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• How the CAQ broke through on the eastern flank of Fortress Montreal

  03-10-2018 23:39 via montrealgazette.com
  The east-end Mercier district is a long way from the tree-lined streets of west-end Montreal and the bright lights of Ste-Catherine St.
  Giant storage cylinders for crude oil dominate the landscape, criss-crossed by busy highways and boulevards.
  On Monday, voters in Bourget and neighbouring Pointe-aux-Trembles ridings were the landing points for the Coalition Avenir Québec’s siege of Fortress Montreal.
  The CAQ swept rural Quebec and the outer suburbs known as la couronne.
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• Allison Hanes: Diverse Montreal finds itself at odds with CAQ values

  03-10-2018 23:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal suddenly feels like an island again.
  After Monday’s historic election of the first Coalition Avenir Québec government, the province is awash in light blue, the party’s signature colour. The CAQ, led by premier-elect François Legault, won 73 of the 125 seats in the National Assembly and took 37 per cent of the popular vote.
  But the wave that washed over Quebec only lapped at the shores of Montreal. The CAQ won only two ridings in the far east-end of the island,
  
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• Philippe Couillard may resign Thursday following election defeat

  03-10-2018 23:27 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Stung by the Liberals’ election defeat Monday, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard could announce his resignation from politics Thursday.
  Quebec’s Liberals have called a special post-election caucus meeting Thursday afternoon in Quebec City. Defeated and elected Liberals are to attend along with Couillard.
  The Liberal leader has not been heard from since Monday evening when he said he would take a few days to reflect on his personal future in the wake of his government&r
  
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• CAQ proposed ban on religious garb called 'legalized discrimination'

  03-10-2018 22:21 via montrealgazette.com
  The head of a minority rights group warns if the incoming Coalition Avenir Québec acts on its proposed ban on religious symbols, it will be “very disturbing days ahead” for ethnic communities.
  “It will be open season on minority rights,” said Fo Niemi, the executive director of the Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations, adding that a law banning religious gear amounts to “legalized discrimination.”
  Since his election on Monday, premier-elect Fran
  
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• NHL analytics explainer: Confused by Corsi? Puzzled by PDO?

  03-10-2018 21:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Analytics are used by NHL teams to help assess players, plot tactics and prepare for opponents. With these advanced statistics becoming more mainstream among fans and media, The Canadian Press takes a look at some of the more common terms in today’s hockey world.
  CORSI
  First developed by former Buffalo Sabres goalie coach Jim Corsi, this advanced statistic includes shots on goal and ones that were blocked by a defender or missed the net with teams playing 5-on-5. The statistic — offi
  
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• Boroughs adopting pot bylaws but Montreal not ready, opposition says

  03-10-2018 21:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Five boroughs will ban pot use in public places in time for Oct. 17, when recreational cannabis becomes legal, the opposition Ensemble Montréal party announced Wednesday.
  St-Laurent, Pierrefonds-Roxboro, St-Léonard, Montreal North and Rivière-des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles are taking action because the city of Montreal has failed to do so, charged Alan DeSousa, the borough mayor of St-Laurent and city councillor with Ensemble Montréal.
  “The cit
  
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• Judges, teachers wearing religious symbols risk losing jobs, CAQ says

  03-10-2018 21:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Premier-elect François Legault steered clear of the topic on Wednesday, but his plan to forbid some public employees from wearing religious symbols continued to dominate news about the Coalition Avenir Québec’s transition to power.
  The issue surfaced again after a CAQ MNA said public employees in positions of authority will have to transfer to other jobs or will be let go if they refuse to abide by a planned CAQ law that would forbid such workers from wearing religious symbol
  
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• Quebec election: Gaétan Barrette as leader of the official opposition?

  03-10-2018 21:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Former health minister Gaétan Barrette will try to become leader of the official opposition in the next government, a reliable source has told the Presse Canadienne.
  However, other sources say Barrette’s potential candidacy is receiving less than unanimous support from the Liberal caucus, now reduced to 32 MNAs.
  Barrette, the health minister in the government of Philippe Couillard for four years, survived the Coalition Avenir Québec’s electoral sweep on Monday,Some Libe
  
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• Hells Angel turns himself in, pleads guilty to drug trafficking

  03-10-2018 21:21 via montrealgazette.com
  A full-patch member of the Hells Angels who had been sought in a major drug trafficking investigation turned himself in to authorities and pleaded guilty to six charges at the Montreal courthouse Wednesday.
  Stéphane Maheu, 47, of the biker gang’s South chapter, had been sought by members of the Escouade nationale de répression contre le crime organisé (ENRCO) since April.
  At the time, dozens of arrests were made in Project Objection, which targeted three drug
  
