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• Stu Cowan: Back in black — it’s early, but Habs GM likes what he sees

  29-10-2018 23:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin was dressed all in black when he met with the media after practice Monday in Brossard.
  It would have been the perfect attire at the end of last season, when the Canadiens finished 28th in the overall NHL standings and missed the playoffs for the second straight year. But after a surprising 6-2-2 start this season, Monday could have been a good day for one of the dapper GM’s flashy suits.
  “It’s 10 games … it’s such a small sample,” B
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: An NHL paycheque hasn't changed Jesperi Kotkaniemi

  29-10-2018 23:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens rookie Jesperi Kotkaniemi played in his 10th NHL game Saturday night in Boston, meaning the first year of his entry-level contract has officially kicked in.
  Kotkaniemi’s three-year, entry-level deal is worth US$2.775 million and pays him $925,000 per season in the NHL, which averages out to $11,280 per game. That means the 18-year-old Finn has already earned $112,800.
  When asked after practice Monday in Brossard if he had received his first NHL paycheque, Kotkaniemi smiled and sa
  
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• Watch: Zombies take to the streets of Montreal

  29-10-2018 23:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Zombies walk the streets of Montreal during the annual zombie walk in Montreal on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. ShareGallery: Montreal's annual Zombie WalkTumblr Pinterest Google Plus Reddit LinkedInEmail GALLERY:Gallery: Montreal's annual Zombie WalkZombies walk the streets of Montreal during the annual Zombie Walk in Montreal on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018.  Allen McInnis/Montreal GazetteZombies walk the streets of Montreal during the annual Zombie Walk in Montreal on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. &nbs
  
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• Legault slammed for skipping COP24 climate summit

  29-10-2018 22:39 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Premier François Legault will not be attending the United Nations annual summit on the environment in Poland.
  Officials confirmed Monday that Legault, who was sworn into office two weeks ago after winning the Oct. 1 general election, will instead send Environment Minister Marie Chantal Chassé to the Dec. 3-14 gathering.
  Officials said the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP24, will essentially be technical an
  
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• Chenaux Road overpass in Vaudreuil-Dorion remains closed indefinitely

  29-10-2018 22:38 via montrealgazette.com
  The Chemin des Chenaux overpass in Vaudreuil-Dorion won’t be opening any time soon. In fact, the Quebec’s Transport Department announced Monday that the overpass, which was closed to traffic Sept. 18, will remain closed indefinitely.
  A recent evaluation of the structure’s bearing capacity discovered that urgent work needed to be done on the span that was first flagged for restricted loads in Nov., 2017.
  The overpass, which is located just west of the Île-aux-Tourtes Bridg
  
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• Baie-D'Urfé's Rhian Wilkinson guides Canada’s U-17 Women’s Cup side

  29-10-2018 21:07 via montrealgazette.com
  TORONTO — Former Canada fullback Rhian Wilkinson will take another step on her budding soccer coaching career in November at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Uruguay.
  The 36-year-old native of Baie-D’Urfé who calls North Vancouver home, is seen as a future Canadian women’s national team coach. She was on Bev Priestman’s coaching staff at the CONCACAF Women’s Under-17 Championship, where Canada finished third to book its ticket to the World Cup.
  But Pr
  
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• What the Puck: Will Habs' autumn heat wave lead to cold, dead spring?

  29-10-2018 20:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Ok, it looks like our Montreal Canadiens are going to win the October Stanley Cup — again.
  I’m kidding around. There’s no denying this squad has done better than anyone expected. Absolutely nobody predicted there was any chance that the Habs would be 6-2-2 after their first ten games. And for anyone who was still doubting if this was the real thing, Saturday’s statement game against the archrival Boston Bruins settled that argument.
  A 3-0 win against the Bruins on their h
  
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• Brownstein: Actions speak as loudly — and as frighteningly — as words

  29-10-2018 20:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Few can deny that the ever-toxic rhetoric being spewed by some American politicians has not only led to an atmosphere of nearly unprecedented division in the U.S. but, more chillingly, has also emboldened and empowered hate-mongers to execute the sort of mass murder that resulted in the deaths of 11 Jews at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue.
  Nor should it come as much of a surprise that hate-crimes toward Jews increased 57 per cent in 2017 over the previous year in the U.S., according to
  
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• CAQ vaccination flip-flops leave trail of confusion in Quebec

