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• Habs hit the ice for training camp

  14-09-2018 23:54 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Sep 14: The newest version of the Montreal Canadiens took to the ice in Brossard for the first time as part of training camp. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, there are lots of new faces and a clean slate – and hope is in the air.
  
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• Firefighters in Laval deal with major blaze at a repair garage

  14-09-2018 23:51
  Firefighters in Laval spent the better part of Friday afternoon dealing with a fire at a repair garage in the city’s St-Vincent-de-Paul district that generated smoke the could be seen from at least 20 kilometres away.
  A spokesperson for the fire department said the blaze, which started in a building on Leman Blvd. at around 1 p.m., was classified as a four-alarm fire.
  By 5 p.m. firefighters were still on the scene, but it was well under control, the spokesperson said
  The garage is located
  
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• Is it clear who won the French-language debate? Pas tellement

  14-09-2018 23:49 via cbc.ca
  An ordinary voter stole the show, but which leader actually came away looking the best? Depends on who you ask.
  
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• Montreal Canadiens’ newcomers grab attention at training camp

  14-09-2018 23:48 via globalnews.ca
  The new-look Canadiens were on the ice for the first time.
  
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• Heated exchanges mark first debate between Quebec party leaders

  14-09-2018 23:47 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Sep 14: Quebec party leaders took part in a fiery first debate of the provincial election on Thursday. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, they all promise to invest more money in health and education – but they also attacked each other’s credibility.
  
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• Carey Price is only Canadiens player ranked in THN's Top 50

  14-09-2018 23:31
  The Hockey News has come out with its Yearbook for the 2018-19 season, in which it ranks the Top 50 players in the NHL.
  Carey Price is the only Canadiens player to make the list, coming in at No. 39 after the worst season of his 11-year NHL career in which he posted a 16-26-7 record with a 3.11 goals-against average and a .900 save percentage. Price is heading into the first season of an eight-year, US$84-million contract with an annual salary-cap hit of $10.5 million.
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• Royal Canadian Legion in Lasalle faces closure over unpaid taxes

  14-09-2018 23:29 via cbc.ca
  Legion Branch 212​ has until Nov. 4 to pay $24,200 in back taxes to the City of Montreal or risk losing the building it has occupied since 1963.
  
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• Best of all possible worlds launches francophone theatre’s fall season

  14-09-2018 22:29
  The francophone fall theatre season is already up and running. Here is a necessarily incomplete look at a wealth of productions, which includes several adaptations of literary classics and reinterpretations of modern Québécois classics, as well as two epic plays marking the anniversary of the 2008 financial crash.
  Picking themselves up after the ugly events of the SLAV controversy over summer, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde (84 Ste-Catherine St. W.) recently reopened with Pi
  
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• Inside the CFL: Hall of Famers Flory, Miles reflect on Als' glory years

  14-09-2018 22:28
  Maybe, when it’s all said and done Scott Flory admitted, it comes down to this — he showed up with the Alouettes at the right place and the right time.
  “No way could this have been done without being a part of great teams, without great teammates and coaches. This stuff just doesn’t happen,” Flory said this week by telephone from Saskatoon, where he’s the head coach at the University of Saskatchewan.
  Flory had to miss the Huskies’ game Friday against the
  
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• Kahnawake explores cannabis biz with one of the largest medical marijuana companies in Canada

  14-09-2018 22:26 via cbc.ca
  While a moratorium on the production and sale of cannabis products has been in place in Kahnawake, Que., for more than a year, its council is looking into partnering with one of the largest medical marijuana companies in Canada.
  
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• Quebec election: PQ won't commit to immigration numbers

  14-09-2018 22:20
  QUEBEC CITY — An increasingly bitter debate over immigration has forced party leaders to take a stand on the issue of who gets to call themselves a Quebecer.
  But while the Coalition Avenir Québec and Liberals clearly spelled out their positions at Thursday’s debate, the Parti Québécois still won’t commit to how many people it would allow in the province each year.
  The front-running CAQ leader is calling for an overhaul of the current system.
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• Watch: Montreal media join forces for the English provincial leaders’ debate

  14-09-2018 22:15
  Three English Montreal television anchors, CBC anchor Debra Arbec, CTV anchor Mutsumi Takahashi and Global anchor Jamie Orchard will be working in tandem for the first-ever English provincial leaders debate on Sept. 17, 2018.
  It’s also a first that anchors from three networks work in tandem for this sort of event in Montreal.
  Bill Brownstein of the Montreal Gazette speaks with the trio ahead of the debate.
  
