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• Young Quebecers consume less French content online as they age: survey

  03-09-2018 21:57 via montrealgazette.com
  As young Quebecers grow older, they end up paying less and less attention to French-language content on the internet, a new survey suggests.
  Researchers found that 76 per cent of Quebecers aged 12 to 15 consume content most of the time in French online, whether it’s streaming TV series, videos or films. Yet that proportion drops to 59 per cent among Quebecers between the ages of 16 and 18, according to the survey conducted last year by the Centre facilitant la recherche et l’innovati
  
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• Child falls to ground from window of building under renovation

  03-09-2018 21:19 via montrealgazette.com
  A child was rushed to a hospital Monday by ambulance following a fall of four to five metres from the window of a building on des Pins Ave. W., next to Hôtel-Dieu.
  The incident occurred around noon. The building, which belongs to a religious order, is undergoing renovations.
  “The child was taken to a pediatric trauma centre,” said Urgences-santé spokesperson Stéphan Gascon. “We’re not fearing for his life.”
  
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• Update: Environment Canada adds extreme heat to Montreal weather warnings

  03-09-2018 21:06 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal area was under a heat warning and severe thunderstorm watch Monday afternoon.
  Storms were expected to continue over Montreal until at least 4 p.m., with a high around 30 degrees Celsius. Humidity was at 74 per cent. By evening, the skies should be clear.
  The watch and heat warning covered the Montreal, Châteauguay, Laval and Longueuil-Varennes regions.
  Thunderstorm warnings persisted in the Eastern Townships, Richelieu Valley-Saint-Hyacinthe and Vaudreuil-Soulanges-Huntingdon,
  
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• Quebec election: Québec solidaire backs $15 minimum wage on Labour Day

  03-09-2018 20:54 via montrealgazette.com
  GATINEAU — Québec solidaire would invest $100 million every year for five years to help businesses adapt to an increased minimum wage.
  While in Gatineau on Monday, the party’s spokespeople unveiled their plan to raise the province’s minimum wage to $15 per hour starting on May 1, 2019.
  Québec solidaire is therefore proposing swifter action than the Parti Québécois, which promised on Monday to gradually raise the wage over the course of its first term
  
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• Quebec election: Couillard vows faster internet in remote regions

  03-09-2018 20:06 via montrealgazette.com
  HAVRE-AUBERT — Closer to Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia than anywhere else in Quebec, the Îles-de-la-Madeleine are among the province’s most outlying regions.
  So it was fitting that here, on a small archipelago in the Atlantic, isolated from the rest of the province, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard promised to improve digital connections.
  Couillard said that if the Liberals are re-elected on Oct. 1, they’ll ensure high-speed internet and cellular service are avail
  
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• Marc Richardson: Millennials are actually a relatively cautious bunch

  03-09-2018 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  One of the misconceptions about millennials is that we’re seen as being inherently inclined toward risky — and sometimes downright dangerous — behaviour.
  It’s true that, statistically speaking, young people are more likely to be involved in car accidents, for example. That’s why insurance rates are higher for younger drivers. They have less experience behind the wheel and, as such, are less likely to make sound split-second decisions.
  But that logic doesn&rsquo
  
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• Hold on to your lunch: La Ronde's getting a big new spinny ride in 2019

  03-09-2018 19:22 via montrealgazette.com
  La Ronde will be home to a new ride for the 2019 season, and it could do a trick on your stomach.
  Thrill-seeking riders will be in for multiple spins — both forward and backwards — around the ride’s seven-storey-tall loop.
  It’s a bit like a washing machine’s spin cycle, which is what your outfit may require if you eat lunch before strapping in.
  Naturally, the creation is called Chaos.
  “The forward and backward motion of this ride along with the inverted hang t
  
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• Quebec election: PQ would turf Gaspé oil project, 'protect the people'

  03-09-2018 18:47 via montrealgazette.com
  ST-ANNE-DES-MONTS — At least one of the three oil exploration projects in the Gaspé region would be cut down by a Parti Québécois government, according to party leader Jean-François Lisée.
  The PQ says there won’t be any new oil and gas exploration in Quebec if it forms a government after the Oct. 1 election.
  Lisée said at least one of Quebec’s current projects — the Haldiman site near a residential area in Gaspé — is
  
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• Montreal placed under a severe thunderstorm watch

  03-09-2018 18:39 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal area was under a severe thunderstorm watch Monday afternoon as Environment Canada warned of possible damaging wind gusts, hail and “torrential rain.”
  The watch covered the Montreal, Châteauguay, Laval and Longueuil-Varennes regions. In addition to storm warnings, the Eastern Townships and Richelieu Valley were under heat warnings.
  Keep Environment Canada’s advice in mind if you’re caught in the weather: “When thunder roars, go indoors.”
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• Opinion: Quebec's focus on education shouldn't overlook CEGEPs

