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• Quebec election: PQ can't shake Michelle Blanc controversy

  17-09-2018 23:49 via montrealgazette.com
  As the Parti Québécois presented its “Made in Quebec” economic policy Monday, party leader Jean-François Lisée again faced questions about embattled Mercier candidate Michelle Blanc.
  On Sunday, Blanc turned down an invitation to serve as an honorary co-president of an annual gala held by Équipe Montréal, an LGBTQ sports organization.
  The group distanced itself from Blanc because of online comments she made about Hasidic Jews, b
  
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• Stu Cowan: Canadiens stock roster with former first-round draft picks

  17-09-2018 23:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Brendan Gallagher, Paul Byron and Max Domi were sitting side-by-side in the Canadiens’ locker room after Monday morning’s practice in Brossard when I asked them a question: Do you know how many former first-round draft picks are on the team’s training-camp roster?
  “No,” Gallagher said, shaking his head.
  Byron thought about the question for few seconds before saying: “I don’t know … 10?”
  When told the correct answer is 13, Domi responded
  
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• QB Johnny Manziel to get start when Alouettes visit Winnipeg

  17-09-2018 23:14 via montrealgazette.com
  When Johnny Manziel was intercepted four times against Hamilton early last month in his Alouettes debut, he remained the starting quarterback — perhaps because the team didn’t know whether any better options existed.
  But after Antonio Pipkin was intercepted four times against British Columbia last Friday in his fourth game as the starter, he won’t receive the same immunity.
  The Als returned to practice Monday morning, and it became apparent almost from the outset that managemen
  
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• Quebec election: Stream the first televised English leaders' debate here

  17-09-2018 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The day is finally upon us.
  The first-ever televised English-language debate between the leaders of Quebec’s major parties starts at 5:30 p.m.
  Organized by a consortium of Montreal English media outlets, you can watch the debate farther up this page or by clicking on this link.
  A team of reporters and producers from the partners in the English media consortium will be fact-checking statements made during the debate.
  The results will be posted on this website as well as those of the other
  
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• Quebec election: Lower immigration would hurt Montreal, Plante says

  17-09-2018 22:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Having fewer immigrants entering Montreal each year would be a problem for the city, Mayor Valérie Plante says.
  Plante made the comments on Monday during a provincial election campaign that in recent weeks has been dominated by the question of Quebec immigration levels.
  “Yes,” Plante said when asked if having fewer newcomers would cause problems for Montreal. “Right now, the percentage of unoccupied jobs is already three per cent in Montreal, so that’s already
  
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• Free legal advice lectures for Pincourt residents

  17-09-2018 22:12 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Pincourt is offering some free legal advice to local residents this fall.
  A series of lectures about various legal issues will be given, in French and English, by notary and legal adviser Myriam Léger.
  Topics covered include the importance of writing a will, how to settle a succession? the purpose of a power of attorney and/or protection mandate and the steps involved in buying or selling a property?
  English sessions take place at St.Patrick’s Elementary School, at 261 S
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Jesperi Kotkaniemi not feeling pressure at training camp

  17-09-2018 21:13 via montrealgazette.com
  All eyes will be on Jesperi Kotkaniemi when the Canadiens play their first of seven exhibition games Monday night at the Bell Centre against the New Jersey Devils (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).
  The Canadiens selected the 6-foot-2, 184-pounder in the first round (third overall) at this year’s NHL Draft after he posted 10-19-29 totals in 57 games last season with Assat Pori in the Finnish Elite League. There’s going to be a lot of pressure on the 18-year-old as the Canadiens lo
  
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• Simons sorry for 'poor taste' bra campaign, apologizes to former chief justice

  17-09-2018 20:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Simons clothing store has issued a formal public apology — with a special appeal to former chief justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin — for its recent promotional campaign to sell bras named after important women in Canadian history, including the “Beverley bralette.”
  Calling the campaign in “poor taste,” Peter Simons, the president and CEO of the Quebec City-based company, also apologized to McLachlin, the only living woman featured in the ads, for the &ldquo
  
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• Construction begins for REM station on McGill College Ave.

  17-09-2018 20:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Motorists and pedestrians will not be able to use the east side of McGill College Ave. over the next four months because construction has begun for the Réseau express métropolitain McGill station.
  Workers must relocate infrastructure for public utilities and municipal services between de Maisonneuve Blvd. and Ste-Catherine St. The work will create noise and dust, the REM warns.
  One lane of traffic, in each direction, will be allowed on the west side of McGill College Ave.
  
