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• Quebec election: Priorities clear on trade call with PM, Couillard says

  30-08-2018 23:35 via montrealgazette.com
  LAC-MÉGANTIC — Quebec incumbent premier Philippe Couillard was close-lipped and terse on the details of a conference call held Thursday afternoon with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the other premiers regarding trade talks with the United States.
  All parties promised “total silence,” he said. “We are at a very delicate moment in the negotiations.”
  “What I can tell you is the main preoccupations of Quebec are known,” he said. “My
  
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• Quebec election: embattled PQ candidate used racial slur

  30-08-2018 23:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Michelle Blanc’s day from hell just got much worse.
  The Parti Québécois candidate, already in hot water for suggesting one of her critics is a pedophile, used the word “nigger” in a social media post.
  In a since-deleted Tweet, Blanc referred to a Bell customer service representative using a racial slur. Blanc, who is a transgendered woman, wrote that the Bell employee referred to her as “mister” because her voice sounds masculine.
  “My response, y
  
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• Canadiens' top pick Jesper Kotkaniemi among 30 invited to rookie camp

  30-08-2018 23:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Centre Jesperi Kotkaniemi will launch his bid for an NHL job when he joins 29 other players at the Canadiens’ rookie camp on Sept. 6.
  Kotkaniemi, who was selected third overall at the NHL Entry Draft in June, has a contract with Assat in the Finnish Elite League, but there’s an out clause that allows him to jump to the NHL.
  Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin has been careful not to raise the expectations for Kotkaniemi, 18, but said the youngster will get an opportunity to make
  
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• Quebec election: QS pledges to protect 10% of province's waterways

  30-08-2018 22:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Québec solidaire pledged on Thursday to protect 10 per cent of the province’s waterways should it form the next government.
  The protections, which would be in place by 2020, would guard protected areas against pollution, overfishing and shipping traffic.
  Speaking in Rimouski, party co-spokesperson Manon Massé said each protected zone would cover at least 100 square kilometres and include sectors where fishing is forbidden and industrial activity banned.
  Massé noted tha
  
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• Brendan Kelly: Former Habs coach Therrien joins on-air team at 91.9 FM

  30-08-2018 22:13 via montrealgazette.com
  I’m warming up to Michel Therrien.
  It’s the oddest thing. The former coach of the Canadiens, who was fired by Habs general manager Marc Bergevin on Valentine’s Day in 2017, has been doing a column on Jean-Charles Lajoie’s afternoon show on the francophone sports radio station 91.9 FM since Monday, and I’m really liking it.
  I spent years writing columns suggesting Therrien should be fired, and I had big issues with his confrontational style with journalists. But now
  
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• Quebec election: PQ wants 240,000 people working from home by 2025

  30-08-2018 21:29 via montrealgazette.com
  If you hate putting on pants and schlepping your way to the office five times a week, the Parti Québécois has a proposition for you.
  The PQ wants to give employers a tax credit to let employees work from home up to two days a week.
  Under the plan, the government would give companies a $400 tax credit for each worker who uses remote network technology to dial into the office.
  PQ Leader Jean-François Lisée said Thursday his party drafted the plan after consulting a stud
  
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• Live – Quebec election: PQ candidate in Twitter trouble is a social-media expert

  30-08-2018 21:28 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Thursday, Aug. 30. This post will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected]:20 p.m.: Liberal signs defaced
  Une centaine de mes pancartes ont été volées ou vandalisées la nuit dernière. Clairement, une action organisée et planifiée! Quel mépris envers la démocratie!#PolQc #Qc2018 #Quebec2018 #MauriceRichard pic.twitter.com/
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée says he will not ask for PQ candidate's resignation

  30-08-2018 20:45 via montrealgazette.com
  A blogger and frequent critic of the Parti Québécois has issued a cease-and-desist letter to the party after one of its candidates suggested he is a pedophile.
  In a tweet posted late Wednesday, PQ candidate Michelle Blanc claimed Cégep professor Xavier Camus “likes 15-year-old girls.” Camus is the blogger who unearthed a series of embarrassing, Islamophobic social media posts from PQ candidate Pierre Marcotte.
  Before he became a candidate in the Drummon
  
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• Live – Quebec election: Another candidate down, this time a Conservative

  30-08-2018 20:12 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Thursday, Aug. 30. This post will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected] p.m.: Another candidate down
  The Conservative Party of Quebec (yes, they exist) has dumped a candidate who made headlines with a strange video that went viral and for posting disturbing comments on social media.
  In the video, Philippe Laplante says the high price of fuel doesn’t bother him because he can
  
