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• Quebec election: After having taken aim at QS, Lisée urges unity

  27-09-2018 23:45 via montrealgazette.com
  LA PRAIRIE — After warning of the Marxist menace hidden with Québec solidaire’s ranks, Jean-François Lisée softened his tone Friday.
  In fact, Lisée called on all Quebecers to unite ahead of the Oct. 1 elections.
  “We’re in the uniting phase of the campaign,” the PQ leader said. “We are the unifying party. I am the candidate for unity. I’m telling people, positively, that if you don’t want the Liberals back in power, we&rs
  
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• Quebec election blog Sept. 27: Bloc divided over which sovereignists to back

  27-09-2018 23:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Hello! This was our liveblog about the Quebec election for Thursday, Sept. 27. Email me at [email protected]
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• Montreal filmmaker takes long route to feature film directorial debut

  27-09-2018 22:58 via montrealgazette.com
  A dream comes true on Friday for Karl R. Hearne. The Montreal filmmaker’s debut directorial effort, Touched, opens in his hometown. What a ride it has been.
  Also written, edited and produced by Hearne, the haunting yet heartwarming psycho-thriller was shot for the ridiculously low sum of $300,000, but has production values of a film 20 times that budget. The cinematography is stunning, and the acting of Hugh Thompson and Lola Flanery is truly inspiring at the centre of this tale of a despe
  
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• Jesperi Kotkaniemi's coming-out party with Canadiens has ripple effect

  27-09-2018 22:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The decision to start the season with 18-year-old Jesperi Kotkaniemi on the roster will allow Canadiens head coach Claude Julien to employ pretend centres Jonathan Drouin and Max Domi where they are most effective — on the wings.
  Kotkaniemi played most of last season in the Finnish Liiga as a left winger, but the Canadiens drafted him as a centre and that’s where he has played all through an eye-opener of a training camp.
  He looked awkward in the rookie tournament at Laval preceding
  
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• Quebec election: Man sought by police after threat to CAQ volunteer

  27-09-2018 22:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police have turned to the public to track down a man who allegedly uttered a death threat to a campaign volunteer working for the Coalition Avenir Québec.
  The incident is alleged to have occurred at 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 30 at the corner of L’Avenir and Souvenir Blvds. in the city’s Chomedey district.
  Police say the suspect approached two men who were erecting CAQ campaign signs and told one of them the work was unnecessary because he would be pulling them down that night. T
  
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• Hydro-Québec says losses due to equipment, material thefts down drastically

  27-09-2018 22:05 via montrealgazette.com
  While it may be too soon to claim a record year, Hydro-Québec seems to be on its way in 2018 to posting yet another steep reduction in the amount of losses due to theft.
  After eight months ending Aug. 18, the total value of the 98 thefts recorded thus far from Hydro-Québec installations is estimated at $152,325, while losses for all of 2017 stood at $1.3 million, according to a recent response to an access to information request.
  However the Crown corporation cautions that the year
  
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• Judge grants discharge to medicinal pot grower despite comments in media

  27-09-2018 22:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Vygantas Kuncas almost became his own worst enemy on Thursday.
  The 32-year-old St-Lambert resident was scheduled to appear before Quebec Court Judge Bertrand St-Arnaud at the Valleyfield courthouse for what was expected to be the equivalent of a rubber stamp on the sentence the judge agreed to earlier this month. Kuncas had admitted he grew medicinal marijuana without having followed the rules set out in a license he received from Health Canada.
  After being linked to a greenhouse where police fo
  
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• Restaurant review: Nothing casual about Le Petit Mousso's divine plates

  27-09-2018 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Le Petit Mousso
  ★★★ 1/2 out of ★★★★
  $$$
  Address: 1023 Ontario St. E. (Near Amherst St.)
  Phone: 438-385-7410 
  Website: lemousso.com
  Open: Wed.-Sat. 6 to 10 p.m.
  Wheelchair access: No
  Licensed: Yes
  Reservations: Recommended, but walk-ins welcome
  Cards: All major
  Vegetarian-friendly: Yes
  Parking: On surrounding streets
  Price range: Small plates $15-$28; desserts $11-$17
  In restaurants, there’s often so much to admire on the plate that y
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée admits he flirted with communism in university

