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Life on the Quebec border in Trump's America
A quiet road in Champlain, N.Y., bordering Quebec has become a key passageway for asylum seekers making their way into Canada. More read comments
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Live Blog Oscars 2017: Live updates from Hollywood's biggest night
Will La La Land win big? Will Meryl Streep win again? Make the night even better by following along live with our team on the entertainment beat.
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Township brothers turn life-long love of cult-classic Slap Shot into a business
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Forget the Mighty Ducks, Slap Shot is clearly the best hockey movie ever made. These Quebec brothers have made a living from its enduring popularity.
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Quebec accused of heavy-handed bargaining by striking lawyers
Striking government lawyers are urging Treasury Minister Pierre Moreau to consider their counter-proposal before resorting to back-to-work legislation.
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46-year-old man killed after being struck by car in Pointe-Saint-Charles overnight
A 46-year-old man is dead after being struck by a car Saturday night at the intersection of Centre and Island streets in Pointe-Saint-Charles.
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Analysis Do Canada's Conservatives want to join the populism parade?
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Former Reform party leader Preston Manning says the public is alienated and disenchanted. Do Conservatives want to address those feelings or merely encourage disenchantment?
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Quebec City solidarity concert aims to break down 'imaginary walls' in wake of mosque shooting
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More than 1,000 people packed the Capitole de Québec theatre on Sunday night in a show of solidarity following last month's mosque shooting in Quebec City.
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Social butterflies at the Botanical Garden convince us of the benefits of nature
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The Botanical Garden’s Butterflies Go Free exhibit runs until April 30 and features about 2,000 butterflies and moths.
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Montreal animator nominated for an Oscar says he's already a winner
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Animator Theodore Ushev says just receiving a nomination for his short film Blind Vaysha is a win. “I don’t have a big expectation of winning an Oscar, but being nominated is a huge achievement,” he said.
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FEATURE Roots of Montreal: Explore the city through the lives of 7 Montreal families
Discover how some of Montreal's cultural communities have painted the city's urban landscape into what it is today in our interactive feature for Montreal's 375th year.
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For Montrealers, Black History Month in Montreal a time to look back and to the future
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Montrealers tell Daybreak's Shari Okeke that Black History Month is about celebrating their roots, investing in community and making new contacts.
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Man in hospital, suspect arrested after stabbing in downtown Montreal
The incident happened near the intersection of Berri Street and De Maisonneuve Boulevard at around 8 p.m. on Saturday.
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Recap Habs claim 14th straight victory over Leafs with Shaw's OT winner
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Andrew Shaw scored the overtime winner on Saturday as the Montreal Canadiens beat the Toronto Maple Leafs for the 14th consecutive time, a 3-2 victory that furthered their tenuous hold on the Atlantic Division.
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Public Safety minister to raise issue of illegal border crossings with U.S. officials
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Canada's public safety minister says he'll be discussing the growing issue of asylum seekers trying to sneak across the border into Canada with senior officials in the United States in the coming few days.
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Senior officers pledge support for their chief as Montreal police embroiled in scandal again
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Montreal police Chief Philippe Pichet has the backing of his senior-ranking officers, despite the force again the subject of controversy.
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'This is about a mission,' says incoming artistic director of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
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From Bolzano to the Bolshoi and then to Montreal - Ivan Cavallari on the journey that took him to the artistic directorship of Les Grands Ballets.
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Flooding in Waterville and other warm-weather hazards in Quebec
Mild temperatures combined with freezing rain compromised electrical lines and raised water levels in places like Waterville, Que., where the Moe River has risen and trapped people in their homes.
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Friday February 24, 2017
DAY 6 Canadian cities are failing to deliver on the promise of being sanctuary cities
This week, Montreal declared itself a sanctuary city. It's the fifth city in Canada to do so. But according to Ryerson University Criminologist Graham Hudson, many of those cities aren't actually delivering on the promise, and an influx of asylum seekers from the United States could make it even tougher.
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West Island man undaunted by recovery after electrocution, amputation
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Kevin Bolusi doesn't remember much from the night 25,000 volts of electricity shot through his body, but he does remember the pain.
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Xavier Dolan wins best director at César Awards
Quebec film director Xavier Dolan has won the best director award at the César Awards, France's equivalent of the Oscars.
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Caregiver accused of stealing thousands from seniors in credit card fraud
Montreal police have arrested a young woman accused of defrauding two elderly women, and are asking other potential victims to come forward.
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Take a tour of a school that will make you want to go back to kindergarten
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The Rives du Saguenay school board hopes to make a splash with Au Millénaire school, which brings nature indoors and promises youngsters will learn three languages.
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Quebec calls inquiry into 'systemic' problems in Montreal police service
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Quebec Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux is launching an inquiry into what he is called "systemic" problems within the Montreal police service.
