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• Allison Hanes: Do our animal-control laws have enough teeth?

  29-08-2018 23:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Three dog attacks in 10 days are raising some pointed questions about how far new animal-control laws recently adopted in Montreal and across Quebec actually go to protect the public.
  A dog was shot by police in the Outaouais region Tuesday evening after turning on its owner, seriously injuring him and another man who tried to intervene. Another dog was killed by police in Laval last week after officers responded to a 911 call from a screaming woman who was repeatedly attacked by her son’s
  
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• Quebec election notebook: Volatile voters expect CAQ minority government

  29-08-2018 23:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebecers expect the Oct. 1 election to produce a minority Coalition Avenir Québec government.
  That’s one of the secondary take-aways from the Montreal Gazette-Le Devoir poll conducted by Léger that you read about in Wednesday’s paper.
  Forty-two per cent of respondents expect François Legault’s CAQ to win the election, compared with 24 per cent who think Philippe Couillard and his Liberals will take it. Only four per cent foresee a victory by the Parti Qu&e
  
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• Quebec election live blog Aug. 29: The anti-extremist blogger who vets PQ candidates

  29-08-2018 22:56 via montrealgazette.com
  This was the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Wednesday, Aug. 29.5 p.m.: That’s a wrap
  Thanks for following along. We’ll be back on Thursday.3:45 p.m.: Couillard wows kids
  Here’s why Liberal leader Philippe Couillard keeps visiting schools. This was the fourth elementary school he has visited in three days, according to colleague René Bruemmer.
  Philippe Couillard gets most enthusiastic reception of his campaign, by far, at É
  
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• Beyond the Plate with Antonio Park: multicultural in life and in food

  29-08-2018 22:30 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the fifth instalment in the monthly series Beyond the Plate, looking at the motivations and passions of local chefs. This month: Antonio Park.
  After a day spent with Antonio Park, and hearing about his upbringing, his personal hardships and the rebuilding of his flagship restaurants Park and Lavanderia after a devastating fire, a Bob Marley quote comes to mind: “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
  Park said his mother recently revealed s
  
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• Severe thunderstorm, heat warnings end for Montreal area

  29-08-2018 22:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada on Wednesday afternoon ended the severe thunderstorm warning and heat warning for the Montreal area.
  The forecast for Wednesday calls tor the temperature to plummet to 17 C tonight from a high of 30 C today.
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• Bill Brownstein: Montrealer sneaks gross vanity plate past SAAQ

  29-08-2018 21:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Ryk Edelstein has a twisted sense of humour. So after learning that several friends were turned down for Quebec’s new vanity licence plates over fairly innocuous submissions, he figured he would apply with one whopper of a word that was certain to be rejected by the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ).
  After all, his friends had been turned down for such seemingly benign requests as ROTH and STOWE, and he was submitting one of the more gross and of
  
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• Severe thunderstorm warning issued for Montreal area

  29-08-2018 21:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada on Wednesday added a severe thunderstorm warning to its ongoing heat warning for the Montreal area.
  The federal agency says its meteorologists are tracking a severe thunderstorm capable of producing very strong wind gusts, up to nickel size hail and heavy rain. Such strong storms could produce a tornado, the agency says.
  The warning includes Laval, Longueuil and Châteauguay.
  The forecast for Wednesday calls tor the temperature to plummet to 17 C tonight from a high of 30
  
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• Five things to do in Montreal this weekend: Aug. 30 to Sept. 3

  29-08-2018 21:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Get your music festival fix at Mile Ex End
  How many more chances are you going to get this year to wear a flower crown in a relatively judgment-free environment? The Mile Ex End festival, running Saturday to Monday, is packed with great acts. Headliners The Barr Brothers and Broken Social Scene will close off Days 1 and 2, respectively, while Day 3 is reserved for comedians. And it’s a great deal: $60 for a three-day pass.
   
