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• Montreal considering ban on oil furnaces

  27-12-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  According to Statistics Canada, eight per cent of Quebecers have oil heating, representing 28 per cent of the province's greenhouse gas emissions.
  
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• Will Montreal ban oil-burning furnaces?

  27-12-2018 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Dec 27: After banning wood-burning stoves, Montreal is also considering prohibiting oil-burning furnaces. As Global’s Gloria Henriquez reports, the city is studying the possibility.
  
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• Pointe-Claire mayor reflects on 2018

  27-12-2018 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Dec 27: From construction snafus to a whole community up in arms over the closing of a popular bar, there was no shortage of controversy in Pointe-Claire in 2018. Global Montreal’s senior anchor Jamie Orchard speaks to Pointe-Claire Mayor John Belvedere about his first year in office.
  
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• Driving under the influence of cannabis

  27-12-2018 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Dec 27: The CAA is sounding alarm bells over motorists driving under the influence of marijuana during the holidays. Global’s Dan Spector reports.
  
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• Antti Niemi gets call in Canadiens' net as Carey Price nurses injury

  27-12-2018 23:29
  SUNRISE, Fla. — Carey Price will be back home in Montreal when the Canadiens resume their Christmas road trip Friday with a game against the Florida Panthers (7 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).
  Head coach Claude Julien didn’t seem overly concerned when he noted that Price left Thursday’s practice in Brossard early but, an hour later, the Canadiens announced that Price had suffered a lower-body injury.
  There were no details about the severity of the injury, but it’s seriou
  
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• Montreal Canadiens recall goaltender Michael McNiven from the AHL - Habs Eyes on the Prize

  27-12-2018 23:07
  Montreal Canadiens recall goaltender Michael McNiven from the AHL  Habs Eyes on the PrizeWith starters injured at both the NHL and AHL levels, McNiven gets promoted to the big club.
  
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• Feeling extra generous? Héma-Québec looking for new donors

  27-12-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
  While the agency is not facing an acute shortage, the needs are still serious, says spokesperson Laurent-Paul Ménard
  
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• Montreal considering ban on oil furnaces - Global News

  27-12-2018 22:55
  Montreal considering ban on oil furnaces  Global NewsWATCH: After banning wood-burning stoves, Montreal is also considering prohibiting oil-burning furnaces. As Global's Gloria Henriquez reports, the city is ...
  
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• City of Montreal contemplating total ban on oil-burning furnaces - CTV News

  27-12-2018 22:40
  City of Montreal contemplating total ban on oil-burning furnaces  CTV NewsThe City of Montreal is planning to stop using oil burning furnaces in its municipal housing units. Eventually, this is expected to become a ban on oil furnaces for ...
  
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• The Top Complaints About Dining Out in Montreal in 2018 - Eater Montreal

  27-12-2018 22:00
  The Top Complaints About Dining Out in Montreal in 2018  Eater MontrealAs is tradition at Eater, we close the year with a survey of food critics, writers, bloggers, and people about town. This year we posed eight questions, from meal of ...
  
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• Montreal theatre: 10 shows bringing heat to the winter season

  27-12-2018 22:00
  There’s not enough space to include all the theatrical goodies that will be warming up the first few months of 2019.
  Some shows that haven’t made it to my list of 10 but are definitely worth a mention include Talisman Theatre’s Anglo premiere of Catherine Chabot’s Clean Slate at La Chapelle (March 18 to 30); Evelyne De Chenelière’s adaptation of Sophocles’s Électre at Espace Go (Jan. 22 to Feb. 17); Imago’s production of the masked solo sho
  
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• Lesley Chesterman's favourite Montreal restaurant dishes of 2018 - Montreal Gazette

  27-12-2018 22:00
  Lesley Chesterman's favourite Montreal restaurant dishes of 2018  Montreal GazetteMontreal diners had a lot on their plates this year, and the top dishes were often unpredictable. These are the ones that wowed Lesley Chesterman the most.
  
