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• Jesperi Kotkaniemi will start the season with the Montreal Canadiens

  29-09-2018 22:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Jesperi Kotkaniemi received some good news when he showed up at the Montreal Canadiens’ practice facility in Brossard on Saturday morning.
  Coach Claude Julien told him he would be part of the Habs’ lineup when the season opens Wednesday night in Toronto.
  “This has been my dream since I was a little kid,” Kotkaniemi said. “I think they made this decision because I played good.”
  The 18-year-old Finn will become the first player in North America’s four majo
  
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• Quebec election: If vote follows newest poll, CAQ forms first government

  29-09-2018 20:56 via montrealgazette.com
  As Quebec’s election campaign draws to a close, a new poll indicates the province may be headed for its first ever Coalition Avenir Québec government on Monday, likely a minority.
  François Legault’s CAQ were favoured by 32 per cent of voters, while Philippe Couillard’s ruling Liberals were at 30 per cent, according to the survey, published Saturday.
  The two sovereignist parties, meanwhile, were in a dead heat: Jean-François Lisée’s Parti Q
  
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• Police investigate attempted murder in Sud-Ouest borough

  29-09-2018 19:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are investigating after a 67-year-old man was shot multiple times in an alley on Saturday morning.
  Police received calls about gunfire in an alley near Monk Blvd. and Springland St. at 9:45 a.m., said police spokesperson Raphaël Bergeron.
  When police officers arrived on the scene they found a man who had been shot multiple times in the upper body. He was conscious and was rushed to a hospital, where he was listed as being in serious condition, Bergeron sa
  
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• Updated: Kotkaniemi will start the season with the Montreal Canadiens

  29-09-2018 19:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Jesperi Kotkaniemi received some good news when he showed up at the Montreal Canadiens’ practice facility in Brossard Saturday morning.
  Coach Claude Julien told him that he would be part of the Hab’ lineup when the season opens Wednesday night in Toronto.
  “This has been my dream since I was a little kid,” said Kotkaniemi. “I think they made this decision because I played good.”
  The 18-year-old Finn will become the first player in North America’s four maj
  
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• Quebec election: Legault urges people to vote, pledges to work with others

  29-09-2018 18:12 via montrealgazette.com
  COMPTON — With only two days left to go before election night, François Legault is urging Quebecers to vote in “massive” numbers and pledging to work with other political parties if elected.
  While campaigning in the Eastern Townships Saturday, the Coalition Avenir Québec leader returned to the same message he focused on in the early days of the campaign: the Liberals have been in power for too long and only the CAQ can unseat them.
  “It’s not good for d
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals are true nationalist party, Couillard says

  29-09-2018 17:51 via montrealgazette.com
  ST-AUGUSTIN-DE-DESMAURES — Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard played the nationalist card Saturday as his campaign team criss-crossed the hotly contested Quebec City region, attacking what he called the “false promises” of François Legault.
  “The Liberals talk of Quebec culture, we have a real plan for culture, a real plan to cut poverty — these are our propositions, that are credible, and have the financial means to back them up,” Couillard said at a ral
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée rallies PQ troops despite bad-news opinion polls

  29-09-2018 17:32 via montrealgazette.com
  TERREBONNE — With polls opening in less than 48 hours, it’s time for Jean-François Lisée to save the furniture.
  The Parti Québécois leader basked in chants of “Lisée, Lisée, Lisée,” Saturday morning as he delivered a message that was more about the survival of his party than the dream of a PQ majority.
  “Today, we’re launching something called Operation Convince,” Lisée said, to a crowd of PQ faithfu
  
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• Watch: Sunday is your last chance to visit the old NFB building

  29-09-2018 17:07 via montrealgazette.com
  The National Film Board’s massive drab building on Côte-de-Liesse hides a wealth of riches, much of which will be moving to a fancy, glassed-in Quartier des spectacles office building.
  But before the move, they’re opening their doors to the public on Sunday.
  This has been the headquarters of the National Film Board of Canada since 1956, when it moved from Ottawa, where it had been since the beginning in 1939. The NFB has been involved in nearly 14,000 productions, which have ga
  
