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• Supreme Court of Canada to hear Laval métro escalator case

  15-11-2018 21:58 via montrealgazette.com
  OTTAWA — The case of a woman who received two tickets and was arrested because she didn’t hold an escalator handrail in a Laval métro station is going to the Supreme Court of Canada.
  The case stems from an incident on May 13, 2009, when the appellant, Bela Kosoian, was stopped by a Laval police officer at the Montmorency station because she wasn’t respecting a pictogram instructing riders to hold the railing of the escalator.
  Kosoian argued that the pictogram with t
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Carey Price back in goal against Flames

  15-11-2018 21:52 via montrealgazette.com
  CALGARY — It’s official: Carey Price will be back in goal for the Canadiens Thursday night against the Calgary Flames at the Scotiabank Saddledome (9 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).
  Coach Claude Julien confirmed after Thursday’s morning skate the Price will start after being replaced by Antti Niemi for the last two games while Price worked on improving his mental game, which he said was his biggest problem. Price has allowed at least four goals in each of his last four games (
  
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• Update: Legault suggests boycott as paint-maker Sico announces shutdowns

  15-11-2018 21:32 via montrealgazette.com
  BOSTON — Quebec Premier Francois Legault has raised the possibility of a boycott against paint manufacturer Sico, which announced Thursday it will relocate to Ontario.
  The 81-year-old company said it plans to close its plant in Quebec City and distribution centre in the Montreal area next September, eliminating 125 jobs.
  Legault said during an economic mission to Boston on Thursday he does “not know whether Quebecers should continue to buy from Sico” when it’s made out of
  
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• After killing it in France, Sugar Sammy wants to conquer the U.S.

  15-11-2018 20:59 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s been tough times in France this past week. After U.S. President Trump came under attack for skipping a visit to a French cemetery of American soldiers last weekend, the Donald shot back in a Twitter attack taking on French President Macron for his views on nationalism and even threatening to impose high tariffs on French wine. Trump ended one Twitter barrage with: “MAKE FRANCE GREAT AGAIN!”
  To which, a voice in the French wilderness responded on Twitter: “Don’t
  
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• Opinion: Changes needed to win Quebecers' confidence in police watchdog

  15-11-2018 20:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Police oversight agencies exist to ensure that violent encounters between officers and civilians are independently and properly investigated. When oversight agencies invoke their mandate, the police services whose officers’ actions are subject to investigation are expected to follow the procedures set out in legislation.However, recent reports that the head of Quebec’s Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes has complained to four police services that they had not followe
  
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• Police target Hells Angels-linked bikers in Montreal, Laval; 13 arrested

  15-11-2018 20:46 via montrealgazette.com
  An anti-drug operation involving four police forces and targeting a criminal biker gang linked to the Hells Angels saw 13 arrests and as many raids carried out Thursday as part of an investigation sparked by a string of fentanyl overdose deaths in 2017.
  Montreal police say there were 11 raids carried out in Montreal while two sites were raided in Laval. The focus of the raids was  the Minotaures Ouest-Montreal, a criminal biker gang affiliated with the Hells Angels.
  Police allege the g
  
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• Top court won't hear case of Montreal murder trial scrapped after delays

  15-11-2018 20:34 via montrealgazette.com
  The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the Crown’s appeal in the case of Sivaloganathan Thanabalasingham, who avoided trial in Montreal for the murder of his wife because of excessive delays in getting a hearing.
  As is usual, the high court did not give its reasons for refusing to hear the case.The course of the Thanabalasingham case was complex. The accused was released in April 2017, just before his trial was scheduled to start. He was freed after a Superior Court justice ruled t
  
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• Longueuil has started dumping raw sewage into the St. Lawrence

  15-11-2018 19:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Longueuil started dumping raw sewage in the St. Lawrence River on Thursday.
  Why is this being done?
  Longueuil says it must remove and replace two six-metre-long sections of a sewage pipe at the bottom of the river that carries effluent from the mainland to a water-treatment plant on Île Charron. Workers discovered a leak in the 90-centimetre pipe in June. The cause is under investigation. Installed in 1990, the pipe was supposed to have a lifespan of 60 to 80 years.
  Where is the pipe?
  
