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• P.K. Subban's enduring bond to Montreal is anchored by Children's Hospital

  25-08-2018 23:32 via montrealgazette.com
  The email offering details of the Subban Defence Clinic was prefaced by the note: ” P.K. Subban, returning home to host a clinic for an incredible cause.”
  It has been more than three years since the Canadiens traded Subban to the Nashville Predators, but he made it clear Saturday that Montreal still holds a special place in his heart.
  “I came to Montreal in 2007 when I was drafted and it’s been a long time to be coming to a city and building relationships, and I come back
  
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• Quebec election: 'People called me crazy … now they say I can win'

  25-08-2018 23:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Vincent Marissal left his house to buy a loaf of bread a few days back and told his kids he’d be back in 15 minutes.
  The trip took an hour.
  “Eight people stopped me between the little grocer on the corner and our house,” said Marissal, Québec solidaire’s candidate in Rosemont. “Some people have called me brave, some people have said I’m crazy, but now they’re saying I can win.”
  Marissal — a longtime political columnist with La Presse &
  
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• CAQ promises to free up 50,000 daycare spots by putting kids in preschool early

  25-08-2018 22:54 via cbc.ca
  Letting children start government-funded pre-kindergarten at age four would mean more openings at public daycares, said CAQ leader François Legault.
  
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• City of Montreal to file $42-million lawsuit against Tony Accurso

  25-08-2018 22:40 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal is preparing to file a $42-million lawsuit against entrepreneur Tony Accurso and three other corporate executives for their alleged involvement in collusion, according to La Presse.
  The lawsuit targets the Simard-Beaudry and Louisbourg companies, which won numerous construction contracts with Montreal.
  The city accuses the companies of “participating in corporate bid rigging schemes response to calls for tenders.”
  Since the targeted companies are no lon
  
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• Lisée takes aim at CAQ, Massé takes aim at Airbnb on day 3 of election campaign

  25-08-2018 22:36 via globalnews.ca
  Targets on day three of the Quebec election campaign included Airbnb.
  
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• Montreal to file lawsuit against contractor Tony Accurso, former business leaders

  25-08-2018 22:21 via globalnews.ca
  The city claims Accurso's companies cheated rules in a competitive bidding war as part of submissions filed for municipal contracts.
  
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• Liberals stand by school board system, calling it an Anglo rights issue

  25-08-2018 21:45 via cbc.ca
  Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard, addressing the Fédération québécoise des commissions scolaires, defended the existence of school boards in Quebec and in particular English school boards.
  
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• Herb Zurkowsky: Antonio Pipkin shows he should be Alouettes' starting QB next week

  25-08-2018 21:08 via montrealgazette.com
  We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this breaking-news item: the Alouettes won a football game Friday night.
  And, while their 25-22 victory over the Toronto Argonauts at Molson Stadium might not have been an aesthetic work of art, it ended a six-game losing streak and was the team’s first home victory in more than a calendar year.
  And the Als did this despite some questionable decisions by Mike Sherman, their first-year head coach. Sherman, who’s still relat
  
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• #BTMTL5YEARS: A birthday message from @tomgreenlive! https://t.co/N8fkp435FE

  25-08-2018 20:30
  
  #BTMTL5YEARS: A birthday message from @tomgreenlive! https://t.co/N8fkp435FE
  
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• Québec solidaire calls third link between Quebec City and Lévis "an idea of old parties"

  25-08-2018 20:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Québec solidaire remains opposed to the idea of building a third link between Quebec and Lévis, party spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said on Saturday. Building more highways is an “old idea” of “old parties,” he said.
  A Québec solidaire government would abolish the project office set up by the Liberals to study the different scenarios for a possible third link, Nadeau-Dubois announced at a press conference in Quebec City.
  The scienc
  
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• Quebec election: Legault defends decision to release private messages

  25-08-2018 19:21 via montrealgazette.com
  ST-AMABLE — Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault started day three of the campaign by defending his party’s decision to release private messages to the media.
  Speaking with reporters from a family day event in St-Amable, Legault said he approved the CAQ opting to release private messages between the party and now-Liberal candidate Gertrude Bourdon.
  Bourdon, the former president of the CHU de Québec-Université Laval, chose to run for the Que
  
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• Quebec elections: PQ says you can grow your own weed

  25-08-2018 19:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Would a member of the Hells Angels sell a child pot and warn them about its adverse affects on the developing brain?
  Could you realistically imagine a leather-clad biker carrying health pamphlets alongside his stash of illicit drugs?
  These strange hypothetical questions are where the debate over selling cannabis in Quebec wound up on the third day of electoral campaigning Saturday.
  Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée put these scenarios forward in response to a
  
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• 'It's a very beautiful moment': mother-child dance group part of Montreal festival

  25-08-2018 19:13 via cbc.ca
  Mama Danses program seeks to build connections between parents and their children through dance.
  
