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• Quebec election notebook: Desecrating graves, list-checking and campaign strikes

  11-09-2018 23:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Victor Boyle started hearing about it early Tuesday morning via Facebook.
  Large election signs — two touting the Parti Québécois, one the Liberals — had popped up next to the Black Rock in the median of Bridge St. near the Victoria Bridge.One of the most solemn places for Montreal’s Irish community, the boulder commemorates the 6,000 poor Irish immigrants who escaped the Great Famine only to die of typhus in Montreal. They were buried in mass graves
  
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• Quebec election blog Sept. 11: Irish denounce campaign signs in Black Rock cemetery

  11-09-2018 23:10 via montrealgazette.com
  This was the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Tuesday, Sept. 11.4:45 p.m.: Pre-election strikes?
  Quebec’s two major television networks may be hit by strikes during the election campaign.
  About 800 workers at TVA, including journalists and administrative workers, may strike on Sept. 22,
  That’s the same day that 3,000 employees at Radio-Canada, including journalists and technicians, are to hold a meeting and perhaps hold a strike vote, Le Devoir
  
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• Quebec election: Couillard vows to stick to values of 'majority of Quebecers'

  11-09-2018 23:04 via montrealgazette.com
  The polls may show that Quebecers want change, but Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard insists that’s what his government has been giving them.
  “Look at Quebec today, in 2018, compared with Quebec in 2014,” he said on Tuesday. “Quebec has been transformed by the policies and the good management of our government.”
  But a poll released on Tuesday morning suggests that message isn’t resonating with voters and that, as the provincial election campaign reaches its ha
  
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• Stu Cowan: Brendan Gallagher should be next captain of the Canadiens

  11-09-2018 22:59 via montrealgazette.com
  If I had a vote for the next captain of the Canadiens it would go to Brendan Gallagher.
  Of course, I don’t have a vote and I don’t think any of the Canadiens players will, either, when the team gets around to naming a new captain to replace Max Pacioretty, who was traded to the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday. Expect management to name the next captain.
  Pacioretty was voted captain by his teammates three years ago, but he wouldn’t have been GM Marc Bergevin’s choice. Berge
  
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• Threat that closed Beaconsfield High was aimed at U.S. school

  11-09-2018 22:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Beaconsfield High School was closed Tuesday morning after Montreal police alerted school officials about a social media post that threatened students.
  But the threat against BHS on the West Island was unfounded, police said on Tuesday afternoon following an investigation.
  There was a threat made on Monday against a high school with the initials BHS, but it was directed at students at Brunswick High School in Georgia.
  Parents of children in schools with the initials BHS from Kentucky to Ontario w
  
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• Man charged in bizarre Mile End death and dismemberment led nomadic life

  11-09-2018 21:59 via montrealgazette.com
  A murder case brought against a travelling musician who is alleged to have killed and dismembered a fellow bandmate inside an apartment they were sharing in Mile End weeks before police even knew the victim was missing is scheduled to return before a judge at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday.
  Earlier this month, Raymond Henry Muller, 51, was charged with the first-degree murder of Cedric Gagnon, a fellow musician. According to reports, both men were part of a Montreal band called Pirates! Th
  
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• Russell Copeman is named QESBA executive director

  11-09-2018 21:57 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec English School Boards Association (QESBA) has named former politician Russell Copeman as its new executive director.
  The association — which represents 100,000 students in 340 elementary schools, high schools and adult and vocational centres across the province — made the announcement Tuesday. The position had been vacant for 17 months. Copeman was a longtime MNA for the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce riding and served as the Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dam
  
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• Watch — Quebec election: Straight talk on Manon Massé

  11-09-2018 21:10 via montrealgazette.com
  In the first of our profiles of the leaders of Quebec’s four major party leaders, Michelle Lalonde offered this extensive profile of Manon Massé, the co-spokesperson for Québec solidaire.
  Writes Lalonde: “Much has been made of the fact that Massé does not conform to the stereotype of the carefully groomed and packaged politician. She favours tunics and trousers over power suits or tailored dresses, she buys her clothes at friperies, and she doesn’t dye
  
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• West Island community calendar for the week of Sept. 12