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• Update: Legault calls for boycott as paint-maker Sico announces shutdowns

  15-11-2018 18:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Irritated by a decision by paint manufacturer Sico to move its distribution centre and plant to Ontario, Quebec Premier François Legault suggested on Thursday that the business be boycotted.
  Speaking to reporters during an economic mission to Boston, Legault said the Sico decision bothered him personally and wondered whether Quebecers should continue to purchase paint that doesn’t come from Quebec.
  Legault made his comments after Sico announced it would be closing its plant near Que
  
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• It starts at midnight: Snowfall warning issued for Montreal area

  15-11-2018 18:18 via montrealgazette.com
  They say it’ll start at midnight and by the time it’s over, there could be up to 15 centimetres of snow covering Montreal Island, and all the way south to the border.
  Environment Canada’s snowfall warning Thursday comes after several false starts where forecast snow barely had a chance to hit the ground before melting away. It said that although accumulation could be below 15 cm — which is the threshold at which it issues a warning — it’s the first big snowfal
  
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• Updated: 13 arrested as police target Hells Angels-linked bikers in Montreal, Laval

  15-11-2018 18:08 via montrealgazette.com
  An anti-drug operation involving four police forces and targeting a criminal biker gang linked to the Hells Angels saw 13 arrests and as many raids carried out Thursday as part of an investigation sparked by a string of fentanyl overdose deaths in 2017.
  Montreal police say there were 11 raids carried out in Montreal while two sites were raided in Laval. The focus of the raids was  the Minotaures Ouest-Montreal, a criminal biker gang affiliated with the Hells Angels.
  Police allege the g
  
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• Hotel Intel: New Alt+ reflects success of Brossard's DIX30

  15-11-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I have read surveys that proclaim 70 per cent of travellers list shopping as their No. 1 pastime. Even if that number is off by half, it still means that browsing and buying are deeply meaningful to a lot of people — especially with the holidays approaching.
  Group Germain Hotels has pounced on this and recently opened Alt+ Hotel Quartier DIX30, its second property at the heart of the sprawling DIX30 shopping centre in Brossard.
  Alt+ is a new brand for the Quebec-based company, which operat
  
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• Five things to do in Montreal this weekend, Nov. 16-18

  15-11-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Children
  “Eda Holmes’s production of Lucy Kirkwood’s frighteningly timely morality play features irresistible performances from three of Canada’s finest,” writes Gazette theatre critic Jim Burke in his review, The Children shakes up the Centaur with a very English apocalypse. It’s on at the Centaur Theatre until Nov. 25.
  Undercover: Legends of Rock
  The music of Bon Jovi, Scorpions, Journey, Kansas, Iron Maiden, April Wine, Foreigner, Styx , AC-DC
  
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• Last chance to stock up before SAQ strike forces weekend dry spell

  15-11-2018 16:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebecers who suspect they’ll run out of wine or liquor between Thursday night and Monday morning are advised to stock up now before a three-day strike shuts down most of the province’s government-run liquor stores.
  The Société des alcools du Québec was reminding customers on Thursday that with the exception of whatever outlets can be kept open by management personnel, most of its retail operations will be shut down as unionized store and office personnel walk of
  
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• Montreal only Canadian city to see housing price index rise in October

  15-11-2018 16:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Of the 11 major Canadian cities whose housing prices are tracked as part of the Teranet–National Bank National Composite House Price Index, only Montreal saw the index rise in October.
  The housing price index, which tracks the resale price of homes, for Montreal rose 0.2 per cent from September to October.
  It was up 5.02 per cent from October 2017.
  Among cities tracked as part of the composite index, only Victoria has seen prices rise faster this year. There, the index is up 
  
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• Making Montreal streets people-friendly takes priority over pothole patching

  15-11-2018 16:25 via montrealgazette.com
  After spending the last several years focusing on patching potholes and maintaining the surface of its 4,000-kilometre network of crumbling roads, Montreal is shifting its roadwork strategy, putting more money into developing citizen-friendly roadways.
  In an overview of the city’s transport and infrastructure programs Thursday, city officials said the emphasis for the 2019-2021 capital works program will go toward changes that will affect the day-to-day living of residents: wider sidewalks
  
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• Decline in Carey Price’s play vexing for Canadiens | HI/O Show

  15-11-2018 16:12 via montrealgazette.com
  On this week’s show, our panelists — Gazette sports columnist Pat Hickey, CBC Daybreak’s Jessica Rusnak, Hockey Inside/Out live game blogger Mike Boone and host Adam Susser — take a look at the recent struggles of Canadiens’ goaltender Carey Price.
  They also weigh in on these topics:Oilers expose cracks in Canadiens’ veneer
  Young defenceman likely headed to Laval
  Max Domi helps Jonathan Drouin emerge from funk
  Habs need to seize chances out westRelated
  Stu Cow
  
