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• P.K. Subban's enduring bond to Montreal is anchored by Children's Hospital

  25-08-2018 23:36 via montrealgazette.com
  The email offering details of the Subban Defence Clinic was prefaced by the note: ” P.K. Subban, returning home to host a clinic for an incredible cause.”
  It has been more than three years since the Canadiens traded Subban to the Nashville Predators, but he made it clear Saturday that Montreal still holds a special place in his heart.
  “I came to Montreal in 2007 when I was drafted and it’s been a long time to be coming to a city and building relationships, and I come back
  
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• Quebec election: 'People called me crazy … now they say I can win'

  25-08-2018 23:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Vincent Marissal left his house to buy a loaf of bread a few days back and told his kids he’d be back in 15 minutes.
  The trip took an hour.
  “Eight people stopped me between the little grocer on the corner and our house,” said Marissal, Québec solidaire’s candidate in Rosemont. “Some people have called me brave, some people have said I’m crazy, but now they’re saying I can win.”
  Marissal — a longtime political columnist with La Presse &
  
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• City of Montreal to file $42-million lawsuit against Tony Accurso

  25-08-2018 22:40 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal is preparing to file a $42-million lawsuit against entrepreneur Tony Accurso and three other corporate executives for their alleged involvement in collusion, according to La Presse.
  The lawsuit targets the Simard-Beaudry and Louisbourg companies, which won numerous construction contracts with Montreal.
  The city accuses the companies of “participating in corporate bid rigging schemes response to calls for tenders.”
  Since the targeted companies are no lon
  
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• Herb Zurkowsky: Antonio Pipkin shows he should be Alouettes' starting QB next week

  25-08-2018 21:08 via montrealgazette.com
  We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this breaking-news item: the Alouettes won a football game Friday night.
  And, while their 25-22 victory over the Toronto Argonauts at Molson Stadium might not have been an aesthetic work of art, it ended a six-game losing streak and was the team’s first home victory in more than a calendar year.
  And the Als did this despite some questionable decisions by Mike Sherman, their first-year head coach. Sherman, who’s still relat
  
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• Québec solidaire calls third link between Quebec City and Lévis "an idea of old parties"

  25-08-2018 20:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Québec solidaire remains opposed to the idea of building a third link between Quebec and Lévis, party spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said on Saturday. Building more highways is an “old idea” of “old parties,” he said.
  A Québec solidaire government would abolish the project office set up by the Liberals to study the different scenarios for a possible third link, Nadeau-Dubois announced at a press conference in Quebec City.
  The scienc
  
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• Quebec election: Legault defends decision to release private messages

  25-08-2018 19:21 via montrealgazette.com
  ST-AMABLE — Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault started day three of the campaign by defending his party’s decision to release private messages to the media.
  Speaking with reporters from a family day event in St-Amable, Legault said he approved the CAQ opting to release private messages between the party and now-Liberal candidate Gertrude Bourdon.
  Bourdon, the former president of the CHU de Québec-Université Laval, chose to run for the Que
  
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• Quebec elections: PQ says you can grow your own weed

  25-08-2018 19:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Would a member of the Hells Angels sell a child pot and warn them about its adverse affects on the developing brain?
  Could you realistically imagine a leather-clad biker carrying health pamphlets alongside his stash of illicit drugs?
  These strange hypothetical questions are where the debate over selling cannabis in Quebec wound up on the third day of electoral campaigning Saturday.
  Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée put these scenarios forward in response to a
  
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• Canadiens on the bubble: Mike McCarron looking to make his mark

  25-08-2018 19:09 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens are going into training camp, which begins Sept. 13, 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 fourth in a five-part series about players who are on the bubble to earn a roster spot.
  When the Canadiens drafted Mike McCarron in the first round in 2013, he checked off a lot of the boxes.
  Size? He was an impressive physical specimen at 6-foot-6 and 245 pounds. There was some baby fat b
  
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• Quebec elections: Lisée says CAQ will lead Quebecers into "black hole"

