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• Quebec election: Couillard wants First Nations to fill labour shortage

  19-09-2018 23:17 via montrealgazette.com
  VAL- D’OR — The Bolduc family didn’t want it to get to this point, but says it was left without a choice.
  Owners of nine Subway restaurants in Quebec’s northern regions, they started closing their Val-d’Or location at night and early morning last month, struggling to find employees to fill the hours.
  Then, after exhausting staff by asking them to pick up hours between their different restaurants, they decided something needed to give: they closed the Val-d&rsqu
  
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• Quebec election blog Sept. 19: Who’s running? Candidates tend to be male – and over 40

  19-09-2018 23:16 via montrealgazette.com
  If you’re viewing this on the Montreal Gazette app, click here and scroll to the bottom of the page.
  If you’re viewing this in a mobile browser, scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the blog.
  This was our live blog about the Quebec election for Wednesday, Sept. 19.
  
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• Police arrest man, 28, after worker stabbed at Douglas hospital

  19-09-2018 23:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police officers arrested a 28-year-old man at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute on LaSalle Blvd. in Verdun on Wednesday afternoon after a worker was stabbed.
  The victim was stabbed with a knife after unlocking the front door to let in a former patient of the institution, the police said.
  Other employees managed to lock the suspect in the vestibule, between doors, until police arrived. The police received a 911 call at 12:30 p.m.
  The suspect did not resist arrest, the p
  
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• Park-Extension woman, 34, has been missing since Sept. 1

  19-09-2018 23:04 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal police are seeking the public’s help to locate Josiane Arguin, a 34-year-old who has been missing since Sept. 1.
  Arguin left her home in Park-Extension around 8 a.m. that day without taking any belongings. The police say her family fears for her safety because she has expressed suicidal thoughts in the past and because they say she may be mixing with bad company.
  Arguin is white with long, wavy brown hair and stands 5-foot-3. She weighs 130 pounds and speaks French.
  She may be
  
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• Cyclist in critical condition after collision with car in Montreal-North

  19-09-2018 23:04 via montrealgazette.com
  A 24-year-old cyclist is in critical condition after a collision with a car on Hébert Ave. in Montreal-North on Wednesday afternoon.
  The cyclist was riding north on the sidewalk on the east side of the street when a car that was also heading north on Hébert hit the cyclist as it turned into a parking lot on the east side of Hébert near Amos St. at about 3:20 p.m.
  The cyclist suffered a head injury, and the police said they fear for his life.
  The 27-year-old driver is collabo
  
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• Police are asking for help to find missing LaSalle teen

  19-09-2018 22:57 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal police are asking for the public’s help to locate Zoulfath adjokè Olayide Oceni, 19.
  She left her home in LaSalle around 7:50 a.m. on Sunday and was last seen in Ahuntsic. The police say her family fears for her health and safety because she’s not in the habit of disappearing. 
  Oceni sometimes uses the name Sindy Oceni. She is black, with black hair and black eyes and stands 5-foot-7. She weighs 185 pounds. She speaks French and English.
  At the time
  
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• POP Montreal: Alanis Obomsawin, 85, revives singing career

  19-09-2018 22:51 via montrealgazette.com
  “I’m going through a lot of things, for sure,” Alanis Obomsawin said.
  Sitting in her small, wonderfully cluttered office in the depths of the National Film Board’s Montreal headquarters on Côte-de-Liesse Blvd., the 86-year-old Abenaki filmmaker attempted to put into words the feeling of rekindling her singing career, which never really was in the first place.
  Obomsawin has made 51 documentaries over her 51-year tenure at the NFB. She is working on her 52nd. Two of h
  
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• Police arrest 28-year-old man after worker stabbed at Douglas hospital

  19-09-2018 22:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police officers arrested a 28-year-old man at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute on LaSalle Blvd. in Verdun on Wednesday afternoon after a worker was stabbed.
  The victim was stabbed with a knife after unlocking the front door to let in a former patient of the institution, the police said.
  Other employees managed to lock the suspect in the vestibule, between doors, until police arrived. The police received a 911 call at 12:30 p.m.
  The suspect did not resist arrest, the p
  
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• Quebec election: Man barred from municipal posts fit to be MNA, PQ says

  19-09-2018 22:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Even if Parti Québécois candidate Joël Arseneau is barred from being mayor or councillor in Îles-de-la-Madeleine, he’s fit to be MNA of the riding that includes the municipality, PQ deputy leader Véronique Hivon said on Wednesday.
  Arseneau, who was mayor of Îles-de-la-Madeleine from 2005 to 2013, says he reached an out-of-court settlement with the municipality concerning several thousand dollars in debts he incurred with the municipality.
  Asked to comm
  
