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• David Saint-Jacques on life in space

  10-12-2018 23:47 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Dec 10: Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques says he’s slowly adjusting to life in space, since taking off for the International Space Agency last week. Global’s Phil Carpenter explains.
  
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• Montreal using scare tactics to manage coyotes

  10-12-2018 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Dec 10: Following a series of coyote sightings and attacks, the City of Montreal has announced a series of measures aimed at scaring the animals away. As Global’s Anne Leclair explains, the plan is to make the animals fear human interaction.
  
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• #ICYMI: Hydro sabotage sentence, coyotes, more news

  10-12-2018 23:30
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  Normand Dubé, the man who was convicted this year of sabotaging a large section of Hydro-Québec’s power grid, was sentenced on Monday to a seven-year prison term.
  Paul Cherry files this report: Pilot gets 7 years in prison for attacking Hydro-Québec network
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  Following a growing number of coyote sightings and a series of attacks on small children last summer, Montrea
  
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• Global News at 5:30: Dec 10

  10-12-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  The Monday, December 10, 2018 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
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• Montreal Impact protect 11 players ahead of MLS expansion draft

  10-12-2018 23:08
  The Montreal Impact released the team’s list of 11 protected players on Monday in preparation for the Major League Soccer expansion draft on Tuesday.
  The Impact protected goalkeeper Evan Bush, defenders Victor Cabrera, Daniel Lovitz and Jukka Raitala, midfielders Ken Krolicki, Ignacio Piatti, Samuel Piette, Alejandro Silva, Saphir Taïder and Jeisson Vargas, and forward Maximiliano Urruti, who was acquired in a trade Sunday with FC Dallas.
  FC Cincinnati, which will begin MLS play
  
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• Montreal Impact protect 11 players ahead of MLS expansion draft - Montreal Gazette

  10-12-2018 23:07
  Montreal Impact protect 11 players ahead of MLS expansion draft  Montreal GazetteThe Montreal Impact released the team's list of 11 protected players on Monday in preparation for the MLS expansion draft on Tuesday.
  
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• Allison Hanes: Are we ready to compete with robots?

  10-12-2018 23:04
  Are the robots coming for our jobs? Will our kids be competing with computers in the labour market of the future?
  These questions are front of mind around the world at the moment, particularly so in Montreal.
  The global economy is in the throes of a major transformation dubbed the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With the rise of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, more and more jobs will disappear or be radically altered as automation increasingly replaces human workers. The road-testing
  
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• Canadian Government to invest $6.3 million in Montreal AI companies - MobileSyrup

  10-12-2018 22:52
  Canadian Government to invest $6.3 million in Montreal AI companies  MobileSyrupThe Canadian government says it has plans to invest $6.3 million CAD into six artificial intelligence (AI) related businesses in the greater Montreal, Quebec area.
  
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• Controversial nativity scene shocks at St. Joseph’s Oratory

  10-12-2018 22:27 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal's St. Joseph's Oratory's nativity scene, complete with baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, is taking centre stage.
  
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• Fantasy NHL - A pair of Montreal Canadiens are among week's best waiver adds - Line changes - ESPN

  10-12-2018 22:26
  Fantasy NHL - A pair of Montreal Canadiens are among week's best waiver adds - Line changes  ESPNSearching for some waiver adds for your fantasy hockey roster? Victoria Matiash lists the best players still available in the majority of ESPN leagues.
  
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• Opinion: Single-use coffee cups are a blight. Let's emulate Freiburg

  10-12-2018 21:39
  Every week, an estimated 4 million single-use coffee cups are thrown into the trash in the greater Montreal area. Most of these are made of paper layered with a thin plastic coating, or are made of polystyrene foam, and are neither recyclable nor compostable.
  How should Montreal aim to reduce the environmental impact caused by the annual production of 2,200 tons of cups that, after a 12-minute use (the average life of a hot beverage to-go cup), will be buried in landfills forever?
  An obvious sug
  
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• What the Puck: Canadiens reaching playoffs might not be a good omen

  10-12-2018 21:32
  I have some bad news for you today. The Montreal Canadiens are going to make the playoffs.
  Of course I’m partly trying to get a rise out of you, but there’s also some truth to the notion that there is, in fact, a downside to the Habs squeezing into the NHL post-season this year. As of Monday morning, our heroes have a pretty solid grip on the second and last wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. Montreal has 35 points, a full four points ahead of their closest rival, the New York
  