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• Canadiens captain Max Pacioretty rejected trade to Kings, source says

  30-08-2018 19:31 via montrealgazette.com
  A source close to Max Pacioretty has thrown ice water on a Radio-Canada report that the Canadiens captain asked to be traded many times in the recent past.
  The story flies in the face of Pacioretty’s insistence that he wants to stay in Montreal, where he and his family have made their full-time home for several years.
  It is also curious because Pacioretty rejected a deal that would have sent him to the Los Angeles Kings prior to the NHL Entry Draft in June.
  “The deal was done,”
  
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• Quebec election: PQ candidate implies party critic is a pedophile

  30-08-2018 19:14 via montrealgazette.com
  A Parti Québécois star candidate has apologized for suggesting one of the party’s fiercest critics is a pedophile.
  In a tweet posted late Wednesday, Michelle Blanc claimed Cégep professor Xavier Camus “likes 15-year-old girls.” Camus is the blogger who unearthed a series of embarrassing, Islamophobic social media posts from PQ candidate Pierre Marcotte.
  Before he became a candidate in the Drummond—Bois-Franc riding, Marcotte wrote that Islam
  
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• Opinion: Here's what to do about Montreal's traffic nightmare

  30-08-2018 19:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Mobility Montreal. Talk about an oxymoron! We dream of mitigating our traffic woes, but what we have is a recurring nightmare that keeps getting worse. And, sorry, there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, at least until 2020. Yes, we now have a mobility squad, something I suggested in this space exactly two years ago, but what is missing is a more global approach and a sense of urgency. What we desperately need is a single person to take ownership of the mobility file with the related kn
  
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• The day after the storm – 6,200 remain without power in Montreal and South Shore

  30-08-2018 18:43 via montrealgazette.com
  As Quebecers picked up the pieces — and branches — shaken loose by the storm front that bulldozed across Montreal Wednesday, Hydro-Québec reported that almost 6,300 customers remained without power as of 12:30 p.m. Thursday.
  Most of those affected live in Montreal (3,354 clients) and the South Shore (2,942 clients) and indicated how much work the power utility had done since 6 a.m., when 15,000 clients were without power in those areas.
  On Wednesday afternoon and at the height
  
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• Quebec to open two cannabis stores downtown, third on L'Acadie Blvd.

  30-08-2018 18:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC), the provincial agency that will oversee the sale of marijuana in Quebec, announced on Thursday it will open three sales outlets in Montreal — two of them downtown — once legalization is official on Oct. 17.
  The downtown stores will be located at 970 Ste-Catherine St. W. and 830 Ste-Catherine St. E., while the third Montreal outlet will be at 9250 L’Acadie Blvd.
  The SQDC announced that sales outlets would als
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: Quebec election is time to engage, not just complain

  30-08-2018 18:28 via montrealgazette.com
  As we enter the second week of Quebec’s election campaign, I am realizing that when it comes to elections, Quebecers largely fall into two camps. The first group consists of those in the know. They read the papers, watch video footage from the campaign, plan on following the debates and observe the parties’ moves very carefully. It seems, however, such people are few and far between. The much larger second group seem only to know that elections are coming up, having noticed all the p
  
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• Canadiens who must improve: Blue-line future is now for Mete, Juulsen

  30-08-2018 18:23 via montrealgazette.com
  After missing the playoffs by a country mile last season, it’s obvious the Canadiens must be better in 2018-19. And the burden of improvement will fall heavily on some players more than others. This is the second in a series of five stories on players who could hold the key to a turnaround.
  Most of the players in this group are coming off seasons that fell short of expectations. That was not the case for young defencemen Victor Mete and Noah Juulsen. They took advantage of opportunities to
  
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• Quebec election: No conflict with loan since CAQ not in power: Legault

  30-08-2018 18:03 via montrealgazette.com
  If elected, a Coalition Avenir Québec government would offer subsidized glasses and contact lenses for children — that’s the announcement party leader François Legault tried to make Thursday morning in Rivière-du-Loup, but the press conference quickly derailed as reporters grilled him about his party’s latest scandal.
  “It was a mistake,” Legault said in reference to a loan CAQ MNA Éric Caire accepted from the mayor of a town in his riding
  
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• Westmount skeletal remains: Hidden pregnancy likely, coroner says

  30-08-2018 17:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Around December 1948, the body of a newborn baby girl, including part of her umbilical cord, was carefully wrapped in newspapers and placed in the furnace-room ceiling of a home on Victoria Ave. in Westmount.
  But who was the mother? Was the baby stillborn or was she killed? Why was the body hidden?
  Seventy years after the final resting place was sealed up and a year and a half after it was accidentally discovered, a coroner says the mystery may never be solved.
  The mummified body was found in Ja
  
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• Laval police seek missing teen who may be headed for U.S.