  Go on a late-night excursion at an art museum
  On Sept. 2, th
  
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• Devils great Martin Brodeur returns to NHL team in business role

  29-08-2018 21:04 via montrealgazette.com
  NEWARK, N.J. — Martin Brodeur is back with the New Jersey Devils organization many hoped he’d never leave.
  Brodeur rejoined the Devils on Wednesday as executive vice-president (business development), a shift from the hockey management job he held for three years as assistant general manager of the St. Louis Blues. He returns to the franchise he led to the Stanley Cup three times and became the NHL’s all-time-leading goaltender in victories.
  “It feels fantastic to be back
  
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• Quebec election: Couillard promises to protect Bombardier métro deal

  29-08-2018 20:15 via montrealgazette.com
  LA POCATIÈRE — Liberal leader Philippe Couillard visited the Bombardier plant in this rural region 150 kilometres northeast of Quebec City to assure employees his government would guarantee a $500-million contract for 17 Azur trains for the Montreal métro system.
  The new contract, signed with the Société de transport de Montréal in mid-August, will ensure the jobs of at least 150 workers at the plant, which employs 615 people.
  Couillard said Quebec will g
  
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• Martin Patriquin: Canada needs a new abortion law

  29-08-2018 19:56 via montrealgazette.com
  As an unabashed pro-choice Quebecer, whose province was an early home to unfettered abortion access, gay rights activism and assisted suicide, among other bugaboos of the social conservative movement, let me say this: The Campaign Life Coalition finally got something right.
  Last week at the Conservative convention in Halifax, supporters of Canada’s largest anti-abortion group introduced a motion that would have struck down the party’s pledge to “not support any legislation to r
  
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• Live — Quebec election: The anti-extremist blogger who vets PQ candidates

  29-08-2018 19:33 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Wednesday, Aug. 29. This post will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected] p.m.: Blogger torpedoes another PQ hopeful
  Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée should hire Xavier Camus to vet PQ candidates.
  On Wednesday, for the second time in three months, a would-be PQ candidate has had their electoral hopes dashed after the Montreal blogger exposed th
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ MNA received $55,000 loan from suburb mayor

  29-08-2018 19:21 via montrealgazette.com
  On the heels of the resignation of the Coalition Avenir Québec president Tuesday, another one of the party’s candidates is embroiled in a controversy for accepting a $55,000 personal loan from a suburban mayor in Quebec City.
  Éric Caire, the CAQ MNA for the Quebec City riding of La Peltrie, acknowledged Wednesday in a televised interview that he accepted a personal loan a year ago from Émile Loranger, the then-mayor of L’Ancienne-Lorette, to buy a house in the mu
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée denounces candidate who called Islam a 'menace'

  29-08-2018 18:52 via montrealgazette.com
  NICOLET — A Parti Québécois candidate who posted on social media that Islam should be banned “like we ban pit bulls” will not be allowed to stand for the party, said leader Jean-François Lisée on Wednesday morning.
  Pierre Marcotte was selected as the party’s candidate in Drummond—Bois-Francs by the local riding association, but Lisée said he has a fundamental disagreement with Marcotte’s opinions and writi
  
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• Opinion: Charities, 'political activity' and free speech

  29-08-2018 18:33 via montrealgazette.com
  An Ontario court recently issued one of the most important free speech rulings in Canada in years.
  On July 16, Justice Edward Morgan of Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice ruled that limits imposed by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) that muzzle charities are arbitrary and violate freedom of expression under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
  But now, the federal government has announced it will appeal the ruling.
  According to Imagine Canada, there are about 85,000 charities in Ca
  
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• Laval police seek car thieves who added insult to injury

  29-08-2018 18:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police are turning to the public in an effort to track down two car thieves who are believed to have also used their victim’s credit card to make purchases at a dépanneur.A Dodge Durango — containing its owner’s personal documents — was stolen from Laval’s Chomedey district on May 15. A credit card that had been in the vehicle was used about an hour later to make some purchases in a dépanneur.Laval police seek two male suspects in May 15 car thef
  
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• We're in for a 'teeth-chattering', 'unusually snowy' winter: Farmers' Almanac