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• Even infrequent cannabis use by teens can impair learning skills: study

  03-10-2018 21:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Cannabis use by teenagers — even infrequent use — can affect the skills necessary to succeed in school, according to a study by Montreal’s Ste-Justine Hospital.
  Research conducted by the hospital and the Université de Montréal and published in the American Journal of Psychiatry shows that the effects of cannabis use can be observed on primary cognitive functions and seems to be more pronounced that those of alcohol.
  Alcohol and cannabis use have been associat
  
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• Refusal to remove religious symbols could lead to job loss, CAQ says

  03-10-2018 20:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Public employees in authority positions who refuse to remove their religious symbols at work will have to transfer to other jobs or will be let go, Coalition Avenir Québec MNA Geneviève Guilbault said Wednesday.
  Guilbault, who is one of the party’s spokespeople during the transition to the new government, said police officers, judges, prison guards and teachers will be the authors of their own demise because they will be choosing to lose their jobs.
  The CAQ plans to introduce
  
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• Overpass inspection closes Highway 20 near St-Hyacinthe

  03-10-2018 20:21 via montrealgazette.com
  A section of Highway 20 West in the Montérégie has been closed indefinitely while officials inspect the structure of an overpass near the town of St-Simon, just east of St-Hyacinthe.
  The section of highway was closed as a precaution following an inspection of the viaduct on Monday night, Transport Quebec said in a news release.
  Motorists are being detoured away from St-Édouard St., causing a major traffic jam. That section of the highway is used by 25,000 cars a day, includi
  
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• Montreal plays principal role in aptly titled crime thriller Bad Blood

  03-10-2018 19:33 via montrealgazette.com
  It might not have the chests of all locals swelling with civic pride, but for those who have long bemoaned the fact that our city has played everything from Moscow to the moon, they will certainly concur that Montreal takes centre-stage in the aptly titled Bad Blood.
  The TV series — shot here as well as in Sudbury — is Canada’s answer to The Sopranos, with a dollop of The Godfather and Goodfellas.
  Season 1 focused on the Montreal-built empire of “reputed mobster” &m
  
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• Canadiens game day: Plekanec, Alzner and Scherbak scratched for opener

  03-10-2018 19:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Veterans Tomas Plekanec and Karl Alzner will be healthy scratches when the Canadiens open the regular season against the Toronto Maple Leafs Wednesday (7 p.m., Sportsnet, SN360, RDS, TSN 690 Radio). Nikita Scherbak will also be watching from the press box.
  “You feel a little sympathy for the guys but, in the end, we have to do what’s best for the team,” said head coach Claude Julien.
  This would have been NHL game No. 999 for Plekanec and it’s now likely that he will play
  
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• Martin Patriquin: CAQ's majority brings with it pros and cons

  03-10-2018 18:14 via montrealgazette.com
  First, the good news. By electing a majority government, Quebecers have bought themselves four years of political stability. We are not, as the polls suggested throughout the campaign, stuck with the inherent clash of egos and ideology inherent in a minority government. The Coalition Avenir Québec will have its share of missteps, screw-ups and faux pas. And yet the government won’t face imminent collapse as a result of its growing pains. It deserves that slack, on account of the str
  
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• CAQ will fundamentally change Quebec, Legault says

  03-10-2018 17:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Premier-elect François Legault said Wednesday that his Coalition Avenir Québec government will fundamentally transform the province.
  “In four years, Quebec won’t be the same as it is today,” Legault told a cheering crowd of about 100 CAQ candidates, many of them newly elected to the National Assembly.
  In his brief speech in a Boucherville hotel, he vowed to fulfill his campaign pledges but appealed for patience.
  “We will do things in order — we won&rsq
  
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• Trudeau warns François Legault over use of the notwithstanding clause

  03-10-2018 17:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday warned Quebec premier-designate and Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault to think long and hard before using the notwithstanding clause to maintain unconstitutional legislation.
  On Tuesday, a day after winning power in the provincial election, Legault had indicated he was ready to resort to the clause as part of a ban on religious symbols worn by public servants in positions of authority.
  Trudeau warned on Wednesday that such a
  
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• Update: Missing teenager has been found, Montreal police say

  03-10-2018 17:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Update: The missing teenager has been found.
  Montreal police have turned to the public in an effort to find a teenager who went missing from her home on Sept. 30.
  She was last seen leaving home at about 3 p.m. and was supposed to be back by 7 p.m but never returned. Her family is concerned for her safety because she may be in the company of questionable acquaintances.
  Anyone with any information on her whereabouts or concerning her disappearance is urged to call 911, report to their local police
  
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• Updated: Orange Line service returning between Lionel-Groulx and Berri-UQAM

  03-10-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Service is gradually returning on the métro’s Orange line. It had been shut down between Lionel-Groulx and Berri-UQAM stations after a medical emergency.
  Service gradually resuming on the orange line. #stminfo
  — STM Ligne Orange (@stm_Orange) October 3, 2018This story will be updated.
   
