Aylmer, Quebec news

• Deux-Montagnes train line delayed by police vehicle on tracks

  25-09-2018 23:45 via montrealgazette.com
  The problem-plagued Deux-Montagnes train line is experiencing rush-hour delays yet again Tuesday evening, but this time the problem is being attributed to a police vehicle that stalled on the tracks in the West Island.
  Exo sent out several tweets Tuesday reporting delays for a few of its trains heading toward both Deux-Montagnes and Central Station.
  The organization that runs the train service attributed the delays to a train being stuck at the Bois Franc station because of a police vehicle that
  
  Read more

• Quebec election notebook: First Nations demand say in sovereign borders

  25-09-2018 23:36 via montrealgazette.com
  For the first time since the 1960s, sovereignty isn’t a burning issue in a Quebec election.
  The Parti Québécois is soft-pedalling its raison d’être, promising not to hold a referendum in a first mandate, and the other pro-independence party — Québec solidaire — has until recently been seen as a marginal force.
  Now one group wants sovereignty on the agenda — First Nations sovereignty.
  In an open letter on Tuesday, Ghislain Picard, Chie
  
  Read more

• Sentencing delay leaves impaired-driving victim 'disappointed'

  25-09-2018 23:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Life has been a struggle for Tina Lyon-Adams ever since she and a friend were struck by a car driven by an impaired driver while the two women were jogging in Hudson three years.
  On Tuesday, Lyon-Adams struggled to get to the courthouse for what was to be the start of the sentencing stage of the case against Jordan Xavier Taylor, the 26-year-old Hudson resident who admitted in June that he was drunk when he struck the two on June 12, 2015. Lyon-Adams suffered a fractured skull and a severely inj
  
  Read more

• Montreal hockey star Caroline Ouellette retires from national duty

  25-09-2018 23:19 via montrealgazette.com
  CALGARY — Four-time Olympic gold-medallist Caroline Ouellette has officially retired as a player from Canada’s senior women’s hockey team.
  Hockey Canada made the announcement in a release Tuesday.
  Ouellette, 39, made her debut with the national program in 1998, and won gold at each of her Olympic appearances (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014).
  Ouellette also represented Canada at 12 women’s world championships, winning six gold and six silver. She retires as Canada’s third-hi
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Man sought after boy reports being followed into school bathroom

  25-09-2018 23:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police will examine surveillance camera images in an effort to identify a man in his 70s who allegedly followed a 13-year-old boy into a high school bathroom and then made sexual comments to him.
  The incident occurred around 10:15 a.m. Monday at Louis Riel High School in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district and while the school was being used as an advance polling station for the provincial election. Classes were being held while the polls were open.
  According to police, the boy says he w
  
  Read more

• Quebec election blog Sept. 25: Comedian's vox pop shows just how confused voters are

  25-09-2018 23:15 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 Tuesday, Sept. 25.
  
  Read more

• Canadiens' Jesperi Kotkaniemi survives another round of cuts

  25-09-2018 23:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Jesperi Kotkaniemi is still with the Canadiens and Mike McCarron isn’t.
  That was the big news Tuesday in Brossard as the Canadiens cut their training-camp roster down to 33 players, including five who are on the injured list.
  McCarron was placed on waivers, along with fellow forwards Byron Froese and Hunter Shinkaruk and defencemen Brett Lernout and Rinat Valiev. The Canadiens also returned forward Nick Suzuki to the junior Owen Sound Attack and sent defencemen Michal Moravcik and Dav
  
  Read more

• Quebec election: QS has bold new ideas voters want, says Nadeau-Dubois

  25-09-2018 22:40 via montrealgazette.com
  In an era where right-wing, populist parties are trumping their liberal counterparts both in Canadian provincial politics and around the world, the best defence is a strong progressive offence, said Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois.
  “What is becoming clearer everywhere in advanced democracies is that right-wing populism cannot be beaten by weak liberal reform,” said the co-spokesperson for Québec Solidaire. Manon Massé is the party’s other spokesperson. “It can only be
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Montreal police seek two suspects in the resto firebombing on L'Acadie