  11-09-2018 21:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Galleries and exhibitions
  The Kirkland Library, 17100 Hymus Blvd., presents an exhibit of paintings by Andrea Lavoie until Sept. 29. Vernissage on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. Call 514-630-2726, local 3216.
  The Stewart Hall Art Gallery, 176 Lakeshore Rd. in Pointe-Claire, presents the exhibition Trajectoires. Continues until Oct. 14. Call 514-630-1220.
  Montreal Aviation Museum on McGill University’s Macdonald campus, 21111 Lakeshore Rd. in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, is open to the public on Mon
  
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• Pacioretty trade took 2 months to complete and came down to wire

  11-09-2018 20:46 via montrealgazette.com
  While Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin obviously believes his team will have a better “attitude” now that Max Pacioretty is gone, Vegas Golden Knights GM George McPhee said he is thrilled to have the former Montreal captain on his team.
  After saying “attitude” was the biggest problem with the Canadiens’ last season when they finished 28th overall in the NHL standings, Bergevin traded his captain to the Golden Knights on Monday in exchange for veteran win
  
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• Baby daughter helps Canadiens' Andrew Shaw deal with recovery

  11-09-2018 20:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Andrew Shaw loves being a new dad.
  “It’s good. The wife’s a little tired … she’s the one that gets up with her. But it’s fun,” Shaw said before the start of the Canadiens’ golf tournament Monday at Laval-sur-le-Lac. “It’s relaxing. It’s nice being in bed on a Saturday night in summer by 11 o’clock. She’s going to get you up pretty early, but it’s been fun. She’s awesome. She laughs a lot. She loves her foo
  
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• Quebec election: Legault challenges Couillard on immigration

  11-09-2018 20:17 via montrealgazette.com
  LAVAL — A day after saying he doesn’t believe it’s the ballot question of the election, François Legault is challenging Quebec Liberal Party Leader Philippe Couillard to announce his plans for immigration in the province.
  “A campaign is an important moment to do debates, but Mr. Couillard doesn’t seem to want to do any debates on the number of immigrants,” the Coalition Avenir Québec leader said Tuesday morning.
  “I think Quebecers hav
  
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• Quebec election: Free public transit for seniors, students: Liberals

  11-09-2018 19:46 via montrealgazette.com
  A re-elected Liberal government would give free public transit to seniors and students, leader Philippe Couillard said on Tuesday.
  The party would also develop an application and smart card system — like the Opus card used by the STM — that would be accepted by public transit agencies across the province.
  The Liberals would also encourage the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec to begin studying the expansion of the Réseau express métrop
  
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• Update: Threat that closed Beaconsfield High was aimed at U.S. school

  11-09-2018 19:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Beaconsfield High School was closed Tuesday morning after Montreal police alerted school officials about a social media post that threatened students.
  But the threat against BHS on the West Island was unfounded, police said on Tuesday afternoon following an investigation.
  There was a threat made on Monday against a high school with the initials BHS, but it was directed at students at Brunswick High School in Georgia.
  Parents of children in schools with the initials BHS from Kentucky to Ontario w
  
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• Live – Quebec election blog: Irish denounce campaign signs in Black Rock cemetery

  11-09-2018 19:13 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Tuesday, Sept. 11. It will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected]:40 p.m.: “It’s a cemetery”
  Members of Montreal’s Irish community are upset because three large campaign signs — two by the Parti Québécois, one by the Liberals — have been installed at the Black Rock memorial near the Victoria Bridge.
  The stone commemorates the 6,000
  
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• Quebec election: PQ plans Glutton Tax for execs, hike in minimum wage

  11-09-2018 19:09 via montrealgazette.com
  The salaries of the “ultra-rich” would be taxed, and those of the heads of provincial Crown corporations would be scaled back, Parti Québécois Leader Jean-François Lisée pledged Tuesday.
  Campaigning at the Université de Montréal, the party unveiled its plans to crack down on tax evasion and address the issue of wage parity between average Quebec workers and the most wealthy.
  If the Parti Québécois forms the government after the
  
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• Canadiens' Claude Julien faces new challenges as team rebuilds

  11-09-2018 18:56 via montrealgazette.com
  When Claude Julien was hired to replace Michel Therrien as coach of the Canadiens on Feb. 14, 2017, the team was still in first place in the Atlantic Division with a 31-19-8 record.
  The Canadiens were slumping, with a 1-5-1 record in their last seven games and were 18-18-7 since starting the season 13-1-1. The Canadiens went 16-7-1 under Julien to finish first in the Atlantic Division with 103 points before being eliminated in six games by the New York Rangers in the first round of the playoffs.
  
