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• Fact check: Quebec political parties on immigration

  12-09-2018 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 12: Quebec’s campaigning political parties have been talking a lot about immigration over the past week – but have they been giving Quebecers the whole picture? Global’s Raquel Fletcher takes a closer look at what leaders have been promising.
  
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• Will Hurricane Florence flirt with Canada?

  12-09-2018 23:52
  With Hurricane Florence on the verge of making landfall, forecasters say it’s too soon to say if Canada will feel any of the effects of the storm expected to cause widespread damage in the southern U.S.
  “We’re looking at a very intense storm, and it’s getting bigger as it approaches the Carolinas,” said Bob Robichaud, a meteorologist at the Canadian Hurricane Centre.
  He said the Hurricane is expected to hit the coast of Georgia or South Carolina late Frida
  
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• Montreal team performs first Canadian face transplant

  12-09-2018 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  A Quebec man, 64, has a new lease on life, thanks to doctors in Montreal. They’ve performed the first face transplant in Canada. As Amanda Jelowicki reports, doctors described the man’s transformation as “a spiritual experience for everyone who was there.”
  
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• Quebec election: Here's what each leader must do in pivotal TV debate

  12-09-2018 23:48
  Four leaders will be in the spotlight Thursday night as they face off in the first debate of the Quebec election campaign.
  It will be a pivotal moment because four in 10 voters are wavering.
  The Montreal Gazette asked Concordia University political science professor Guy Lachapelle about each leader’s strengths, weaknesses and debate objectives.
  “We have four leaders who are pretty much equal in terms of their capacity to communicate with the viewers,” said Lachapelle, who speci
  
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• Quebec political leaders on immigration: reality check

  12-09-2018 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  Ahead of Quebec's elections, political parties are debating immigration in the province, but are they giving Quebecers the whole picture?
  
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• Quebec Liberals promise to maintain balanced budget

  12-09-2018 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 12: The Quebec Liberals unveiled their economic framework in Montreal on Wednesday, with a promise to maintain a balanced provincial budget. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, party leader Philippe Couillard spoke of how careful the Liberals plan to be with finances – but some say they aren’t being careful enough.
  
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• Montreal businessman who bribed CRA employee seeks new lawyer

  12-09-2018 23:34
  A Montreal businessman who admitted this year that he bribed a Canada Revenue Agency employee before and after the man became an undercover agent in an RCMP investigation is looking for a new lawyer before his case enters the sentencing stage.
  A sentence hearing for Reza Tehrani, 60, has been put off four times since May 22, when he entered guilty pleas to seven charges filed against him in 2012.
  The former owner of the Institut Technique Aviron de Montréal, a trade school based in Town o
  
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• Doctor shortage hits Montreal’s West End

  12-09-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 12: Queen Elizabeth Health Complex will soon need more doctors, but the clinic says they aren’t able to recruit new physicians. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, the problem is becoming an election issue.
  
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• 'Our backs are against the wall': Alouettes head coach Mike Sherman

  12-09-2018 23:20
  For the third consecutive day on Wednesday, Alouettes backup quarterback Johnny Manziel — who hasn’t played since Aug. 3 at Ottawa — didn’t attend practice.
  And for the third consecutive day, the organization maintained Manziel is suffering from stomach flu. He did practise Sunday, when the Als returned from a bye week in the schedule.
  Never has there been so much fascination surrounding a player who hasn’t actually played of late.
  “This isn’t odd to me.
  
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• Watch: Pedestrian safety in Montreal

  12-09-2018 23:08
  Montreal police launched a series of road safety operations with a focus on pedestrian safety on Wednesday.
  Montreal Gazette photographer John Mahoney was on hand at the intersection of René-Lévesque Blvd. and Berri St. at 11 a.m. and files this video, which finds that pedestrians are not always paying attention to the traffic lights and are often distracted by their smartphones.
  The SPVM road safety operations continue until Sept.18, quite possibly coming to an intersection n
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals promise four more years of balanced budgets

  12-09-2018 23:08
  Four more years of balanced budgets and increased spending on health and education — that’s what Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard promised voters on Wednesday as his party released its financial framework for the mandate it hopes to win on Oct. 1.
  “What we’re saying today is we’re guaranteeing stable and predictable funding in health care and education,” Couillard said.
  “We will not proceed with further tax cuts unless we are sure that the funding
  
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• Jamie Orchard named assistant news director at Global Montreal

  12-09-2018 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  Global News Senior Anchor Jamie Orchard has been named Assistant News Director at Global Montreal.
  
