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• As Habs open training camp, newcomers hope Finnish connection clicks

  13-09-2018 23:58 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal media had a chance to get to know newcomer Joel Armia Thursday but they seemed more interested in finding out what Armia knows about rookie Jesperi Kotkaniemi.
  As It turns out, he doesn’t know  much.
  “I didn’t know much before this summer when I met him,” Armia said after going through a medical exam and a battery of fitness tests on the opening day of the Canadiens’ training camp in Brossard  “He’s a really good guy and he&rs
  
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• 13-year-old arrested after threats against West Island school

  13-09-2018 22:40 via montrealgazette.com
  A 13-year-old boy who was a student at École secondaire des Sources was arrested and is expected to be charged with making death threats after the Dollard-des-Ormeaux school was closed for the day Thursday.
  The school was closed after administrators were alerted to threats made on social media. Police searched the student’s house and arrested him. No weapons were found, said Montreal police Const. Benoit Boisselle.
  The boy will be arraigned at Montreal’s youth court, Boisselle
  
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• Cyclist dies after collision with truck in Villeray

  13-09-2018 22:11 via montrealgazette.com
  A 67-year-old cyclist died Thursday morning after he collided with a pickup truck.
  The accident happened around 5:40 a.m. The cyclist was travelling north on Lajeunesse St., while the truck, driven by a 64-year-old man, was headed west on Crémazie Blvd.
  The cyclist, who was transported to a hospital and then declared dead, has not been identified.
  Police said it appeared the truck driver had the green light. Alcohol is not believed to have been a factor but the investigation is ongoing, i
  
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• Restaurant review: Gus is simple yet bold, without a hint of pretension

  13-09-2018 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Restaurant Gus
  ★★★ out of ★★★★
  $$$
  Address: 38 Beaubien St. E. (Corner St-Dominique St.)
  Phone: 514-722-2175
  Open: Dinner: Mon. to Thurs. 5:30 to 10 p.m.; Fri. and Sat. 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Lunch: Fri. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
  Website: restaurantgus.com
  Wheelchair access: No
  Reservations: Essential
  Cards: Major cards
  Vegetarian-friendly: Not especially
  Parking: On surrounding streets
  Price range: Appetizers $10-$20; main courses $27-$45.50; desserts $8.
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• Back to Royal West Academy for student after Bill 101 exemption

  13-09-2018 21:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Alois Orozco will be back in school at Royal West Academy on Friday, after being granted an exemption from Bill 101 by the minister of education.
  Kathleen Weil, the MNA for Montreal West and now the minister responsible for Relations with English-Speaking Quebecers, shared the news with Alois and his mother Thursday afternoon.
  They were immensely relieved, Weil said.
  “This has been one of these days when it’s all worth it,”  Weil said. “I spoke to his mother and
  
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• A hard goodbye: Seniors often need help to sell the family home

  13-09-2018 21:35 via montrealgazette.com
  When you’ve been in the same home for 40 or 50 years, stuff tends to pile up.
  Over the years, mementoes and bric-a-brac gather in dusty corners of basements, attics, garages, spare rooms, cupboards and closets, everything from boxes of forgotten family photos to the long-disused bins of camping equipment and bags of the children’s old toys.
  One day you’ll go through it all, you promise yourself. You’ll have a big garage sale. You’ll box the best of it up and give it
  
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• Five things to do in Montreal this weekend: Sept. 13 to 16

  13-09-2018 21:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Get your flamenco fix
  The Festival Flamenco de Montréal has been underway since Sept. 9 and continues through Sept. 15. Main attractions include performances by Cia Antonio Granjero on Sept. 14 and Cia Juan Ogalla on Sept. 15, both at Théâtre Outremont (1248 Bernard Ave. W.).
  Build a bridge
  A replica of the Jacques-Cartier Bridge is being built out of cardboard in the Quartier des spectacles. It will be 35 metres long and 10 metres high, and put together without the aid of cr
  
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• TIFF 2018: Quebec director Sébastien Pilote reframes teen angst