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• Intoxicated man run over, killed after police left him walking beside the road

  29-09-2018 17:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s independent police watchdog has launched an investigation after an intoxicated man who police had left walking by the side of a road died after being run over.
  The Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes said it is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 52-year-old man in Louiseville, about 100 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
  In a press release Saturday morning, the BEI said eight of its investigators have been assigned to the case.
  They have so far ga
  
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• Police to question three men after overnight shooting in St-Hubert

  29-09-2018 16:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Longueuil police are questioning three men in their 20s after shots were fired in St-Hubert early Saturday morning.
  Around 4:30 a.m., several residents of Grand Blvd. in the South Shore suburb called 911 after being awoken by the sound of gunshots, the Longueuil police department said. A car on Grand was hit by bullets.
  The 911 callers described a vehicle fleeing the scene.
  Police officers located the dark-coloured van on Route 116. Three young men were sitting in it. They were arrested and a ha
  
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• Revenu Québec workers are on strike again this weekend

  29-09-2018 15:47 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Workers at Revenu Québec are on strike this weekend due to a deadlock in contract negotiations.
  The employees involved include financial management officers, accountants, tax auditors and computer analysts.
  According to the union, a strike on a weekend has a major impact since it is during this period that Revenu Québec workers perform checks at restaurants and bars. In addition, maintenance on the computer system is normally performed on weekends.
  Union pr
  
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• While you were sleeping: EpiPen advisory, tsunami in Indonesia, Vatican prayers

  29-09-2018 14:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Here is a quick roundup of news from the overnight desk.
  A warning, but no recall on faulty EpiPens: Health Canada is warning that some EpiPens may not slide out of their tubes easily, possibly delaying emergency treatment. The agency said early Saturday it was advised by Pfizer Canada about the issue, which it says affects some EpiPen and EpiPen Jr auto-injector devices. Health Canada warns that the problem could delay or prevent emergency treatment, possibly leading to patient disability or ev
  
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• Week in Review: Secrets, breakups, cannabis, Kotkaniemi and pets

  29-09-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on what stories you might have missed this week in Montreal.
  Secret Montreal: tarantulas, Dumpster diving and ghost-hunting
  Where are you going to learn the ins and outs of Dumpster diving — maybe more the outs than ins in this case? Or where the city’s ghosts congregate? Or where to bop to the K-Pop beat? Or where to find the tarantula of your dreams? Fret not. These questions, and many others dealing with the more quirky aspects of Montreal’s underbelly, will be answ
  
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• Shelter: Bright colours bring tropical touch to downtown apartment

  29-09-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  At one time, Lee Hennessy thought she’d never be able to settle back in Montreal. She grew up in the city, but she’d spent more than 40 years living and working in Florida and the Cayman Islands. On the brief occasions when she returned to visit her family, she found the winters “absolutely numbing.”
  A couple of years ago, she had a change of heart. Her career as a real estate broker was coming to an end and Hennessy figured it was time to retire. She looked at possible p
  
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• Quebec election: The quiet resolve of Philippe Couillard

  29-09-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s Day 17 of the campaign and Philippe Couillard is standing in front of Laval’s Cité de la Santé in his trademark blue suit and an open-necked shirt.
  Another day, another promise.
  Today’s is on reduced prices for parking at hospitals across Quebec.
  The high cost of visiting a hospital is a sore point, and the Liberal leader is hoping the measure will help his campaign gain traction.
  With a roaring economy, low unemployment and a government awash in surpluses, y
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ could win a minority, new Léger poll indicates

  29-09-2018 13:54 via montrealgazette.com
  A new poll published Saturday indicates the Coalition Avenir Québec has a slight advantage over the Quebec Liberal Party.
  The Léger poll, for the Journal de Montréal, says 32 per cent of the 1,502 people polled said they intended to vote for the CAQ compared to 30 per cent for the Liberals.
  The poll found that the Parti québécois followed with 19 per cent and Québec solidaire with 17 per cent.
  Based on these results, Léger says a CAQ minority
  