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• Paint-maker Sico to close Montreal distribution centre, Beauport plant

  15-11-2018 15:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Paint manufacturer Sico will close its plant in Beauport near Quebec City as well as its Montreal distribution centre as it moves its production operations to Ontario, a decision that has left the CSN union alliance worried that “quality” jobs are continuing to leave the province.
  PPG, Sico’s parent company, explained that the shutdowns are scheduled for September 2019 and are part of an effort to “optimize its manufacturing production and its distribution capacity based
  
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• Teleconferencing will help move government jobs to the regions: Legault

  15-11-2018 15:18 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec government is counting on retirements and teleconferencing to increase the number of provincial bureaucrats working in Quebec’s regions, Premier François Legault said Wednesday.
  Speaking to representatives of the province’s regional municipal authorities, Legault confirmed that 5,000 public service jobs would be transferred to the regions over the next five years, a promise he made during the election campaign.
  Legault told reporters afterward he was counting on ret
  
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• Social Notes: St. Mary's Ball rocks the Renaissance

  15-11-2018 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  When it comes to the social scene, Montrealers are resilient. Wicked weather? Whatever. Labyrinth of construction? No problem. Which brings us to the 2018 Renaissance-themed St. Mary’s Ball benefiting The St. Mary’s Hospital Foundation at Windsor Station. Despite drizzly temps and not so a-maze-ing roadwork, hundreds of top-tier guests in black tie finery braved their way through a specially erected walkway into champagne cocktails for a mesmeric night still generating buzz
  
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• 'Rarely in agreement with Trudeau,' Québec Solidaire backs feds on refugees

  15-11-2018 14:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Québec Solidaire has taken the federal government’s side on the issue of immigration levels, saying it opposes a proposal by the Legault government to reduce them.
  “We are rarely in agreement with Justin Trudeau,” said Québec Solidaire MNA Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois on Wednesday. “But maintaining the number of refugees that will allow us to fulfill our role of solidarity with the most desperate of our world is a good thing.”
  Nadeau-Dubois made his comments
  
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• Legault says Quebec's $3-billion surplus will be short-lived

  15-11-2018 14:02 via montrealgazette.com
  “We will not finish the year with a $3 billion surplus — far from it,” Quebec Premier François Legault said Wednesday as he announced he had assigned the province’s finance minister to change the government’s accounting rules.
  The premier also expanded on his comments last week, when he questioned the latest financial statements of the government that indicated a $3-billion surplus had been accumulated since the start of the government’s fiscal year in
  
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• While you were sleeping: Woman beats McDonald's manager over ketchup

  15-11-2018 13:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you inched closer to the weekend.
  A Quebec Superior Court judge authorized a class-action lawsuit against McDonald. The suit claims the fast food giant illegally advertises to children. The lawsuit claims that displays inside McDonald’s restaurants showing Happy Meal toys violate this law. Authorization — similar to a process called certification in other provinces — allows a lawsuit to be filed on behalf of a group, or class. Anyone w
  
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• West Island teacher, cancer survivor had ‘the power to direct my story’

  15-11-2018 13:43 via montrealgazette.com
  A mix of steely determination, dedication and decisiveness has helped West Islander Tracey Steele navigate a year both difficult and delightful.
  On Sept. 19, the 50-year-old aerobics instructor, prize-winning body builder and owner of the Tracey Steele Music Academy in Roxboro was rolled into the operating room for double-mastectomy surgery. Grim under the best of circumstances. However, in Steele’s case, the stress was mitigated somewhat by some very welcome news.
  Two days before the surg
  
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• Hells Angels-linked bikers targeted in Montreal, Laval drug raids

  15-11-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  An anti-drug operation involving four police forces and targeting a criminal biker gang linked to the Hells Angels was in progress Thursday morning, with raids being carried out in Montreal and Laval.
  Montreal police are in charge of the operation, which they say is focusing on the Minotaures Ouest-Montreal, a criminal biker gang affiliated with the Hells Angels.
  Officers from Quebec City, Granby and Laval are also involved in the operation, the details of which are expected to be made publ
  
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• RONA Matériaux Pont-Masson will open store in Pierrefonds-Roxboro

  15-11-2018 12:11 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s not all bad news these days for Lowe’s, the hardware giant that last week announced it was closing 31 stores across Canada, including nine under the Rona brand in Quebec.
  The good news is that Rona Matériaux Pont-Masson, an affiliated dealer of Lowe’s Canada, will open a sixth store next spring in the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough. This is the dealer’s first store on the island of Montreal.
  The five other Rona Matériaux Pont-Masson stores are located in V
  
