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• Hanes: Weird UPAC saga gets weirder with Lafrenière's resignation

  02-10-2018 23:39 via montrealgazette.com
  A puzzling political subplot reached a perplexing denouement Monday, as Quebecers went to the polls to hand the Coalition Avenir Québec a historic election victory.
  Early in the day, Unité permanente anti-corruption boss Robert Lafrenière, who has engaged in open warfare with the province’s political establishment over the past year, announced his resignation. Hours later, Guy Ouellette, a Liberal MNA who was the target of a controversial probe by UPAC, won a fifth man
  
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• Kramberger: Surprise! Liberals sweep West Island ridings

  02-10-2018 23:27 via montrealgazette.com
  While Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue native and self-made millionaire François Legault and his right-leaning Coalition Avenir Québec won a majority government Monday, West Islanders stuck to their centric voting patterns to elect four Liberal MNAs, three of them newcomers.
  The support for the Liberals in the four West Island ridings ranged from about 43 per cent of ballots cast in Marquette (Enrico Ciccone) to about 73 per cent of votes in Robert-Baldwin (Carlos Leitão).
  Two Off-Islan
  
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• Convicted killer on trial for multiple home invasions and murder

  02-10-2018 23:24 via montrealgazette.com
  The long-awaited trial of a man accused of carrying out 13 home invasions, including one that ended in a homicide, is underway at the Montreal courthouse.
  Septimus Neverson, 56, faces 54 charges related to home invasions carried out between 2006 and 2009. One of the armed robberies resulted in the death of Jacques Sénécal, a 61-year-old artist and teacher who was shot on July 20, 2006, during a robbery in his home in the Ste-Dorothée district of Laval.
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• Quebec election: Québec solidaire will be real opposition, Massé says

  02-10-2018 23:19 via montrealgazette.com
  A beaming Manon Massé said Québec solidaire will be the de facto official opposition in the next legislature and will push the new Coalition Avenir Québec government to take action on climate change, keep its promise on reforming the voting system, and ensure that newcomers feel welcome in Quebec.
  “Many people are waking up this morning to a CAQ government and they are afraid,” Massé said at a press conference at her Plateau-Mont-Royal riding office Tuesda
  
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• Quebec City moves to ban pot-smoking in public places

  02-10-2018 23:08 via montrealgazette.com
  In the countdown toward the legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada on Oct. 17, the mayor of Quebec City announced regulations Tuesday that makes it illegal to smoke it on the streets or any public place in the provincial capital.
  It will also be illegal to use cannabis vaporizers in public places, Régis Labeaume said on Tuesday. He said the rules could eventually be relaxed. A committee would be established to analyze facts around the legalization of cannabis during the next year
  
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• Quebec election: Voters just upended the province's politics. Now what

  02-10-2018 22:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebecers upended the province’s political gameboard on Monday.
  To help you sort out the ramifications, here are five key questions.
  How was the election groundbreaking?
  Quebecers decided it was in-with-the-new time. A party that didn’t exist seven years ago — the Coalition Avenir Québec — won handily, garnering 37 per cent of the vote and 74 of 125 seats. A 12-year-old party that’s unabashedly leftist and sovereignist — Québec solidair
  
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• Quebec election: Arrest in online threat against Muslim candidate

  02-10-2018 22:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Police arrested a Morin Heights man on Tuesday for making a death threat against an independent candidate during the provincial election campaign.
  The 61-year-old man was arrested and released on a promise to appear in court, said Cindi Paré, a spokesperson with the Quebec City police department.
  Ali Dahan, an independent candidate in the Quebec City riding of Jean-Talon, was obliged to limit his campaign to his home after local police told him he was the target of an online threat.
  
