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The CJLO news team brings you the hottest stories in the city! Catch the latest news segments and articles here or view the complete list.

NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 4TH 2018

July 4 2018 // News
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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27TH 2018

June 27 2018 // News
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LOCAL
By Calvin Cashen

Montreal food banks are experiencing a large influx of refugee families in need of government support.

NEWS FOR FRIDAY, JUNE 22 2018

June 22 2018 // Jessica Barile // News
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NATIONAL
By Allison O’Reilly

One of the four remaining commissioners on the national inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women announced they have decided to keep working with the inquiry despite disappointment with the federal government's limited extension.

NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20TH 2018

June 20 2018 // News
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LOCAL
By Calvin Cashen

The head of the anti-immigrant group Atalante Quebec was apprehended after police issued a warrant for his arrest on Monday.

NEWS FOR MONDAY, JUNE 18TH 2018

June 18 2018 // News
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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

NEWS FOR FRIDAY, JUNE 15TH 2018

June 15 2018 // Jessica Barile // News
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NATIONAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

Ontario's Progressive Conservative party secured a majority government, ending 15 years of Liberal power in the province on Thursday.

According to CBC News, Doug Ford, a one-term Toronto city councilor and businessman, became the province's premier after he won his seat in Etobicoke North where many of the core supporters of late former mayor Rob Ford reside.

FRINGE 2018: Apocalipsync: Humanity Is a Drag

June 11 2018 // Chris the Frog (of Sewer Spewer) // Columns

The end has come! Society as we know it has fallen apart, due to infighting from the queer left, as Peaches Lepage explains in the opening exposition. Our last hope rests on three “I-Will-Survivors,” who all have different ideas on how to overcome their current predicament: Dot Dot Dot wholeheartedly believes in the power of sustainability and that society can be restored through composting, veganism and yoga. Anaconda LaSabrosa is a self-described anarchist and wishes to destroy any remnants of the old world. Uma Gahd, on the other hand, is not taking the apocalypse well and wants to return to the way things were, when she had six gazillion followers on Instagram.

Movie Review : A Quiet Place

June 7 2018 // Remi Caron // Film
Directed by John Krasinski
 

FRINGE 2018: Glam Gam's Greasy: A Lesbian Love Story

June 6 2018 // Patricia Petit Liang // Columns

Glam Gam Productions has done it again with their latest Montreal St-Ambroise Fringe Festival masterpiece, Greasy: A Lesbian Love Story. Our city’s most talented artists have teamed up for an amazing, sex-positive spectacle that will leave you all hot and bothered and passionate about queer theory!

40 years ago on a steamy summer night, the wholesome family musical Grease was released, perpetuating gender stereotypes and reinforcing the idea that women should change themselves to gain men’s love. Glam Gam’s queer parody explores themes of polyamory, homosexuality, gender fluidity, consent and more in the sexiest ways possible.

NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6TH 2018

June 6 2018 // News
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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

The Montreal police service broke a historic agreement with Indigenous people by abruptly scrapping a sensitivity training plan created by a network of local Aboriginal groups.

NEWS FOR MONDAY, JUNE 4TH 2018

June 4 2018 // News
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NATIONAL
By Karl Knox

NEWS FOR MONDAY, MAY 28TH 2018

May 28 2018 // News
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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

Indigenous chiefs denounced Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project at a protest in Montreal on Sunday.

NEWS FOR FRIDAY, MAY 25TH 2018

May 25 2018 // Jessica Barile // News
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LOCAL
By Allison O’Reilly

An anti-immigrant group barged into the Montreal offices of Vice Media unannounced on Wednesday to throw leaflets and insult reporters.

NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 23RD 2018

May 23 2018 // News
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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

Quebec Superior Court justice Donald Bisson has given permission to about 20 women to pursue a class action lawsuit against Just For Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon.

NEWS FOR FRIDAY, MAY 18TH 2018

May 18 2018 // Jessica Barile // News
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NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 16TH 2018

May 16 2018 // News
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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante has announced that the city will suspend the construction of a public toilet in Chinatown's Sun Yat Sen Park until further notice.

NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 16TH 2018

May 16 2018 // News
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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante has announced that the city will suspend the construction of a public toilet in Chinatown's Sun Yat Sen Park until further notice.

NEWS FOR MONDAY, MAY 14TH 2018

May 14 2018 // News
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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

The family and friends of 10 year old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou held a prayer vigil on Sunday to mark the two month anniversary of his disappearance.

NEWS FOR FRIDAY, MAY 11TH 2018

May 11 2018 // News
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NEWS FOR MONDAY, MAY 7TH 2018

May 7 2018 // News
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LOCAL
By Karl Knox

Citizens protested racism and hatred in Parc-Extension on Saturday,

According to CBC News, someone had displayed a Nazi flag in Parc-Extension earlier last week.

NEWS FOR FRIDAY, MAY 4TH 2018

May 4 2018 // News
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NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 2ND 2018

May 2 2018 // News
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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

Citizens took to the streets to protest Capitalism and demand better rights for workers on Tuesday to mark May Day in Montreal.

According to CBC News, protesters set off fireworks while the police shot tear gas at them.

NEWS FOR MONDAY, APRIL 30TH 2018

April 30 2018 // News
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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

Quebec's minimum wage will increase by 75 cents an hour on May 1st.

According to CTV News, nearly 353, 000 workers, mostly women, will soon earn $12 an hour.

NEWS FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 27TH 2018

April 27 2018 // News
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NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25TH 2018

April 25 2018 // News
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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

Volunteers conducted a homelessness survey across Montreal on Tuesday night.

According to CBC News, Montreal's second homelessness count will help policymakers decide where to invest funding.

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