Aylmer, Quebec news

• Three construction bosses given 96 hours to report to detention

  16-11-2018 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec Court of Appeal has ordered three executives with a construction company to begin serving time behind bars for having defrauded municipalities out of millions of dollars by obtaining municipal contracts through collusion.
  In a decision delivered on Friday, the appellate court agreed with the Crown’s argument that Quebec Court Judge Stéphane Godri, went too easy on the three men — including Pasquale Fedele, the president of CIV-BEC — by sentencing them earlier
  
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• McGill opens retail school named for Aldo Bensadoun

  16-11-2018 23:45 via montrealgazette.com
  When Aldo Bensadoun was a McGill University student, he daydreamed about one day being as successful as the legendary business families whose names graced buildings at the university, he said.
  “I was always impressed by previous generations, the Bronfmans, the Molsons, and when I was in school,” he said, “I said, ‘my god, could you imagine, maybe one day I might be able to do that?”
  Now, Bensadoun, the founder of the footwear empire that bears his first name, h
  
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• STM maintenance union's walkout was illegal, Quebec tribunal rules

  16-11-2018 23:32 via montrealgazette.com
  It isn’t a daily occurrence for a bus to run out of fuel. In fact, it’s more frequent than that, according to figures provided Friday by the Société de transport de Montréal.
  Earlier this week, Renée Amilcar, the STM’s executive director of buses said it was a rare occurrence for a bus to run out of gas. However, the STM statistics contradict Amilcar’s assertion. Within the last three months, there was an average of 1.3 reports per day of
  
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• 'Trip of my lifetime' led to $75K Cundill prize for Joseph Conrad book

  16-11-2018 23:21 via montrealgazette.com
  When Maya Jasanoff set off down the Congo River into Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, she wasn’t necessarily thinking about the mythical Kurtz, or the brutal trade in ivory over which he ruled.
  “It was the trip of my lifetime,” Jasanoff said. “I was meeting people, talking to them and being in the moment. I had to remind myself that I was writing about Conrad.”
  But the Harvard professor did follow in Conrad’s footsteps, some 128 years later, to Africa
  
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• In the workplace, it pays to speak both English and French

  16-11-2018 22:52 via montrealgazette.com
  If you want to be better off, it’s best to be bilingual.
  A new analysis of Canada’s 2016 census indicates those who know and use both of Canada’s official languages at work earn more than their unilingual counterparts.
  Among allophones in particular, the statistics show that knowledge of both languages translates into a considerable jump in salary.
  Bilingual anglophones and francophones with a bachelor’s degree in Quebec make roughly eight per cent more than their uniling
  
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• Rejected by voters, PQ gathers for weekend group therapy session

  16-11-2018 22:24 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Let the soul-searching begin.
  One and a half months after their party obtained the worst electoral score in its 50 year history, members of the Parti Québécois are to gather in Montreal on Saturday to figure out what went wrong and what the future holds.
  Described by some as a day-long “group therapy” session for a party still in shock, the meeting will assemble riding presidents from all the regions plus the PQ brass for an official postmortem.
  Among the
  
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• Road to the Vanier: Laval hosts X-Men, Flory's Huskies visit Mustangs

  16-11-2018 21:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Every opposing coach in the Canada West football pre-season coaches’ poll had the Saskatchewan Huskies ranked last among conference teams. Each one of those coaches is out of the post-season mix altogether.
  The Huskies proved the naysayers wrong this year by taking the conference title and earning a berth in the national semifinal Mitchell Bowl  on Saturday (4 p.m., SN360, TVA Sports 2) against the Ontario champion Western Mustangs.
  “Like I’ve said many times out here, we&
  
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• Nunavik crisis: Ottawa investing $6M to quadruple treatment capacity

  16-11-2018 21:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Despite Nunavik having some of the highest rates of drug and alcohol use in Canada, there is just one treatment centre to serve the 14 villages along Quebec’s northern coast.
  The Isuarsivik treatment centre is run out of a 70-year-old military base in Kuujjuaq that has nine beds and a skeleton staff to serve a region twice the size of England. Each year, they’re forced to turn aside more people than they can accept.
  But now, in response to a suicide crisis that has rocked the region,
  
