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• Québec solidaire will push Legault on climate change, convention told

  09-12-2018 23:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Pushing Premier François Legault to take strong action on climate change will be Québec solidaire’s main goal now that it has a stronger presence in the National Assembly, leaders told delegates to the party’s biannual convention in Montreal on Sunday.
  Manon Massé, the party’s co-spokesperson, told the convention that the governing Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) must take note of the groundswell of popular support for climate change action in Que
  
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• SQ patrol car involved in collision on Route 167

  09-12-2018 23:13 via montrealgazette.com
  A violent collision between two vehicles took place on Route 167 in the Lac-Ashuapmushuan region northwest of Lac St-Jean.
  Officers with the Chapais-Chibougamau station of the Sûreté du Québec were alerted to the crash around 10:15 a.m. on Sunday.
  When they arrived to the scene, they found a patrol car was involved in the crash, whose cause has yet to be determined. They also found a police officer severely injured, who by the afternoon was out of danger in a hospital.
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• Liveblog: Canadiens at Chicago

  09-12-2018 23:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Wasn’t Saturday night weird without Canadiens hockey?
  Let’s hope we all survived the deprivation. And let’s hope we’re ready for more weirdness: 6 p.m. hockey.
  Thank you, NHL, for ruining the Sunday dinner of Canadiens fans.
  It will be worth it if the team extends its winning streak at the United Center.
  The Hawks will be hungry. Chicago has lost six straight and currently sits dead last in the Western Conference.
  How can a team with Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane b
  
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• Jack Todd: Ban boxing? It's not possible

  09-12-2018 20:57 via montrealgazette.com
  The statement from Simone God, the fiancée of injured boxer Adonis Stevenson, was as brief as it was poignant: “Pray for a miracle,” she said on Twitter on Sunday morning.
  That was the nearest thing we have had to an update since last Wednesday when Stevenson still lay in a Quebec City hospital, unconscious and under sedation.
  The last real update on Stevenson’s condition, given by intensive-care specialist Dr. Alexis Turgeon on Dec. 5, said only Stevenson was under seda
  
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• Roberval byelection offers first test of Legault's premiership

  09-12-2018 20:50 via montrealgazette.com
  François Legault will face a first popularity test of his premiership in Monday’s byelection in Roberval.
  All parties will be dealing with the challenge of convincing the riding’s voters to show up in the winter just two months after they elected former premier Philippe Couillard as their MNA.
  Low voter turnout is therefore expected in this contest, which is seen as a faceoff between the Coalition Avenir Québec and the Quebec Liberal Party. Seven candidates are running
  
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• After homeless woman is sexually assaulted, alleged assailant released

  09-12-2018 19:22 via montrealgazette.com
  A 25-year-old homeless woman says she fears for her life after she was sexually assaulted and her assailant was set free by Montreal police.
  The woman, who is pregnant, says she was sleeping in an alley off Park Ave. Wednesday night when she was woken up by a man straddling her and pulling her clothes off. Though she was repeatedly struck in the face, she was able to fight him off.
  The following night, she reported the attack to John Tessier, an intervention worker at the Open Door homeless shel
  
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• Québec solidaire plans to force government action on climate change

  09-12-2018 18:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Pushing Premier François Legault to take strong action on climate change will be Québec solidaire’s main goal now that it has a stronger presence in the National Assembly, leaders told delegates to the party’s annual convention in Montreal on Sunday.
  “Mr. Legault, you are proud to talk tough with Ottawa on the topic of immigration,” co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois told the assembly in a closing speech. “But what are you doing when Justin Trudeau
  
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• Weber makes seamless return to Habs’ blue line | HI/O Bonus

  09-12-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  In this bonus episode, our panelists — Gazette columnist Stu Cowan, CBC Daybreak’s Jessica Rusnak, former Canadien Chris Nilan and host Adam Susser — look at star defenceman Shea Weber’s return to the lineup after missing nearly a year with foot and knee injuries.
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• Holiday season means big spending: Study

  09-12-2018 16:56 via montrealgazette.com
  In addition to spending on gifts this holiday season, a study conducted by Ebates.ca suggests Canadians will also plunk down an average of $528 on secondary purchases, like entertainment, decorations and travel.
  According to the study, Canadians are expected to spend an average of $602 on gifts.
  All told, that brings the expected average outlay this holiday season to $1130.
  The poll also indicated that 83 per cent of Canadians plan to perform at least part of their holiday shopping online this y
  