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• STM's buses pushed out even on brink of breakdown, mechanics say

  15-11-2018 12:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Mechanics for the city’s transit agency say they are under so much pressure to get buses on the road that they routinely send out vehicles they know are at a high risk of breaking down.
  Both Gleason Frenette, the president of the mechanics’ union, and a non-unionized manager within the Société de transport de Montréal’s maintenance department agree that the STM is so concerned with hitting its benchmark for the number of buses that are available for a
  
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• Montreal weather: It gets better, then it snows

  15-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s all about wind chill again this morning, but less so this afternoon.
  Environment Canada is calling for mainly sunny conditions, with increasing cloudiness in the afternoon. Wind becoming east 20 km/h in the afternoon. High minus 3. Wind chill minus 16 in the morning and minus 8 in the afternoon.
  Tonight: Cloudy. Snow beginning near midnight. Amount 5 to 10 cm. Wind northeast 20 km/h. Temperature steady near minus 4. Wind chill near minus 11.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of
  
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• Les Mères Noël bring Christmas cheer to underprivileged kids

  15-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A week before Christmas last year, Amélie Tremblay had 400 gifts in her basement. There may be more this year.
  Tremblay is co-founder of Les Mères Noël, a grassroots organization that for the past two years has paired people with a bit of money and Christmas spirit to spare with underprivileged kids in the Sud-Ouest.
  It all started on the Facebook group Mamans de Verdun, Lasalle et environs, which counts over 4,700 members.
  “On the one side, there were moms complaining t
  
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• Canadiens at Flames: Five things to watch

  15-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  CALGARY — Here are five things to watch when the Canadiens (9-6-3) play the Calgary Flames (10-7-1) Thursday night at the Scotiabank Saddledome (9 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio):
  Price expected to start: Carey Price, who has been struggling with the mental part of his game, is expected to be back in goal for the Canadiens after sitting out the last two games while Antti Niemi played. Price has allowed at least four goals in each of his last four games (19 in total) and has a 1-3-1 record
  
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• New social development strategy for Vaudreuil-Soulanges

  15-11-2018 11:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Off-Islanders are invited to learn more about social issues in Vaudreuil-Soulanges, and participate in updating the regional social development policy at an upcoming public forum exploring issues ranging from health care, transportation, and social services, to child development, immigration, housing, green space, healthy living and more.
  On Tuesday, Nov. 27, the Municipalité régionale de comté (MRC) for Vaudreuil-Soulanges is hosting its fourth annual regional forum on
  
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• Judge gives green light to class action against McDonald's in Quebec

  15-11-2018 04:22 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s that claims the fast food restaurant illegally advertises to children.
  Under Quebec’s Consumer Protection Act, “no person may make use of commercial advertising directed at persons under 13 years of age.”
  The lawsuit claims that displays inside McDonald’s restaurants showing Happy Meal toys violate this law.
  “The authorization is, of course, preliminary, but the judge basica
  
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• Hundreds pack Nuns' Island hall to support family of teen homicide victim

  15-11-2018 03:59 via montrealgazette.com
  More than 800 people packed into a community centre on Nuns’ Island Wednesday night to offer their condolences and support the mother of a 17-year-old boy whose death by stabbing has left a community in shock.
  Initially, the plan was to hold a candlelight vigil outdoors that would gradually make its way inside the Al Jazira Islamic Centre on Elgar St.
  “But we had to go with Plan B,” Mourad Bendjennet, the administrator of the centre said just before the immense display of sympa
  
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• #ICYMI: Teens charged, class action against McDonald's, more news

  15-11-2018 03:32 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  Two teenagers have been charged with second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old student, whose body was found Monday on Nuns’ Island.
  Read more here: Teens charged in what police suspect was bungled robbery on Nuns’ Island
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  A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s that claims the fast food restaura
  
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• Kramberger: Poll indicates it’s time to ice car-shelter bans

  15-11-2018 03:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Based on the opinion poll I launched last week, two-thirds of readers believe West Island cities should reconsider car shelters bans that have been in place for decades.
  Of the 765 poll clicks (as of early Tuesday), around 66 per cent said West Island cities should lift their ban, with about 34 per cent voting to continue prohibiting the unsightly temporary shelters.
  It should be clear this poll was open to all, so the results might not necessarily reflect the position of the majority of residen
  
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• CHUM launches first French-language school of AI in medicine

