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• Canadiens on the bubble: Lindgren looking to rebound

  26-08-2018 23:00 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 last in a five-part series about players who are on the bubble to earn a roster spot.
  At this time last year, Charlie Lindgren’s career path with the Canadiens seemed clear. He had a perfect 3-0 record against NHL competition and the plan was for Lindgren to play lots of minutes with
  
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• Firefighters rescue family of four in Île-Bizard

  26-08-2018 22:52 via montrealgazette.com
  A neighbour’s phone call allowed firefighters to evacuate a family of four with no injuries as a violent blaze swept through their Île-Bizard home early Sunday.
  The call reporting the fire at 118 Pierre-Panet St. came in at 5:03 a.m., while the family was still sleeping, said Benoit Martel, chief operations for the Montreal fire department.
  The smoke detector had not yet gone off when the fire trucks arrived, but the family’s teenage son woke up and roused the rest of the famil
  
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• Quebec election: Experts size up four party leaders

  26-08-2018 22:19 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Maybe he was looking for good karma.
  When Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault kicked off his campaign Thursday, he immediately steered his election buses into the Quebec City riding of Louis-Hébert.
  Louis-Hébert has symbolic significance for the CAQ, because it was where it clobbered the Liberals last October in a byelection, ending 14 years of their rule.
  “Think about it,” Legault said that night. “If it is possible to win
  
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• Quebec election: History won't repeat itself, PQ's Lisée says

  26-08-2018 21:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Jean-François Lisée has a plan to win the election on Oct. 1: do the opposite of what the Parti Québécois did in the 2014 campaign.
  The PQ leader told reporters Sunday he keeps a book with a list of what the party did in that election — which began with the sovereignists ahead in the polls, but ended in their worst defeat since 1989.
  Lisée says his plan is to consult the book and make sure not to repeat any of what was done during the ill-fated campaign.
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals pledge free dental care for teens, seniors

  26-08-2018 21:25 via montrealgazette.com
  CHICOUTIMI — Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard promised to extend free dental care to children 16 years old and younger and to seniors on low revenue Sunday, a continuation of the party’s campaign theme of easing the lives of families.
  At present, only children under 10 and Quebecers on welfare receive free dental coverage for checkups and a limited number of procedures.
  The proposal could see opposition from the province’s dentists, who have been in a contract dispute with the
  
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• Quebec election: Legault restates pledge on universal school-tax rate

  26-08-2018 21:05 via montrealgazette.com
  TERREBONNE — Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault reiterated his pledge Sunday to offer a single, province-wide school tax rate.
  Legault had already announced the plan in January.
  The single rate would be 10.54 cents per $100 evaluation and apply across all school boards in Quebec’s 17 administrative regions.
  The plan would cost a new CAQ government $700 million over four years. Currently, taxpayers often pay different rates, even in the same municipalit
  
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• Jack Todd: Your kids in minor sports? Here are some rules

  26-08-2018 20:58 via montrealgazette.com
  It wasn’t a video clip you would want to show on Mother’s Day: I happened to be at the arena, so I lingered to watch a friend’s son play in a lower-level minor hockey game with 9- and 10-year-olds out for a little fun, exercise and team bonding on a weekend morning.
  The teams were badly matched. The locals were smaller and slower. The visitors scored early and often — and each time they did, a group of six or eight mothers blasted the deafening air horns they all carried.
  
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• N.D.G. man killed by police was a loving father: family

  26-08-2018 20:20 via montrealgazette.com
  The family of Nicholas Gibbs, the 23-year-old gunned down last Thursday by police after reportedly threatening officers with a knife, says he was a loving father whose death has devastated his loved ones.
  And a GoFundMe campaign has been launched to raise $15,000 for funeral expenses and to help his common-law wife and her four children, all under age seven, move to a different home, since she does not feel comfortable living near the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce location where the tragedy occ
  
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• Quebec election: History won't repeat itself, Lisée says

  26-08-2018 20:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Jean-François Lisée has a plan to win the election on Oct. 1: do the opposite of what the Parti Québécois did in the 2014 campaign.
  The PQ leader told reporters Sunday that he keeps a book with a list of what the party did in that election — which began with the sovereignists ahead in the polls, but ended in their worst defeat since 1989.
  Lisée says his plan is to consult the book and make sure not to repeat any of what was done during the ill-fated campa
  
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• Marc Richardson: Dear politicians, please talk to us millennials

  26-08-2018 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Dear François Legault, Jean-François Lisée, Manon Massé, Philippe Couillard, and everybody else who is running for provincial office:
  How’s it going? Are you tired yet? I hope not, because, by the time you read this, there will still be 35 days of campaigning left before the Oct. 1 provincial election.
  A behemoth of a campaign may not have been everybody’s wish — did anybody really want almost six weeks of this? — but since it’s what we g
  
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• Vettel wins Belgian GP to trim rival Hamilton’s F1 lead, Stroll finishes 13th

  26-08-2018 17:46 via montrealgazette.com
  SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — Sebastian Vettel made a crucial early overtaking move on Lewis Hamilton to win the crash-marred Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday and trim his rival’s overall lead.
  Hamilton started from pole position for a record fifth time at Spa, and a record-extending 78th in Formula One, with Vettel second on the grid.
  But Vettel has a knack for quick starts, and nudged his Ferrari past Hamilton’s Mercedes on the first lap with a smart move down the left.
  “I h
  
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• For students at the Montreal Children's Hospital, learning can be an 'oasis'