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• Quebec election: Suspense? CAQ call came minutes after polls closed

  02-10-2018 21:48 via montrealgazette.com
  So you plunked yourself on the sofa, and, with libation and popcorn in tow, settled down for what you expected to be a long evening in front of the tube in anticipation of a definitive call on the Quebec election vote. After all, pollsters and pundits alike had been calling this election almost too close to call.
  And then after knocking back just one gulp of beer and a couple of kernels of popcorn, CTV Montreal was the first on the media block — at 8:08 p.m., a mere eight minutes after pol
  
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• Legault vows to raise cannabis age to 21, act on religious symbols

  02-10-2018 21:35 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC CITY — In his first news conference as premier-elect, François Legault pledged to deliver on his campaign promises and insisted his majority government can “deliver the goods.”
  Speaking Tuesday morning, the Coalition Avenir Québec leader said his early priorities will be ensuring a better economy, improving the province’s education system and providing better health services.
  “Myself and my team will govern for all Quebecers,” he said
  
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• Quebec election: Montreal will work with Legault, says Plante

  02-10-2018 21:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante offered her full support to François Legault and his newly elected Coalition Avenir Québec government Tuesday, while emphasizing she will continue to push forward on issues that are important to Montrealers.
  “I spoke with the premier-elect last night and told him that he has our full collaboration on files that are close to the heart of this administration such as economic development, public transport, housing and climate change,” P
  
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• Watch: Defeated Liberal leader Couillard addresses supporters

  02-10-2018 21:14 via montrealgazette.com
  As the vote tally came in, giving the Quebec Liberal Party 32 seats to the Coalition Avenir Quebec’s 74, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard accepted the applause of his supporters.
  In a speech at his party’s headquarters, and with his wife at his side, he singled out anglophones: “You are like us, first-class Quebecers. Stay with us.”
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• Watch: Québec solidaire happy with election showing

  02-10-2018 21:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, co-spokesperson of Québec solidaire, threw his fists triumphantly in the air as the QS snagged 10 seats in Monday’s provincial election.
  The crowd at QS headquarters was rowdy enough one might have thought they’d won the election by a landslide, though they came in a distant third after Coalition Avenir Québec’s 74 seats and the Liberal’s 32. They squeaked past the Parti Québécois, who had to made due with nine seats.
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• Quebec election, the day after: Silence from the PQ camp

  02-10-2018 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Hours after it was handed one the worst defeats in its history, it was radio silence in the Parti Québécois camp Tuesday.
  With the PQ’s seat count down to nine, it has lost official party status in the National Assembly and, with it, the majority of its funding. Before the faithful can decide on a course of action for the PQ, it will have to cull the majority of its staff and take apart an internal structure that contains generations of institutional knowledge.
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• West Island community calendar for the week of Oct. 3

  02-10-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Galleries and exhibitions
  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.m. Call 514-398-7948 or visit cahc-ccpa.com.
  Arts and letters
  Book Talk with author Barbara Burgess on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the
  
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• Quebec election: Montreal will work with CAQ's Legault, Mayor Plante says

  02-10-2018 17:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante offered her full support to François Legault and his newly elected Coalition Avenir Québec government Tuesday morning, while emphasizing that she will continue to push forward on issues that are important to Montrealers.
  “I spoke with the premier-elect last night and told him that he has our full collaboration on files that are close to the heart of this administration such as economic development, public transport, housing and climate cha
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Jacob de la Rose sidelined after 'cardiac episode'

  02-10-2018 17:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Jacob de la Rose missed practice for the second straight day Tuesday in Brossard and the Canadiens announced he had a “cardiac episode” after the final pre-season game Saturday night in Ottawa and has not been cleared to travel by team doctors.
  De la Rose will remain in Montreal for ongoing evaluation and will not make the trip to Toronto for the Canadiens’ NHL season opener Wednesday night against the Maple Leafs (7 p.m., SN, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).
  A Canadiens official said de l
  
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• Watch: Parti Québécois faithful unwavering in their support

  02-10-2018 17:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Jean-François Liseé kept smiling and his supporters never wavered.
  Nevertheless, it was all over by 8:30 p.m. Monday, as the Coalition Avenir Quebec won a stunning 74 seats, leaving 32 to the Liberals, 10 for Québec solidaire and a meagre nine for the PQ.
  Despite the sombre vibe at Parti Québécois headquarters, the party faithful stressed they were happy with how the campaign unfolded.
  “If a chief told the truth from A to Z,” said one supporter, &ld
  
