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Jul 24, 2021  •  16 minutes ago  •  2 minute read  •  Join the conversation Would he stay or would he go? That was the question many were asking when the Montreal Canadiens left Carey Price unprotected in the expansion draft this week. Photo by Allen McInnis /Montreal Gazette Article content

Carey Price was the big story this past week, as the Montreal Canadiens left him unprotected in the expansion draft — that is until the team chose Logan Mailloux as their first-round draft pick despite the 18-year-old defenceman being convicted of an offence of a sexual nature in Sweden last year.

Article content As the Canadian government outlined its plans to relax border rules, when and how the U.S. will follow suit remained unclear. The Canadian border crossing is seen in Lacolle, Quebec in this file photo. Photo by Ryan Remiorz /THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada to allow fully vaccinated U.S. visitors to enter starting Aug. 9. Read more here.

People wearing protective masks attend a concert of “Love of Lesbian” at the Palau Sant Jordi, the first massive concert since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in Barcelona, Spain, March 27, 2021. Photo by ALBERT GEA /REUTERS

Quebec City to host concerts to test safety of big events. Read more here.

Blankets and towels drape the balcony of an apartment where a woman was slain Monday in a building on Birnam St. in the Parc-Extension district on Tuesday. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette

Husband sought as suspect after woman found slain in Park Ex apartment. Read more here.

Columnist Allison Hanes asks: How many more women have to suffer violent deaths? Read more here.

The Osheaga Music and Arts Festival is giving people a bit of a taste of music while it waits to be able to put on a full festival again, hopefully in 2022. Photo by John Kenney /Montreal Gazette files

Osheaga to present photo exhibition, concerts, and a fashion show. Read more here.

A Greenpeace banner reading “No GNL” is shown hanging from a building under construction on the site of the MIL campus of the University of Montreal on Oct. 17, 2020. Photo by Graham Hughes /The Canadian Press

Legault government abandons liquefied natural gas project. Read more here.

Head coach Chuck McMann guides McGill University’s football team during a game against the Bishop’s Gaiters in Lennoxville on Sept. 9, 2006. Photo by Ian Barrett /Ian Barrett

Former Alouettes rusher, McGill head coach Chuck McMann dies at 70. Read more here.

“I don’t think you can put a pin on a chart and say, ‘OK, we’ve hit 75 per cent, we’re fine,’” says Dr. Brian Ward, professor of Infectious Diseases at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. Photo by Dave Sidaway /Montreal Gazette files

Quebec may need more than 75 per cent to get vaccinated, experts warn. Read more here.

In 2013, the city discovered the permits to build this Gatineau house had been issued in error, but it never ordered the owner Patrick Molla to cease construction. (PHOTO BY GOOGLE STREET VIEW)

Homeowner must demolish $3M Gatineau luxury home built too close to road, court rules. Read more here.

Article content The Osheaga Get Together at Jean-Drapeau Park Oct. 1-3 will feature an all-Canadian lineup including headliners Charlotte Cardin (above), Jessie Reyez and Half Moon Run. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette files

Osheaga returning this fall with Cardin, Reyez and Half Moon Run. Read more here.

Peter Fonseca commissioned artist Samantha Gold to create a mural at the Union United Church courtyard in honour of the 12 children who perished in a 1954 boating accident on the Lake of Two Mountains. Fonseca’s sisters Marilyn and Margo were among the victims. Photo by Dave Sidaway /Montreal Gazette

Brownstein: 67 years later, mural honours young victims of boating tragedy. Read more here.

Black Theatre Workshop artistic director Quincy Armorer. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette

Black Theatre Workshop returns with provocative Black and Blue Matters. Read more here.

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Brownstein: Montreal is the muse for these musicians’ new videos. Read more here.

Canadiens defenceman Shea Weber sends Winnipeg Jets centre Mason Appleton to the ice as goaltender Carey Price reaches for the puck in Montreal on June 6, 2021. Photo by Allen McInnis /Montreal Gazette

Stu Cowan: Weber’s loss leaves Man Mountain-size gap in Habs’ landscape. Read more here.

Cole Caufield with, from left, Canadiens assistant GM Trevor Timmins captain Shea Weber and owner Geoff Molson after the team selected Caufield with the No. 15 overall pick at the 2019 NHL Draft at Rogers Arena in Vancouver. Photo by Anne-Marie Sorvin /USA TODAY Sports

Stu Cowan: Canadiens set sights on adding prospects to NHL pipeline. Read more here.

“We really believe there is a value in having people in the office, in people collaborating with each other,” says Danny Dery, vice-president of employee experience at National Bank of Canada. He’s responsible for drawing up the lender’s back-to-the-office roadmap. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette

WEEKEND READ: Back to the office: How will it work? Read more here.

Emilia Fernandes, left, and Judy Suissa started walking together every day when the pandemic began. The close friends, who work for the CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal and are based at the Jewish General Hospital, are participating in a fundraiser for the hospital’s Segal Cancer Centre. It’s one of Montreal’s first major in-person fundraising events since March 2020. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette

Mitzvah Girls by name and by nature: dear friends walk to fight cancer. Read more here.