  15-11-2018 02:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Striving to become a world leader in medical artificial intelligence, the Centre hospitalier de l’université de Montréal announced on Wednesday that it has founded the world’s first French-language school devoted to the study of the social, legal and ethical implications of AI in the health sector.
  Doctors and researchers at the CHUM are already pursuing no fewer than 80 AI projects, including in ophthalmology, dermatology, radiology, endocrinology and radio-oncology. S
  
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• Military launches Indigenous culture program at Valcartier

  15-11-2018 02:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Grant Greyeyes was 13 years into his military service when he began to question his faith.
  As a child, he’d been taken from his home in Muskeg Lake Cree Nation and sent to residential school in Saskatchewan.
  Just as they had done to his parents, the priests who watched over Greyeyes denied him his language, his culture and indoctrinated him into the Christian faith. He survived his stint in residential school, joined the military and started a family with the understanding that he was a Ch
  
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• Park maintenance costs more in Montreal than rest of Canada

  15-11-2018 02:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal spends more per hectare on its parks than any other major Canadian city, the incoming director of large parks revealed Wednesday.
  The annual cost of running parks in Montreal is $33,546 per hectare, while it’s $24,351 in Toronto, $12,400 in Calgary and $10,148 in Winnipeg, said Louise-Hélène Lefebvre, Montreal’s new director of large parks, Mount Royal and sports.
  The reason is not that maintenance costs are higher in Montreal, but rather that the city has less
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Team has a lot to fix after 6-2 loss to Oilers

  15-11-2018 02:33 via montrealgazette.com
  CALGARY — The Canadiens have quite a few things they need to fix following Tuesday night’s 6-2 loss to the Oilers in Edmonton.
  That’s why they held a video session before Wednesday afternoon’s practice at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary as they prepared to face the Flames Thursday night (9 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).
  When asked if there was anything specific that needed to be worked on, coach Claude Julien said: “Our game as a whole. We’re going thro
  
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• Something not right at the scene, officer tells Sorella's murder trial

  15-11-2018 02:03 via montrealgazette.com
  LAVAL — Valérie Daunais was patrolling in Laval’s Chomedey district, around 4:30 p.m., when the call came through on her police radio: there was a child found in a nearby home, unconscious and not breathing.
  Daunais turned to her partner, who was only in her second week on the job, and started explaining what needed to be done. Then more information came through: there was a second unconscious child.
  “That’s not normal,” she told her partner. “Call for
  
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• Premier Legault says Quebec is 'open for business,' as he heads to U.S.

  15-11-2018 01:59 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Premier François Legault says he is going to the United States to make it clear that Quebec is open for business.
  A few hours before stepping on a flight to visit politicians and business leaders in New England and, later, Ontario, Legault said he’s ready to play the role of the province’s chief salesman on this, his first business investment foray outside Quebec.
  “I will be in Boston today and tomorrow,” Legault told a meeting of the Féd&eacu
  
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• Stu Cowan: It's time for Carey Price to play like Habs' No. 1 goalie

  15-11-2018 01:26 via montrealgazette.com
  CALGARY — It certainly looks like Carey Price will be back in goal Thursday night against the Calgary Flames — and if that makes Canadiens fans nervous, imagine how GM Marc Bergevin feels.
  Price, who has admittedly been struggling with the mental part of his game, hasn’t played the last two games with backup Antti Niemi taking his spot. But after Niemi allowed six goals on 43 shots in Tuesday’s 6-2 loss to the Oilers in Edmonton, it’s hard to imagine Price won&rsquo
  
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• Laval boxer Jean Pascal gets unlikely world title shot at age 36

  15-11-2018 00:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Jean Pascal was supposed to be retired at this point in his career, you might remember. Then he was supposed to meet Gary Kopas this month in a nondescript cruiserweight bout in Nova Scotia that might only have attracted flies.
  Instead, the 36-year-old Laval boxer is somewhat surprisingly preparing for a world championship bout Nov. 24 against World Boxing Association light-heavyweight titleholder Dmitry Bivol at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City.
  The 12-round main event will be
  
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• Allison Hanes: It's time for a name change at McGill

  15-11-2018 00:11 via montrealgazette.com
  What’s in a name?
  A whole heck of a lot if you look at the battle being waged at McGill University over whether it should keep the name Redmen for its varsity teams, or change it out of respect for Indigenous people.
  In one camp are athletes, current and former, who say the origins of the storied Redmen are being misconstrued. They say that dumping it would dishonour their alma mater’s history as well as negate the truth.
  In the other are Indigenous groups, an overwhelming majority o
  
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