  13-09-2018 20:30 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — An intoxicating swirl of strings envelops an early scene in Quebec director Sébastien Pilote’s third feature, La disparition des lucioles (The Fireflies Are Gone), which had its North American premiere Tuesday at the Toronto International Film Festival and opens in Montreal on Friday, Sept. 21.
  A teenage girl, Léo (Karelle Tremblay), is having dinner with her parents and godparents, but something is off. Though she’s all smiles, it soon becomes apparent
  
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• Alouettes quarterback Johnny Manziel vents over lack of playing time

  13-09-2018 20:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Alouettes quarterback Johnny Manziel returned to practice Thursday, for the first time in four days, then expressed his frustration over not playing more.
  “They had a lot of faith in me the first couple of weeks,” Manziel said. “Not getting to play once I’ve been back, it’s been frustrating. I felt there was a lot of hope and faith in me to be the guy here. How quickly that’s changed in two weeks.”
  Manziel practised with the team last Sunday, but missed
  
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• Quebec election: PQ unveils proposed budget, targets doctors' pay

  13-09-2018 20:10 via montrealgazette.com
  The Parti Québécois is banking on $3.45 billion in frozen doctors’ wages to pay for the bulk of its campaign promises.
  In a four-year financial plan unveiled Thursday, the PQ pledges $4.85 billion in extra spending on home care, subsidized daycares and additional infrastructure projects.
  But while the proposed budget is largely based on projections from Quebec’s auditor general, it’s also predicated on cancelling a deal between the Liberal government and 20,000 do
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: Closing threatened schools isn't an overreaction

  13-09-2018 18:40 via montrealgazette.com
  A lockdown at my old high school in the West Island this week hit a little too close to home; what began as a typical Tuesday quickly evolved into a stressful morning of text messages and phone calls checking in on loved ones.
  After a threat targeting BHS surfaced online, police and school officials did not waste any time in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all the students and staff. The fear and panic, however, was a whole other story.
  Most of the students were turned away before arri
  
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• Appreciation: Mark London helped shape Montreal's public spaces

  13-09-2018 18:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Have you ever wondered why the Old Port of Montreal is an animated public space rather an enclave of condominiums or how Alexander Calder’s giant sculpture on Île-Ste-Hélène came to adorn a belvedere with a breathtaking view of Montreal? it is no exaggeration to say both are thanks to Mark London. The Montreal architect and urban planner, who died in Boston Aug. 18 at age 70, quietly but relentlessly spent decades promoting historic preservation and sustainable urban de
  
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• Hotel Intel: Woodstock Inn renews vintage Vermont elegance

  13-09-2018 18:09 via montrealgazette.com
  As Vermont hospitality landmarks go, the Woodstock Inn & Resort has been on top for more than 225 years, and the recent ventures in interior redecoration and farm-to-table cuisine virtually guarantee its venerable status for a long time to come.
  It has had various names over the years, starting with Richardson’s Tavern in 1793, and it boasts many historic touchstones.
  It operated the first ski lift in the U.S. in 1934 (two years after a rope tow was operational in Quebec). And shotgun
  
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• Update: 13-year-old arrested after threats against West Island school

  13-09-2018 17:36 via montrealgazette.com
  A 13-year-old boy who was a student at École secondaire des Sources was arrested and is expected to be charged with making death threats after the Dollard-des-Ormeaux school was closed for the day Thursday.
  The school was closed after administrators were alerted to threats made on social media. Police searched the student’s house and arrested him. No weapons were found, said Montreal police Const. Benoit Boisselle.
  The boy will be arraigned at Montreal’s youth court, Boisselle
  
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• Former Canadien Max Pacioretty tells story of trade in his own words

  13-09-2018 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A lot has been written about the Canadiens trading Max Pacioretty to the Vegas Golden Knights, and now the former Canadiens captain has decided to tell his story in his own words.
  On Thursday, the Players’ Tribune published an article written by Pacioretty under the headline “We’re going to Vegas” in which he describes how excited his young sons Lorenzo, Maximus and James were about the trade.
  “Now they’re parading around the house, you know, chanting and holl
  
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• Quebec election: Jewish group backpedals, says Michelle Blanc 'caused pain'

