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• School now free for all Quebec children, no matter immigration status

  23-08-2018 23:50 via montrealgazette.com
  For the first time, all children who live in Quebec can attend school this year for free, regardless of their immigration status.
  Under a new Quebec law, parents need only show that they live in Quebec in order to enrol their children in primary or secondary school. But advocates for undocumented families are worried school districts aren’t ready to fully implement the law.
  How will undocumented families find out about the new policy? Will school district staff know which documents to
  
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• Quebec election: 'Time for new faces,' says Québec solidaire at launch

  23-08-2018 23:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Free dental care, half-price public transit, free tuition, legal jiu-jitsu.
  Launching its election campaign Thursday at a sunny park in Villeray, Québec solidaire said it wants Quebecers to dream big — and forget the tired, old politics of the past.
  “Philippe Couillard, Jean-François Lisée and François Legault have had 15 years to prove themselves,” QS spokesperson Manon Massé told a large crowd of supporters and reporters. “Now, it&rsqu
  
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• Live – Quebec Election: Leaders raring to go on first day

  23-08-2018 23:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Welcome to the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election. This post will be updated throughout the day with news from the campaign trail. Email me at [email protected]:15 p.m.: Leaders raring to go on first day
  All four political parties have launched their campaigns:
  Philippe Couillard and the Liberals: “Today the choice in this election is simple — either we harvest the fruits of our past efforts or we compromise years of work. The choice will be
  
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• No jail time for getaway driver in home invasion at Mafia leader's residence

  23-08-2018 23:24 via montrealgazette.com
  A young man who acted as a getaway driver when someone stormed into the Laval home of a Montreal Mafia leader and threatened the mobster’s family at gunpoint will not have to serve jail time for his role in what transpired.
  Quebec Court Judge Serge Cimon said on Thursday that sending 26-year-old David Cormier to a detention centre would negate the efforts he has made to get his life together since his arrest last year. Shortly before noon on May 6, 2017, a gunman entered the home of France
  
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• Impact won't have to face TFC's Jozy Altidore in crucial road match

  23-08-2018 23:18 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s rivalry week in MLS and that means a derby game between the Impact and Toronto FC Saturday at BMO Field (8 p.m., TSN, TVA Sports, TSN-690 Radio).
  This is a crucial game for both teams’ playoff hopes and the impact gets a break because they won’t have to face Jozy Altidore. He saw an additional game tacked on to his original one-game ban for kicking out at NYCFC’s Alexandre Callens two weeks ago.
  “Jozy has always been a thorn in our side, and we’re certain
  
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• Canadiens alumni to play game to benefit soldiers, veterans, first responders

  23-08-2018 23:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Organizers of International Heroes Hockey Night in Kingston coming up on Sunday, Oct. 28, at the Leon’s Centre in Kingston are hoping for a sellout.
  Tickets are currently on sale at the arena’s box office, but organizer Kerri Tadeu hopes the game will be sold out by Sept. 1.
  The Montreal Canadiens alumni are scheduled to play against the Our Nation’s Heroes team, made up of soldiers, veterans and civilian first responders.
  The game is a fundraiser for the Po
  
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• Montreal's new animal-control bylaw focusses on prevention

  23-08-2018 22:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Choke chains will be banned, a list of potentially dangerous dogs will be made public, and pet stores will only be permitted to sell shelter dogs.
  Those are some of the elements of the city’s animal-control bylaw, which was adopted this week and will gradually come into force starting Monday. The bylaw was voted in days after a dog in Montreal North attacked two children on the same day. The Plante administration hopes the bylaw will allow the city to prevent future incidents.
  “We&rs
  
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• Live – Quebec Election: A glimmer of good news for Liberals in poll

  23-08-2018 22:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Welcome to the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election. This post will be updated throughout the day with news from the campaign trail. Email me at [email protected]:30 p.m.: CAQ tops on health care, taxes
  A La Presse-Ipsos poll released Thursday shows the CAQ in the lead (36 per cent), followed by the Liberals (29 per cent), the PQ (18 per cent) and Québec Solidaire (11 per cent).
  Take a deeper look at the full results and some other interesting numb
  