  30-08-2018 16:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police have turned to the public in an effort to find 17-year-old Sébastien Wisler Rosima, who was last seen in Laval on Aug. 15.
  Rosima crossed into Canada from the United States last year with a relative and has since expressed a desire to return to the U.S., believing he can find other family members there.
  He speaks English, stands five-feet-nine-inches tall and weighs 140 pounds.
  Anyone with any information on his whereabouts is urged to call 450-662-4636 or 911 and mention fi
  
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• Quebec election: Couillard promises GP for 90 per cent of Quebecers

  30-08-2018 16:31 via montrealgazette.com
  ST-GEORGES — Liberal leader Philippe Couillard promised Thursday to inject $200 million into home health care services, hire more nurses aides and ensure 90 per cent of Quebecers have access to a family doctor by the end of his term.
  At the same time, he said the government would follow through on threats to penalize family doctors and specialists if provincial objectives aren’t met by the end of the year.
  Health Minister Gaétan Barrette had warned family doctors could see the
  
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• Quebec reinforces contingent battling forest fires in B.C.

  30-08-2018 15:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s forest fire protection agency (SOPFEU) announced Thursday it has deployed two more teams of firefighters to help colleagues in British Columbia who have spent the past few weeks battling forest fires in their province.
  A new contingent composed of 20 forest firefighters with an initial deployment of four firefighters and a SOPFEU representative were scheduled to leave late Thursday for Prince George, about 800 kilometres north of Vancouver.
  The reinforcement brings to 69 the numbe
  
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• While you were sleeping: Montrealers without power and children saved from manholes

  30-08-2018 14:46 via montrealgazette.com
  The morning after – 15,000 without power in Montreal and South Shore
  As Quebecers picked up the pieces — and branches — shaken loose by the storm front that bulldozed across Montreal Wednesday, Hydro-Québec reported that 15,000 customers remained without power as of 6 a.m. Thursday.
  Most of those affected live in Montreal (7,716 clients) and the South Shore (5,111 clients) and it was not immediately clear Thursday morning when power would be restored to their homes and b
  
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• Laval police seek missing teen

  30-08-2018 13:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police have turned to the public fo help in locating 17-year-old Maxime Ménard, who was last seen on the evening of Aug. 29.Police say Ménard suffers from an illness that can place his life in danger if he doesn’t receive his medication. They say the teenager may be found in downtown Montreal and uses public transit to get around.Ménard speaks French and stands six-feet-one-inch tall and weighs 205 pounds. Anyone with any information on his whereabouts is urged t
  
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• Man stabbed during altercation in north-end Montreal

  30-08-2018 13:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are seeking a suspect in connection with a stabbing attack Wednesday evening in the borough of Montréal-Nord.
  The incident occurred at about 10 p.m. at the corner of Éthier Ave. and Charleroi St. and police were summoned to the scene by the victim himself, who called 911 after being stabbed by his attacker.
  Police say the stabbing occurred during an argument between the victim and a second man who then fled the scene.
  Investigators have yet to determine if the two k
  
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• The morning after the storm before – 15,000 without power in Montreal and South Shore

  30-08-2018 13:26 via montrealgazette.com
  As Quebecers picked up the pieces — and branches — shaken loose by the storm front that bulldozed across Montreal Wednesday, Hydro-Québec reported that 15,000 customers remained without power as of 6 a.m. Thursday.
  Most of those affected live in Montreal (7,716 clients) and the South Shore (5,111 clients) and it was not immediately clear Thursday morning when power would be restored to their homes and businesses.
  On Wednesday afternoon and at the height of the storm activity,
  
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• Montreal weather: Sun moves in

  30-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Clearing with winds blowing north at 20 km/h, becoming light around noon.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 21 Celsius, and a UV index of 7 or high.
  Tonight: Clear with an overnight low expected to be 11 C.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by tagging them with #ThisMtl. We’ll feature one per day right here in the morning file. Today’s photo was posted on Instagram by @remsdevoiron.
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• Dentists to appear in court Thursday in bid to quit public system

  30-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Lawyers representing Quebec’s dentists are to appear in court Thursday to try to overturn a government decree barring them from withdrawing from the public health-care system for the next two years.
  Nearly 2,000 dentists seeking higher pay from the government had served notice with the province’s medicare board that they would pull out of the public system as of Aug. 26 — a move that would have required that those on social assistance and children under the age of 10 pay out of
  
