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• Quebec election: François Legault will announce his new cabinet Oct. 18

  08-10-2018 23:57 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Premier designate François Legault will announce the composition of his first cabinet Thursday Oct. 18.
  The Coalition Avenir Québec leader made the announcement Monday in a statement, putting an end to the mystery of when the new government will get down to work.
  “We have experienced a historic election,” Legault said in the statement. “For the first time in nearly 50 years, the MNAs who will be part of the cabinet do not come from the Liberal Party
  
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• Have you seen this Montreal man, missing since early September?

  08-10-2018 23:39 via montrealgazette.com
  The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal is looking for help locating a 44-year-old Montreal man who disappeared in early September.
  Boaz Perecowicz was last seen leaving his home in St-Michel, on d’Hérelle St. near St-Michel Blvd., on his bicycle on Sept. 7. People who know him fear for his life because he depends on medication, which he did not have with him when he left home.
  Perecowicz is Caucasian, stands six feet and weighs about 215 pounds. He has brown eyes and d
  
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• Police looking for more potential sexual-assault victims

  08-10-2018 21:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Police are looking for other possible victims after a 60-year-old Chambly man was arrested facing one count of sexual assault.
  The Régie intermunicipale de police Richelieu-St-Laurent arrested Gaétan Fitzback on Sept. 30 in connection with a sexual assault. He appeared Oct. 1 at the Longueuil courthouse and remains in custody.
  On Friday it will be decided whether to continue to hold him or to release him, Sgt. Jean-Luc Tremblay of the Régie intermunicipale de police Richelie
  
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• De la Rose back on the ice for Habs practice, but not cleared to play

  08-10-2018 20:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Jacob de la Rose was back on the ice for the Canadiens’ practice at Brossard on Monday. De la Rose started the season on the injured reserve list after experiencing a “cardiac episode.” De la Rose skated on a fifth line with Nikita Scherbak and Tomas Plekanec.
  While he returned to practice, he hasn’t been cleared to play. The Canadiens will face a decision when de la Rose is cleared. They are currently at the NHL roster limit of 23 players and will have to make a move.
  If
  
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• Lise Ravary: On religious neutrality, appearances matter

  08-10-2018 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I would not have made a hellfire issue like banning religious signs for government employees the first item on my agenda if I were leading a new government. Not with the words “notwithstanding clause” and “you’re fired!” in the same sentence. And certainly not announced by two relatively green MNAs.
  But it’s no surprise that François Legault, in the name of religious neutrality, is prepared go so far as to ban the wearing of anything by p
  
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• Opinion: Legal protections for journalists' sources are important

  08-10-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  An effective press depends on information supplied by sources. But, many of the sources are likely to dry up unless journalists can credibly promise to keep their identities confidential.
  Those are the simple premises at the heart of the Journalistic Sources Protection Act, Canada’s recently enacted “shield” law that makes it harder to force journalists to reveal the identity of their confidential sources. The law was rightly heralded as an important victory for democracy and f
  
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• School board federation confident of winning over CAQ government

  08-10-2018 16:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The Fédération des commissions scolaires du Québec (FCSQ) is confident it can convince the incoming Coalition Avenir Québec government of the importance of local school board elections.
  During the 2014 provincial election campaign, François Legault, now the province’s premier-designate, pledged to abolish school boards. He said they suffered from governance problems and noted the low participation rates in their elections. He reiterated this stance during
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: Chicken and Swiss Chard in Cider-Cream Sauce

  08-10-2018 16:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Quick, easy and requiring only one pot is the formula used in a new cookbook by Ohio food writer and cooking teacher Carla Snyder in her handy collection of more than 70 “weeknight meals,” as she calls them.Chicken thighs are the basis of this dish, one of 15 calling for chicken parts in One Pan, Whole Family (Chronicle Books/Raincoast, $34.95). It’s a meat she likes to cook, indicated by the name of the chicken chapter: Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner. Snyder calls her book &ld
  
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• While you were sleeping: Doorstop rock is actually a $100k meteorite

  08-10-2018 13:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were dreaming of turkey.
  A 14-year-old girl who was stabbed in the leg on Sunday afternoon in a restaurant in Montreal’s Anjou district is out of danger. A 911 call about the armed assault came in at about 4:15 p.m., said Service de police de la Ville de Montréal spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant. The teenager was conscious as she was being transported to hospital, he said. A perimeter had been set up in the parking l
  
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• Montreal police investigating attempted murder in Pierrefonds

  08-10-2018 13:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Police are investigating an attempted murder that took place Sunday night in Montreal’s Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough.
  Around 9:30 p.m., 9-1-1 received calls about shots heard on Laurin St. near the intersection with Gouin Blvd.
  When officers arrived on the scene, they found shell casings, but no victim was present.
  A 23-year-old man who had suffered an upper-body injury was subsequently located in a hospital.
  His life is not believed to be in danger.
  No arrests have been made.
  
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• Roads to avoid traffic this holiday Monday

  08-10-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Thanksgiving long weekend means roads closed because of construction will remain so until early Tuesday morning.
  1. On the Mercier Bridge, lanes will be reduced to one in each direction until Tuesday at 5 a.m.
  2. Highway 15 northbound, just after the Champlain Bridge, will be reduced from three lanes to one between Nun’s Island and Gaétan-Laberge Blvd. in Verdun until Tuesday at 5 a.m. The exit for downtown Montreal off of the Highway 15 northbound will also be closed. The 15 wi
  
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• Montreal weather: It won't rain on the Thanksgiving parade

  08-10-2018 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A mix of sun and cloud, then becoming cloudy in the afternoon.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of 13 and the UV index will be 5, or moderate.
  Tonight: Cloudy with a 60-per-cent chance of showers. Temperature rising to 17 by morning.
  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 @rolromero.
  
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• Quebecer and NFLer Duvernay-Tardif breaks his leg Sunday during a game

  08-10-2018 03:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Kansas City Chiefs guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif broke his leg Sunday during a game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.
  He is expected to return to the team before the end of the season.
  The Mont-Saint-Hilaire native is a physician and played college football at McGill University.
  Duvernay-Tardif was drafted by the Chiefs in the sixth round of the 2014 NFL Draft.
  
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• Downtown Montreal anti-racism demonstration draws 3,000

  08-10-2018 02:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Many wore the Muslim hijab and a handful wore the Jewish kippah while dozens pushed strollers and a couple of marching bands played as close to 3,000 people took to the streets of downtown Montreal on Sunday afternoon to protest racism.
  Although the event had been planned before the Oct. 1 election of François Legault and the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) and was intended as a general protest against systemic racism, speakers criticized the premier-designate and his party for what
  
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