  29-08-2018 18:18 via montrealgazette.com
  If you attempt to understand when winter will end by following the movements of a groundhog, you might as well also read the Farmers’ Almanac.
  Both of these meteorological predictors share a folksy and studied indifference to anything that might be described as scientific rigour.
  Another similarity: Groundhog Day gave us the line “It’s going to be cold, it’s going to be grey, and it’s going to last you for the rest of your life,” which is roughly what the Farm
  
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• Watch: Still no answers on Pacioretty’s future with Habs

  29-08-2018 18:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Canadiens are in no hurry to work out an extension for captain Max Pacioretty, who is in a position to become an unrestricted free agent next July.
  The Canadiens attempted to trade him at the draft in June, but the deal fell through when Pacioretty wouldn’t commit to signing an extension with the Los Angeles Kings.
  At Pacioretty’s annual charity golf tournament, Montreal Gazette sports reporter Pat Hickey explains the uncertainty of the captain’s status with the te
  
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• Quebec election: PQ leader denounces anti-Muslim candidate

  29-08-2018 17:10 via montrealgazette.com
  NICOLET — A Parti Québécois candidate who posted on social media that Islam should be banned “like we ban pit bulls” will not be allowed to stand for the party, said leader Jean-François Lisée on Wednesday morning.
  Pierre Marcotte was selected as the party’s candidate in Drummond—Bois-Francs by the local riding association, but Lisée said he has a fundamental disagreement with Marcotte’s opinions and writi
  
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• Quebec election: 'Just watch me' says Couillard on saving dairy farms

  29-08-2018 17:04 via montrealgazette.com
  “Just watch me,” said Quebec Liberal leader Philippe Couillard on Wednesday morning when asked what he would do if Canada decides to allow concessions on its supply-management policies for dairy farmers in trade negotiations with the United States.
  The incumbent premier was evoking the words of former Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau to a journalist during the 1970 October Crisis. Three days later, Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act to quell dissidents in the province.
  Couilla
  
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• Live — Quebec election: Voters expect (hope for?) CAQ minority

  29-08-2018 16:56 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Wednesday, Aug. 29. This post will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected]:35 a.m.: CAQ win but a minority – poll
  Quebecers expect the Oct. 1 election to produce a minority Coalition Avenir Québec government.
  That’s one of the secondary takeaways from a new Montreal Gazette-Le Devoir poll conducted by Léger.
  Forty-two per cent of respondents expect the Fra
  
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• Consultation office OKs Lachine project — with conditions

  29-08-2018 16:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s office of public consultations has made public its report on a proposal to convert the mother house of the Congrégation des Soeurs de Sainte-Anne in Lachine. And while the commission that presided over hearings on the project recommends it be allowed to proceed, it also thinks several conditions should be met before doing so.
  “The commission believes many modifications to the proposed regulation (allowing demolition and reconstruction) are necessary to protect
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ 'economic squad' would boost entrepreneurship

  29-08-2018 16:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault introduced a six-person “economic squad” of financial heavyweights he said would spearhead a CAQ government’s economic policy.
  The six candidates include banking executive Éric Girard, who is running in Groulx, north of Laval, and touted as Legault’s pick for finance minister if he is elected.
  Businessman Pierre Fitzgibbon is running in Terrebonne, while Nadine Girault, a board member of Investissement Q
  
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• Montreal police warn of jewel thieves who target the elderly

  29-08-2018 15:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are warning citizens — particularly the elderly — to be wary of a gang of con artists who specialize in stealing jewelry the victim is wearing.
  Police say gang members will work solo or in groups and keep a getaway vehicle nearby. The theft begins with the victim’s attention being distracted on a false pretext — a request for directions, the exact time or a conversation about a deceased relative. As a means of thanking the victim for taking the time to lis
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals promise to raise teachers' starting salaries

  29-08-2018 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP — Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard has pledged to increase the starting salaries of teachers to $53,134 a year.
  Couillard said at a campaign stop in Rivière-du-Loup on Wednesday he would compress the first six pay grades teachers normally have to climb.
  The first pay grade starts at $41,390 and is increased annually. However, most teachers in the province start at the third level of pay — $44,985 — under the current collective agreement if they ha
  
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• Solidarity Tax Credit – Complete Schedule D to Get the Full Amount You Are Entitled To

