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• Dog to be euthanized after biting six people is mixed breed, SPCA says

  24-08-2018 23:44 via montrealgazette.com
  The dog that bit six people — including four children — in Montreal North Sunday was a mixed breed, according to DNA tests done by the Montreal SPCA.
  According to the test, the dog is 37 to 74 per cent bulldog. It also has genes from a variety of other breeds, including Boston terrier, American Staffordshire terrier and boxer.
  The SPCA sent the results to the city of Montreal.
  It was announced earlier this week that the dog would be euthanized before the end of the month but on
  
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• Police searching for driver who ran away from a two-car crash in Laval

  24-08-2018 23:42 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec is looking for a person who ran away from an accident involving two cars on Friday afternoon.
  At approximately 2 p.m., two cars collided on Highway 19 close to the exit for De La Concorde Blvd. in Laval.
  One of the drivers was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. The other driver fled the scene on foot into the Laval area.
  The Sûreté du Québec is handling the investigation and looking for the person who ran away.
  
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• Quebec election notebook: Québec solidaire briefly changes Bill 101

  24-08-2018 23:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Québec solidaire, which hopes to make inroads among anglophones, briefly made English an official language this week.
  The brouhaha began Thursday, Day 1 of the election campaign, when the party responded to a tweet from Jonathan Seifert. He noted QS wants sign language to become an official language of Quebec. “When will #english be awarded (the) same respect?” Seifert wondered.
  In response, the party tweeted: “English is an official language of Quebec and Canada. O
  
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• Hudson's Bay Company opens LaSalle store

  24-08-2018 23:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Hudson’s Bay Company has opened a new store in LaSalle.
  The store is in the Carrefour Angrignon shopping centre. It opened on Friday.
  The new store features women’s, men’s and children’s fashion, as well as sections for beauty products and cosmetics, home decor and toys.
  The company is holding a grand opening event on Saturday.
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ would replace 'dreaded' CHSLDs with seniors' homes

  24-08-2018 23:14 via montrealgazette.com
  SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD — A Coalition Avenir Québec government would overhaul Quebec’s entire CHSLD nursing home network and replace it with newer, more accommodating seniors’ homes.
  Switching his focus to seniors on his second campaign day, CAQ leader François Legault announced the idea on Friday morning during a stop in the Beauharnois riding, southwest of Montreal.
  The idea, called Maisons des Aînés, was described as a series of smaller
  
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• Gazette Time Machine: Deep Purple and Judas Priest in Montreal

  24-08-2018 22:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Deep Purple and Judas Priest have teamed up for a double-bill tour that stops at Montreal’s Bell Centre on Wednesday, Aug. 29. Here are excerpts from our previous coverage of the hard-rock veterans.
  Deep Purple a blast, and not just from the past
  Monday, April 1, 1985
  When words like “seminal” are used to describe a band, skeptics can be forgiven for expecting the worst, especially when the band in question hasn’t performed together for more than a decade. But t
  
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• Quebec election live blog Aug. 24: Psst. Wanna donate to my campaign?

  24-08-2018 22:58 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]:35 p.m.: Cranky voters, the Hells Angels and a stab in the back
  Jason Magder went out to talk to voters today and they’re not impressed by what they’re hearing from the candidates. “There’s nobody I really want to vote for,” one man said. “I always end up
  
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• New morning rush-hour schedule for Victoria Bridge

  24-08-2018 22:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Starting Monday, a new morning rush-hour schedule is in effect for the Victoria Bridge.
  From 5 to 9 a.m., the bridge’s two lanes will be reserved for traffic heading toward the island of Montreal. This adds an hour to the previous rush-hour schedule, in which the lanes were reserved for one-way traffic from 6 to 9 a.m.
  The two lanes remain reserved for commuters leaving the city from 3 to 7:15 p.m.
  Outside of rush hour, the bridge will have one outbound and one inbound lane, as usual.
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• 10,000 brownies are free for some scarfing in Montreal this weekend

