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• Former McGill student union president settles defamation suit with 15 more students

  16-11-2024 01:53 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Former McGill University student union president Darshan Daryanani said he is getting "closer to closure" now that he has reached an out-of-court settlement in his $750,000 defamation suit against the Students' Society of McGill University, 12 of its representatives and three other students, all of whom he claims sullied his reputation unjustly. Read More
  
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• From last pick to first-liner: Swedish star Ljungblom making waves with Victoire

  16-11-2024 02:30 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Montreal Victoire anticipated Swedish star Lina Ljungblom's arrival from overseas for more than a year. Read More
  
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• Cyclist, 76, dies after collision with SUV on Gouin Blvd.

  16-11-2024 01:29 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A 76-year-old cyclist died Friday evening after being struck by an SUV on Gouin Blvd. near the ramp for Highway 40 West on the eastern tip of Montreal Island, Montreal police said. Read More
  
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• Construction barriers come down as Ste-Catherine Street revamp takes a pause

  16-11-2024 01:20 via cbc.ca
  
  While a multi-year project to redesign Montreal's famous downtown boulevard into a haven for pedestrians still has much left to accomplish, some of the progress made during the second phase will be visible and accessible this winter.
  
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• Letters: Kudos to Quebec health-care workers, not to the health-care system

  16-11-2024 01:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Re: "How will consolidated approach to health care affect Quebecers?" (The Gazette, Nov. 15) Read More
  
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• Vehicle hits pedestrian in l'Île-Bizard–Ste-Geneviève

  15-11-2024 23:55 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian has left a 73-year-old woman in critical condition, Montreal police report. Read More
  
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• Vehicle hits pedestrian in Île-Bizard–Ste-Geneviève

  15-11-2024 23:55 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian has left a 73-year-old woman in critical condition, Montreal police report. Read More
  
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• Québec solidaire calls for calm after backlash to MNA's accusations of racism

  15-11-2024 23:03 via montrealgazette.com
  
  With the political crisis over remarks made by Québec solidaire MNA Haroun Bouazzi growing, party co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois Friday issued an appeal for calm but has stopped short of calling on him to apologize. Read More
  
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• Montreal Victoire hit the ice for new season and EA Sports video game NHL 25

  15-11-2024 22:47 via cbc.ca
  
  Montreal’s pro women’s hockey team will soon kick off its second season in the PWHL. The team also has a new home arena in Laval, Que., and a spot in the popular NHL video game series.
  
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• Montreal's iconic Ste-Catherine St. reopens — until April

  15-11-2024 22:30 via montrealgazette.com
  
  It's a good weekend for a stroll downtown. Read More
  
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• Montreal fintech firm Nuvei completes $6.3-billion plan to go private

  15-11-2024 22:30 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Fintech company Nuvei Corp. says it has completed its previously announced plan to go private. Read More
  
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• City’s iconic street reopens — until April

  15-11-2024 22:30 via montrealgazette.com
  
  It's a good weekend for stroll downtown. Read More
  
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• Laval, Bishop’s in U Sports football semifinals

  15-11-2024 22:26 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The underdog role suits Regina Rams head coach Mark McConkey just fine. Read More
  
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• Line delays, service outages and rising costs for Montreal’s light-rail network

  15-11-2024 22:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  Residents of the greater Montreal area hoping to use the REM will have to exercise patience, as officials pushed back the opening of the Deux-Montagnes and West Island lines again.
  
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• Montreal port operations to resume Saturday after government orders end to lockout

  15-11-2024 21:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Port of Montreal authority confirms that the Canada Industrial Relations Board has ordered operations to resume as of 7 a.m. Saturday.
  
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• Former diplomat says it's not clear whether Ottawa asked Sudan to detain Canadian citizen

  15-11-2024 21:01 via cbc.ca
  
  More than two decades after Abousfian Abdelrazik was imprisoned in Sudan, a former diplomat who worked on the case says he still doesn’t know whether the Canadian government asked for the Montreal man’s detention.
  