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• Lesley Chesterman's favourite Montreal restaurant dishes of 2018

  27-12-2018 22:00
  Hundreds of dishes were ordered, consumed and analyzed this year by yours truly, and with every bite came the hope that I was about to eat something phenomenal, something spectacular, something — dare I say it? — epic.
  Truth is, you’d be lucky to get something delicious, and more often than not, you’d just get something OK. Not every Netflix series is a winner, not every friend is a keeper, and not every red wine pairs with red meat. And how great, because if everything
  
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• Friends remember West Island man who died on Lac St.-Louis over Christmas

  27-12-2018 21:45
  Just as he had done hundreds of times throughout his life, Don Etienne set out for a skate on Lac St.-Louis sometime between Christmas Eve and Christmas morning.
  But as he strode up the icy waterfront, his body gave way. Etienne didn’t appear to have tried to reach for his cellphone or crawl back to shore, police told his friend. They said he collapsed.
  Police found the 58-year-old’s body on Tuesday morning.
  “We don’t know for sure but it might have been a brain aneu
  
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• Trois-Rivières mayor courted by Conservatives for 2019 run resigns for health reasons

  27-12-2018 21:44 via globalnews.ca
  Yves Lévesque, who has been mayor since 2001, resigned due to health reasons.
  
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• 8 Things You Can Do In Montreal This Friday, Saturday, & Sunday - MTL Blog

  27-12-2018 20:43
  8 Things You Can Do In Montreal This Friday, Saturday, & Sunday  MTL BlogGood afternoon Montreal! Hope everyone had a relaxing holiday, and some lucky ones out there who are still on holiday are enjoying it to the fullest. Although ...
  
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• Pot-impaired driving has motorists worried over the holidays

  27-12-2018 20:39 via globalnews.ca
  A new poll by CAA shows 73 per cent of people believe an increase in cannabis-impaired driving will be seen over the holiday season.
  
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• Freezing rain warning in effect across Southern Quebec

  27-12-2018 20:39 via cbc.ca
  Up to three millimetres of freezing rain is expected to fall Friday morning for a period of about two hours.
  
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• Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price out with lower body injury

  27-12-2018 20:33 via globalnews.ca
  The Montreal Canadiens will be without goaltender Carey Price for their upcoming three-game road trip.
  
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• Are you a Quebecer curious about your ancestry? You’re not alone

  27-12-2018 20:30
  Among Canadians, Quebecers are the most interested in researching their family history and the least likely to think we dwell too much on the past, a new poll suggests.
  In the recent survey, conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies (ACS), 70 per cent of Quebec respondents said they’re interested in researching their family history or ancestry, the highest percentage among Canadian provinces.
  For ACS president Jack Jedwab, the author of the poll, the results suggest Quebecers
  
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• Food Writers Name Montreal’s Biggest Dining Surprises of 2018 - Eater Montreal

  27-12-2018 20:00
  Food Writers Name Montreal’s Biggest Dining Surprises of 2018  Eater MontrealAs is tradition at Eater, we close the year with a survey of food critics, writers, bloggers, and people about town. This year we posed eight questions, from meal of ...
  
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• Gasoline prices in most of Canada set to experience 'extreme volatility'

  27-12-2018 19:52 via cbc.ca
  Plunging world oil prices have delivered a Christmas miracle of lower gasoline prices across most of Canada but a fuel price expert says motorists should fill up now because prices are expected to be volatile in 2019.
  
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• Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price out with lower-body injury - CTV News

  27-12-2018 19:43
  Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price out with lower-body injury  CTV NewsThe Montreal Canadiens will be without goaltender Carey Price for their upcoming three-game road trip. The Canadiens announced Thursday that Price will not ...
  
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• Canadiens goalie Carey Price out with lower-body injury

  27-12-2018 19:43 via cbc.ca
  The Montreal Canadiens will be without goaltender Carey Price for their upcoming three-game road trip.
  
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• Quebec 2018 Year in Review: Wave of change sweeps the province

  27-12-2018 19:30 via globalnews.ca
  The year 2018 marked a wave of change across Quebec.
  
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• Montreal Canadiens will be without Carey Price for the road trip - A Winning Habit

  27-12-2018 19:30
  Montreal Canadiens will be without Carey Price for the road trip  A Winning HabitThe Montreal Canadiens are heading back on the road to take on the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning but they'll have to do it without Carey Price.
  
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• Montreal Impact saved their best for last after slow start in 2018

  27-12-2018 19:13
  The Impact arrived at the final game of the regular season on Oct. 28 with a chance to earn a berth in the Major League Soccer playoffs.
  The team needed a win over the New England Revolution in Foxborough, Mass., but it also needed some help. Minnesota United had to tie or beat the Columbus Crew, the team Montreal was chasing for the final playoff spot in the MLS Eastern Conference.
  It didn’t work out. The Impact lost 1-0, but the result proved to be moot when Columbus prevailed 3-2 in a g
  
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• Wine Notes: Looking for a bottle of bubbly to bring to a party?

