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Talented Lady Gaga needs time to grow

Lady Gaga must really like Montreal. The last time the the pop star was in our city was on March 27, when she celebrated her 23rd birthday with 2,200 fans at a sold-out Metropolis.

 
 
 

 
 
After months of rumours, it's finally official. The Canadian Grand Prix will return to Montreal on June 13, 2010 under a new five-year deal between the various levels of government and the racing circuit.
 
 
 
 
 
Quebec City’s mayor and the former owner of the Quebec Nordiques met with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman Friday in New York City, the French-language television network LCN has reported.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Metro service restored after crippling power failure

I've spent much more time stuck in traffic in Montreal than I've spent stuck on the Metro, and I use the Metro more than I use my car.


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Couple killed when car crashes into home

Time to move the driving age up to at least 18...Most think they are invincible, and are putting others lives at risk...Time to do it...Sad story


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Play it, Stephen

Stephen Harper does The Beatles at gala

This was great to see and of course he was nervous, wouldn't you be. Now lets see the leader of the Liberal party sing some country song that he said he likes. Riiiiggghhhttt. And if you believe that, well you know the rest.


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Canadiens' Andrei Markov up to 4 months after surgery: reports

Well then you can kiss this season goodbye - Markov was the team's top point winner. Would have been better to lose that game and keep Markov healthy.


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Trucks to be banned overnight on busy Montreal artery

Why wouldnt you want as many trucks passing and delivering in the off hours from 7 pm to 7 am?


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MUHC executive director Arthur Porter visits the Glen Yard, future site of the megahospital, in April 2008.

MUHC will be a private partnership: director

I hope this is built in time for my son to be treated for Alzeimer's Disease. He is 3 years old now.


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Woman, 51, hit by car while drunk: cops

This is an unfortunate story ... to think, this pedestrian may have been doing the right thing by not driving home while intoxicated. I pray she recovers quickly.


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A truck fire briefly halted traffic on the Mercier Bridge Wednesday morning.

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HENRY AUBIN

You can't blame the Plateau for trying to cut traffic

One borough's self-defence against traffic congestion is setting off an angry backlash. The controversy shows how tough it is to resist the hegemony of the car.

 
MITCH JOEL

Television at the crossroads: core business model might be a thing of the past

While everybody is busy running over to their favourite consumer electronics store to pick up a 3-D television (btw, is it just me or do those glasses make all of us look like the love child of Karl Lagerfeld and Roy Orbison?), it seems like the television industry -much like all of the traditional media channels -also struggles to define its place with viewers while grappling with a future of digitization, media fragmentation and uncertainty.

 
JAY BRYAN

Skills squeeze is around the corner

While unemployment is dropping, it's still a big preoccupation, a fact underlined yesterday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which warned that governments mustn't take their focus off joblessness just because there's a recovery.

 
BILL BROWNSTEIN

Nasty Show host Greg Giraldo sets high smut standard for the others

Definitely not the pussycat. There had been some trepidation about which comic persona newly minted Nasty Show host Greg Giraldo would bring to Club Soda.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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