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• Alouettes head coach Mike Sherman encouraged by quarterback situation

  27-08-2018 23:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Mike Sherman insists there’s no quarterback controversy on the Alouettes. Instead, the head coach is enthusiastic over how much the landscape has changed in the three months since the team assembled for training camp.
  “There was (a controversy) at the beginning of the year, when we were struggling to find who our quarterback was,” Sherman said Monday after practice. “When you have quarterbacks — and I feel fortunate we have a couple on the roster that can really con
  
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• Woman in dog-attack case awaits sentence for selling ecstasy

  27-08-2018 23:34 via montrealgazette.com
  The woman who was looking after a dog when it attacked and seriously injured two of her grandchildren inside her home in Montreal North last week is awaiting a sentence in a case in which she recently pleaded guilty to selling ecstasy pills to undercover cops.
  On Aug. 19, Frances Richardson, 62, was looking after a dog for someone she knew when it bit her 4-year-old granddaughter on the head. According to the Montreal police report into what happened that day, Richardson took her granddaughter t
  
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• Quebec election live blog Aug. 27: Legault sees 'message' in Donald Trump win

  27-08-2018 23:21 via montrealgazette.com
  This was the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Monday, Aug. 27.
   
  5:20 p.m.: That’s a wrap
  Join us tomorrow for more election fun.5:10 p.m.: Did the CAQ muzzle a former Liberal minister?
  Le Soleil this morning reported that the CAQ ordered one of its star candidates – former Liberal cabinet minister Marguerite Blais – not to attend a local election debate. The Quebec City newspaper quoted an email that Blais’ press attach&eacut
  
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• Allison Hanes: Time to sit up and pay attention to the real election campaign

  27-08-2018 22:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Like many Quebecers, I’m preoccupied this week trying to get the kids into the routine of a brand-new school year and facing up to the fact that, despite the latest heat wave, summer is really over.
  There’s so much going on at home that, for the average person, it could easily escape notice that there’s an election campaign in full swing — except for all those signs on lampposts and lawns, of course.
  But then again, it’s hard to tell the difference between the offic
  
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• Centre d'histoire de Montréal will move to the Main under new name MEM

  27-08-2018 22:26 via montrealgazette.com
  The Centre d’histoire de Montréal will be renamed The MEM and moved to new digs at the corner of Ste-Catherine St. and the Main by 2021, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante announced Monday.
  The museum has outgrown the former firehall in Old Montreal out of which it has operated for the past 35 years, Plante said. It makes sense that a museum that is to be a “window into the Montreal identity” should be located at an iconic intersection in the heart of the Quartier des
  
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• Live – Quebec election: Legault sees 'message' in Donald Trump win

  27-08-2018 21:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Welcome to the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election. This post will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected]
  3:30 p.m.:  QS plans to tax the rich to help pay for promises
  Québec Solidaire is making many big promises, including cutting transit fares in half, eliminating all education fees through university, and introducing universal dental-care insurance.
  On Monday, Manon Massé, the party’s co-spokesperson
  
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• Lise Ravary: Québécois de souche is not a racist term

  27-08-2018 20:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Je suis un Québécois de soucheJ’ai une fleur de lys tatouée sa boucheC’est pas que j’sais pas ben parlerMais chu un colon angliciséUn colon angliciséAn englished colon …Cha Cha Cha!
  — Les Cowboys fringants
  Last week, ex-Montrealer, now Toronto-based commentator Supriya Dwivedi, tweeted that Québécois de souche, a term she had to explain to anglos on a panel, “is loaded and yes, racist.”
  I wish I had been
  
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• Back to school: Speed limits reduced in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie

  27-08-2018 20:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Students returning to school this week and using St-Denis St., St-Joseph Blvd. or Christophe-Colomb Ave. will be able to do so on roads where the speed limit has been reduced to 30 km/h near parks and schools.
  Motorists using St-Denis will also have to slow down when approaching École La Mennais at Beaubien St.
  Vehicles on Christophe-Colomb will have to respect newly installed road signs near École Saint-Arsène between Bélanger and Jean-Talon Sts., and École Sa
  
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• What the Puck: Habs prospects look good, but can team develop them?