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• Santé Québec's health cuts are steeper than previously known: sources

  15-11-2024 20:41 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Santé Québec is ordering hospitals and other facilities across the province to slash nearly $1.5 billion from their budgets in the coming months — an amount that is 50 per cent greater than previously reported, say managers who fear this will result in even longer wait times for surgery. Read More
  
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• Santé Québec's health cuts are steeper than previously known

  15-11-2024 20:41 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Santé Québec is ordering hospitals and other facilities across the province to slash nearly $1.5 billion from their budgets in the coming months — an amount that is 50 per cent greater than previously reported and which managers fear will result in even longer wait times for surgery. Read More
  
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• Santé Québec orders nearly $1.5 billion in health cuts

  15-11-2024 20:41 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Santé Québec is ordering hospitals and other facilities across the province to slash nearly $1.5 billion from their budgets in the coming months — an amount that is 50 per cent greater than previously reported and which managers fear will result in even longer wait times for surgery. Read More
  
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• Québec solidaire member faces rebuke for saying fellow politicians target minorities

  15-11-2024 20:33 via cbc.ca
  
  Amid heavy criticism across party lines, an opposition member of the provincial legislature is not backing down from comments that his fellow lawmakers say painted them as racist.
  
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• Quebec daycares open late as workers ramp up pressure tactics

  15-11-2024 20:19 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Unionized workers ramped up pressure tactics on Friday morning in Quebec's early childhood centres, or Centres de la petite enfance (CPE). Read More
  
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• Quebec City homeless shelter sees jump in demand soon after reopening

  15-11-2024 19:47 via cbc.ca
  
  Staff at Quebec City's Répit Basse-Ville shelter say they're worried they won't be able to meet demand at the height of winter after 110 people sought their services overnight Tuesday.
  
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• Jack Todd: Mike Tyson-Logan Paul 'bout' a pale imitation of actual boxing

  15-11-2024 19:29 via montrealgazette.com
  
  It was Oct. 16, 1987. I was seated near ringside in a mostly empty Convention Center in Atlantic City an hour or two before fight time, awaiting a bout featuring Montreal’s Matthew Hilton on the undercard of the big show — Mike Tyson vs. Tyrell Biggs for the heavyweight championship of the world. Read More
  
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• Jack Todd: Mike Tyson-Jake Paul 'bout' a pale imitation of actual boxing

  15-11-2024 19:29 via montrealgazette.com
  
  It was Oct. 16, 1987. I was seated near ringside in a mostly empty Convention Center in Atlantic City an hour or two before fight time, awaiting a bout featuring Montreal’s Matthew Hilton on the undercard of the big show — Mike Tyson vs. Tyrell Biggs for the heavyweight championship of the world. Read More
  
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• Sheep play starring role in Montrealer Sophie Deraspe's film Bergers

  15-11-2024 19:17 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Sophie Deraspe's extraordinary new film Bergers, Shepherds in English, stars Félix-Antoine Duval as a burned-out Montreal advertising executive who drops out of the rat race to become a shepherd in Provence. But the supporting cast in this stunning-shot French-language feature also includes thousands of sheep, a bunch of herding dogs, goats and one rather memorable donkey who is being reluctantly pulled along by a shepherd. Read More
  
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• Operations to resume at Port of Montreal Saturday after government orders end to lockout

  15-11-2024 18:56 via cbc.ca
  
  Operations will resume at the Port of Montreal Saturday morning following an order issued by the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB). 
  
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• Speed-skater Ivanie Blondin makes two trips to the podium as Canada earns three medals at Four Continents

  15-11-2024 18:49 via montrealgazette.com
  
  HACHINOHE, Japan -- Ivanie Blondin helped Canada to a team sprint gold medal before picking up an individual bronze Friday as Canada opened the long-track speed-skating season with three medals at the ISU Four Continents championships. Read More
  
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• Quebecers on the podium as Canada earns three medals at Four Continents

  15-11-2024 18:49 via montrealgazette.com
  
  HACHINOHE, Japan — Ivanie Blondin helped Canada to a team sprint gold medal before picking up an individual bronze Friday as Canada opened the long-track speed-skating season with three medals at the ISU Four Continents championships. Read More
  
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• Montreal pediatric hospitals tell parents to avoid overcrowded ERs if they can

  15-11-2024 18:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  'For children who are not seriously ill or injured, other solutions can be considered, such as the 811 line or walk-in clinics,' one medical director said.
  
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• Robert Libman: Liberals are attempting a high-wire act with talk of Quebec constitution

  15-11-2024 18:05 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Liberals are trying to pull off the precarious balancing act of appealing to francophone voters, with whom their support is mired in single digits, while charming their anglophone community supporters. Their stunt involves devising a Quebec constitution, in which the French Language Charter (Bill 101) would be enshrined, reinforcing French as the common language to be promoted and protected. However, they would first eliminate some of the irritants in Bill 101 that were recently added via Bi
  
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