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• Meet, greet, kick a ball at Say Ça soccer tournament for refugee teens

  23-08-2018 22:37 via montrealgazette.com
  The soccer tournament is all about bringing people together, says Anna Calderon.
  “It’s to encourage people to come meet our students because right now most of them are Syrian refugees, and for them, it’s very important to get integrated into the community,” said Calderon, executive director of Say Ça, which teaches English and French to refugees aged 12-18 and provides mentorship, currently to 25 students.
  “At school, they tend to stick with each other j
  
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• Laval police kill dog that repeatedly attacked woman

  23-08-2018 22:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police fatally shot a dog after it repeatedly attacked a woman Thursday afternoon.
  The call came in about the dog attack around 1:45 p.m., during which screams could be heard on the other end of the line, a police spokesperson said. When police arrived on the scene shortly after, the dog approached and began biting the woman a second time. After multiple failed attempts to get the dog away from the woman, police said they tried to gain control of the animal by tasering it.
  They said the ta
  
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• Quebec election: Count on Liberals for stability, Couillard says

  23-08-2018 22:28 via montrealgazette.com
  With promises of improved quality of life, dire warnings of an opponent who would drive the province into economic instability, and intimations his unpopular health minister could be reassigned, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard launched the Liberal Party’s 39-day election campaign Thursday in Quebec City.
  With the central theme of “Improving the lives of all Quebecers,” Couillard emphasized the economic progress and balanced budgets the province has enjoyed during his party&rs
  
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• Man detained by Montreal police in critical condition

  23-08-2018 22:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s police watchdog launched an investigation Thursday after a man detained by Montreal police was found unconscious and in critical condition.
  According to the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes, a 51-year-old man was arrested by police around 10:30 a.m. and locked in a cell with another person at a station in St-Laurent. Around 12:20 p.m., the BEI said, the man was found unconscious. Officers performed CPR on the man, and he was brought to hospital. They say the man&rsqu
  
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• Montreal is somehow the 'most reputable' city in Canada: report

  23-08-2018 22:08 via montrealgazette.com
  What word comes to mind when you think of Montreal?
  If your answer to that question is “reputable,” you may be less alone in the world than you once feared.
  Montreal, you see, has been listed by the Reputation Institute as the most reputable city in Canada.
  The research and advisory firm’s newly released city rankings for 2018 evaluate metropolises in three main areas: “advanced economy,” ” appealing environment” and “effective government.”
  B
  
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• Restaurant review: Café Bazin is a sweet spot for more than desserts

  23-08-2018 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Café Bazin
  ★★★ out of ★★★★
  $$
  Address: 380 Victoria Ave.
  Phone: 438-387-3070
  Website: cafebazin.com
  Open: Mon.-Sat. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., lunch 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Saturday lunch starts at 10 a.m.)
  Wheelchair access: One step
  Reservations: None; busiest from noon to 1:30 p.m.
  Cards: All major
  Vegetarian-friendly: Yes
  Licensed: Yes
  Parking: On the street
  Price range: Small dishes $6-$10, mains $1
  
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• Quebec elections: PQ leader criticizes Liberals on corruption

  23-08-2018 21:56 via montrealgazette.com
  He isn’t chanting “lock them up,” but Jean-François Lisée says the Liberal party needs to be held accountable for years of alleged corruption.
  During a campaign stop in Montreal Thursday, the Parti Québécois leader pondered why, after “so many investigations” into claims of Liberal corruption, more people aren’t in jail.
  “When we were in power, Mayor (Gilles) Vaillancourt was arrested, Montreal Mayor (Michael) Applebaum w
  
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• Opinion: Quebec's economy shouldn't be taken for granted

  23-08-2018 20:49 via montrealgazette.com
  A common interest in national prosperity tends to work against ideological divisions in the political spectrum and any popular appetite for taking extreme stances on issues. Quebec, relatively, has more than held its own economically, and as we head into an election campaign, we can, by and large, consider ourselves fortunate to live in this province. Not everything is perfect, mind you — as the candidates of the various parties will surely remind us on a daily basis — but as voters
  
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• Quebec election: Legault 'turning the page' with CAQ campaign launch

