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Hundreds march against violence
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While enjoying a St. Jean Baptiste holiday BBQ at a popular sugar shack in the off-island suburb of Varennes during the early morning hours of June 25, Wagner Thermidor was shot and killed by a stray bullet.The investigation into Thermidor’s death is still ongoing but has stagnated due to a lack of eyewitness accounts; this despite the fact that Thermidor was one of nearly 1,500 there that night. It’s in his memory that members of his family took to the streets of Montreal North on Saturday, alo...
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West End News
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Around the towns
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KIDS WITH CAMERAS IN CSL: Côte St. Luc is presenting the exhibition “Beyond the Wall — Jerusalem” by Kids with Cameras at the Eleanor London Library until Nov. 2, 2008. “The photographs on display were taken by Jewish and Arab children from Jerusalem,” says a city announcement. “Jason Eskenazi, the coordinator of ‘Beyond the Wall — Jerusalem’, taught photography to the children and gave then cameras. Each group photographed the Old City. Although the two groups had separate classes with Eskena...
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West Island News
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Making her neighbours' day
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Joan and Doug Lunan have been happily married for 49 years and have lived in Pointe Claire for 40. Eleven years ago, Joan started a unique hobby that has been keeping a smile on the lips of her neighbours and area school children ever since.The Lunans used to winter in Florida and one day Joan saw that her neighbour had a life-sized wooden goose that they used to dress up. It was a lawn ornament that attracted a lot of positive attention.She took that to heart and has since procured a large and ...
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Sports
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Young Lions exceed expectations
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Last weekend the midget AAA Lac St. Louis Lions improved to eight wins in their first 10 games with a pair of overtime victories, 3-2 at home on Saturday night at the Dollard Civic Centre over Jonquière and then on Sunday at the St. Michel Arena, the Lions dropped the Montreal Canadiens by a 6-5 tally. Sunday’s road win was an impressive come-from-behind effort as the Lions erased a three-goal deficit in the third period to pull even and then 34 seconds into the extra frame Joseph Manno beat Can...
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Entertainment
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Film fest honours year's best new offerings
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The 37th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma kicks off tonight with the world premiere of Olivier Asselin’s A Sentimental Capitalism.For 11 days until Oct. 19, the festival will screen some 250 films — including shorts, features, documentaries, fiction, animation, retrospectives and tributes — from about 60 countries, exposing Montreal audiences to the year’s best offerings in cinema.The films are grouped into categories such as International Selection, Special Presentation, International Panorama, Focus...
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