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• Alouettes QB Johnny Manziel focused on first win, not loss to Argos

  23-10-2018 23:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Mike Sherman insists there was nothing sinister behind replacing Johnny Manziel, his starting quarterback, for the game’s final play last Saturday in Toronto.
  And Manziel, who continues seeking his first victory as a starter, said nothing should be read into his decision to run off the field when the game ended, rather than shaking hands with any Argonauts players.
  Manziel was replaced by Antonio Pipkin for the final play of Montreal’s 26-22 defeat. The ball was on the Toronto 48, fo
  
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• Watch: No timeline for U.S. removal of steel, aluminum tariffs, Freeland says

  23-10-2018 23:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says it’s in the best interest of both countries to lift the U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum and Canada’s retaliatory tariffs. Freeland spoke after meeting with Mexican dignitaries.
  
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• Watch: Cancelling Saudi arms deal would come at a high cost, Trudeau says

  23-10-2018 23:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Amid outrage over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Ottawa is under renewed pressure to cancel the armoured vehicle deal with Saudi Arabia. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says backing out of the $15-billion contract would be difficult.
  
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• Allison Hanes: Canada should respond strongly to Saudi Arabia

  23-10-2018 23:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Before Jamal Khashoggi, there was Raif Badawi.
  Now an honorary citizen of Montreal, whose wife and three children are Canadian citizens residing in Quebec, Badawi has been in prison since 2012 for writing a blog that promoted secularism and democracy in the theocratic monarchy of Saudi Arabia and sometimes criticized the government.
  In early 2015, he was publicly flogged, receiving the first 50 of the thousand lashes ordered as part of his 10-year sentence for the crime of “insulting Islam
  
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• Increased number of gas leaks in Montreal probably tied to construction boom

  23-10-2018 22:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Doctors performed surgery with flashlights, a house caught fire in the east end and the métro’s Yellow Line was shut down for nearly an hour.
  All three of these events were caused by separate ruptures in underground gas lines in the last six months. A rupture also caused 12,000 customers to go without power in the Côte-St-Luc area last month, and last year, left a portion of the Metropolitan Expressway’s service road closed to traffic for several hours.
  As Mont
  
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• Montreal drug smuggling trial stars Hollywood stuntman

  23-10-2018 22:19 via montrealgazette.com
  The long-awaited trial of four men — including a West Island resident and an Ontario stuntman who has worked on several Hollywood movies — began at the Montreal courthouse Tuesday.
  The four are charged with conspiring to smuggle cocaine and hashish into Canada for more than a year —between January 2011 and June 2012.
  Prosecutor Carly Norris did not mention the amount of drugs.
  “This is a conspiracy case,” Norris told the jury of six men and six women, noting that no
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Victor Mete gets back in lineup vs. Flames

  23-10-2018 20:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens Game Day is a new feature this season in which we will follow the Habs during every home game from the morning skate in Brossard through the post-game interviews at the Bell Centre, updating throughout the day with all the news, quotes, notes and opinion you’re looking for:
  Defenceman Victor Mete will be back in the lineup when the Canadiens play the Calgary Flames Tuesday night at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio) after missing the last two games with a minor
  
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• Investing in pot stocks: Is the 'gold rush' over legal cannabis worth the risk?

  23-10-2018 20:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Long before they sold a single gram of recreational weed, the key companies in Canada’s new legal cannabis market were already publicly traded.
  It’s an unusual and defining feature of Canada’s cannabis industry. Traditionally, companies listed on Canadian stock exchanges are older and more established. In the cannabis market, the oldest companies have been growing marijuana for only four years. And yet, all six suppliers to the&
  
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• Rotrand withdraws motion on religious garb at city hall

  23-10-2018 20:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Councillor Marvin Rotrand withdrew his motion affirming Montreal city councillors’ right to wear religious symbols on Tuesday after both leaders in council said their parties would not support it.
  In an emotional speech, opposition leader Lionel Perez, who wears a yarmulke (Jewish skullcap), spoke eloquently of the importance of freedom of religion as a fundamental value, but said Rotrand’s motion simply muddied the waters in an already divisive climate on the right to
  