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• 'The boss here is me': Judge faces possible reprimand after yelling at guard

  17-09-2018 20:32 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec Court judge found himself before a panel of his peers who will determine if he was out of line when he yelled at a prison guard during a hearing at the Montreal courthouse last year.
  Judge Jean-Paul Braun, who retired this year, appeared before the Conseil de la magistrature du Québec on Monday and is scheduled to have another hearing before the judicial council that oversees the behaviour of judges, for comments made in a different case, in the coming weeks.
  On April 20, 2017, B
  
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• Lise Ravary: What resurgence of hate groups in Quebec?

  17-09-2018 20:29 via montrealgazette.com
  In a recent article, Ottawa-based human rights lawyer Richard Warman was quoted as saying that the ultra right-wing group Atalante Québec was part of a resurgence of right-wing hate groups in Québec.
  Pardon moi? A resurgence? As I recall, the last time there were right-wing hate groups in Quebec, and in Canada, worth worrying about was in the 1930s.
  Atalante Québec is a nasty piece of work. Its slogan “to exist is to fight against what denies my existence” c
  
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• Quebec election: Legault is an expert on immigration, Granby candidate says

  17-09-2018 20:13 via montrealgazette.com
  SAINT-SAUVEUR — The day after Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault erred repeatedly over two successive days on basic questions about Canada’s immigration laws, his candidate in the riding of Granby declared him an “expert” on citizenship regulations.
  “Of course Mr. Legault is an expert on immigration,” said François Bonnardel. “We explained our idea two years ago. We want to receive 40,000 immigrants, we want them to spea
  
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• Opinion: It's 4 a.m., and I'm thinking about the Quebec election

  17-09-2018 19:52 via montrealgazette.com
  I wish I were a politician. But I’m not. I’m just a no-name philosophy professor. The destiny of humankind is in someone else’s hands.
  I’m assuming most Quebecers feel powerless, like I do. I wish I had power to make the world a safer and fairer place to live. I wish I could make it so that all people would thrive and be happy. It’s cheesy, I know, but that’s what I’m hoping for. I listen to the news and all I hear is wildfires,
  
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• Quebec election: PQ 'Made in Quebec' message derailed by Blanc controversy

  17-09-2018 19:38 via montrealgazette.com
  As the Parti-Québécois presented its economic policy Monday morning that centred on a “Made in Quebec” label, Leader Jean-François Lisée once again had to sidestep questions about embattled Mercier candidate Michelle Blanc.
  On Sunday, Blanc turned down an invitation to be an honorary co-president of the annual gala by LGBTQ+ organization Équipe Montréal after the group distanced itself from Blanc because of online comments she made
  
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• Alouettes practice: It appears Johnny Manziel is back as team's top QB

  17-09-2018 18:26 via montrealgazette.com
  It certainly appears Johnny Manziel is the Alouettes’ starting QB — again.
  The team returned to practice Monday morning, and Manziel was taking all the reps with the starting offence.
  Manziel, acquired in a July trade from Hamilton, started two games, both losses, before suffering a concussion.
  He was replaced by rookie Antonio Pipkin, who went 2-2 over four games, but struggled on Friday in a 32-14 home loss to the B.C. Lions, passing for only 95 yards.
  Pipkin was intercepted four t
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals promise more money to buy electric cars

  17-09-2018 18:22 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec Liberal Party wants to add more electric cars to the road by offering Quebecers an extra $1,000 rebate to buy one, Leader Philippe Couillard announced Monday morning.
  The additions would bring the total rebate available in Quebec for buying electric cars to $9,000. The rebate is only available for cars under $75,000.
  A Liberal government would also add a $200 grant for people to buy chargers for their homes, bringing that total to $800.
  While making the promise, the party said it help
  
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• Driver, 82, in critical condition after SUV, truck collide in St-Léonard

  17-09-2018 18:18 via montrealgazette.com
  An 82-year-old man was in critical condition Monday morning after the SUV he was driving collided with a tractor-trailer at the corner of Pascale Gagnon St. and Des Grandes Prairies Blvd. in the borough of St-Léonard.
  The accident happened at 9:50 a.m. Witnesses interviewed by police say the collision occurred when the truck, travelling north of Pascal Gagnon, turned left to head west on Des Grandes Prairies at the same moment the SUV was travelling south through the intersection on Pasca
  
