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• Alan Shepard will step down as Concordia's president in 2019

  29-11-2018 23:57
  Alan Shepard has announced he will step down as president and vice-chancellor of Concordia University in June 2019 to accept a position as president of Western University.
  “It is with mixed emotions that I announce that I have accepted the presidency of Western University,” Shepard wrote in an open letter to Concordia students and faculty that was posted on the university’s website on Thursday.
  “Our achievements together are reflected in many ways — our record
  
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• TV listings: Personalize your program guide here

  29-11-2018 23:43
  Wondering what’s on the tube tonight?
  How about which hockey games will be broadcast next week or when a certain show will be broadcast?
  Perhaps you are still subscribing to a print TV guide, such as the one offered by the Montreal Gazette on Saturdays, and complement it by searching the channel guide offered by your service provider.
  Or perhaps, like many, you rely solely on the service provider’s guide.
  There’s a faster and simpler option: the TV listings service availab
  
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• Quebec education minister says plan to abolish school boards will respect constitutional minority rights

  29-11-2018 23:38 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's education minister says he isn't afraid of a legal battle over school boards.
  
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• Quebec's high school history books should be taken out of classrooms, independent review says

  29-11-2018 23:31 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's high school history textbooks fail to adequately tell the story of the province's minorities and Indigenous population, according to an independent review commissioned by the English Montreal School Board.
  
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• EMSB commissioners unite to fight pending legislation on religious neutrality

  29-11-2018 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  The council is building a united front to fight the Quebec government's plans to ban religious symbols for all state employees in positions of power, including teachers.
  
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• Quebec pulls video that may contravene cannabis advertising law

  29-11-2018 23:21
  Quebec’s cannabis retailer on Thursday pulled the plug at least temporarily on a video that may contravene a provincial law by advertising the positive effects of marijuana to the general public.
  The video — played on a continuous loop on screens in the lobby of all 12 Société québécoise du cannabis stores across the province but visible to anybody walking by — used words such as calming, relaxing, energizing and euphoria-inducing to descri
  
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• Allison Hanes: The war on cars is the war on climate change

  29-11-2018 23:13
  First we’re given a name for the helplessness and hopelessness many of us are feeling over climate change (it’s called ecological grief, FYI). Now we’re given even more reason to feel helpless and hopeless.
  Quebec released its official greenhouse gas inventory for 2016 Thursday, and the news certainly made it seem like we’re fighting a losing battle. The report card on our emissions confirmed what Coalition Avenir Québec Premier François Legault has been hin
  
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• Adonis Stevenson aims to retain his boxing title with 'one punch'

  29-11-2018 22:42
  QUEBEC — Blainville boxer Adonis (Superman) Stevenson says he needs “just one punch” to defeat Oleksandr Gvozdyk, while the Ukrainian believes playing the long game will lead him to victory.
  The two will fight for the WBC light heavyweight championship Saturday at the Videotron Centre in Quebec City. Stevenson comes into the fight as the champion, while Gvozdyk is the interim champion and the mandatory challenger for the title.
  Stevenson (29-1-1, 24 KOs), knows Gvozdyk (15-0, 1
  
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• Quebec sending military plane to Magdalen Islands as winter storm knocks out phone service and power

  29-11-2018 22:37 via cbc.ca
  Winds reaching up to 130 km/hr gusted overnight, knocking down telephone and power lines in the archipelago. The islands' airport is also closed.
  
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• Magdalen Islands lose power, phone service as winter storm hits region

  29-11-2018 22:37 via cbc.ca
  Winds reaching up to 130 km/hr gusted overnight, knocking down telephone and power lines in the archipelago. The islands' airport is also closed.
  
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• Internet, cellular service restored to Magdalen Islands

  29-11-2018 22:37 via cbc.ca
  Internet and cellular service have been restored to the Magdalen Islands after a severe windstorm knocked out communications early Thursday morning.
  