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• Six O’Clock Solution: Eggplant gets a comfort-food makeover

  02-10-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  If you don’t know what to do with eggplant but admire its dark and gleaming good looks, consider this dish from the cookbook Now and Again: Go-To Recipes, Inspired Menus and Endless Ideas for Reinventing Leftovers (Chronicle Books/Raincoast, $50), by Julia Turshen. Paired with a tossed green salad, it would make a relaxed meal. “I am all about what goes with what,” Turshen writes in the book, which offers more than 150 recipes and 20 suggested menus.The veteran H
  
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• Download a printable TV schedule for the Canadiens' 2018-19 season

  02-10-2018 16:47 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Canadiens’ 2018-19 regular season begins on Wednesday, and Tuesday’s Montreal Gazette includes a full-page schedule of all 82 games and what TV channels you can find them on, and a story on changes Canadiens fans should expect this season, including a new play-by-play voice on TSN.You can also download the full page here, or in more convenient letter-sized formats below.
  The schedule includes 50 games in English on TSN2, with the remaining 32 going to Sportsnet channels
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ tidal wave and QS breakthrough in Quebec City

  02-10-2018 16:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec City residents led the province in putting out the welcome mat for the Coalition Avenir Québec.
  There were just three notable exceptions: Taschereau and Jean-Lesage, where Québec solidaire made a stunning breakthrough outside its home turf in Montreal, and Jean-Talon, where Education Minister Sébastien Proulx fended off a challenge by CAQ candidate Joëlle Boutin.
  Former Liberal cabinet ministers fell like bowling pins as the CAQ rolled to victory in a region
  
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• Investigation launched after SQ surveillance of suspected drunk driver

  02-10-2018 16:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s special investigations unit (BEI) has been called in to examine the circumstances of the Sûreté du Québec’s handling of a drunk driving call early Tuesday that ended when the suspect lost control of his car and was seriously injured.
  According to information made available to the BEI, the incident began around 2:39 a.m. near Hébertville in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, when the SQ received a 911 call concerning a suspected drunk driver.
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• Editorial: Quebecers vote for change

  02-10-2018 15:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Premier-designate François Legault and his Coalition Avenir Québec have triumphed. They rode to a majority government on a wave of support from Quebecers tired of the Liberals and receptive to Legault’s portrayal of himself as a defender of Quebec’s predominant language and culture. For the first time in more than a half-century, Quebec has elected a government that is neither Liberal nor Parti Québécois.
  It was a bitter disappointment for the Couillard Li
  
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• Montreal police investigating after car torched in east end

  02-10-2018 15:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are investigating a possible case of arson after a vehicle fire on a residential street in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district.
  Neighbours called 911 early Tuesday morning to report that flames were coming from a car on Fontaine St. near Honoré-Beaugrand St.
  Police discovered an accelerant on the car. The vehicle’s owner is not know to Montreal police.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Something something election, a Nobel prize and Facebook dating

  02-10-2018 14:21 via montrealgazette.com
  While you were sleeping, Quebec voted in a majority CAQ government. But also these things happened.
  Prize-winning lasers: The awarding of the Nobel Prize in physics to Canadian scientist Donna Strickland has ended a drought for women winning any of the prestigious prizes. Strickland is the first woman to be named a Nobel laureate since 2015. She is also only the third to have won the physics prize — the first was Marie Curie in 1903. The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences today awarded half
  
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• Quebec election, the day after: Here's what the CAQ promises to do

  02-10-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Fuelled by a desire for change, the Coalition Avenir Québec heaved the governing Liberals out of office Monday with enough seats to form a majority government. CAQ Leader François Legault will be Quebec’s 32nd premier, promising Monday evening to make Quebec “strong and proud” again.
  During the 39-day election campaign, this is where the CAQ stood on the seven biggest issues.
  EconomyStandardize school taxes at their lowest level across Quebec.
  Institute one income
  
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• Briana Tomkinson: The great thermostat debate: How low can you go?