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• Quebec election: Demand for questions in advance was 'clumsiness,' CAQ says

  19-09-2018 22:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The Coalition Avenir Québec denies it has a policy of requiring journalists to provide their questions 24 hours in advance to get an interview with a candidate.
  Mathieu St-Amand, a spokesperson for the party, chalked it up to “clumsiness” by volunteers working on Matane-Matapédia riding candidate Mathieu Quenum’s campaign.
  St-Amand was responding after Quebec City newspaper Le Soleil reported that Quenum’s team told a local media outlet to send its questions
  
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• Inuk woman's killer faces sentencing after several delays

  19-09-2018 20:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Nellie Angutiguluk remained in a relationship with Kwasi Benjamin for more than a year before he killed her even though he had tried to end her life before.
  “He tried to kill me. He wanted to kill me,” Angutiguluk told Montreal police Constable Jean-Philippe Tseng-Valiquette on Jan. 4, 2014, when he found her standing completely nude and covered in blood inside the couple’s apartment in Côte-des-Neiges after she had called 911.
  Tseng-Valiquette testified on Wednesday at t
  
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• Ex-NYT critic who trashed Montreal bagels now on about maple syrup

  19-09-2018 20:19 via montrealgazette.com
  What did Montreal ever do to Mimi Sheraton?
  Just last week, the former New York Times food critic likened the venerable Montreal bagel to “chewing broken glass.”
  Now, the author of 1,000 Foods to Eat Before You Die has turned her attention to maple syrup. (One assumes the book is light on Québécois foodstuffs.)
  In a dig against ranch dressing, which she says “plays to everything that’s wrong with the typical American palate,” Sheraton notes that it&rsq
  
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• LIVE – Quebec election: Who’s running? Candidates tend to be male – and over 40

  19-09-2018 19:19 via montrealgazette.com
  If you’re viewing this on the Montreal Gazette app, click here and scroll to the bottom of the page.
  If you’re viewing this in a mobile browser, scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the blog.
  This is our live blog about the Quebec election for Wednesday, Sept. 19. It will be updated throughout the day.
  
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• Opinion: An election agenda for English-speaking Quebecers

  19-09-2018 19:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Monday’s first-ever English-language televised leader’s debate was a watershed moment and evidence of a heightened willingness across Quebec’s political class to reach out to English-speaking Quebecers in their own language. It also signalled acknowledgement by all parties that none can afford to ignore our community of more than one million.
  The Parti Québécois promise of no referendum in a first mandate is openly linked to a policy agenda geared to achieving sov
  
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• Quebec election: Where is CAQ Leader François Legault?

  19-09-2018 18:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Star candidates for Coalition Avenir Québec presented the party’s cannabis platform Wednesday, but their message was overshadowed by the absence of their leader.
  The day after a new poll emerged showing the CAQ had lost the considerable lead they had held for more than a year and were now running neck and neck with the Liberal Party, François Legault was absent from the daily announcements and media sessions that party leaders normally attend on the campaign trail.
  His handle
  
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• Spike Lee hopes U.S. voters do the right thing in November

  19-09-2018 18:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Two years ago, prior to the U.S. presidential election and prior to his visit to the Montreal International Black Film Festival (MIBFF), Spike Lee was anticipating the worst should the man he calls Agent Orange occupy the White House.
  “The man appeals to the lowest common denominator,” Lee told me then. “I fear not just for the U.S., but for the world if he gets elected. The president has the digits to the nuclear bomb. For Donald Trump to have the nuclear code, that’s ni
  
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• Montreal's Café Olimpico among '50 greatest cafés on Earth': report

  19-09-2018 18:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal is a coffee city.
  If you don’t agree, it’s probably a sign that you’re behind on your daily caffeine intake, which has dulled your faculties.
  England’s The Telegraph has definitely been caffeinating.
  The newspaper included Montreal’s Café Olimpico on its list of the “50 greatest cafés on Earth,” which includes coffee houses on every continent save for Antarctica.
  Olimpico, author Chris Moss notes, “is great because it&rs
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Jesperi Kotkaniemi won't be in lineup vs. Panthers

  19-09-2018 18:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Jesperi Kotkaniemi will not be in the lineup when the Canadiens face the Florida Panthers in NHL preseason action Wednesday night at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).
  Kotkaniemi, the team’s first-round pick (third overall) at this year’s NHL Draft, scored a goal in his first preseason game Monday night at the Bell Centre when the Canadiens beat the New Jersey Devils 3-1.
  While Canadiens fans won’t get to watch Kotkaniemi again Wednesday night, they will get
  