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• Editorial: Standing in solidarity with Franco-Ontarians

  16-11-2018 21:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The Ontario government’s decision to abolish the Office of the French Language Services Commissioner and cancel plans to create a French-language university is a bitter setback to Franco-Ontarians, whose long and valiant struggle for services in their language has inspired official-language minorities across the country.
  And it comes at a time when francophones in New Brunswick and anglophones in Quebec are apprehensive about what might be in store from their own newly elected provinc
  
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• What the Puck: Riding the Canadiens' roller-coaster

  16-11-2018 20:42 via montrealgazette.com
  This season’s Montreal Canadiens are an enigma. Or let’s put it another way: What a difference a period makes.
  Leading up to the Habs’ Thursday night bout against the Flames at the Saddledome in Calgary, fans were feeling a little nervous, with most of the chatter focused on what was going on upstairs with the highest-paid goalie in the National Hockey League. As has been the case for most of the past decade, the Canadiens go where Price takes them.
  So if he’s sinking bac
  
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• Montreal police seek potential victims of sex assault suspect

  16-11-2018 20:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police have turned to the public in an effort to find potential victims of a sexual assault suspect who was arrested on Nov. 8 after a series of attacks in the borough of St-Laurent.
  Sobhi Akra, 35, is suspected by police of having committed at least eight sexual assaults. Police allege he would follow his victims discreetly before groping them and then running away. Investigators say they have reason to believe there are other victims.
  Anyone who thinks they were a victim is urged
  
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• Keep this: Your guide to surviving a Montreal winter

  16-11-2018 19:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Shovelling, driving, power-failure survival guide
  Shovelling can be bad for your back — and your heart.
  Shovelling
  Shovellers have more to fear than ill-timed city snow plows undoing hours of work.
  The combination of physical exertion and cold weather can increase the risk of a heart attack, especially in inactive people and those with heart disease.
  “Scooping heavy, wet snow raises your heart rate quickly,” the Heart and Stroke Foundation warns. “Add in cold te
  
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• 'Open for business': Quebec willing to invest more in Bombardier

  16-11-2018 18:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s economy minister said the provincial government would be open to investing more in Bombardier, following a meeting with the company’s president and CEO, Alain Bellemare, on Friday morning.
  “There’s no requirement for us to invest,” Pierre Fitzgibbon said Friday morning, but he said he made it clear to Bellemare “that would there be a requirement, would there be an opportunity, we would be open for business.”
  The aerospace industry is &ldquo
  
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• Impact sign pair of Quebec prospects to Homegrown Player contracts

  16-11-2018 18:18 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Impact announced on Friday that defender Daniel Kinumbe and midfielder Clément Bayiha signed their first MLS contracts as Major League Soccer Homegrown Players for next season. The deals include three option years.
  “Daniel Kinumbe and Clément Bayiha are two young players with good potential,” Impact head coach Rémi Garde said in a release. “They put a lot of work in training during the 2018 preseason with the pros and I think they have an inter
  
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• STM maintenance union's walkout was an illegal strike, Quebec tribunal rules

  16-11-2018 18:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s workplace tribunal has ruled Thursday’s walkout by about 500 maintenance workers at the city’s transit agency was an illegal strike.
  The action only lasted an hour and a half, but the Tribunal administratif du travail ruled the co-ordinated action by employees at seven of the city’s bus maintenance centres and its main métro maintenance centre went against the pressure tactics the union was permitted in an earlier ruling by the essential services council.
  
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• QWF marks 20 (or 30) years of celebrating Quebec's anglo authors

  16-11-2018 18:15 via montrealgazette.com
  It was the end of one era and the beginning of another. Sort of.
  In 1998, after transitioning from the 10-years-extant QSPELL Awards, the newly named Quebec Writers’ Federation’s QWF Literary Awards were launched. The winner in the fiction category that inaugural year couldn’t have been more appropriately iconic: Mordecai Richler, for Barney’s Version. While no one at the time could have imagined that the celebrated novel would be Richler’s last major published work
  
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• Wine: Ventoux and Luberon present a cooler side of Rhône