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• BHS reunion attracts 1,000 former students and teachers

  23-10-2018 20:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Beaconsfield High School held its 60th Diamond Jubilee Reunion over the weekend and organizer Bill Stockwell figures the three-day nostalgia bash attracted more than 1,000 former students, teachers and staff.
  Ro Nauth holds up a photo of her and Chris Rosen as they headed to attend the Beaconsfield High School graduation prom together in 1984. They saw each other for the first time since 1984 as they attended an all-class reunion of Beaconsfield High School on Saturday.
  “It went very well,
  
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• West Island Community Calendar for the week of Oct. 24

  23-10-2018 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Galleries and exhibitions
  The Stewart Hall Art Gallery, 176 Lakeshore Rd., Pointe-Claire, presents the 2019 Art Rental Collection, a wide selection of artworks by more than 75 artists, starts Saturday and continues until Dec. 2. Vernissage on Sunday at 2 p.m. Call 514-630-1220, Local 1778.
  Galerie de la ville, 12001 de Salaberry Blvd., in Dollard, presents an exhibition in various media exploring the subject of time by visual artists from the group Le Cercle 9. Continues until Nov. 18. Call 514-
  
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• Six O’Clock Solution: Roasted Pepper Panzanella

  23-10-2018 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  There are bread salads and bread salads but this one, from the outstanding seasonal cookbook Six Seasons: A New Way With Vegetables (Artisan/Thomas Allen, $50), is almost a meal in one, thanks to its bounty of colourful peppers and the accents provided by garlic, mozzarella cheese and optional chopped salami.U.S. chef Joshua McFadden has divided the vegetable year into six by declaring summer makes three (early, middle and late). He would like us to learn to eat seasonally by visiting farmer&rsq
  
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• City urges STM to create app to fight harassment on buses and métro

  23-10-2018 19:08 via montrealgazette.com
  The city is asking the Société de Transport de Montréal to look into creating an app to combat harassment of women and other vulnerable people in the public transit system.
  Opposition councillor Karine Boivin-Roy, representing the Louis-Riel district, proposed the motion, which was adopted unanimously by city council on Tuesday.
  Paris and Toronto have apps that allow transit users to report incidents, she noted.
  Mayor Valérie Plante said that when her Projet Mont
  
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• MR-63s resurrected: Brothers unveil plan for building made of métro cars

  23-10-2018 19:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s original métro cars were taken off the tracks two years ago, but local entrepreneurs have unveiled a plan that would see the blue and white cars serving the city for another century.
  Frederic Morin-Bordeleau, 30, and his brother Etienne revealed details Tuesday of a planned multi-level structure composed of the two-ton cars stacked inside an eco-friendly glass shell.
  Frederic Morin-Bordeleau’s vision is of a building that would serve as a concert hall and meeting sp
  
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• Opinion: Quebecers need universal public dental coverage

  23-10-2018 19:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Public dental coverage became a major issue in the recent Quebec election. It is high time to make this a reality. Millions of Canadians, and approximately 25 per cent of the population of this province, are unable to receive the dental treatment they need. We, dentists and dental public health professionals, call for the introduction of universal dental coverage in Quebec.
  This idea is not new. In 1954, the Hall Commission recommended public medical insurance that would include dental care
  
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• Quebec independence institute wins appeal for charity status

  23-10-2018 18:40 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The think tank set up by Pierre Karl Péladeau to produce studies on independence has won its long battle to be declared a charitable organization.
  Daniel Turp, chairperson of the board of the Institut de recherche sur l’autodétermination des peuples et les indépendances nationales (IRAI), confirmed Tuesday the organization recently won its appeal of a Canada Revenue Agency ruling that denied the group charity status.
  The flip-flop came Oct. 1 — ele
  
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• Centre Sportif MAA, condo developer work out plan for building makeover

  23-10-2018 18:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s oldest athletics club, the Centre Sportif MAA, will undergo a major renovation in partnership with a developer who will build luxury condos on the roof of the historic club on Peel St.
  Devimco Immobilier, the real estate developer chosen for the project, said it would build 300 units (studios to 7,500 square foot penthouses), saying there’s still a strong demand for condo units in downtown Montreal.
  The athletics facilities will be upgraded and will include a modern, high-
  
