

  28-11-2018 16:56 via cbc.ca
  The family of a Blessing Moukoko, who drowned during his high school swimming class, is taking legal action. A coroner's report revealed the teen was likely at the bottom of the pool for almost 40 minutes.
  
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• Boil water advisory issued for Chambly

  28-11-2018 16:48
  A boil water advisory has been issued for the entirety of the municipality of Chambly.
  The city made the announcement Wednesday, saying the advisory is necessary because of repair work on its water distribution network.
  Citizens are advised to boil their tap water for at least a minute or use bottled water until further notice.
  Schools, businesses and stores and city buildings must advise personnel and clients that their tap water is not drinkable and provide drinking water.
  City authorities are
  
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• Devastated family will sue city of Montreal, CSDM over son's drowning - Montreal Gazette

  28-11-2018 16:45
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  Devastated family will sue city of Montreal, CSDM over son's drowning
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  ... Claudevy Moukoko, the 14-year-old Montreal boy who died after spending 38 minutes underwater, unnoticed, during his school swim class, announced Wednesday they intend to sue city of Montreal and the Commission scolaire de Montréal for negligence.
  Family of Montreal teen who drowned during swim class to sue city, school boardCBC.ca
  Family of Montreal boy who drowned in swim class pl
  
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• Update: Family of teen who drowned during swim class to sue Montreal, CSDM

  28-11-2018 16:44
  The family of Blessing Claudevy Moukoko, the 14-year-old Montreal boy who died after spending 38 minutes under water, unnoticed, at his school swim class, announced Wednesday they will sue the city of Montreal and the Commission scolaire de Montréal .
  Lawyer Jean-Pierre Ménard said the family of the boy will respond to a coroner’s report released Tuesday detailing the events at a municipal pool in Rosemont on the morning of Feb. 15.
  No criminal charges have been laid in
  
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• Looking at the Montreal Canadiens and their five-game slump - A Winning Habit

  28-11-2018 16:29
  A Winning Habit
  Looking at the Montreal Canadiens and their five-game slump
  A Winning Habit
  The Montreal Canadiens are knee-deep in their season trough as they've lost their last five games putting their early obtained playoff spot in jeopardy. It can't always be sunshine and rainbows in the NHL. The Montreal Canadiens responded well from a ...
  The Montreal Canadiens need to continue playing like they did vs. CarolinaHabs Eyes on the Prize (blog)
  Call of the Wilde: Montreal Canadiens lose
  
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• Vote Now for Montreal's Most Beautiful Restaurant of the Year - Eater Montreal

  28-11-2018 16:18
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  Vote Now for Montreal's Most Beautiful Restaurant of the Year
  Eater Montreal
  Welcome to day three of the 9th annual Eater Awards, honouring the most esteemed restaurants, bars, chefs, and more in cities across the world. Here's how the Eater Awards work: All 24 Eater cities and the national site will award prizes in multiple ...and more »
  
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• Don't be alarmed: Quebec to test emergency alert system at 2:55 p.m. Wednesday

  28-11-2018 15:51
  Quebec’s Public Security Ministry will test the “Québec En Alerte” emergency warning system — part of the national emergency alert network — at 2:55 p.m. Wednesday.
  Users of cellphones that are part of an LTE network, radio and television broadcasts as well as the public security ministry’s website and social media accounts will all broadcast the alerts. Broadcast outlets serving an English-speaking audience will transmit the alert message in Engli
  
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• Finding the positive side of your nightmares

  28-11-2018 15:45 via globalnews.ca
  Have you ever wondered about what your nightmares mean? Dream analyst Layne Dalfen joins Global’s Laura Casella to dig into those bad dreams and pull out the positive.
  
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