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• Canadiens on the bubble: Mike McCarron looking to make his mark

  25-08-2018 19:09 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens are going into training camp, which begins Sept. 13, with more bodies than they need to fill the 23 roster spots when their season begins on Oct. 3 against the Maple Leafs in Toronto. This is the fourth in a five-part series about players who are on the bubble to earn a roster spot.
  When the Canadiens drafted Mike McCarron in the first round in 2013, he checked off a lot of the boxes.
  Size? He was an impressive physical specimen at 6-foot-6 and 245 pounds. There was some baby fat b
  
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• CAQ boasts highest percentage of women in Quebec election campaign

  25-08-2018 18:59 via globalnews.ca
  The CAQ, which opinion polls suggest is leading the governing Liberals, will have 65 women and 60 men seeking election on Oct. 1.
  
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• Woman bitten by dog in Laval criticizes police response

  25-08-2018 18:46 via cbc.ca
  Pascale Denis says despite suffering injuries, she wishes Laval police hadn't shot and killed the animal.
  
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• Couillard promises 25 new super clinics if Liberals are reelected in Quebec

  25-08-2018 18:21 via globalnews.ca
  Liberals have opened 49 of the 50 super clinics promised since their last electoral campaign.
  
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• #ICYMI: Singer @corneillemusic stopped by the BT Studios to perform the hit song "Sign Your Name" from his new albu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-08-2018 18:00
  #ICYMI: Singer @corneillemusic stopped by the BT Studios to perform the hit song "Sign Your Name" from his new albu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Quebec elections: Lisée says CAQ will lead Quebecers into "black hole"

  25-08-2018 17:53 via montrealgazette.com
  If the Coalition Avenir Québec forms a government this fall, they’ll drown the province’s finances in “a sea of red ink.”
  Jean-François Lisée ran the gamut of metaphors to describe the CAQ’s fiscal record; the party would lead Quebec into an economic “black hole,” it would raid public services and its leader has a “calculator where (his) heart should be.”
  Lisée, the Parti Québécois leader, released a
  
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• Couillard defends new Liberal star candidate Gertrude Bourdon

  25-08-2018 17:21 via cbc.ca
  At the Liberals' first health announcement, leader Philippe Couillard came to the defence of the party's new candidate and would-be health minister, Gertrude Bourdon, whose foray into politics is off to a rocky start.
  
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• Couillard defends new Liberal candidate Gertrude Bourdon at health announcement

  25-08-2018 17:21 via cbc.ca
  At the Liberals' first health announcement, leader Philippe Couillard came to the defence of the party's new candidate and would-be health minister, Gertrude Bourdon, whose foray into politics is off to a rocky start.
  
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• Buchignani: Formula One heads to Belgium after unrestful vacation

  25-08-2018 16:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Don’t you hate it when you come back from vacation more exhausted than before?
  That’s how Formula One must feel as it returns to the track this weekend — at the Belgian Grand Prix — after a four-week break that wasn’t.
  Well, sure, the cars went silent. But the off-track action was dizzying.
  There was the Made in Canada rescue of the teetering Force India team by a consortium led by Lance Stroll’s billionaire father. There were multiple driver transfers, includ
  
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• A 'coming-of-middle-age' story: The Mile Enders comedy series returns for season 2

  25-08-2018 16:00 via cbc.ca
  The show, which explores the absurdity of aging and dating in the sharing economy, airs Saturday as a part of the Absolutely Quebec series.
  
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• A 'coming-of-middle-age' story: Mile Enders comedy series returns for season 2

  25-08-2018 16:00 via cbc.ca
  The show, which explores the absurdity of aging and dating in the sharing economy, airs Saturday as a part of the Absolutely Quebec series.
  
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• Quebec association sounds alarm over decreasing number of school psychologists

  25-08-2018 15:45 via montrealgazette.com
  The Association des psychologues du Québec is calling for an emergency committee on the role of psychologists in schools.
  The number of school psychologists has decreased by eight per cent since 2005, the organization says. For the province as a whole, there were a total of 1,056 psychologists in the 2016-2017 school year.
  “The [education] ministry, school boards, unions, the Ordre des psychologues and the Association des psychologues must find solutions together,” association
  
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• Karl Lohnes: Do you dream of having your own fantasy island?