  16-11-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Last week I wrote about the Costières de Nîmes. While the French appellation is technically part of the Côtes du Rhône region, I found that wines from the southern part shared more characteristics of those from the neighbouring Languedoc. It’s a great lesson in terroir, and how different soils and climate can give the same blend of grapes a distinctive character.
  While I was touring the southern Rhône a few weeks ago, I also visited two of its other appellati
  
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• Macpherson: Voting changes would further weaken anglos politically

  16-11-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Already under-represented in the National Assembly, Quebec’s English-speaking minority may soon see its political influence in the province weakened further.
  The minister responsible for electoral reform in the Legault government, Sonia LeBel, recently reiterated the governing Coalition Avenir Québec party’s pre-election commitment to propose legislation next year to change the province’s voting system.
  Jointly with the Parti Québécois and the Québec
  
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• Weekend traffic: Three major spans to South Shore affected by roadwork

  16-11-2018 16:35 via montrealgazette.com
  If you are planning to travel from Montreal to the South Shore this weekend, plan ahead and plan carefully as three of the four major spans will be affected by major road work.
  Mercier Bridge
  The bridge will undergo repair and maintenance work between 1 a.m. Saturday and 5 a.m. Monday. The span toward Kahnawake will be closed completely and only one lane in the opposite direction will be open. By default, the same work will close the entrance to Airlie St. where the roadway connects with Highway
  
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• Bombardier shares take a morning hit after AMF investigation revealed

  16-11-2018 16:24 via montrealgazette.com
  A day after Quebec’s securities regulator announced an investigation into transactions involving shares held by company executives, Bombardier shares dropped by about 13 per cent in value Friday morning on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
  Shares in the Quebec multinational were trading at about $1.82 at 10 a.m. Friday, a drop of 27 cents of 12.92 per cent compared with Thursday’s close.
  On Thursday, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) confirmed it had launched an inves
  
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• West-end Hydro outage now narrowed to Monkland Village

  16-11-2018 16:19 via montrealgazette.com
  A power outage that occurred at 6:15 a.m. Friday and left more than 3,700 homes and businesses without electricity in Notre-Dame-de Grâce, Hampstead and Côte St. Luc has been narrowed to about 1,700 clients in the Monkland Village area.
  Hydro-Québec had no immediate details on the cause of the blackout, which originally struck businesses and residences contained within a perimeter formed roughly by Sherbrooke St., Queen Mary Rd., Cavendish Blvd. and the rail yards in C&oc
  
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• Watch: Shovels in hand, Good Samaritans pay it forward

  16-11-2018 15:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Way back in 2015, Mark Przybylowski and Paula Malolepszy drove around the west end of Montreal to help people shovel out their cars after the season’s first heavy snowfall with the hope they can inspire other Montrealers to help their fellow citizens.
  Here are some shovelling tips from the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety:Pace yourself.
  Whenever possible, push the snow.
  Never throw more snow than your dog can catch.
  Layer up to sta
  
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• Watch: How will Montreal get rid of all this snow?

  16-11-2018 15:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal has a four-step process for getting rid of snow: salting, plowing, loading and disposal. Main thoroughfares are prioritized. When snowfall is under 20 centimetres, the city has 96 hours — or four days — to clear secondary and local roads. If it snows again before that time is up, the city gets extra time to clear the snow.
  To find out when your street will be clear, you can consult the city of Montreal website (or use the handy app) Infoneige.ca. You can also follow Info Nei
  
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• Watch: Montreal winter-driving guide

  16-11-2018 15:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Police can ticket drivers who don’t follow basic winter-driving safety rules in Quebec’s Highway Safety Code. Four key rules and the fines:
  1. Slow downDrivers must slow down “when visibility conditions become inadequate because of darkness, fog, rain or other precipitation or when the roadway is slippery or not completely cleared.” If road conditions are dangerous, you can get a ticket even if you’re driving the speed limit. Fine: $60 to $100.
  2. Cle
  
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• SAQ workers launch 3-day strike, but managers to open some Montreal stores

  16-11-2018 15:02 via montrealgazette.com
  If the plan for Friday night is to curl up in front of the electric fireplace with a glass of wine, you’ll have to dip into your private reserve or check out these surprisingly good supermarket wines.
  The Société des alcools du Québec said 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 off the job for three days, beginning Friday.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Habs' spirits are raised, but snowstorm blamed on depression