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Spike in deaths at Quebec seniors home used as advertising hook
The largest seniors residence in Trois-Pistoles, Que., took out an unusual advertisement offering bargain rates on vacant rooms, available "following a number of deaths."
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Lack of English on Montreal borough websites frustrates anglophones
The Quebec Community Groups Network, representing Quebec's English-speaking communities, says it’s time the websites for Montreal's boroughs be translated into English.
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Outdoor skating rinks close for the season on Plateau-Mont-Royal
With outdoor skating rinks turning into ponds, the Plateau-Mont-Royal has made the "unpleasant" decision to give up on maintaining rinks for the season.
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Province should consider 'advanced consent' for Alzheimer's patients in assisted dying law, urges MNA
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CAQ MNA François Bonnardel said he believes it's time to reopen the province’s doctor-assisted dying law and consider adding a section that would give people the right to consent in advance.
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Police in hazmat suits dismantling 3 Montreal-area drug labs
Members of Montreal police's organized crime unit dismantled synthetic drug laboratories north and east of the city Friday. Police say they were used to manufacture the powerful opioid, fentanyl.
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Montreal to study how other cities limit construction chaos
The study, which will be carried out by Polytechnique Montréal, will look other North American and European cities and what they do to reduce the impact of construction on motorists, residents and businesses.
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MOSQUE SHOOTING
Full coverage of the attack on a Quebec City mosque
6 men died, 19 were injured on Jan. 19, 2017
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New Orleans police charge man after driver plows into Mardi Gras crowd
- Syrian Oscar nominee can't get to ceremony because of passport problem
- In famine-ravaged South Sudan, people eat weeds and water lilies to survive
- Swedes puzzled over Swedish 'security adviser' on Fox News
- Mississauga man sells SUV, travels to Turkey in bid to save family trapped in Libya
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MDs under pressure: U.S. Navy SEAL training adapted to help Canadian doctors fight stress
- Sunrise Records takes over 70 HMV locations in malls
- 'It's nerve-racking': Quiet life of Americans living on Quebec border upended by asylum seekers
- Canadian school boards question trips to U.S. as travel ban debate continues
- High rent could make Toronto a 'generational ghost town'
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Rotting rats, flies: Insurance repair disaster causes 'mega destruction' of dream home
- 'I just want my family': Woman says innocent paperwork error dashes immigration dreams
- Doctor who won't use 'monster' methadone loses right to treat opioid addicts
- 'I can't live like this anymore': B.C. woman requiring home support hasn't had bath in weeks
- Workers may have been exposed to Ebola, HIV and TB at Winnipeg lab, reports reveal
Analysis
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Do Canada's Conservatives want to join the populism parade?
- Britain's opposition 'in deep trouble' as Conservatives take 1 of 2 byelection seats
- Plenty of budget remedies offered as Liberals prepare prescription for ailing economy: Chris Hall
- Liberal backbenchers, Tory leadership hopefuls among Parliament's biggest dissenters
- 'Feeling squeezed out': Will a move to save Vancouver's housing past compromise its future?
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NDP leadership candidates ready to 'fight like hell,' despite slow start to race
- Finance Canada turning to dial-testing focus group for gut reactions to 2017 budget
- Do Canada's Conservatives want to join the populism parade?
- Goodale rejects former colleague's claim of long waits by Manitoba asylum seekers
- Want millennial voters? Conservatives must change, researchers say
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MDs under pressure: U.S. Navy SEAL training adapted to help Canadian doctors fight stress
- 'Off-label' antidepressant use lacks evidence, and a link between math skills and your health
- What's in your chicken sandwich? DNA test shows Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken
- Publicly funding dental care could help ease the fentanyl crisis, and more
- 3D printer lets surgeons hold a child's heart before surgery starts
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Finding life on 7 exoplanets will be a challenge: Bob McDonald
- New species of gigantic, toothy worm identified in Canadian fossil collection
- Even if scientists could make woolly mammoths de-extinct, should they?
- Radiation may prove more potent than pesticide against pepper pest
- Waymo accuses Uber of self-driving car theft
Interactives
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'Everything was hurting so bad': How one Muslim man snuck across the U.S. border into Canada
- Obama wanted to improve U.S. image abroad — what went wrong?
- 'It's not such a secret anymore': Check out Episode 8 of Who Killed Alberta Williams?
- CBC goes to the front lines in the battle for Aleppo
- Kept in the dark: The story behind the kidnapping of Canadians John Ridsdel and Robert Hall
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Sudbury tries to win 2021 Canada Games with 'northern hospitality'
- Canada's 150-year celebration doesn't fly here
- 'The barrenlands are not a friendly place,' says N.W.T. trapper after 2 searches in 1 month
- Ottawa's northern representative proposes 'Indigenous protected areas' for Arctic
- OPP investigating death of a man from Mishkeegogamang First Nation