  29-10-2018 19:42 via montrealgazette.com
  The start of this year’s flu shot campaign in Quebec has been mired in confusion.
  The position of the new Coalition Avenir Québec government on who is eligible for free vaccinations performed a 180-degree turnaround in less than 10 hours last Thursday.
  First, a statement from the Health Department was posted at 8:30 a.m. saying the “children aged six to 24 months and healthy adults aged 60 to 74 are withdrawn” from the free flu shot program.
  The exemptions were anno
  
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• At Montreal synagogues, messages of solidarity transcend religious barriers

  29-10-2018 19:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Two days after 11 of his fellow Jews were massacred in Pittsburgh, Rabbi Mark Fishman arrived at his own synagogue on the West Island to find numerous messages of support from regular Montrealers and from the leaders of Muslim and Christian communities across the island.
  “There are incredible messages of solidarity and love and the decency of Canadian society is showing its positive face,” said Fishman, of the Congregation Beth Tikvah in Dollard-des-Ormeaux.
  “I received an anon
  
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• Editorial: After the Pittsburgh massacre, a time for solidarity

  29-10-2018 19:35 via montrealgazette.com
  The massacre Saturday at a Pittsburgh synagogue is heartbreaking. Eleven worshippers — all of them elderly and/or disabled — were mowed down by a gunman spewing anti-Semitic hatred. An attack on a peaceful place of worship should be unthinkable, but as Quebecers know all too well, it is not.
  As with the 2017 mosque attack in Quebec City, which took six lives, the response has been an outpouring of love and solidarity.
  And that is exactly what is needed at a time like this — now
  
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• Watch: How to make any soup exciting, with Josée di Stasio

  29-10-2018 19:31 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s time to stop clinging to the last vestiges of temperate fall and just admit that it’s officially soup season.
  The doesn’t have to be bad thing: Soup is a satisfying dish, and can even be an exciting one.
  In this video, television personality and cookbook author Josée di Stasio demonstrates three simple ways to elevate a simple homemade butternut squash soup with easy garnishes for every taste.
  You may or may not want to watch on an empty stomach.
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• Man in his 70s struck, dragged by vehicle in Saguenay hit and run

  29-10-2018 19:13 via montrealgazette.com
  A man in his 70s was fighting for his life Monday in Saguenay after being the victim of a hit and run that saw him dragged for hundreds of metres by a vehicle that then left the scene.
  A preliminary investigation found the man was struck by the vehicle, dragged and then released when the vehicle made a U-turn.
  Police arriving at the scene at 7:30 a.m. to investigate a call regarding a man laying in the street found no vehicle at the scene.
  The victim was rushed to hospital, where his injuries we
  
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• Sûreté du Québec investigator convicted of fraud after claiming depression

  29-10-2018 18:39 via montrealgazette.com
  A Sûreté du Québec investigator was convicted of fraud on Monday after a Quebec Court judge determined he lied in order to continue collecting a salary while claiming to be too depressed to do police work even though he was very busy running four travel agencies.
  Nicolas Landry, 43, was an investigator with the SQ’s major crimes division when, in 2009, he took a leave while claiming he was too depressed and anxious to do police work. His leave extended to 2014 when he c
  
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• ‘Mispriced’ Quebec cannabis stock Hexo flirts with NYSE to boost profile

  29-10-2018 12:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Hexo Corp., a cannabis producer that’s flown under the radar of the pot-stock frenzy, is looking to the Big Apple to get a little more attention.
  Hexo is following such better-known rivals as Canopy Growth Corp. and Aurora Cannabis Inc. to list shares on the New York Stock Exchange in December. The Gatineau-based company, which sees itself as a potential takeover target as it ramps up partnerships with food and cosmetics companies, is betting the listing will attract more global investors.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Man barred from climbing skyscrapers 'until further notice'

  29-10-2018 12:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were snoozing through the last of the weekend.
  Hubert Lenoir was the big winner at Sunday night’s ADISQ Gala. The 24-year-old singer-songwriter from Quebec City won for pop album of the year at the awards ceremony dedicated to rewarding the best in Quebec music. He was also voted discovery of the year and his impossibly-catchy tune Fille de personne II won in the public-vote category as song of the year, one of the night’s most prestigio
  
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• Montreal weather: Wet, but not mild with a cold wind blowing

  29-10-2018 11:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Periods of rain with a northeast wind at 20 km/h, gusting to 40, then becoming southwest at 20 km/h this afternoon.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of 5.
  Tonight: Mainly cloudy with a 60-per-cent chance of showers and a low of 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 in the morning file. Today’s photo was posted on Instagram by @ilya_nasa.
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• 'Pilot to the stars' nearly crippled entire Hydro-Québec network