  25-09-2018 21:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal arson investigators have turned to the public in an effort to track down two suspects in connection with the firebombing of a L’Acadie Blvd. restaurant on Sept. 8.
  Surveillance cameras show the pair breaking the windows of the establishment, located in the city’s Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough, at about 2:55 a.m. that Saturday, throwing in two burning objects and then tossing in a container of flammable liquid.
  The first suspect is a black male with a thin build. He was
  
  Read more

• Opinion: Still not able to vote with my heart

  25-09-2018 21:09 via montrealgazette.com
  I’ve been voting for over 20 years, and nearly each time, it’s been for the lesser evil. The one time I was able to vote for something I actually believed in was during the 2011 federal election, when Quebec largely voted NDP.
  When it comes to provincial elections, I face a more complicated problem.
  I’m a francophone from New Brunswick, and many of us feel excluded from the sovereignty movement, even endangered by it. If Quebec ever were to leave Canada, French-language service
  
  Read more

• Quebec election: Legault says no to pot cafés

  25-09-2018 21:04 via montrealgazette.com
  CHIBOUGAMAU — A Coalition Avenir Québec government wouldn’t allow “pot cafés” — where cannabis could be smoked indoors — leader François Legault said on Tuesday.
  “I want to make sure that we don’t send the wrong message with those cafés,” he said. “It’s dangerous, this product, for young people under 25 years old, so we have to make sure that we send the right message.”
  The CAQ wants to raise the
  
  Read more

• West Island community calendar for the week of Sept. 26

  25-09-2018 20:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Galleries and exhibitions
  Kirkland Library, 17100 Hymus Blvd., presents an exhibit of paintings by Andrea Lavoie until Saturday. Call 514-630-2726, local 3216.
  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 Monday, Tuesday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.
  
  Read more

• Opinion: Sovereignty — of First Nations — will be on agenda after Oct. 1

  25-09-2018 20:19 via montrealgazette.com
  The vote that may usher in a new provincial government is less than a week away. Yet, I am unimpressed by the parties so far. Even when they pretend to recognize First Nations interests, they minimize our reality and rights. The leaders’ cavalier response to First Nations priorities gives us with no other choice but to tell the next government that sovereignty will indeed be on their agenda: First Nation sovereignty.
  Only one party recognizes the evidence of our nations’ rights. When
  
  Read more

• Family of Quebec man held in Cuba blasts Ottawa's inaction on the case

  25-09-2018 19:10 via montrealgazette.com
  The family of a Mascouche man held for more than a year by Cuban authorities on Tuesday denounced the lack of aid being offered by Canadian authorities in the case.
  Kahina Bensaadi, the wife of Toufik Benhamiche, said her husband has received no Canadian consular assistance since his problems began 14 months ago. And one of Benhamiche’s co-workers presented Parliament with a petition calling for his immediate return to Canada.
  The appeal to the federal government is being supported by
  
  Read more

• LIVE – Quebec election: First Nations want to talk sovereignty – their own

  25-09-2018 19:01 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 Tuesday, Sept. 25.
  
  Read more

• Canadiens Notebook: Mike McCarron among five players put on waivers

  25-09-2018 18:35 via montrealgazette.com
  The Mike McCarron Project seems to be over now for the Canadiens.
  When the Canadiens selected the 6-foot-6, 230-pound forward in the first round (25th overall) at the 2013 NHL Draft they knew his skating was weak and that they would have to work with him. Unfortunately for the Canadiens and McCarron it didn’t work out and the 23-year-old was placed on waivers at noon Tuesday. The Canadiens also placed four other players on waivers: forwards Byron Froese and Hunter Shinkaruk, along with de
  
  Read more

• Six O'Clock Solution: Summer lives on in tomato-chickpea salad

  25-09-2018 18:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Although we have moved from late summer into fall, U.S. chef Joshua McFadden believes it isn’t too late to find perfect tomatoes, cucumbers and fresh herbs to make this sustaining salad, which is extra nutritious thanks to the chickpeas. It’s one of 225 recipes in his beautiful and informative seasonal and local food cookbook Six Seasons: A New Way With Vegetables (Artisan/Thomas Allen, $50). The photographs by Laura Dart and AJ Meeker are exceptional.McFadden’s six-season
  