  27-12-2018 18:00 via cbc.ca
  You've been invited to a party and the host has asked you to bring champagne. Do they want you to bring any sparkling wine, or a true champagne? Confused? You are not alone.
  
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• Editor’s Picks: the Most Important Montreal Food Stories in 2018 - Eater Montreal

  27-12-2018 18:00
  Editor’s Picks: the Most Important Montreal Food Stories in 2018  Eater MontrealWe've already revealed the most-read stories on Eater Montreal for this year — but what was most important? Here's a run-down of ten notable happenings in ...
  
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• Update: Trois-Rivières Mayor Yves Lévesque resigns for health reasons

  27-12-2018 17:57
  Yves Lévesque, the mayor of Trois-Rivières who has been courted by the federal Conservatives for a possible 2019 run for the party, is resigning from city hall for health reasons.
  His spokesman, Yvan Toutant, says the mayor made the announcement Thursday by letter to council.
  Lévesque has been on sick leave since October under his doctor’s orders.
  Toutant says councillors discussed the news Thursday at city hall during a special meeting that Lévesque did not att
  
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• Quebec books claimed high ground in 2018, from Beirut to the Townships

  27-12-2018 17:28
  It was a very good year for Quebec books. Newcomers crashed the scene, trusted names were in top form, and translations bridged the language gap with a frequency and speed seldom seen. Here, in no special order, is a genre-spanning selection of 2018 highlights. 
  In Rawi Hage’s fourth novel Beirut Hellfire Society (Knopf Canada), a second-generation undertaker makes his jaded but clear-eyed way through a war-ravaged city, serving the loose-knit titular community whose unconve
  
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• Montreal Canadiens: Alexander Romanov kicks off day 2 of World Juniors - A Winning Habit

  27-12-2018 17:17
  Montreal Canadiens: Alexander Romanov kicks off day 2 of World Juniors  A Winning HabitThe 2019 World Junior Hockey Championships is moving on to day two starting with Montreal Canadiens prospect Alexander Romanov and Team Russia.
  
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• From Safia Nolin to Ought: 10 Quebec albums that defined 2018

  27-12-2018 17:06
  My 10 favourite Quebec recordings of 2018 have nothing in common except that they’re all the work of inspired independent artists who’re most definitely marching to the beat of their own drummers. That’s what’s cool about the coolsters ici. They do their own thing and by not letting themselves be defined by what’s hot and what’s not, they end up making ultra original music, in English and en français.
  You could say that Hubert Lenoir is the year’s
  
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• Year in review: The best #MTLFriday photos of 2018

  27-12-2018 17:00
  Every week, we ask our Instagram followers to share their view of Montreal in response to a set theme. To look back at a year in Montreal Friday entries, then, is to see Montreal and 2018 through their eyes. 
  #MTLFRIDAY_ROOFTOPS
  @vincenzomarsala13
  We all experience Montreal from the ground level or through windows, but there’s something to be said for the view from the top. In the case of this photo of Old Montreal, taken by Instagram user @vincenzomarsala13, that something is &l
  
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• Opinion: Quebec fails to meet the needs of children with autism

  27-12-2018 16:57
  Before 2005, I did not think very much about the public education system and the options available to parents of children with disabilities. When my second child was diagnosed with autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder that includes communication and behaviour challenges, among other issues, the educational options were limited.
  Unfortunately, that’s still the case. A child with autism at school age can thrive with the right supports, yet supports for kids with autism in schools across Que
  
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• Opinion: In 2019, older women will be leading the way

  27-12-2018 16:28
  A few months ago, I had lunch with a wonderful woman named Louise. A mutual friend had put us in touch, and suggested that we meet.
  Louise had spent decades heading the communications departments of two very large Quebec institutions. Now in her mid-60s, she is retired, though her packed agenda and commitments on various boards suggests she doesn’t know the meaning of the word.
  Over the menu du jour, we discussed the new challenges in media and communications. I listened to her intently.
  I
  
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• Homelessness Is At An All-Time High In Montreal - MTL Blog

  27-12-2018 16:08
  Homelessness Is At An All-Time High In Montreal  MTL BlogMontreal is not new to homelessness. We even have some "famous" homeless Montrealers that everybody is familiar with, that's how long they've been around.
  