  27-09-2018 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  CHAMBLY — Before Jean-François Lisée was a candidate for the Parti Québécois, he was a communist.
  After hammering away at Québec solidaire for its “Marxist” leanings for most of the week, Lisée admitted that he’d flirted with far-left politics in his university days.
  “I was a Maoist, it was a period of intellectual confusion, of which I am happy to have gotten out of,” the PQ leader said. “I got out in time to vo
  
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• LIVE – Quebec election: Bloc divided over which sovereignists to back

  27-09-2018 21:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Hello! This is our liveblog about the Quebec election for Thursday, Sept. 27. Email me at [email protected]
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• Business Hours on Election Day

  27-09-2018 21:14
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• LIVE – Quebec election: Bloc Québécois divided over which sovereignist party to back

  27-09-2018 20:24 via montrealgazette.com
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• Stunning museum exhibit places Alexander Calder in constant motion

  27-09-2018 20:15 via montrealgazette.com
  You may or may not know the artist. But if you’ve spent any time in Montreal, you’re almost sure to know the work.
  Commissioned for Expo 67 and sponsored by the International Nickel Company of Canada, Alexander Calder’s monumental Trois Disques stood out even among the wildly unconventional architecture of the Expo site, an embodiment of the fair’s inclusive spirit. In recent years it has taken on a new life in a new setting on Île Ste-Hélène, where a
  
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• Karl Lohnes: When it comes to decor, it's all in the details

  27-09-2018 20:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Little details, often overlooked by builders and novice decorators, can give your home charm and character. Not only do they step up your decor a notch, they add interest to things you might already have. Anyone living with poorly chosen decor details (such as doorknobs, mouldings or light fixtures) knows they are like a bad tattoo: They’re a mistake that desperately needs to be erased and to go away. Here are a few decor details that could use a review every 15 to 20 years. Don’t be
  
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• Suspect faces kidnapping, robbery charges after woman ambushed outside bank

  27-09-2018 19:23 via montrealgazette.com
  A 20-year-old man is expected to face charges of kidnapping, forcible confinement, robbery, uttering threats and fraud after a 19-year-old woman was ambushed outside a bank in Quebec City.
  The incident occurred late on the night of Sept. 22-23, when the victim got into her car after leaving a local financial institution only to discover a hooded man holding a handgun sitting in the vehicle’s back seat.
  He ordered her to hand over her bank cards as well as their pass codes and then made wit
  
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• LIVE – Quebec election: Liberal candidate who leaked info to CAQ resurfaces

  27-09-2018 19:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Hello! This is our liveblog about the Quebec election for Thursday, Sept. 27. Email me at [email protected]
  Find out where each party stands on the seven biggest issuesRead more of our 2018 Quebec election coverage right hereCan’t get enough of Quebec politics? Join our Facebook group
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• Quebec election: Advance poll hours extended after computer glitch

  27-09-2018 18:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s chief returning officer announced Thursday — the final day of advance polling in the province — that polling offices across Quebec will remain open until 4 p.m. rather than 2 p.m.
  The extension is due to the lengthy delays encountered for much of the day by voters at advance polls on Wednesday caused by a computer glitch.
  More information can be obtained at www.elections.quebec or by calling 1-888-ELECTION (1 888 353-2846).
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• Hydro-Québec says loses due to equipment, material thefts down drastically

  27-09-2018 18:39 via montrealgazette.com
  While it may be too soon to claim a record year, Hydro-Québec seems to be on its way in 2018 to posting yet another steep reduction in the amount of loses due to theft.
  After eight months ending Aug. 18, the total value of the 98 thefts recorded thus far from Hydro-Québec installations is estimated at $152,325, while loses for all of 2017 stood at $1.3 million, according to a recent response to an access to information request.
  However the Crown corporation cautions that year&rsquo
  
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• Quebec election update: We have to work on better immigration — Legault

