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• PWHL Boston puts Montreal on the brink with 3OT win

  12-05-2024 06:06 via cbc.ca
  
  Boston is one win away from playing in the PWHL's Walter Cup final after defeating Montreal 2-1 Saturday on Taylor Wenczkowski's winner in triple overtime.
  
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• Researchers beg Canada to stop importing monkeys for experimentation

  09-11-2024 00:48 via montrealgazette.com
  
  As a plane carrying hundreds of live, long-tailed macaque monkeys made its way from Cambodia to Montreal's Mirabel Airport Friday, thousands of emails from concerned Canadians landed in the inbox of Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault calling for an end to the importation of these endangered primates for biomedical experimentation. Read More
  
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• Laval, Quebec City among potential expansion cities for Canadian Premier League

  09-11-2024 00:11 via montrealgazette.com
  
  CALGARY — The Canadian Premier League intends to expand by two teams in 2026. Read More
  
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• Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Shea Weber personified no gain without pain

  09-11-2024 00:11 via montrealgazette.com
  
  If there's such a thing as a reluctant Hall of Famer, it could be Shea Weber. Read More
  
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• What the Puck: This Canadiens season is a train wreck, not a rebuild

  09-11-2024 00:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  You have to build to rebuild. Read More
  
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• CF Montréal's Sirois and Waterman join Canadian national team

  08-11-2024 23:14 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Goalkeeper Jonathan Sirois and defenceman Joel Waterman have been selected by the Canadian men's national team for the November international break. Read More
  
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• Federal government to apologize for Nunavik dog slaughter

  08-11-2024 22:57 via montrealgazette.com
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government will apologize to Inuit in Quebec's Nunavik region for the killing of sled dogs between the mid-1950s until the late 1960s. Read More
  
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• Settlement reached in Greenfield Park hockey coach sex abuse class action

  08-11-2024 22:45 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A settlement agreement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit against a deceased Greenfield Park hockey coach accused of sexually abusing youths under his watch for decades. Read More
  
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• Parti Québécois faces dissidence, turmoil and an expulsion

  08-11-2024 22:39 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Express your opinions at your own risk in the Parti Québécois. The separatist party may be leading the polls in Quebec, but internally, one of its members and potential candidate has been suspended because he is a dissident. Read More
  
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• Quebec needs a long-term transit plan with funding, Plante says

  08-11-2024 22:06 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The province is on the right track in trying to make transit operators more efficient, but there needs to be a long-term vision on transit, the city's mayor said Friday. Read More
  
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• Plante calls on Quebec to set up long-term transit plan with funding

  08-11-2024 22:06 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The province is on the right track in trying to make transit operators more efficient, but there needs to be a long-term vision on transit, the city's mayor said Friday. Read More
  
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• Jewish leaders call on Montreal to tackle antisemitic violence

  08-11-2024 21:57 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Leaders within the Jewish community are calling on the city of Montreal and its police force to take more forceful action against antisemitic attacks amid an increase in violent incidents in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. Read More
  
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• Port of Montreal threatens lockout Sunday unless union agrees to 'final' offer

  08-11-2024 21:50 via cbc.ca
  
  The employers' association is threatening to lock out workers at 9 p.m. Sunday if a deal isn't reached.
  
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• Quebec-Canada dispute stalling crucial funding to help homeless: Montreal mayor

  08-11-2024 21:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says a 'constitutional fight' between Quebec and Canada is tying up money the city badly needs to deal with its worsening homelessness problem.
  