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• Quebec election: Michelle Blanc says she owes Hasidim no apology

  12-09-2018 22:32
  Parti Québécois candidate Michelle Blanc says she does not need to apologize for perceived anti-Semitic comments she made in the past.
  “I don’t have to defend myself,” Blanc told the Montreal Gazette, saying the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs has “already defended me.”
  She then said she had no other comments to make on the subject.
  Blanc’s comments have been denounced by the human rights organization B’nai Brith Canada, which cal
  
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• Doctor shortage looming over west-end Montreal clinic

  12-09-2018 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  A doctor shortage is looming over a west-end clinic in Montreal, where four doctors are soon expected to retire.
  
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• Montrealer Nicolas Gill, 2-time Olympic medallist, headed to Judo Hall of Fame

  12-09-2018 21:26 via cbc.ca
  Nicolas Gill is set to become the first Canadian inducted into the International Judo Federation Hall of Fame.
  
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• Low graduation rate a focus for new Cree School Board chairperson

  12-09-2018 21:06 via cbc.ca
  Sarah Pash, from the community of Chisasibi, says she's committed to improving the Cree School Board's graduation rate through academic, emotional and social support.
  
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• Notorious bank bandit sentenced in Montreal armoured-car heist

  12-09-2018 20:52
  One of Canada’s most notorious bank robbers has been sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in a Rosemont heist fours years ago.
  With time already served, his remaining sentence amounts to about half that.
  Paul Thomas Bryntwick, 67, came to notoriety for his role in a 1977 robbery in Vancouver in which he and other members of Montreal’s West End Gang made off with more than $2.5 million in gold bars and other valuables.
  At the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday, Superior Court
  
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• Opinion: Elected school boards are vital to English-speaking Quebecers

  12-09-2018 20:50
  English public education has a long and storied history in Quebec. Today the system has roughly 100,000 students in schools located throughout the province. We strongly believe that quality English public education essential to our future, and that maintaining control and management of that education by means of elected school boards is vital to the future of English-speaking Quebec.
  Over the years, we have heard intelligent, well intentioned people propose other educational models, such as
  
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• Montreal robot bartender serves up drink, song, dance and counsel

  12-09-2018 19:56
  “Tough day?” the bartender asks. “How about a glass of champagne? Would you like one?”
  Why not.
  “How about a song?
  Sure.
  The strains of Lionel Richie’s Hello come bursting out of the bartender.
  “Want me to dance?” the bartender inquires.
  Seriously?
  The bartender then busts a few moves that would do Daft Punk proud.
  No accident there. This bartender could pass for — the top half, anyway — a member of the hit robotic-resembling French ele
  
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• Couillard ready to go to court if NAFTA deal is unsatisfactory to Quebec farmers

  12-09-2018 19:54 via globalnews.ca
  He says he won't present any deal to the legislature that the agricultural sector opposes.
  
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• Russell Copeman ready to protect English school boards as QESBA's new executive director

  12-09-2018 19:42 via cbc.ca
  Settling into his new office at the Quebec English School Boards Association, the former Liberal MNA and municipal politician said he looks forward to defending the essential role the boards play in the province’s English-speaking community.
  
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• Quebec election: 'Too many' councillors in Montreal, Legault says

  12-09-2018 19:39
  L’ASSOMPTION — Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault believes there are “too many” elected officials in Montreal and plans on meeting with city officials about it if elected.
  “I would like to discuss with Montreal representatives, including the mayor,” Legault told reporters after a news conference in his home riding of l’Assomption on Wednesday.
  “I think right now it’s true, it’s a question of fact: th
  
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• Martin Patriquin: In Quebec election, one fear has replaced another

  12-09-2018 19:27
  In 1970, a year marked by burgeoning facial hair and a certain unhinged president in the White House, Quebec held an election in which getting the hell out of Canada was on the table, even if a remote possibility. In 2018, with facial hair once again a resounding thing and an even more unhinged president serving as commander-in-chief, the province will, for the first time in 48 years, vote in an election in which staying put is a given.
  This is very good news. For nearly half a century, Quebec p
  
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• Quebec's cannabis agency calls on Ottawa to protect U.S.-bound Canadians with industry ties

  12-09-2018 19:16 via cbc.ca
  While the SQDC has been examining this issue closely with similar agencies across Canada, there is little it can do to influence the way the U.S. manages its borders. That’s a discussion that must instead be had between Ottawa and Washington D.C.
  