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• Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques pumped for lengthy space mission

  29-11-2018 22:36
  David Saint-Jacques is currently in quarantine in the Kazakhstan outpost of Baikonur. On the surface, that might not sound like the most exhilarating of experiences.
  But that will change Monday, when the Canadian Space Agency astronaut leaves the Earth’s surface, lifting off in a Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan and heading for a six-month scientific fact-finding mission aboard the International Space Station. He’s been training the last two years for this mission.
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• Canadiens Notebook: Victor Mete sent down to AHL's Laval Rocket

  29-11-2018 22:01
  Victor Mete has never played a game in the AHL, but that’s about to change.
  The Canadiens announced after practice Thursday at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard that Mete has been assigned to the AHL’s Laval Rocket. Last season, Mete went directly from the junior London Knights to the NHL, making the Canadiens as a 19-year-old. But the 5-foot-9, 183-pounder has struggled at times during his second season, posting 0-4-4 totals and a plus-5 in 23 games while averaging 15:10 of ice ti
  
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• Restaurant review: Impasto remains an authentic Italian powerhouse

  29-11-2018 22:00
  Impasto
  ★★★ out of ★★★★
  $$$
  Address: 48 Dante St. (Near St-Dominique St.)
  Phone: 514-508-6508
  Website: impastomtl.ca
  Open: Lunch Thurs.-Fri. 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; dinner Tues.-Sat. 5 to 11 p.m.
  Reservations: Essential
  Wheelchair access: No
  Cards: All major
  Vegetarian-friendly: Yes
  Parking: On the street with meters; difficult on busy nights
  Price range: Starters $9-$19; pastas $19-$28; main courses $33-$36; desserts $8-$12; four-course tasting
  
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• City of Montreal, community groups team up to help homeless in winter

  29-11-2018 22:00
  The city of Montreal and the provincial health authority for the Centre-Sud district on Thursday unveiled the measures in place this winter to protect local homeless from the cold.
  In total, Montreal will have 957 spots available for emergency accommodation to shelter men, woman and children who are homeless — 32 beds more than last year.
  There will be beds available for 752 men at the Maison du Père, Mission Bon Accueil, the Old Brewery Mission, Projets autochtones du Québec
  
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• Quebec high school history texts ‘fundamentally flawed and must be withdrawn’: EMSB report

  29-11-2018 21:57 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec high school history textbooks are "fundamentally flawed" and should be removed from all schools across Quebec, an expert committee formed by the province's largest English school board has concluded.
  
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• Quebec First Nations take control of youth protection

  29-11-2018 21:41
  Constant Awashish says it often felt like the provincial agency charged with protecting kids on Atikamekw territory did more harm than good.
  The grand chief paints a dire picture: parents and children being separated, cases inevitably ending up in court and kids wasting away in the foster care system. Nothing seemed to change, the caseload never lightened.
  And so, 18 years ago, the Atikamekw First Nation banded together and came up with a solution.
  They would partner with the Quebec government a
  
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• MUHC bribery scandal: Ex-SNC-Lavalin CEO heads to trial in February

  29-11-2018 21:40
  The last remaining person to be tried in connection with the MUHC superhospital bribery scandal, Pierre Duhaime, will head to trial in early February, it was decided Thursday.
  Duhaime, 64, was SNC-Lavalin’s CEO when key decisions were made in the project. His trial had been scheduled to begin in January but will now start on Feb. 4. It’s expected to last at least four months.
  First arrested in November 2012, Duhaime faces charges of fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud an
  
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• Air Canada cancels Hamilton-Montreal route as business passengers lag

  29-11-2018 21:29 via globalnews.ca
  Air Canada is cancelling its Hamilton-Montreal route amid sluggish sales from business travellers.
  
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• Quebec's public nursing homes a disgrace, ombudsman says

  29-11-2018 21:18
  QUEBEC — The way some people are treated in Quebec’s public nursing homes “is tantamount to maltreatment,” says the province’s ombudsman.
  In a blistering report tabled Thursday in the National Assembly, Marie Rinfret says “deficient and flawed” services  for the elderly or persons living with disabilities in long-term care homes were again the main source of complaints to her office in 2017-’18.
  Owing to chronic shortages, the staff working on
  
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• Ottawa Redblacks defensive back Antoine Pruneau inks 3-year extension

  29-11-2018 21:06 via globalnews.ca
  Pruneau was picked fourth overall in the 2014 CFL draft after two all-Canadian U Sports seasons at Montreal.
  
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• Montreal police search for missing 15-year-old girl

  29-11-2018 20:55 via cbc.ca
  Elsa Gabrielle Lalanne has been missing since Nov. 23.
  
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• Montreal police looking for 15-year-old girl last seen in Ahuntsic–Cartierville

  29-11-2018 20:55 via cbc.ca
  Elsa Gabrielle Lalanne has been missing since Nov. 23.
  
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• Saint-Laurent aerospace workers frustrated with spotty 174 bus service

  29-11-2018 20:36 via globalnews.ca
  Aerospace workers are fed up with what they call frequent spotty service on the 174 bus line.
  