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• Quebec election: Québec solidaire vows to clean up corruption

  17-09-2018 17:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Québec solidaire promises to take steps to clean up corruption in the province if the party is elected on Oct. 1.
  The party says it would change the way the leaders of Quebec’s anti-corruption unit and the Sûreté du Québec are selected.
  Within the first 100 days of a mandate, Québec solidaire would change the rules so that future leaders are chosen by members of the National Assembly, co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said Monday.
  The internal structur
  
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• Montreal authors well represented on Giller Prize long list

  17-09-2018 17:23 via montrealgazette.com
  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Novelists Esi Edugyan and Patrick DeWitt are among the familiar names on this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize long list.
  Michael Redhill, last year’s winner, announced the contenders at a ceremony Monday in St. John’s, N.L.
  The prize awards $100,000 to the winner and $10,000 to the other finalists.
  A short list will be announced Oct. 1 and the winner will be announced at a televised gala in Toronto on Nov. 19.
  Edugyan, who is nominated this year fo
  
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• Quebec election: Fewer immigrants in Montreal would be a 'problem,' Plante says

  17-09-2018 17:09 via montrealgazette.com
  MONTREAL — Having fewer immigrants entering Montreal each year would be a problem for the city, Mayor Valérie Plante said Monday morning.
  Plante made the comments in the middle of a provincial election campaign that has been dominated by the question of Quebec immigration levels in recent weeks.
  “Yes,” Plante said when asked if having fewer newcomers would cause problems for Montreal. “Right now, the percentage of unoccupied jobs is already three per cent in Montre
  
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• Watch: What makes Jean-François Lisée tick?

  17-09-2018 16:37 via montrealgazette.com
  The Parti Québécois may be languishing third in the polls and its raison d’être — making Quebec a sovereign nation — is less popular than it’s been in a generation, but you wouldn’t know that by watching Jean-Francçois Lisée.
  While his rivals labour through carefully scripted talking points, the 60-year-old is part standup comic, part itinerant preacher at his nightly rallies. He appears to be having the time of his life.
  
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• Quebec election: Bring cochlear-implant surgery to Montreal, coalition pleads

  17-09-2018 15:53 via montrealgazette.com
  With the support of Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante, a coalition of parents and medical specialists is urging the four main political parties campaigning before the Oct. 1 provincial vote to commit to establishing cochlear-implant surgery in Montreal.
  At present, Montreal-area residents who are deaf or who suffer from profound hearing loss must travel multiple times to Quebec City for pre-surgical assessment, for the surgery itself and then afterward to activate and program the cochlear imp
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ pledges $5 million for Alzheimer's research

  17-09-2018 15:24 via montrealgazette.com
  SAINT-SAUVEUR — Coalition Avenir Québec says it will increase provincial funding into Alzheimer’s research by $5 million a year, and reopen the debate on advanced consent for medically assisted deaths for those suffering from Alzheimer’s and related diseases.
  CAQ candidates Marguerite Blais and François Bonnardel made the announcements in St-Sauveur Monday morning. Leader François Legault was absent, preparing for Monday evening’s English-language lea
  
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• Cops arrest 6 teens, 1 adult in connection with rash of arson in Laval

  17-09-2018 15:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police have arrested seven suspects between the ages of 15 and 18 in connection with a series of fires they contend caused more than $375,000 in damages since last May.
  The suspects were arrested last Thursday and police allege the fires and vandalism targeted parks and other public spaces in the city’s Chomedey and Fabreville districts.
  While evidence garnered thus far links the suspects to only four events, an investigation is examining a total of 87 incidents causing $377,000 in d
  
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• While you were sleeping: Bumper crop of squirrels drives farmers nuts

  17-09-2018 13:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were enjoying some well-deserved rest.
  A man in his 30s lost his life in St-Placide in the Laurentians, presumably after falling asleep at the wheel. Police were informed by a passerby shortly of a vehicle overturned in a field on Highway 344. Emergency responders declared the 35-year-old man from St-André-d’Argenteuil dead at the scene. Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Claude Denis said the vehicle’s engine was c
  
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• Repeat sex offender Robert Laramée to remain at Montreal halfway house

