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• Food safety warning issued for Côte St-Luc restaurant Ernie and Ellie's

  30-09-2018 23:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Provincial and municipal authorities are warning consumers not to eat food that was purchased from Ernie and Ellie’s, a Côte St-Luc restaurant and catering company, on or before Sept. 29.
  Quebec’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and the city of Montreal’s food inspection division are also warning consumers not to eat a variety of prepared food — including salads, soups and dips — prepared by the company and sold through other distributers.
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• Jack Todd: From Impact to Canadiens, Saturday was Debacle Night

  30-09-2018 22:07 via montrealgazette.com
  We’re going to play a little Monday Morning Quarterback today, bagels and grits, and pick up some of the bits and pieces as September winds down and October and hockey season begin …
  Saturday night was Debacle Night chez nous. The Impact, with a huge game on their hands in Washington, decided to self-destruct against D.C. United. Final score: D.C. 5, Impact 0. Playoff spot in jeopardy.
  Seriously, if you want a playoff spot, how do you get steamrolled by the team that is trying to ge
  
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• Habs waive Agostino and Chaput, send Lindgren to Laval

  30-09-2018 21:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens’ opening-day roster came into focus Sunday when the team placed forwards Kenny Agostino and Michael Chaput on waivers.
  If they clear waivers by noon Monday, they will be assigned to the Canadiens’ American Hockey League affiliate, the Laval Rocket.
  The Canadiens also announced that goaltender Charlie Lindgren has been assigned to the Rocket. He did not have to clear waivers.
  Agostino and Chaput had one last chance to earn a spot Saturday, but they were part of an overal
  
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• Quebec election: Québec solidaire pleased to have shaken things up

  30-09-2018 19:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Regardless of the result of Monday’s vote, Québec solidaire is pleased to have “shaken up the establishment” during the election campaign, the party’s co-spokesperson Manon Massé said Sunday morning as she reviewed her party’s achievements.
  Massé was in Montreal, in the riding of Laurier-Dorion, a seat QS hopes to take from the Liberals on Monday.
  Surrounded by candidates from the region, Massé said she was proud of her party&rs
  
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• Watch: Who is Philippe Couillard?

  30-09-2018 19:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Who is Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard’s hero? How have family members influenced his worldview and political motivations? What family members’ Second World War experiences affected him most deeply?
  The answers to these questions and more are detailed in our brief video profile.
  Check it out and then read Marian Scott’s profile of the Liberal leader.
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• Shots fired, two men injured in Côte-St-Luc fight

  30-09-2018 19:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Two men were injured, one by a gun shot and the other by a blow to the head, when a fight broke out on Sunday about 5:30 a.m. in an apartment in Côte-St-Luc.
  The men then left the building on Kingsley Rd. and the fight continued outside, where some shots were fired, said Montreal Police spokesperson Raphaël Bergeron.
  When police arrived on the scene, they found the two injured men: one with gun injuries to the lower part of his body, and the other with a head injury, probably caused b
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée attacks rivals for being 'weak' on NAFTA talks

  30-09-2018 19:19 via montrealgazette.com
  NICOLET — With fresh rumours Sunday that Quebec’s dairy farmers are being hit hard in trade negotiations with the United States, Jean-François Lisée seized the opportunity to unleashed one final attack on his rivals.
  The Parti Québécois leader said Philippe Couillard’s Liberal government made Quebec the “weak link” in previous international negotiations.
  He added that Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault has suppo
  
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• World juniors will speed Suzuki’s development | HI/O Bonus

  30-09-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  In this bonus episode, our panelists — Gazette sports columnists Stu Cowan, CBC Daybreak’s Jessica Rusnak, former Canadien Chris Nilan and host Adam Susser — discuss Habs prospect Nick Suzuki.
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• Montrealers urged to visit seniors on International Day of Older Persons

  30-09-2018 17:23 via montrealgazette.com
  October 1 is the United Nations’ International Day of Older Persons.
  The Little Brothers organization is asking the public to mark the occasion by visiting a senior on Monday.
  Many seniors are isolated and lonely, and a visit can sometimes make all the difference, the organization said.
  Volunteers with the Little Brothers will mobilize on Monday to meet thousands of elders, whether it is in their homes or in a hospital or long-term care facility where most residents are too frail to go out
  