  27-08-2018 20:33 via montrealgazette.com
  The kids look good.
  There I said it. Some have suggested I never have anything nice to say about our fine hockey club and that’s simply not true. I have said once or twice that P.K. Subban was doing great with the Canadiens. I am also on record as suggesting Alex Galchenyuk would make a fine centre and I have opined that Mikhail Sergachev had a great future with the Habs. Oops, I’ve just checked the Canadiens’ website and it looks like those three are no longer with the team.
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• 'I got your back': Subban supports Serena Williams after outfit ban

  27-08-2018 20:32 via montrealgazette.com
  P.K. Subban expressed his support for Serena Williams after the French Tennis Federation imposed a dress code in response to an outfit Williams wore during the 2018 French Open.
  “As a man who’s surrounded by strong women like my sisters and mother, I was very disappointed by this news,” the former Montreal Canadiens defenceman tweeted on Monday.
  I had to think about this one for a while before I commented… As a man who’s surrounded by strong women like my sisters a
  
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• Man charged with killing girlfriend wants statement to police tossed out

  27-08-2018 20:03 via montrealgazette.com
  A man who has been assessed as having the intellectual capacity of a 10 year old will learn later this year if a statement he gave to police, following his arrest for the murder of his girlfriend, is admissible in his trial.
  Yves Nadeau, 59, has been on trial at the Montreal courthouse for the second-degree murder of 62-year-old Louise Girard since April. The Crown has yet to begin presenting its evidence because Superior Court Justice Mario Longpré must first determine whether the things
  
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• Live – Quebec election: Legault sees 'message' in Donald Turmp win

  27-08-2018 20:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Welcome to the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election. This post will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected]
  1:30 p.m.: Was it the latest polls?
  Odd fashion statement from Suzanne Pilote, the wife of Liberal leader Philippe Couillard, on the campaign trail Monday morning.
  “On No, it’s Monday again,” read her English-only T-shirt over the image of a sad panda.
  Election day, Oct. 1, is also a Monday.
  Pilote is known to
  
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• Watch: Revisiting the garment trade at the Museum of Jewish Montreal

  27-08-2018 19:14 via montrealgazette.com
  The Museum of Jewish Montreal has mounted a new tour that looks at history, business, culture and the labour movement as it applied to the garment (shmatte) industry of the early 20th century. Between 1870 and 1930, the industry employed more workers than any other industry in Montreal. About 40 per cent of them were Jewish; most of the rest were French Canadian.
  But 75 to 80 per cent of the city’s Jews worked in the garment industry in some capacity. The tour examines the histor
  
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• Als practice: Johnny Manziel returns; Antonio Pipkin takes first-team reps

  27-08-2018 18:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel participated during Alouettes practice Monday, but it was another rookie, Antonio Pipkin, who practised first with the starting offence.
  Pipkin took five reps, compared with Manziel’s four. Manziel has missed the last two games with a concussion suffered during a game against the Ottawa Redblacks on Aug. 11. The team says he is still under the league’s concussion protocol system.
  In his place, Pipkin passed for 303 yards last Friday, when Montreal de
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ would boost family allowance by $1,200 per child

  27-08-2018 18:25 via montrealgazette.com
  A Coalition Avenir Québec government would give families an additional $1,200 per child in family allowance for every child after the first one, François Legault promised Monday.
  At a campaign stop in Brome—Missisquoi, the longtime stronghold of Liberal MNA Pierre Paradis, Legault said the measure would help parents who want to have bigger families.
  The measure is not primarily intended to boost the birthrate among native-born Quebecers, but if it does help reinforce Quebec&r
  
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• Hudson resident fights for her life in home invasion

  27-08-2018 18:21 via montrealgazette.com
  On the verge of losing consciousness, with a man’s hand squeezing the breath out of her, Natalie Poirier fought for her life.
  Poirier was sound asleep in her bungalow on Pine Street in Hudson, when she was shocked awake by three loud bangs. It was 2:09 a.m., Sunday.
  “I thought it was thunder,” Poirier said during an interview, Monday. “My dog (Riley) is beyond terrified of thunder. I thought he might be banging against the door trying to get away.”
  Poirier called ou
  
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• Quebec election: No tax hike on income under $97,000, Massé says

  27-08-2018 18:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Just five days into the election campaign, Québec solidaire has unveiled its fiscal game plan, one that contains no tax hikes for those earning less than $97,000 annually.
  Party spokesperson Manon Massé explained to reporters during a press conference on Monday how Québec solidaire intends to keep its campaign promises while pumping up provincial revenues by $12.9 billion.
  The left-of-centre party has already proposed cutting public transit fares by half, guaranteeing free e
  
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• Opinion: Interest in veganism is a sign of a strong economy