  29-08-2018 14:54
  If you received a solidarity tax credit payment without having claimed the credit, it may only cover part of the amount to which you are actually entitled.The amount of the tax credit is partly based on your situation on December 31. For example, if you were the owner or tenant of an eligible dwelling where you lived with your spouse and two children on December 31, 2017, you could receive up to $1,487 for the year.To be sure to receive all the amounts to which you are entitled for each componen
  
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• Updated: Montreal police investigate homicide in Côte-des-Neiges

  29-08-2018 14:36 via montrealgazette.com
  A 35-year-old man whose body was discovered in a Côte-des-Neiges apartment Tuesday evening has become the city’s 18th homicide victim in 2018.
  Police arrived at the scene around 6 p.m. after receiving a 911 call from the landlord of the Goyer St. apartment.The body bore multiple, violently inflicted wounds. 
  No arrests have been made.
  A crime scene has been set up and police have deployed detector dogs in the area in an effort to seek out any clues that could lead them to a susp
  
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• While you were sleeping: CAQ leading polls, man punches shark

  29-08-2018 14:34 via montrealgazette.com
  CAQ leading, but Liberals still in the game, poll shows
  The Coalition Avenir Québec continues to lead the pack in provincial voter intentions but Quebec’s Liberals are far from dead, making fresh gains as non-francophones drift back to the party, a new poll suggests.
  Despite efforts by CAQ Leader François Legault to make inroads in the minority community, 69 per cent of non-francophones say they plan to vote Liberal on Oct. 1. That’s a seven percentage point increase ov
  
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• Four injured, one man facing charges after domestic violence case in Quebec City

  29-08-2018 13:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Four people were injured in what appears to have been a case of domestic violence that occurred Tuesday night in the Quebec City neighbourhood of Sainte-Foy.
  Local police were called to a single family dwelling after receiving a 911 call at about 10 p.m.
  Four of the five people found in the home suffered injuries, including two minors who were treated at the scene by paramedics.
  A 37-year-old woman was taken to hospital along with a 46-year-old man, who is expected to appear in court Wednesday t
  
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• Two men seriously injured after dog attack in Outaouais

  29-08-2018 13:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Two men were seriously injured Tuesday evening after being attacked by a dog that was later killed by police.
  The incident occurred in Pontiac about 40 kilometres northwest of Gatineau.
  Both victims — one of them the dog’s owner — were taken to hospital where their injuries were determined early Wednesday to be non-life threatening.
  According to local police, the incident began when a 40-year-old man was attacked by his own dog outside his home. When a 69-year-old man tried to
  
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• Quebec Liberals give nod to Gregory Kelley in Jacques-Cartier

  29-08-2018 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Gregory Kelley is hoping to follow in his father’s footsteps as the elected voice for the West Island riding of Jacques-Cartier, which runs from Pointe-Claire west to Senneville.
  His father Geoffrey Kelley, first elected in 1994, had announced he was retiring from active politics after serving as the local Liberal MNA for nearly a quarter century.
  Geoffrey Kelley, Quebec’s Minister Native Affairs, and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard were on hand last week to officially name Gregory
  
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• Battle over bylaws in St-Lazare

  29-08-2018 12:11 via montrealgazette.com
  A long-dormant plan to open up new equestrian lots for development in a sleepy sector of St-Lazare is sparking controversy among area residents and the local riding community.
  At issue is the proposed subdivision of two large parcels of forested land near the intersection of Ch. Ste.-Angélique and Ch. du Fief to allow the construction of about 30 equestrian-zoned hobby farms.
  Corry Terfloth, one of a group of neighbours who spoke out against the project at the most recent town council mee
  
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• Nigerian asylum seeker finds normalcy at Côte St-Luc Scrabble club

  29-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Three long tables set up at the Wednesday night Scrabble club in Côte St-Luc are lined with pairs of players hunched over boards. The chinkling of tiles can be heard as replacement letters are fished out of cloth bags. Thirty years strong, the group gathers at Pierre Elliott Trudeau Park. It is a mostly white crowd, many of them retired and long-time Montreal residents.
  Olakunle Azeez Omopariola, a 33-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker, does not fit that demographic. He has the same game face
  