  23-08-2018 20:44 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Flanked by supporters and candidates, Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault chose to kickstart his campaign where the party most recently found success.
  Legault held the first news conference of the 39-day campaign in Quebec City’s Louis-Hébert riding, taken over by the CAQ from the Quebec Liberal Party in an upset byelection win last fall.
  At the time, Legault said the win was a “scathing message” from voters to Premier Philip
  
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• Live – Quebec Election: CAQ is nationalist or federalist, ça dépend

  23-08-2018 19:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Welcome to the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election. This post will be updated throughout the day with news from the campaign trail. Email me at [email protected]:10 p.m.: The CAQ – Quebec-nationalist federalists
  Keep an eye on how the Coalition Avenir Québec woos voters in English vs. in French.
  As recently as Wednesday, the party was advertising on Google, with different messages depending on whether you searched “CAQ” with your
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée says the PQ would hold referendum after 2021

  23-08-2018 19:56 via montrealgazette.com
  At the outset of Quebec’s 39-day election campaign on Thursday, Jean-François Lisée vowed to take his party back to its roots.
  A Parti Québécois government, he said, would fight for the working class, double down on the Charter of the French Language and work toward turning Quebec into an independent nation.
  Though the PQ would not hold a referendum in its first mandate, he said it would study a referendum plan and present it to Quebecers during a massive public
  
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• Today is the anniversary of Youppi getting ejected from an Expos game

  23-08-2018 19:42 via montrealgazette.com
  On Aug. 23, 1989, then-Montreal Expos mascot Youppi was ejected from the team’s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
  The 11th-inning ejection is believed to be the first time a mascot was thrown out of a baseball game.
  As the game extended into extra innings, Youppi marked its length by napping atop the visiting team’s dugout wearing a nightgown and carrying a pillow.
  Tired of the mascot’s antics, Dodgers managers Tommy Lasorda stepped out of the dugout and stared him dow
  
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• Live – Quebec Election 2018: The CAQ – Quebec-nationalist federalists

  23-08-2018 19:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Welcome to the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election. This post will be updated throughout the day with news from the campaign trail. Email me at [email protected]:10 p.m.: The CAQ – Quebec-nationalist federalists
  Keep an eye on how the Coalition Avenir Québec woos voters in English vs. French.
  As recently as Wednesday, the party was advertising on Google, with different messages depending on whether you searched “CAQ” with your br
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals promise quality of life and stability

  23-08-2018 19:05 via montrealgazette.com
  With the central theme of “Improving the lives of all Quebecers,” Liberal leader Philippe Couillard officially launched his party’s 39-day provincial election campaign in Quebec City Thursday.
  His emphasis was firmly on the economic progress the province has enjoyed during his party’s four-year tenure, and cautioning voters against risking that in pursuit of change. At the same time, he did not downplay suggestions his unpopular health minister, Gaetan Barrette, could be
  
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• Montreal, Laval team up in Canada's largest order of electric buses

  23-08-2018 18:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal and Laval have teamed up to order 40 electric buses, and they will take on passengers in two years.
  Montreal will get 30 buses, and Laval the other 10. The slow-charge, 40-foot buses built by New Flyer Industries Canada will cost $43.2 million, according to a statement issued by the Société de transport de Montréal.
  This is the largest-ever order of electric buses in Canada, the STM said. The vehicles will be on the road next spring as they are tested out by th
  
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• Update: Highway 40 reopens after major crash, truck fire

  23-08-2018 18:44 via montrealgazette.com
  An accident between three heavy trucks, one of which caught fire, closed Highway 40 E. in Dorval Thursday morning, causing kilometres of traffic backups.
  According to Montreal fire department chief of operations Benoit Martel, who was one of 30 firefighters on the scene battling the blaze, the crash occurred just before 3 a.m.
  Martel said a 53-foot-long, 18-wheeler freight truck carrying a load of meat veered out of its lane near Sources Blvd. Two signal trucks were in another lane as workers fi
  
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• Naqvi-Mohamed: Nasty political discourse has deep effect on minorities

