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• Allison Hanes: Just wait until President Trump hears about Parti 51

  05-09-2018 23:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The existential angst over whether Quebec should separate from Canada and become its own country had mercifully been absent from the campaign trail in 2018, with pro-sovereignty parties staying mum on the national question to avoid obliteration at the ballot box.
  That is until a new party surfaced with a pledge to take Quebec out of Canada — and make it part of the United States.
  Parti 51, as it’s called, isn’t your typical brand of separatism. It doesn’t want statehood s
  
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• About 100 guns smuggled via border-straddling library

  05-09-2018 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  As several Canadian cities call for a ban on handguns, a gunrunner has pleaded guilty in Vermont to smuggling more than 100 handguns across the border into Canada. The smuggling ring has been stopped, but as Mike Armstrong explains, the weapons have disappeared into the black market.
  
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• Where does the leader of the PQ draw the line with candidates?

  05-09-2018 23:45 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 5: Parti Québécois Leader Jean-François Lisée is defending long-time MNA and candidate Guy Leclair, who faces charges of driving under the influence of alcohol. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, Lisée has been calling for the resignation of a CAQ candidate over ethic concerns – so where does the party leader draw the line?
  
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• Daycare emergency sparks concerns over efficiency of emergency services

  05-09-2018 23:45 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 5: A pair of Ile-Bizard parents are furious after their three-year-old son had a seizure at daycare. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, daycare educators called 911 for help – but they were put on hold.
  
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• Montreal suburban mayors call for changes to agglomeration council

  05-09-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 5: Montreal’s suburban mayors insist a new contract is needed with the city to determine how tax dollars are being spent. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, some progress is being made – but it will be a slow process.
  
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• Allison Hanes: Just wait until President Trump hears about Party 51

  05-09-2018 23:42 via montrealgazette.com
  The existential angst over whether Quebec should separate from Canada and become its own country had mercifully been absent from the campaign trail in 2018, with pro-sovereignty parties staying mum on the national question to avoid obliteration at the ballot box.
  That is until a new party surfaced with a pledge to take Quebec out of Canada — and make it part of the United States.
  Party 51, as it’s called, isn’t your typical brand of separatism. It doesn’t want statehood s
  
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• Summit School’s flower program blossoms into business

  05-09-2018 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 5: A flower program at a school for students with special needs is creating quite the buzz. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, what started off as a craft has now flourished into a business – and students are preparing a big order of orchids for Rosh Hashanah.
  
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• 'He didn't see or hear the train coming': Police say 13-year-old wore earphones when fatally struck by train

  05-09-2018 23:32 via cbc.ca
  Witnesses have told police that the 13-year-old pedestrian killed by a commuter train in Montreal's Saint-Laurent borough Wednesday afternoon had headphones on and his phone in hand.
  
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• Deux-Montagnes train service disrupted after youth struck by train

  05-09-2018 23:32 via cbc.ca
  Train service is disrupted on the Exo Deux-Montagnes line, after a youth was struck by a train while he was apparently crossing at a pedestrian walkway at the Bois-Franc station.
  
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• 13-year-old boy dies after being struck by Deux-Montagnes commuter train

  05-09-2018 23:32 via cbc.ca
  He was struck by a train on the Exo Deux-Montagnes commuter line while he was apparently crossing at a pedestrian walkway at the Bois-Franc station.
  
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• Home for former sex workers set to open in Vaudreuil-Soulanges

  05-09-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 5: After two failed attempts in Montreal’s West Island, a special home for former sex trade workers is set to open in Vaudreuil-Soulanges. As Global’s Anne Leclair reports, the organization hopes the community will be more welcoming.
  
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• Teen in critical condition after being struck by train in Saint-Laurent borough

  05-09-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Train service in the Deux-Montagnes direction is suspended Wednesday evening until further notice.
  
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• Deux-Montagnes train service gradually resuming after emergency intervention

  05-09-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Train service in the Deux-Montagnes direction is suspended Wednesday evening until further notice.
  
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• PQ candidate Guy Leclair withdraws from campaign after impaired driving charges

  05-09-2018 23:27 via cbc.ca
  Leclair said he made the decision to withdraw with regret, but that his party's campaign was too important to be sidelined by questions about the charges he faces.
  
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• PQ candidate Guy Leclair withdraws from campaign after drunk driving charges

  05-09-2018 23:27 via cbc.ca
  Leclair said he made the decision to withdraw with regret, but that his party's campaign was too important to be sidelined by questions about the charges he faces.
  