  25-08-2018 17:53 via montrealgazette.com
  If the Coalition Avenir Québec forms a government this fall, they’ll drown the province’s finances in “a sea of red ink.”
  Jean-François Lisée ran the gamut of metaphors to describe the CAQ’s fiscal record; the party would lead Quebec into an economic “black hole,” it would raid public services and its leader has a “calculator where (his) heart should be.”
  Lisée, the Parti Québécois leader, released a
  
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• Buchignani: Formula One heads to Belgium after unrestful vacation

  25-08-2018 16:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Don’t you hate it when you come back from vacation more exhausted than before?
  That’s how Formula One must feel as it returns to the track this weekend — at the Belgian Grand Prix — after a four-week break that wasn’t.
  Well, sure, the cars went silent. But the off-track action was dizzying.
  There was the Made in Canada rescue of the teetering Force India team by a consortium led by Lance Stroll’s billionaire father. There were multiple driver transfers, includ
  
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• Quebec association sounds alarm over decreasing number of school psychologists

  25-08-2018 15:45 via montrealgazette.com
  The Association des psychologues du Québec is calling for an emergency committee on the role of psychologists in schools.
  The number of school psychologists has decreased by eight per cent since 2005, the organization says. For the province as a whole, there were a total of 1,056 psychologists in the 2016-2017 school year.
  “The [education] ministry, school boards, unions, the Ordre des psychologues and the Association des psychologues must find solutions together,” association
  
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• Karl Lohnes: Do you dream of having your own fantasy island?

  25-08-2018 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Most would agree that having additional workspace and storage in the kitchen is an asset. A centre island is often the perfect solution for obtaining all of that without renovating or re-renovating the entire kitchen. Here are three things to consider when incorporating a dream island into your existing kitchen.
  1. It’s about finding space
  If you have a kitchen with a large footprint, you might have room to introduce a built-in island. To determine what your kitchen can accommodate, simply
  
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• Police arrest man after fatal shooting in St-Léonard

  25-08-2018 14:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Police have arrested a man in connection with a St-Léonard shooting that left one man dead.
  A 44-year-old suspect was arrested on Friday morning in Napierville, in the Montérégie region.
  Guy Therrien, who was 53, was killed in a commercial building on Lafrenaie Street on Thursday evening. Police knew Therrien for drug trafficking.
  A 21-year-old man was also suffered a bullet wound. Police say he is in stable condition.
  The case could be related to organized crime, police hav
  
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• Quebec elections: Couillard promises two medicare cards for children

  25-08-2018 14:09 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – Liberal leader Philippe Couillard promised Saturday to provide a second medicare card for all children under 14 to ease the lives of their parents, and to give pharmacists the power to administer vaccines.
  In a series of pledges designed to improve access to health care, the incumbent premier also said if elected he would add another 25 superclinics where clients can access care seven days a week, and improve services in the regions by offering new medical services via telephone f
  
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• The Week in Review: Composting, cancer, candidates, canal, crime

  25-08-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on what stories you might have missed this week in Montreal.
  Montreal to have ‘most expensive composting plants in this universe’Montrealers should brace themselves because the city is preparing to build the most expensive organic waste treatment centres in the world, sources are warning. The bids to design, build, operate and maintain the first three of five centres that the city has been planning to build for a decade have come in at 50 per cent above the city’s
  
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• Hiking Mount Royal: The long and winding road named for Olmsted

  25-08-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  PART FOUR OF A FOUR-PART SERIES
  For Frederick Law Olmsted, getting there was half the fun.
  That’s clear from his writings and from the gently sloping, meandering 6.6-kilometre pedestrian and bike road on Mount Royal that bears the landscape architect’s name.
  The mountain’s grandest views are “greater when they are made distinct spectacles or when they are enjoyed as successive incidents of a sustained poem, to each of which the mind is gradually and sweetly led up,”
  
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• Enchanting Victorian country house and garden in Lac-Brome

