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• Loto-Québec 'looking for a millionaire' before winning ticket expires

  21-12-2025 23:53 via montrealgazette.com
  One lucky lottery player has a winning ticket worth $1 million, but better get moving with only two weeks left before it expires. A winning ticket for the Lotto 6/49 Jan. 4, 2025, draw was sold in the Thérèse-De Blainville Regional County Municipality in the Laurentians. Their deadline to claim the prize is one year after the draw, on Jan. 4, 2026. “There’s someone out there with a ticket worth $1 million,” said a spokesperson for Loto-Québec, Renaud Dugas.
  
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• Eighth measles case reported in Quebec as outbreak spreads

  21-12-2025 21:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s measles outbreak continues to grow. Eight measles cases were confirmed in the province on Dec. 19, Quebec’s Health Ministry reports. Lanaudière, Laurentides, Laval and Montreal are all affected by the outbreak. The outbreak has been underway since the beginning of this month, after the first case since April was reported in the Laurentians on Dec. 3. A person infected with measles visited the emergency room at CHU Sainte-Justine on Dec. 14 between 6:09 p.m. and 7:35 p
  
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• Canadiens' Nick Suzuki and his wife announce baby girl due in spring

  21-12-2025 19:01 via montrealgazette.com
  The captain of the Montreal Canadiens is expecting his first child this spring. Nick Suzuki and his wife, Caitlin Fitzgerald, announced her pregnancy in an Instagram carousel Sunday morning. “Baby girl coming this spring,” the post says. “The greatest joy of our lives, we can’t wait to meet you.” https://x.com/HabsOnReddit/status/2002155869337985350 The 26-year-old NHL star met Fitzgerald when they were still high school students in London, Ont., and have been toget
  
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• One or more suspects torch seven vehicles in Rivière-des-Prairies

  21-12-2025 17:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are investigating two Sunday morning arson incidents in the Rivière-des-Prairies district that destroyed a total of seven vehicles. At 2:15 a.m., a 911 call was made about a burning cube truck at Gaston Maillet Ave., near Joliet Curie Ave., said Montreal police spokesperson Caroline Chèvrefils. When police arrived at the scene, the Montreal fire department was already extinguishing the blaze. Preliminary information shows one or more suspects set fire to the truck a
  
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• Montreal weather: Blustery with a risk of snow squalls early in the morning

  21-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada is forecasting a few flurries ending early in the afternoon on Sunday, then a mix of sun and cloud. There is a risk of snow squalls early in the morning with a local amount of 2 cm expected. The wind will come from the southwest at 50 km/h, gusting to 80, then becoming west at 30, gusting to 60 near noon. The temperature will fall to minus 4 in the morning then hold steady with a wind chill near minus 14. It will be partly cloudy overnight with a northwest wind at 20 km/h, gus
  
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• Fitness: Canadians earn a barely passing grade in their annual report card on physical activity

  21-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Every year, ParticipACTION issues a report card on the physical activity of Canadians. Considered the most comprehensive assessment of sport, physical activity and recreation in Canada, it reviews the most recent and best available research and surveys of daily activity and assigns grades across 17 different indictors. Last year, the report was on children and youth. This year, adults are graded, and the news isn’t great. Only 46 per cent of adults living in Canada are active at least 150
  
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