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• Casey DeSmith demeure à Pittsburgh

  05-07-2022 20:07 via journaldequebec.com
  
  Casey DeSmith ne testera pas le marché des joueurs autonomes cet été, car il a signé mardi un contrat de deux ans.
  
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• Labos: Washing your hands isn't an Olympic feat

  11-02-2026 12:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Many things can go wrong at the Olympics. A fraction of a second can make the difference between gold and ignominy. There’s little we can do to protect ourselves against the vagaries of a random universe. But at least we can protect ourselves against outbreaks of viral diarrhea with one simple act. We can wash our hands. The opening game between Canada and Finland in women’s hockey was postponed to Feb. 12 because of an outbreak of norovirus among the Finnish players. One Swiss playe
  
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• One of Canada’s worst mass shootings leaves 10 dead in B.C., including suspect

  11-02-2026 05:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Canada confronted one of its deadliest shootings in decades Tuesday after an assailant killed at least nine people and injured 25 at a high school in northeastern British Columbia. Shortly after 1:20 p.m., police responding to reports of an active shooter at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School found six people dead inside the school, the RCMP said in a statement. Another victim died en route to a hospital, and two more were later discovered dead at a nearby home believed to be connected to the attack
  
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• Montreal man arrested for allegedly helping Ryan Wedding track informant to death

  11-02-2026 03:11 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal man accused of helping Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder turned alleged international drug trafficker, track a federal informant to his death has been arrested at a U.S. airport, authorities said Tuesday. Tommy Demorizi, 35, is accused of helping Wedding’s organization locate Jonathan Acebedo Garcia, a Montrealer and FBI informant, by paying a Montreal-based reggaeton DJ up to $1,000 for his contact information after associates recognized him in a music video. Acebedo G
  
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• Canada’s 5-0 loss to U.S. 'painful to see' for women’s hockey fans

  11-02-2026 02:30 via montrealgazette.com
  At Le Nadia, a women’s-only sports bar in Montreal, nobody cheered when the final whistle blew in the Canada-U.S. Olympic women’s hockey match Tuesday. Dozens of Team Canada hockey fans left disappointed after what they described as a “painful” 5-0 loss in the preliminary round against Team USA at the Olympic Winter Games in Milano-Cortina, Italy. “Oh my God, that was painful to see, and probably painful for (Poulin),” said fan Marine Robert, 38, at the sports
  
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• Montreal traveller in Cuba hopes there will be enough fuel to get home

  11-02-2026 00:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Félix Noiseux is hoping his flight home from Cuba goes smoothly as several Canadian airlines wind down operations as the energy crisis continues to deepen in the Caribbean nation. The Laval resident, who is vacationing in the country for the first time with his father on the island of Cayo Cruz, is expected to return to Montreal on Wednesday. “My concern is the flight might not have enough fuel to go back,” he said in an interview Tuesday with The Gazette. “I’m gue
  
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• Fréchette reverses course, says she would reopen popular PEQ program

  11-02-2026 00:28 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Coalition Avenir Québec leadership candidate Christine Fréchette shifted gears Tuesday, announcing she would reopen the popular Programme de l’expérience Québec (PEQ) program for two years to give immigrants who were already registered in it an acquired right to stay. Contradicting a line she has maintained for days, Fréchette took to social media to say if elected leader and premier she would reverse course and reactivate the program that
  
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• Federal nominee won’t commit to Quebec English school board court challenge

  10-02-2026 23:50 via montrealgazette.com
  The nominee to become Canada’s next Official Languages Commissioner declined Tuesday to say whether she would support the Quebec anglophone community in its legal challenge against the Legault government’s bid to abolish English school boards. Last fall, outgoing commissioner Raymond Théberge urged anglophones to fight the move, calling it unconstitutional and vowing to assist in a court challenge of the plan to scrap English boards. The federal Liberal government has nominate
  
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• Polytechnique Montréal to expand to accommodate more students and labs