  13-09-2018 17:17 via montrealgazette.com
  After initially defending her, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs said Thursday that embattled PQ candidate Michelle Blanc should “express regret” about her comments toward the Jewish community that some have found hurtful.
  A 2007 blog post by Blanc was made public on Sunday, in which she opined that it would be much easier for Mile End and Outremont’s Hasidim to “disappear from my sight.” Blanc also wrote a tweet in 2011 saying, “Merde, I forgot to
  
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• Watch: Have a drink with the world's first robot bartender

  13-09-2018 17:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Say hey to R1-B1 — the world’s first interactive professional robot bartender, according to its mastermind, Cédric Moindrot.
  Starting Sept. 20, R1-B1 will be serving up drinks, doing a little song and dance and even offering some psychiatric counselling, in French and English, to patrons at the new Montreal restaurant Le XVI XVI (1616 Sherbrooke St. W.).
  
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• Police have no suspects after man stabbed in downtown Montreal

  13-09-2018 16:24 via montrealgazette.com
  A man in his 40s was in critical condition in a hospital Thursday morning after being stabbed in downtown Montreal.
  Police say the incident occurred near the intersection of Berri St. and Viger Ave. around 7 a.m.
  The man was stabbed in the upper body, police said.
  No one has been arrested and police have no suspects. Police also don’t know what provoked the stabbing.
  
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• Update: Cyclist dies after collision with truck in Villeray

  13-09-2018 15:54 via montrealgazette.com
  A 67-year-old cyclist died Thursday morning after he collided with a pickup truck.
  The accident happened around 5:40 a.m. The cyclist was travelling north on Lajeunesse St., while the truck, driven by a 64-year-old man, was headed west on Crémazie Blvd. The victim was transported a hospital.
  Police were unable to say Thursday morning which of the men had a green light.
  The intersection had been closed during the police investigation but is now open for traffic.
  This is the third fatal col
  
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• West Island school closed Thursday after social media threats

  13-09-2018 15:23 via montrealgazette.com
  A school in the West Island will be closed all day Thursday, after police obtained reports of threats made toward the students on social media.
  Montreal police would not provide any details about the threats, other than to say they targeted students at École secondaire des Sources in Dollard-des-Ormeaux Thursday morning.
  But after other students alerted them of what they had seen on social media, the police took the threats very seriously, said Constable Jean-Pierre Brabant.
  “We&rsq
  
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• STM maintenance workers to protest in downtown Montreal Thursday

  13-09-2018 15:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Members of the Société de transport de Montréal maintenance union plan to demonstrate in front of the STM offices in downtown Montreal Thursday afternoon.
  The 2,400 workers with the Syndicat des employés d’entretien de la Société de transport de Montréal are in the midst of contract negotiations. In a statement issued in late May, the union alleged that the STM “seeks to roll back working conditions at all levels.” Ninety-ei
  
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• While you were sleeping: Hurricane Florence zeros in, Bill 101 strikes again

  13-09-2018 14:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened as the world turned.
  Hurricane Florence is zeroing in on the southeastern U.S. coast, with more than 10 million people in its sights. Florence’s top sustained wind speeds dropped from a high of 225 km/h to 175 km/h as its outer rain bands approached the North Carolina coast early Thursday, reducing the storm from Category 4 to Category 2, but forecasters warned that the enormous wind field has been growing larger, raising the risk of the ocean surging onto l
  
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• Cyclist badly injured in collision with truck in Villeray

  13-09-2018 13:53 via montrealgazette.com
  A 67-year-old cyclist was seriously injured Thursday morning when he collided with a truck.
  The accident happened around 5:40 a.m. The cyclist was travelling north on Lajeunesse St., while the truck, driven by a 64-year-old man, was headed west on Crémazie Blvd. The victim was transported a hospital, where he is listed in critical condition.
  Police were unable to say Thursday morning which of the men had a green light.
  The police investigation forced the closure of Crémazie Blvd. o
  
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• Teen in Grade 11 at Royal West Academy ensnared by Bill 101

