Aylmer, Quebec news

• Legal cannabis in Quebec: Making sense of the labels

  22-10-2018 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
  There are more than 110 products at the Société Québécoise du Cannabis (SQDC) — though several are already out of stock — and that number is expected to rise to 180 in the coming months.
  Understanding what you’re buying can be a task unto itself. The SQDC has tried to simplify the task with an array of information available on its labels. Explanations of how to decipher that information are available on the SQDC website. But it can still be, or at le
  
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• Virtually unchanged since 1918, Mount Royal Tunnel set for a makeover

  22-10-2018 23:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Surrounded by jagged limestone, with electric cables on the wall, train tracks underfoot, and under the hue of orange lights, the Mount Royal Tunnel is warmer than you might expect.
  About one kilometre north of Central Station, roughly underneath McGill University’s Roddick Gates, two separate tunnels of train tracks merge into one, and you can see a speck of daylight that is the Canora Station in Town of Mount Royal roughly four kilometres away.
  Reporters got a tour of the tunnel on Sunda
  
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• Allison Hanes: Pink Line price tag isn't the only consideration

  22-10-2018 23:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Mayor Valérie Plante knows she doesn’t have to convince most Montrealers on the merits of a new Pink Line of the métro, a campaign promise which some considered pie in the sky, but which nevertheless helped propel her into office almost a year ago.
  Those who are crammed in like sardines on the Orange Line or, worse, left behind on the platform at rush hour; those who face more than an hour transferring between buses and métros to get downtown from Montreal North; those
  
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• Watch: Lise Payette remembered for her contribution to Quebec

  22-10-2018 23:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Mourners gathered in Montreal on Saturday to remember Quebec feminist, author, journalist, politician and TV personality Lise Payette, who died last month at the age of 87. Premier François Legault recognized her contribution to gender equality.
  
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• Watch: Andrew Scheer says 2019 campaign will be a tough fight

  22-10-2018 23:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is predicting a “nasty” 2019 election campaign and says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has already begun using negative rhetoric. Scheer was speaking at a rally in Ottawa on Sunday.
  
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• Lise Ravary: Laïcité can help block advance of political Islam

  22-10-2018 20:58 via montrealgazette.com
  “We must get involved in all domains where we can have more Islam …”
  “The more we are present, the more women are seen wearing hijab, discussing it, explaining their approach, explaining who they are, the more we will create habits and things will change.”
  “We must control school programs and stop them from propagating values that do not conform to our principles.”
  “We must move into public schools, using empty spaces to dispense complementary rel
  
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• Opinion: What Quebec anglos can learn from Acadians

  22-10-2018 20:45 via montrealgazette.com
  By coincidence, the 2018 provincial elections in New Brunswick and Quebec overlapped. Though the dynamics were fundamentally different, certain parallels on language issues can be drawn.
  What lessons can the English-speaking minority in Quebec learn from the Acadian experience?
  New Brunswick is not Quebec, as we learned on the campaign trail. Indeed, there is only one province in Canada that has declared itself “officially” bilingual — or so we thought. Though New Brunswic
  
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• What the Puck: Cracks begin to appear in veneer of surging Canadiens

  22-10-2018 20:44 via montrealgazette.com
  You gotta love Montreal Canadiens fans — or not.
  In case you didn’t notice, the Habs have surprised pretty well everyone by storming out of the gate this season and competing almost every night. This from a team that, to be honest, most fans had written off before the first faceoff of the season.
  Then they lose in overtime Saturday night to the Ottawa Senators and within seconds, the entire city was losing its collective mind. The sky is falling! Fire Marc Bergevin! Tar-and-feather K
  
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• Conservatives cite Energy East as a means to avoid Saudi oil

  22-10-2018 20:17 via montrealgazette.com
  The Conservative Party of Canada is citing a dependence on foreign oil from countries such as Saudi Arabia as an argument to revive the Energy East pipeline project, which was conceived as a means of exporting oil.
  Tory MP Pierre Paul-Hus argued during a news conference Monday that it was time to stop being “hypocritical” on the issue of using petroleum and that party leader Andrew Scheer’s idea to sit down again with TransCanada, Energy East’s promoter, is aimed at makin
  