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• Josh Freed: Reflections on an election campaign nobody is talking about

  29-09-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The polls are over, the debates are done and it’s time to pick your premier.
  But while you reflect on that, here are my own election reflections — no matter who wins.
  REFLECTION 1: I’ve gone out with several groups of people this week and no one’s talking about Quebec’s election. They’re all talking about one thing: KAVANAUUUUGGGHHHHH.
  The U.S. Senate hearing psychodrama has swept up Quebecers too, taking over front page headlines from Le Devoir to Le Journal
  
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• Five Montreal road closings to avoid on Saturday

  29-09-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five traffic hotspots to look out for today.Turcot Interchange
  Highway 15 North between Exit 58 and the Turcot Interchange will be closed until Monday at 5 a.m.
  De La Vérendrye Blvd. East, between Galt St. and Highway 15, will also be closed until Monday at 5 a.m. as will the exit ramp from Highway 15 to Highway 20 West.
  Various ramps
  Several other ramps, between Highways 15 and 20 will also be closed until Monday morning. Please consult Quebec 511 for more information.
  Highway 2
  
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• Montreal weather: Clearing early, but windy

  29-09-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The skies will clear early in the morning with a west wind of 20 km/h, gusting to 40.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of 17 and the UV index will be 4, or moderate.
  Tonight: Clear and chilly with a low of 6.
  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 @arcpixel.
  Quote of the day:Elec
  
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• Karl Lohnes: Shower your bathroom with the latest looks

  29-09-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The bathroom is one of the most used rooms in a house. Not only should it be functional, but also aesthetically pleasing and comfortable. On average, bathrooms are renovated every 15 years, so design and plan your needs for that time period. For instance, a young, new homeowner might want a walk-in shower with rain-shower heads and a television in the room; those in their retirement years may opt for a soaker tub with grab bars and built-in ceiling speakers for soft music. As for style, look for
  
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• Editorial: Philippe Couillard's Liberals have earned a new mandate

  29-09-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Couillard Liberals won the last election promising to focus on “les vraies affaires,” and that is what they have done. Their priority at the start of their mandate in 2014 was to put the province’s economic house in order. Now, the economy is booming. Unemployment is low. Quebec is an attractive place to live and work. Gone are the much darker days when confidence in the future was sorely tested.
  There is no doubt that the government’s budgetary belt-tightening early
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened on September 28

  29-09-2018 02:52 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal.
  A year later, Jesse Galganov’s mom seeks answers: ‘I have to keep going’
  Sometimes when the mercy of sleep comes, Alisa Clamen dreams about her missing son. It’s not a specific dream, but “mostly the comfort of his presence, seeing him, hearing his voice — just a feeling that he is with me.” In the dreaming, at least, she finds a reprieve from “the constant aching void that I feel for him eve
  
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• Quebec election: Where to watch, listen and follow results

  29-09-2018 02:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Television
  CBC and CTV are planning election specials from the moment the polls close at 8 p.m., on their Montreal local stations as well as their all-news networks. Debra Arbec, Nancy Wood and Sean Henry will host the CBC show, while Mutsumi Takahashi and Paul Karwatsky will anchor on CTV.
  Radio-Canada and TVA will also have live election specials on local TV stations and their news networks.
  Global TV and Citytv will have regular programming during primetime, but election wrap specials at 11 p
  
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• Quebec election: Some Côte-St-Luc Jewish residents irked they couldn't vote in advance polling

  29-09-2018 02:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Some Côte-St-Luc residents who are observant Jews are upset that they won’t be able to vote in this year’s provincial election not only because Monday is a Jewish holiday but they’ve also been unable to cast ballots at advance polling stations amid widespread computer glitches.
  One voter told the Montreal Gazette that when he complained to a representative of Elections Quebec, he was told, “Oh, you Jews and your holidays.”
  As a result of the fixed-date electio
  
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• Stu Cowan: Finnish Connection could be key for Habs this season