  24-08-2018 21:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Good news, chocoholics: free brownies are on offer in Montreal.
  To mark the launch of its matcha and tiramisu-flavoured brownies, Juliette & Chocolat is giving a fair few out this weekend.
  From Aug. 24 through 26, a total of 10,000 brownies are up for grabs at its Montreal locations.
  chain indicated on Facebook that it was using this promotion to encourage customer voting on which flavour should become a fixture on its menu.
  That means you can justify your carb, sugar and chocolate consumpti
  
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• St-Léonard shooting leaves one man dead

  24-08-2018 21:15 via montrealgazette.com
  One man has died and another is in stable condition after a shooting in St-Léonard.
  Police say they received a call around 8:25 p.m. Thursday about a man who had been shot in a commercial building on Lafrenaie St. near Magloire St.
  At the scene, police first came across a 23-year-old man who appeared to have been shot in the upper body. He was transported to a hospital. Police say he is in stable condition.
  Police found a second man, age 53, inside the building. He was pronounced dead at
  
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• Montreal police defend 'violent' arrest of young woman caught on video

  24-08-2018 20:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are defending the actions of two officers whose arrest of a young woman on the street left her with a bloody nose and screaming in pain.
  Jeremiah Hayes, who was riding his bike near Berri and Ontario Sts. on Thursday afternoon, recorded the altercation on his cellphone after hearing the woman’s shouts.
  In the video, the woman can be heard screaming “my arm hurts” as the two officers push her against their patrol car.
  One of the officers appears to raise his arm
  
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• 'Abundance of death' in Rawi Hage's Beirut Hellfire Society

  24-08-2018 20:57 via montrealgazette.com
  The sound bite around Rawi Hage’s fourth novel, at least in its early days, will likely be something to the effect that the writer is “back in Beirut.” But don’t make too much of that.
  De Niro’s Game, the IMPAC Dublin award-winning debut that introduced the Lebanon-born Montrealer to the world in 2006, was followed by Cockroach and Carnival, each dealing in various ways with the immigrant experience. Beirut Hellfire Society (Knopf Canada, 278 pages, $29.95) finds hi
  
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• Quebec election: Voters say they are underwhelmed by the options

  24-08-2018 20:34 via montrealgazette.com
  While party leaders are making lofty promises as the 2018 provincial election campaign gets underway, voters say are so far underwhelmed with the choices they have.
  “There’s nobody I really want to vote for,” said Chuck, a Montreal resident. “I always end up voting for the people I hate the least.”
  An informal poll of people walking through downtown Montreal on Friday showed that nearly everyone was aware that an election campaign was underway in the province either
  
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• What the Puck: Canadiens brass shanks one with Pacioretty golf tourney

  24-08-2018 19:59 via montrealgazette.com
  What a fine mess.
  The Montreal Canadiens’ season has not even begun and already Habs management is scurrying around trying to douse the flames of the controversy surrounding Max Pacioretty. It sometimes feels like Patches already has one skate out the door, but he is still captain of the team.
  Pacioretty’s annual charity golf tournament is set for Tuesday and there was quite a media stir-fry last week after 91.9 FM host Raphaël Doucet tweeted to say Habs president Geoff Molson,
  
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• Quebec election: PQ deploys secret weapon Blanc in battle for Mercier

  24-08-2018 19:23 via montrealgazette.com
  It may be an uphill climb for the Parti Québécois to win the Mercier riding on Oct. 1 but try telling that to Michelle Blanc.
  “My team is so good, it knocks me on my ass just thinking about it,” said Blanc, who’s running in the Plateau-area district. “I feel like we’re shaking things up. We’re rattling the competition, I can see it on social media. It’s getting nasty.”
  The plain-spoken candidate paced outside her St-Denis St. campaign
  
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• Macpherson: Philippe Couillard gets a new father-in-law