  16-11-2018 14:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are a few things you might have missed while you were sleeping.
  Take a bow, Carey Price: After stopping 43 of 45 shots and being named the first star in the Canadiens’ 3-2 win over the Calgary Flames Thursday night at the Scotiabank Saddledome, the goaltender was asked if he felt he had any added pressure or anything to prove in this game. “Nope,” he said. Do you believe him? Price had sat out the previous two games while admittedly struggling with the mental part of his g
  
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• First serious snowfall of the season slows Montreal traffic, bus service

  16-11-2018 14:04 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal area’s first serious taste of winter began at a little after midnight and by 7 a.m. had added close to seven centimetres of frustration to the morning rush hour.
  While traffic on main thoroughfares in the city was moving somewhat slower than usual, slippery road conditions led the Montreal police department to warn motorists to adapt their driving habits to the realities of winter and Société de transports de Montréal managed commuters’ expectations
  
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• Suspicious fire reduces truck to a wreck, arson squad to investigate

  16-11-2018 14:03 via montrealgazette.com
  A fire deemed suspicious by police destroyed a truck early Friday as it sat parked on a street in the borough of St-Laurent.
  A 911 call made at 2:15 a.m. brought firefighters to the corner of Saint-Amour St. and Côte Vertu Blvd. where the vehicle, a long-haul transport truck, was already immersed in flames.
  Given the intensity of the fire and the lack of an apparent cause, the vehicle has been turned over to police arson investigators in an effort to determine how the blaze occurred.
  No in
  
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• Legault suggests boycott as paint-maker Sico announces shutdowns

  16-11-2018 13:37 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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• Hydro outage leaves nearly 4,000 clients without power in west-end Montreal

  16-11-2018 13:36 via montrealgazette.com
  A power outage that occurred at 6:15 a.m. Friday has left more than 3,700 homes and businesses without electricity in Notre-Dame-de Grâce, Hampstead and Côte St. Luc.
  Hydro-Québec had no immediate details on the cause of the blackout, which struck businesses and residences contained within a perimeter formed roughly by Sherbrooke St., Queen Mary Rd., Cavendish Blvd. and the rail yards in Côte St. Luc.
  The utility reports that power should be restored by 8:15 a.m.
  Th
  
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• Arm-wrestling gets a grip on mainstream sports fans — especially in Quebec

  16-11-2018 12:01 via montrealgazette.com
  The bouts can last anywhere from a nanosecond to a minute. The cash rewards are generally a pittance. But it is one of the world’s oldest sports and is fast re-emerging to become all the rage in parts of Europe and is now gaining a foot- … er … arm-hold here.
  Welcome to the competitive world of arm-wrestling. OK, it doesn’t have nearly the appeal of hockey in this land, but like our national sport, it does require brute strength as well as psychological skills. Yet unli
  
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• Suzanne Korf: Start the magic early

  16-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Halloween pumpkin has just been carted away in the compost bin and already Christmas decorations are making an appearance.
  According to the Journal of Environmental Psychology, people who decorate early for Christmas are happier. Bah humbug, you say?  
  The study found that people who break out the tinsel and lights early are not only happier but healthier and lead more fulfilled lives.
  Over the years I have learned that putting up the outdoor lights early makes me happier simply because
  
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• STM keeps buying hybrid buses, even though the technology is faulty

  16-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The city’s transit agency admits many woes plaguing its buses are caused by faulty diesel-electric hybrid technology, yet it continues to order hundreds of buses that use that problematic technology.
  Speaking to the Montreal Gazette this week, Renée Amilcar, the executive director of buses for the STM, said hybrid technology, which is popular for taxi drivers and within the trucking industry, is not appropriate for buses that make frequent stops and starts.
  “These engines are
  
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• Montreal weather: Colour it white

  16-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  There could be as much as 10 centimetres of snow on the ground this morning, with another five or more to come.
  Environment Canada is calling for 5 cm of snow today, with 30 km/h wind becoming light early in the afternoon. High minus 1. Wind chill minus 13 in the morning and minus 5 in the afternoon.
  Tonight: A few flurries ending near midnight, then partly cloudy. Amount 2 cm. Wind becoming west 30 km/h overnight. Temperature steady near minus 1. Wind chill near minus 9.
  Don’t forget
  