  02-10-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  You know it’s fall when you finally buckle down and turn the heater back on.In our house, we’re determined to tough it out a while longer. I’ve put the fleecy sheets on the beds and brought out the comforters and throw blankets. We’re breaking out the wool slippers and fuzzy socks, and bringing the sweaters out of storage. But I won’t touch the thermostat until wearing gloves and a tuque inside starts to seem like a good idea. Around here, “Put a sweater on,&r
  
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• Montreal police seek suspects in drive-by shooting

  02-10-2018 13:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are seeking a vehicle and suspects after a drive-by shooting early Tuesday in the city’s Sud-Ouest district.
  The incident occurred around 12:30 a.m. near the intersection of Quesnel and Vinet Sts.
  A man and a woman were in a vehicle on Quesnel St. heading toward Vinet St. when a second car approached and its occupant opened fire on them. The suspect’s vehicle then headed away north on Vinet St.
  Police arriving on the scene found some spent cartridges on the ground as
  
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• Montreal weather: It's a rainy October day. What else did you expect?

  02-10-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada is forecasting a periodically rainy day with northeasterly winds reaching 20 km/h.
  The daytime high is expected to be 12 degrees.
  Periods of drizzle will go into the night, when the low is forecast as 10 degrees.
  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 @tobrook.
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• Canadiens on TV 2018-19: Bryan Mudryk is new voice on TSN broadcasts

  02-10-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Bryan Mudryk said he’s been hearing from people, perhaps half-jokingly, suggesting he got a bum gig calling games for an NHL team that’s struggling through a rebuild.
  “Pardon my French, but are you kidding me? This is the Montreal effing Canadiens. This is an iconic franchise. This is one of the greatest sports franchises ever,” he told the Montreal Gazette in an interview.
  Mudryk, the second-most-famous TSN broadcaster from tiny Boyle, Alta. (he and Jay Onrait grew up to
  
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• Quebec election: On the campaign trail, François Legault preferred shaking hands to speeches

  02-10-2018 06:23 via montrealgazette.com
  François Legault is shaking hands in a Rimouski pub, his handlers are trying in vain to wave him over, it’s time to leave. But the Coalition Avenir Québec leader isn’t finished.
  Legault will stop and talk with anyone who wants to speak with him.
  It is Sept. 26, day 34 of the campaign.
  Earlier that evening, Legault stepped out of his bus with a smile on his face.
  “It’s the sad end of the Liberal regime,” he said, after a day when decade-old scandal
  
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• Quebec election: 'We marked history,' says Premier-elect Legault

  02-10-2018 06:09 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC CITY — The look on François Legault’s face lasted only a moment.
  Standing in the hallway awaiting his introduction, he took a deep breath, sipped from a water bottle, and adjusted his tie. His wife, Isabelle Brais, rested her head on his shoulder. When she then put her hand on his chest, a slight smile inched across his face. A raucous crowd awaited through the door.
  Legault, 61, had won the majority government he had focused on during the election campaign. N
  
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• As it happened — Quebec election: CAQ wins majority, Lisée quits PQ

  02-10-2018 06:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Hello!
  This is what happened on election night. Email questions and comments to [email protected]@postmedia.comtwitter.com/andyriga
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• Quebec election: Québec solidaire triples its caucus

  02-10-2018 06:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Québec solidaire’s Manon Massé got a hero’s welcome from a standing-room-only crowd of ecstatic supporters at the Olympia night club Monday night, as she told them their “historic” performance in this election is only a beginning.
  “The political landscape in Quebec has changed for good; a new generation is taking its proper place,” said Massé, the party’s candidate for premier and co-spokesperson. “We will not form a
  
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• Quebec election: Upsets and breakthroughs in Montreal's east end