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• Health Minister Danielle McCann says she misspoke on cuts

  23-10-2018 18:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Health Minister Danielle McCann said on Tuesday there will be no cuts to the province’s health care budget — the opposite of what she said during an interview Friday, making a mess of her first media foray as a cabinet minister.
  Speaking to CBC television Friday, McCann — in charge of Quebec’s largest ministry — said the government would be cutting costs in the health sector, but not in “services to patients.”
  “I’m not talking about cu
  
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• Former La Presse cartoonist Jean-Pierre Girerd dies at 87

  23-10-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec cartoonist Jean-Pierre Girerd, whose work was featured for nearly three decades in the print editions of La Presse, died of cancer last Wednesday at the age of 87, La Presse Plus reported on Tuesday.
  From his hiring in 1968 until his retirement in 1996, the artist who signed his work simply “Girerd” produced nearly 15,000 cartoons, many of them focusing on Quebec’s political class.
  Girerd had a simple style coupled with a speedy pen. Over the course of his career the Alg
  
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• Aparté legal clinic will help sexual assault victims in entertainment jobs

  23-10-2018 16:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Juripop, a Montreal legal clinic, has created a resource centre for victims of sexual harassment in Quebec’s entertainment industry.
  In a statement issued Tuesday, the organization said the service will be called l’Aparté and focus on those working in the province’s cultural milieu.
  The service has already been called by 20 persons — two-thirds of them female — and l’Aparte’s website has already received 400 visits and recorded a series of complai
  
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• Senneville adopts condo zoning amendments

  23-10-2018 15:38 via montrealgazette.com
  The battle is back on.
  Senneville council has adopted the zoning amendments required to allow the construction of the proposed Boisé Pearson condominium project and those opposed to the 68-unit build are poised to request a register. Again.
  During an information session last week, the details of the proposed project were revisited, the zoning amendments detailed and the register/referendum procedure explained. The amendments were adopted Monday.
  At least 12 signatures are required to succ
  
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• Cannabis sales plummet in Quebec as supply crunch continues

  23-10-2018 14:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Sales of legal cannabis online and in government outlets have traced a downward slide since legalization went into effect last Wednesday.
  According to figures covering Wednesday to Sunday and made public Monday by the Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC), online purchases dropped from 30,000 on Wednesday to just 2,910 on Sunday.
  The drop in transactions in sales outlets, while less drastic, was nonetheless evident, with sales on Wednesday standing at 12,500, spiking
  
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• While you were sleeping: Putin’s former bodyguard won’t debate, prefers to duel

  23-10-2018 14:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are a few things you might have missed while you were sleeping.
  It’s a pretty wide stopgap: The Canadian Coast Guard says three “interim” icebreakers that were recently purchased without a competition will be used for the next 15 to 20 years. Coast Guard officials revealed the timeframe in interviews with The Canadian Press while playing down concerns about the state of their aging fleet — and the challenges in building replacements. The government in August agreed t
  
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• Thieves broke through a wall to steal guns from a sports store in Sherbrooke

  23-10-2018 14:35 via montrealgazette.com
  An overnight burglary Tuesday in a Sherbrooke sporting goods store saw thieves break through a wall and make off with a haul of handguns so quickly they were gone before police arrived just minutes after the alarm sounded.
  Sherbrooke police say the incident occurred at the Lachance Chasse et Pêche store on King St. E.
  Once inside the thieves made a bee line for the handguns and scooped up several before making their escape. Investigators suspect the burglars knew exactly where to look
  
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• Lit firebombs found under two Montreal police cars

  23-10-2018 14:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Two firebombs — their fuses lit — were found Monday under a pair of Montreal police squad cars parked in an east end lot used by the force.
  The Molotov cocktails — bottles of gasoline that use a rag as a fuse — did not cause any damage to the vehicles and no one was injured in the incident.
  The first firebomb was discovered by an officer who had just entered the lot. When other officers arrived at the scene to investigate, a second firebomb was under another squad car.
  No
  