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• Montreal real estate: Radon testing now recommended when buying a home

  16-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers is an invisible, odourless and tasteless radioactive gas present at dangerously high levels in as many as one in 10 homes in Quebec.
  Radon is a common, naturally occurring gas released by the breakdown of uranium in soil. It enters homes through cracks in the foundation, gaps around service points, and other places where there are openings near to the ground.
  At low levels, radon gas is not harmful, but in higher concentrations, it can be harmful t
  
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• Mark Weightman wants Place Bell to become an entertainment destination

  16-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Slightly more than a year after it opened, Mark Weightman has high aspirations for Place Bell in Laval.
  “I want to make this the best entertainment venue around for hockey and shows,” said Weightman, a 46-year-old Beaconsfield resident who oversees the facility as vice-president of development and operations. “Make this an entertainment destination that everyone knows and people want to come to.”
  Hired last March after spending a season as the chief marketing officer for
  
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• Concordia's Mini Maker Faire: Mushroom métro cars and so much more

  16-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Théo Chauvirey has made a métro car out of mushrooms.
  Inspired by the Société de Transport de Montréal’s 2016 call for proposals to give their retired MR-63 train cars a second life, the Concordia master’s student in Design and Computation Arts got to thinking about the ecological footprint of the vehicles, and how to create a greener alternative.
  Then he learned about mushrooms, or more specifically, mycelium, first used in the packaging industry a
  
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• In the Habs' Room: A first-star performance by Canadiens' Carey Price

  16-11-2018 08:25 via montrealgazette.com
  CALGARY — Take a bow, Carey Price.
  After stopping 43 of 45 shots and being named the first star in the Canadiens’ 3-2 win over the Calgary Flames Thursday night at the Scotiabank Saddledome, the goaltender was asked if he felt he had any added pressure or anything to prove in this game.
  “Nope,” he said.
  Do you believe him?
  Price had sat out the previous two games while admittedly struggling with the mental part of his game. That’s not something you want to hear from
  
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• Carey Price makes 43 saves to steal 2 points for Habs vs. Flames

  16-11-2018 07:11 via montrealgazette.com
  CALGARY — This was far from the biggest game Carey Price has ever played.
  The goalie has won a gold medal at the Olympics and a World Cup of Hockey with Team Canada in pressure-packed situations. But Thursday night’s game against the Calgary Flames was a big one for Price and the Canadiens.
  Price, who had sat out the previous two games while trying to figure out his mental game, was outstanding while stopping 43 of 45 shots, as the Canadiens beat the Flames 3-2 with Artturi Lehkonen
  
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• About last night … Carey Price douses the Flames in 3-2 win

  16-11-2018 06:17 via montrealgazette.com
  He’s back.
  In the Canadiens’ unlikely 3-2 conquest of Calgary, Carey Price stoned more people than Quebec’s marijuana stores.
  Well, not all people.
  Just the guys in home-ice red jerseys who peppered the Canadiens’ goaltender with a ridiculous season-high 45 shots.
  In stopping 43 of them, Price gave strong indication that his recent run of fair-to-bad-to-awful games was an early-season aberration.
  Making his first start in a week, Price gave Montrealers who stayed up to wa
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens come back to beat Calgary 3-2

  16-11-2018 05:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Jonathan Drouin and Artturi Lehkonen, of all people, scored third-period goals to bring the Canadiens back from the dead.
  Two Matthew Tkachuk goals and a shots-on-goal avalanche turned the game around in the second period.
  Calgary outshot the Canadiens 19-8, and only Carey Price’s brilliance kept the game close.
  In the first period, Tomas Tatar converted a lovely feed by Brendan Gallagher to open the scoring eight minutes into the game.
  Shots were 45-22 for the team that lost..
   