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• Former CEGEP director, accomplice fined more than $100,000 for tax fraud

  19-09-2018 17:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Stéphanie Paquette, a former director of finance at the CEGEP Édouard-Montpetit in Longueuil, has been handed a nine-month suspended sentence for tax evasion.
  Paquette and co-accused Dino Marcoux were also ordered to pay fines totalling $107,132 while Marcoux was given a 12-month suspended sentence.
  Revenue Quebec and the province’s anti-corruption unit, UPAC, made public the sanctions in a statement published Wednesday and noted that Marcoux had pleaded guilty Sept. 10 to ha
  
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• Montreal ranks 9th in airport satisfaction study. Seriously

  19-09-2018 17:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport is above average, according to J.D. Power’s 2018 Airport Satisfaction Survey.
  The airport scored 774 points out of a possible 1,000 in the “large airport” division, placing it above the average of 761 points and slightly behind Vancouver International Airport’s score of 781 points.
  The study considered the state of terminal facilities, airport accessibility, security checks, the baggage claim situation, check-in
  
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• LIVE – Quebec election: Four-way race makes for unpredictable election night

  19-09-2018 17:12 via montrealgazette.com
  If you’re viewing this on the Montreal Gazette app, click here and scroll to the bottom of the page.
  If you’re viewing this in a mobile browser, scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the blog.
  This is our live blog about the Quebec election for Wednesday, Sept. 19. It will be updated throughout the day.
  
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• Martin Patriquin: Why Québec solidaire should back off the S-word

  19-09-2018 16:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Here in Quebec, we were witness this week to a truly Canadian spectacle for the first time: the sight of our political leaders hacking their way through a debate in their second language with varying degrees of success.
  As with federal party leaders, who suffer through the same indignity in French every election cycle, the same rules apply. One must speak well enough to be understood, but bad enough to evoke pity.
  By this quaint measure, the clear winner of Quebec’s first televised English
  
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• SQ arrests South Shore man in connection with child pornography

  19-09-2018 16:54 via montrealgazette.com
  A 42-year-old South Shore man has been arrested and charged with possession and distribution of child pornography, the Sûreté du Québec announced Wednesday.
  David Séguin of McMasterville was arrested Sept. 13 at his home and charged the same day. He has been released until his next court appearance, after agreeing to respect certain conditions.
  The SQ has a group of investigators who specialize in online child pornography investigation and work in collaboration with mu
  
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• Quebec election: Man surrenders in case of bullet-riddled poster

  19-09-2018 16:26 via montrealgazette.com
  A 26-year-old man has been arrested in connection with vandalism done to a poster for an independent candidate in Quebec City running in the provincial election, local police announced Wednesday.
  On Monday, candidate Ali Dahan, who is running in the riding of Jean-Talon, filed a complaint with police after one of his posters was riddled with projectiles.
  Police said on Wednesday that an arrest was made after a Quebec City man surrendered to authorities at a local police station on Tuesday. They
  
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• The Gazette’s weekly Hockey Inside/Out Show returns Sept. 20

  19-09-2018 16:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Please join us for an exciting new season of the Montreal Canadiens-focused Hockey Inside/Out Show on Thursday morning.
  This week, host Adam Susser and our panel of hockey experts — former Canadien Chris Nilan, Gazette sports columnist Stu Cowan and Jessica Rusnak of CBC Daybreak — will discuss the Canadiens’ off-season moves and what lies ahead for the team during the 2018-19 NHL campaign.
  If the 2017-18 NHL season didn’t leave you traumatized, you can watch previous sea
  
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• Montreal weather: More like autumn today

  19-09-2018 14:42 via montrealgazette.com
  We’re back to more seasonal temperatures today, with warmth in the afternoon and a chilly night.
  Environment Canada predicts a mix of sun and cloud with a high of 21 and a UV index of 5 or moderate.
  Tonight: Clear with a low of 12.
  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 @misskikivik.
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• It ain’t over: Quebec heritage group makes pitch to save Pioneer Bar

  19-09-2018 14:38 via montrealgazette.com
  One of Quebec’s leading historical groups is calling upon the city of Pointe-Claire to halt its plans to demolish the iconic Pioneer Bar.
  Clément Locat, head of heritage for the Fédération Histoire Québec (FHQ) is once again asking the city to walk back from its plan to tear down the 117-year-old building and replace with a yet-to-be approved condo project.
  The FHQ is an umbrella group of 275 heritage, historical and genealogical organizations representing 55,00
  