  24-08-2018 19:02 via montrealgazette.com
  As the already long-underway campaign for the Oct. 1 Quebec general election finally entered its official phase on Thursday, it looked as though the only thing that might save Premier Philippe Couillard’s Liberal government from defeat was Russian intervention.
  It wasn’t just that the Liberals were trailing in the polls, and incumbents tend not to come from behind in Quebec election campaigns to win.
  And it wasn’t the additional, sheer incompetence of the once-vaunted Liberal o
  
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• SPCA reveals DNA of dog set to be euthanized for biting six

  24-08-2018 18:56 via montrealgazette.com
  The dog that bit six people — including four children — in Montreal North Sunday was a mixed breed, according to DNA tests done by the Montreal SPCA.
  According to the test, the dog is 37 to 74 per cent bulldog. It also has genes from a variety of other breeds, including Boston terrier, American Staffordshire terrier and boxer.
  The SPCA sent the results to the city of Montreal.
  It was announced earlier this week that the dog would be euthanized before the end of the month, once t
  
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• Notorious West End Gang leader Allan (The Weasel) Ross has died

  24-08-2018 18:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Allan (The Weasel) Ross, one of the more notorious organized crime figures ever to emerge from Montreal died of natural causes earlier this week while serving a life sentence in the United States.
  An official with the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed to the Montreal Gazette that Ross died on Tuesday at a medical centre in North Carolina that is part of the prison system.
  Ross had been held at the medical centre for a long time while he continued to serve a life sentence. Ross continued trying
  
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• UPAC arrests two men on Châteauguay fraud charges

  24-08-2018 18:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s anti-corruption unit (UPAC) arrested two men Friday morning on fraud and breach of trust charges.
  Richard Sauvé, a former public works employee of the city of Châteauguay, and Thierry de Lalonde, vice-president of Distributions Nord-Ouest, a company that supplied electrical equipment to the city of Châteauguay, were arrested at their homes.
  Sauvé is accused of fraud and breach of trust. De Lalonde is being charged with fraud and influence of a munici
  
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• Quebec election: Couillard blasts CAQ on cannabis age limit

  24-08-2018 18:26 via montrealgazette.com
  TROIS-RIVIÈRES — Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard has blasted François Legault’s suggestion of raising the legal age for buying cannabis to 21, saying it would only profit the Hells Angels.
  The Coalition Avenir Québec leader has said raising the age limit would send a message that drug use must be taken seriously.
  Couillard called the idea short-sighted.
  “Why is it that people can vote at 18, can make their own decisions, but will not be allowed
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals offer families up to $300 per child annually

  24-08-2018 18:24 via montrealgazette.com
  TROIS-RIVIÈRES — A re-elected Liberal government would give families annual cheques of between $150 and $300 per child, in addition to child benefits already bestowed by the province, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard announcement Friday.
  The amount granted would be based on household income, and the cheques would be issued to parents.
  “The amount will allow families to spend more quality time together,” the Liberal government said in a statement, mirroring the party&rsq
  
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• Gwyneth Paltrow 'dreams' of poutine — hopefully not as a cleanse

  24-08-2018 18:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Who among us is capable of resisting the charms of a good québécois poutine?
  Not wellness guru Gwyneth Paltrow, apparently.
  Paltrow was recently in Montreal to promote the Canadian expansion of Goop, her lifestyle brand, and took the opportunity to tell the Journal de Montréal that she “dreams of eating poutine.”
  “There was food everywhere — small plates of ancient grains and salads and not a brown avocado in the bunch,” the New York Times&rsquo
  
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• Wine: Bill Zacharkiw's summer standouts

  24-08-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I write two “personal” columns every year. One is my year-end review; the other is this one, in which I look back on what I drank over the summer. Please note that this is about drinking, as opposed to tasting. I taste year round, but during the summer I drink my fair share of good bottles.Here are a few standouts. I love drinking aged wine, so hopefully a few of these might inspire you to do the same.Lambrusco, 15, Grasparossa di Castelvetro (private import, $27.50). Three dinner pa
  