  29-09-2018 02:02 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens’ Artturi Lehkonen is enjoying being able to speak Finnish again.
  When Lehkonen broke into the NHL two seasons ago, he was the only Finn on the Canadiens. For the two seasons before that, Lehkonen was the only Finn on his Frolunda HC team in the Swedish Hockey League.
  Now, Lehkonen is one of four Finnish players in the Canadiens’ locker room at training camp along with goalie Antti Niemi and fellow forwards Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Joel Armia.
  “It’s nice to spe
  
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• Quebec election: PQ would "unite" parties in minority government

  29-09-2018 02:00 via montrealgazette.com
  With three days left in the campaign, the Parti Québécois’s chances of forming a government are somewhere between slim and none.
  At least, that’s what the latest polls say. The PQ sits 14 points behind the front-running Coalition Avenir Québec, according to a poll released Friday.
  Asked repeatedly about his impending defeat, Jean-François Lisée insisted his party can pull off an upset.
  “I’ve seen enough rodeos to say that the possibility
  
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• Cyclist, 49, seriously injured after colliding with a car downtown

  29-09-2018 02:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A 49-year-old cyclist is in the hospital with serious injuries after colliding with a car in downtown Montreal.
  According to Montreal Police spokesperson Manuel Couture, the cyclist was heading south on St-Denis St. around 3:30 p.m. and went through a red light at the intersection of Ontario St.
  At the same time, a 53-year-old woman was driving east on Ontario St. The cyclist hit her car door.
  Police are still waiting for an update on the cyclist’s condition, while investigators recon
  
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• Quebec election: Manon Massé fears an "insurmountable crisis" on climate

  29-09-2018 01:43 via montrealgazette.com
  With a rising tone of alarm, Manon Massé said Friday she feared that the climate crisis hanging over the planet was becoming insurmountable.
  Since the beginning of the election campaign, Massé has maintained that safeguarding the environment should be the ballot box question — the decisive challenge of the Oct. 1 vote.
  At a news conference on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, the co-spokesperson of Québec solidaire reaffirmed the importance of the population sendin
  
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• Montreal is better late than never with message boards: traffic expert

  29-09-2018 00:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Passersby might have missed the new electronic message boards the city installed on a pole on downtown Sherbrooke St. W. this week, given that they were installed behind a tree.
  But the city promises that once they become operational in the spring, the boards will help alleviate traffic congestion on the busy artery.
  The boards — which are part of what the city calls a “dynamic parking guidance system” — will indicate to motorists how many off-street parking spots are ava
  
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• Will Jesperi Kotkaniemi start NHL season with the Canadiens?

  29-09-2018 00:30 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s the question every hockey fan in Montreal is asking: Will Jesperi Kotkaniemi start the NHL season with the Canadiens?
  It would be kinda cool to be a fly on the wall Sunday when GM Marc Bergevin and coach Claude Julien get together to decide whether the 18-year-old centre is in a Canadiens uniform next Wednesday night in Toronto when the puck drops, or whether he is headed back to Finland to play for Assat Pori. It has become pretty obvious Julien wants to keep the team’s fi
  
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• Quebec election: Ipsos poll shows CAQ, Liberals neck and neck

  29-09-2018 00:24 via montrealgazette.com
  A new poll by the Ipsos polling firm gives the Coalition Avenir Québec a one-point lead in voter intentions over the Liberal Party.
  The poll, for La Presse and Global News, also shows a tight race between the Parti Québécois and Québec solidaire for third place:Coalition Avenir Québec: 32%
  Quebec Liberal Party: 31%
  Parti Québécois: 18%
  Québec solidaire: 16%
  Others: 3%With three days until voting day, 87 per cent of the 1,250 respondents sai
  
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• Watch: Where do the leaders' loyalties lie? Bagels or croissants?

  29-09-2018 00:16 via montrealgazette.com
  We have a good sense of where the leaders of Quebec’s major parties stand on such issues as education, environment and the economy. We know that filling jobs is high on the minds of each of them.
  But what about their everyday lives? Summer or fall? Dogs or cats? And the biggie: cheddar or Brie?
  Jean-François Lisée of the Parti Québecois, the Liberals’ Philippe Couillard, and Québec solidaire co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois submitted to rapid-fir
  
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