  25-08-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  From the bay window of their living room, Mike Stone and Susan Wallet have a stunning view of Mont-Orford, Mont-Glen and Mont-Foster. On a clear day, they can even distinguish the Appalachian Mountains in the distance. If that was not enough to delight the eye, their scenic vista includes their beautifully landscaped garden, which surrounds their Victorian country-style residence in Lac-Brome.
  It took Stone, a professional landscape gardener, 24 years to create the formal garden, compl
  
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• Montreal weather: Partly cloudy and pleasant — nothing to complain about

  25-08-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Saturday will see sunny skies with some clouds rolled in.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 28 Celsius, a Humidex of 33 and a UV index of 7, or high.
  Tonight: Cloudy periods with a low of 18.
  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 @apostrophe_artist.
  Quote of the day:
  Between two sto
  
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• This comic has chutzpah: Opens Montreal-style deli in B.C.

  25-08-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  In the end, acclaimed Montreal TV producer, writer and comedian Howard Busgang felt compelled to give up the “meat market” that is Hollywood. So Busgang and family bolted for the tranquility of Salt Spring Island, B.C. — and into another meat market.
  For reasons that defy logic, Busgang decided that Salt Spring Island, a 35-minute ferry-ride from Victoria, was in need of a Montreal-style deli, “even though there are more bears than Jews” on the island.
  So with littl
  
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• Josh Freed: Quebec's political discourse isn't perfect, but it could be much worse

  25-08-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I was asking visiting friends from England about Brexit and they looked at me glumly, as if I was trying to poison them.
  They said they can’t talk about it anymore, since the topic divides families, neighbours and friends and leaves everyone exhausted, or depressed.
  In the U.S., it’s a similar situation as the Great Trump Divide makes political dinner talk treacherous and explosive.
  In long-boring Ontario it’s hard to discuss provincial politics, now that Premier Doug Ford has
  
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• How tight a leash should dogs be on in Quebec's provincial parks?

  25-08-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Never mind the Sturm und Drang over pit bulls in Montreal and Quebec — there’s another canine conundrum to solve: should dogs be allowed in Quebec’s provincial parks?
  Most provincial parks across Canada welcome dogs with open arms, provided they are on a leash and behave. But canines have been forbidden in most of Quebec’s parks.
  Société des établissements de plein air du Québec (SEPAQ), the agency that operates the provincial parks and wildlif
  
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• Herb Zurkowsky: Antonio Pipkin shows he should be the Als' starting quarterback next week

  25-08-2018 05:58 via montrealgazette.com
  We interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming to bring you this breaking-news item: the Alouettes won a football game Friday night.
  And, while their 25-22 victory over the Toronto Argonauts at Molson Stadium might not have been an aesthetic work of art, it ended a six-game losing streak and was the team’s first home victory in more than a calendar year.
  And the Als did this despite some questionable decisions by Mike Sherman, their first-year head coach. Sherman, who’s still relat
  
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• Alouettes barely beat Argonauts to win second game of the season

  25-08-2018 05:57 via montrealgazette.com
  It wasn’t a work of art but, at this point, it doesn’t matter. The Alouettes finally won a game.
  Boris Bede’s fourth field goal of the contest, a 27-yarder at 13:50 of the fourth quarter, carried Montreal to a come-from-behind 25-22 victory over the Toronto Argonauts Friday night before 16,480 Molson Stadium spectators.
  The victory ended a six-game losing streak for the Als, who now have a 2-8 record. It was Montreal’s first victory at home since Aug. 11, 2017. The defend
  
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• In case you missed it, here is what happened on August 24

  25-08-2018 03:36 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal:
  Quebec election: Barrette will be bumped from health if Liberals win
  Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard announced Friday he will remove unpopular Health Minister Gaétan Barrette from his post if re-elected, but would give him the high-profile position of treasury board president instead. In Barrette’s place, Couillard announced he would appoint the coveted Gertrude Bourdon, the former head of the Quebec City health centre that
  
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• Québec solidaire clarifies: French is Quebec's only official language