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• Air Canada cancels Hamilton-Montreal route as business passengers lag - Global News

  29-11-2018 20:29
  Air Canada cancels Hamilton-Montreal route as business passengers lag  Global NewsAir Canada is cancelling its Hamilton-Montreal route amid sluggish sales from business travellers, announcing the move in a newspaper ad just one month after ...
  
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• Montreal firefighters short on toys for this year's Christmas baskets - CBC.ca

  29-11-2018 20:24
  Montreal firefighters short on toys for this year's Christmas baskets  CBC.caMontreal's firefighters are looking for toys to fill the 1,350 holiday baskets they plan to give out this year. They're currently short enough toys for about 200 ...
  
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• Montreal firefighters short on toys for this year's Christmas baskets

  29-11-2018 20:24 via cbc.ca
  The Montreal Firefighters Association will be looking for donations for the next week-and-a-half. Those looking to give can drop off toys at any Montreal fire station or at the association's office at 2655 Place Chassé.
  
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• Man hitches a ride to Quebec City on the back of a transport truck

  29-11-2018 19:34 via cbc.ca
  The truck driver told Radio-Canada he had no idea the man was there until he was alerted to the situation — more than a hundred kilometres from the rest stop where the man hopped on.
  
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• Full contact with Olivier ‘The Canadian Gangster’ Aubin-Mercier ahead of UFC 231

  29-11-2018 19:10 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal MMA fighter Oliver Aubin-Mercier discusses everything from slingshot hunting to podcast hosting ahead of his lightweight bout at UFC 231.
  
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• Full contact with Olivier ‘Canadian Gangster’ Aubin-Mercier ahead of UFC 231

  29-11-2018 19:10 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal MMA fighter Oliver Aubin-Mercier discusses everything from slingshot hunting to podcast hosting ahead of his lightweight bout at UFC 231.
  
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• Olivier Aubin-Mercier recounts hunting experience

  29-11-2018 19:02 via globalnews.ca
  UFC lightweight Olivier Aubin-Mercier shares poetic and funny quail hunting experience.
  
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• Full-contact with Olivier Aubin-Mercier

  29-11-2018 18:52 via globalnews.ca
  Get to know mixed martial artist Oliver Aubin-Mercier as he discusses life as a UFC fighter ahead of his bout with Gilbert Burns at UFC 231 in Toronto.
  
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• Light-rail network to replace Montreal's 747 shuttle bus to airport, STM says

  29-11-2018 18:45 via cbc.ca
  The shuttle bus that runs between downtown Montreal and the Trudeau Airport will stop running for most of the day once the city’s new light-rail network begins operations at the end of 2023.
  
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• Former Saint-Hyacinthe teacher arrested in connection with sexual assaults

  29-11-2018 18:31
  The major crimes division of the Sûreté du Québec has arrested a former Saint-Hyacinthe resident in connection with a series of sexual assaults committed nearly four decades ago.
  Gilles Robineau, 68, was arrested at his current residence in the Mauricie region on Wednesday and is expected to appear in court in Saint-Hyacinthe on Thursday.
  Police allege that between 1979 and 1981 Robineau, then a teacher in Saint-Hyacinthe, committed sexual assaults on minor girls.
  He is
  
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• MUHC bribery scandal: Former SNC-Lavalin CEO heads to trial in February

  29-11-2018 18:22
  One of the last remaining court cases linked to the MUHC superhospital bribery scandal will head to trial in early February, it was decided Thursday.
  The trial of Pierre Duhaime, SNC-Lavalin’s CEO when key decisions were made in the project, will begin Feb. 4 and is expected to last at least four months.
  Duhaime, 64, was initially scheduled to go to trial on Jan. 8. First arrested in November 2012, he faces charges of fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and using forged documents.
  During a c
  
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• A bath a week, maybe, remains a reality for some Quebec seniors: report

  29-11-2018 18:09
  In certain long-term-care facilities, called CHSLDs in Quebec, getting a bath once a week is asking for too much, according to the Quebec ombudsman’s report for 2017-18.
  The report, made public Thursday, says that lack of staff in CHSLDs is at crisis proportions, so much so that it is occasionally impossible to maintain the basic hygiene of residents, a clientele that includes seniors, the disabled and some of the most vulnerable in Quebec society.
  And ombudsman Marie Rinfret notes that by
  
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• Quebec consumer group cautions against buying smart toys this holiday season

  29-11-2018 18:04 via cbc.ca
  Smart toys are interactive. They move on command, can recognize faces and perform a variety of tasks that can capture the imagination of children. But all those special special features come with a privacy risk, says Option consommateurs.
  