  02-10-2018 06:02 via montrealgazette.com
  The eastern part of Montreal Island was the stage for a number of upsets, breakthroughs and nail-biter finishes in the Quebec election on Monday.
  Parti Québécois Leader Jean-François Lisée lost his seat in Rosemont riding to Québec solidaire candidate Vincent Marissal, a former journalist, who was leading by 2,217 votes, with 176 of 178 polls reporting.
  Meanwhile, Coalition Avenir Québec made a breakthrough on the island of Montreal, where it had ne
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals wounded, but Barrette survives CAQ wave

  02-10-2018 05:50 via montrealgazette.com
  The controversial reforms of Gaétan Barrette may have hurt his party in the polls but the former health care minister appears to have easily won his seat in the South Shore riding of La Pinière.
  While Barrette will be returning to the National Assembly, most of the surrounding South Shore ridings have been won by the Coalition Avenir Québec.
  As of 11 p.m., Barrette had 47.08 pour cent of the vote — down from the 58.29 per cent he won in 20
  
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• Allison Hanes: Quebec chooses change, but will it be for the better?

  02-10-2018 05:50 via montrealgazette.com
  The winds of change blew through Quebec Monday as voters swept aside the Liberal Party after nearly 15 years and ushered in the Coalition Avenir Québec.
  It was an historic day in politics. This is the first time the CAQ has clinched power, since it was formed in 2011. It dealt a stinging rebuke to the Liberals who steered Quebec to a position of prosperity over the last four years, and reduced the sovereignist Parti Québécois to a rump in the National Assembly. It’s th
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals hold steady in Montreal's west end but QS takes Laurier-Dorion

  02-10-2018 05:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Most ridings in central Montreal and the city’s west end remained in Liberal hands Monday night despite surprisingly vigorous challenges by the left-leaning Québec solidaire and right-of-centre Coalition Avenir Québec.
  But in a major upset, three-time Québec solidaire candidate and anti-poverty activist Andrés Fontecilla was declared winner in Laurier-Dorion riding in Park-Extension and Villeray. The Liberals had nominated political newcomer George Tsantrizos to
  
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• Quebec election: 'I served Quebec with all my heart,' Couillard says

  02-10-2018 05:40 via montrealgazette.com
  ST-FÉLICIEN — On the night his party suffered its worst loss in more than 40 years, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard told the small crowd of shell-shocked followers in his home riding to find strength in pride, not bitterness.
  At the same time, he said he would have to reflect on his political future.
  “I am not bitter. I ask you not to be as well. I’m proud. You should be, too,” he said to cheers. “It has been the greatest honour to serve Quebecers as the pr
  
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• Quebec election: Overheard at PQ headquarters – 'I need a drink'

  02-10-2018 05:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Reality set in early at Parti Québécois headquarters Monday night.
  And when it did, a prolonged silence washed over the Montreal crowd. Few believed a PQ victory was possible, but the depth of their disappointment was clear just a half-hour after polls closed.
  That’s when the TV networks called a Coalition Avenir Québec majority. Party members fought back tears as they watched footage of CAQ Leader François Legault doing his victory lap.
  Legault was once a proud
  
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• Quebec election: Legault rides CAQ's wave; Couillard in reflection

  02-10-2018 05:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebecers have decided to try on a new shade of blue.
  Fuelled by a desire for change, the Coalition Avenir Québec deftly heaved the governing Liberals out of office Monday with enough seats to form a majority government.
  And despite predictions of a nail-biter of an election, or even a minority regime, it was all over early — around 8:30 p.m. — with the CAQ winning a stunning 73 seats as the pale-blue wave that started in the east washed across the province.
  The Liberals were
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals take West Island and Vaudreuil, lose Soulanges

  02-10-2018 05:22 via montrealgazette.com
  It was a sweep for the Quebec Liberals in the four West Island ridings and Vaudreuil. In Soulanges, however, Coalition Avenir Québec candidate Marilyne Picard won with 39.65 per cent of the vote, defeating Liberal candidate Lucie Charlebois, who had 33.29 per cent at deadline time.
  The West Island results were an anticipated repeat of decades of voting tradition in the region. As the evening went on, it appeared that Coalition Avenir Québec’s call for chan
  