  27-08-2018 18:07 via montrealgazette.com
  We seem to be living in an era in which the pleasure of eating is quite simply overpowered by values-based narratives in food consumption. And this is happening at an astonishing pace. Vegetarianism and veganism are both coming into their own, allowing more people to “come out of the cupboard” to speak openly about and affirm their commitment to a self-imposed diet. They’re doing it for animal welfare, the environment, health — whatever factor is deemed personally importa
  
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• Live – Quebec election: CAQ headed for comfortable majority – poll analysis

  27-08-2018 17:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Welcome to the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election. This post will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected]
  10:40 a.m.: Projection gives CAQ wide lead
  François Legault and his Coalition Avenir Québec are headed for a comfortable majority, according to an analysis of poll results published Monday by Philippe J. Fournier, who tracks political surveys at Qc125.com and l’Actualité magazine.
  His latest analy
  
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• While you were sleeping: Montreal gunfire, B.C. fires and NAFTA news

  27-08-2018 16:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were unplugged and unconscious.
  Montreal police looking for clues after gunfire in Point-St-Charles
  Police responding to 911 calls about gunfire in Point-St-Charles found plenty of spent shell casings but little in the way of information. Officers arrived at the corner of Châteauguay and Charlevoix Sts. and found spent shell casings on the street and several bullet holes in the facade of a nearby residence. Police said the occupants of the bui
  
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• Montreal police look for clues in Point-St-Charles gunfire

  27-08-2018 16:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Police responding to calls about gunfire in Point-St-Charles early Monday found plenty of spent shell casings but little in the way of information.
  Officers arrived at the corner of Châteauguay and Charlevoix Sts. soon after receiving several 911 calls and found spent shell casings on the street and several bullet holes in the facade of a nearby residence.
  However, occupants of the building were not co-operating with investigators, police said.
  The canine unit was deployed in an effor
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals pledge free daycare for four-year-olds

  27-08-2018 15:42 via montrealgazette.com
  ST-FÉLICIEN — Quebec Liberal leader Philippe Couillard started Monday with a slew of education promises, pledging free daycare and education for all four-year-olds in government-run daycares or pre-kindergartens, the addition of a teaching aid in all pre-kindergartens and kindergarten classrooms, and intensive English classes in Grades 5 and 6.
  As promised earlier this summer, daycares will be free for four-year-olds in the province, Couillard said. Because education will be integra
  
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• Quebec election: Barrette’s strength is health care, not tact: premier

  27-08-2018 15:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Liberal Party Leader Philippe Couillard went to bat for his health minister Gaétan Barrette during a radio interview in his home riding of Roberval Monday, although he did acknowledge that diplomacy isn’t the controversial Barrette’s strong suit.
  Speaking to Planète Radio Roberval, Couillard said Barrette had improved the health care system across the board, most notably in the areas of emergency room waiting times and access to family physicians, even if the net
  
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• Heat warning: Humidex in Montreal area expected to hit low 40s

  27-08-2018 14:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada has issued a heat warning for the Montreal area, forecasting on Monday morning that “warm and humid conditions” will settle over southern Quebec and likely persist until Wednesday.
  The warning, which also extends to the Châteauguay-La Prairie area, Laval and Longueuil-Varennes, noted that Tuesday will be particularly humid, with humidex values expected to register in the low 40s.
  The federal agency advises that outdoor activities be re-scheduled to coole
  
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• Quebec election: PQ says it would develop 'Tinder' app for carpooling

  27-08-2018 14:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The Parti Québécois will commission the development of a “Tinder” for carpooling if it is elected on Oct. 1, in an effort to decrease the number of cars on Quebec roads, said leader Jean-François Lisée on Monday morning.
  The application would match people who are looking for a ride with nearby people who have space in their car, in a manner similar to the popular location-based dating app.
  Drivers — and each passenger — would receive $4 fo
  
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• While you were sleeping: Montreal shoot-out, B.C. fires and NAFTA news

  27-08-2018 14:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were unplugged and unconscious.
  Montreal police looking for clues after shoot-out in Point St-Charles
  Police arriving at the scene of a shoot-out that erupted early Monday in Point St-Charles found plenty of spent shell casings but little in the way of information, even from the occupants of a building hit by gunfire. Officers arrived at the corner of Châteauguay and Charlevoix Sts. soon after receiving several 911 calls reporting gunfire at the si
  
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• Montreal police looking for clues after shoot-out in Point St-Charles

  27-08-2018 14:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Police arriving at the scene of a shoot-out that erupted early Monday in Point St-Charles found plenty of spent shell casings but little in the way of information, even from the occupants of a building hit by gunfire.
  Officers arrived at the corner of Châteauguay and Charlevoix Sts. soon after receiving several 911 calls reporting gunfire at the site. Once on the scene, however, there was little to suggest the incident had occurred other than a collection of spent shell casings on the stre
  