  17-09-2018 13:28 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal man with a long record of sexually abusing women and girls has been ordered to spend another year in a halfway house as a means to control the risk he represents of reoffending.
  The Parole Board of Canada made the decision last week requiring that Robert Laramée, 55, not only reside at a halfway house, but that he be required to return to it every night.
  The condition was first imposed in 2016 when Laramée finished serving the entirety of a 39-month sentence he received
  
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• Renegade MPs to return to Bloc Québécois caucus

  17-09-2018 13:14 via montrealgazette.com
  The five Bloc Québécois MPs who quit the party caucus last February are to announce their return to the fold on Monday, the Presse Canadienne has learned.
  The announcement is expected to be made by interim party leader Mario Beaulieu and party co-founder Louis Plamondon at 10 a.m.
  Details of the reconciliation, which will bring that Bloc caucus up to 10 members, were worked out Sunday afternoon.
  The reunification will close a bitter chapter in the party’s history that be
  
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• Quebec election: Health care is No. 1 voter issue

  17-09-2018 13:13 via montrealgazette.com
  As a longtime resident of multi-ethnic Côte-des-Neiges, 60-year-old Alp Hasan has voted consistently for the Quebec Liberals over the years.
  But this year, Hasan is unsure which party he’ll vote for on Oct. 1. He blames his indecisiveness on the Liberal government’s handling of health care in the past four years — a period during which the public system underwent its most radical reforms since the introduction of medicare in the province in 1970.
  “I’m not impr
  
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• Montreal weather: More of the same — sunny and hot

  17-09-2018 13:11 via montrealgazette.com
  It’ll be tough to go back to work after an amazing weekend of summer-like temperatures and sun, but it isn’t going to last as cooler, fall-like weather arrives later this week.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of 29 and a humidex of 36. The UV index will be 7, or high.
  Tonight: Clear with a low of 20.
  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
  
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• West Island bar fight ends in parking-lot stabbing

  17-09-2018 13:02 via montrealgazette.com
  A 32-year-old man is in custody and a 28-year-old man recovering in hospital after a stabbing early Monday outside a West Island bar.
  The incident occurred at 12:30 a.m. in the parking lot of a bar at the corner of Pierrefonds Blvd. and Becket St. in the Sainte-Geneviève district.
  Police say the stabbing occurred after an argument broke out between the two men. The suspect fled the scene after the stabbing but was tracked down by police several hours later.
  The victim’s injuries are
  
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• Countdown to legalization: Lawyer helps clear up cannabis confusion

  17-09-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  One month before recreational marijuana becomes legal in Canada, a thick fog still hovers over the federal cannabis act and the Quebec cannabis law in terms of how they will be applied in homes, workplaces, on provincial roads and at the border.
  Mylany David, a partner at Langlois law firm in Montreal and the head of its working group on cannabis, sat down with the Montreal Gazette to clear the air — or at least open a window.
  Q: Would you say there are still a lot of unknowns in how canna
  
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• Man shot during altercation in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu

  17-09-2018 12:59 via montrealgazette.com
  A man in his 30s was recovering in hospital Monday morning after being shot during an apparent altercation in a residence in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Sunday evening.
  The incident occurred at 7 p.m. in a residence on Collin St. near St. Jacques St.
  The suspects, who apparently entered the victim’s home, had fled the scene by the time local police arrived. The cause of the altercation has yet to be established.
  Local police have turned the investigation over to the major crimes squad of the
  
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• Allison Hanes: Getting over the hang-ups about sex ed

  17-09-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  If only they hadn’t called it sex ed, maybe there wouldn’t be so much angst.
  Health, sexual well-being, personal and social development — almost anything would have been better, said Clorinda Antonacci, a teacher at Lester B. Pearson High School in Montreal North.
  “If you put health, everybody’s for it,” she said. “You set them up by calling it sex ed. The kids are loving it, because they think they get to talk about sex. The parents are like: ‘Oh
  
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• Max Pacioretty scores in his pre-season debut with Golden Knights

  17-09-2018 07:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Former Canadiens captain Max Pacioretty played his first exhibition game in a Vegas Golden Knights uniform Sunday night, scoring a goal and adding an assist in a 7-2 win over the visiting Arizona Coyotes in front of a sellout crowd of 17,567 at T-Mobile Arena.
  Pacioretty scored what proved to be the winning goal on the power play at 8:39 of the first period while wearing an “A” on his jersey as an alternate captain. For the second straight season, the Golden Knights won’t have
  