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• PQ candidate Guy Leclair formally charged with drunk driving

  05-09-2018 23:27 via cbc.ca
  Leclair was arrested on July 13, and his driver’s licence was suspended for 90 days. He is to appear in court in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield on Sept. 21.
  
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• Quebec election blog Sept. 5: These questionable candidates are dogging the PQ and CAQ

  05-09-2018 22:58 via montrealgazette.com
  This was the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Wednesday, Sept. 5.5:10 p.m.: That’s a wrap
  Join us again tomorrow for more election coverage5 p.m.: PQ candidate gets court date
  There are reports that PQ candidate and incumbent MNA Guy Leclair has been formally charged with drunk driving and refusing a breathalyzer. And PQ leader Jean-François Lisée now says Leclair will not sit in the PQ caucus until the case is settled.
  Confirmation du
  
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• Program for special needs students turns into flourishing Montreal business

  05-09-2018 22:55 via globalnews.ca
  A flower program created at Summit School has turned into a full-fledged company.
  
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• BEI to investigate after Kativik police fatally shoot man holding hostages

  05-09-2018 22:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes has opened an investigation after a man was shot dead after a long standoff with police in Inukjuak, a fishing village in northern Quebec.
  According to the BEI, an armed and suicidal 40-year-old man took three people hostage inside a home in Inukjuak around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
  Police from the Kativik Regional Police Force circled the home while taking orders from the Sûreté du Québec and waiting for more provincial
  
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• Montreal to penalize contractors who don't move fast on pothole repairs

  05-09-2018 22:47 via cbc.ca
  A contractor's failure to fill potholes within 24 hours will now trigger a penalty of $1,000 per business day. The new fines are a way to encourage speedier repairs in this new era of intermittent winter thawing.
  
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• Durham police search for missing Oshawa mother and daughter

  05-09-2018 22:33 via globalnews.ca
  It's believed the mother and daughter may be heading to Montreal.
  
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• Pierrefonds man who killed Kelly-Anne Drummond denied parole again

  05-09-2018 22:25 via montrealgazette.com
  A former Pierrefonds resident has been denied parole a second time as he continues to serve a life sentence for murdering his girlfriend more than a decade ago.
  Following a hearing held on Tuesday at the Cowansville Institution, a medium-security penitentiary in the Eastern Townships, the Parole Board of Canada determined that Martin Morin-Cousineau, 44, remains an unacceptable risk to society because he has shown little change since he killed 24-year-old Kelly-Anne Drummond in 2004.
  Drummond, a
  
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• An anglophone chez the PQ? Christopher Curtis affectionately known as ‘darling’ of the party’s campaign bus

  05-09-2018 22:23 via globalnews.ca
  Christopher Curtis has affectionately become known as the "chouchou" -- or darling -- of the PQ's campaign bus.
  
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• Suspect in hostage-taking dead after overnight standoff with police in Inukjuak, Que.

  05-09-2018 21:49 via cbc.ca
  A 40-year-old man was shot and killed by police, Quebec's Bureau of Independent Investigations (BEI) said, after firing a rifle several times in the direction of a house in Inukjuak, a remote village on Hudson Bay, Tuesday night.
  
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• Quebec's Green Party aims to win over voters with 'eco-socialist' agenda

  05-09-2018 21:33 via cbc.ca
  "We're doing everything we can to connect with voters all across Quebec," says Alex Tyrrell, the leader of the Green Party, who has been driving around in a beat up 2001 Honda Civic and sleeping in youth hostels during the election campaign.
  
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• Robert Lepage’s controversial ‘Kanata’ play to go ahead in Paris this December

  05-09-2018 21:08 via globalnews.ca
  A controversial play about the relationship between whites and Aboriginal Peoples will finally be presented after previously being cancelled following criticism of content judged culturally insensitive.
  
