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• Quebec election: Legault changes course, steering away from strongholds

  23-09-2018 23:37 via montrealgazette.com
  GATINEAU — Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault changed course on Sunday, cancelling visits to Trois-Rivières and Quebec City and taking his campaign toward ridings that have never been won by his party.
  Legault now plans to head to Chibougamau before visiting Val-d’Or, Amos, Saguenay–Lac-St-Jean, the Côte-Nord and Bas-St-Laurent.
  In most, if not all, of the ridings he plans to visit over the next few days, the CAQ came third in 2014.
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• Rosemont ghost bike ceremony remembers dead cyclist

  23-09-2018 23:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Family and friends of Valérie Bertrand Desrochers, a cyclist who was killed in June after being struck by a truck driver, installed a ghost bike Sunday afternoon in her memory.
  Bertrand Desrochers, who worked as a 911 operator, died on June 11 after she was hit at the intersection of St-Zotique St. and 19th Ave. in Rosemont.
  The Montreal woman was riding along the bike path on St-Zotique St. when the truck turned right and struck her.
  It’s the second time a ghost bike to be ins
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ vows to make transport ministry more efficient

  23-09-2018 23:13 via montrealgazette.com
  GATINEAU — A Coalition Avenir Québec government would review the qualifications of deputy ministers as it looks to make the Ministry of Transport more efficient, leader François Legault said Sunday.
  “We will look at the positions of every deputy minister and we’ll find a way to verify, in an independent way, their training (and) years of experience,” he said. “It’s certain that people, senior bureaucrats, who don’t have the training or
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée says Québec solidaire is 'trying to manipulate' voters

  23-09-2018 22:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Québec solidaire would “nationalize the savings accounts of Quebecers,” according to Jean-François Lisée.
  Twice this weekend, the Parti Québécois leader implied that his rivals are hiding a radical leftist agenda from the electorate. Namely, Lisée claims that a Québec solidaire government would take control of Quebecers’ tax-free savings accounts in order to reinvest billions in sustainable housing.
  “When I feel that someon
  
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• Quebec election: PQ pledges $30 million for autism services

  23-09-2018 21:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Endless waiting lists, form after form to fill out and a series of other roadblocks are forcing parents to turn to the private sector for their special-needs children to get services.
  And for the kids who finally get help through the public sector, many wind up in a “black hole” after they turn 21 and age out of the system.
  That’s how Jean-François Lisée described the state of affairs under the Liberal government.
  “If you don’t have a child with specia
  
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• Stu Cowan: Jesperi Kotkaniemi becoming Montreal's adopted hockey son

  23-09-2018 21:42 via montrealgazette.com
  After Jesperi Kotkaniemi was named the first star in the Canadiens’ 3-2 pre-season win over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night at the Bell Centre, one fan posted a video on Twitter of the smiling 18-year-old signing his autograph on the lens of a TV camera and wrote: “Look at our young hockey son.”
  The Finnish teenager is quickly becoming the adopted son of Montreal hockey fans after being selected with the No. 3 overall pick at this year’s NHL Draft. It’s hard n
  
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• New Canadien Tomas Tatar clicks with Phillip Danault, Brendan Gallagher

  23-09-2018 21:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Tomas Tatar is a skilled hockey player with great vision and an ability to make passes his linemates might not be expecting or prepared for.
  That seemed to be the case at one point during the Canadiens’ 3-2 pre-season win over the Ottawa Senators Saturday night at the Bell Centre when the left-winger made a nice pass into the slot for centre Phillip Danault that was a bit behind him.
  “I’m always ready,” Danault said with a smile after the game when reminded of the play.
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• Quebec election: Couillard questioned on roadwork, Sklavounos's replacement

  23-09-2018 21:03 via montrealgazette.com
  As advance polling continued on Sunday, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard kept hammering away at his principal rival on the question of immigration.
  But standing a few metres from a decades-long stalled roadwork project, there was no escaping the perception that Liberal governments have taken the western part of the Montreal region for granted.
  Visiting Vaudreuil-Dorion Sunday, Couillard said he is aware that successive governments have proposed to turn the Harwood Blvd. stretch of Highway 20 in
  
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• Canadiens' Jonathan Drouin looking to become an elite winger again

  23-09-2018 20:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Jonathan Drouin says he had no idea he was going to be moved from centre to wing until he showed up for the first day of training camp in Brossard and was pulled aside by Claude Julien.
  The Canadiens’ head coach told the 23-year-old he was going to try newcomer Max Domi at centre with Drouin on left wing and Joel Armia — another newcomer acquired in an off-season trade — on the right.
  “I worked on centre stuff all summer, so I was a bit surprised,” Drouin said after
  
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• Montreal marathon: Mutai wins men's race, Nyirarukundo wins women's

  23-09-2018 20:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Ezekiel Mutai, a 25-year-old from Kenya, won Sunday’s 28th edition of the Montreal marathon.
  Mutai, who previously finished fifth in April’s Madrid marathon, completed the course in 2 hours, 11 minutes and 5 seconds.
  Wycliffe Biwott finished second and Jean-Marie Vianney-Uwajeneza completed the podium on the men’s side of the competition.
  Salome Nyirarukundo was the women’s winner with a time of 2 hours, 28 minutes and 2 seconds.
  She was joined on the podium by runner-up
  
