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Pothole on the Mercier Bridge.
 
A hole that appeared in the left hand, Montreal-bound lane of the Mercier Bridge late Friday afternoon has exposed several bars of reinforcing steel. The lane has been closed to traffic, said Caroline Larose of Transport Quebec.
 
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An apartment building in LaSalle has been evacuated after one resident, who is believed to be armed with a gun, barricaded himself into his suite.
 
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Denying that the federal government has any plans to exploit offshore oil in a proposed Arctic marine park, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Friday critics are overreacting to a planned geological survey of the seabed in Lancaster Sound.
 
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One man is dead following a violent collision early Friday morning in St. Henri.
 
 
 
Shell Canada Ltd,. said Friday it is ready to renew talks for the sale of its Montreal East refinery with the U.S. unit of Israel's Delek Group.
 
 
 
Downtown stores will now be able to serve shoppers until 8 p. m. on weekends, following a provincial decision that city officials say will help Montreal merchants better compete against suburban malls.
 
 
 
An attack on a woman by a pit bull has residents of Notre Dame de Grace wondering whether their borough shouldn't ban the dogs or at least toughen up its animal safety bylaws.
 
 
 
A time-honoured Montreal tradition -furtive, fly-by-night postering, flitting from lamppost to mailbox with a stack of posters, a pail of glue and a dripping paint roller, with one eye on the lookout for patrolling cops -may be about to fade.
 
 
 
The rules that determine who gets to vote in a referendum on an urban planning project in Montreal are little known and exclusionary, critics contend in the wake of a downtown bar expansion project that has left residents and businesses in several pockets around it without a say.
 
 
 
Police and provincial public safety officials are investigating what sparked a violent outburst at a suburban Quebec City jail that left two people dead and six injured.
 
 
 
A 45-year-old Montreal resident is to be sentenced this fall after pleading guilty in a U.S. court yesterday to committing wire fraud in a telemarketing case where he was described as the leader.
 
 
 
 
 

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CF-18 crash in Lethbridge, July 23. Pilot Capt. Brian Bews ejected the plane and survived the crash.

Pilot survives fiery fighter jet crash in Alberta

A CF-18 fighter jet crashed while conducting an air-show practice flight at an Alberta airport Friday, but the pilot was able to safely eject before it exploded on impact.

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Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan - Sapper Brian Collier of Bradford, Ont. and 1 Combat Engineer Regiment in Edmonton was killed by a homemade landmine Tuesday morning while on a foot patrol 15 kilometres southwest of Kandahar City.

Rate of Canadian deaths in Afghanistan dropping, as allied toll rises

At a time when NATO casualties in Afghanistan have more than doubled during the first six months of this year compared to 2009, Canada's death toll is down about 30 per cent.

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