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• Montreal man charged after rental vehicle clocked at 160 km/h on Hwy. 402: OPP

  12-09-2018 19:04 via globalnews.ca
  Lambton OPP say they collared a speedster in a rental vehicle Tuesday night along Highway 402.
  
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• Watch — Quebec election: Anglos on what they want in a political party

  12-09-2018 18:32
  Quebec’s political sphere is complicated.
  In addition to traditional differences between leftist, centrist and right-wing parties, language rights and separatism are unavoidable.
  As Quebec’s Oct. 1 general election approaches, we asked anglophones in Montreal what they are looking for in a political party.
  The outcome of this informal and not entirely representative survey was a mixed bag.
  Some said they’d found a party that broadly reflected their outlook.
  Others were struggli
  
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• Notorious bank robber sentenced for role in Montreal armoured-car heist

  12-09-2018 18:32
  One of Canada’s more notorious bank robbers has been sentenced to an overall prison term of eight years for his role in a heist in Rosemont fours years ago.
  Paul Thomas Bryntwick, 67, came to notoriety for his role in a robbery carried out in 1977 in Vancouver where he and other Montrealers who were part of the West End Gang made off with more than $2.5 million in gold bars and other valuables.
  On Wednesday, during a hearing at the Montreal courthouse, Superior Court Justice André V
  
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• Russell Copeman named new executive director for Quebec English school association

  12-09-2018 18:20 via globalnews.ca
  Former Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough mayor Russel Copeman named Quebec English School Boards Association new Executive Director
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals promise to maintain balanced budget in second term

  12-09-2018 17:51 via globalnews.ca
  The Quebec Liberals are promising to maintain a balanced budget.
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ would ‘systematically’ screen all young children

  12-09-2018 17:46
  L’ASSOMPTION — A Coalition Avenir Québec government would enact province-wide measures to screen for developmental disorders among young children and guarantee each child access to a family doctor, the party announced Wednesday morning.
  Leader François Legault made the announcement outside a CPE in his own riding of l’Assomption. He called the promise “one of the most important” of the campaign and estimated the idea would cost $40 million.
  Legaul
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals apologize for election sign in Black Rock cemetery

  12-09-2018 17:29
  The Liberals say they have finally removed a large election sign the party erected at a monument that sits atop a burial ground for Irish immigrants who died of typhus in Montreal in 1847.
  “The situation is totally unacceptable,” said Dominique Anglade, the Liberal candidate in Saint-Henri—Sainte-Anne and economic development minister in Philippe Couillard’s government.
  “I was just in touch with party members and it’s supposed to be down.”
  On T
  
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• Trump tax cuts put 635K Canadian jobs at risk, PwC report finds

  12-09-2018 17:21 via globalnews.ca
  As investment flows south, jobs will disappear north of the border, a new study warns.
  
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• Quebec election: When are the leaders' debates on TV?

  12-09-2018 17:17
  Wondering exactly when and where — and in what language — the leaders of Quebec’s main political parties will debate the top issues on TV? We can help you with that.
  In the lead-up to voting day on Oct. 1, here are the details for the three televised debates for the Quebec provincial election, featuring major party leaders Philippe Couillard of the Quebec Liberal Party, François Legault of the Coalition Avenir Québec, Jean-François Lisée of the Parti
  
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• First Canadian face transplant: Man doing well after life-changing surgery

  12-09-2018 17:13 via globalnews.ca
  The transplant was made possible by a donor and the permission of the donor's family.
  
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• Quebec Liberals promise prudence, 4 more years of balanced budgets

  12-09-2018 17:03 via cbc.ca
  If elected Oct. 1, Philippe Couillard's party is promising four more years of balanced budgets and "prudence" when it comes to spending.
  
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• Couillard Liberals promise 4 more years of balanced budgets

  12-09-2018 17:03 via cbc.ca
  If elected Oct. 1, the party is promising four more years of balanced budgets and "prudence" when it comes to spending.
  
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• What The Pop – A Gallery Boutique, Gallery and Performance for All

  12-09-2018 16:52 via globalnews.ca
  On September 22-23, YES will be shining the spotlight on over 50 emerging artists from all over Quebec in our first ever What the Pop! exhibition series. Spanning over two days and multiple venues, there will be live music, performance art, one-of-a-kind paintings, drawings and prints; photography; mixed and digital media; fashion, jewelry, crafts, and...
  