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• Police ID one of two bodies found in burned out car in Trois-Rivières

  23-10-2018 13:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Provincial police have identified one of two bodies found Oct. 10 in a burned-out car in the area of Trois-Rivières.
  Steve Lamy, 50, was one of the victims, said Claude Denis of the Sûreté du Québec.
  The Trois-Rivières resident was listed as missing on Oct. 8.
  Police are continuing the process of trying to identify the second victim, a task that must be confirmed by a coroner. Denis said it remains unclear whether the victim is male or female.
  The discovery of t
  
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• Highway 40 to close in both directions in West Island

  23-10-2018 13:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Drivers can expect more traffic headaches while infrastructure work is being done for the new Réseau express métropolitain.
  Highway 40 will be closed between the Highway 13 (exit 60) and St-Jean  Blvd. (exit 52) in both directions, including the service roads, from 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3, till 5 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 5. Closure of the service lanes begins as of 3 p.m. Saturday.
  However, local traffic for stores and businesses in the area around
  
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• French schools are overcrowded, but these mobile classrooms might help

  23-10-2018 12:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Patrice Bouchard’s company has been making portable classrooms for Montreal’s overcrowded French schools for years, but this year has been his busiest ever — by far.
  “The increase has been enormous — it has been a record year that we could never have imagined,” said Bouchard, president of Solution Modulaire Scolaire.
  This school year, the company installed 107 prefabricated classrooms across Quebec. In 2017, his company had 40 mobile classrooms in French publi
  
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• Montreal weather: Grey and possibly wet

  23-10-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Another grey day in the forecast.
  Environment Canada predicts it will be cloudy with a 60-per-cent chance of showers. Wind northeast 20 km/h gusting to 40. High 8. UV index 1 or low.
  Tonight: Mainly cloudy, with a 40-per-cent chance of showers in the evening. Wind northeast 20 km/h becoming light overnight. Low plus 2.
  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 i
  
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• A grieving family lauds 'devotion, compassion' at Jewish General

  23-10-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Dalia Giorgi lost her mother four weeks ago to leukemia and her grief is fresh and raw. But bereft as he is, she is also profoundly grateful to everyone at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital who looked after her mother throughout her illness — in particular when she was an inpatient during the final five weeks of her life. And she wants them to know.
  “I have no words to describe the level of devotion and compassion they all showed us,” she said. “It was such a hard
  
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• Opposition to proposed condo project in Senneville holds its course

  23-10-2018 11:35 via montrealgazette.com
  The battle is back on.
  Senneville council is poised to adopt the zoning amendments required to allow the construction of the proposed Boisé Pearson condominium project and those opposed to the 68-unit build are poised to request a register. Again.
  During an information session last week, the details of the proposed project were revisited, the zoning amendments detailed and the register/referendum procedure explained.
  At least 12 signatures are required to successfully launch a register. A
  
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• NOVA Hudson fundraiser to go ahead in wake of devastating fire

  23-10-2018 11:33 via montrealgazette.com
  The storage facility for La Boutique NOVA in Hudson was gutted by a fire in the wee hours of Saturday morning. The storage building shares a wall with the Main Rd. boutique which sells gently-used clothes to help fund the many health and wellness NOVA outreach programs.
  Sûreté du Québec confirmed that firefighters were called to the scene at 3:20 a.m. The fire is considered suspicious in nature and an investigation has been launched. An empty gasoline container was found near
  
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• Horror classic Frankenstein screens Oct. 26 at Dorval Library

  23-10-2018 11:33 via montrealgazette.com
  To mark the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s gothic horror novel Frankenstein, the Dorval Library will be screening the movie Frankenstein on Friday.
  “Fans won’t want to miss this 1931 classic film starring the inimitable Boris Karloff that established the famous monster’s iconic look and made him an unmistakable touchstone of modern popular culture,” the city’s cultural department said in a statement.
  The library screening is from 7 to 9 p.m.
  Admission is
  
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• From the archives: History is closing up shop as Spectrum shuts down