  27-09-2018 18:27 via montrealgazette.com
  RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP — “The immigrants coming in right now, they’re erasing us, we want to remain Québécois, will you fight for us?” a voter asked Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault Wednesday night, to which Legault answered, “Bien oui!”
  But on Thursday morning, Legault said that the woman’s comments about immigrants erasing Québécois were “too strong.” However, he refused to
  
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• Hotel Intel: Stanbridge East's Le Old Mill showcases Townships terroir

  27-09-2018 18:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Le Old Mill 1849 is a small but significant showcase for the bountiful harvest of the Eastern Townships.
  It’s a stylish incarnation of a vintage red brick house at the centre of Stanbridge East, a historic village along La Route des Vins in the fertile Brome-Missisquoi region.
  It has a picturesque, tranquil setting beside the Rivière aux Brochets and a vintage gristmill, whose wheel still turns and turns with a peaceful, steady rhythm.
  Le Old Mill 1849 is also a design delight. The
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: A welcome spotlight on integration of immigrants

  27-09-2018 18:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Immigration has been a hot topic during the campaign, perhaps because for the first time in decades, we are witnessing a Quebec election that does not centre around separation. I’m pleased to see that the problems faced by immigrants trying to integrate into our society are being spoken about so openly.
  As a child of immigrant parents and someone who knows hundreds of people who have immigrated to Quebec over the past few decades, I can understand the struggle faced by so many.
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• Quebec election: After the vote, rivals may find themselves working together

  27-09-2018 17:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s party leaders have engaged in an increasingly brutal struggle for power as the Oct. 1 election draws nearer.
  There have been accusations Québec solidaire has secret Marxist plans, that Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard parks his money in offshore accounts and, most recently, the wife of Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault insulted the good people of Saskatchewan.
  But when the dust settles after the vote, it looks increasingly as though no matt
  
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• SAQ store employees to hold one-day strike on Friday

  27-09-2018 17:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Employees working in the branches and offices of the Société des alcools will engage in a one-day strike on Friday.
  Unionized workers will spend part of that day in a general meeting to plan strategy.
  The employees are members of the Syndicat des employés de magasins et de bureaux de la SAQ, part of the Fédération des employés des services publics, which is affiliated with the CSN.
  Negotiations have stalled on the issue of weekend scheduling, the bu
  
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• Opinion: A CAQ victory wouldn't be good for federalists

  27-09-2018 17:46 via montrealgazette.com
  For the first time in a generation, no party in a position to form the next Quebec government will call a referendum on sovereignty during its mandate. This may seem like progress, but it’s only superficial.
  The sovereignist project remains a non-starter for most Quebecers. About 70 per cent of young Quebecers, according to one recent estimate, identify as federalists, but the Coalition Avenir Québec seems to be signalling that, if elected on Oct. 1 to form the next government, it w
  
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• Cream, POP Montreal and more: Five things to do this weekend

  27-09-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Music of Cream
  If you were tuned in to CHOM-FM on Wednesday, you may have heard Randy Renaud talking about the Music of Cream 50th anniversary concert on Saturday night at the Corona Theatre.
  It will feature Kofi Baker, son of Ginger Baker, Malcolm Bruce, son of Jack Bruce, and Will Johns, nephew of Eric Clapton.
  Cream, as you probably know, were a 1960s supergroup that sold some 15 million albums worldwide. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Read more about the
  
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• LIVE – Quebec election: Dissecting Legault's promises, immigration rhetoric

  27-09-2018 16:47 via montrealgazette.com
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  Hello! This is our liveblog about the Quebec election for Thursday, Sept. 27. Email me at [email protected]
  Find out where each party stands on the seven biggest issuesRead more of our 2018 Quebec election coverage right hereCan’t get enough of Quebec politics? Join our Facebook group
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• Man alleged to have threatened CAQ campaign worker sought by Laval cops