  26-08-2018 17:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Sarah Adair walked into the hospital for her first day of work this school year and saw her former student, fresh from a checkup of his new heart.
  The boy stayed in the Montreal Children’s Hospital for a year as he waited for a heart transplant. Adair was with him every day: “I was his grade two teacher for the whole school year,” she said. Then this summer, he got a new heart.
  “Seeing this student with his mom, walking freely with no cords or machines or hospital be
  
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• Quebec election: PQ's Lisée ahead in his riding, poll says

  26-08-2018 16:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Trailing badly in the polls, the Parti Québécois will take whatever good news it can.
  After speculation that party leader Jean-François Lisée was in trouble in his own riding, a new poll suggests he has a healthy lead over Québec Solidaire rival Vincent Marissal. Lisée notched 34.6 per cent support versus Marissal’s 25.8 per cent in the Rosemont riding, according to a poll by the Repère Communication firm.
  After three days of campaigning for
  
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• Quebec election: Free dental care for children up to 16 and seniors, Liberals pledge

  26-08-2018 16:03 via montrealgazette.com
  CHICOUTIMI – Philippe Couillard’s Liberals promised to extend free dental care to children 16 years old and younger and to seniors on low revenue Sunday.
  At present, only children under 10 receive free dental coverage.
  The extended coverage would apply to 1.2 million Quebecers and cost $150 million a year, the Liberals said. Seniors, designated as 65 and over, living alone with a revenue of less than $18,096 a year would qualify. Seniors living as a couple with revenues of under $24,
  
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• Mayhem on St-Laurent Blvd. after youths kicked out of party

  26-08-2018 15:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Young people who were unhappy about being kicked out of a party in a reception hall in the Plateau Mont-Royal Saturday night committed acts of vandalism and defied police.
  At around 8:30 p.m., the police had to intervene because of a fight in a building on St-Laurent Blvd. near Mont-Royal Ave.
  They asked the young people at the party, who were more numerous than expected, to leave the building.
  In anger, some set fire to garbage cans, threw tables and chairs on the sidewalk and threw bottles and
  
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• Fitness: Running and the cartilage conundrum

  26-08-2018 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s a rare runner whose knees haven’t felt the brunt of their running habit. It has a reputation for being tough on the joints: peak loading at the knee is three times that of walking and eight times more than standing. It’s not unusual for the well intentioned to suggest retiring your running shoes in favour of an activity that’s more knee friendly.
  Before you start researching the cost of a good road bike, it’s worth noting that long distance runners have a lower
  
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• While you were sleeping: 5 still critical after Bulgarian bus crash that killed 16; Storm drifts away from Hawaii

  26-08-2018 14:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Top stories from around the world:
  5 still critical after Bulgarian bus crash: Five people still have life-threatening injuries Sunday, a day after their tourist bus flipped over on a Bulgarian highway, killing at least 16 people and leaving 18 injured, authorities said. Dr. Nikolay Gabrovski from Sofia’s emergency hospital spoke Sunday about the victims’ injuries. Police said the bus was carrying 33 pilgrims from the village of Bozhurishte and a driver on a weekend tr
  
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• Schukov: Royal treatment for married couple marking anniversary at health spa

  26-08-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  My wife and I were born a few days apart in the same month of the same year in the same hospital, the Royal Victoria. (True story.) Although I was charmed by her cherubic cheeks as we passed each other in the maternity ward, I chose to play it cool until the next time we met — in high school. She didn’t think much of me until I finally convinced her I was a worthy catch — 20 years later. (Like good wine, some things need age.)
  This year, in celebration of our wedding anniversar
  
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• Can't get there from here: traffic hotspots to avoid today

  26-08-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Construction-related closing and detours will make driving something to avoid on Sunday. It almost makes one wishing winter would arrive sooner.
  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 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
  
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• Quebec election: PQ says you can grow your own weed

  26-08-2018 03:48 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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• Driving on Mount Royal: low turnout at pilot-project workshop

  26-08-2018 02:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Only a handful of people attended a public workshop Saturday as part of consultations to gauge Montrealers’ opinions on the city’s continuing pilot project restricting through traffic on Mount Royal.
  It was a disappointing turnout.
  Seventeen people had signed up to share their opinions on the closing of Camilien-Houde Way to through traffic. Only five showed up.
  “I wish there was more people who came to these things, but it’a beautiful day and people are busy,” said
  
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• Investigation begins after man injured while in Montreal police custody dies

  26-08-2018 00:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A 51-year-old man who was found seriously injured in his cell Thursday while in custody of the Montreal police force has died.
  Quebec’s police watchdog, the Bureau of Independent Inquiry (BEI), is investigating the circumstances surrounding the man’s death.
  About 10:30 Thursday morning, the man was arrested. He was placed in a cell with another detained person.
  At 12:20, he was found unconscious and was transported to hospital.
  The BEI has assigned eight investigators to the case. Th
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ promises free pre-kindergarten for four-year-olds

  26-08-2018 00:23 via montrealgazette.com
  BOUCHERVILLE — A Coalition Avenir Québec government would look to allow every four-year-old child to attend free pre-kindergarten, François Legault announced Saturday.
  The party leader, who’s supported the idea before, figures the plan would free up 50,000 spots in daycares across the province, coming from a mix of children leaving subsidized and non-subsidized daycare centres for classrooms.
  The CAQ estimates the total cost of the idea would be $311 million and every f
  
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