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• Quebec election: Would-be health ministers square off in debate

  05-09-2018 21:04 via montrealgazette.com
  In the first debate of the Quebec election campaign, candidates for the four main political parties squared off Wednesday afternoon on the subject of health care at the headquarters of the province’s largest nurses’ federation.
  Absent from the debate was Health Minister Gaétan Barrette, whose controversial cost-cutting reforms have drawn criticism from nurses and other health professionals. Debating in his place was star Liberal candidate Gertrude Bourdon, the executive d
  
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• Live – Quebec election blog: These questionable candidates are dogging the PQ and CAQ

  05-09-2018 21:03 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the Montreal Gazette’s live blog on the Quebec provincial election for Wednesday, Sept. 5. It will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected] p.m.: Legault drops diet
  François Legault seems to have given up on his diet.
  He was spotted eating poutine at Patate Mallette in Beauharnois…
  Le chef Legault mange de la poutine à Beauharnois – Le Soleil de Châteauguay https://t.co/sOrKGeKW81 via @Cybersoleil
  — Michel Th
  
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• Montreal's CDN-NDG borough to subsidize cloth diapers, reusable menstrual products

  05-09-2018 21:00 via cbc.ca
  The Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough is launching a pilot project in October that proponents say could save families in the borough hundreds of dollars annually while helping the environment.
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée promises $800 million for seniors' housing

  05-09-2018 20:55 via montrealgazette.com
  RIVIÈRE DU LOUP — After a summer in which heat waves rolled across Quebec, killing dozens of seniors, Jean-François Lisée says it’s time for the government to take action.
  The Parti Québécois leader pledged Wednesday to have air-conditioning in all provincially run elder care centres by next summer. He says the measure will save lives and would cost the government about $100 million.
  “From the moment we form a government, we’re calling t
  
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• Martin Patriquin: McGill should stop investing in fossil fuels

  05-09-2018 20:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government came to power in 2015 thanks in large part to a blatant contradiction, promising at once to fight climate change while allowing, even cheerleading, the construction of the very pipeline infrastructure perpetuating it.
  Though perhaps the most brazen, the current federal government is hardly alone in engaging in this rather expedient bit of doublethink. Consider the case of Trudeau’s alma mater, McGill University. Like many high-minded institutions c
  
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• Montreal cop suspended after bruising deaf visually impaired senior

  05-09-2018 20:05 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal police officer has been suspended for four days without pay for using unnecessary force and illegally detaining a partially deaf 72-year-old man.
  According to a recent Quebec Police Ethics Committee, SPVM officer David Bouffard was six months into the job when he responded to a distress call in May 2015.
  The 911 call was concerning a man who allegedly hit a neighbour in the leg with a shovel during a dispute over who could use part of a yard for gardening purposes.
  Bouffard arrived at
  
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• Suspect in kidnapping of Chez Cora chief was in financial trouble

  05-09-2018 20:04 via montrealgazette.com
  A Laval man charged with kidnapping the president of the popular Chez Cora chain of breakfast restaurants will remain detained for at least two more days for a a bail hearing scheduled for Friday.
  Paul Zaidan, 49, made a brief appearance before a judge at the Laval courthouse on Thursday. He entered a not guilty plea to some of the charges he faces.
  Zaidan, who was arrested on Tuesday as a suspect in last year’s kidnapping, was recently declared bankrupt and was facing the possibility
  
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• scribble test

  05-09-2018 20:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Perhaps this will be more effective.
  
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• Quebec election: Québec solidaire would invest in schools

  05-09-2018 19:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Québec solidaire says it wants to rebuild the Quebec school system by reducing the number of students in a class, hiring more support staff and renovating public schools in the province.
  The party is pledging to invest close to $2 billion in schools, if it wins on Oct. 1.
  Party spokesperson Manon Massé blamed former premier Jean Charest and current Liberal Premier Philippe Couillard for the poor state of public schools.
  “They filled classrooms so much that many students are c
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals offer more money to retirees, working seniors

  05-09-2018 19:43 via montrealgazette.com
  SHERBROOKE — Quebec’s shortage of labour has been a major theme of Philippe Couillard’s campaign. The Liberal leader has said repeatedly that the need for more workers is the biggest economic challenge facing the province.
  But immigration is not the only solution to the labour shortage, Couillard says.
  He also wants to get seniors to stay in the workforce — and retirees to return to it.
  On Wednesday, Couillard promised that if his government is re-elected it would allow r
  
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• Accused in 2017 kidnapping of Cora breakfast chain president pleads not guilty to 7 charges

  05-09-2018 18:48 via cbc.ca
  Former Cora franchisee Paul Zaidan, accused of kidnapping of Nicholas Tsouflidis in March 2017, has pleaded not guilty to seven charges, including kidnapping, extortion and uttering threats.
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ would cut number of immigrants allowed in first year

  05-09-2018 18:45 via montrealgazette.com
  SAINT-CLOTILDE — If the Coalition Avenir Québec takes power, it will reduce the number of immigrants admitted to Quebec by 20 per cent in 2019.
  The number would drop from 50,000 a year to 40,000, officials in the CAQ campaign confirmed Wednesday shortly after party leader François Legault toured a greenhouse which relies heavily on foreign temporary workers.
  Of the 250 workers at Les Serres Lefort, 170 are workers on temporary contracts.
  As Legault’s news conference was
  
