Aylmer, Quebec news

• Tribute update: Mayor Valérie Plante salutes Lise Payette's courage

  20-10-2018 20:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebecers are paying tribute to Lise Payette on Saturday.
  A major figure in Quebec’s feminist movement, Payette was a journalist, a radio and television host, a TV writer and a former Parti Québécois minister. She died on Sept. 5 at the age of 87.
  Members of the family, as well as Premier François Legault and other dignitaries were expected to attend a ceremony organized by the Quebec government at 3 p.m. at the Imperial Cinema. The government granted Payette
  
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• Religious symbols: Montreal urged to pass 'motion of tolerance and inclusion'

  20-10-2018 19:11 via montrealgazette.com
  No one says they can’t but a Montreal city councillor plans to present a motion at council next week affirming that members of the elected body have the right to wear religious symbols.
  Premier François Legault has said his new Coalition Avenir Québec government will soon introduce a “secularism law” that forbids some public employees — judges, Crown prosecutors, police officers, prison guards, and teachers — from wearing religious symbols at work.
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• 'Going too fast' with legal cannabis imperils our children: Pierre Lavoie

  20-10-2018 17:19 via montrealgazette.com
  Healthy lifestyle advocate Pierre Lavoie, whose namesake Grand défi walks take place this weekend, says he doesn’t want to sound alarmist, but he believes that legalizing cannabis undoes the good he’s been doing in Quebec for the last 10 years.
  He said Ottawa should have been content with decriminalizing cannabis and then waiting a year to even consider legalizing it, to better analyze the impact on young people.
  “It’s scary. We’re going too fast,”
  
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• Canadiens' Andrew Shaw is one proud papa

  20-10-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens’ Andrew Shaw is one proud papa.
  Shaw’s wife, Chaunette Boulerice, gave birth to their first child in June — a girl named Andy. Shaw and Boulerice first met in high school in Belleville, Ont., and were married last summer.
  Shaw joked after practice Friday in Brossard that he can’t believe how beautiful Andy is, considering half of her genetics come from him.
  “She’s so beautiful,” Shaw said.
  Shaw posted a photo of Andy on Instagram after prac
  
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• CAQ government urged to fight poverty, homelessness

  20-10-2018 15:20 via montrealgazette.com
  The Night of the Homeless took place Friday night in 40 Quebec cities to raise awareness about homelessness.
  Organizers called on Premier François Legault’s new Coalition Avenir Québec government to commit to the fight against poverty and homelessness.
  They noted that during the election campaign, Legault said he wanted to “put money back in the pockets of taxpayers.”
  The advocates for the homeless say this will not help nearly 40 per cent of Quebecers who ar
  
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• 400 exhibitors expected at international tourism show at Place Bonaventure

  20-10-2018 15:03 via montrealgazette.com
  More than 400 exhibitors are expected to participate in this weekend’s 30th Salon Tourisme Voyages International at Place Bonaventure in Montreal.
  One hundred countries are represented.
  Destinations little known to Quebecers are in the spotlight this year, including French Polynesia, Uzbekistan, Kenya and Ecuador.
  Nearly 300 presentations will also be given.
  The event attracts about 36,000 visitors every year.
  In the first six months of 2018, international tourism grew by six per cent
  
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• Karl Lohnes: Styling tricks to help make your shelves more attractive

  20-10-2018 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Bookcases and storage shelves can be the perfect backdrop to many areas in your home. Although shelves often contain books, others simply store or display favourite keepsakes. A good “design eye” enables you to arrange all of your items and create a pleasing view. But let those shelves get overcrowded, and you end up creating the look of a going-out-of-business knick-knack shop. These design ideas and styling tricks will help prevent your favourite things from looking like they&rsquo
  
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• Quebec pays tribute to Lise Payette on Saturday

  20-10-2018 14:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec will pay tribute to Lise Payette on Saturday.
  A major figure in Quebec’s feminist movement, Payette was a journalist, a radio and television host, a TV writer and a former Parti Québécois minister. She died on Sept. 5 at the age of 87.
  A ceremony organized by the Quebec government will be held at 3 p.m. at the Imperial Cinema, in the presence of members of his family, as well as Premier François Legault and other dignitaries.
  The public can sign a condolenc
  
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• While you were sleeping: Khashoggi death confirmed, billionaire released

  20-10-2018 14:25 via montrealgazette.com
  You up? Here are a couple of stories from the overnight desk to rub the sleep out of your eyes.
  Saudis confirm journalist’s death in a ‘fistfight’: After mounting international speculation about the fate of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, not seen since entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Saudi Arabia claimed that the Washington Post contributor last seen on Oct. 2 was killed in a “fistfight” at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The kingdom also said that 18 suspec
  
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• Week in Review: Pet pot, Phil, protest and prosecutor

  20-10-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on what stories you might have missed this week in Montreal.You shouldn’t drive even 5 hours after smoking cannabis: McGill study
  Smoking marijuana increases the risk young drivers will get into a car crash even five hours after they last inhaled, a new study has determined. The McGill University research study released Monday, two days before cannabis will be legalized in Canada, found performance declined as much as five hours after smoking one joint. Driving per
  
