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• New poll suggests Quebecers prefer Alberta oil over imported products

  19-12-2018 23:49 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Dec 19: A new poll commissioned by Montreal’s Economic Institute suggests that 66 per cent of respondents would rather see Quebec support Alberta oil over imported. The poll also indicates that Quebecers feel that transporting oil via pipeline is safest. But as Global’s Raquel Fletcher explains, Quebec’s premier is not backing down from his...
  
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• Truck slams into train overpass in Montreal’s East End

  19-12-2018 23:46 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Dec 19: A truck driver is lucky to be alive after his transport truck slammed into a train overpass near Dickson. A car travelling behind the truck crashed as well. Notre-Dame was closed between Pie-IX and Dickson while the overpass was inspected and the vehicles towed away.
  
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• Health Canada proposes crackdown on sugary, high alcohol drinks following death of teen

  19-12-2018 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  The federal agency said the single-serve products are creating a public health risk, especially for youth.
  
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• François Legault voted newsmaker of the year by francophone newsrooms

  19-12-2018 23:36
  Premier François Legault, whose Coalition Avenir Québec won the Oct. 1 provincial election and, in doing so, broke more than 40 years of political domination by either the Liberals or Parti Québécois in Quebec, has been voted newsmaker of the year by francophone newsrooms.
  An annual survey by the Presse Canadienne of its client news outlets saw the CAQ leader win five of 13 votes compared with Ontario Premier Doug Ford (four votes) and Canadian Global Affairs minister
  
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• New Champlain Bridge one step closer to opening

  19-12-2018 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Dec 19: The new Champlain Bridge project is well on its way to completion – but it is still months behind schedule. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, it’s still unclear what kind of penalties will be levied as a result of the delays.
  
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• Montreal school boards sharing resources

  19-12-2018 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Dec 19: Two West Island school boards have arranged a swap of sorts. Faced with overcrowding, some students from the Marguerite-Bourgeoys School Board will be sent to English schools in the Lester B. Pearson School Board. As Global’s Dan Spector explains, the move will help populate empty classrooms in the English system.
  
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• New judges must take course focusing on consent, sexual assault trials

  19-12-2018 23:24
  As sexual assault cases make their way through the courts and onto the front pages of newspapers, the judiciary has decided to train its newer members on the process of conducting trials dealing with an offence that is increasingly under public scrutiny.
  A new, obligatory course will be taken by Superior Court justices who were named to the bench less than five years ago. The intensive, week-long course deals with the procedures of a criminal trial with a focus on sexual assault cases. The cours
  
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• Judge cleared for having yelled at guard in a courtroom

  19-12-2018 23:19
  A Quebec Court judge has been cleared by a panel of his peers for having yelled at a prison guard for sticking to her rule book while he tried to find a solution that would help resolve a case.
  The Conseil de la magistrature du Québec ruled that Judge Jean-Paul Braun, who is now retired, did not violate the rules of ethics that guide judges in this province when he raised his voice to Yolanda Fleurimar, a provincial prison guard assigned to transfer detained people who had cases befo
  
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• Quebec's Green Fund will be overhauled following report millions dormant

  19-12-2018 23:05
  QUEBEC — At the same time as Quebec struggles to hit its greenhouse-gas emission targets, millions of dollars in environmental funds are sitting dormant in the province’s Green Fund.
  Calling for a major overhaul of the fund that has an accumulated surplus of $949.3 million, the Conseil de gestion du Fonds vert (CGFV), which oversees the operation, says more than half of its programs need to be revised, re-evaluated or just scrapped because they are not helping.
  “It was being ma
  
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• Quebecers prefer to import oil from Western Canada, according to Leger poll

  19-12-2018 23:04 via globalnews.ca
  In the midst of a dispute between Quebec and Alberta, a poll released Wednesday finds Quebecers prefer oil imported from Western Canada.
  
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• Analyze This: Canadiens remain among NHL's best teams in key metrics

  19-12-2018 22:56
  We’re quickly approaching the midway mark of the NHL calendar, and the results for the Canadiens have been nothing short of astounding, given how poorly most analysts — including myself — projected them to play this season.
  Heading into Wednesday’s game against the Avalanche in Denver, the Canadiens are occupying the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference, well ahead of projections during a season of “roster reset” as general manager Marc Bergevin call
  
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• Bill Brownstein: Get ready for Sammy II — The Bridge!