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• Lepage's controversial play Kanata to be performed in Paris on Dec. 15

  05-09-2018 18:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Kanata, the controversial play by Robert Lepage, will finally be performed later this year at the Théâtre du Soleil in Paris.
  In a communiqué made public Wednesday, the theatre announced that, with Lepage’s consent, it had decided “to continue with him the creation of the show and to perform it publicly” under the title Kanata — Épisode 1 — The Controversy.
  Ex Machina, Lepage’s theatre company, announced earlier in the summer that th
  
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• Robert Lepage's contentious play Kanata will go ahead in Paris after all

  05-09-2018 18:15 via cbc.ca
  The Théâtre du Soleil in Paris says it will stage the play after coming to an agreement with Lepage. The production was cancelled in July after its co-producers withdrew their financial support amid widespread criticism over a lack of Indigenous participation.
  
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• Montrealers filed 40 complaints about 'aggressive' dogs in two weeks

  05-09-2018 18:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealers filed 40 complaints in connection with aggressive dogs in the two weeks after the city’s animal control bylaw went into effect, Montreal’s executive committee was told on Wednesday.
  In a presentation conducted by Guylaine Brisson, the city’s director of borough co-ordination, the committee was told the complaints were received between Aug. 23 and Sept. 2 by the city’s 311 information service and that 24 of those complaints required inspectors to meet with dog
  
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• Pilots in St-Bruno plane crash violated altitude restrictions: report

  05-09-2018 17:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The student pilots of two planes that collided above a St-Bruno shopping centre in 2017 did not respect altitude restrictions, according to an investigation by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.
  Just before the collision, the two pilots deviated from altitude restrictions approved by the air traffic control tower. The pilots did not see each other in time to avoid colliding, said the report released Wednesday.
  One pilot died in the collision and the second was seriously injured. Both wer
  
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• Longueuil cops arrest attempted murder suspect after man stabbed in neck

  05-09-2018 17:54 via montrealgazette.com
  A 28-year-old man is in the custody of Longueuil police and expected to face a charge of attempted murder in the wake of an incident early Wednesday that saw a man stabbed in the neck in the Longueuil borough of St-Hubert.
  The incident occurred at 7:30 a.m. on Grand Blvd. after an altercation broke out between two men. A 23-year-old man was taken to hospital while the suspect was taken into custody.
  This story will be updated.
   
  
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• Bernier says he has raised over $90K since quitting the Conservative party

  05-09-2018 17:34 via cbc.ca
  Quebec MP Maxime Bernier says he has raised more than $90,000 since quitting the Conservative party. In a fundraising email to supporters today, Bernier says his campaign has "momentum" and that he plans to unveil his party's name and logo next week.
  
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• Quebecers open to more private health services: poll

  05-09-2018 17:11 via globalnews.ca
  Seventy per cent of respondents said they welcomed more access to medical services offered by private companies.
  
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• Bank of Canada holds interest rates steady, but October hike looms

  05-09-2018 16:54 via globalnews.ca
  Canada central bank said it is 'monitoring closely' the ongoing NAFTA talks but added that higher interest rates 'will be warranted.'
  
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• Pilots in mid-air collision over Quebec mall didn’t respect altitude rules: TSB

  05-09-2018 16:48 via globalnews.ca
  The Transportation Safety Board says two pilots involved in a fatal mid-air collision weren't adhering to altitude restrictions.
  
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• Pilots in mid-air collision over South Shore mall didn't respect altitude rules, TSB finds

  05-09-2018 16:10 via cbc.ca
  Two young pilots who crashed mid-air above a South Shore shopping centre last year near Saint-Hubert airport weren't respecting altitude restrictions, an investigation by the Transport and Safety Board of Canada has found.
  
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• ‘Amazing numbers’ at Canadian banks are no match for Trump's tax cuts

  05-09-2018 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadian banks are scoring back-to-back record earnings, beating big U.S. lenders on profitability, productivity and dividend yields. They still can’t outperform U.S. banks on the stock market.
  Toronto-Dominion Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and the nation’s other six large lenders collectively boosted profit 10 per cent to a record $11.7 billion in the fiscal third quarter. Still, that’s no match for a U.S. economy seen having more runway than Canada, thanks in part to President D
  
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