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• Quebec election: Embattled Ouellette weathers the storm in Chomedey

  02-10-2018 05:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Calling it “a great honour,” Guy Ouellette has been re-elected to a fifth term in Chomedey.
  The former police officer hosted a gathering for Liberal supporters at his riding office Monday night to watch the results come in.
  There were tears over the party’s loss in the general election to cheers for their candidate who won a decisive victory in the riding.
  Ouellette arrived about 45 minutes after polls closed and thanked his supporters for their hard work. He left abo
  
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• Quebec election: Winners and losers

  02-10-2018 05:02 via montrealgazette.com
  There were some high-profile winners and losers on Quebec’s election night.
  Here is a look at some of the well-known candidates who won and lost on Monday night.
  Coalition Avenir Québec
  WONLeader François Legault, elected in the L’Assomption riding
  Christian Dubé, former CAQ MNA and a vice-president at the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
  Longtime Quebec City MNA Éric Caire
  Former Charbonneau Commission prosecutor Sonia Lebel
  Gene
  
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• Watch: CAQ celebrates winning majority government

  02-10-2018 04:18 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s been a big night for the Coalition Avenir Québec.
  The party has won a majority government that brings to an end nearly 50 years of PQ and Liberal rule.
  Supporters were jubilant at the Centre des Congrès in Quebec City.
  In this video, the CAQ’s Geneviève Guilbault reacts to her re-election in the Louis-Hébert riding and her party’s results across the province.
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• Canadiens players didn't vote for captain this time around

  02-10-2018 03:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebecers went to the polls Monday to decide the province’s next premier, but there was no vote this time when it came to deciding the next captain of the Canadiens.
  Actually, there were two voters — general manager Marc Bergevin and head coach Claude Julien — and the decision was unanimous with Shea Weber being named the 30th captain in Canadiens history on Monday.
  Weber replaces Max Pacioretty, who was voted captain by his teammates three years ago and was traded to the Vegas
  
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• Shea Weber has been carrying himself like a captain since trade to Habs

  02-10-2018 03:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Brendan Gallagher still remembers the first time he met Shea Weber.
  Gallagher was a young player with the Canadiens — living with teammate Josh Gorges while in Montreal — and Weber was captain of the Nashville Predators. Gorges and Weber were teammates for three seasons with the junior Kelowna Rockets and remained good friends, spending time together during the summer in their home province of B.C.
  “The first time I actually met him, he took me out on his boat and we had a nice
  
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• New Canadiens captain Shea Weber impresses with his French

  02-10-2018 03:02 via montrealgazette.com
  When Shea Weber was officially announced as the 30th captain in Canadiens history during a news conference Monday afternoon in Brossard he started out by saying “Bonjour à tous” followed by a few more words in French.
  “It’s an honour for me to be named captain of the Montreal Canadiens today,” Weber then repeated in English.
  “On behalf of myself, the assistant captains and the rest of my team, we’re going to do our best to install pride and bring
  
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• LIVE – Quebec election: CAQ wins majority government

  02-10-2018 02:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Hello! We’ll be here until the winner gives a victory speech. Email questions and comments to [email protected]@postmedia.comtwitter.com/andyriga
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• Quebec election: Liberals poised to sweep West Island, Off Island ridings

  02-10-2018 02:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Political polls are like snapshots. They reflect what a portion of the population is thinking at a particular point in time. They are not designed to predict winners.
  With a couple of exceptions.
  Throughout the election campaign, poll after poll and, later in the game, projection after projection consistently pointed to a Quebec Liberals sweep of the four West Island ridings plus the Off Island ridings of Vaudreuil and Soulanges. Couple the polls and projections with historical voting patterns a
  
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• LIVE – Quebec election: Follow along as the votes are counted

  02-10-2018 02:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Hello! We’ll be here until the winner gives a victory speech. Email questions and comments to [email protected]@postmedia.comtwitter.com/andyriga
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