  29-10-2018 11:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The sentence hearing for a pilot who came close to shutting down Hydro-Québec’s entire power network four years ago is expected to conclude this week at the St-Jérôme courthouse.
  Normand Dubé, 56, a man dubbed “the pilot to the stars” by media covering his case because he was known for flying for entertainers like singer Normand Brathwaite and actor Gaston Lepage, is facing a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
  On Sept. 13, Quebec Court Judge Paul
  
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• Medical cannabis patient decries price increases

  29-10-2018 11:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Rebecca Fogel said she thinks the Quebec government should be putting as much effort into bringing the price down for medical cannabis as it put into getting lower prices for recreational cannabis users.
  As recreational cannabis has hit the legal market, people like Fogel, who are part of the federal medical cannabis system, have found themselves dealing with supply shortages and paying higher prices than consumers in Quebec’s recreational market.
  Those already higher prices
  
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• Allison Hanes: If the planet can be saved, it will be because of young people

  29-10-2018 11:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A few weeks ago, I opened my eight-year-old daughter’s lunch box and found a piece of paper folded up inside. Instead of the usual doodle or drawing, it was a poem written in pencil on a crinkled sheet of newsprint.
  “Nature is all around us/ everything is growing/ birds are chirping/ flowers are growing/ the earth is dying / while we’re just waiting here.”
  This was no school assignment, she told me upon further inquiry; this was just a little something she’d written
  
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• It was Hubert Lenoir's night at the ADISQ Gala Sunday

  29-10-2018 03:47 via montrealgazette.com
  It was La Soirée Hubert Lenoir at the ADISQ Gala on Sunday night.
  And that, by the way, is very much a good thing. The 24-year-old singer-songwriter from Quebec City is an incredible talent and his debut album Darlène is one of the more exciting Québécois albums to come along in ages. The eclectic collection, that has 11 songs and runs just 36 minutes, roams effortlessly from ’70s glam rock to chanson to jazzy instrumentals.
  Lenoir’s album won for pop albu
  
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• Katherine Sebov wins Saguenay Challenger tennis tournament

  29-10-2018 03:00 via montrealgazette.com
  SAGUENAY — Katherine Sebov of Toronto won her first professional tennis tournament with a 7-6 (10), 7-6 (4) defeat of Quirine Lemoine of the Netherlands Sunday in the final of the US$60,000 Saguenay Challenger.
  After a few back-and-forth breaks in the first set, Sebov took the lead until Lemoine rallied to force a tiebreaker won by the Canadian.
  Sebov had the chance to serve for the match in the second set, but was unable to close. She finally won in a tiebreaker.
  “I love playin
  
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• Zurkowsky: A brighter future for Alouettes or only shade cast by a worse team?

  29-10-2018 01:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Was this a glimpse into the Alouettes’ future or merely Montreal exploiting a Canadian Football League team that might actually be worse than them?
  The Als have won only four of 17 games this season — and two have come against the Toronto Argonauts. While both teams have 4-13 records, it certainly appears the defending Grey Cup champions are in worse shape. Of course, the Argos had to play virtually the entire season without Ricky Ray, their veteran starting quarterback.
  Montreal als
  
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• Season-ending loss to Revolution kills Impact's playoff hopes

  29-10-2018 01:01 via montrealgazette.com
  FOXBOROUGH — The Impact season is over.
  It ended when Diego Fagundez scored in the 75th minute Sunday to give the New England Revolution a 1-0 win over the Impact at Gillette Stadium.
  The Impact needed two things to happen on the final day of the MLS regular season. They needed a win and they needed the Columbus Crew to lose or tie in their home game against Minnesota United.
  MLS set up its Decision Day schedule so every game started at 4:30 p.m. EDT time, but the league didn’t count
  
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• Ensemble Montréal picks Theo Vecera to run in Dec. 16 byelection

  29-10-2018 00:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Theo Vecera was introduced Sunday by Ensemble Montréal Leader Lionel Perez, the leader of the opposition at Montreal city hall, as his party’s candidate for the position of Rivière-des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles borough mayor.
  A byelection will be held Dec. 16 to fill the seat vacated by Chantal Rouleau, who was elected to the National Assembly in the Oct. 1 provincial election to represent the electoral district of Pointe-aux-Trembles as a member of the Coalitio
  
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