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• Shelter: Heritage charm with a modern polish in Westmount

  20-10-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Kathryn Pistilli grew up in Westmount, but in her 20s she moved around — first to the United States to study, then back to Montreal. After that, she went to the University of London in the UK to do a degree in economics. When she had completed only one year of study, she withdrew, opting instead for a job that she “didn’t want to pass up.”
  The job in question involved moving to Madrid and writing about business-related topics. Leading American publications such as Forbes
  
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• 100th anniversary: Fulfilling the dream of the Mount Royal Tunnel

  20-10-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It was a crazy idea, but one that shaped downtown Montreal and gave birth to the region’s first transit-oriented suburb.
  Sunday will mark 100 years since the first passenger train was pulled through the Mount Royal Tunnel. Its construction was a remarkable engineering feat, especially for the time, and at 4.9 kilometres, it is still one of the world’s longest train tunnels.
  The tunnel shaped downtown Montreal, making it possible to build Place Ville Marie and the Queen Elizabeth Hote
  
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• Soup — and life — à la Josée di Stasio

  20-10-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  If people are comfortable approaching Josée di Stasio when they see her out and about, at markets or at cafés, it’s probably because they feel they know her from their time together in the kitchen, she suggests.
  OK, so they were at home and she was at a stove in a television studio, cooking with a high-profile chef on À la di Stasio, the long-running show that won all kinds of awards and made her a household name.
  “But it was as if they were sitting across the co
  
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• Montreal weather: Clouds, showers and quite windy

  20-10-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Mainly cloudy with 60-per-cent chance of showers with a strong southwest wind at 30 km/h, gusting to 50.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of 12 and the UV index will be 2, or low.
  Tonight: Clouds will stick around as will a 60-per-cent chance of showers in the evening. Low plus 1 with risk of frost.
  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 fil
  
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• Josh Freed: Pot is here, and I’m already over it

  20-10-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Congratulations Canadians, or should I say Cannabians?
  It’s been three days since Legal Weed Wednesday, a date that’s now been called “historic” so often we may need to declare a national holiday to celebrate it.
  There have been major news stories everywhere from the U.S. to India and Australia. A German paper proclaimed Canada a “pothead paradise.” The South China Morning Post cried “O, cannabis!”
  BBC’s website showed a maple leaf flag repla
  
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• Four key roadways to avoid on Saturday

  20-10-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what will be closed today:
  Turcot Interchange
  The Highway 15 North ramp, coming from the Champlain Bridge, to Highway 20 West, toward Dorval, will be closed completely.
  The Highway 15 South ramp to Highway 20 West will also be closed.
  The ramp from Highway 20 East to Highway 15 North will be closed completely; as will the Highway 720/Route 136 West ramp for Highway 15 North.
  The southbound ramp from the Décarie for Route 136 East/Highway 720 will also be closed.
  Saint-Pierre
  
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• Alouettes at Toronto Argonauts: Five things you should know

  20-10-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Alouettes-Toronto Argonauts game at BMO Field on Saturday (4 p.m., TSN, RDS, CJAD Radio 800).
  Matchup: Talk about the blind leading the blind. Both teams have 3-12 records and have been eliminated from the Canadian Football League playoffs — but at least the Argos can lay claim to winning last season’s Grey Cup, upsetting the favoured Calgary Stampeders at TD Place in Ottawa. The Als haven’t won the Cup, or appeared in the champion
  
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• Municipal byelections scheduled for Dec. 16

  20-10-2018 04:37 via montrealgazette.com
  The date has been set for byelections in two Montreal boroughs to replace a city councillor and a borough mayor who were elected to the National Assembly on Oct. 1.
  Both byelections will take place on Dec. 16.
  Residents of the Rivière-des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles borough will be electing new borough mayor to replace Chantal Rouleau.
  Residents of the Saint-Michel district of the Villeray—Saint-Michel—Parc-Extension borough will be electing a new city co
  
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• Lineups persist at SQDC on Day 3, even at closing time

  20-10-2018 04:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Friday was the third day of legal recreational cannabis sales in Montreal and a few minutes before closing time at the Société québécoise du cannabis on Ste-Catherine St. W., there were still about 150 people in line.
  But the store’s 9 p.m. closing time is being strictly enforced — with the help of at least a dozen police officers.
  Some knew they wouldn’t get in. A young woman near the back of the line was on the phone making plans to meet a bac
  
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• Alouettes QB Johnny Manziel confident that better days lie ahead

  20-10-2018 04:07 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — Johnny Manziel wants the world — or at least the small portion that follows the Alouettes — to know there are brighter days ahead for the struggling team, as early as next season.
  Manziel denies he’s frustrated with the amount of times he’s getting hit and sacked, while claiming not to be bothered by his 0-5 record as the club’s starting quarterback.
  “The last three games, we’ve been right in the mix,” Manziel said. “Any frust
  
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• Recall issued for bread from Montreal's Boulangerie Mariano

  20-10-2018 02:26 via montrealgazette.com
  The provincial government and the City of Montreal are warning the public about the possibility that bread sold by Boulangerie Mariano, located at 8870 Verville St., might contain pieces of wood.
  The bread was sold on or before Oct. 19, according to the warning issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the city’s food inspection division.
  The bread was either packaged or sold in bulk and has the label “Boulangerie chez Mariano.”
  People are advised not to con
  
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• Will anglos have a voice in government under François Legault's plan?