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• Lise Ravary: To be or not to be French Canadian

  10-12-2018 21:12
  For the first decade of my life, I called myself a French Canadian, une Canadienne-française. I’m a direct descendant of a French soldier from the Languedoc regiment, François Ravary dit Francoeur, who came to Nouvelle France in 1756. He stayed on after the defeat on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and married Catherine Marot Laboursaudière in 1761. They had 11 children.
  In 1763, the Treaty of Paris between France and Britain made New France the British colony of Ca
  
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• Montreal to focus on coexistence with urban coyotes

  10-12-2018 21:03 via cbc.ca
  The city's plan includes public education, teaching the animals to fear humans and euthanizing aggressive canines.
  
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• Montreal draws up 'hazing' campaign to make coyotes fear humans again - CBC.ca

  10-12-2018 21:03
  Montreal draws up 'hazing' campaign to make coyotes fear humans again  CBC.caMontreal is hiring a team of specialists to roam around the city and scare coyotes in an effort to train the wild animals to fear humans. Calling it a "hazing ...
  
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• Montreal draws up 'hazing' campaign to make coyotes fear humans again

  10-12-2018 21:03 via cbc.ca
  The city's plan also includes public education and euthanizing aggressive canines.
  
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• Update: Montreal to deploy scare teams to deal with urban coyotes

  10-12-2018 20:52
  Following a growing number of coyote sightings and a series of attacks on small children last summer, Montreal will dispatch teams to try to scare the animals away from problem areas, increase information campaigns for residents and trap and euthanize animals that have become aggressive.
  It will also involve training the population on how to react when they see a coyote, screaming and waving to scare the animals away so they don’t get comfortable in the company of humans.
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• Pilot sentenced to 7 years for causing major power outage in southern Quebec

  10-12-2018 20:35 via cbc.ca
  Normand Dubé, 56, was found guilty of three counts of mischief after damaging high-voltage lines that carried power from James Bay to the Montreal region in December 2014.
  
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• David St-Jacques overwhelmed with first glimpses of planet earth

  10-12-2018 19:42 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal astronaut still learning to deal with microgravity after one week on the International Space Station.
  
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• French school board may borrow Pearson classrooms to relieve overcrowding

  10-12-2018 19:32
  With about 50 new students enrolling in Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys schools each week, the board is in talks with the education ministry to find solutions to ease its overcrowding problems.
  One of the options being considered is to place students in buildings belonging to the Lester B. Pearson school board on the West Island, the Montreal Gazette has learned.
  The French board’s high schools are so crowded that 60 new immigrants are receiving French instruction starting at
  
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• Quebec premier doesn't understand Alberta's energy industry: Ceci

  10-12-2018 18:52 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's resistance to a pipeline carrying western Canadian oil across its territory shows the provincial premier's lack of understanding about the Alberta energy industry, the Albertan finance minister says.
  
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• Legault doesn't understand Alberta's energy industry, Alberta's finance minister says

  10-12-2018 18:52 via cbc.ca
  Alberta's finance minister says Quebec's resistance to a pipeline carrying western Canadian oil across its territory shows a lack of understanding about the energy industry in the Prairie province.
  
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• Quebec premier doesn’t understand energy industry, Alberta finance minister says

  10-12-2018 18:17 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta's finance minister says Quebec's resistance to a pipeline carrying western Canadian oil across its territory shows the provincial premier's lack of understanding.
  
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• Latte levy: Why Montreal coffee shops may charge for disposable cups - CTV News

  10-12-2018 18:09
  Latte levy: Why Montreal coffee shops may charge for disposable cups  CTV NewsSome coffee shops in Montreal could soon start charging 25 cent for disposable coffee cups in a bid to encourage more customers to bring their own reusable ...
  
