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• Opinion: The compelling case for the right to disconnect

  02-10-2024 20:42 via montrealgazette.com
  
  While workers in occupations like emergency medicine or law enforcement expect unpredictable hours and disruptions, these laws target other occupations — ones where a crisis outside regular hours might only be a crisis because someone thinks it is. As one of my former co-workers noted with a sign above their desk: “Your lack of organization is not my emergency." Read More
  
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• Pro-Palestinian protest in Montreal expected to begin at 2 p.m.

  05-10-2024 19:35 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Pro-Palestinian supporters are set to march through downtown Montreal on Saturday afternoon as part of a global day of action protesting against Israel’s military operations in Gaza. Read More
  
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• Pro-Palestinian protest in Montreal draws hundreds

  05-10-2024 19:35 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Hundreds of Pro-Palestinian supporters are gathering in downtown Montreal on Saturday afternoon as part of a global day of action protesting against Israel’s military operations in Gaza. Read More
  
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• 'Canada is directly complicit in this': Pro-Palestinian protest in Montreal draws hundreds

  05-10-2024 19:35 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Hundreds of Pro-Palestinian supporters are marching in downtown Montreal on Saturday afternoon as part of a global day of action protesting against Israel’s military operations in Gaza. Read More
  
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• Old Montreal fire under control, 2 bodies pulled from rubble: police

  05-10-2024 19:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  Authorities in Montreal say at least two people were killed in a major fire that ravaged a three-storey building in a historic part of the city.
  
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• Victims in Old Montreal fire identified as mother and her 7-year-old daughter

  05-10-2024 19:08 via cbc.ca
  
  Montreal police have confirmed the two victims of a major building fire in Old Montreal on Friday are a 43-year-old mother and her seven-year-old daughter, who were French nationals.
  
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• 'I could see her arms waving': Man recounts 'horrific' moment of fatal Old Montreal fire

  05-10-2024 19:08 via cbc.ca
  
  As questions swirl about a suspicious building fire that killed at least two people on Friday, witnesses describe harrowing images of the destruction. Police are still working to determine how many people were inside the building at the time of the fire.
  
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• Quebec wants probe into Friday's deadly fire combined with 2023 blaze that killed 7

  05-10-2024 18:57 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Police launched a criminal investigation Friday into a fire in an Old Montreal building that claimed two lives. The building's owner is also the proprietor of a nearby structure that burned down just last year, killing seven people. Read More
  
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• Quebec wants Friday's deadly fire probed alongside 2023 blaze that killed 7

  05-10-2024 18:57 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Quebec will ask the coroner’s office to combine Friday’s deadly fire with its continuing investigation into the 2023 fire at the building on Place d’Youville, Public Safety Minister François Bonnardel told reporters Saturday afternoon. Read More
  
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• Fire in Old Montreal: Public safety minister to give update Saturday after two bodies recovered

  05-10-2024 18:57 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Police launched a criminal investigation Friday into a fire in an Old Montreal building that claimed two lives. The building's owner is also the proprietor of a nearby structure that burned down just last year, killing seven people. Read More
  
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• A mother and her child: Police confirm identities of victims in Old Montreal fire

  05-10-2024 18:57 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal police have confirmed that the victims of a fire early Friday morning in Old Montreal are a 43-year-old woman and her 7-year-old daughter. They are both French nationals. Read More
  
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• What’s this massive orb doing in Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles?

  05-10-2024 18:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A new public art installation by a mysterious Spanish artist is turning heads in the city's downtown.
  
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• Can Martin St. Louis finally fix Canadiens' power play? | HI/O Bonus

  05-10-2024 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  If this Canadiens rebuild is going to eventually work they're going to have to fix the power play. Read More
  
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• Montreal police looking for missing 71-year-old woman in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie

  05-10-2024 15:55 via cbc.ca
  
  Police say the woman has cognitive impairment and may have difficulty orienting herself, leading her family and investigators to fear for her health and safety.
  
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• Convenience store giants fight Health Canada’s nicotine pouch rules

  05-10-2024 15:07 via globalnews.ca
  
  Convenience store firms across Canada are taking the federal government to court to overturn regulations that restrict the sale of nicotine pouches to pharmacies.
  