  25-08-2018 02:54 via montrealgazette.com
  There is only one official language in Quebec, Québec solidaire spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois clarified on Friday.
  Parti Québécois leaders Jean-François Lisée and Véronique Hivon expressed outrage after Québec solidaire said on Twitter that English was also an official language in Quebec.
  “It is very worrisome to see Québec solidaire’s position on the status of French as the only common language in Quebec. It’s c
  
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• Canadiens' Max Pacioretty back on skates and itching for season to start

  25-08-2018 02:13 via montrealgazette.com
  As Max Pacioretty motored up and down the ice at the Westmount Arena on Friday, there as no hint of the knee injury that kept him off skates for nearly five months.
  Pacioretty was injured in the latter stages of a road game against the New York Islanders on March 2. It marked the end of what had been his most disappointing season in the NHL. After reaching the 30-goal mark five times, Pacioretty went though two prolonged droughts and finished the season with 17 goals and 37 points in 64 games.
  W
  
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• Quebec election: PQ's Lisée says party-shopper Gertrude Bourdon 'has no moral compass'

  25-08-2018 01:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s election campaign has barely began and it’s turned into a choice between bad and worse.
  With his party polling a distant third in the polls Friday, this was Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée’s message. Lisée says the front-running Coalition Avenir Québec and Liberals are so confident of victory that they’ve taken the voters for fools.
  “When you’re too confident, Quebecers don’t like that,”
  
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• Quebec election: Couillard will bump Barrette, promises up to $300 per child

  25-08-2018 01:26 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC CITY — On a busy Day 2 of the campaign, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard said he will take away the health minister role from his unpopular lieutenant Gaétan Barrette and would give him the Treasury Board presidency instead, promised families up to $300 per child per year, and suggested François Legault’s proposal to raise the age for buying weed would send Quebec youth into the arms of the Hells Angels.
  After months of speculation, Couillard announced Friday af
  
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• Evenko investigating allegation it employed man convicted of sexual assault

  25-08-2018 01:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Concert promoter Evenko says it has launched an internal investigation after a man convicted of sexual assault was allegedly spotted working the door at a concert promoted by the company.
  According to a post shared on social media, Jonathan Gravel was seen working the door at a concert at Sala Rossa on Aug. 20.
  Gravel, who performs as a DJ under the alias John Lee, was found guilty of sexual assault in May.
  Quebec Court Justice David Simon ruled that Gravel anally penetrated a sexual partne
  
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• How Montreal compares to other cities on organic waste treatment

  25-08-2018 00:58 via montrealgazette.com
  When the city of Montreal went to public tenders last year for the first three organic waste processing plants that it plans for the island, it chose the same route as Toronto and several other public authorities in North America that have awarded all-encompassing design-build-operate-maintain contracts for their facilities.
  One year later, however, Montreal has opened the bid envelopes to discover that its all-inclusive contracts failed to attract much — or any — competitive offers.
  
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• Quebec election: Barrette will be bumped from health if Liberals win

  25-08-2018 00:27 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC CITY — Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard announced Friday he will remove unpopular Health Minister Gaétan Barrette from his post if re-elected, but would give him the high-profile position of treasury board president instead.
  In Barrette’s place, Couillard announced he would appoint the coveted Gertrude Bourdon, the former head of the Quebec City health centre that employs 15,000 people and includes five health institutions.
  Bourdon is a former nurse from the region who
  
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• Homicide victim was drug dealer who feared poverty of his youth

  25-08-2018 00:04 via montrealgazette.com
  The man gunned down Thursday night inside a car-repair shop in St-Léonard once told a parole officer he had opted for the life of a drug dealer as a means to escape the poverty he experienced as a child.
  Guy Therrien, 53, was out on full parole when he was fatally shot, still serving a sentence for cocaine possession. The Montreal police discovered his body inside a garage belonging to a car and truck-repair company based in a building on Lafrenaie St. in the St-Léonard borough. A
  
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