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• Video shows 'violent' arrest of young woman by Montreal police

  24-08-2018 17:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Riding his bike downtown Thursday afternoon near the corner of Berri and Ontario St., Jeremiah Hayes heard a young woman screaming — she was being arrested by two Montreal police officers.
  Hayes pulled out his cellphone and recorded the arrest.
  In the video, the woman can be heard screaming “my arm hurts” as the two officers push her against their patrol car.
  One of the officers appears to raise his arm and strike or punch her in the head.
  Hayes said that by the time she w
  
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• Live – Quebec election: Québec Solidaire flip-flops on English as 'official language'

  24-08-2018 17:16 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]:05 a.m.: Language confusion at Québec Solidaire
  Québec Solidaire, which hopes to make inroads among anglophones on Oct. 1, briefly made English an official language in Quebec on Day 1 of the election campaign.
  In a tweet Thursday, the party declared English to be “an official lang
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ would replace 'dreaded' CHSLDs with senior homes

  24-08-2018 16:54 via montrealgazette.com
  SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD — A Coalition Avenir Québec government would overhaul Quebec’s entire CHSLD nursing home network and replace it with a new series of senior homes.
  The CAQ is describing the idea, called the “Maisons des Aînés,” as a “project of a generation.” It estimates the first phase of the project would cost $1 billion, followed by $245 million a year in operating expenses.
  The party says the idea is “destined to replace
  
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• Quebec election: PQ wants answers on Val d'Or police misconduct

  24-08-2018 16:43 via montrealgazette.com
  After news Thursday that Quebec’s provincial police remained silent on allegations of sexual abuse within its ranks for years, Jean-François Lisée is demanding answers from the incumbent Liberal Party.
  “What did they know and when did they know it,” said Lisée, leader of the Parti Québécois. “The (Liberals) need to answer this question. Was the public security minister aware? If she was, what did she do about it?
  “Someone needs to
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals offer up to $300 per child per year to families

  24-08-2018 16:22 via montrealgazette.com
  TROIS-RIVIÈRES — If elected, the Liberal government would give between $150 and $300 per child for every family each year, in addition to child benefits already bestowed by the province, Quebec Liberal leader Philippe Couillard announced Friday morning. The amount granted would be based on household income, and cheques will be issued to parents.
  “The amount will allow families to spend more quality time together,” the Liberal government said in a statement, mirroring the
  
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• While you were sleeping: Trees lost in Montreal, python found in U.S.

  24-08-2018 15:19 via montrealgazette.com
  Residents decry felling of 70 mature trees along Lachine CanalResidents who live near the Lachine Canal say they watched in disbelief as a company working for Parks Canada clear cut a tract of about 70 mature trees during the past week to make way for a new bike path.
  Parks Canada announced on Aug. 7 that it will build a one-kilometre-long bike path on the north side of the canal, just east of Atwater Market, to add to the existing network along the waterway. But it didn’t warn that p
  
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• St-Léonard shooting leaves one man dead, another critical

  24-08-2018 15:09 via montrealgazette.com
  One man has died and another is in a hospital in critical condition after a shooting in St-Léonard.
  Police say they received a call around 8:25 p.m. Thursday about a man who had been shot in a commercial building on Lafrenaie St. near Magloire St.
  At the scene, police first came across a 23-year-old man who appeared to have been shot in the upper body. He was transported to a hospital. Police say his life is at risk.
  Police found a second man, age 53, inside the building. He was pronounce
  
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• Quebec Liberals: Up to $300 per child per year offered to families

  24-08-2018 14:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Trois-Rivières — If elected, the Liberal government would give between $150 and $300 per child for every family each year, in addition to child benefits already bestowed by the province, Quebec Liberal leader Philippe Couillard announced Friday morning. The amount granted would be based on household income, and cheques will be issued to parents.
  “The amount will allow families to spend more quality time together,” the Liberal government said in a statement, mirroring the
  
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• Quebec elections: CAQ would replace 'dreaded' CHSLDs with senior homes