  27-09-2018 15:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police have turned to the public to track down a man who allegedly uttered a death threat to a campaign volunteer working for the Coalition Avenir Québec.
  The incident is alleged to have occurred at 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 30 at the corner of L’Avenir and Souvenir Blvds. in the city’s Chomedey district.
  Police say the suspect approached two men who were erecting CAQ campaign signs and told one of them the work was unnecessary because he would be pulling them down that night. T
  
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• Quebec election: ‘You want our votes but won’t visit our communities'

  27-09-2018 15:24 via montrealgazette.com
  It was supposed to be Nigel Adams’s last day on Earth.
  He tied a rope to the beam in his closet, slipped his head through the noose and began to feel the life being squeezed out of him.
  “I was fading away,” Adams said. “But my best friend walked into the room, he took his knife out and cut me loose. He saved me.”
  During his darkest hour — when he was beset with panic attacks and deep bouts of depression — Adams couldn’t lean on a psychologist, beca
  
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• Quebec election: PQ plan would reduce Montreal métro fares by 60%

  27-09-2018 15:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Jean-François Lisée says his party’s “audacious but responsible” transit plan will take half a million cars off Quebec’s roads.
  The Parti Québécois leader pledged Thursday to reduce Montreal transit fares by 60 per cent during non-peak hours. It was the final section of its four-year plan to invest $835 million in public transit.
  Lisée claims the measure would save 800,000 commuters up to $190 each.
  “What we’re proposing is a
  
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• Montreal police seek two suspects in theft from Dorval mosque

  27-09-2018 14:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police have turned to the public in an effort to track down two men suspected of stealing money from the Cité de Dorval mosque last month.
  The incident occurred Aug. 21 at 2:18 p.m. and the suspects were seen in a grey, four-door SUV.
  Images captured by surveillance cameras show two men entering the mosque from an apparently unlocked door and ascending the stairs.
  The first suspect is a white male with dark hair and a tattoo on his right forearm. He is wearing dark pants and
  
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• Quebec election: Will CAQ keep Québécois from being 'erased'? 'Bien oui'

  27-09-2018 14:17 via montrealgazette.com
  “The immigrants coming in right now, they’re erasing us, we want to remain Québécois, will you fight for us?” a voter asked Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault Wednesday night, to which Legault answered, “Bien oui!”
  Legault was winding up a day of campaigning in Rimouski in a pub filled with patrons and supporters when he was questioned by a woman in her 40s. She said she wanted to talk about immigration and secularism, contro
  
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• In the Habs' Room: Kotkaniemi 'keeps going up and up', Victor Mete says

  27-09-2018 13:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s a bit of good news for Jesperi Kotkaniemi and his growing legion of fans in Montreal: Coach Claude Julien said it’s hard not to see the 18-year-old Finn on the Canadiens’ roster when the season begins next Wednesday in Toronto.
  Julien said the final decisions on the 23-man roster will be made after the Canadiens close out their preseason schedule Saturday in Ottawa (7 p.m, RDS, TSN 690 Radio). He’ll sit down and discuss the matter with general manager Marc Bergevin
  
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• While you were sleeping: Injured turtle heals with a Lego wheelchair

  27-09-2018 13:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were (hopefully) resting up.
  The City of Montreal reached an agreement on a contract with the union representing school crossing guards. It’s the Plante administration’s first deal with city employees. The city and the union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (local 930) signed a five-year agreement that is back dated to January 2016 and will expire on Dec. 31, 2020. The city of Montreal employs 600 crossing guards on a permanent an
  
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• Two workers found dead in grain silo in the Beauce

  27-09-2018 13:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Two workers were found dead in a grain silo Wednesday in Saint-Simon-les-Mines in the province’s Beauce region.
  First responders arrived at the agricultural centre around 5:30 p.m. after having been informed of the discovery.
  One of the two victims, a 45-year-old man, is a local resident while the other is a 23-year-old foreign worker.
  They were both declared dead in hospital.
  Quebec’s health work safety board has been informed of the situation, provincial police said, and a police i
  
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• Quebec election: Surging in the polls, can QS turn good vibes into votes?