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• It looks like greenhouse gas reduction targets are out of Quebec's reach

  29-11-2018 17:27
  Quebec seems on course to miss reaching its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), which have dropped by just 9.1 per cent between 1990 and 2016 despite a goal of 20 per cent by 2020.
  The provincial Environment Ministry on Thursday published an inventory of GGE levels and sources. None of its data were very encouraging considering the objectives of Quebec’s climate change plan for 2013-2020.
  The waste, industrial and residential and commercial heating sectors have all managed
  
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• CAQ’s Bill 1: Heads of UPAC and SQ to be chosen by National Assembly

  29-11-2018 17:23
  QUEBEC — The Coalition Avenir Québec government has tabled legislation giving the power to name heads of key agencies, including the anti-corruption commissioner and the provincial police to politicians.
  Acting on a key election promise, Public Security Minister Geneviève Guilbault Thursday tabled Bill 1, the CAQ’s first piece of legislation since winning the election, in the National Assembly.
  The bill amends the mode of appointment and dismissal of the anti-corruption
  
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• Five things to do in Montreal this weekend, Nov. 30-Dec. 2

  29-11-2018 17:00
  Story Untold & Selfish Things
  Montreal-based pop-rock quintet Story Untold‘s tour with Selfish Things makes a hometown stop at Le Ministère on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30). It’s Story Untold’s final gig in the city this year. Also performing: Hometown Lights.Image + Nation
  The 31st edition of this LGBTQ film festival continues until Sunday. In his preview of the fest, the Gazette’s T’Cha Dunlevy points to Eva + Candela (Como T
  
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• Quebec, Ontario pushed hate crimes to all-time high in 2017, Statistics Canada says

  29-11-2018 16:47 via cbc.ca
  The number of police-reported hate crimes reached an all-time high in 2017, largely driven by incidents targeting Muslim, Jewish and black people, according to newly released Statistics Canada data.
  
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• Canadiens’ ability to finish needs more polish | HI/O Show

  29-11-2018 16:34
  On this week’s show, our panelists — Gazette columnist Stu Cowan, CBC Daybreak’s Jessica Rusnak, Dan Robertson of TSN 690 and host Adam Susser — take a look at the Habs’ recent struggle to score goals and the return of team captain Shea Weber.
  Also discussed:Karl Alzner’s demotion was a strategic move
  Michael Chaput jumps Matthew Peca on depth chart
  Reaching the post-season will be a battle
  Mike Reilly, Victor Mete fit best with Shea WeberRelated
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• After months of controversy, Quebec Human Rights Commission boss resigns

  29-11-2018 16:33
  After months of controversy, Tamara Thermitus, president of the Quebec Human Rights Commission, has resigned, the Presse Canadienne has learned.
  Named to the position by the National Assembly, Thermitus made headlines after her management style came under fire from those working in the commission. She had been off work since October and submitted her resignation on Thursday.
  The provincial ombudsman opened an investigation into allegations of poor management and abuse of power on the part o
  
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• Each irregular migrant costs the Canadian government between $10K and $34K: PBO

  29-11-2018 16:28 via globalnews.ca
  The total federal cost for irregular migrants who arrived last year will be $340 million by the time their cases are closed.
  
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• Striking SAQ employees gather in Quebec City

  29-11-2018 16:08 via globalnews.ca
  It's the fourth day of strikes this November for SAQ employees.
  
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• Netflix hikes subscription prices in Canada

  29-11-2018 16:08 via cbc.ca
  Netflix, the company behind Narcos and Orange Is the New Black, is introducing its biggest price increase yet for both new subscribers and current members in Canada.
  
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• Vote for Montreal’s Casual Restaurant of the Year in the 2018 Eater Awards - Eater Montreal

  29-11-2018 16:00
  Vote for Montreal’s Casual Restaurant of the Year in the 2018 Eater Awards  Eater MontrealWhich restaurant stood out as a neighbourhood favourite, or for a quick meal?
  
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• Montreal factories will test their emergency sirens this afternoon - CBC.ca

  29-11-2018 15:37
  Montreal factories will test their emergency sirens this afternoon  CBC.caResidents of 12 boroughs and four demerged cities will hear sirens for about three minutes during the test.
  
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• Montreal factories will test their emergency sirens this afternoon

  29-11-2018 15:37 via cbc.ca
  Residents of 12 boroughs and four demerged cities will hear sirens for about three minutes during the test.
  
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• Montreal Canadiens host annual blood drive at Bell Centre

  29-11-2018 15:15 via globalnews.ca
  The Montreal Canadiens are hosting their 37th annual blood drive.
  
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