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• Review: Deep Purple, Judas Priest are in it for life at Bell Centre

  30-08-2018 10:27 via montrealgazette.com
  On paper, the Deep Purple/Judas Priest co-headline tour that hit the Bell Centre Wednesday is a bit of a curious match, with Priest’s operatic but lean metal colliding against Purple’s heavy-duty prog/psychedelia/blues hybrid in 75-minute twin sets. Decibel range and generation-spanning influence are obvious connecting threads, but more crucial is that both acts are lifers. Core members may have drifted off over the decades, but for the principals who remain (and in some cases drifte
  
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• Montreal gains control of parking with new sustainable mobility agency

  30-08-2018 04:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal will be gaining control of all duties related to parking with the creation of its new Agence de mobilité durable, the city announced Wednesday.
  The agency will be a paramunicipal corporation — the municipal equivalent of a crown corporation — led by a nine-person board of directors. The board will largely be composed of administrators from Stationnement de Montréal, the organization that currently manages parking in the city.
  Over the next few months, the agenc
  
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• Quebec election: "Just watch me" Couillard says on protecting dairy farmers

  30-08-2018 04:07 via montrealgazette.com
  MONTMAGNY — Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard conjured the memory of a combative Pierre Trudeau, pledged hefty pay raises for new teachers, and assured Bombardier workers their jobs were safe on a busy Wednesday on the campaign trail, on the south shore of the St-Lawrence River northeast of Quebec City.
  “Just watch me,” Couillard said in Rivière-du-Loup Wednesday morning when asked what he would do if Canada decides to allow concessions on supply-management policies for
  
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• Ullivik Centre appealing Régie decision to give liquor permit to nearby bar

  30-08-2018 04:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Maggie Putulik rolled her eyes and shook her head when she first learned that Achilles Vriniotis planned to open a bar near the Ullivik Centre, a Dorval lodging facility for Inuit receiving health care in Montreal.
  “I knew immediately what his intention was,” said Putulik, the Ullivik Centre’s director.
  “The owner of Archies Bar is obviously targeting our clients because there’s guaranteed profit to be made,” she said. “Our clients are her
  
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• Cats, dogs now welcome aboard Via Rail trips in Québec City – Windsor corridor

  30-08-2018 03:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Passengers taking VIA Rail trains in the Québec City — Windsor corridor can now bring their pets along for the ride.
  VIA Rail announced updates to its pet transportation policy on Wednesday.
  “These pets can be emotional support pets, or simply, a loyal friend,” Yves Desjardins-Siciliano of VIA Rail Canada said in a statement. 
  “For many travellers, pets play an important role in their lives, bringing them comfort and presence — just like f
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ MNA received $55,000 loan from suburban mayor

  30-08-2018 01:58 via montrealgazette.com
  On the heels of the resignation of the Coalition Avenir Québec president Tuesday, another 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 news conference that he accepted a personal loan a year ago from Émile Loranger, the mayor of L’Ancienne-Lorette, to buy a house in the munic
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée still waiting for other party leaders on NAFTA front

  30-08-2018 00:34 via montrealgazette.com
  SHERBROOKE — Twenty-three hours after formally asking the other three main party leaders to join him in a common front on NAFTA, Parti Québécois Leader Jean-François Lisée said he’s still waiting.
  “I’m patient, but it’s almost been 24 hours,” he said shortly before 5 p.m. on Wednesday.
  Earlier in the day, Couillard said he was open to signing a joint letter with the other three leaders, but would not hold a joint press conference, a
  
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• Manziel, Pipkin brush aside QB rivalry as Alouettes prepare for Ottawa

  30-08-2018 00:15 via montrealgazette.com
  The two players competing to be the Alouettes’ starting quarterback insist there’s no rivalry between them.
  Indeed, when Johnny Manziel was trying to get back into professional football two years ago, and Antonio Pipkin was preparing for the NFL draft, they worked out together daily in San Diego, under the tutelage of private quarterback coach George Whitfield Jr. at his training academy.
  Little could they have known then their paths would cross again in the Canadian Football League.
  
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• Canadiens who must improve: Alzner needs to adapt to Julien's system

  30-08-2018 00:00 via montrealgazette.com
  After missing the playoffs by a country mile, it’s obvious the Canadiens must be better in 2018-19. And the burden of improvement will fall heavily on some players more than others. This is the first in a series of five stories on payers who could hold the key to a turnaround.
  Sometimes you wonder about the lines of communication within the Canadiens’ organization. For several years, the Canadiens have been talking about the changing nature of the NHL and how the new NHL puts a premi
  
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