  27-09-2018 13:26 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s the same dilemma the party has faced since Day 1.
  The more people see the Quebec solidaire leader in action, the more they like the left-wing party, which is trying to hit the big time in this election campaign.
  Surging in the polls four days before the election, not even recent controversies — including brutal attacks by the competing Parti Québécois, which has accused the party of having a hidden Marxist agenda — have deterred Quebecers from telling pollste
  
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• Quebec election: Inuit issues struggle for attention

  27-09-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It was supposed to be Nigel Adams’s last day on Earth.
  He tied a rope to the beam in his closet, slipped his head through the noose and began to feel the life being squeezed out of him.
  “I was fading away,” Adams said. “But my best friend walked into the room, he took his knife out and cut me loose. He saved me.”
  During his darkest hour — when he was beset with panic attacks and deep bouts of depression — Adams couldn’t lean on a psychologist, beca
  
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• Quebec election analysis: Surging in the polls, can Québec solidaire turn good vibes into actual votes?

  27-09-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s the same dilemma the party has faced since Day 1.
  The more people see the Quebec solidaire leader in action, the more they like the left-wing party, which is trying to hit the big time in this election campaign.
  Surging in the polls four days before the election, not even recent controversies — including brutal attacks by the competing Parti Québécois, which has accused the party of having a hidden Marxist agenda — have deterred Quebecers from telling pollste
  
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• Montreal weather: Mainly sunny today

  27-09-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Today’s weather will be more settled that it has been in recent days.
  Environment Canada predicts it will be sunny, with a mix of sun and cloud in the afternoon. High 17. UV index 5 or moderate.
  Tonight: Cloudy with a low of 13.
  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 @travelling_manitoban.
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• Hanes: Domestic Crusaders play building bridges with storytelling

  27-09-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  When the curtain rises Thursday evening on a production of the off-Broadway hit play The Domestic Crusaders at Espace Knox in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, it will mark several firsts in Montreal.
  The piece will be the first show of the first season for the Silk Road Institute, Canada’s first professional theatre company devoted to giving the Muslim community a voice through the arts.
  By putting stories by Muslims and about Muslims centre stage for a broader audience, the troupe’s goal
  
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• In the Habs' Room: Kotkaniemi 'keeps going up and up', says Victor Mete

  27-09-2018 05:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s a bit of good news for Jesperi Kotkaniemi and his growing legion of fans in Montreal: Coach Claude Julien said it’s hard not to see the 18-year-old Finn on the Canadiens’ roster when the season begins next Wednesday in Toronto.
  Julien said the final decisions on the 23-man roster will be made after the Canadiens close out their preseason schedule Saturday in Ottawa (7 p.m, RDS, TSN 690 Radio). He’ll sit down and discuss the matter with general manager Marc Bergevin
  
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• Police try to locate St-Jérôme woman who disappeared more than a week ago

  27-09-2018 04:54 via montrealgazette.com
  The St-Jérôme police are trying to locate a 31-year-old woman who disappeared 10 days ago.
  The police force released a photo of Amanda Sibbet Millette, along with her description, on its Facebook page almost a week ago and have yet to find her.
  The accompanying message stated that she was last seen on Sept. 16 in St-Jérôme and that it was possible she is still in the St-Jérôme region.
  The missing woman is 1.6 metres (or 5 feet 3 inches) tall, weighs 57
  
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• Activist Malala Yousafzai speaks at Montreal conference

  27-09-2018 04:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize four years ago, spoke at a conference in Montreal Wednesday evening with the goal of inspiring more than a thousand adolescents to find their passion and bring change in their communities and around the world.
  Yousafzai, an activist for female education who survived being shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012, was invited to speak at Influence Montréal 2018 and answered questions from businesswoman Dani&egrav
  
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• NHL preseason: Canadiens lose 5-3 to Leafs, but Kotkaniemi getting even better

  27-09-2018 04:22 via montrealgazette.com
  When Jesperi Kotkaniemi sticks with the Canadiens this season, we can look back to a play early in the second period of Wednesday night’s game against the Maple Leafs when the 18-year-old Finn showed why Montreal made him the No. 3 overall pick in this year’s draft.
  With the teams playing 4-on-4, Kotkaniemi pounced on a loose puck in the offensive zone, took half a stride and made a backhand pass to defenceman Victor Mete at the side of the net. Mete slipped the puck to Brendan Galla
  