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• Quebec election: Nationalist group wants English debate cancelled

  12-09-2018 16:51
  A nationalist group is calling on the leaders of the four main political parties to reconsider their plans to take part in an English-language debate next week.
  In a press release Wednesday, the Mouvement Québec français said the leaders should cancel the debate to reinforce the fact that French is the province’s official language.
  If they take part, they will send the message “that learning French is neither necessary nor important, since even our aspiring premier
  
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• Quebec election notebook: A day later, 'callous' Liberal election sign still stands in Irish cemetery

  12-09-2018 16:34
  Victor Boyle started hearing about it early Tuesday morning via Facebook.
  Large election signs — two touting the Parti Québécois, one the Liberals — had popped up next to the Black Rock in the median of Bridge St. near the Victoria Bridge.One of the most solemn places for Montreal’s Irish community, the boulder commemorates the 6,000 poor Irish immigrants who escaped the Great Famine only to die of typhus in Montreal. They were buried in mass graves
  
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• Cedars Cancer Center Inaugural Gala

  12-09-2018 16:33 via globalnews.ca
  Preparations for a very special gala benefiting the Cancer Care Mission of the McGill University Health Centre’s world-class team at the Cedars Cancer Centre are under way. Save the date for a bedazzling night inspired by innovation and excellence.
  
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• Montrealers running for Terry Fox

  12-09-2018 16:16 via globalnews.ca
  The runners who trekked from Montreal to Vancouver are now spokespeople for the Terry Fox Foundation. They sit down with Global’s Laura Casella to talk about the upcoming run in the Old Port.
  
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• Monetise your mom blog

  12-09-2018 16:06 via globalnews.ca
  Running a blog can be a great hobby for moms, but did you know you can make extra money with it? Erica Diamond joins Global’s Laura Casella to show you the ins and outs of mom blogging.
  
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• Have you ever played Pétanque?

  12-09-2018 15:59 via globalnews.ca
  Global’s Kim Sullivan learns the ins and outs of the French game Pétanque, and how you can enjoy the outdoors at the annual tournament in Pointe St-Charles.
  
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• Quebec election: Couillard promises 4 more years of balanced budgets

  12-09-2018 15:56
  A re-elected Liberal government would balance the provincial budget for four more years, Leader Philippe Couillard promised on Wednesday.
  The promise came as the Liberal Party released its financial plan for the second mandate it hopes to win Oct. 1.
  The plan projects that government revenue will increase — as a result of economic growth —and  much of that increased revenue will be used to fund new promises, the Liberals say. The plan forecasts that budget surpluses will rise fr
  
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• Telecom tycoon’s paintings back in the public eye 10 years after financial crisis

  12-09-2018 15:35
  It was November 2008 and the financial crisis triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. had finally caught up with the art market. Auction volumes plunged and prices tumbled. While many collectors were too distracted or short on cash, others sensed opportunity — and went shopping.
  One such person was Juan Antonio Perez Simon, the former chief executive officer of Teléfonos de Mexico and longtime business partner of billionaire Carlos Slim, the world’s seventh-
  
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• Getting the right insurance for your needs

  12-09-2018 15:30 via globalnews.ca
  What’s the difference between life insurance mortgage protection and personal life insurance? Assante Wealth Management senior investment advisor Michael Martella joins Global’s Laura Casella to break down the confusion and get you the right insurance for your needs.
  
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• 20-year-old in critical condition after high-speed collision on Hwy. 10

  12-09-2018 15:20 via globalnews.ca
  A 20-year-old man is in critical condition after losing control of his vehicle colliding head-on with another vehicle on Highway 10 in Brossard.
  
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• 20-year-old in critical condition after high-speed collision on Highway 10

  12-09-2018 15:20 via globalnews.ca
  A 20-year-old man is in critical condition after losing control of his vehicle colliding head-on with another vehicle on Highway 10 in Brossard.
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Wednesday, September 12

  12-09-2018 15:04 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Wednesday, September 12.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Norm Macdonald apologizes, Rachid Taha has died

  12-09-2018 15:03
  We hope you slept well. Here are a couple of stories from overnight.
  Norm Macdonald apologizes: Canadian comedian Norm Macdonald apologized for defending Roseanne Barr and Louis C.K. during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter but several sources reported that his planned appearance Tuesday on the Tonight Show was still cancelled. Barr, who hired Macdonald to write on her original Roseanne series, lost her comeback series over a racist tweet. Louis C.K.’s production deal with FX Networ
  
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