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• Max Pacioretty trade took two months to complete and came down to wire

  11-09-2018 18:52 via montrealgazette.com
  While Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin obviously believes his team will have a better “attitude” now that Max Pacioretty is gone, Vegas Golden Knights GM George McPhee said he is thrilled to have the former Montreal captain on his team.
  After saying “attitude” was the biggest problem with the Canadiens’ last season when they finished 28th overall in the NHL standings, Bergevin traded his captain to the Golden Knights on Monday in exchange for veteran win
  
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• Update: Beaconsfield High closed after threatening social media post

  11-09-2018 16:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Beaconsfield High School was closed on Tuesday morning after Montreal police alerted school officials about a threatening social media post.
  “Due to a posting on a social media platform concerning BHS, the police arrived and are around the school in an active investigation,” said Jim Hendry, a spokesperson for the Lester B. Pearson School Board.
  “Everybody is safe. We are waiting for police to give us more information.”
  Someone saw the post and transmitted the information
  
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• Quebec election: Free public transit for seniors, students, Liberals pledge

  11-09-2018 15:51 via montrealgazette.com
  A re-elected Liberal government would give free public transit to seniors and students, Leader Philippe Couillard said on Tuesday.
  The party would also develop an application and smart card system — like the Opus card used by the STM — that would be accepted by public transit agencies across the province.
  The Liberals would also encourage the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec to begin studying expanding the Réseau express métropolitain
  
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• Update: Woman, 87, dies after being hit by a car in St-Laurent

  11-09-2018 14:58 via montrealgazette.com
  An 87-year-old woman died early Tuesday morning after she was struck by a vehicle at an intersection in the St-Laurent borough.
  The woman was rushed to a hospital after the accident, which occurred after 9 p.m. at the intersection of Côte-Vertu Blvd. and Dutrisac St. She was trying to cross Dutrisac on a red light when she was hit, Montreal police say.
  It was the 19th fatal collision in Montreal this year.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Jeopardy's beard poll and California's pot

  11-09-2018 14:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s a look at a couple of stories that bubbled up overnight while you were trying to conjure a dream of a new future for the Habs.
  Wait. How does anyone under 30 know about Jeopardy? Alex Trebek sported a beard as he launched the 35th season of Jeopardy! and the look has led to a poll. The bearded host appeared in a video on Instagram under the caption, “It’s time to embark upon a magical journey.” He opened the first show of the season by saying, “No need t
  
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• Simmering Alcoa labour dispute morphs into 'clash of the titans'

  11-09-2018 14:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Workers of the Alcoa Corp.-controlled Becancour smelter in Quebec stand guard under umbrellas outside the gates. Whenever a vehicle approaches, a pair scurries to take down the driver’s details and make sure there’s no scab labourer in disguise.
  The ritual, witnessed on a rainy August morning, has become part of life at the aluminum plant since January, when the company locked out more than 1,000 employees represented by the United Steelworkers union. The entrance is also where tensi
  
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• Hudson Porchfest music fest nudges neighbours closer together

  11-09-2018 13:40 via montrealgazette.com
  I’ve always longed for a house with a big front porch. There’s just something welcoming and friendly about a home with a porch.
  Porches nudge neighbours to notice each other. Hanging out on a front porch creates opportunities for friendly smiles and conversations with passing neighbours that you just don’t get cloistered away in your backyard.
  The daily hellos and how-are-yous exchanged with neighbours aren’t as trivial as they seem: these little tokens of kindness create
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals are slipping in latest poll as war for nationalist votes rages

  11-09-2018 13:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Midway through the election campaign, Quebec’s Liberals are getting no fresh traction with voters while the Coalition Avenir Québec appears to be stuck on a rung trying to climb the ladder to power for the first time ever, a new poll suggests.
  In fact, Liberal leader Philippe Couillard’s troops have slipped back to where they were at the start of the campaign. Aside from the small bump the party got from the return of the lost sheep in the non-francophone community two weeks a
  
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• Drug dealer tied to murdered Mob-tied loan shark granted day parole

