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5 Montreal stories you must read this week: August 19

Paco, the Alexandrine parakeet. Melie Breton

From imposing stricter rules on dog owners to a bird-napper coming clean, here are the top five stories Global News covered in Montreal this week:

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Doggie wheels

“They told us that his spine was fused from the disk.”

A Montreal couple buys their dog, Jett, a doggie wheelchair to help him get around.

READ THE STORY: New wheels give Westmount dog second chance at life

La Saigonaise eviction

“I have, now, to think what I’m going to do, where I’m going to get the money to feed my kids.”

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La Saigonaise, a 16-year-old family-run restaurant in Côte-des-Neiges, is in danger of closing and the owners say they’re being unfairly evicted.

READ THE STORY: Côte-des-Neiges restaurant La Saigonaise faces eviction

Paco returned

“I am not a thief. A thief does not kiss a bird.”

Paco the parakeet has been found, and now the alleged bird-napper is speaking out to insist he did not mean to take the bird and his intentions were never bad.

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READ THE STORY: Paco the parakeet found, alleged bird-napper defends himself

Left in a car

Quebec provincial police are investigating the death of a baby, under the age of one, found in a parked car in Saint-Jérôme, north of Montreal.

Local police were called Wednesday to the parking lot of the Centre de la Petite Enfance Notre-Dame on des Prés Street.

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READ THE STORY: Child dead after being found in parked car in Saint-Jérôme

Stricter dog rules

“The new regulations tighten the measures when it comes to risky dogs, pit bull-types dogs and dangerous dogs, to protect our residents.”

Stricter rules are in place for dog owners in Montreal as the city presents new municipal regulations to the executive committee.

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READ THE STORY: ‘Zero tolerance for dog attacks’: Montreal imposes strict animal rules, focuses on pit bulls

rachel.lau@globalnews.ca

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