  Read more

• Quebec election: Daycare promises won't be broken again, Couillard says

  25-09-2018 17:54 via montrealgazette.com
  SHERBROOKE — As he visited a children’s play centre to talk about his promises for young families, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard had to defend campaign pledges he broke nearly four years ago.
  In the last campaign, Couillard had promised to freeze daycare fees, but he then changed his tune when in office, introducing a sliding scale whereby parents pay between $8 and $22 per day, based on family income, meaning many parents pay thousands more annually.
  Couillard justified the hike
  
  Read more

• Dave Matthews Band announces Montreal show

  25-09-2018 17:19 via montrealgazette.com
  Dave Matthews Band will perform at the Bell Centre on Saturday, Dec. 8 as part of a 10-city arena tour, promoter Evenko announced Tuesday. It is the only Canadian date on the tour.
  Tickets start at $79.50 and go on sale to the general public Friday, Oct. 5 at 9 a.m. via the Bell Centre and Evenko (855-310-2525; evenko.ca).
  Members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association can access a presale that continues through Saturday, Sept. 29 at 3 p.m. via warehouse.davematthewsband.com.
  Dave Matthews Ba
  
  Read more

• Quebec election: Manon Massé reads QS platform after inhaling helium

  25-09-2018 16:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Buoyed by Québec solidaire’s rising fortunes in the polls, Manon Massé talked politics with Youtuber PL Cloutier after inhaling helium from a balloon.
  In the video, Cloutier said the Québec solidaire co-spokesperson was the only party representative to accept his invitation.
  Remaining as on-message as one can in an interview involving helium and Scandal-sized wine goblets, Massé opted for a balloon in her party’s orange colour.
  After taking a hit from the
  
  Read more

• Quebec election: ‘Situation is dramatic,’ Legault says of Nunavik suicides

  25-09-2018 16:17 via montrealgazette.com
  VAL D’OR — François Legault said on Monday a Coalition Avenir Québec government would listen to the recommendations of the Viens Commission.
  The Viens Commission was created in 2016 to study the relationship between the Quebec government — and its employees — and Indigenous people. It came in response to allegations that Sûreté du Québec officers physically and sexually assaulted Indigenous women in Val d’Or.
  However,
  
  Read more

• Man sought after boy reports incident in school bathroom at polling station

  25-09-2018 16:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police will examine surveillance camera images in an effort to identify a man in his 70s who allegedly followed a 13-year-old boy into a high school bathroom and then made sexual comments to him.
  The incident occurred around 10:15 a.m. Monday at Louis Riel High School in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district and while the school was being used as an advance polling station for the provincial election. Classes were being held while the polls were open.
  According to police, the boy says he w
  
  Read more

• Quebec election: PQ would boost democracy, protect media from Google

  25-09-2018 16:06 via montrealgazette.com
  MONT-LAURIER — A Parti Québécois government would bolster democracy by supporting Quebec media, strengthening freedom-of-information legislation and making decisions by the National Assembly’s ethics commissioner mandatory, leader Jean-François Lisée announced Tuesday.
  Provincial and local media are “an indispensable tool for democracy” that need protection from digital giants like Facebook and Google, which scoop up 70 per cent of media advert
  
  Read more

• Quebec election: CAQ headed for power, 3rd place still a tossup — poll

  25-09-2018 14:02 via montrealgazette.com
  François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec will form the next provincial government, an Ipsos survey conducted for La Presse and Global News suggests.
  But the poll also suggests that a CAQ government will not hold a majority of seats and that the Parti Québécois seems to be in a battle for third place in party popularity with Québec solidaire.
  The survey of 1,250 respondents was conducted Sept. 20-23 — after the last of the three televised leaders
  
  Read more

• Young: Arnaldo Vincenzi was tailor made for Hudson

  25-09-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Arnaldo Vincenzi is a tailor of the traditional school. He learned his craft in Italy and still today remains faithful to the techniques and customs that lie at their root, and which he has refined into a fine art.
  Vincenzi is close to becoming an anachronism — the solitary craftsman preserving the masters’ culture even as automation, mass production and time pass him by.
  He was born and raised in the Italian village of Padernelo. Upon completing elementary school studies he enrolled
  
  Read more

• While you were sleeping: Amusement park rewards time spent in a coffin

  25-09-2018 13:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were counting sheep.
  A hearing conducted by Montreal’s public security commission examined ways to reach the city’s target of zero injuries or deaths on roadways. Sylvain Dubois, a commander in the traffic control department of the SPVM, noted the number of motorized vehicles are increasing on the island of Montreal by one per cent per year, faster than the population is growing. Despite efforts to improve road safety, which have born fr
  
