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Police say three people were stabbed Monday afternoon in an attack outside a Tim Hortons restaurant on Ste. Catherine St. and Beaudry.

A 25-year-old man was arrested near the scene at the corner of René-Lévesque Blvd. and Amherst St.

The victims are 19, 20 and 21 years old. They suffered lower body injuries and were released from hospital Monday evening.

Beaudry metro and Ste-Catherine St. between Montcalm and Visitation were closed as police investigated. It has since reopened.

Police say the motive for the attack is unclear at the moment and any possible link between the suspect and victims is also unclear.</s>Radiohead are playing Montreal’s Bell Centre on July 16 and 17 as part of their 2018 North American tour.

The British group are touring in support of their latest record, 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool.

Tickets for the Montreal shows go on sale Feb. 24 and start at $90.50.

The tour also includes two stops at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre.

Radiohead were last in Montreal for their headlining spot at the 2016 Osheaga Music and Arts Festival.

Watch their full set from Osheaga here.</s>Lima, PA — Pilot Freight Services announced the opening of Pilot Montreal (YUL), their third corporate-owned station in Canada. Home to a number of aerospace manufacturers as well as aviation suppliers, opening a Montreal station was a natural fit for the company to expand in this vertical by enhancing customer relationships.

Pilot Montreal will be managed by Karen Trainor, a bilingual Quebecoise district manager who brings over 28 years in the industry, and vast knowledge of the Canadian shipping landscape. Most recently Trainor held a role with Canada’s largest supply chain company focused on the handling of temperature-sensitive products.

Pilot’s new Montreal station is just one step in the company’s large-scale investment in training and communications systems to support multi-lingual, multi-national sales and operations teams and overall international expansion efforts. Pilot’s international teams address all global inquiries by providing the best routes, shipping methods, and rates on worldwide freight delivery.

“We’re pleased to announce the opening of Pilot Montreal, our third Canadian station,” said Abe Achackzad, EVP, Transportation. “The addition of the Montreal station is part of our overall commitment to our customers in North America and international expansion efforts as we continue to grow as a global, value-added service provider in 2018 and beyond.”

Two additional staff members will join Pilot Montreal in the coming months who will be valuable assets to Pilot’s unified global logistics services. These services are designed to deliver value by combining the company’s existing strong domestic and international services which in turn, create a comprehensive and complete end-to-end solution.</s>Montreal has followed the Quebec government’s example in naming Feb. 11 Nelson Mandela Day.

July 18, Mandela’s birthday, is celebrated around the world as International Nelson Mandela Day.

“Contrary to some other places that chose the birthday, we chose the day when he was set free from prison,” said Fo Niemi, executive director of the Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations (CRARR), who worked for many years with the city and province to adopt the measure and was on hand to watch the unanimous motion in city council.

“Montreal played a leadership role in North America and in Canada against apartheid and it was a tremendous honour for the city and for Union United Church to welcome him in 1990,” added Niemi.

On July 19, 1990, five months after his release from prison, Mandela spoke to 20,000 cheering supporters on Champ de Mars behind city hall during a 3½­-hour visit to Montreal with his wife, Winnie.

“Out of that we forged an unbroken bond of friendship of solidarity and hopefully of ongoing international cooperation between Montreal,” Niemi said.

In council, Mayor Valérie Plante recalled how then-mayor Jean Doré hosted Mandela, who hailed the city “a friend of our people, an enemy of racist tyranny.”

Plante said Nelson Mandela Day will “pay tribute to the exceptional efforts of this great man and inspire future generations.”

Francesco Miele, councillor for Côte-de-Liesse, expressed the support of the opposition Ensemble Montréal party, describing Mandela as a beacon against racism and discrimination.

The Quebec National Assembly adopted Feb. 11 as Nelson Mandela Day in 2015.

Niemi said he hoped the move would lead to future initiatives like twinning Montreal with South African municipalities and academic exchanges with South African universities.

“Hopefully it’s the start of ongoing international cooperation between Montreal and key African cities, like Durban and Pretoria, in order to continue the spirit of friendship and of struggle that Mandela stood for,” he said.</s>Those are the three words Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir used to best describe Montreal during a pre-Olympic interview with CBC.

Those three words could also be used to describe their gold-medal performance in ice dance Tuesday at the Pyeongchang Olympics — and our city played a big role in that figure-skating victory in many different ways.

When Virtue and Moir — who are both from Ontario — decided to make a comeback two years ago after winning silver at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, they also decided to change coaches and move to Montreal. They dropped Marina Zoueva, who runs the International Skating Academy in Michigan and had been their coach for 10 years, and teamed up with the wife-husband team of Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon, who run the École de Patinage Montréal International Skating School out of Centre Gadbois.

Early in their figure-skating careers, Virtue and Moir competed against Dubreuil and Lauzon, who were five-time Canadian champions in ice dance. Moir has talked about how Dubreuil and Lauzon always looked out for them even when they were young competitors, so working with them as coaches made sense.