  03-09-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  As the public college network was celebrating its 50th anniversary last year, there were many opportunities to recall the progress we have made as a society since the Parent Report was implemented. The achievements include the creation of the Ministry of Education and the CEGEPs, of course, as well as the establishment of the Université du Québec network.
  In terms of schooling, Quebec was still cutting a rather sorry figure in the mid-1960s, but it turned this situation around
  
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• New SAAQ campaign targets 'idiotic' distracted driving

  03-09-2018 17:01 via montrealgazette.com
  The Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) is launching a campaign to call attention to the danger of texting while driving — an act that is both dangerous and irresponsible.
  Messages related to the umbrella theme “everyone knows it’s idiotic to text while at the wheel” will be broadcast throughout the month of September on TV, radio and social networks.
  The recent updating of Quebec’s highway safety code included stronger fine
  
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• Quebec election: Parti Québécois courts the working class on Labour Day

  03-09-2018 16:51 via montrealgazette.com
  MATANE — Jean-François Lisée delivered a stern warning to the province’s employers on Labour Day: if you exploit your workers, a Parti Québécois government will come after you.
  In what he’s calling a case of “permanent theft,” the PQ leader says non-unionized workers are being bilked of $30 million in unpaid overtime and vacation bonuses each month. Lisée cited a government study that found roughly one in five non-unionized workers
  
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• Quebec election: Couillard vows better, faster Internet in remote regions

  03-09-2018 16:23 via montrealgazette.com
  HAVRE-AUBERT — Closer to Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia than anywhere else in Quebec, the Îles-de-la-Madeleine are one of the province’s most outlying regions.
  So it was somewhat fitting that here, on a small archipelago in the Atlantic, isolated from the rest of the province, that Liberal leader Philippe Couillard promised to improve digital connections.
  Couilard said that if the Liberals are re-elected on Oct. 1, they’ll ensure that that high-speed Internet and ce
  
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• While you were sleeping: Man flees police in airplane, crashes in field

  03-09-2018 14:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while it was just you and the pillow.
  The wife of a Quebec man who has been stuck in Cuba for 14 months after a boating accident that killed a fellow tourist is considering legal action against the Canadian government. Toufik Benhamiche was driving a small boat as part of a tourist excursion in July 2017 in Cayo Coco when it veered out of control and fatally struck a woman from Ontario. A Cuban court found the Mascouche resident guilty of criminal negligence causi
  
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• Lachine alley beautifications hold promise of Tom Sawyer-like adventures

  03-09-2018 14:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Some stretches of Lachine are arguably the closest thing the West Island can claim as its borderline Old Montreal. The West Island has some centuries-old stone farmhouses but they are too sparse and scattered, and would need to all be wheeled into one spot to qualify as an old sector.
  One pedestrian’s way of drawing the border between what we call the West Island and the ROM (Rest of Montreal) is noting where builders stopped putting in back alleys between blocks of attached houses. And on
  
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• Lise Ravary: Some advice for Martine Ouellet about magazine publishing

  03-09-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Ex-Bloc Québécois leader Martine Ouellet — the Energizer bunny of sovereignty — announced she will launch a magazine devoted to Quebec independence next October. Called — wait for it — Oui je le veux. Terrific name if it were a bridal magazine.
  Having spent most of my working life creating, making, revamping, managing and sometimes, sadly, closing magazines, I know a thing or two about the business.
  I am only too happy to share my expertise.
  (If I were Ouell
  
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• Schukov: The ghosts of back alleys

  03-09-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Some stretches of Lachine are arguably the closest thing the West Island can claim as its borderline Old Montreal. The West Island has some stone farmhouses that back into centuries but they are too sparse and scattered, and would need to all be wheeled into one spot to qualify as an old sector.
  One history pedestrian’s way of drawing the border between what we today call the West Island and the ROM (Rest of Montreal) is where builders stopped putting in back alleys between blocks of attac
  
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• Montreal weather: Morning rain, then hot and humid

  03-09-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A few showers in the morning will end near noon, then the skies will clear.
  Therre is also a risk of thunderstorms in the morning.
  The wind will becoming southwest at 30 km/h gusting, to 50 in the morning.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 29 Celsius, a Humidex of 38 and a UV index of 6, or high.
  Tonight: Clear with a low of 16.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by tagging them with #ThisMtl. We’ll feature one per da
  
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• Quebec elections: Couillard says true partnership needed with First Nations

  03-09-2018 01:55 via montrealgazette.com
  ROBERVAL — While he wouldn’t put a number on it, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard said if he’s re-elected, he would meet with indigenous communities “much more often and much sooner” than 100 days.
  Both Québec solidaire and the Parti Québécois have said if they’re elected, their leaders would meet with indigenous communities within the first 100 days of their mandate.
  Couillard said he regularly meets with indigenous leaders bot
  
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