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• Canadiens sign Paul Byron to a four-year contract extension

  23-09-2018 18:58 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens had the day off on Sunday, which gave Paul Byron time to celebrate a new contract with his family.
  The club announced Sunday morning that Byron has agreed to a four-year contract extension that will take him through the 2022-23 season with an average salary of US$3.4 million. The 29-year-old forward is heading into the final season of a three-year, US$3.5-million contract with an average annual salary of $1.166 million.
  Byron has certainly earned the raise after back-to-back 20-goa
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée says Québec solidaire's 'trying to manipulate' voters

  23-09-2018 18:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Québec solidaire would “nationalize the savings accounts of Quebecers,” according to Jean-François Lisée.
  Twice this weekend, the Parti Québécois leader implied that his rivals are hiding a radical leftist agenda from the electorate. Namely, Lisée claims that a Québec solidaire government would take control of Quebecers tax-free savings accounts in order to re-invest billions in sustainable housing.
  “When I feel that someone is t
  
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• Jack Todd: Max Domi's sucker punch detracts from promising pre-season

  23-09-2018 18:04 via montrealgazette.com
  It was one moment in a sea of such moments. The moment when, with Florida’s Aaron Ekblad standing defenceless, arms at his sides and gloves still on, Max Domi decided it would be a good time to throw a sucker punch.
  Down went Ekblad, bleeding from a couple of cuts. Off went Domi.
  The NHL responded with its usual half-hearted, pointless “suspension” – this one for the balance of the practice games before the real season begins.
  Fans started their Twitter engines even befor
  
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• Refreshed Carey Price looks poised to bounce back for Habs | HI/O Bonus

  23-09-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  In this bonus episode, our panelists — Gazette sports columnists Stu Cowan, CBC Daybreak’s Jessica Rusnak, former Canadien Chris Nilan and host Adam Susser — discuss what Carey Price can offer in the 2018-19 season.
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• Rosemont ghost bike ceremony to remember dead cyclist

  23-09-2018 17:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Family and friends of Valérie Bertrand Desrochers, a cyclist who was killed in June after being struck by a truck driver, will install a ghost bike Sunday afternoon in her memory.
  Bertrand Desrochers, who worked as a 911 operator, died on June 11 after she was hit at the intersection of Saint-Zotique St. and 19th Ave. in Rosemont. The ceremony begins at 1 p.m.
  The Montreal woman was riding along the bike path on St-Zotique St. when the truck turned right and struck her.
  It’s th
  
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• Canadiens sign Paul Byron to four-year contract extension

  23-09-2018 17:11 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens had the day off on Sunday, which gave time Paul Byron to celebrate his new contract with his family.
  The club announced Sunday morning that Byron has agreed to a four-year contract extension that will take him through the 2022-23 season with an average salary of US$3.4 million. The 29-year-old forward is heading into the final season of a three-year, US$3.5-million contract with an average annual salary of $1.166 million.
  Byron has certainly earned the raise after back-to-back 20-g
  
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• Ezekiel Mutai wins the 2018 Montreal marathon

  23-09-2018 16:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Ezekiel Mutai has won the Montreal Marathon.
  He completed the race in a time of 2 hours, 11 minutes and 5 seconds.
  Wycliffe Biwott finished second with a time of 2 hours, 15 minutes and 38 seconds. Jean-Marie Vianney-Uwajeneza made the podium with a time of 2 hours, 18 minutes and 10 seconds.
  Salome Nyirarukundo was the women’s winner with a time of 2 hours, 28 minutes and 2 seconds.She was joined on the podium by runner-up Joan Kigen and Emebet Anteneh.
  The men’s and
  
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• Boil water advisory lifted for Saint-Hubert and Saint-Bruno

  23-09-2018 15:39 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Longueuil has lifted a boil water advisory for the borough of Saint-Hubert and the neighbouring city of Saint-Bruno, which is part of Longueuil’s water distribution network.
  On Friday, city officials said routine water sampling had detected the presence of E. coli bacteria.
  However, the city issued a statement on its website on Saturday night saying the advisory has been cancelled and the water is safe to drink.
  
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• Fitness: Data is king when it comes to bike safety

  23-09-2018 15:06 via montrealgazette.com
  As bike traffic surges in cities across North America, the call for increased safety gets louder every year.
  Most of the discussion centres on better infrastructure, including more dedicated bike paths, yet a large part of injury prevention is learning more about where and why cycling accidents happen.
  The city of Boston did just that, inviting a team from the Harvard Injury Control Research Center to dive into bicycle accident data and create a map identifying areas in the city where accident r
  
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• Two injured in shooting outside Laval bar

  23-09-2018 14:44 via montrealgazette.com
  A man and a woman were shot early Sunday morning outside a bar in the Chomedey district of Laval.
  The shooting happened at about 3:15 a.m. in the parking lot of the Wyte Lounge on Curé-Labelle Blvd, said Lt. Stéphane Cloutier of the Laval police.
  Both victims, who are in their 20s, are being treated in hospital. Their lives are not in danger, police say.
  The suspects fled before officers arrived.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Astronaut tribute photographed from space