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• Heavy MTL — featuring Slayer — returns to Parc Jean-Drapeau in July

  10-12-2018 17:11
  Heavy MTL will return to Parc Jean Drapeau July 27-28, the metal festival announced on Monday.
  And while the full lineup is expected to be announced by May or June, organizers said Monday that next summer’s edition will be headlined by Slayer in what is being described as their last show ever in Quebec.
  A selection of passes go on sale Dec. 10 and details on those and other ticket prices can be obtained at the festival’s website.
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• Montreal poised to release coyote action plan after children attacked

  10-12-2018 16:54
  After a series of attacks on small children last summer and a growing number of reported sightings in the city, Montreal is announcing an action plan to tackle its coyote problem today at 2 p.m.
  The city started installing bait and cameras in Ahuntsic–Cartierville and Villeray—St-Michel–Parc-Extension to study the animals’ habits. Patrols were set up to scare the animals away after three young children were bitten last summer in the space of a week. A three-year-old girl
  
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• Young: Public music, personal triumph at Wyman’s 20th Christmas concert

  10-12-2018 16:39
  On Sunday, Wanda Kaluzny, director of the Wyman Memorial United Church choir in Hudson, will take her place at Wyman’s historic pipe organ and strike that first chord, signaling the choir to begin their procession up the centre aisle to launch this season’s annual Christmas concert. She will also be marking a personal triumph of her own.
  Wanda will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of her first Christmas concert at Wyman.
  Before coming to Hudson, she had been both a church organist
  
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• Pilot who targeted Hydro-Quebec transmission lines gets 7-year sentence

  10-12-2018 16:39 via globalnews.ca
  A Quebec man who targeted Hydro-Quebec power lines in an aerial attack has been sentenced.
  
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• It is urgent that we find this missing woman, Laval police say

  10-12-2018 16:36
  Laval police have turned to the public for help in finding Emine Caglayan, 22, who disappeared Sunday morning after calling 911 and making statements police say give them reason to fear for her safety.
  At about 10:15 a.m. Sunday, Caglayan’s car was found in Pierrefonds, and police say it is urgent that she be located.
  Caglayan speaks French, stands five-feet-ten-inches tall and weighs about 170 pounds. She has brown hair and eyes and tattoos on her right arm and on her left forearm.
  Anyone
  
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• 'That first sight, that first sunrise, I will never forget,' Canada's newest astronaut says

  10-12-2018 16:00 via cbc.ca
  David Saint-Jacques, Canada's newest astronaut, gives reporters his first account of being above the International Space Station, saying it has been a bit of an adjustment but there have been moments he will "never forget."
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: Schnitzel with anchovies, horseradish and capers

  10-12-2018 16:00
  Danish cuisine is ideal for cooler weather, thanks to its down-home ingredients and lusty seasonings. Bestselling Danish food writer Trine Hahnemann’s new cookbook, Copenhagen Food, shows off her cuisine in style. It is a beauty, and doubles as a travelogue to whet readers’ appetites for touring and feasting in this attractive northern city. There’s plenty of pork and fish; lively use of cabbage, brussels sprouts, cucumbers and pickles; tempting sandwiches on the Danes’ f
  
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• On space station, David Saint-Jacques takes questions from media

  10-12-2018 16:00 via cbc.ca
  David Saint-Jacques, Canada's newest astronaut, is speaking with the media from the International Space Station at 10 a.m. ET today.
  
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• Pilot gets 7 years in prison for attacking Hydro-Québec network

  10-12-2018 15:57
  Normand Dubé, the man who was convicted this year of sabotaging a large section of Hydro-Québec’s power grid, has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
  Dubé received the sentence Monday morning in a decision delivered by Quebec Court Judge Paul Chevalier. On Sept. 13, Chevalier found Dubé, the owner of an aviation company in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines and the designer of a small aircraft, guilty on three counts of mischief in three municipalities: Mirabel, Bro
  
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• Make your child’s art last forever

  10-12-2018 15:38 via globalnews.ca
  Do you have pile of children’s artwork cluttering your house but can’t bear to throw it out? Founder of The Picture Project joins Laura Casella to show you how you can keep your child’s art while decluttering.
  
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• Healthy baking hacks for the holidays

  10-12-2018 15:35 via globalnews.ca
  Looking to make your holiday cookies a little healthier? Registered dietitian Sylvia Meo joins Global’s Laura Casella to show you how to make healthy baking swaps and add-ins using ingredients like avocado, dried fruits and maple syrup.
  
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• Ways to take the stress out of holiday travel

  10-12-2018 15:30 via globalnews.ca
  Escaping the cold this holiday? From getting through security faster to saving money on your trip, travel expert Jennifer Weatherhead Harrington joins Kim Sullivan with travel tips to make your trip a breeze.
  
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• UFC 231 Recap

  10-12-2018 15:13 via globalnews.ca
  A team of Global Montreal video journalists covered the UFC action this weekend in Toronto. To break it down Global’s MMA analyst Matt Consalvo joins Laura Casella with your UFC 231 recap.
  