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• Woman dies in head-on collision in Saguenay—Lac-St-Jean

  27-08-2018 13:25 via montrealgazette.com
  A 63-year-old woman died Sunday evening after the car she was driving collided with another vehicle on Highway 169 near Hébertville in the Saguenay—Lac-St-Jean region.
  The Sûreté du Québec said the crash occurred around 8:30 p.m. The woman died while being transported to hospital, and the driver of the other vehicle is in serious condition.
  A preliminary investigation suggests the collision occurred after the car being driven by the woman drifted into the on
  
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• Montreal weather: Sunny with a few clouds later in the day

  27-08-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Mainly sunny with increasing cloudiness late in the afternoon.
  A 20 km/h wind will blow from the southwest in the afternoon.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 28 Celsius, a Humidex of 35 and a UV index of 7, or high.
  Tonight: Mainly cloudy with 60-per-cent chance of showers and a low of 23.
  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&rsqu
  
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• Walk through Montreal's history in former garment factory tour

  27-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Listen hard enough as you walk the wooden floorboards of the old Vineberg garment factory building and you can almost hear the whirring of sewing machines and the sound of shears cutting through fabric. Certainly you can imagine the needleworkers, heads down as they worked, most of them women, or the cutters, all men, better paid than the needleworkers.
  It has been decades since the building at St-Laurent Blvd and Duluth Ave. housed Harris Vineberg’s Progress Brand factory, manufacturers o
  
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• Opinion: How to turn up the heat at Habs games

  27-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  You’ve probably seen the iconic ads, with their now-classic adage:
  “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.”
  Yeah right … when it comes to debauchery, maybe. But when it comes to hockey, the funnel has flipped. What happens in Vegas is now spreading loudly throughout the NHL, particularly the experience that surrounds and punctuates the game itself.
  Chalk it up to the Knight-ly madness of Las Vegas’s inaugural season last year. Selling 360-degree sizzle that include
  
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• Life stories: Benjamin Weiss's life cut short by schizophrenia

  27-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Every fall, Benjamin Weiss would try to apply to universities around Montreal so he could continue his education.
  Weiss killed himself in July at the age of 42 after suffering from paranoid schizophrenia for much of his adult life. He had been a strong student, and was previously accepted into McGill University’s biology program. Weiss always wanted to return and complete his degree.
  “He would get better, then he would say, ‘Oh my god, I have to do something,’“ said
  
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• Spain’s Mario Mola wins Montreal triathlon; Tyler Meslawschuk top Canadian

  27-08-2018 04:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Mario Mola took a big step toward a third straight world title by winning the Montreal Triathlon on Sunday.
  The Spaniard, with his fourth win of the year, finished the 1.5-kilometre swim, 40-kilometre cycle and 10-kilometre run in one hour, 47 minutes 36 seconds. He came in 16 seconds ahead of Kristian Blummenfelt of Norway and 42 ahead of third-place Jacob Birtwhistle of Australia.
  Mola will take an 824-point lead over Birtwhistle into the Grand Final next month in Gold Coast, Australia, where
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened on August 26

  27-08-2018 02:23 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal.
  Quebec election analysis: Experts size up four party leaders
  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
  
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• N.D.G. man killed by police described as a loving father

  27-08-2018 02:15 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.
  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 Gibbs was shot.
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• Learning is an 'oasis' for kids at Montreal Children's Hospital

  27-08-2018 01:10 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 2 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 beds
  
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• Quebec election: Legault galvanized by rivals’ objections to pre-K plan

  27-08-2018 00:47 via montrealgazette.com
  LAVAL —  After a weekend spent calmly reiterating promises and rallying supporters, a more combative François Legault emerged for the first time of the young campaign Sunday afternoon.
  “I can’t believe it!” an animated Legault said during a campaign stop at a public market in Laval.
  “I can’t get over Jean-François Lisée and Philippe Couillard’s lack of ambition,” he added. “Come on! We need more ambition for our
  
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• Quebec election analysis: Experts size up four party leaders

  27-08-2018 00:27 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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• Sûreté du Québec investigates Hudson home invasion

  27-08-2018 00:02 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec is investigating an overnight home invasion in Hudson.
  A spokesperson for the provincial police force said two men entered the home on Pine St. around 2:15 a.m. Sunday looking for cash and were able to get away with a few objects. A woman was in the home at the time; she was not injured.
  The SQ’s major crimes unit is investigating the incident. No arrests have been made
  
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