  Read more

• Anse-à-l'Orme green corridor has room to breathe with Angell Woods addition

  25-09-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Beaconsfield Mayor Georges Bourelle is hailing the Montreal Agglomeration Council’s purchase of a 180,000-square-metre plot in the Angell Woods for use as a park.
  The city of Montreal purchased a portion of the suburban woodland, between Elm Ave. and Highway 40 in Beaconsfield, from Seda Holdings for $14 million. The parcel of land is the equivalent of 35 football fields in size.
  Bourelle said the purchase will help expand the l’Anse-à-l’Orme nature park in Pierrefonds,
  
  Read more

• Innovative urban-farming initiative wins Prix Action David Suzuki

  25-09-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s called the circular economy and it’s a prize-winning concept.
  Environmentalist David Suzuki was in farm country in Senneville last week to present the Prix Action David Suzuki to Regroupement Partage for its circular-economy program called Cultiver l’Espoir .
  Cultiver l’Espoir is an urban-farming initiative which grows organic root vegetables, sells 45 per cent of the produce in grocery stores and distributes 55 per cent of it to food banks which, in turn, serve 60,0
  
  Read more

• Quebec election: Is immigration issue all about the labour shortage?

  25-09-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Immigration and the piggyback issues of identity and discrimination have emerged as among the defining issues of this provincial election campaign as it enters its final stretch.
  On the campaign trail and in the televised debates, some of the most lively and telling exchanges have centred on how Quebec should choose its immigrants, how many to admit and how best to integrate them into the workforce and Quebec society.
  All the parties are trying to send signals to their base on these issues
  
  Read more

• Montreal weather: More rain, more wind

  25-09-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s going to be another blustery day in the neighbourhood, though not as windy as it was on Friday.
  Environment Canada predicts we’ll see increasing cloudiness, wit rain beginning in the morning. Amount 10 to 15 mm. Wind southeast 30 km/h gusting to 50. High 16. UV index 2 or low.
  Tonight: More rain. Amount 5 to 10 mm. Wind south 20 km/h gusting to 40. Temperature steady near 17.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
  
  Read more

• Allison Hanes: As election day nears, keep the big picture in mind

  25-09-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s getting down to the wire. With election day in Quebec less than a week away, this is the moment many voters will finally tune in, pay attention and make up their minds about how to cast their ballots.
  The campaigns are shifting into high gear. Party leaders crisscrossing the province, blitzing ridings they hope to hang on to or swing in their favour. It’s their last chance to get their message out to an electorate that was keeping an open mind early on.
  At the mid-point of this
  
  Read more

• Vaudreuil-Dorion bridge closed indefinitely

  25-09-2018 11:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The Chemin des Chenaux Highway 40 overpass in Vaudreuil-Dorion has been closed indefinitely after a recent inspection by the Quebec Ministry of Transport found structural defects that called its safety into question.
  In the course of a recent inspection, “defects affecting its bearing capacity” were noted by Transport Quebec officials, the city of Vaudreuil-Dorion noted on its website.
  The bridge, which is subject to regular inspections, has been under load restriction since November
  
  Read more

• Quebec election: By the numbers look at the Robert-Baldwin riding

  25-09-2018 11:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The electoral district of Robert-Baldwin is one of four West Island ridings gearing up for the Quebec elections, Oct. 1. Here is a look at the riding by the numbers:
  Robert-Baldwin was created in 1966 by removing a chunk of the Jacques-Cartier riding. Then, as a result of a change to the electoral map in 2011, Robert-Baldwin obtained a part of the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough. The riding is now composed of Dollard-des-Ormeaux and a portion of Pierrefonds-Roxboro.
  Arthur-Ewan Séguin was vot
  
  Read more

• In the Habs' Room: Kotkaniemi 'has gotten better every day,' Julien says

  25-09-2018 05:40 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — Artturi Lehkonen speaks from experience when he talks about the difficulty of making the jump from hockey In Finland to the NHL.
  “It’s not easy,” said Lehkonen, who moved from his home in Finland to play two seasons in Sweden before making his NHL debut as a 21-year-old.
  Lehkonen’s experience gives him a unique perspective on the pay of Canadiens rookie Jesperi Kotkaniemi, who is pushing for a spot on the Canadiens’ roster a  few months after hi
  