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• Jail recommended for SQ officer who killed boy during high-speed chase

  22-10-2018 19:39 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec officer who was involved in a fatal accident that left a 5-year-old boy dead during a high speed surveillance operation four years ago may face eight months in jail, a Longueuil courtroom heard on Monday.
  Citing numerous examples of jurisprudence, the Crown and the defence made a joint recommendation to the court that Patrick Ouellet face a sentence far less than the maximum of 14 years in prison.
  Ouellet was found guilty of reckless driving causing
  
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• Man ordered to pay $800 to end unwanted pregnancy — caused by his dog

  22-10-2018 18:21 via montrealgazette.com
  A Shawinigan area man has been ordered by a Quebec small claims court to pay more than $800 because he did not curtail his dog — a husky — from mating with and making pregnant Bella, his neighbour’s chow chow dog.
  The judgment, rendered last month, notes that the defendant’s husky managed to get into the neighbour’s fenced back yard last spring.
  “Made suddenly pregnant because of the husky, Bella had to be operated upon at great expense to end the pregnancy,&r
  
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• I'm moving forward on métro's Pink Line: Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante

  22-10-2018 17:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal is setting up a planning office on the Pink Line, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante announced Monday.
  At a press conference prior to the monthly city council meeting, the mayor said she was moving forward with the proposed métro extension, which was a key campaign promise on which she was elected a year ago.
  “I made a promise to Montrealers” to make mobility a top priority, Plante said.
  She also announced the creation of a six-person advisory committee on the projec
  
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• Illegal cannabis found during impaired driving arrest in Quebec City

  22-10-2018 16:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec City police arrested a 40-year-old Lévis resident early Monday after pulling him over on suspicion of impaired driving.
  Officers intercepted the vehicle at 1:55 a.m. at the corner of Robert Bourassa and Laurier Blvds., when they noticed the driver hadn’t turned the headlights on.
  Suspecting the driver was impaired, police subjected him to a series of co-ordination tests, after which they placed him under arrest. He was then taken to the police station for further evaluation.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Earthquakes and exploding body cameras

  22-10-2018 14:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are a few things you might have missed while you were sleeping.
  Coming soon to a theatre near you: The site where the Spectrum theatre once stood has been empty for a decade, a phantom place for those who recall the downtown corner’s storied past and a reminder that promises of an impending replacement project remain unfulfilled. People are talking about the Ste-Catherine and Berri St. site again now that developer Canderel backed out of building a $150-million office complex tha
  
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• Police seek suspects, motive after car torched in Rivières-des-Prairies

  22-10-2018 13:56 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal police arson is investigating after a car parked in the driveway of a residence in Rivières-des-Prairies/Pointe-aux-Trembles was set ablaze early Monday.
  The incident occurred a little before 5 a.m. in front of a home on Olivier-Charbonneau St. near Pierre-Chasseur St.
  While firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, the vehicle is described as being a total loss. Police say the owner of the vehicle is not known to them. He told police he has received no threats.
  The car ha
  
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• Hanes: More needs to be done to help parents deal with perinatal loss

  22-10-2018 13:17 via montrealgazette.com
  In less than two years, Hannah Aubut has given birth to two children, 10 months apart.
  But the sudden death of her first child at the time of delivery meant Aubut had to grapple with crushing loss at the same time as she prepared to welcome another baby.
  As her second, cherub-cheeked toddler Cyan turns one this week, 25-year-old Aubut credits the group therapy sessions she attended at the McGill University Health Centre with being a lifeline in a dark and difficult time.
  “It allowed me to
  
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• Canada Post workers to begin rotating strikes Monday