  
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• Pocket park in Snowdon named after old tramway

  03-10-2018 16:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal is renaming two pocket parks in Snowdon.
  José-Rizal Park, a tiny patch of green on the south side of Queen Mary Rd. between Earnscliffe and Clanranald Aves., will henceforth be known as Tramway-83 Park, to commemorate the former tramway whose tracks ran north-south between those streets before turning east on Queen Mary towards Décarie Blvd.
  The name José-Rizal, commemorating a Filipino poet and patriot, has already been transferred to part of M
  
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• Antoni from Queer Eye and/or Montreal celebrates National Newspaper Week

  03-10-2018 16:32 via montrealgazette.com
  You may know Antoni Porowski from Netflix’s tear-jerker of a Queer Eye reboot.
  Or maybe you just know the Fab Five member who can actually cook because he’s a Montrealer.
  Anyhow, here he is celebrating National Newspaper Week, which is an actual thing happening right now:Hmmmmm, that paper looks vaguely familiar.
  After a thorough investigation, we can find no fault with the above Instagram story. As you were.
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  6 Montreal foodie favourites from Queer Eye guy Antoni Porowsk
  
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• What’s a fair wage for a mayor? Beaconsfield, Kirkland have crunched the numbers

  03-10-2018 13:40 via montrealgazette.com
  So what constitutes a fair hike in remuneration for elected officials?
  Senior administrators throughout the province, including in West Island municipalities, are in the throes of studying the question. The last time remunerations were adjusted beyond the cost-of-living bump was in 2015.
  Municipalities including Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue and Kirkland have already crunched the numbers.
  Robert Lacroix, who is Beaconsfield’s director of finance and head of the treasury department, recently complet
  
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• Dorval residents not impressed by new $5.5 million airport sound wall

  03-10-2018 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A new sound wall installed to mitigate noise from Pierre Trudeau International Airport in Dorval was unveiled by Aéroports de Montréal (ADM) last Thursday, but some nearby residents remain skeptical of its effectiveness.
  The $5.5 million “acoustic screen” runs 850-metres in length and sits on a stretch of land that used to be part of the old Dorval municipal golf course, which closed two years ago to make way for a new airport security checkpoint.
  The five-metre high wa
  
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• Vaudreuil-Dorion mayor unhappy about arrival of local cannabis outlet

  03-10-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Not only is Vaudreuil-Dorion Mayor Guy Pilon furious about the impending legalization of cannabis, he’s galled by the decision to locate a cannabis outlet in his town of around 38,000 residents.
  “I have said from the beginning that the legalization of cannabis will be a s–t show. It should be decriminalized, not legalized,” Pilon said.
  With legalization comes authorized enterprise and Pilon is in the throes of finessing the arrival of a cannabis outlet in Vaudreuil-D
  
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• Montreal weather: Colour it grey

  03-10-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Another grey day in the forecast.
  Environment Canada predicts it will be cloudy with a high of 14.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy. Wind becoming south 20 km/h near midnight. Low 12.
  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 @charlottegay92.
  Quote of the day:Election days come and go. But the struggle of
  
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• Canadiens at Maple Leafs season opener: Five things you should know

  03-10-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Canadiens-Maple Leafs game Wednesday (7 p.m., Sportsnet, SN360, RDS, TSN 690 Radio):
  Mismatch on the horizon? The latest odds from Bovada have the Maple Leafs as 7-1 favourites to win the Stanley Cup. Tampa Bay is next at 15-2 and Montreal is a 100-1 shot. It’s important to remember that odds are a reflection of the betting patterns and, in this case, they represent a lot of Cup-starved Toronto fans jumping on the bandwagon. This is the oldest
  
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• West Island Liberal MNAs reflect on election results and priorities

  03-10-2018 11:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The landslide Coalition Avenir Québec victory took the four freshly elected Liberal MNAs by surprise. When they spoke of the events of Monday night, it was with mixed emotions.
  “I’m very pleased to be re-elected, but I am very disappointed with the results,” Robert-Baldwin MNA, and former Quebec finance minister Carlos Leitão said Tuesday morning. “It was a CAQ wave. These things happen in politics.”
  Leitão is now the senior MNA in the West
  