  23-08-2018 18:43 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec election campaign is gearing up and around the corner are yet more promises, photo opportunities, debates (thankfully in English this time), political manoeuvring and the finest advertising that campaign money can buy.
  It’s been widely noted that the possibility of a referendum on independence isn’t on the table in this campaign. Instead, however, other divisive issues are coming to the surface.
  Federal MP Maxime Bernier’s tweet last week cautioning against too
  
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• Hotel Intel: Float away to relaxation in Flotel's micro-lodging

  23-08-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The delightful new Flotel in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is an innovative combination of land and sea.
  It offers micro-lodging in stylish converted shipping containers docked in a marina, so the nights are blissful and soothing, similar to sleeping aboard a boat. But sports, entertainment and restaurants are at the doorstep.
  Developer Bruno Lefebvre hails from this picturesque island region about 75 kilometres west of downtown Montreal, and he has spent most of his life cruising these waters. He kn
  
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• Canadiens on the bubble: Jacob de la Rose faces battle for ice time

  23-08-2018 17:52 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens are going into training camp, which begins Sept. 3, with more bodies than they need to fill the 23 roster spots when their season begins on Oct. 3 against the Maple Leafs in Toronto. This is the second in a five-part series about players who are on the bubble to earn a roster spot.
  The best thing that happened to Jacob de la Rose last season was the Canadiens’ decision to trade Tomas Plekanec to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Feb. 25 for their playoff run. De la Rose went from be
  
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• Proud and confident, Couillard kicks off Quebec election

  23-08-2018 17:38 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — They’re off to the races.
  A final meeting of cabinet, some fond farewells and then a short walk by the premier up the street to visit the lieutenant-governor to make it all nice and legal.
  And that’s it.
  Quebecers are headed to the polls Oct. 1 in the 42nd general election in the province’s history.
  “Pride and confidence,” Premier Philippe Couillard said emerging from his meeting with Lt.-Gov. Michel Doyon, who signed the necessary decrees — one
  
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• Proud and confident, Couillard kicks off Quebec election campaign

  23-08-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — They’re off to the races.
  A final meeting of cabinet, some fond farewells and then a short walk by the premier up the street to visit the lieutenant-governor to make it all nice and legal.
  And that’s it.
  Quebecers are headed to the polls Oct. 1 in the 42nd general election in the province’s history.
  “Pride and confidence,” Premier Philippe Couillard said emerging from his meeting with Lt.-Gov. Michel Doyon, who signed the necessary decrees — one
  
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• Live – Quebec Election 2018: Liberals in doghouse after bus flap

  23-08-2018 16:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Welcome to the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election. This post will be updated throughout the day with news from the campaign trail. Email me at [email protected]:55 a.m.: Liberals in the doghouse after bus flap
  The campaign just started and the Liberals are already in the doghouse with reporters.
  On Wednesday, the party took flack for slapping Liberal logos on the bus that journalists will ride on as they follow Premier Philippe Couillard on the campaig
  
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• Traffic nightmare: Major crash, truck fire closes Highway 40 in Dorval

  23-08-2018 16:57 via montrealgazette.com
  An accident between three heavy trucks, one of which caught fire, closed Highway 40 E. in Dorval Thursday morning, causing kilometres of traffic backups.
  According to Montreal fire department chief of operations Benoit Martel, who was one of 30 firefighters on the scene battling the blaze, the crash occurred just before 3 a.m.
  Martel said a 53-foot-long freight truck carrying a load of meat veered out of its lane between St-Jean Blvd. and Sources Blvd. Two signal trucks were in another lane as w
  
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• Please please me: Beatles tribute star begs to join McCartney onstage

  23-08-2018 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Perhaps it came to him in the midst of some Golden Slumbers one summer evening. Or perhaps it was triggered when he caught late-night TV host James Corden doing a super-sized Carpool Karaoke with the ex-Beatle along the streets of Liverpool.
  But as he celebrated his 60th birthday, Montreal musician John Oriettas decided it was time to act on his No. 1 bucket-list item: to join Paul McCartney onstage for one song when the latter hits the Bell Centre on Sept. 20.
  To that end, Oriettas has put out
  
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• Five things to do in Montreal this weekend: Aug. 24 to 26