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• Alleged West Island party palace prompts bylaw changes targeting Airbnb

  19-09-2018 14:27 via montrealgazette.com
  When you think of booking an Airbnb, you think London, Rome or Paris or, closer to home, Old Montreal. Pierrefonds-Roxboro would probably not top your list of tourist destinations. Yet at least one Airbnb in the borough had neighbours complaining to the mayor.
  Mayor Jim Beis and council are poised to adopt a bylaw this month that will amend the definition of short-term tourist rentals and restrict the location of such rentals.
  “We’re not downtown. It’s not what you would consid
  
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• Quebec election: Finance minister says robust economy should charm voters

  19-09-2018 14:09 via montrealgazette.com
  With less than two weeks till the Quebec election, Liberal Finance Minister Carlos Leitão is confident his party will pull out a victory Oct. 1 — even if a steady stream of opinion polls suggest otherwise.
  Despite Quebec’s robust economy under Leitão’s tenure as chief steward of the public purse, the Liberals find themselves trailing in the polls behind the Coalition Avenir Québec, led by François Legault, the former péquiste who presents
  
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• Disgruntled Deux-Montagnes train commuters to picket Caisse head office

  19-09-2018 13:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Deux-Montagnes commuter train users fed up with delays and crowded trains intend to take their frustrations downtown Wednesday morning to stage a protest at the head office of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.
  The protest, announced on the Facebook page of Mouvement/Rally Train Deux-Montagnes, is targeting the Caisse because the pension fund manager is overseeing the construction of the Réseau express métropolitain (REM). Work on the REM has forced the
  
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• While you were sleeping: Man learns not to approach boiling-hot geyser

  19-09-2018 13:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while your eyes were shut. 
  Several people were taken to a hospital following a bus crash in LaSalle. Around 8 p.m., the bus, which was carrying at least 30 passengers from downtown to Châteauguay, crashed into a tree on Newman Blvd. near Hachez St. after swerving to avoid rear-ending a car that had braked suddenly in front of it, Montreal police said. Several people, including the bus driver, suffered minor injuries, the police said. Several peopl
  
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• Not just a luxury, an Off-Island fireplace is a hedge against freezing

  19-09-2018 13:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Despite the unexpected late-summer heat wave we’ve enjoyed this past week, the first vivid patches of red and orange are beginning to appear, and there’s a new little chill in the early morning air hinting at the cooler autumn days to come.
  Although I’ll miss summer days lounging by the pool and hanging out on sunny terrasses, I’m looking forward to chilly nights cozied up by the fireplace, playing games, reading books, strumming my guitar, visiting with friends or just s
  
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• Longueuil police arrest suspect in trio of sexual assaults

  19-09-2018 13:19 via montrealgazette.com
  Longueuil police have arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with three sexual assaults committed on the pedestrian pathways inside Michel-Chartrand Park in Vieux-Longueuil.
  In each of the cases, the victims were groped or had their breasts fondled. The victims, between 40 and 60 years old, filed complaints with police, who in turn launched an operation to track down the suspect.
  The suspect is expected to appear in court in Longueuil to face charges of sexual assault and forcible confinement
  
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• Longueuil libraries install cameras after harassment complaints

  19-09-2018 13:12 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Longueuil is moving quickly to install surveillance cameras in its public libraries after some city employees complained they have been the victims of various forms of harassment.
  The municipality also intends to ensure that individuals who have been the object of repeated complaints will be barred from the library network, going so far as to establish a registry identifying suspended library users and sharing that information among establishments. Also, signs have ben posted making
  
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• Thousands of runners to converge on downtown Montreal this weekend

  19-09-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  For the first time since the city began hosting a marathon 28 years ago, downtown will serve as the start and finish line for 25,000 runners who are expected at the Oasis International Marathon de Montréal this weekend.
  The new venue for the two-day event, which features a half-marathon and 10-kilometre, five-kilometre and one-kilometre races along with the 42.2 kilometre distance, is part of what its new organizer calls a fresh direction aimed at bringing the races closer to spectators.
  