  19-12-2018 22:41
  Seriously? They’re naming the Champlain Bridge replacement the Samuel-de-Champlain Bridge. They must have thought long and hard on that one.
  And once the span linking Montreal to the South Shore opens on June 30, it will be known as …. the Champlain Bridge. Much like the Honoré-Mercier Bridge is pretty much only known as the Mercier Bridge. The “Samuel de” will be dropped by motorists faster than the first pile-up and first dropped hubcap on the new bridge.
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• Charles Hudon finally gets back into Canadiens' lineup

  19-12-2018 22:36
  DENVER — After being a healthy scratch for nine straight games, Charles Hudon finally got a chance to play in a hockey game again when the Canadiens faced the Colorado Avalanche Wednesday night at the Pepsi Center.
  Hudon hadn’t played since Nov. 27, the longest stretch he has gone during a season without playing a game while healthy since the first time he put on skates as a young boy.
  “That plays in your head, it plays in your body, too,” Hudon said after taking part in
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: A new defence partner (or partners) for Shea Weber

  19-12-2018 22:29
  DENVER — Captain Shea Weber will have a new defence partner when the Canadiens play the Colorado Avalanche Wednesday night at the Pepsi Center (8:30 p.m., SN, SN360, RDS, TSN 690 Radio). In fact, he might have a few different partners.
  Coach Claude Julien announced after an optional morning skate Wednesday at the Pepsi Center that Brett Kulak — who had been Weber’s regular partner for the last nine games — would be a healthy scratch against the Avalanche to make room for
  
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• Man gets seven-year sentence for smuggling 25 guns into Canada

  19-12-2018 22:21
  A man who smuggled 25 firearms into Canada by sneaking on foot across the border near the Lacolle crossing told police he took the risk to settle debts with drug dealers who had advised him to shoot police officers if he was ever caught.
  Thanh Viet Pham, 38, was sentenced earlier this week at the Montreal courthouse to an overall prison term of seven years for his attempt two years ago to sneak into Canada, through snow, while carrying a backpack full of guns and while carrying a loaded firearm.
  
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• Keeping a Christmas tradition alive for children in foster care

  19-12-2018 22:14 via globalnews.ca
  Batshaw’s annual secret Santa toy drive is well under way. As Global News’ Videojournalist Karol Dahl reports, Santa Frank is hoping to bring the gift of happiness to children living in the foster care system.
  
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• This family wraps Christmas gifts with fabric, not paper

  19-12-2018 22:00 via cbc.ca
  Rina Albala, a mother of three, shows Daybreak's Shari Okeke how she's reducing waste this holiday season by wrapping all Christmas gifts with fabric.
  
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• Indigenous artists disappointed with Paris staging of controversial Robert Lepage play

  19-12-2018 21:57 via globalnews.ca
  Robert Lepage's contentious 'Kanata' play is being shown in Paris.
  
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• Montreal's English school network opens doors to French students - Montreal Gazette

  19-12-2018 21:37
  Montreal's English school network opens doors to French students  Montreal GazetteTo ease overcrowding, the Lester B. Pearson board will welcome immigrant students at two of its West Island high schools in January.
  
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• English school network opens doors to French students

  19-12-2018 21:37
  The Lester B. Pearson School Board is planning a warm welcome for French-language students who will attend classes at two of its high schools in January.
  Most of the students who are being moved to Riverdale and Lindsay Place high schools are immigrants enrolled in French integration classes with the Commission scolaire Margueurite-Bourgeoys.
  The move to the anglophone schools is necessary because of severe overcrowding at the French school board on the West Island.
  “It’s not going t
  
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• What's your favourite book of 2018? Our book columnists share their top pick

  19-12-2018 21:00 via cbc.ca
  If you had to pick your favourite book of 2018, what would it be? We put the question to CBC Montreal's Homerun five book columnists.
  
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• $120K spinal-disorder drug to be covered by Quebec's public health insurance

  19-12-2018 21:00 via cbc.ca
  The drug, Spinraza, costs $118,000 per dose and a minimum of three doses are needed annually. Seven are needed in the first year of treatment.
  
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• Montreal’s new bridge officially named Samuel De Champlain

  19-12-2018 19:46 via globalnews.ca
  Canada’s Infrastructure and Communities Minister François-Philippe  Champagne was in Montreal to unveil the name of the new Champlain Bridge and to provide an update on the ongoing work.
  
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• New emergency homeless shelter to help with winter overcrowding

  19-12-2018 19:38 via globalnews.ca
  A new emergency winter shelter aims to help house Montreal's homeless during the cold months.
  