  23-08-2018 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Get creative at N.D.G. Arts Week
  This annual festival is both a showcase for local talent and an opportunity to explore your artistic side. Kick off the weekend with N.D.G. Off the Wall, a free outdoor screening of short films — each one by N.D.G. filmmakers or featuring content about the community. There’s no shortage of ways to spend your Saturday: visit the Alley Cat Gallery, attend a short story writing workshop, stroll down the BoulevArt or relax in the reading yurt. The festiva
  
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• While you were sleeping: Australian refugee sues Canada and turtle smugglers caught

  23-08-2018 14:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Man who fled biker gang to became Australia’s first known refugee sues Canadian officials after winning asylum
  Stevan Utah fled to Canada in 2006, on the run from an Australian biker gang he said was out to kill him. A former informant for an Australian intelligence agency, Utah said he was outed that year by the very authorities who had employed him, and was nearly murdered by members of the Bandidos motorcycle club before fleeing the country.
  Last fall, more than a decade after arriving
  
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• San Francisco financial technology company expands to Montreal

  23-08-2018 13:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Upgrade Inc., a San Francisco-based financial technology company, has opened a development office in Montreal, it said on Wednesday.
  The company, which offers personal loans and credit-monitoring services, has hired 25 engineers in Montreal, it said. It plans to hire another 75 during the next two years.
  “Montreal features a great talent pool with top-notch expertise in diverse technology fields including big data, artificial intelligence and blockchain,” Renaud Laplanche, the c
  
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• Man dies in Longueuil apartment fire

  23-08-2018 13:32 via montrealgazette.com
  A 52-year-old man has died after firefighters found him in a burning apartment building Thursday.
  Longueuil firefighters began battling the blaze on Montpetit St. just after midnight.
  Firefighters found the man unconscious and tried to resuscitate him. He was transported to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
  Police say they will investigate the fire to determine the cause.
   
  
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• Traffic nightmare: Major crash closes highway 40 eastbound in Dorval

  23-08-2018 13:28 via montrealgazette.com
  An accident between three heavy trucks, one of which caught fire, closed the Highway 40 East inDorval, in the west island, Thursday morning.
  Three people were injured and transported to hospital. One is in critical condition.
  The accident occurred about 3:30 a.m. near the exit for Sources Blvd.
  A heavy truck rear-ended another vehicle in an area where roadwork was taking place. The struck vehicle hit a pickup truck and a transports Quebec worker who was seriously injured.The heavy truck caught f
  
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• Financial technology company expands to Montreal

  23-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Upgrade Inc., a San Fransisco-based financial technology company, has opened a development office in Montreal, it said on Wednesday.
  The company, which offers personal loans and credit-monitoring services, has hired 25 engineers in Montreal, it said. It plans to hire another 75 during the next two years.
  “Montreal features a great talent pool with top-notch expertise in diverse technology fields including big data, artificial intelligence and blockchain,” Renaud Laplanche, the c
  
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• And they're off: Five things to know about the Oct. 1 Quebec election

  23-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec is embarking on a provincial election.
  Here are five things voters should know.
  1. The standings
  This is the current seat breakdown in the 125-seat National Assembly:
  Quebec Liberal Party (Philippe Couillard): 68Parti Québécois (Jean-François Lisée): 28Coalition Avenir Québec (François Legault): 21Québec solidaire (Manon Massé): 3Independent: 5
  Candidates have until Sept. 6 to file nomination papers.
  2. 39-day campaign
  Quebec’s
  
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• Gertrude Bourdon spurns CAQ to become Quebec Liberal Party candidate

  23-08-2018 04:50 via montrealgazette.com
  After rejecting the entreaties of the Coalition Avenir Québec, highly courted president of the CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Gertrude Bourdon, has chosen to become a candidate for the Quebec Liberal Party, a source confirmed to the Canadian Press.
  La Presse first revealed Bourdon’s candidacy on Wednesday night, indicating she would run in Jean-Lesage, a riding in lower Quebec City. Bourdon, 63, is a trained nurse.
  On Saturday, Bourdon informed CAQ Leader Fran&cc
  