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• I fought cancer for my kids, says Pierrefonds woman who battled myeloma

  03-10-2018 11:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The 10th edition of the Montreal Multiple Myeloma March took place Sunday at John Abbott College in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue.
  Odette Maltais, a 50-year-old mother of two from Pierrefonds, was one of the people walking to raise awareness and help raise funds to find a cure for multiple myeloma, a rare form of cancer that nearly took her life.
  Maltais is an avid soccer player, but two years ago she began to experience acute back pain. When both physiotherapy and chiropractic sessions failed to ea
  
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• Pointe-Claire Village condo project put on hold

  03-10-2018 11:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s back to the drawing board for the Pointe-Claire Village Special Planning Project, the Pointe-Claire Village Code and any projects that might want to become part of the future of the charming heritage destination. The decision, made prior to Tuesday’s regular council meeting, essentially puts plans to demolish the Pioneer bar and restaurant and build a condo project on hold for the foreseeable future.
  Mayor John Belvedere made the announcement to a room filled with citizens who o
  
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• #ICYMI: Legault doubles down on pledges, Loblaw recall, more news

  03-10-2018 02:56 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  The day after the historic vote in #Quebec2018, premier-elect François Legault doubled down on campaign promises while pledging to “build a stronger Quebec within Canada.”
  The CAQ leader said his early priorities as premier are ensuring a better economy, improving the province’s education system and providing better health services.
  He also vowed to ban re
  
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• What will the new NAFTA — the USMCA — mean for Quebec?

  03-10-2018 02:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec dairy farmers say they’ve been betrayed by the new North American Free Trade Agreement, but other business groups are greeting the new deal, dubbed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, with cautious optimism.
  So what does it mean for Quebec?
  “Ultimately, the changes to NAFTA are purely cosmetic,” said Axel Huelsemeyer, a professor of International Political Economy at Concordia University.
  There are few changes to the deal that will specifically impact th
  
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• Quebec election: Legault gets moving on what's next for Quebec

  03-10-2018 01:37 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Now comes the hard part.
  With the Liberals and Parti Québécois licking their wounds after their stunning fall from grace in Monday’s election, premier-elect François Legault took his first baby steps in the complicated business of running the province Tuesday.
  At the top of his list is having a hard look at the dozens of promises he made over the 39-day campaign and deciding which fall into the realm of the possible and which are destined to wait.
  But bo
  
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• Quebec election: Fixing broken health-care system a tough task

  03-10-2018 01:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Thirty six hours.
  That’s the magic number that the incoming Coalition Avenir Québec government has promised will be the maximum length of time that Quebecers will have to wait to consult a family doctor or so-called super nurse.
  The CAQ’s electoral platform also pledged to roll back the remuneration of medical specialists to “more reasonable levels.”
  Given the complexity of Quebec’s public health-care system, the aging population and the fierce independence o
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ's car-centric projects could derail Pink Line

  03-10-2018 00:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Minutes after he was elected to represent the suburban riding of Groulx, Éric Girard of the Coalition Avenir Québec was talking about the chief concern of his constituents: traffic congestion.
  “People in my riding tell me they are stuck in traffic every day, and sometimes there is even traffic at 5:30 in the morning,” Girard said Monday night of the riding that contains the fast-growing cities of Blainville, Boisbriand, Rosemère and Terrebonne.
  “We hav
  
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• Jack Todd: Canadiens' reset opens door to a brighter future

  03-10-2018 00:52 via montrealgazette.com
  It was Nov. 17, 2017, and the Canadiens were already well into a grim and gloomy season.
  The newest pickup off the waiver wire did not inspire much confidence: When the club grabbed veteran Finnish goaltender Antti Niemi, Daren Millard on Sportsnet’s Hockey Central was quick to say: “The scariest part of all this is that they felt the need to pick up Niemi.”
  No wonder: On Nov. 13, Niemi had been waived by the Florida Panthers. It was his second time on the waiver wire in the yo
  
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• Quebec election: Here's just how wrong the polls were

  03-10-2018 00:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Monday was an embarrassing Quebec election finale for polling companies and the news outlets that rely on political surveys.
  Three end-of-campaign polls — by Léger, Ipsos and Mainstreet — suggested François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec had the support of about 32 per cent of voters, with the Liberals not far behind at about 30 per cent.
  The final tally shows the CAQ won 37 per cent of the popular vote, and the Liberals just 25 per cent.
  In other words,
  
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