  
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• Québec solidaire MNA compares Quebec City's third link project to "a line of coke"

  16-11-2018 02:47 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — No metaphor is too strong or too crude in the eyes of Québec solidaire to criticize the project to create a third fixed link between Quebec City and Lévis.
  Catherine Dorion, the Québec solidaire MNA for Quebec City’s Taschereau riding, made a bold analogy on Facebook Thursday, comparing the attraction for this much-discussed project to consuming cocaine.Far from distancing himself from her comments, party co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said her co
  
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• #ICYMI: Bombardier probe, Sorella trial, more news

  16-11-2018 02:11 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  Quebec’s securities regulator said on Thursday that it has launched an investigation related to a Bombardier program that lets executives trade shares in the company during periods when they would otherwise not be able to by giving instructions in advance.
  Jacob Serebrin files this report: AMF opens investigation into Bombardier stock program
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  The first information Laval police received
  
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• Weekend traffic: Three major spans connecting Montreal to South Shore affected by roadwork

  16-11-2018 02:10 via montrealgazette.com
  If you are planning to travel from Montreal to the South Shore this weekend, plan ahead and plan carefully as three of the four major spans will be affected by major road work.
  Mercier Bridge
  The bridge will undergo repair and maintenance work between 1 a.m. Saturday and 5 a.m. Monday. The span toward Kahnawake will be closed completely and only one lane in the opposite direction will be open. By default, the same work will close the entrance to Airlie St. where the roadway connects with Highway
  
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• Montrealer captures essence of Argos' 2017 Grey Cup journey in photos

  16-11-2018 01:25 via montrealgazette.com
  There’s no challenge too great for Johany Jutras; no obstacle, she believes, that can’t be overcome.
  The Montreal photographer, 31, drove across Canada, alone, during the 2015 season, stopping in every Canadian Football League city for her first publication as a photo-journalist: Our League Our Country.
  On Wednesday, she received copies of Together, her second book, a 288-page journey of the Toronto Argonauts’ 2017 Grey Cup-winning season, captured through her lens.
  While Jutra
  
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• Montréal-Trudeau airport recruits cute doggos to combat travel stress

  16-11-2018 01:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Air travel often brings out the worst in otherwise placid human beings. The sight of a check-in or security line can cause the most even-keeled of souls to renounce any belief in the social contract or basic decency.
  Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport is introducing out a new solution to this problem: dogs.
  The Pet Squad, comprised of 30 dogs and their volunteer handlers, will roam the terminal offering precious moments of relaxation amidst the normal airport hubb
  
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• Stu Cowan: ‘Pickle juice’ preserves Habs' Gallagher for long NHL grind

  16-11-2018 00:42 via montrealgazette.com
  CALGARY — Just to set the record straight, the Canadiens’ Brendan Gallagher does not rub actual pickle juice on his legs before games.
  When the Canadiens were in Edmonton this week, there was a report Gallagher and about seven of his teammates rub pickle juice on their legs.
  When I asked Gallagher about it after the Canadiens’ morning skate Thursday at the Scotiabank Saddledome, he smiled and said: “It’s not actual pickle juice. We just call it that. I couldn’
  
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• Police considered whether victims had been drugged, Sorella trial hears

  16-11-2018 00:35 via montrealgazette.com
  LAVAL — The first information Laval police received about the deaths of Adele Sorella’s daughters was that there was a possibility the two young girls had been drugged.
  Testifying at Sorella’s murder trial Thursday, Louis Galarneau, a retired Laval police officer who handled the evidence in the case, spoke of what the force knew during the earliest steps of its investigation.
  With no obvious cause of death, Galarneau said, the force was considering all possibilities while searc
  
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• AMF opens investigation into Bombardier stock program

  16-11-2018 00:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s securities regulator said on Thursday that it has launched an investigation related to a Bombardier program that lets executives trade shares in the company during periods when they would otherwise not be able to by giving instructions in advance.
  The Autorité des marchés financiers said it “is reviewing the transactions relating to last August’s implementation of the automatic securities disposition plan by Bombardier and the various announcements that h
  
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• STM maintenance workers walk off job for two hours

  16-11-2018 00:30 via montrealgazette.com
  About 500 maintenance workers for the city’s transit agency walked off the job Thursday for two hours — a move the agency is calling an illegal strike.
  The action occurred at all the Société de transport de Montréal bus maintenance centres and the Youville shops that maintain the agency’s métro cars. Adapted transit service was not affected.
  Luc Tremblay, the STM’s general manager, called reporters to a hastily organized news conference Thursda
  
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