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• Police request public's help to identify two armed suspects

  08-11-2024 21:40 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Montreal police investigative crimes unit seeks help identifying two suspected individuals who threatened citizens with a firearm after breaking into their home. Read More
  
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• Quebec should free up $100 million to help unhoused people, Plante says

  08-11-2024 21:33 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Money earmarked for homelessness can't be sitting around lying unspent, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante said Friday. Read More
  
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• Plante calls on Quebec to free up $100 million to help unhoused people

  08-11-2024 21:33 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Money earmarked for homelessness can't be sitting around lying unspent, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante said Friday. Read More
  
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• Remembering the Royal Montreal Regiment's role in the liberation of northwest Europe

  08-11-2024 21:13 via cbc.ca
  
  It’s the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Leopold Canal, and the Royal Montreal Regiment is commemorating that turning point in the Second World War with a historical exhibit telling the story of those who fought and died while defeating the Germans.
  
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• Alouettes QB Cody Fajardo has the look of success once again

  08-11-2024 20:54 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The moustache has returned to Cody Fajardo's face — partly because it's Movember and he wants to bring awareness to cancer — but the Alouettes quarterback also admits to being superstitious. Read More
  
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• Opinion: Harm reduction must not become harm production

  08-11-2024 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  In June, I cautioned in The Gazette that the opening of the Maison Benoît Labre’s injection centre next to a kindergarten playground would harm children if not done properly with credentialed staff following best practices. My caveats acknowledging the fundamental rights of people to be housed and to receive quality treatment seemed insufficient for those critical that I dared to raise concerns about this organization. Unfortunately, time has borne out those worries. Read More
  
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• Akwesasne's military community reflects on war and code talker legacy

  08-11-2024 19:57 via cbc.ca
  
  CBC Indigenous visits Akwesasne to speak with the military community and the daughter of Levi Oakes – the last Second World War Mohawk code talker, who died in 2019.
  
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• Defence seeks shorter sentence for trucker who killed 4 people in crash

  08-11-2024 19:24 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A lawyer representing Jagmeet Grewal, the truck driver who caused a crash in Laval that killed four people and seriously injured four more, argued he should have time shaved off whatever sentence he receives because his Charter rights were violated during the police investigation into what happened. Read More
  
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• 17 men arrested in Quebec raids targeting child pornography, exploitation: police

  08-11-2024 19:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  The men are between the ages of 38 and 80 and were arrested between Nov. 4 and 7 in an operation led by a provincial police team that investigates child sexual exploitation.
  
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• Montrealer Lloyd Rose brings Jamaican-Canadian twist to vegan cuisine

  08-11-2024 19:12 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Growing up in Montreal as the son of Jamaican immigrants, Lloyd Rose was not exposed to anything remotely vegan.  Read More
  
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• West Island teacher and hockey coach charged with sexual assault

  08-11-2024 18:52 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A teacher who has worked at several West Island schools has been charged with sexually assaulting a minor more than a decade ago. Read More
  
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• SAQ will increase alcohol prices in February

  08-11-2024 18:25 via montrealgazette.com
  
  For the second time in less than a year, the Société des alcools du Québec will increase prices in February by raising its markup. The latest increase will not be applied to wines selling for less than $12. Read More
  
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• Quebec Liberals would entrench anglo rights in new Quebec constitution

  08-11-2024 18:07 via montrealgazette.com
  
  LÉVIS — Quebec's Liberals are proposing to draft a constitution that would entrench the rights of the English-speaking community to services in English at the same time as affirming that French is the public language. Read More
  
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• Liberals would repeal Bill 96, entrench anglo rights in new Quebec constitution

  08-11-2024 18:07 via montrealgazette.com
  
  LÉVIS — Quebec's Liberals are proposing to draft a constitution that would entrench the rights of the English-speaking community to services in English at the same time as affirming that French is the public language. Read More
  
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• BEI investigates after suspect shot by Longueuil police

  08-11-2024 18:05 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A man was wounded by SWAT team gunfire Thursday afternoon during an operation by Longueuil police in the borough of Greenfield Park. Read More
  
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• Inside the CFL: Tea leaves may look ominous, but Alouettes unperturbed before East final

  08-11-2024 17:45 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Twelve years have passed since that infamous day. Enough time for Brian Bratton to laugh about it, albeit with some bittersweet emotion, knowing the inevitable question is coming. Read More
  
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