  20-10-2018 02:14 via montrealgazette.com
  As the former minister responsible for relations with English-speaking Quebecers, Kathleen Weil said the eradication of the ministerial position under the new government represents a step back for the English community.
  Newly sworn-in Quebec Premier François Legault announced Thursday he would take responsibility for the dossier, and was naming Laval MNA Christopher Skeete as his parliamentary assistant, responsible for the Secretariat for relations with English-speaking Quebecers.
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• Every station on Montreal métro's Orange Line now has LTE cellphone service

  20-10-2018 02:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealers can now take a métro trip to Place Bell in Laval and never lose their cellphone signal.
  On Friday, the Société de transport de Montréal announced that the Montmorency station has become the 47th of its 68 stations to be added to the mobile network being set up by the big four wireless service providers — Bell, Rogers, Telus and Videotron. The connection means the Orange Line is now fully connected from one end to the other.
  The next step in the netwo
  
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• Quebec's online cannabis sales drop sharply as SQDC stock shortage grows

  20-10-2018 01:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Despite opening-day reports on Wednesday depicting lengthy line-ups and long delays in getting into some Montreal sales outlets of the Société québécoise du cannabis, operations during the second full day of legalized cannabis sales in Quebec saw in-person shopping actually increase slightly while online purchases sank.
  However, the drop in online purchases might be attributed to a product shortage the agency admitted to on Thursday — a shortage that became
  
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• Quebec to give $2 million to the Red Cross for Gatineau tornado victims

  20-10-2018 01:49 via montrealgazette.com
  GATINEAU — Quebec will give $2 million to the Red Cross, which will be added to the funds already collected by the organization to help victims of the tornado in the Outaouais region last month.
  During a visit to Gatineau, to take stock of the help given to people affected by the tornado, Premier François Legault said on Friday afternoon that the additional money will allow the Red Cross to help people who are still staying in hotels, among others.
  “With this, we’ll have
  
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• Modest PQ caucus of 10 is sworn in; says its vision is still alive

  20-10-2018 01:40 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The band of 10 Parti Québécois election winners took office Friday, altering their oath of allegiance to the Queen with a simple protest preamble.
  Starting with interim leader Pascal Bérubé, the 10 PQ candidates one by one added the simple phrase “While waiting for Quebec to become a country,” to the standard oath to Queen Elizabeth they are required to pronounce to be legally recognized as MNAs under the Canadian constitution.
  Their anti-mo
  
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• Publisher Michel Brûlé subject of arrest warrant for sexual assault

  20-10-2018 01:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Sovereignist publisher Michel Brûlé is the subject of an arrest warrant for sexual assault.
  The warrant was signed in Quebec City on Oct. 15. According to the court, the charges stem from actions going back to Feb. 1, 2014.
  A date for Brûlé to appear in court has not been set.
  Quebec City police refused to confirm the arrest.
  Brûlé, 54, formed his own party in the 2013 Montreal municipal election and fielded a slate of candidates. He ran again in 2017 for m
  
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• Carey Price on verge of 'pretty cool' Canadiens milestone

  20-10-2018 00:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Claude Julien was Tomas Plekanec’s coach for his first NHL game with the Canadiens during the 2003-04 season and again when the veteran centre played in his 1,000th game this week against the Detroit Red Wings.
  Julien was also head coach of the Canadiens when they selected Carey Price in the first round (fifth overall) at the 2005 NHL Draft, but had been replaced by Bob Gainey and then Guy Carbonneau before the goalie made his NHL debut during the 2007-08 season.
  In his second stint as Can
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Tomas Plekanec out long-term with a back injury

  20-10-2018 00:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Tomas Plekanec received a silver stick before Wednesday night’s 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues at the Bell Centre, honouring him playing in 1,000 NHL regular-season games. He played in his 1,001st that night, but it will be a while now before the 35-year-old centre plays in game No. 1,002.
  The Canadiens announced Friday that Plekanec has been placed on the injured-reserve list with lower-back injury and he could be out for a while. He did not travel to Ottawa with the team on Friday afte
  
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• Stu Cowan: Canadiens' hot start helps to lighten mood in locker room

  20-10-2018 00:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Jesperi Kotkaniemi had only taken about two steps into the Canadiens’ locker room after Friday morning’s practice in Brossard when Andrew Shaw — who was already sitting in his stall — shouted out: “Hey, Kit Kat! Get over here … right now!”
  It turns out the Finnish rookie had lost a bet at the end of practice during a shooting competition in which players had to fire pucks off each goal post and then hit the crossbar. The loser had to untie the other pla
  
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