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• Quebec election: Legault "clarifies" campaign promise — not all children would get $2,400

  27-09-2018 02:41 via montrealgazette.com
  RIMOUSKI — For days, François Legault has highlighted a campaign “promise” — giving parents a family allowance payment of $2,400 for every child.
  On Sunday, while campaigning in Gatineau, he made it the central part of a sales pitch to parents: “Please go and vote to get this $2,400 per child,” Legault said.
  Later that same day, during a speech to supporters in Maniwaki, he said it again, promising to put money back in the pockets of parents.
  
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• Watch: Concordia Stingers visit the Shriners Hospital

  27-09-2018 02:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Members of the Concordia Stingers brought smiles to some of the children at the Shriners Hospital in Montreal on Wednesday.
  The players were visiting the hospital as part of the 32nd edition of Shrine Bowl Canada this weekend.
  Montreal Gazette photographer Allen McInnis was there to snap some pictures (below) and make the short video above. SharePhotos: Concordia Stingers visit the Shriners HospitalTumblr Pinterest Google Plus Reddit LinkedInEmail GALLERY:Photos: Concordia Stingers visit the Shr
  
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• Quebec election: Attacks on QS show other parties are scared, Massé says

  27-09-2018 02:02 via montrealgazette.com
  With six days left in the campaign and a last-minute surge in the polls, Québec solidaire gathered more than two dozen of its Montreal candidates downtown Wednesday to position themselves as the only progressive choice for Quebecers, and to dismiss attempts to paint them as a party of Marxists.
  “The old political class is bringing out the heavy artillery,” party co-spokesperson Manon Massé said. “They attack, they threaten, (they bring up) Marxism. Mr. Lis&ea
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals say racism isn’t a widespread problem in the regions

  27-09-2018 01:59 via montrealgazette.com
  ST-GEORGES-DE-BEAUCE — He has defended immigration, but Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard said his party has no specific plan, other than to say nice things, to help immigrants battle racism and discrimination within the regions.
  “The right way to do it is not to put labels on people but to talk about diversity as a positive factor in our lives and show repeatedly examples of this,” Couillard said Wednesday.
  Couillard has said the province needs more, not fewer immigrants, espe
  
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• Montreal files $14-million suit against Zampino, others over water meters

  27-09-2018 01:50 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal is suing Frank Zampino, the former No. 2 politician at city hall, construction entrepreneurs Tony Accurso and Paolo Catania and 11 other people and businesses for $14 million over “a collusion stratagem” in the city’s awarding of a $356-million water-management contract in 2007, the lawsuit states.
  The executive committee on Wednesday authorized the city’s lawyers to file the 95-page lawsuit in Quebec Superior Court seeking to recover $10.2 milli
  
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• MUHC cardiologist scores world first with Live Wire artery unblocker

  27-09-2018 01:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Three months ago, Marc Daniel R’bibo could barely walk inside his apartment in Snowdon, and his chest often throbbed with pain.
  The 74-year-old retired fashion entrepreneur had been suffering from heart disease for years, with some of his coronary arteries blocked completely.
  “My energy levels were terrible. I had no vitality,” R’bibo recalled.
  But all that changed soon after he underwent an angioplasty on June 22 at the McGill University Health Centre. R’bibo made
  
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• Quebec judge allows First Nation to banish drug dealer

  27-09-2018 00:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec First Nation can banish convicted drug dealers from its territory for up to five years, according to a Superior Court ruling.
  Last week Judge Sandra Bouchard gave police in Opitciwan the authority to physically remove a 32-year-old woman from the reserve two years after she was arrested for drug trafficking.
  The woman, Kelly-Marguerite Weizineau, pleaded guilty to trafficking under $5,000 worth of narcotics last year. After her conviction, the local band council petitioned the court to
  
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