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• Martin Patriquin: Cannabis legalization has been a hot mess

  19-12-2018 19:31
  The two months since cannabis legalization have been a bloodless calamity of supply shortages, long lines and a general cluelessness of how exactly the various levels of government are meant to deal with the once-verboten drug.
  If you ask Justin Trudeau the reasons behind this particularly hot mess, he’ll dole out dollops of blame to everyone but his own government. The prime minister was especially hard on Quebec, where such shortages have been particularly acute. “There was so much
  
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• New structure replacing old Champlain Bridge officially named Samuel De Champlain

  19-12-2018 19:08 via globalnews.ca
  Although a 60-centimetre gap remains, it is technically possible to walk across the entire span that joins Montreal and the South Shore. 
  
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• Laval's Bellus Health raises $35M to develop chronic cough medication

  19-12-2018 19:07
  Laval-based Bellus Health has raised $35 million through the sale of new shares in the company, it said on Tuesday.
  Bellus said it plans to use the money to continue development of BLU-5937, a drug candidate that it believes could be used to treat chronic coughs — coughs that last more than eight weeks.
  The company has completed Phase 1 clinical trials of the potential drug and said the results showed that BLU-5937 was as effective as its leading competitor, a drug candidate being develope
  
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• Galt MacDermot, Montreal-born composer of Hair, dies at 89

  19-12-2018 18:35
  Galt MacDermot, a composer who gave the Age of Aquarius its rock ‘n’ roll soundtrack in the Broadway musical Hair, wrote the score to a Tony-winning adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona and became a widely sampled staple of 1990s hip hop, died Monday at his home on Staten Island, one day before his 90th birthday.
  The precise cause was not immediately known, said his daughter Elizabeth MacDermot.
  A onetime church organist and choirmaster in Montreal, MacDermot was perhaps an unlikely
  
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• Montreal Carabins hire football hall of famer Anthony Calvillo as assistant coach

  19-12-2018 18:08 via globalnews.ca
  Legendary ex-quaterback Anthony Calvillo will will join the Montreal Carabins football team's coaching staff under head coach Danny Maciocia in 2019.
  
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• Canada's Aleksandra Wozniak retires from pro tennis to focus on 'new experiences'

  19-12-2018 18:03 via cbc.ca
  Aleksandra Wozniak on Wednesday announced her retirement from competitive tennis. The 31-year-old Montreal native reached a career-high No. 21 in the world in 2009.
  
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• A gift from the Transport Ministry: No Turcot closures during the holidays

  19-12-2018 17:58 via cbc.ca
  Quebec's Transport Ministry says there won't be any highway closures in the Turcot Interchange this holiday season.
  
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• SQ officer acquitted of dangerous driving charges in crash that killed 3 seniors

  19-12-2018 17:28 via cbc.ca
  Maxime Gobeil, a Quebec provincial police officer, has been found not guilty on three charges of dangerous driving causing the deaths of three elderly women in Dolbeau-Mistissini in 2015.
  
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• A Brand New Comedy Series Filmed Entirely In Montreal Is Coming to Netflix Canada - MTL Blog

  19-12-2018 17:18
  A Brand New Comedy Series Filmed Entirely In Montreal Is Coming to Netflix Canada  MTL BlogNetflix has been a great platform for emerging stand-up comedians to truly shine. Many stand-up comics have been propelled into stardom just from one Netflix ...
  
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• Alouettes deal draft pick to Riders for Canadian fullback Spencer Moore

  19-12-2018 17:14
  The Montreal Alouettes traded a conditional eighth-round draft pick to the Saskatchewan Roughriders for Canadian fullback Spencer Moore, the CFL team announced on Wednesday.
  Moore, 28, a Hamilton native, has been a member of the Roughriders since being drafted in the fifth round of the CFL draft by Saskatchewan in 2013.
  He caught eight passes for 63 yards this past season and added seven special-teams tackles.
  “Spencer is a savvy player who will help both our offence and our special teams,
  
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• Montreal police want to track down driver in Old Montreal hit and run

  19-12-2018 16:56
  Accident investigators at the Montreal police department have turned to the public in an effort to track down the driver of an SUV that struck and injured a pedestrian and then left the scene.
  The incident occurred at 5:23 p.m. on Nov. 26 at Place Youville and St. Pierre St. in Old Montreal. Images from a surveillance camera in a nearby parking lot show the vehicle which, after striking the pedestrian, backs up on Place Youville and leaves the scene.
  The 40-year-old victim suffered a concussion
  
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• ‘The Voice’ finale: Season 15 winner crowned

  19-12-2018 16:46 via globalnews.ca
  'The Voice' finale came down to Chevel Shepherd, Chris Kroeze, Kirk Jay and Kennedy Holmes.
  