  13-09-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Alois Orozco had it all figured out.
  He’d do his last year at Royal West Academy, where he’s averaging 95 per cent in science and math, move on to Dawson College and eventually medical school at McGill, so he can become a transplant surgeon — “like on House or Gray’s Anatomy,” he says.
  “Think about it — there are so many neurons in your brain. To be able to study them and use them to give someone a functional arm! It’s really interesting.&rdq
  
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• Montreal weather: Summer keeps rolling on

  13-09-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  More sunshine today.
  Environment Canada predicts at high of 26, with a humidex of 31 and a UV index of 6 or high.
  Tonight: Clear with a low of 15.
  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 @melbue.slamesie.
  Quote of the day:
  Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed. — Albert
  
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• Stu Cowan: Former Canadien Max Pacioretty finds happy place in Vegas

  13-09-2018 05:16 via montrealgazette.com
  As captain of the Canadiens, Max Pacioretty spent time trying to convince good friend Paul Stastny to sign with Montreal when he became a free agent this summer.
  Pacioretty ranks 10th in the NHL in goals over the last five seasons and did that while never playing with a legitimate No. 1 NHL centre. After slumping to 17 goals last season following four straight years of at least 30, Pacioretty felt Stastny could really help both him and the Canadiens as a free-agent signing.
  But Stastny, like so
  
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• Max Pacioretty: 'I would have been willing to sign extension' with Canadiens

  13-09-2018 04:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Max Pacioretty still says his first choice would have been to sign a contract extension to stay with the Canadiens, but that never happened.
  That’s why he was in Las Vegas on Wednesday, holding his first news conference since being traded to the Golden Knights on Monday. Before the deal was made — with Pacioretty signing a four-year, US$28-million contract extension with the Knights to finalize it — the former Canadiens captain insisted he never asked for a trade out of Montrea
  
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• Québec solidaire vows to establish a guaranteed minimum income

  13-09-2018 04:09 via montrealgazette.com
  A Québec solidaire government would launch a pilot project to establish a guaranteed minimum income in several Quebec municipalities, party co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said on Wednesday. 
  More than 800,000 people live in poverty in Quebec, with more than half of them on welfare, according to the leftist party.Québec solidaire believes a well-paid job remains the best way to get out of poverty. That said, with welfare payments of $648 per month, and $1,035 for pe
  
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• Max Pacioretty and his family excited about move to Las Vegas

  13-09-2018 03:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Max Pacioretty said he hadn’t slept much in three days, but he certainly didn’t look it.
  A fresh start can do that to a man.
  Pacioretty met with the media in Las Vegas Wednesday afternoon for the first time since Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin traded his captain to the Golden Knights on Monday in exchange for veteran winger Tomas Tatar, forward prospect Nick Suzuki and a second-round pick at next year’s NHL Draft. Pacioretty flew from Montreal to Las Vegas Tuesday night and was at
  
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• West Island school will be closed Thursday after social media threats

  13-09-2018 03:12 via montrealgazette.com
  A school in the West Island will be closed all day Thursday, after police obtained reports of threats made toward the students on social media.
  Montreal police would not provide any details about the threats, other than to say they targeted students at the École Secondaire des Sources in Dollard des Ormeaux Thursday morning.
  But after other students alerted them of what they had seen on social media, the police took the threats very seriously, said Constable Jean-Pierre Brabant.
  “We
  
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• Police try to negotiate with man barricaded in Pierrefonds home

  13-09-2018 03:11 via montrealgazette.com
  A man wanted for alleged domestic violence in St-Jérôme barricaded himself inside a home on Thorndale St. in Pierrefonds Wednesday, forcing several people onto the street as police tried for hours to negotiate his surrender.
  Montreal police and St-Jérôme police were working together, beginning at 4 p.m., to draw the man out of the home. He was intoxicated but unarmed, and there was no one else inside the house, said Montreal police Constable Jean-Pierre Brabant Wed
  
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• #ICYMI: A robot bartender, Blanc unrepentant, and more news from Wednesday

  13-09-2018 02:49 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  Shapes of things to come?
  A Montreal bar has enlisted what’s being touted as “the world’s first interactive professional robot bartender.” It — does it have a gender? — is called R1-B1 and doesn’t take tips, apparently.
  Columnist Bill Brownstein reports from the bar.
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  No apology from controversial Parti Québécois candidate Michelle Blanc
  