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• The Career of a Translator

  10-12-2018 15:13 via globalnews.ca
  The four-time winners of the Governor General Literary Awards join Laura Casella to explain what it’s like to be a translator. The duo who also happen to be a couple discuss the intrinsic details of the job.
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Monday, December 10

  10-12-2018 15:08 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Monday, December 10
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Monday, December 10

  10-12-2018 15:08 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Monday, December 10
  
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• Last Word on Habs Pod: Montreal Canadiens Win Three in a Row - Last Word on Hockey

  10-12-2018 15:00
  Last Word on Habs Pod: Montreal Canadiens Win Three in a Row  Last Word on HockeyLast Word on Habs Pod: A weekly look at the results, news and transactions of the Montreal Canadiens. Full of opinions, discussions and tons on Mirth.
  
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• Creative Finance: Ariane Moffatt controls her own destiny

  10-12-2018 15:00
  Montreal has long been a hub for creative innovators, entrepreneurs and artists. In this column, Brendan Kelly offers a snapshot of individuals pushing the boundaries of their field, looking at how they’ve managed their relationship with money in order to “make it” in their chose domain.
  Name: Ariane Moffatt
  Occupation: Singer-songwriter
  Length of career: 18 years
  Savings: Yes
  Assets: A duplex in Mile End
  Seed money
  Ariane Moffatt knew early on that music was her calling, study
  
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• Gas Prices Are Going To Be Super Cheap In Montreal For The Next Few Weeks - MTL Blog

  10-12-2018 14:53
  Gas Prices Are Going To Be Super Cheap In Montreal For The Next Few Weeks  MTL BlogGas is pretty cheap in Montreal right now, especially when you compared it to a few years ago when the prices could reach up to $1.50/l. But even though the ...
  
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• While you were sleeping: Town models pedestrian lights on Elvis

  10-12-2018 13:45
  Here’s what happened while you were dreaming of the grinch.
  Iberville MNA Claire Samson says her health has deteriorated. She told La Presse Canadienne her health was not unrelated to Legault’s decision to not offer her a position, which she said profoundly hurt her and “contributed to additional stress,” becoming a “contributing factor” in the aggravation of her symptoms. She said she has not spoken with Legault since then and is “still angry&
  
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• Schukov: Confessions of a techno-dud

  10-12-2018 13:33
  My problem with modern technology dates back to a pivotal blip in time when I realized I did not know Windows 95 from Bay Windows 95. It has gone rapidly downhill from there.
  I feel like a savage trapped in the machinations of a brave new whirl. I have always assumed (stupidly) that manufacturers would make all of these new toys idiot/Victor proof.
  For example, I do not think I will ever understand the information highway. (I don’t even understand GPS.) The scary part is I don’t want
  
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• Missing 15 year old has been found safe - Montreal Gazette

  10-12-2018 13:11
  Missing 15 year old has been found safe  Montreal GazetteMontreal police say a 15-year-old who went missing on Dec. 7 in the borough of Montréal-Nord, has been found safe and in good health.
  
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• Montreal weather: Walking on Sunshine

  10-12-2018 12:30
  Sunny with a light breeze of up to 15 km/h.
  There will be a wind chill of minus 21 in the morning and minus 14 in the afternoon.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of minus 9.
  Tonight: Clear with a low of minus 11.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by tagging them with #ThisMtl. We’ll feature one per day right here in the morning file. Today’s photo was posted on Instagram by @therealmikepatten.
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• Will the PLQ be able to hold on to Couillard's old seat in the Roberval byelection?

  10-12-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Former premier Philippe Couillard announced he was leaving politics in the days following the Liberals' major defeat by François Legault's Coalition Avenir Québec.
  
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• Will Liberals hold on to Philippe Couillard's old seat in Roberval byelection?

  10-12-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Voters in the riding of Roberval will decide today who will replace former premier Philippe Couillard's seat at the National Assembly.
  
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• Gazette Christmas Fund: Family support helps François back on his feet

  10-12-2018 12:00
  When his mother died four years ago, François’s life was uprooted.
  With his mother no longer around, his father had to be moved into a residence where he could be cared for 24/7, the 60-year-old explained. At the time, François operated a workshop out of his parent’s home, so with the sale of the house, he had no choice but to sell all his tools as well.
  From that point on, François struggled to make ends meet, eventually resulting in a short stint of homelessnes
  
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