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• Unité 9 locks up Prix Gémeaux victory; District 31 takes Prix du public

  17-09-2018 04:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Unité 9, a gritty show about a group of women in a Quebec prison, won the award for best year-long drama at the Prix Gémeaux gala Sunday night.
  It was the fourth consecutive year the hugely popular show took the prize.
  The 33rd edition of the event, which honours the best in Quebec television, was broadcast live on ICI Radio-Canada from Théâtre Maisonneuve of Place des Arts.
  Jean-Philippe Wauthier hosted. Absent from the stage was previous co-host Éric Salv
  
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• Motorist dies in St-Placide after falling asleep at the wheel

  17-09-2018 04:09 via montrealgazette.com
  A man in his 30s lost his life in St-Placide in the Laurentians on Sunday presumably after falling asleep at the wheel.Police were informed by a passerby shortly before 4:45 p.m of a vehicle overturned in a field on Highway 344.Emergency responders declared the 35-year-old man from St-André-d’Argenteuil dead at the scene.Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Claude Denis said the vehicle’s engine was cold, which meant the accident occurred several hours before
  
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• Stu Cowan: Have the Habs found their new No. 1 line?

  17-09-2018 03:11 via montrealgazette.com
  If Jonathan Drouin and Max Domi do end up playing on the same line this season for the Canadiens, one question will be who is at centre? Another will be who is going to shoot the puck?
  Domi was at centre between Drouin and Joel Armia Sunday afternoon when the Canadiens played their annual Red vs. White scrimmage at the Bell Centre and they looked very good together. Drouin scored twice, including once on a penalty shot, to lead the White to a 4-3 win over the Red. Drouin’s first goal came
  
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• Quebec election: Québec solidaire promises regional culture fund

  17-09-2018 02:38 via montrealgazette.com
  SAGUENAY — A Québec solidaire government would improve access to cultural offerings throughout the province by establishing a special culture fund to ensure an equitable distribution of public funds among the province’s regions, party co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said Sunday on the campaign trail.
  With him were Catherine Dorion, the Québec solidaire candidate in Taschereau, and Pierre Dostie, the candidate in Chicoutimi.
  Budgets for culture are insufficient and
  
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• Stu Cowan: Have the Canadiens found their new No. 1 line?

  17-09-2018 02:29 via montrealgazette.com
  If Jonathan Drouin and Max Domi do end up playing on the same line this season for the Canadiens, one question will be who is at centre? Another will be who is going to shoot the puck?
  Domi was at centre between Drouin and Joel Armia Sunday afternoon when the Canadiens played their annual Red vs. White scrimmage at the Bell Centre and they looked very good together. Drouin scored twice, including once on a penalty shot, to lead the White to a 4-3 win over the Red. Drouin’s first goal came
  
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• Nick Suzuki looking to make a name for himself with Canadiens

  17-09-2018 02:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Nick Suzuki was asked after the Canadiens’ Red vs. White scrimmage Sunday afternoon at the Bell Centre to pick a word to describe the last week of his life.
  “It’s just pretty crazy. So crazy, I guess,” said the 19-year-old forward who was acquired from the Vegas Golden Knights last Monday as part of the Max Pacioretty trade.
  “It’s just been kind of a whirlwind,” added Suzuki, who came to Montreal from Las Vegas along with veteran forward Tomas Tatar and
  
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• Kirk Muller signs two-year contract extension with Canadiens

  17-09-2018 01:43 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens announced on Sunday associate coach Kirk Muller has agreed to a two-year contract extension with the club that extends through the 2020-21 season.
  Muller is one of four coaches who will be behind the Canadiens’ bench this season, along with head coach Claude Julien and new assistants Dominique Ducharme and Luke Richardson.
  Muller played for the Canadiens from 1991-95 and was part of Montreal’s last Stanley Cup team in 1993. He was also captain of the Canadiens during t
  
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• Quebec election: PQ's Lisée won't commit to immigration numbers

  17-09-2018 00:16 via montrealgazette.com
  OTTAWA — Would Quebec take in fewer or more immigrants under a Parti Québécois government?
  Leader Jean-François Lisée would not say, because if elected after the Oct. 1 vote, he would appoint the auditor general to study how many immigrants are required in order to satisfy the province’s labour shortage.
  But would he follow those recommendations? Lisée did not commit one way or another when asked Sunday.
  “I will not speculate, but I will
  
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