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• Canadiens rookies hope to make Claude Julien's decisions difficult

  13-09-2018 02:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Most training camps open with a pronouncement from the coach that every spot is available.
  As the Canadiens open their main training camp Thursday, there might be an element of truth in that statement.
  Okay, goaltender Carey Price is guaranteed a spot and so are Jeff Petry, Jonathan Drouin, Brendan Gallagher and a dozen other players. But head coach Claude Julien pointed to some upcoming battles when he addressed the coming season and said: “What I do know is that I have too many players.&
  
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• Quebec election notebook: Black Rock controversy dogs Liberals

  13-09-2018 02:05 via montrealgazette.com
  The grassy Bridge St. median that’s home to the Black Rock is now free of electioneering but the controversy may not be over.
  After complaints from the Irish community on Tuesday, the Parti Québécois and the Liberals moved their big campaign signs away from the monument that sits atop a burial ground for poor Irish immigrants who died of typhus in Montreal in 1847.
  But one of the community members who has been working for more than a decade to create a memorial park near
  
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• TIFF 2018: Beyond Dolan, Quebec films enjoy festival spotlight

  13-09-2018 01:56 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — Xavier Dolan, Kim Nguyen and Denys Arcand may have led the charge for Quebec at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this past week, but close behind them came an array of independent productions boasting a wide range of outlooks and aesthetics.
  Renée Beaulieu was still buzzing Saturday evening, 24-hours after the world première of her second feature, Les salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau.
  How about that title, the first part of which was kept for the
  
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• Quebec election: Here's what each leader must do in pivotal TV debate

  13-09-2018 01:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Four leaders will be in the spotlight Thursday night as they face off in the first debate of the Quebec election campaign.
  It will be a pivotal moment because four in 10 voters are wavering.
  The Montreal Gazette asked Concordia University political science professor Guy Lachapelle about each leader’s strengths, weaknesses and debate objectives.
  “We have four leaders who are pretty much equal in terms of their capacity to communicate with the viewers,” said Lachapelle, who speci
  
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• Developers to build skybridge from Bell Centre to Canadiens towers

  13-09-2018 01:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Things are going exceptionally well for the Montreal Canadiens — in the real-estate sector, that is. The hockey team is coming off one of the worst seasons in its history, but business is positively booming for the three Montreal Canadiens condo towers beside the Bell Centre.
  On Wednesday, developers Cadillac Fairview and Canderel, along with their partners the Fonds immobilier de solidarité FTQ and the Canadiens, announced that construction has begun on what they’re calling t
  
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• Quebec solidaire vows to establish a guaranteed minimum income

  13-09-2018 01:24 via montrealgazette.com
  A Québec solidaire government would launch a pilot project to establish a guaranteed minimum income in several Quebec municipalities, party co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said on Wednesday. 
  More than 800,000 people live in poverty in Quebec, with more than half of them on welfare, according to the leftist party.Québec solidaire believes a well-paid job remains the best way to get out of poverty. That said, with welfare payments of $648 per month, and $1,035 for pe
  
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• Tomas Tatar joins Canadiens after second trade in just over six months

  13-09-2018 01:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Tomas Tatar didn’t come cheap when the Vegas Golden Knights acquired him from the Detroit Red Wings at last year’s NHL trade deadline.
  Golden Knights GM George McPhee gave the Red Wings a first-round pick at this year’s NHL Entry Draft (used to select centre Joe Veleno, a Kirkland native who plays for the QMJHL’s Drummondville Voltigeurs), a second-round pick in 2019 that originally belonged to the New York Islanders and a third-round pick in 2021.
  “We went into the
  
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• Quebec election: Nunavik suicide rate 'unacceptable,' Couillard says

  13-09-2018 00:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard said he has read a letter Ghislain Picard, the chief of the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador, sent to the four main party leaders and promised that he will meet with indigenous leaders.
  “Of course I will meet with them,” Couillard said on Wednesday. “I’ve always met with them; it will not be different this time.”
  However, he said, First Nations leaders cannot expect the province to take over the role of the federal governme
  
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