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• While you were sleeping: Obvious jokes doom Uranus Examiner newspaper

  09-12-2018 14:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while the Dave Matthews Band did its thing. 
  Impératif francais is calling on consumers to demand businesses “receive, serve, inform and offer all their products in French” this Christmas season. The francophone-rights organization is urging Quebecers to shop at businesses that have a company name in French, that run websites in French and where the working language is French. As for the products, the organization maintains it is important
  
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• Concert review: Dave Matthews Band’s jams and chops warm up Bell Centre

  09-12-2018 13:41 via montrealgazette.com
  On a chilly Saturday night in Montreal, Virginian rockers Dave Matthews Band brought an easygoing outdoor summer stage approach to their headlining set at the Bell Centre, their first appearance at the venue since 2015.
  Although known as steady hitmakers in the 90s and early 2000s, the band hasn’t been sent to legacy act purgatory just yet. 2018 release Come Tomorrow had the biggest first week for a rock act on the Billboard charts with 250,000 equivalent album units. And even if there wer
  
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• Montreal weather: Light snow and windy

  09-12-2018 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Increasing cloudiness with light snow beginning in the morning.
  Wind becoming southwest at 30 km/h, gusting to 50 near noon.
  A wind chill of minus 18 in the morning and minus 7 in the afternoon.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of minus 1.
  Tonight: Light snow ending in the evening, then clearing and a low of minus 14. It will remain windy with a wind chill of minus 7 in the evening and minus 23 overnight.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitte
  
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• Look out for these road closings on Sunday

  09-12-2018 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The Turcot Interchange should be avoided today because of construction-related closings.
  Users of the Girouard Ave. on-ramp to Highway 15 southbound will have to find other alternatives for the next year because it’s closing from Friday at 11:59 p.m. until the end of 2019. The detour will be via St-Jacques St. for cars and Sherbrooke St. for trucks.
  Highway 15 southbound will be completely closed between the Turcot Interchange and the Atwater Ave. entrance till Monday at 5 a.m.
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• Canadiens at Chicago Blackhawks: Five things you should know

  09-12-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Canadiens-Blackhawks game at Chicago’s United Centre on Sunday (6 p.m., SN, SN1, RDS, TSN 690 Radio):
  The matchup: The Canadiens are on a modest two-game win streak after sweeping a home-and-away series against the Ottawa Senators. Montreal has won three of its last four games and went into the weekend with the first wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. The current edition of the Blackhawks doesn’t bear any resemblance to the team t
  
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• Habs notebook: Kotkaniemi likely to remain in Montreal for the season

  09-12-2018 03:07 via montrealgazette.com
  CHICAGO — Canadiens general Marc Bergevin threw cold water on the rumour Jesperi Kotkaniemi will be loaned to Team Finland for the world junior championships later this month in Vancouver and Victoria.
  Speaking after the Canadiens practised Saturday, Bergevin said there was only a “slim” chance Kotkaniemi would play for Finland. Moments earlier, he said in French there was a “95-per-cent” probability Kotkaniemi would be with the Canadiens all season.
  When asked if t
  
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• Canadiens' experiment with blueliner Brett Kulak is paying off

  09-12-2018 00:46 via montrealgazette.com
  CHICAGO —  Brett Kulak has learned things can change quickly in the NHL.
  Three weeks ago, Kulak was toiling for the Laval Rocket. On Sunday, Kulak will be alongside Shea Weber on the No. 1 defence pairing when the Canadiens play the Chicago Blackhawks (6 p.m. SN, SN1, RDS, TSN-690 Radio).
  “You try to visualize (playing on a top pair), but when I was down in Laval, the Canadiens had nine healthy defencemen,” Kulak said. “I thought at some time this season my time woul
  
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• Renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma gives free concert in Montreal métro

  09-12-2018 00:17 via montrealgazette.com
  With the subway rumbling underneath and a cold wind penetrating from the outside, Place des Arts métro station on a Saturday afternoon was not quite the black-tie venue and ideal acoustic theatre Yo-Yo Ma was used to.
  But when the renowned musician made his way through the crowd with his $2.5-million cello on his back, the station was immediately transformed into a concert hall, and its patrons into patrons of the arts — if only for a brief time. 
  “This is fantastic
  
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