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• Quebec election: Legault spending last day campaigning in PQ territory

  30-09-2018 17:11 via montrealgazette.com
  SAINTE-CATHERINE — François Legault is planning to visit five ridings during the last day of his campaign Sunday, all won by the Parti Québécois in the last provincial election.
  The Coalition Avenir Québec leader started by visiting a cancer fundraiser in Ste-Catherine early Sunday, in the Sanguinet riding, where he shook hands, posed for photos and reminded people to get out to vote on Monday.
  Legault said Saturday he plans on campaigning until the very last mi
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée goes back to his roots on final day of campaign

  30-09-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  THETFORD-MINES — On the eve of Monday’s election, Jean-François Lisée deployed a secret weapon: his mother.
  When Lisée ran for the leadership of the Parti Québécois two years ago, he kicked off the campaign at his childhood home in Thetford Mines. And on Sunday, as he wrapped up what may be his first and last election as PQ leader, Lisée went back to his old stomping grounds.
  So what did Lisée’s sweet, soft-spoken mother think of
  
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• Quebec election: Couillard flies to the regions on campaign's last day

  30-09-2018 16:41 via montrealgazette.com
  GRANDE-RIVIÈRE – It’s a morning of small, regional airports and last-ditch calls for voters to “look at how far we’ve come in four years” for Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard on the final day of the 39-day Quebec election campaign.
  Virtually tied with former front-runner Coalition Avenir Québec in the polls, the forecast is still for a CAQ minority or even majority government, because the Liberals are scoring poorly in the francophone vote. And so it&
  
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• Run for the Cure being held in Parc Jean-Drapeau

  30-09-2018 16:23 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadian Cancer Society’s CIBC Run for the Cure is taking place Sunday in Parc Jean-Drapeau.
  Thousands of people are taking part in the run, which is also being held in Quebec City, Sherbrooke and Val-d’Or.
  The event supports breast cancer research and marks the beginning of a month of activities to raise awareness of the disease.
  The goal is to raise a million dollars.
  All of the proceeds raised Sunday will be invested in breast cancer research and other programs and support ser
  
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• Hamilton wins Russian GP after teammate lets him pass, Lance Stroll 15th

  30-09-2018 16:19 via montrealgazette.com
  SOCHI, Russia — Lewis Hamilton closed in on his fifth Formula One title with victory in Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix after his teammate, Valtteri Bottas, pulled over to let him through halfway into the race.
  Hamilton now leads Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel by 50 points in the standings with five races remaining as both chase their fifth title.
  As Vettel put Hamilton under pressure on lap 25, a call came over team radio for Bottas to let his teammate through, and the Finn complied.
  
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• Impact lay an egg in biggest game of season, losing 5-0 to D.C. United

  30-09-2018 16:04 via montrealgazette.com
  It was the biggest game of the MLS season for the Impact and also their worst.
  Heading into Audi Field in Washington Saturday night, the Impact were sitting in the sixth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, five points ahead of seventh-place D.C. United. A win would have put the Impact eight points up on D.C. United and given them a nice cushion since the Washington club holds two games in hand.
  Instead, the Impact got hammered 5-0 and D.C. United is now only two points behind Montr
  
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• Quebec election: Meet the most long-shot candidates from each party

  30-09-2018 15:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s four main parties all have 125 candidates in the Oct. 1 election, one for every riding in the province (at least until a scandal forces a candidate to withdraw past the Sept. 15 deadline). Some of those candidates are locks for election or re-election and some are in competitive ridings, but others are little more than placeholders who know they have no hope.
  Here are the candidates from each party in the riding where that party had its worst performance (as a percentage of total
  
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• Snow geese are arriving at Cap-Tourmente wildlife reserve

  30-09-2018 15:14 via montrealgazette.com
  QUÉBEC – Thousands of snow geese are currently migrating to the Cap-Tourmente National Wildlife Area, near St-Joachim, an hour’s drive east of Québec City.
  More than 20,000 geese have already arrived, with the number expected to double in the coming days.
  The site is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
  To mark the occasion, a fun, educational exhibit has been added to the regular programming. Equipped with a game pad, visitors will follow a circuit of 10 informa
  