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• With Sutton injured, William Stanback gets shot at redemption with Als

  23-08-2018 03:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Released by the Green Bay Packers at the end of training camp in 2017, and wondering whether the phone would ring again, William Stanback worked as a delivery guy for a courier service.
  He worked out and went to combines, understanding that if he was out of sight, he’d be out of mind. That’s how it is for running backs in the U.S., where they often come by the dozen.
  “Coming here to the CFL, it humbled me. It gave me another opportunity to pursue my dreams in this game,”
  
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• Montreal startup's plan to compete with Uber on hold

  23-08-2018 02:57 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal-based startup says Quebec’s transport ministry has essentially given Uber a monopoly over ride hailing.
  Raphaël Gaudreault and Dardan Isufi, the co-founders of Eva, say they applied for permission to launch a ride hailing service in January, but they still haven’t received an answer from the Ministry of Transport.
  Uber operates in Quebec under a pilot project that allows for “remunerated passenger transportation services requested exclusively
  
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• Far-right group supports federal bid of Trudeau heckler Matthieu Brien

  23-08-2018 02:04 via montrealgazette.com
  The man arrested during a confrontation with Justin Trudeau in June says he’s running to become the Bloc Québécois candidate in the prime minister’s riding and he can count on support from Quebec’s far right.
  Storm Alliance — which has staged rallies at the Canada-U.S. border to “protect” Quebecers from refugee claimants — sent a delegation to the campaign launch of Matthieu Brien Wednesday.
  Brien says he wants to represent the Bloc in the
  
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• Opinion: Mayor Valérie Plante’s animal welfare bylaw is refreshing

  23-08-2018 01:36 via montrealgazette.com
  After years of populist rhetoric and haphazard legislating by former mayor Denis Coderre, Montreal has finally passed responsible animal welfare legislation this week that respects both animal and human rights. Montrealers are safer for it.
  The bylaw adopted Tuesday does not target specific breeds, but it does impose stricter conditions on negligent owners of dangerous dogs, be they “pit bull type”, Rottweiler, chihuahua or others.
  Though the scientific case is admittedly more c
  
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• Police seek info about woman possibly forced into car in Little Burgundy

  23-08-2018 01:19 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are asking for the public’s help to explain an event that took place at 8:20 p.m. on Aug. 20 in Little Burgundy.
  Witnesses saw a woman walking west on Workman St., near Dominion St. when a car pulled up next to her, a man stepped out of the vehicle and put the woman in the front seat of the car. The man got into the back seat of the vehicle, which went south on Dominion St., turned right on Notre-Dame St. and continued westward. According to information obtained by the poli
  
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• Montreal's mobility squad officially hits the road

  23-08-2018 00:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s new six-person mobility squad officially hit the road Wednesday, working to alleviate traffic congestion in the city’s downtown core by removing illegally parked cars and non-compliant constructions sites.
  Still in its infancy, the squad will only be patrolling five designated sectors in downtown Montreal, the Sud-Ouest borough and Plateau-Mont-Royal, where the city perceives traffic to be at its worst, from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Friday.
  Each of the sectors will
  
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• Montreal firm hopes new process dissolves styrofoam recycling problems

  23-08-2018 00:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Polystyrene is one of the most-used plastics in the world. It’s used to make styrofoam, CD cases, insulation and any container with the No. 6 recycling symbol.
  Despite this ubiquity, it’s one of the least-recycled plastics. In Montreal, it’s the only type of hard plastic that’s banned entirely from recycling bins.
  But a local company has developed a new process that it says will make recycling polystyrene easier and cheaper.
  On Monday, Polystyvert opened what it says
  
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• Analysis: Welcome to the battle for Quebec – with sovereignty off the table

  23-08-2018 00:00 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — It will be a unique, dare we say, Canadian-style election.
  The campaign Premier Philippe Couillard kicks off Thursday with a visit to the lieutenant-governor will — for the first time in a long, long time — focus on the bread-and-butter issues of the day.
  Who of the four leaders will make the best premier? Who do you trust to run the economy? Who has the best daycare plan? Where do the parties stand on taxes, health-care services, education, immigration, language, envi
  
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