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• Missing Laval teen found safe

  23-11-2019 00:49 via Montreal Gazette
  
  Océane Lachapelle-Cordeiro, 16, who was reported missing from Laval on Friday, has been found safe, Laval police reported Friday night. Read More
  
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• Restaurant review: McKiernan Luncheonette is large and in charge

  12-12-2019 23:03 via Montreal Gazette
  
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• Montreal purchases 140 hectares in western Pierrefonds from Grilli

  12-12-2019 22:25 via Montreal Gazette
  
  The future Grand Parc de l'Ouest is taking shape, one green hectare at a time. Read More
  
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• Concordia appoints Graham Carr as university’s new president

  12-12-2019 22:02 via : Montreal
  
  Concordia's new president is a Quebec native who joined the university's history department in 1983 after earning his PhD from the University of Maine.
  
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• Quebec’s Court of Appeal rejects bid to suspend Bill 21

  12-12-2019 21:49 via Montreal Gazette
  
  Quebec's Court of Appeal has decided not to suspend sections of the province’s secularism law. Read More
  
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• PQ backs calls for postponement of Deux-Montagnes line shutdown

  12-12-2019 21:43 via Montreal Gazette
  
  Interim Parti Québécois Leader Pascal Bérubé and his chief transportation spokesperson urged the province to postpone shutting down the Deux-Montagnes commuter train line until more robust mitigation measures have been put in place. Read More
  
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• New class action requests allege sex abuse by religious institutions

  12-12-2019 21:29 via Montreal Gazette
  
  Four requests for authorization of class action suits against religious congregations in Quebec on behalf of victims of alleged abuse were filed in court on Thursday. Read More
  
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• Montreal blogger who touted École Polytechnique gunman will have bail hearing next week

  12-12-2019 21:09 via : Montreal
  
  Jean-Claude Rochefort has been detained since Dec. 5.
  
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• Habs forward Peca out with knee injury

  12-12-2019 21:01 via : Montreal
  
  Montreal Canadiens forward Matthew Peca will be out for approximately six weeks with a knee injury, the NHL team announced Thursday.
  
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• Contrary to Legault's claim, one quarter of francophone Canadians identify as atheists

  12-12-2019 20:49 via Montreal Gazette
  
  Actually, no, "all French Canadians" aren't Catholic. Read More
  
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• Quebec’s Court of Appeal rejects request to suspend Bill 21

  12-12-2019 20:43 via Montreal Gazette
  
  Quebec's Court of Appeal had decided not to suspend sections of the province’s secularism law. Read More
  
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• Alleged Quebec celebrity cellphone hacker is granted bail

  12-12-2019 20:38 via Montreal Gazette
  
  A 45-year-old man facing charges of identity theft after a collection of Quebec celebrities found their cellphones hacked made bail Thursday afternoon, but that freedom is subject to a host of conditions. Read More
  
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• Quebec Appeals Court won't suspend province's religious symbols ban

  12-12-2019 20:33 via CBC | Montreal News
  
  Quebec’s religious symbols law will remain in place while the courts deal with whether Bill 21 violates the Constitution, the province’s Court of Appeal ruled today in rejecting a request for a stay.
  
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• Andrew Scheer resigns as leader of the Conservative Party

  12-12-2019 20:09 via : Montreal
  
  Andrew Scheer’s resignation comes as a direct result of new revelations that he was using Conservative Party money to pay for his children’s private schooling, according to Conservative sources who spoke with Global News. Merecedes Stephenson has the story.
  
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• Vice Media raid: Concept of peaceful protest at risk, defence says

  12-12-2019 20:07 via Montreal Gazette
  
  Raphaël Lévesque may be guilty of “pure incivility” for barging into Vice’s newsroom with six masked men last year, but his lawyer says the act hardly qualifies as criminal intimidation. Read More
  
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• Woman found dead in Pointe-aux-Trembles remembered as kind, loving mother

  12-12-2019 19:58 via CBC | Montreal News
  
  The bodies of Dahia Khellaf and her sons, Askil, 2, and Adam, 4, were discovered at their home in east-end Montreal Wednesday morning.
  
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• Class action suits filed against 4 Catholic organizations for decades of alleged sexual assaults

  12-12-2019 19:37 via CBC | Montreal News
  
  The Joliette diocese, the Saint-Jean-Longueuil diocese, and two religious orders — the Frères de Saint-Gabriel du Canada and the Society of St-Vincent de Paul — are named in four separate suits filed Thursday in Quebec Superior Court, in Montreal.
  
