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Woman dies in Montreal North apartment fire
A fire that broke out in a Montreal North apartment building Friday night took a life, that of a 57-year-old woman. The fire started around 9:30 p.m. in an apartment on the fifth floor of a building on...
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Two people found unconscious in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield home
Two people were discovered unconscious in a residence in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield Friday night. The man and woman were found in a house on Ellice St. in the Montérégie town. The circumstances...
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Snowplow driver killed in accident near Lac-Mégantic
A snowplow driver was killed in a collision with a truck in Nantes, near Lac-Mégantic in the Eastern Townships. The 20-year-old man was on a tractor blowing snow on Highway 161 when he was hit by a...
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2016's weather encore: Snowfall ushers in new year for Quebec
Quebec will have just started to recover from its last snowstorm when a second blows in Saturday. Montreal is expected to get about 5 centimetres of snowfall during the day and another 2 to 4 cm...
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Chelsea defeats Stoke to earn 13th successive EPL win
LONDON — Willian scored twice as Chelsea overcame Stoke 4-2 to equal an English Premier League record for 13 straight wins in a season. Bruno Martins Indi and Peter Crouch struck for Stoke to cancel...
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At least 35 dead in attack on Istanbul nightclub
ISTANBUL — An assailant believed to have been dressed in a Santa Claus costume opened fire at a nightclub in Istanbul during New Year’s celebrations, killing at least 35 people and wounding 40 others...
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From the archives: Flood waters receded for Montreal's first New Year's Day...
This story was first published on Jan. 4, 1992, in the Montreal Gazette. The story of Montreal’s first New Year’s bears repeating. In May of 1642, Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, established...
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24-year-old man stabbed outside bar in downtown Montreal
New Year’s celebrations turned violent around closing time outside a bar in downtown Montreal early Sunday morning. Around 2:45 a.m., a brawl between two groups of people inside a bar at the corner of...
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Editor's note: Welcome to our Montreal 375 hub
Welcome to our Montreal 375 hub, home to content about the city’s 375th anniversary. Throughout 2017, Montreal will mark its anniversary year with projects that range from the illumination of the...
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Quebec's first baby of 2017 born in Laval
The first baby born in Quebec in 2017 entered the world at 12:23 a.m. Jan. 1 at the Cité-de-la-santé Hospital in Laval. It’s a boy, and his parents have named him Alec. His mother, Audrey Lecomte, is...
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Predators place P.K. Subban on injured reserve
NASHVILLE — The Nashville Predators have placed defenceman P.K. Subban on injured reserve with an upper-body injury and will evaluate him in two to three weeks. The Predators announced the move Sunday....
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Port of Montreal welcomes first ship of 2017
The Chem Sirius, a chemical tanker flying the flag of Liberia, is the first ocean-going vessel to reach the Port of Montreal without a stopover in 2017. Ship captain Danel Ju is to receive the Montreal...
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Canadians take the plunge in polar bear swims
An octogenarian, with the words “Happy 2017” scrawled on his body, took the inaugural leap into the Atlantic Ocean in one of the first polar bear swims of the year. Eighty-two-year-old Arnie Ross, clad...
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One of Chicago’s bloodiest years ends with 762 homicides
CHICAGO — One of the most brutal years in Chicago ended Sunday with a sobering tally: 762 homicides, the most in two decades and more than both New York and Los Angeles. The nation’s third largest city...
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Elderly woman fighting for her life after early morning fire
A 72-year-old woman is fighting for her life after an early morning apartment fire in the St-Laurent borough of Montreal. The woman, who lived alone in a basement apartment on Keller Blvd., received...
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Suspect arrested in connection to Plaisance killing
Police arrested a suspect Saturday night in connection with the slaying of a 48-year-old man earlier that day in Plaisance. Sûréte du Québec spokesperson Audrey-Anne Bilodeau said SQ officers had been...
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From the archives: Life was tough for Montreal's rebels in the 19th century
This story was first published on Jan. 4, 2009, in the Montreal Gazette. “Intelligence [has] been received that a Frenchman whose real name is Cazeau or Cassino … is now in the Province busily employed...
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Two men arrested after armed robbery in Anjou
Two men were arrested after an armed robbery early Monday morning in the Anjou borough of Montreal. Around 2:30 a.m., two men entered a building on Métropolitain Blvd. near the corner of Désormeaux...
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Man stabbed at Le Windsor on Peel St.
A 31-year-old man is in hospital after being stabbed in the upper body early Monday morning at the Le Windsor Ballrooms event space in downtown Montreal. Police say an altercation broke out among a...
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Here's how to dispose of your Christmas tree
If you’re ready to part with your Christmas tree, the city of Montreal is ready to dispose of it in an ecological fashion. Residents of one of the city’s 19 boroughs can place their tree, ornaments...
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