  23-10-2018 05:41 via montrealgazette.com
  This story was originally published on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007.
  Spectrum 1982-2007: History is closing up shop tomorrow
  “It’s an institution.” Talk to anyone for more than a few minutes about the closing of the Spectrum and, like magic, those words pop up.
  If the Spectrum were a person, we’d call it a pillar of our society. As a 1,200-capacity concert venue with a 25-year history (in its current and final incarnation, at least), it is the
  
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• Town of Mount Royal passes resolution requesting changes to REM light-rail plan

  23-10-2018 03:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Concerned about the negative effects of an additional 500 trains a day passing through their garden community with the coming of the new REM light-rail train system, the Town of Mount Royal passed a resolution Monday night requesting the developers change their plans to accommodate citizens’ requests.
  Residents, who at present are used to 62 trains a day passing through their town, have started to protest the proposed project now that they realize it will mean roughly 550 trains a day will
  
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• Families decry 'secretive' investigations into Quebec police shootings

  23-10-2018 03:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Tracy Wing will never see her only son again.
  Whether it is setting one less place at the dinner table or riding with one fewer passenger in the family car, that reality manifests itself through the void left in Riley Fairlholm’s place.
  “It was always the three of us in the car, Riley, his sister and me,” said Wing. “I used to say I’m like the baloney in our little sandwich. Well, now we’re missing a piece of that … It takes awhile to sink in
  
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• Petition demands Jean-Talon Market parking be brought back

  23-10-2018 02:32 via montrealgazette.com
  A merchant at Jean-Talon Market has raised 15,000 signatures asking the city to restore car access and 10 parking spots that were removed when the Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie borough renovated part of the market this summer.
  Lino Birri arrived at the monthly city council meeting Monday night with a green shopping bag filled with the signatures. Under the “right of initiative” provided for in the city’s charter, a citizen may force public consultations by submitting 15,000 si
  
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• #ICYMI: Cannabis packaging, Mount Royal Tunnel, more news

  23-10-2018 02:12 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  No joke: 38 grams of packaging for one gram of weed.
  No wonder some cannabis buyers are complaining the bulky packaging is environmentally unfriendly.
  But producers say government guidelines are to blame.
  Read more here: Customers raise concerns over ‘excessive’ legal cannabis packaging
  And T’Cha Dunlevy files this report: Legal cannabis in Quebec: Making sense of the
  
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• Watch: Clement suggests sanctioning individuals in Khashoggi's death

  23-10-2018 02:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Conservative justice critic Tony Clement says Canada could use the Magnitsky Act after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Under the law, the government can freeze Canadian assets of foreign individuals who violate human rights.
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Lots of new faces in latest Habs team photo

  23-10-2018 00:43 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens will soon be getting a new team photo outside their locker room at the Bell Centre and there will be a lot of new faces in it.
  The Canadiens held a rare practice at the Bell Centre Monday morning instead of in Brossard because it was team photo day. A second team photo is normally taken after the NHL trade deadline later in the season.
  The large team photo outside the Canadiens’ locker room now is the second one from last season with 29 players in it. Ten of them will be gone
  
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• Missing gibbon found in Mascouche five months after alleged theft from Ontario zoo

  23-10-2018 00:34 via montrealgazette.com
  SPRINGWATER, Ont. — Police say a gibbon that was allegedly stolen from an Ontario zoo five months ago has been found in a home in Quebec.
  Ontario Provincial Police say the small ape was recovered by officers in Mascouche on Thursday.
  The animal, named Agnes, was allegedly stolen from the Elmvale Jungle Zoo at the end of May, along with J.C. the lemur and a tortoise named Stanley.
  Investigators say the lemur was found in June along the side of a road in a rural area north of Montreal.
  The t
  
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• Canadiens' Jesperi Kotkaniemi showing he can play with the big boys

  23-10-2018 00:07 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens, who are off to a 4-1-2 start, have three games this week with the Calgary Flames visiting the Bell Centre Tuesday night (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio), followed by road games Thursday night against the Buffalo Sabres and Saturday night against the Boston Bruins.
  If Canadiens rookie Jesperi Kotkaniemi plays in all three games, he will reach the 10-game mark and his NHL entry-level contract will automatically kick in. The Canadiens will have a decision to make after Kotkaniem
  
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