  22-10-2018 13:09 via montrealgazette.com
  The union representing Canada Post workers says rotating strikes will begin at one minute at 12:01 a.m. Monday in Victoria, Edmonton, and Windsor and at 1:01 a.m. in Halifax.
  The strikes in those cities will last for 24 hours, and if no deal is reached in the meantime, other as-yet unnamed cities could be affected subsequently, said Emilie Tobin, a spokesperson for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW).
  “Canada Post had the opportunity this weekend to stop any postal disrup
  
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• Montreal weather: Chilly and a chance of showers

  22-10-2018 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A mix of sun and cloud with a 30-per-cent chance of showers in the afternoon.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of 6 and the UV index will be 2, or low.
  Tonight: Mainly cloudy with a 40-per-cent chance of showers overnight and a low of plus 4.
  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 @bn
  
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• Urgences Santé takes 11 hours to get emergency hip patient to hospital

  22-10-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It was the kind of pain he’ll never forget.
  But worse than the pain was the wait for an ambulance.
  Trevor Garland, a retired McGill University manager, was up all night with his wife after dislocating his right hip on Oct. 17 — the complication of hip-replacement surgery two weeks earlier.
  The pain was sharp, throbbing and relentless. He phoned 911 just after 7:30 a.m., desperate for an ambulance to rush him to St. Mary’s Hospital to undergo emergency surgery to fix his artific
  
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• New project expected for site of old Spectrum in Quartier des spectacles

  22-10-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The site where the Spectrum theatre once stood has been empty for a decade, a phantom place for those who recall the downtown corner’s storied past and a reminder that promises of an impending replacement project remain unfulfilled.
  Now it turns out that discussions on what to do with the site at Ste-Catherine St. W. and Bleury St. started up once again last month after developer Canderel backed out of building a $150-million office complex that had been planned since 2013.
  However, a new
  
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• Allison Hanes: More needs to be done to help parents deal with perinatal loss

  22-10-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  In less than two years, Hannah Aubut has given birth to two children, 10 months apart.
  But the sudden death of her first child at the time of delivery meant Aubut had to grapple with crushing loss at the same time as she prepared to welcome another baby.
  As her second, cherub-cheeked toddler Cyan turns one this week, 25-year-old Aubut credits the group therapy sessions she attended at the McGill University Health Centre with being a lifeline in a dark and difficult time.
  “It allowed me to
  
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• #ICYMI: Quilt of Belonging, postal strike and job fair, more news

  22-10-2018 04:30 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  This is the story of a quilt, a very large Canadian quilt. Called the Quilt of Belonging, it celebrates what its creators describe as “a richly hued portrait of the human family,” not unlike the historically priceless Bayeux Tapestry of almost 10 centuries ago. The Quilt of Belonging sets out to tell the story of Canadians, all of us, no matter our place of origin, in a gatherin
  
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• Canada Post workers to begin rotating strikes Monday with Victoria, Edmonton, Windsor, Halifax

  22-10-2018 03:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The union representing Canada Post workers says rotating strikes will begin at one minute at 12:01 a.m. Monday in Victoria, Edmonton, and Windsor and at 1:01 a.m. in Halifax.
  The strikes in those cities will last for 24 hours, and if no deal is reached in the meantime, other as-yet unnamed cities could be affected subsequently, said Emilie Tobin, a spokesperson for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW).
  “Canada Post had the opportunity this weekend to stop any postal disrup
  
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• Piatti scores twice as Impact tops TFC to keep slim playoff hopes alive

  22-10-2018 00:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Ignacio Piatti scored two second-half goals, including one from the penalty spot, as the Montreal Impact defeated rivals Toronto FC 2-0 on Sunday afternoon to keep their slim playoff hopes alive.
  Montreal still has a chance of making the Major League Soccer post-season after the Columbus Crew lost 2-1 to Orlando City SC earlier Sunday.
  Elsewhere in the league, D.C. United clinched a playoff berth with a 3-1 win over New York City FC.
  The Impact (14-15-4) are seventh in the Eastern Conference wit
  
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