  25-08-2018 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Most would agree that having additional workspace and storage in the kitchen is an asset. A centre island is often the perfect solution for obtaining all of that without renovating or re-renovating the entire kitchen. Here are three things to consider when incorporating a dream island into your existing kitchen.
  1. It’s about finding space
  If you have a kitchen with a large footprint, you might have room to introduce a built-in island. To determine what your kitchen can accommodate, simply
  
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• Police arrest man after fatal shooting in St-Léonard

  25-08-2018 14:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Police have arrested a man in connection with a St-Léonard shooting that left one man dead.
  A 44-year-old suspect was arrested on Friday morning in Napierville, in the Montérégie region.
  Guy Therrien, who was 53, was killed in a commercial building on Lafrenaie Street on Thursday evening. Police knew Therrien for drug trafficking.
  A 21-year-old man was also suffered a bullet wound. Police say he is in stable condition.
  The case could be related to organized crime, police hav
  
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• Quebec elections: Couillard promises two medicare cards for children

  25-08-2018 14:09 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC – Liberal leader Philippe Couillard promised Saturday to provide a second medicare card for all children under 14 to ease the lives of their parents, and to give pharmacists the power to administer vaccines.
  In a series of pledges designed to improve access to health care, the incumbent premier also said if elected he would add another 25 superclinics where clients can access care seven days a week, and improve services in the regions by offering new medical services via telephone f
  
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• The Week in Review: Composting, cancer, candidates, canal, crime

  25-08-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on what stories you might have missed this week in Montreal.
  Montreal to have ‘most expensive composting plants in this universe’Montrealers should brace themselves because the city is preparing to build the most expensive organic waste treatment centres in the world, sources are warning. The bids to design, build, operate and maintain the first three of five centres that the city has been planning to build for a decade have come in at 50 per cent above the city’s
  
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• Hiking Mount Royal: The long and winding road named for Olmsted

  25-08-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  PART FOUR OF A FOUR-PART SERIES
  For Frederick Law Olmsted, getting there was half the fun.
  That’s clear from his writings and from the gently sloping, meandering 6.6-kilometre pedestrian and bike road on Mount Royal that bears the landscape architect’s name.
  The mountain’s grandest views are “greater when they are made distinct spectacles or when they are enjoyed as successive incidents of a sustained poem, to each of which the mind is gradually and sweetly led up,”
  
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• Enchanting Victorian country house and garden in Lac-Brome

  25-08-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  From the bay window of their living room, Mike Stone and Susan Wallet have a stunning view of Mont-Orford, Mont-Glen and Mont-Foster. On a clear day, they can even distinguish the Appalachian Mountains in the distance. If that was not enough to delight the eye, their scenic vista includes their beautifully landscaped garden, which surrounds their Victorian country-style residence in Lac-Brome.
  It took Stone, a professional landscape gardener, 24 years to create the formal garden, compl
  
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• Montreal weather: Partly cloudy and pleasant — nothing to complain about

  25-08-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Saturday will see sunny skies with some clouds rolled in.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 28 Celsius, a Humidex of 33 and a UV index of 7, or high.
  Tonight: Cloudy periods with a low of 18.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by tagging them with #ThisMtl. We’ll feature one per day right here in the morning file. Today’s photo was posted on Instagram by @apostrophe_artist.
  Quote of the day:
  Between two sto
  
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• This comic has chutzpah: Opens Montreal-style deli in B.C.

  25-08-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  In the end, acclaimed Montreal TV producer, writer and comedian Howard Busgang felt compelled to give up the “meat market” that is Hollywood. So Busgang and family bolted for the tranquility of Salt Spring Island, B.C. — and into another meat market.
  For reasons that defy logic, Busgang decided that Salt Spring Island, a 35-minute ferry-ride from Victoria, was in need of a Montreal-style deli, “even though there are more bears than Jews” on the island.
  So with littl
  
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• Josh Freed: Quebec's political discourse isn't perfect, but it could be much worse

  25-08-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I was asking visiting friends from England about Brexit and they looked at me glumly, as if I was trying to poison them.
  They said they can’t talk about it anymore, since the topic divides families, neighbours and friends and leaves everyone exhausted, or depressed.
  In the U.S., it’s a similar situation as the Great Trump Divide makes political dinner talk treacherous and explosive.
  In long-boring Ontario it’s hard to discuss provincial politics, now that Premier Doug Ford has
  
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• How tight a leash should dogs be on in Quebec's provincial parks?

  25-08-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Never mind the Sturm und Drang over pit bulls in Montreal and Quebec — there’s another canine conundrum to solve: should dogs be allowed in Quebec’s provincial parks?
  Most provincial parks across Canada welcome dogs with open arms, provided they are on a leash and behave. But canines have been forbidden in most of Quebec’s parks.
  Société des établissements de plein air du Québec (SEPAQ), the agency that operates the provincial parks and wildlif
  
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• Sherbrooke baseball program for kids with special needs delivers big league fun

  25-08-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  The Sherbrooke Blue Jays, also known as the Équipe de baseball adapté STA, have just wrapped up their second season playing at Victoria Park, and by all measures it was a success.
  
