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The accused are Brampton lawyer Deepak Paradkar; 40-year-old Atna Ohna of Laval, Quebec; 31-year-old Edwin Basora-Hernandez of Montreal; 33-year-old Allistair Chapman of Calgary; 35-year-old Ahmad Nabil Zitoun of Edmonton; as well as 37-year-old Toronto resident Rolan Sokolovski; and the hunt is on for 32-year-old Rasheed Pascua Hossain of Vancouver and 35-year-old Tommy Demorizi of Montreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec will cut power to 64,000 clients tomorrow night in Dollard des Ormeaux, Dorval, L\u2019\u00cele Bizard, Sainte-Genevi\u00e8ve, Kirkland, Pierrefonds-Roxboro, Pointe-Claire and Saint-Laurent tonight, to allow for major work on the Des Sources substation in Dollard. 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A 60-year-old driver is wondering how she didn&#8217;t see the man crossing the intersection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A report this morning is warning about the danger of eating ultra-processed foods. Ready-made meals, sweet and savoury snacks, fizzy drinks and breakfast cereals are some of those foods and, according to <em>The Lancet,<\/em> are linked to dozens of health conditions: obesity, type 2 diabetes and  cardiovascular diseases.  University of Montreal nutrition professor Jean Claude Moubarac says that \u201cthe body is not adapted to those products which can affect our moods and lead to depression and anxiety.\u201d In Canada, more than half the food that  we buy is considered ultra-processed. 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