  24-08-2018 13:41 via montrealgazette.com
  A Coalition Avenir Québec government would overhaul Quebec’s entire CHSLD nursing home network and replace it with a new series of senior homes.
  The CAQ is describing the idea, called the “Maisons des Aînés,” as a “project of a generation.”
  In a short video released Friday morning, the party says the idea is “destined to replace the CHSLDs that everyone dreads.”
  “We propose to offer those who have worked long and hard and who ha
  
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• Toronto Argonauts at Alouettes: Five things you should know

  24-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Toronto Argonauts-Alouettes game at Molson Stadium on Friday (7:30 p.m., TSN, RDS, TSN Radio 690).
  Matchup: Don’t be fooled by the Argonauts’ 3-5 record as they reach the halfway mark of their schedule. The defending Grey Cup champions are on a two-game winning streak. Last season, their record was identical heading into their ninth game. The won six of their last 10 and went 5-2 down the stretch. And of their remaining 10 games in 2018,
  
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• The spirit of Sam Lazarus is still helping kids on Sam Jam hockey day

  24-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  To his mother, Sam Lazarus is forever 25.
  It’s the age Janet Torge’s younger son was when he died from malaria in early 2004 in Ghana, where was working as a volunteer teacher in a daycare centre.
  “That was his life: He had 25 years,” she said.
  “He stays 25. It’s too weird to try to figure out how old he would be, what he would be doing. I just don’t go there. That was a decision I made during my mourning period.
  “In my mind, he died at the top of
  
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• Residents decry felling of 70 mature trees along Lachine Canal

  24-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Residents who live near the Lachine Canal say they watched in disbelief as a company working for Parks Canada clear cut a tract of about 70 mature trees during the past week to make way for a new bike path.
  “They were beautiful,” said Richard Bourhis, who took photos and alerted his condo neighbours when he spotted crews chopping limbs and an excavator tearing the remaining tree stumps out of the ground between Georges-Vanier Blvd. and Des Seigneurs St. on his morning walk last Thurs
  
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• Montreal weather: Sunny and warm

  24-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Sunny with winds becoming southwest at 20 km/h in the morning.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 28 Celsius, a Humidex of 31 and a UV index of 7 or high.
  Tonight: Clear with increasing cloudiness before morning. Winds blowing southwest at 20 km/h, becoming light in the evening. The overnight low is expected to be 19 C.
  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 he
  
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• Montreal real estate: Rent market ideal for small-scale investors

  24-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  In a sense, Montreal real estate is an investors’ market.
  According to the most recent Census, only about a third of Montrealers own their homes, which means an awful lot of us are paying someone else’s mortgage.
  Many of these landlords are small-scale, local investors renting out duplexes, triplexes or condos. But increasingly, more investors from other provinces in Canada and abroad are eyeing Montreal real estate. It’s easy to see why. Prices, while rising, remain low compar
  
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• One dead, one in critical condition following shooting in St-Leonard

  24-08-2018 05:21 via montrealgazette.com
  One man has died and another is in a hospital in critical condition following a shooting in St-Léonard Thursday night.
  Police say they received a call about a man who had been shot in a commercial building, on Lafrenaie St. near Magloire St. around 8:25 p.m.
  Once on the scene, police found the first victim, who appeared to have been shot in the upper body. He was transported to a hospital and police say they fear for his life.
  Police then found the second victim inside the building. He wa
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened in Montreal on Aug. 23

  24-08-2018 04:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal:
  No jail time for getaway driver in home invasion at Mafia leader’s residence
  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 effo
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée says PQ would hold referendum after 2022

  24-08-2018 03:57 via montrealgazette.com
  “The Parti Québécois is back!”
  Those five words shouted from the head of a bingo hall in a farming town north of Montreal were just enough to light up the crowd of PQ faithful Thursday night.
  Marc Bourcier may not be a star candidate for the party, but the St-Jérôme MNA perfectly summed up the PQ’s first day on the campaign trail.
  The party is polling a distant third at the outset of the provincial election, trailing the Liberals and the surging Coali
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals will 'ease the lives of everyone,' Couillard says