  11-09-2018 13:10 via montrealgazette.com
  A Laval man who recently admitted he served as the longtime right-hand man to a powerful Mafia-tied loan shark who was murdered five years ago has been granted day parole. He is serving a sentence for cocaine possession as well as the small collection of firearms found when police searched his home.
  Nicolae-Catalin Vinersar, 51, does not have much in terms of a criminal record but, according to a written summary of a decision made late last week by the Parole Board of Canada, he recently admitte
  
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• Naqvi-Mohamed: Bereavement camp helps children move forward from loss

  11-09-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Losing a parent or loved one, or a significant life change can be hard enough for anyone to cope with. For children, however, it can be downright life-altering. Thankfully, local Montreal children can benefit from the Carousel Bereavement program. The most recent one was held this past weekend at Cap St-Jacques regional park in Pierrefonds.
  “Grieving is what you feel inside, and mourning is what you do on the outside,” said Carol Jonas, the coordinator of the Carousel Bereavement pro
  
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• Montreal weather: Some drizzle, an object lesson in cheering for fall

  11-09-2018 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada is forecasting rain turning into periods of drizzle in the morning.
  The daytime high is expected to be 20 degrees.
  Further periods of drizzle will end in the evening.
  The nighttime low is expected to be 14 degrees.
  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 @giordano_j.
  Quote of the day:
  
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• Woman in critical condition after being struck by a car in St-Laurent borough

  11-09-2018 06:46 via montrealgazette.com
  A woman was taken to hospital Monday night after she was struck by a vehicle at an intersection in the St-Laurent bough.
  The woman, described as being in her 60s, was left in critical condition in the accident which occurred after 9 p.m. at the intersection of Côte-Vertu Blvd. and Dutrisac St.
  A Montreal police spokesperson said a section of Côte-Vertu Blvd. between Dutrisac St. and Ste-Croix Ave. will be closed for a while while the accident is investigated.
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals slipping in latest poll as war for nationalist votes rages

  11-09-2018 06:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Midway through the election campaign, Quebec’s Liberals are getting no fresh traction with voters while the Coalition Avenir Québec appears to be stuck on a rung trying to climb the ladder to power for the first time ever, a new poll suggests.
  In fact, Liberal leader Philippe Couillard’s troops have slipped back to where they were at the start of the campaign. Aside from the small bump the party got from the return of the lost sheep in the non-francophone community two weeks a
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened in Montreal on Sept. 10

  11-09-2018 04:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Busy day? Here’s what you might have missed.
  Okay, you probably didn’t miss that the Montreal Canadiens traded captain Max Pacioretty to the Vegas Golden Knights. But they did, and that occasioned all manner of reactions. Let’s run through them, shall we?“I think the two organizations agreed … sorry, the player and the organization agreed that it was probably in the best interest of Max and the organization to start to look for a trade,” said Montreal Canadie
  
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• Canadiens players have mixed feelings on Max Pacioretty trade

  11-09-2018 03:58 via montrealgazette.com
  When Carey Price took to the podium at the Canadiens’ golf tournament Monday morning at Laval-sur-le-lac, he smiled and said with a smile to the gathered media in front of him: “Hey, what’s new?”
  Like most Montrealers, the goalie woke up Monday morning to news the Canadiens had announced at 1:05 a.m. that captain Max Pacioretty had been traded to the Vegas Golden Knights in exchange for veteran winger Tomas Tatar, forward prospect Nick Suzuki and a second-round pick
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ says it wants to better help immigrants, just fewer of them

  11-09-2018 03:30 via montrealgazette.com
  François Legault stood before a crowd in one of Montreal’s most ethnically diverse neighbourhoods Monday and tried to ease any possible fears over his party’s views on immigration.
  Speaking at a rally in Montreal North, organized by five Haitian candidates for Coalition Avenir Québec, Legault reiterated his party is focused on what he called “successful immigration.”
  “Take in less,” he said of new immigrants to Quebec, “but take better
  
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• A Q&A with Canadiens owner Geoff Molson after Max Pacioretty trade

  11-09-2018 03:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens owner/president Geoff Molson was the first one to step onto a podium at the team’s golf tournament Monday at Laval-sur-le-lac, hours after GM Marc Bergevin had traded captain Max Pacioretty to the Vegas Golden Knights in exchange for veteran winger Tomas Tatar, forward prospect Nick Suzuki and a second-round pick at the 2019 NHL Draft.
  While Pacioretty and his agent, Allan Walsh, say the player never asked for a trade, Molson said that wasn’t true and so did GM Marc Bergevi
  