  10-02-2026 23:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s changing economy will need more engineers, Premier François Legault said as he confirmed provincial funding of almost $269 million for Polytechnique Montréal to expand and renovate its facilities on Mount Royal. The project, which will also receive almost a million dollars in federal funding, is scheduled to be completed by spring of 2031. Part of the provincial funding has already gone to the acquisition, in June of 2024, of half of the J.-Armand-Bombardier pavilion
  
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• Legault bewildered by Trump's statement that China would stop hockey

  10-02-2026 22:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Premier François Legault seemed baffled on Tuesday over U.S. President Donald Trump’s musings that Canada’s trade deal with China will somehow result in all ice hockey ceasing in Canada and the elimination of the Stanley Cup. The hockey warning was included in a statement Trump posted on Monday on his social media platform, Truth Social, threatening to block the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge. The $4 billion bridge project, paid for by Canada, will connect Det
  
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• Côte-Ste-Catherine Rd., Rachel St. among a dozen bike lanes Montreal will review

  10-02-2026 21:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The new administration at city hall is launching a review of a dozen existing or planned bike lanes in Montreal, including some of the busiest in the city on Rachel St. and Côte-Ste-Catherine Rd. Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada said Tuesday the lanes were selected based on the number of complaints the city has received about them and discussions with local elected officials. While the announcement raised concerns about possible dismantling, the mayor said the goal is rather to make them safe
  
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• Teens younger than before are wading into crime, Montreal police say

  10-02-2026 20:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal remains a relatively low-crime city, police say, but youth are engaging in criminal activity at younger ages than before. “What we’re seeing now, is a decrease in the age that young people move toward (criminal) action,” specialized services director David Bertrand said Tuesday as the Montreal police force (SPVM) presented its summary of 2025 and its goals for 2026. While police are accustomed to seeing teens enter the criminal world between the ages of 16 and 18, Bert
  
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• EMSB chair, Jolin-Barrette spar over French language and whether Quebec is a nation

  10-02-2026 20:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s nationhood, the French language and religion were the focus of a testy exchange Tuesday between the province’s justice minister and the head of its largest English school board. Joe Ortona, chair of the English Montreal School Board, told National Assembly hearings that the proposed Quebec constitution drafted by the Coalition Avenir Québec government undermines the education system, centralizes power, threatens minority rights and fails to reflect the province&r
  
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• Two Montrealers jailed for bilking U.S. seniors in grandparent scam

  10-02-2026 19:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Two men who admitted in October they were part of a grandparent fraud scheme and made calls to bilk elderly people in the United States out of their life savings were sentenced Tuesday to prison terms at the Montreal courthouse. Quebec Superior Court Justice Éliane Perreault accepted a joint recommendation that Carson Sean Vaudry, 30, of Beaconsfield and Paul Létourneau, 29, of St-Léonard serve prison terms of 20 months and two years respectively. A period of one year of pro
  
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• Opinion: Let's not dilute antisemitism and Islamophobia

  10-02-2026 18:31 via montrealgazette.com
  As Canadian Muslims marked the anniversary of the 2017 Quebec City mosque attack recently, remembrance was accompanied by unease. Six men were murdered while praying in the deadliest attack on a house of worship in Canadian history. At commemorations in Quebec City and Montreal, a shared message emerged: Remembrance must be matched by resolve. That message comes at a critical moment. The federal government has decided, and without meaningful consultation with affected communities, to dissolve th
  
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• Caisse pauses new partnerships with DP World after CEO’s emails to Epstein surface

  10-02-2026 18:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s public pension fund said Tuesday that it is pausing new partnerships with DP World after released emails show years of contact between the company’s chief executive and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Some of the messages reference sexual encounters. The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, which is Canada’s second-largest pension fund managing nearly $500 billion, told The Gazette it is now seeking clarification with the company over the
  
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• Boycott: plus de la moitié des Québécois continuent d’éviter d’acheter des produits américains

  10-02-2026 18:17 via journaldequebec.com
  Un an après, l’élan de boycott des produits américains reste toujours bien vivant au Québec.
  