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• The Saddest Montreal Restaurant Closures for 2018 - Eater Montreal

  27-12-2018 16:00
  The Saddest Montreal Restaurant Closures for 2018  Eater MontrealAs is tradition at Eater, we close the year with a survey of food critics, writers, bloggers, and people about town. This year we posed eight questions, from meal of ...
  
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• Only in Montreal, 2018: Golf tournaments transfix Habs Nation

  27-12-2018 16:00
  Fans of the Montreal Canadiens, as well as the scores of journalists who cover them, do not take the summer off.
  The year 2018 was certainly no exception in that regard, with ample radio airwaves and copious newspaper column inches devoted to one particular Habs-related obsession: the fate of beleaguered captain Max Pacioretty, who, following an especially bad season — for him and his team — had been the subject of rampant trade speculation throughout the year, rumours of which only
  
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• Just Like Home: Jamaicans focusing on community in a Black Lives Matter climate

  27-12-2018 15:59 via globalnews.ca
  How do you stay positive in such an intense political climate? For Jamaicans, it's all about community, music — and of course, food.
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: Dec. 29, 2018

  27-12-2018 15:57
  Every week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings.
  Under $16
   
  Côtes du Roussillon Villages 2014, Occultum Lapidem, Bila-Haut, Chapoutier, France red, $15.65, SAQ # 11314970. Nicely textured but with some decent torque. Mostly dark fruit, very sun-drenched, with some spice on the finish. Tannins are soft but hold the wine nicely. New world wine lovers will like this as well. Grape varieties: syrah, grenache, carignan.
  
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• Freezing rain warning in effect for Greater Montreal

  27-12-2018 15:46 via globalnews.ca
  The freezing rain should last about two hours.
  
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• Trois-Rivières Mayor Yves Lévesque to announce resignation

  27-12-2018 15:43
  The mayor of Trois-Rivières, Yves Lévesque, will announce he is stepping down late on Thursday morning, the city’s spokesperson, Yvan Toutant, has confirmed.
  Trois-Rivières city councillors were called to a meeting at city hall before noon where the resignation announcement will be formally made. Lévesque was first elected mayor in 2001.
  In October, Lévesque took a medical leave that was recommended by his doctors.
  Elections to choose his r
  
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• Maxime Bernier challenges Quebec political orthodoxy with new party

  27-12-2018 15:37 via globalnews.ca
  He has 10 months before the next election to convince enough Canadians he's right, and his first challenge is finding the disenchanted who have stopped voting.
  
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• Trois-Rivières mayor, who was on sick leave, resigns after 17 years

  27-12-2018 15:24 via cbc.ca
  Yves Lévesque took a sick leave in October, under his doctor's recommendation.
  
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• Blast of winter weather hits Montreal - Global News

  27-12-2018 14:46
  Blast of winter weather hits Montreal  Global NewsWATCH: A blast of winter weather has drenched the province of Quebec. As Global's Brayden Jagger Haines reports, the freezing rain put a damper on ...
  
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• While you were sleeping: The Order of Canada, some hockey, and dueling divas

  27-12-2018 14:20
  A few things you might have missed while you were sleeping.
  Of the highest order: Thirty-two Quebecers are among the 103 new appointments to the Order of Canada announced Thursday by Canadian governor-general Julie Payette — including two honorary appointments to people who divide their time between Montreal and the United States. The 103 appointments include two Companions of the Order, 15 Officers and 86 Members. Among them are engineers, philanthropists, journalists and scientists.
  
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• Many Quebec hospital emergency rooms remain at or over capacity

  27-12-2018 14:08
  Many hospital emergency rooms across Quebec remained busy on Thursday morning, according to Index Santé.
  More than 100 per cent of emergency room beds at nine Montreal hospitals were occupied, with another six reporting occupation rates above 90 per cent.
  The occupation rate was 127 per cent at the Hôpital de Verdun and 125 per cent at the Montreal Children’s hospital, the two highest rates in the region.
  While the Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine had the h
  
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• Veterinarian patrols streets of Montreal offering services to homeless pets - CBC.ca

  27-12-2018 14:00
  Veterinarian patrols streets of Montreal offering services to homeless pets  CBC.caMontreal veterinarian Isabelle Pinard wants to help the city's homeless care for the health of their animals — and she's doing it by bringing her expertise to the ...
  
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