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• Leitão says Legault is wrong about immigration

  19-09-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  With less than two weeks till the Quebec election, Liberal Finance Minister Carlos Leitão is still confident his party will pull out a victory Oct. 1 — even if a steady stream of opinion polls suggest otherwise.
  Despite Quebec’s robust economy under Leitão’s tenure as chief steward of the public purse, the Liberals find themselves trailing in the polls behind the Coalition Avenir Québec, led by François Legault, the former péquiste who no
  
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• Mayors mull over potential Airbnb proliferation in the West Island

  19-09-2018 12:55 via montrealgazette.com
  When you think of booking an Airbnb, you think London, Rome or Paris or, closer to home, Old Montreal. Pierrefonds-Roxboro would probably not top your list of tourist destinations. Yet at least one Airbnb in the borough had neighbours complaining to the mayor.
  Mayor Jim Beis and council are poised to adopt a bylaw this month which will amend the definition of short-term tourist rentals and restrict the location of such said rentals.
  “We’re not downtown. It’s not what you would
  
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• Habs legend Ken Dryden back in Montreal to strike different chord

  19-09-2018 12:45 via montrealgazette.com
  He may be as close as they come to a Canadian Renaissance Man: Ken Dryden has been a lawyer, politician, author, broadcaster, business executive and — lest some elsewhere may forget, but few here ever will — legendary goalie who helped the Habs win six Stanley Cups.
  One of the rare individuals to be both an officer of the Order of Canada and member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, Dryden is heading back to Montreal. But he’s not coming here to talk hockey or politics. In what probab
  
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• Hudson St. Patrick's parade pulls through after volunteers resign en masse

  19-09-2018 11:30 via montrealgazette.com
  For the last nine years, by the time September rolled around, planning for the Hudson St. Patrick’s Parade was underway. Marching bands were being contacted and the process to select the parade’s Chief Reviewing Officer, Grand Marshal, Irishman of the Year and the Queen and her court was gearing up.
  This year will be different.
  The parade’s executive committee resigned en masse, last month, leaving residents questioning the future of the popular event which has consistently dra
  
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• Bus carrying at least 30 passengers crashes into tree in LaSalle

  19-09-2018 05:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Several people were taken to a hospital following a bus crash in LaSalle on Tuesday night.
  Around 8 p.m., the bus, which was carrying at least 30 passengers from downtown to Châteauguay, crashed into a tree on Newman Blvd. near Hachez St. after swerving to avoid rear-ending a car that had braked suddenly in front of it, Montreal police said.
  Several people, including the bus driver, suffered minor injuries, the police said. Several people were taken to a hospital, although none in critical
  
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• Papineau Ave. re-opened after truck hits overpass

  19-09-2018 03:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police re-opened Papineau Ave. in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie borough late Tuesday evening, hours after a truck hit an overpass that crosses over Papineau near Rosemont Blvd. around 4:30 p.m.
  The 54-year-old driver of the 53-foot-long truck wasn’t injured and no other vehicle or person was involved when the truck hit the viaduct at des Carrières St., the police said.
  As of Tuesday evening, Papineau remained closed in both directions, from Rosemont to St-Grég
  
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• #ICYMI: Potholes, pot squads, and more news

  19-09-2018 02:05 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  The Montreal inspector general’s office has put a face on the city’s pothole problem: construction site supervisors who are tolerating improper work done by road and sidewalk firms, reports Linda Gyulai of the Montreal Gazette.
  A 29-page document tabled in city council takes issue with the performance of engineers who are tasked with being the city’s eyes and ears on road and sidewa
  
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• Tour operator Transat donates $500,000 to Le Devoir

  19-09-2018 01:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Readers of Le Devoir will see more international news in its pages thanks to a $500,000 grant from tour operator Transat.
  The tourism company will give the French-language newspaper $100,000 annually for five years through a journalism fund the company is setting up.
  The money will help pay for travel expenses of reporters covering events around the world at a time when print newspaper revenues are declining.
  The newspaper’s publisher, Brian Myles, said the agreement with Transat says Le D
  
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• Quebec election notebook: Did François Legault say it or didn't he?

  19-09-2018 01:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Did he say it or didn’t he?
  A former political reporter says François Legault once told a crowd that he “hated” anglophones. Legault denies it.
  Graham Fraser attributes the quote to Legault in an article about the Quebec election in the latest issue of Policy Magazine.
  In it, Fraser, who worked for a series of publications including the Montreal Gazette, before being named Canada’s Commissioner of Official Languages in 2006, recalled covering Legault&rsqu
  
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• Quebec election: PQ vows to 'eliminate' daycare waiting list by 2022

  19-09-2018 01:00 via montrealgazette.com
  REPENTIGNY — When it came time to get the math right on one of his key promises, Jean-François Lisée said he just “got lucky.”
  Five days ago, the Parti Québécois leader promised to create an additional 17,000 spots in the province’s subsidized daycare system within its first mandate. The idea was to wipe out the waiting lists preventing families from access to affordable childcare.
  But after a comprehensive review of the numbers, researchers at
  
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