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• Maxime Bernier's impact on next election could be big, even if his party isn't

  25-08-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  The Conservatives have a lot to lose, and the Liberals a lot to gain, if Maxime Bernier is successful in building up a new party.
  
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• Despite one good poll for the Liberals, the CAQ remains in control

  25-08-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  A new survey suggests the Liberals might be closer to the CAQ than previously thought — but does it change anything? Not necessarily.
  
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• #BTMTL5YEARS A birthday message from Elizabeth Ballantyne School! https://t.co/3WSqWkJXZK

  25-08-2018 09:00
  
  #BTMTL5YEARS A birthday message from Elizabeth Ballantyne School! https://t.co/3WSqWkJXZK
  
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• Antonio Pipkin leads Als over Argos to snap 6-game losing streak

  25-08-2018 06:24 via globalnews.ca
  Antonio Pipkin was the first Als' quarterback to throw for more than 300 yards this season.
  
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• Herb Zurkowsky: Antonio Pipkin shows he should be the Als' starting quarterback next week

  25-08-2018 05:58 via montrealgazette.com
  We interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming to bring you this breaking-news item: the Alouettes won a football game Friday night.
  And, while their 25-22 victory over the Toronto Argonauts at Molson Stadium might not have been an aesthetic work of art, it ended a six-game losing streak and was the team’s first home victory in more than a calendar year.
  And the Als did this despite some questionable decisions by Mike Sherman, their first-year head coach. Sherman, who’s still relat
  
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• Alouettes barely beat Argonauts to win second game of the season

  25-08-2018 05:02 via montrealgazette.com
  It wasn’t a work of art but, at this point, it doesn’t matter. The Alouettes finally won a game.
  Boris Bede’s fourth field goal of the contest, a 27-yarder at 13:50 of the fourth quarter, carried Montreal to a come-from-behind 25-22 victory over the Toronto Argonauts Friday night before 16,480 Molson Stadium spectators.
  The victory ended a six-game losing streak for the Als, who now have a 2-8 record. It was Montreal’s first victory at home since Aug. 11, 2017. The defend
  
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• Ted’s Hobby Shop marks 60 years

  25-08-2018 04:51 via globalnews.ca
  After decades of helping West Islanders, a beloved institution in the Pointe-Claire Plaza is celebrating a special anniversary. As Global’s Phil Carpenter reports, Ted’s Hobby Shop is turning 60 – and the landmark store has no signs of slowing down
  
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• Alouettes snap 6-game losing streak with victory over Argos

  25-08-2018 04:45 via cbc.ca
  Boris Bede kicked the winning field goal and quarterback Antonio Pipkin ran in a pair of touchdowns as the Montreal Alouettes ended a six-game losing streak with a 25-22 victory over the Toronto Argonauts on Friday night.
  
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• Montreal police arresting woman caught on video

  25-08-2018 04:35 via globalnews.ca
  A video making the rounds online seems to show a pair of Montreal police officers violently detaining a woman. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, one of the officers appears to slam the woman’s head into the back of their squad car – but police say this is not a clear case of excessive force.
  
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• In case you missed it, here is what happened on August 24

  25-08-2018 03:36 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal:
  Quebec election: Barrette will be bumped from health if Liberals win
  Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard announced Friday he will remove unpopular Health Minister Gaétan Barrette from his post if re-elected, but would give him the high-profile position of treasury board president instead. In Barrette’s place, Couillard announced he would appoint the coveted Gertrude Bourdon, the former head of the Quebec City health centre that
  
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• Eugenie Bouchard qualifies for U.S. Open women’s main draw

  25-08-2018 03:33 via globalnews.ca
  Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que., and Felix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal both won in the final round of the qualifying tournament on Friday to earn spots in the main draw.
  
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• What the Puck: Canadiens brass shanks one with Pacioretty golf tourney

  25-08-2018 03:15 via montrealgazette.com
  What a fine mess.
  The Montreal Canadiens’ season has not even begun and already Habs management is scurrying around trying to douse the flames of the controversy surrounding Max Pacioretty. It sometimes feels like Patches already has one skate out the door, but he is still captain of the team.
  Pacioretty’s annual charity golf tournament is set for Tuesday and there was quite a media stir-fry last week after 91.9 FM host Raphaël Doucet tweeted to say Habs president Geoff Molson,
  
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