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• Man is found dead in manure pit in Ste-Christine

  05-10-2024 14:21 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A man in his 40s died in a work accident in an agricultural business in Ste-Christine, in Montérégie, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) said Friday evening. Read More
  
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• Jack Todd: These Canadiens trying to write new page in team's glorious history

  05-10-2024 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  You know you’re an iconic franchise when a children’s story about your hockey sweater is in itself iconic. Every Canadiens fan learns it from the moment she gets her first José Theodore tuque: The 24 Stanley Cups. The Hall of Famers. The great coaches. Three separate dynasties, those of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, when most teams would be hard-put to claim one. Read More
  
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• October 7, One Year Later: For local Palestinians, ‘nothing makes sense anymore’

  05-10-2024 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Ayman Oweida still remembers the prolonged state of shock he felt when Israel’s military response to the attack on Oct. 7 by Hamas began to stretch on last year. Read More
  
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• October 7, One Year Later: For Jewish Montrealers, the ‘horror of that day is still very fresh’

  05-10-2024 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  For many in Montreal's Jewish community, the horror of the Israel-Hamas war has been compounded by the fact most never got the chance to fully grieve the massacre that sparked it. Read More
  
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• Montreal weather: Now it's starting to feel a little like fall

  05-10-2024 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Mainly sunny with the wind becoming northwest at 20 km/h near noon. Read More
  
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• Montreal police officer charged with assaulting unhoused Indigenous man

  05-10-2024 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A Montreal police officer has been charged with assault after allegedly fracturing an Indigenous man’s skull during a police intervention outside a homeless shelter, The Gazette has learned. Read More
  
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• Josh Freed: This column may be good (or bad) for your health

  05-10-2024 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  There's been more bad news lately from The Institute of They Say, the experts who are always telling us what's good and bad for our health. Read More
  
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• Robert Libman: Anglophones need to show up in large numbers for EMSB election

  05-10-2024 11:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  In the first week of November, an important election is taking place. Yes, much of the world will be watching what happens south of the border, but for Quebec’s English-speaking community, another important vote is coming. Read More
  
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• There's all this talk about Canadian music. How do you even define that?

  05-10-2024 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Nantali Indongo, host of the CBC's The Bridge, recently sat down and chopped it up with musicians Anachnid, SLM and Odario Williams about Canadian music and what defines it.
  
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• How do Quebec’s new bottle deposit centres work?

  05-10-2024 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Quebec is moving ahead with its new bottle deposit system. Fifteen Consignaction sites are open in the province and the plan is to have 80 of them in total.
  
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• Seventy-year-old cyclist in critical condition after collision with bus in Drummondville

  05-10-2024 02:01 via montrealgazette.com
  
  DRUMMONDVILLE — A septuagenarian cyclist is in critical condition after being hit by a bus in Drummondville, in Centre-du-Québec, Friday afternoon. Read More
  
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• Woman, 28, is seriously injured in an accident in St-Rémi

  05-10-2024 01:39 via montrealgazette.com
  
  ST-RÉMI — A 28-year-old driver was seriously injured in a collision involving three vehicles Friday afternoon in St-Rémi, in Montérégie, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) reported. Read More
  
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• Habs Mailbag: Canadiens have some decisions to make on the blue line

  05-10-2024 01:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  My question is about the defence. I would assume the locks are Mike Matheson, Kaiden Guhle and David Savard. Who of Arber Xhekaj, Lane Hutson, Justin Barron, Adam Engstrom and Jayden Struble have shown enough in pre-season to earn the remaining three or four spots if they decide to carry seven defencemen during the season. Read More
  
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• Surging CF Montréal looks to clinch playoff berth against Charlotte FC

  04-10-2024 23:13 via montrealgazette.com
  
  CF Montréal is sitting above the Major League Soccer playoff line with a late-season unbeaten run. Read More
  
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• Israel-Hamas War: How Montreal universities are preparing for Oct. 7 anniversary

  04-10-2024 22:19 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Montreal’s universities are bracing for potential disruptions on Monday, marking the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel, with both McGill and Concordia universities beefing up security measures in anticipation of protests. Read More
  
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