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• The 12 cookies of Christmas: Montreal's best, from s'mores to killer chocolate

  12-12-2019 18:52 via Montreal Gazette
  
  When I was little, we had family friends who would always deliver a giant tin full of scrumptious home-baked holiday cookies around this time of year. Chocolate thumbprint cookies, snickerdoodles, lemon snowflakes, jam-jewelled coconut drops — I dream of them still, and every year I crave a home-baked cookie extravaganza. This year I had one, in the form of a cross-city hunt for the best of the best scratch-made cookies. Here are my top 12. Read More
  
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• Montreal police search for potential victims of man charged with online luring

  12-12-2019 18:31 via : Montreal
  
  Anyone with information is asked to contact 911 or report to their local police station.
  
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• Graham Carr named new president of Concordia University

  12-12-2019 18:00 via Montreal Gazette
  
  Graham Carr has been named the new president and vice-chancellor of Concordia University. Read More
  
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• Quebec premier defends telling California governor all French Canadians are Catholic

  12-12-2019 17:48 via : Montreal
  
  Quebec Premier François Legault is defending comments made Wednesday to the governor of California in which he declared all French Canadians are Catholic.
  
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• Andrew Scheer stepping down as Conservative Party leader

  12-12-2019 17:45 via CBC | Montreal News
  
  Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is stepping down as party leader.
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: Helping those in need is something all can do

  12-12-2019 17:32 via Montreal Gazette
  
  A fire two weeks before Christmas is terrible. It is notably worse when it engulfs the office of a local non-profit that serves more than 650 low-income families, as was the case with the West Island Assistance Fund in Roxboro this past week. Fortunately, at least, the organization's food bank, at another location, was not hit. But toys and other donated items were lost. As a result, some of the families served by that organization, in existence since 1966, risk going without any toys at all. Re
  
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• Supreme Court won't hear dispute over Quebec judge accused of buying cocaine

  12-12-2019 17:13 via CBC | Montreal News
  
  The dispute arises out of a long-running fight to have a Quebec Superior Court judge, Michel Girouard, removed from the bench over his behaviour during a disciplinary inquiry into whether he illegally bought cocaine or not.
  
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• Social Notes: Procure puts a bow tie on Bowvember campaign

  12-12-2019 17:11 via Montreal Gazette
  
  Yes, many of you are snuggling up near the fire on this December day, soup in hand, binge-watching the latest greatest offerings on Prime, Netflix, Hulu and now Apple TV (how fabulous is Jen Aniston, really?). But thanks to the magic of media, you can also enjoy the latest greatest morsels on the Montreal social front without ever disturbing your cosy status quo. Just keep sipping and reading, Social Gals and Gents. Social Notes has you covered — well, figuratively speaking, anyway. Read M
  
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• Montreal Canadiens and Expos legend Youppi voted into Mascot Hall of Fame

  12-12-2019 17:06 via Montreal Gazette
  
  Jean Béliveau, Ken Dryden, Maurice Richard, Guy Lapointe ... Youppi? Read More
  
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• Hotel Intel: Renovated and retopped, Le Germain is an ode to 1960s Montreal

  12-12-2019 17:00 via Montreal Gazette
  
  All news of the Germain Hotels is thrilling and the fact that the latest opening is in Montreal makes it even better. Read More
  
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• Supreme Court won't hear appeal of dismissal of Quebec judge

  12-12-2019 16:56 via Montreal Gazette
  
  Canada's highest court has refused to hear an appeal of the dismissal of a Quebec Superior Court justice who, when a lawyer, purchased illegal drugs from a client. Read More
  
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• A conservation group criticized Quebec over caribou. So the province cut ties with them

  12-12-2019 16:37 via CBC | Montreal News
  
  Action Boréale posted on its Facebook page a public servant was partly responsible for the crisis due to his inaction on the caribou file. The ministry responded by severing ties with the group and sending a legal notice demanding they remove the post.
  
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• A conservation group criticized Quebec over caribou. So the province cut ties with it

  12-12-2019 16:37 via CBC | Montreal News
  
  Action Boréale posted on its Facebook page a public servant was partly responsible for the crisis due to his inaction on the caribou file. The ministry responded by severing ties with the group and sending a legal notice demanding they remove the post.
  
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