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• St. Petersburg Philharmonic appoints Charles Dutoit as guest conductor

  11-09-2018 02:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Charles Dutoit will be the Principal Guest Conductor for the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra starting in May 2019.
  Russia’s oldest philharmonic orchestra, more than 200 years old, announced Dutoit’s appointment on Monday. Dutoit faced a series of allegations of sexual assault over the past year. In December, three opera singers and a musician alleged that the former musical director of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal sexually assaulted them between 1985 and 2010.
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• TIFF review: Xavier Dolan's The Death and Life of John F. Donovan will divide critics

  11-09-2018 02:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Xavier Dolan’s The Death and Life of John F. Donovan had its world première at the Toronto International Film Festival Monday evening, placing the Quebec director in a vulnerable position that is all too familiar to him.
  “I can’t help but sense the energy (of journalists) walking in, asking me questions after seeing (press screenings of) the film,” he had told The Gazette, 24 hours before. “It has not been the most reassuring 24 hours of my life.”
  The m
  
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• Quebec election: QS would create public intercity bus service

  11-09-2018 01:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Québec solidaire wants to improve intercity bus service in the regions by creating a public bus company that would increase service to smaller cities across the province.
  The Agence du transport interurbain’s mandate would be to “develop a reliable and affordable public bus network across Quebec.”
  The party’s spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois made the announcement Monday morning. He said the intercity bus network has deteriorated over the past few years.
  “Wh
  
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• Watch: Max Pacioretty through the years

  11-09-2018 01:42 via montrealgazette.com
  In the early hours of Sept. 10, the Montreal Canadiens announced that captain Max Pacioretty had been traded to the Vegas Golden Knights.
  Pacioretty was drafted by the Habs in 2007 and had played for the team since the 2010-11 season.
  In 626 games, he registered 448 points.
  Pacioretty was voted to be the team’s captain by his teammates in September 2015.
  During his time in Montreal, he regularly spoke about what it meant to play in this city and for a team like the Habs.
  In this video, we
  
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• Canadiens' Bell Centre sellout streak in jeopardy after dismal season

  11-09-2018 01:35 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens boast the longest string of sold-out games in the NHL, with the streak extending to the end of the lockout in 2005, but that doesn’t mean the Bell Centre has always been full.
  There were an embarrassing number of no-shows last season as the Canadiens stumbled to one of the worst records in the team’s history.
  The team insisted that all the seats were sold, but there were nights when tickets were still available minutes before the puck drop, a far cry from the days when
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée stands by Michelle Blanc, softens plan to cancel REM

  11-09-2018 01:20 via montrealgazette.com
  ALMA — On a day when the Parti Québécois unveiled its environmental policy, leader Jean-François Lisée was once again forced to defend past comments made by the PQ’s Mercier candidate, Michelle Blanc.
  Standing in front of the Saguenay Fjord Monday morning, Lisée presented what he called the most ambitious environmental program of any of the political parties vying for election. However Lisée was peppered with questions throughout the day abou
  
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• Alouettes: QB Antonio Pipkin winning trust of his receivers

  11-09-2018 01:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Antonio Pipkin remains the Alouettes’ starting quarterback for now — hardly a startling revelation, considering he has helped lead the team to two consecutive victories.
  But head coach Mike Sherman remains loath to gaze too far into his crystal ball and suggest the job’s his to lose.
  “He’s the guy this week. We take it week by week. Hopefully, he’ll keep developing and other quarterbacks will develop,” Sherman said following Monday’s practice, the
  
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• A Q&A with Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin after Max Pacioretty trade

  11-09-2018 00:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin looked like he hadn’t slept all night — and he probably hadn’t — when he met with the media just after 9 a.m. Monday at Laval-sur-le-lac, eight hours after he traded captain Max Pacioretty to the Vegas Golden Knights in exchange for veteran winger Tomas Tatar, forward prospect Nick Suzuki and a second-round pick at the 2019 NHL Draft.
  The Canadiens announced the trade at 1:08 a.m. While Pacioretty and his agent, Allan Walsh, both said the player
  
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