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Celine Cooper: The high cost of functional illiteracy in Quebec
Over half of Quebecers are functionally illiterate. The situation is not getting better. In fact, it’s getting worse. It raises the question: Is our public education system part of the problem or part...
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Monday Calendar: Oct. 10-16, 2016
Monday, Oct. 10 It’s Thanksgiving, a statutory holiday in Canada. The recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, known as the Nobel Prize for economics, is...
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Five teenagers killed in wrong-way crash in Vermont
WILLISTON, Vt. — A man driving the wrong way on an interstate highway in Vermont spawned several crashes that left five teenagers dead, an unknown number injured and at least two vehicles in flames,...
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Trump holds event with Bill Clinton accusers before debate
Just 90 minutes before the biggest moment of his political life, Donald Trump showed no sign of contrition for his vulgar statements about women as he held an surprise event with the most prominent...
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A trip through transit's past
Second of a four-part series Noisy demonstrations by taxi drivers protesting against a new form of transit are nothing new. In 1861, drivers of horse-drawn cabs staged violent protests against...
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Woman stabbed during altercation in Ahuntsic apartment
A 32-year-old woman was stabbed after a fight broke out in the apartment of her aggressor early Monday. The incident happened about 5 a.m. in an apartment building on St-Laurent Blvd. at Henri-Bourassa...
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Man dies after stabbing in downtown Montreal
A 26-year-old man who was seriously injured in an assault in downtown Montreal early Monday morning has died, Montreal police say. The man had shown up at a downtown hospital before dawn with apparent...
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Man dies in car crash during police chase in Montérégie
A man was killed and another seriously injured when the car they were in hit a concrete wall during a police pursuit Monday in the Montérégie. The crash happened around 3 a.m. on Highway 30 in Candiac....
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Demolition committee votes to tear down hose tower in Ste-Anne
The demolition of the hose tower in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue will proceed, the town’s demolition committee decided on Oct. 5, but residents who want to save the structure, which is part of the town hall...
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Guillaume Lavoie to run for Projet Montréal leadership
Montreal’s municipal election is still 13 months out but Guillaume Lavoie fired the opening shot of the campaign Monday, presenting himself as the anti-Denis Coderre candidate. As he announced his...
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Analysis: PQ's soul on the line as Lisée rolls the dice
QUEBEC — Now comes the hard part. Unite the splintered sovereignty movement, woo nationalists cooling their heels in other parties, find a way to knock the Teflon off Philippe Couillard and win the...
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Montreal developers face charges for flouting environmental law
Two Montreal developers involved in the controversial renovation of the historic Mount Stephen Club are facing federal charges alleging that they violated the Canadian Environmental Protection Act over...
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Flags at half-staff as Vermont mourns 5 students killed in wrong-way crash
MORETOWN, Vt. — A man accused of driving the wrong way on an interstate, crashing into a car and killing five high school students, is facing trial on an unrelated domestic assault charge, prosecutors...
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Protégez-Vous reveals 2016-2017 toy and game guide
The 33rd edition of the annual Toy and Games Guide from Protégez-Vous includes 180 recommendations for 2016-17, including 100 new toys and 30 new games. This year’s recommended products are rated from...
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Mother and son combine talents for abandoned-building exhibit
The first image you see when you walk into the Kirkland Public Library’s gallery is a photograph of the facade of the abandoned Valois strip mall before it was demolished. Immediately evident is that...
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St-Lazare considers rezoning area around Mon Village
A mixed residential and commercial development is being proposed in St-Lazare at the corner of Highway 40 and Côte St-Charles, on the site where the popular Mon Village restaurant currently stands. The...
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Two Montreal men charged in Thanksgiving Day stabbing death
Two men have been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a man who succumbed to his injuries hours after showing up at a Montreal hospital with stab wounds during the...
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Montreal teen missing for nearly two weeks
Romero Williams Brown The Montreal police are seeking help from the public in locating a teenager who was last seen on Sept. 29 at the Mountainview School on Côte-St-Luc Rd. According to a release...
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The lost – and found – generation at the Canadian-Syrian Al Salam School for...
Dunia Al Mehlm seemed fated to become one of Syria’s “lost generation”: what the United Nations estimates are three million children out of school because of the brutal war in Syria, now in its fifth...
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MD suspended following sentence for sexually exploiting a minor
A Montreal doctor who was sentenced to house arrest last month for having consensual sex with a minor while he was treating her as a patient has been suspended by his professional order for 15 months...
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