One of the people Dubreuil and Lauzon first reached out to for help with Virtue and Moir was Montreal dancer/choreographer Samuel Chouinard to provide a set of fresh eyes for their free-skate program to the song Roxanne from the movie Moulin Rouge. Dubreuil thought Chouinard could turn Moulin Rouge into a “masterpiece” on ice.

“I’m not a skater and I didn’t start as a skater, so the thing that I’m suggesting and the thing that I choreographed for them is something I would see off ice,” Chouinard, whose work can range from hip-hop to contemporary dance, said in CBC’s outstanding behind-the-scenes video titled Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir’s Epic Olympic Journey. “And then some people when I introduced them the movements or what I wanted them to do they were like: We didn’t think we could do this. And I’m like: Let’s just push the boundaries.”

Said Moir: “He kind of in a way made our dreams come true what we could do to Roxanne.”

There’s a great scene in the CBC behind-the-scenes video where Chouinard is speaking Montreal franglais while giving Virtue and Moir off-ice choreography instructions at L’é Loi Studios on Hutchison St., saying: “You’re going to roll droite, gauche, and you’re going to hit boom to the top and diagonal.”

The outfits the gold-medal ice dancers wore were made by Montreal costume designer Mathieu Caron. Virtue’s gorgeous, backless red dress was designed to be beautiful and delicate, but also strong enough to hold up to her physical demands on the ice and avoid any embarrassing wardrobe malfunctions.

Much of the behind-the-scenes work was done by the private business group B2ten, which is based in Montreal. B2ten, under co-founder and CEO Dominick Gauthier, was formed in the early 2000s to “have a significant impact on Olympic sport in Canada.” Using a business-based approach, B2ten pursues that purpose through three endeavours: provide select Olympic athletes a best-case scenario for success; drive professional development and organizational performance enhancement at the elite level of the amateur sport system; build the base for future success in Olympic sport by activating young people’s involvement in sport and physical activity.

While most of the B2ten members who donate money remain anonymous, Stephen Bronfman and André Desmarais have both spoken recently about their involvement.

The team that B2ten built to help Virtue and Moir included more than a dozen people, including an osteopath, a physiologist, a nutritionist, a Pilates instructor, a masseur, strength advisers and Jean-François Ménard, a mental-performance coach who used to work for Cirque du Soleil and is the founder and president of Kambio Performance, which helps athletes, performers and corporate leaders reach performance excellence. Ménard helped Virtue and Moir battle nerves, doubt and distractions, teaching them to be “comfortable in the uncomfortable,” as Virtue put it.

Said Moir: “We have no off-ice need that goes unanswered.”

In their pre-Olympic interview with CBC, Virtue and Moir said what they like most about urban life in Montreal is the coffee and being able to get settled in small neighbourhoods that aren’t overwhelming. Virtue said her favourite Montreal restaurants were Café Lali, where “they sell art also so is a very inspirational place to enjoy a cup of java”, Foxy and Vin Papillon, which are all on Notre-Dame St. Moir, who is shown in the behind-the-scenes video wearing an Expos cap while jogging in Montreal, said his favourite spots are Campanelli and September, both on Notre-Dame, and that his favourite pub is Lord William on des Seigneurs St. “It’s my spot. A grungy, great little spot. Good spot for a Guinness.”

Virtue and Moir were also asked what they like least about Montreal and they both responded the traffic, construction and “nine months of winter.”

“But you get used to it,” Moir said.</s>Mainly sunny to begin the day, then increasing cloudiness in the afternoon, followed by rain.

Environment Canada forecasts a high of plus 4. And guess what? The sun is higher on the horizon as spring approaches and the UV index has also crept up with a moderate number of 3.

Night: The showers will continue with the temperature steady near 4.

Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by tagging them with #ThisMtl. We’ll feature one per day right here in the morning file. Today’s photo was posted on Instagram by @uliedupage.

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Montreal this morning is a regular morning update to keep you in the know about what you should expect before starting your day. For more updates on the day’s top stories, breaking news and more, visit montrealgazette.com.</s>Rain (about 10 mm) and fog patches dissipating in the morning.

Winds northeast at 20 km/h. Temperature steady around plus 3 Celsius according to Environment Canada.

Tonight: Rain (about 5 mm) with more fog patches overnight. Winds becoming southwest at 20 km/h. Temperature rising to 11 C by morning.

Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by tagging them with #ThisMtl. We’ll feature one per day right here in the morning file. Today’s photo was posted on Instagram by @ilariakolo.

Quote of the day:

Montreal this morning is a regular morning update to keep you in the know about what you should expect before starting your day. For more updates on the day’s top stories, breaking news and more, visit montrealgazette.com.
An attacker stabs three people at a Tim Hortons in Montreal, Canada.