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• Le tournoi olympique commence mercredi : Entrée en scène des joueurs de la LNH

  10-02-2026 18:02 via journaldequebec.com
  C’est mercredi que le tournoi de hockey masculin prend son envol et les partisans du Canadien seront des téléspectateurs attentifs.
  
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• Après avoir gagné le bronze, il avoue avoir trompé sa blonde à la télévision nationale

  10-02-2026 18:01 via journaldequebec.com
  Sturla Holm Lægreid s'est lancé dans un discours lunaire complètement non sollicité après sa troisième position.
  
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• Joueurs autonomes : des nouvelles de nos footballeurs québécois dans la LCF

  10-02-2026 18:00 via journaldequebec.com
  Le marché des joueurs autonomes s’est officiellement ouvert dans la Ligue canadienne de football.
  
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• Les écoutes de Bad Bunny sur Spotify ont bondi de 470% aux États-Unis et de 210% dans le monde après le Super Bowl

  10-02-2026 17:52 via journaldequebec.com
  Les écoutes de la musique de Bad Bunny ont bondi de 470% aux États-Unis et de 210% dans le monde à la suite de son spectacle au Super Bowl.
  
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• Jeux olympiques: «Mes jambes tremblaient en ti-père en haut du parcours»

  10-02-2026 17:51 via journaldequebec.com
  Jeux olympiques: «Mes jambes tremblaient en ti-père en haut du parcours»
  
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• Update: Montreal métro system back up after being stopped by communications glitch

  10-02-2026 17:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Service on all four lines of the métro was returning to normal Tuesday morning after being disrupted for almost an hour because of what transit authorities described as “communications equipment failure.” In an email to The Gazette, the Société de transport de Montreal said communications between métro trains and the subway network’s control room had been disrupted. While service was not expected to resume before 1 p.m., the system was back up and ru
  
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• Update: Entire Montreal métro system down because of communications glitch

  10-02-2026 17:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Service on all four lines of the métro was disrupted Tuesday morning because of what transit authorities described as “communications equipment failure.” In an email to The Gazette, the Société de transport de Montreal said communications between métro trains and the subway network’s control room had been disrupted. They added shuttle buses were being deployed along the length of routes serviced by the métro. Service is expected to resume at 1
  
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• Nissan Rogue PHEV 2026 : une version, un gros prix

  10-02-2026 17:50 via guideautoweb.com
  Le Nissan Rogue hybride rechargeable 2026 arrive bientôt chez les concessionnaires et on peut maintenant vous dire combien coûtera sa seule version.
  
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• All four lines of Montreal's métro system down because of communications glitch

  10-02-2026 17:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Service on all four lines of the métro was disrupted Tuesday morning because of what transit authorities described as “communications equipment failure.”Service interruption extended line 1 - GREEN between Angrignon and Honoré-Beaugrand. Communications equipment failure. Service expected to resume at 1:00 PM. J— Ligne 1 - Verte (@stm_Verte) February 10, 2026
  Service interruption extended line 2 - ORANGE between Côte-Vertu and Montmorency. Communications equi
  
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• Mario Tennis Fever mise sur le chaos [critique]

  10-02-2026 17:48 via journaldequebec.com
  Critique du jeu Mario Tennis Fever sur Nintendo Switch 2.
  
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• À Gaza, boxer dans le sable pour soigner le traumatisme de la guerre

  10-02-2026 17:45 via journaldequebec.com
  Sur un ring improvisé au milieu des tentes d'un camp de déplacés, une dizaine de jeunes filles en gants de boxe s'échauffent.
  
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• Sans tablettes ni liseuses? Ces applications de lecture pour téléphone font merveille

  10-02-2026 17:44 via journaldequebec.com
  Votre tablette ou liseuse sont formidables, mais ces applications facilitent considérablement la lecture sur un téléphone intelligent.
  
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• Ski acrobatique: une Québécoise connaît la meilleure descente de sa carrière

  10-02-2026 17:31 via journaldequebec.com
  Ski acrobatique: une Québécoise connaît la meilleure descente de sa carrière
  
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