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• Former Als QB Anthony Calvillo joins Université de Montréal coaching staff

  19-12-2018 16:27 via cbc.ca
  Canadian Football Hall of Fame quarterback Anthony Calvillo is returning to Montreal to continue his coaching career in the university ranks.
  
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• The new Champlain Bridge is finished — mostly

  19-12-2018 16:06
  Except for the roadbed, asphalt and some of the cables that will hold it up, construction of the new Champlain Bridge is complete.
  Infrastructure Minister François-Philippe Champagne was at the bridge Wednesday to announce the final segments had been put in place on the 3.4-kilometre span.
  Champagne also said the bridge will officially be called the Samuel de Champlain Bridge — the full name of the explorer the first bridge was named for.
  Cars will be rolling on the bridge no later
  
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• CFL legend Anthony Calvillo joins University of Montreal football program as assistant coach - The Globe and Mail

  19-12-2018 16:01
  CFL legend Anthony Calvillo joins University of Montreal football program as assistant coach  The Globe and MailThe Montreal Carabins U Sports program announced Wednesday that Calvillo will join the football team's coaching staff under head coach Danny Maciocia in ...
  
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• Quebec's environmental programs must be overhauled, some scrapped: report

  19-12-2018 15:49
  In a bombshell report made public Wednesday, the body responsible for overseeing Quebec’s financing of environmental programs is calling for more than half of those programs to be revised, re-evaluated or scrapped as quickly as possible.
  The report by the Conseil de gestion du Fonds vert (CGFV) says that of the 185 programs in Quebec’s 2013-2020 action plan on climate change, only 71 should be maintained in their present form.
  The CGFV is calling for a major revision on how the
  
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• Truck collides with railway bridge in Montreal's east end, leading to road closure

  19-12-2018 15:26 via cbc.ca
  A truck collided with a railway bridge in Montreal's east end, closing Notre-Dame Street to traffic between Dickson Street and Pie-IX Boulevard during morning rush hour.
  
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• Truck collides with railway bridge in Montreal's east end - CBC.ca

  19-12-2018 15:26
  Truck collides with railway bridge in Montreal's east end  CBC.caA truck collided with a railway bridge in Montreal's east end, closing Notre-Dame Street East to traffic between Dickson Street and Pie-IX Boulevard during rush ...
  
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• Truck collides with railway bridge in Montreal's east end

  19-12-2018 15:26 via cbc.ca
  The man driving the truck was thrown into the windshield. He was taken to hospital with a minor head injury, police say.
  
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• Thirteen-year-old making opera cool

  19-12-2018 15:12 via globalnews.ca
  Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan catch up with opera singer Julien Brody. He talks about how he wants to share his art form with people his age and performs a holiday song.
  
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• Emergency homeless shelter needed

  19-12-2018 14:51 via globalnews.ca
  Many homeless shelters are scrambling after winter arrived earlier than expected. As Brayden Jagger Haines explains, the city in partnership with a network of community groups has plans to launch a new emergency shelter for the winter.
  
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• Widespread freezing rain headed for southern Quebec, Environment Canada says

  19-12-2018 14:45 via cbc.ca
  Environment Canada issued a warning Wednesday that says a low pressure system from the Gulf of Mexico will bring “favourable conditions for an extended period and locally significant freezing rain.”
  
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• Feds reveal new Champlain Bridge name — the Samuel de Champlain Bridge

  19-12-2018 14:41 via cbc.ca
  The bridge, which will link Montreal to the South Shore, will now carry the full name of the explorer it's already named after.
  
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• Parenting trends for 2019

  19-12-2018 14:39 via globalnews.ca
  Are gender reveals already becoming outdated? Parenting expert Erica Diamond joins Global’s Laura Casella with 6 trends to keep an eye on in 2019 if you’re welcoming a new member to your family.
  
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• Public cynicism palpable at Pointe-Claire Village meeting

  19-12-2018 14:37
  The city of Pointe-Claire’s efforts to consult the public on the future of the Pointe-Claire Village got off to a rocky start last Thursday when citizens began questioning the entire process before the first of four meetings had even begun.
  The city brought in urban planning consultants to run the meeting at the Noël-Legault Community Centre, but facilitator Samir Admo of BC2, a Montreal urban planning firm, nearly lost the room when complaints began to fly that the round-table discus
  
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• Montrealers win Harvard’s hacking competition

  19-12-2018 14:22 via globalnews.ca
  Two Concordia software engineering students took home first place at HackHarvard 2018. They join Global’s Laura Casella to talk about the competition and their AI-powered sobriety test.
  
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