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• Fitness: Runners worried about injury should get a hip check

  30-09-2018 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Shorten your stride. Take your shoes off. Put your shoes on. Lean forward. Straighten up.
  If you’re a runner, you’ve probably received all this advice and more, all in the name of keeping injuries at bay. Yet despite the number of tips on how to avoid injury, runners continue to get hurt. Statistics suggest that up to 80 per cent of runners will experience an injury at least once — a number most will tell you is on the low side.
  Overuse is often cited as the primary cause, but
  
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• Man, 71, killed in collision with tractor in eastern Quebec

  30-09-2018 14:53 via montrealgazette.com
  A 71-year-old driver has died of his injuries after his car was in a collision with a trailer being pulled by a farm tractor Friday night in L’Islet, 340 kilometres north-east of Montreal.
  According to preliminary findings by the Sûreté du Québec, the tractor had stopped to make a turn on Morin Rd. when the crash occurred.
  Investigators will try to determine the precise circumstances of the accident.
  
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• Rawdon Dutch Colonial Revival home has been in family's hands since 1959

  30-09-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Though her grandparents and then her parents had occupied the house since 1959, it was not until 2010 that Cheryl Jackman-Wallis really lived in it.“When I was a young girl, I was sent to boarding school, visiting only occasionally,” she explained.Then came marriage, and she and her husband bought their own place. When her parents passed away in 2007, she inherited the house and the couple spent three years renovating it. Once the work was done, and the couple faced a dilemma —
  
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• While you were sleeping: Grandfather's party shut down over kombucha

  30-09-2018 13:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you resting your tired eyes.
  Montreal police are investigating after a 67-year-old man was shot multiple times in an alley. Police received calls about gunfire in an alley near Monk Blvd. and Springland St. at 9:45 a.m. on Saturday, 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 hos
  
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• Victor Schukov: The perfect village is about the little things

  30-09-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I just came back from a summer/autumn cusp vacation in a place that was on my bucket list: The Bruce Peninsula. For those of you who want to know how to find it, look on a map. (I had to. I have an old GPS that still thinks Alaska is up for sale and Louisiana is still a French colony.)
  Anyhoo, The Bruce (as locals call it) is in middle Ontario and is Canada’s version of an upside down Baja Peninsula without the desert. (I am eventually going to talk about this whole debacle with the Pionee
  
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• Montreal weather: Partly cloudy and cool

  30-09-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A mix of sun and cloud with a west wind at 20 km/h near noon.  
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of 15 and the UV index will be 5, or moderate.
  Tonight: Cloudy with 40-per-cent chance of showers and a low of 9.
  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 @alien_lentil.
  
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• It's no Sunday drive: Five roadways to avoid today

  30-09-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five traffic bottlenecks 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.
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• In the Habs' Room: Flat team hits preseason bump with looming roster decisions

  30-09-2018 05:32 via montrealgazette.com
  OTTAWA — While the Canadiens’ players enjoy a day off Sunday, there will be no day of rest for coach Claude Julien and his staff.
  The NHL regular season opens on Wednesday in Toronto and Julien is tasked with trimming the roster to the NHL limit of 23 players. The deadline for declaring a roster is 5 p.m. Tuesday, but the Canadiens have a self-imposed deadline Monday because they’ll be flying to Toronto early Tuesday afternoon.
  Julien was hoping Saturday night’s final pre
  
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• Canadiens fire blanks as Price allows 3 goals in Ottawa

  30-09-2018 04:10 via montrealgazette.com
  OTTAWA — You can’t win hockey games if you don’t score.
  And that was the case Saturday night as the Ottawa Senators defeated the Canadiens 3-0 at the Canadian Tire Centre.
  This game represented the final chance for some players to impress coach Claude Julien and they generally failed to take advantage of the opportunity.
  Tom Pyatt, who made his NHL debut with the Canadiens in 2009, opened the scoring at 4:32 of the first period. Michael Chaput, one of the Canadiens’ playe
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée rallies PQ troops, claims at least one convert

  30-09-2018 00:07 via montrealgazette.com
   TROIS-RIVIÈRES — 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” on 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
  
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