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• NDPQ candidates set out on campaign trail in West Island

  29-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Every election campaign has its frontrunners.
  So far, the polling numbers for the Quebec elections indicate that the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) is topping the list, with the Quebec Liberals sitting in near second and the Parti Québecois struggling in a distant third.
  In the West Island, the Quebec Liberals have dominated at the polls for decades. So much so, that it is understandable that some West Island voters may not be aware that there are smaller parties with candidates on
  
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• Montreal weather: Showers and thunderstorms

  29-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Cloudy with a 40 per cent chance of showers in the morning, followed by a risk of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
  Winds becoming southwest at 30 km/h, gusting to 50 km/h early in the day.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 30 Celsius, a Humidex of 40 and a UV index of 6 or high.
  Tonight: Mainly cloudy with winds blowing west at 20 km/h, becoming light in the evening. The overnight low is expected to be 16 C.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter
  
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• Local graffiti artist learns lessons of courage in Haiti mural project

  29-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  You could say Xavier Laloux is trying to help Haiti one mural at a time.
  You could. But Laloux wouldn’t like that because, the way he sees it, Haiti is helping him as much as he’s trying to give the Caribbean nation an inspirational boost.
  “We’re not going there to help. We’re going there to thank them,” said Laloux on Tuesday at his tattoo parlour in a warehouse building in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. “From a personal point of view, I’ve learned a lot
  
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• Brownstein: Burger madness beckons in 7th annual Le Burger Week

  29-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A praline double burger with fleur-de-sel caramel and raspberry ice cream, sandwiched between two cheesecake buns? A fresh Charlevoix lamb patty stuffed with Guinness corned beef and smoked Gouda on a peppercorn bun with a Guinness-glazed onion sour cream?
  Say what?
  Yup, these are the respective Montreal entries from Juliette et Chocolat and McKibbin’s Irish Pub for the seventh annual Le Burger Week, which kicks off Saturday and which should also come equipped with a canister of antacids f
  
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• Super clinic set to open in Lachine next month

  29-08-2018 11:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Lachine residents will have access to a super clinic, beginning Sept. 24. Quebec Health Minister Gaetan Barrette has announced that Clinique MedNam will expand its services to become a super clinic. MedNam opened in 2015 and received its Groupe de médecine de famille (GMF) certification in 2016. It is located at 2000 Notre-Dame St., across the street from the CLSC Dorval-Lachine.
  Health Minister Gaetan Barrette has announced that Clinique MedNam in Lachine will expand its services.
  Being
  
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• New $43 million aquatic centre planned for Pierrefonds-Roxboro

  29-08-2018 11:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Pierrefonds will be getting its long-awaited aquatic centre.
  Pierrefonds-Roxboro Mayor Jim Beis confirmed the construction of a $43 million aquatic and recreation centre last week.
  “This project, estimated at $43 million, has been awaited for several decades in Pierrefonds,” he said.
  “I am very happy to have finally been able to start the project a few years ago and to see it come to fruition. “
  The borough conducted a study of the architectural programming for the future
  
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• Dorval negotiates lakefront-access within McConnell Woods development

  29-08-2018 11:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Dorval Mayor Edgar Rouleau said the city continues its push to gain as much of the McConnell Woods as possible and confirmed that a portion of the property which has already been handed over to the city will be on the lakefront and citizens will have access to it.
  “Negotiations aren’t over yet,” he said. “We want to maximize the percentage.”
  As previously reported, the city has acquired 13 per cent of the property which was purchased by Presti Homes and Developments
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ leading, but Liberals still in the game, poll shows

  29-08-2018 05:59 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The Coalition Avenir Québec continues to lead the pack in provincial voter intentions but Quebec’s Liberals are far from dead, making fresh gains as non-francophones drift back to the party, a new poll suggests.
  Despite efforts by CAQ Leader François Legault to make inroads in the minority community, 69 per cent of non-francophones say they plan to vote Liberal on Oct. 1. That’s a seven percentage point increase over the last 10 days.
  It’s not quite
  