  23-09-2018 13:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were enjoying some rest.
  An 80-year-old motorcyclist died  after a tractor accident in St-Georges-de-Clarenceville, Montérégie. According to preliminary information collected by the Sûreté du Québec, the collision occurred when the driver of the tractor entered Beech Road in a southerly direction, after having stopped at an intersection on Highway 202, a little before 2 p.m. The motorcyclist did not have a mand
  
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• Schukov: Montreal’s aggl-ogre is a wonky system

  23-09-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Let’s call it the aggl-ogre; the suffix originating from the hulk-sized beast that eats people for lunch. Of course, we associate ogres mostly with fairy tales and folklore, however if you were to compare their trappings with that of an agglomeration you would be surprised to see how well it all fits.
  Like its mythical counterpart, the aggl-ogre has a disproportionately large head (substitute with ROM — the Rest of Montreal), an insatiably voracious appetite (substitute with taxes),
  
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• Montreal weather: Great start, but maybe a wet finish

  23-09-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Sunny early, then increasing cloudiness late in the morning with a 30-per-cent chance of showers in the afternoon.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of 15 and the UV index will be 5, or moderate.
  Tonight: Clear and frosty with a low of 5.
  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 @ap
  
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• Traffic update: Montreal marathon will close Champlain Bridge, many side streets

  23-09-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The closing of the Champlain Bridge and the Montreal marathon will make driving a mess Sunday.
  The bridge will be completely closed to traffic headed toward Montreal on Sunday morning, which will also feature street closings on Montreal Island for the Oasis International Marathon de Montréal.
  The Champlain Bridge closing, which also entails the closing of Highway 15 North between Route 132 and the Turcot Interchange, will last from 7 a.m. to noon on Sunday.
  As well, Highway 15 North
  
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• In the Habs' Room: Jesperi Kotkaniemi fits nicely as No. 1 centre in win over Sens

  23-09-2018 05:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Jesperi Kotkaniemi isn’t making things easy for Canadiens management.
  The general thinking coming into training camp was that the 18-year-old centre — who was selected with the third overall pick at this year’s NHL Draft — would get his feet wet during some preseason games on the smaller North American rink before returning for a second season with Assat Pori in the Finnish Elite League.
  During his first game in a Canadiens uniform at the NHL Rookie Showdown in Laval,&nbs
  
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• Impact's single point against NYCFC 'better than losing'

  23-09-2018 05:06 via montrealgazette.com
  There was a sense of disappointment in the Impact dressing room after playing to a 1-1 draw against New York City FC on Saturday night before a sold-out crowd of 20,801 at Saputo Stadium.
  But coach Rémi Garde put the result in perspective when he said earning one point was better than losing.
  “We know we didn’t play our best game, but we picked up a point and there were times earlier this season when we didn’t play well and we lost points,” Garde said.
  The point me
  
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• Jonathan Drouin gets a scare before Canadiens beat Senators 3-2

  23-09-2018 04:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Things didn’t start well for the Canadiens on Saturday night at the Bell Centre when Jonathan Drouin was struck in the face with a puck during the pregame warmup and left the ice bleeding. But they ended well with the Canadiens beating the Ottawa Senators 3-2 to improve their preseason record to 3-1.
  Last year, the Canadiens finished the preseason with a 2-6 record before finishing 28th in the overall NHL standings during the regular season.
  Drouin was turning away from the net during the
  
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• Motorcyclist, 80, dies after colliding with tractor

  23-09-2018 02:45 via montrealgazette.com
  An 80-year-old motorcyclist died Saturday afternoon after a tractor accident in St-Georges-de-Clarenceville, Montérégie.According to preliminary information collected by the Sûreté du Québec, the collision occurred when the driver of the tractor entered Beech Road in a southerly direction, after having stopped at an intersection on Highway 202, a little before 2 p.m.The motorcyclist did not have a mandatory stop, according to the SQ.
  
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• Quebec election: Climate change becomes focus of party rivals in Gatineau

  23-09-2018 01:58 via montrealgazette.com
  GATINEAU — Two of the five worst rainstorms in 90 years, the worst floods on record and, on Friday evening, a tornado — this western Quebec town has seen all four in less than 18 months.
  For Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin the cause is clear: climate change.
  “Are we going to take this threat seriously? It’s not a theory, it’s people who are displaced, people who suffered, people who have lost everything,” Pedneaud-Jobin said on Saturday. &ldquo
  
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• Quebec election: Gatineau disaster highlights need for climate plan, Couillard says

  23-09-2018 00:27 via montrealgazette.com
  After suspending his election campaign for most of the day, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard said the situation in storm-ravaged Gatineau highlights the importance of a comprehensive plan to fight climate change.
  Couillard left his campaign bus and its accompanying reporters in Montreal and travelled to Gatineau on Saturday morning to survey the damage from a tornado that touched down in the region on Friday night. He was joined by Parti Québécois leader Jean-François
  
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