  Read more

• Stats show Montreal bicycle and pedestrian safety is improving, police say at hearing

  25-09-2018 04:32 via montrealgazette.com
  From reducing the height of plants on curb extensions to cracking down on motorists who text while driving, Montrealers had plenty of suggestions on how the city and its police force could improve the safety of pedestrians and cyclists at a public hearing on the subject at city hall Monday evening.
  The hearing was conducted by Montreal’s public security commission, with the objective of gathering suggestions and ideas for how Montreal could better achieve its goal of reducing to zero the n
  
  Read more

• Canadiens' Xavier Ouellet, Artturi Lehkonen each score twice over Maple Leafs

  25-09-2018 04:15 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — Defenceman Xavier Ouellet, an NHL veteran who is in training camp with a two-way contract, helped his chances of making the opening-night NHL roster by scoring two goals Monday night in the Canadiens’ 5-1 preseason win over the Toronto Maple Leafs in the arena formerly known as the Air Canada Centre. Artturi Lehkonen also scored twice and the offence complemented a strong performance from goaltender Antti Niemi, who weathered an 18-shot barrage in the first period. Niemi fi
  
  Read more

• #ICYMI: Couillard sharpens attack, gift for Concordia, more news

  25-09-2018 04:01 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  Philippe Couillard has sharpened his attack against his chief rival, suggesting Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault’s views on immigration and integration of new arrivals are inhumane.
  Speaking to the Montreal Gazette’s editorial board Monday, Couillard called on Quebecers to widely reject Legault’s proposal to subject new arrivals to language and values te
  
  Read more

• Quebec election: Couillard talks referendum, then takes it back

  25-09-2018 03:08 via montrealgazette.com
  In a change from the ordinary, it was the Liberals, not the Parti Québécois or Coalition Avenir Québec, talking about holding a referendum on Monday.
  Liberal leader Philippe Couillard said he would oppose an electoral reform proposed by his rivals to create a mixed-member proportional representation system, and without unanimous support in the National Assembly, Couillard said a reform would need support from the majority of Quebecers in a referendum.
  Couillard made the rema
  
  Read more

• Quebec election: Leaders release their personal finances

  25-09-2018 02:51 via montrealgazette.com
  The four rivals for premier of Quebec released information about their personal finances on Monday.
  Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault released his 2017 federal tax return and details about his personal finances on Monday morning.
  According to the document released by the CAQ, Legault and his spouse, Isabelle Brais, had an RRSP consisting of Quebec savings bonds worth $5.781 million and own a single property with a municipal evaluation of $4.556 million.
  Legault h
  
  Read more

• Quebec election: Manon Massé promises new social housing after meeting with Valérie Plante

  25-09-2018 01:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante said Monday that she and Québec solidaire’s candidate for premier share some of the same objectives, particularly when it comes to improving housing stock in Montreal and taking “bold action” to meet environmental challenges.
  After a private meeting with QS co-spokesperson Manon Massé at Lafontaine Park Monday afternoon, Plante told reporters they had had “a good conversation about what needs to be done to ensure that we
  
  Read more

• Canadiens' Paul Byron thrilled to keep calling Montreal home

  25-09-2018 01:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Paul Byron says he “didn’t do anything too crazy” to celebrate Sunday after signing a four-year contract extension with the Canadiens worth US$13.6 million that will take him through the 2022-23 season.
  Byron and his wife invited teammate Andrew Shaw and his wife over to watch some football and have dinner.
  “A bottle of wine to celebrate,” Byron said Monday afternoon following practice in Brossard. “That’s about it. But I knew we were back at practice he
  
  Read more

• Quebec election: Legault vows more economic development in regions

  25-09-2018 00:32 via montrealgazette.com
  MONT-LAURIER/VAL D’OR — Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault is promising to boost rural economies with more direct financial support for businesses and expedited environmental reviews.
  The CAQ, if elected, would also look at relaxing protections for wetlands and might invest in real estate development in the rural areas, he said Monday.
  While much of Quebec has a shortage of labour, he said it’s not the case everywhere.
  “When Mr. Couillard i
  
  Read more

Follow @AylmerQuebecnws on Twitter!