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• Gas price watch: Filling up becomes more expensive for Montrealers

  29-08-2018 04:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Gas prices jumped late Tuesday at Montreal-area gas stations to hit a high of $1.469 a litre.
  Earlier in the day, prices varied from a low of $1.317 a litre at a Costco in Anjou borough, to a high of $1.469 at a Shell station on Cavendish Blvd., according to essencemontreal.com.
  Midday at most Costco gas bars in the Montreal area, the price of a litre was $1.319.
  The price of a barrel of crude oil was US$68.50 at the end of the trading day on the NYMEX index, in New York on Tuesday.
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened in Montreal on Aug. 28

  29-08-2018 04:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal:
  Heat warning for Montreal persists: No relief until Thursday
  Forecasting that “the next two days will be especially hot and humid over southwestern Quebec,” Environment Canada maintained its heat warning for the Montreal area, predicting seasonal temperatures will only return by Thursday.
  The warning issued Tuesday noted that maximum temperatures for the next 48 hours “will approach 30 C with humidex values reaching near
  
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• Quebec elections: Couillard blasts Legault on economy, immigration

  29-08-2018 03:17 via montrealgazette.com
  RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP — For the first time in the campaign, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard deviated from focusing on platform promises and chose instead to tear a strip off his main opponent, Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault, Tuesday morning.
  “The greatest weakness of the CAQ is the economy. The great economic risk for Quebec is a CAQ government,” Couillard said during a campaign stop to announce education initiatives in the closely contested Ma
  
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• Man discovers mother's 'classified' murder case in Montreal library

  29-08-2018 01:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Stéphane Luce was 13 years old, spending the night away in a dormitory, when his mother was beaten into a coma in her Longueuil apartment in 1981.
  Roxanne Luce, 36, was found on her bed the next morning and died in a hospital days later. Thirty-seven years later, the case remains unsolved.
  Last year, Luce founded a non-profit called Meurtres et Disparitions Irrésolus du Québec, bringing together families affected by cold cases.
  In early June, he had an idea. He asked volunte
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée urges party leaders to form united NAFTA front

  29-08-2018 01:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Parti Québécois Leader Jean-François Lisée is calling on the other three main party leaders to form a united front on NAFTA and publicly refuse to approve a new agreement if it gives up protections for Quebec’s milk producers and cultural industries.
  Now that the United States and Mexico have reached an agreement, the pressure will be on Canada and, he said, that pressure will be directed at provisions in the existing trade deal that exempt Canadian cultura
  
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• CAQ president Stéphane Le Bouyonnec steps down suddenly

  29-08-2018 01:04 via montrealgazette.com
  The president of the Coalition Avenir Québec — who was also its candidate in La Prairie — announced Tuesday afternoon that he is stepping down so as not to “take the risk of harming the campaign.”
  Stéphane Le Bouyonnec, 56, had come under fire since June, when it was revealed he had been chairman of the board of directors of Techbanx, an Ontario-based company specializing in very high-interest loans that exceeded the Quebec maximum of 35 per cent.
  In a
  
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• STM maintenance workers agree to work overtime: labour tribunal

  29-08-2018 00:42 via montrealgazette.com
  The union of Société de transport de Montréal maintenance workers has agreed to work overtime, the Tribunal administratif du travail said on Tuesday.
  STM management had requested a conciliation meeting with the union. The two parties were set to meet on Tuesday and discuss the STM’s complaint: maintenance workers’ “concerted refusal” to work overtime during the past week, a statement from the tribunal said. If they could not reach an agreement through
  
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• Rush-end Gabriel Knapton happy to return to Alouettes fold

  29-08-2018 00:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Let’s see if we have this straight: Montreal traded Gabriel Knapton for Chris Williams last December. The Alouettes then traded Williams to Hamilton for Johnny Manziel last month. Knapton was released by British Columbia last week, and now he’s back with Montreal.
  Another “Only in the Canadian Football League” moment?
  “Management has a tough job. I think they do the best they can. Any time you’re struggling, record-wise, there’s going to be changes. As p
  
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