  24-08-2018 03:13 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 that his unpopular health minister could be reassigned, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard launched the 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&rsquo
  
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• Quebec election: PQ leader criticizes Liberals on corruption

  24-08-2018 02:05 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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• Als will be team 'to be reckoned with,' Argos coach says

  24-08-2018 01:57 via montrealgazette.com
  The defending Grey Cup champions might be on a two-game winning streak, but a cautious Marc Trestman isn’t ready to proclaim that his team has turned the corner just yet.
  “We have a long way to go. We’ve won a couple of games over the last few weeks, but we haven’t anointed ourselves,” the Toronto Argonauts’ head coach said Thursday, after the team arrived for Friday night’s game against the Alouettes — the club Trestman coached for five seasons an
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ vows to raise legal age for cannabis use

  24-08-2018 01:47 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC  —  Flanked by supporters and candidates, Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault chose to start his campaign where he says the “wave of change” started last fall.
  Legault opened the 39-day campaign in Quebec City’s Louis-Hébert riding, which was taken over by the CAQ from the Quebec Liberal Party in an upset byelection win.
  At the time, Legault said the win was a “scathing message” from voters to Premier Philipp
  
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• Weekend traffic update: Headaches on the Ville-Marie, Turcot Interchange

  24-08-2018 01:16 via montrealgazette.com
  There are numerous construction-related closures and detours this weekend. Here are some spots to look out for.
  Ville-Marie Expressway
  Ville-Marie Expressway west and Highway 20 west will be closed between Exit 5 for Robert-Bourassa Blvd. / Bonaventure Expressway / Champlain Bridge and the entrance from 1st Ave. in Lachine from Friday at 11:59 p.m. until Monday at 5 a.m.
  All entrances to the highway between the two points will be closed, as well as those from Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Blvd. at the Mo
  
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• Montreal's new animal-control bylaw focuses on prevention

  24-08-2018 01:00 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.
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• Quebec Election live blog Aug. 23: Leaders raring to go on first day

  24-08-2018 00:52 via montrealgazette.com
  This post was updated throughout the day with news from the campaign trail. Email me at [email protected]:40 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 between stability or instability. Progress or starting all over again.”
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• Alouettes banking on defence-in-flux to get job done against Argonauts

  24-08-2018 00:40 via montrealgazette.com
  The day after the Alouettes suffered a humiliating loss to Hamilton this month, head coach Mike Sherman showed his players a tape of John Bowman, partially torn bicep and all, crawling in a vain attempt to finish his tackle.
  That was Aug. 3, two games ago. Bowman was expected to miss up to six weeks. Instead, he’ll make his return Friday night (7:30 p.m., TSN, RDS, TSN Radio 690), when the Als attempt to end a six-game losing streak at home against the Toronto Argonauts.
  The defending Grey
  
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• Montreal woman with dementia finally gets English care

  24-08-2018 00:27 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal man fighting for dignified care for his ailing 80-year-old wife says kindness from total strangers saved her life.
  “It’s like a miracle to me,” said George Zeliotis, 87, who spent the better part of August fighting for English-language care promised to his wife, Alexandra Stefanatos, who has dementia and cannot communicate well in French, although she is fluent in English and Greek.
  Stefanatos had been placed in an east-end public nursing home where few of the staff
  
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• Quebec election notebook: CAQ offers mixed messages in English, French

  24-08-2018 00:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Keep an eye on how the Coalition Avenir Québec woos voters in English versus French.
  As recently as Wednesday, the party was advertising on Google, with different messages depending on whether you searched “CAQ” with your browser set to English or to French.
  In English, the slogan: A Strong Quebec Within Canada, with a subtitle promising “concrete results for Quebecers.”
  In French, the slogan: Répond à l’appel des Québéco
  
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