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• Shelter for women fleeing sex trade opens in Vaudreuil-Dorion

  14-09-2018 22:03
  A new shelter for women fleeing sexual exploitation opened its doors over the weekend in Vaudreuil-Dorion. Supporters say it is the first shelter in Quebec to provide a safe place specifically for women looking for a way out of prostitution.
  The shelter, which can accommodate up to five women, is funded by private donations to the La Sortie (The Way Out), a not-for-profit organization founded in 2013 to offer help and support for victims of sexual exploitation in Quebec.
  La Sortie director Ronal
  
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• LIVE — Quebec election: Here's why you should watch Monday's English debate

  14-09-2018 22:00
  This is the Montreal Gazette’s live blog about the Quebec election for Friday, Sept. 14. It will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected]:40 p.m. Fresh-faced leaders
  Petite plongée dans les archives de Radio-Canada pour découvrir la vie des chefs québécois…bien avant la politique https://t.co/Bo8Uu4ijw3#Québec2018 #QC2018 #PolQc
  — Rania Massoud (@RaniaMassoud) September 14, 2018
  3:35 p.m.: The CAQ, in English
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• What the Puck: As Habs fans' hopes tank, players can't be happy, either

  14-09-2018 21:55
  Remember when the start of the Montreal Canadiens’ season was a cause for celebration?
  Until recently, no matter how middling the team might be, you’d be excited on the first day of Habs training camp. But you have to admit that, as training camp began Friday, expectations are probably lower than they’ve ever been. Well, OK, they were pretty low last season, too. Remember that one? That was the training camp when general manager Marc Bergevin said that the Habs’ defence c
  
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• Montreal Impact in familiar position: fighting for their playoff lives

  14-09-2018 21:55
  With only six games remaining this season, Montreal Impact goalkeeper Evan Bush feels like he’s already in the playoffs.
  Starting Saturday on the road against the Philadelphia Union (7:30 p.m., TVA Sports, TSN 690 Radio), the Impact play games solely against Eastern Conference teams as they look to clinch a post-season berth for the fourth time in seven years in Major League Soccer.
  Montreal (11-14-3) is sixth in the Eastern Conference standings, four points behind Philly (12-11-4) and two
  
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• Here's how to watch Monday's historic English-language leaders' debate

  14-09-2018 21:45 via cbc.ca
  On Monday, Sept. 17, the leaders of the four main parties vying for votes in the Oct. 1 provincial election will come together for a televised debate in English — a first in Quebec electoral history.
  
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• Tax court rules Guy Laliberté’s $42M space trip was a taxable benefit

  14-09-2018 21:40 via globalnews.ca
  The Tax Court of Canada has ruled that a trip to outer space by billionaire Quebec businessman Guy Laliberté in 2009 was a taxable benefit.
  
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• 4-alarm fire in Laval backs up traffic near Highway 440

  14-09-2018 21:15 via cbc.ca
  Large plumes of smoke are coming from a commercial building on Leman Boulevard, which is located in an industrial park.
  
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• Montreal photographer explores mental illness in new exhibition

  14-09-2018 19:51 via globalnews.ca
  A Montreal woman is using her love of photography to raise awareness about mental illness.
  
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• Canada Goose store with minus-25C changing room coming to downtown Montreal - Montreal Gazette

  14-09-2018 19:37
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  Canada Goose store with minus-25C changing room coming to downtown Montreal
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• Canada Goose store with -25° changing room coming to downtown Montreal

  14-09-2018 19:36
  Signage announcing a new Canada Goose store at the intersection of Ste-Catherine and Peel streets went up this week.
  The standalone retail location, which will take over much of the space previously occupied by HMV, is due to open this fall.
  In June, Canada Goose said the Montreal store would be one of “the first locations in North America to offer a ‘cold room’ — an immersive experience where fans can test the brand’s warmest parkas in temperatures as low as -25 Ce
  
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• Macpherson: From expelling immigrants to exiling young anglos

  14-09-2018 19:23
  The Quebec feminist, television personality and politician Lise Payette, who died last week, once compared televised election debates to contests between little boys to see who can pee the farthest.
  But in the campaign for the Oct. 1 Quebec election, François Legault and Jean-François Lisée couldn’t wait until the first debate on Thursday to show voters who could be tougher on minorities.
  Since Lisée’s Parti Québécois is fighting for its surv
  
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• Parking at Brossard’s Panama station increasingly difficult for commuters

  14-09-2018 19:19 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Sep 14: Five hundred parking spots were closed at the Panama terminal parking lot to facilitate construction as part of work on the new REM train network. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports.
  
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• REM construction at South Shore parking lot frustrates drivers

  14-09-2018 19:13 via globalnews.ca
  Five hundred out of 1,500 spots were closed at the Panama terminal parking lot last week.
  
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• Quebec election: Couillard promises to diversify municipal tax powers

  14-09-2018 19:10
  QUEBEC — Municipalities in Quebec would get new taxation powers — long sought by the city of Montreal as it looks to lessen its dependence on property taxes — if the Liberal government is re-elected, party leader Philippe Couillard promised on Friday.
  Speaking at a meeting of the Union des municipalités du Québec (UMQ), Couillard said that if his government is returned to power on Oct. 1, it would renegotiate the relationship between cities and the province.
  
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• Quebec election: It will be up to Ottawa to expel immigrants, CAQ says

  14-09-2018 18:50
  QUEBEC — The day after the question of immigration became a flashpoint of the first televised leaders’ debate of the Quebec election campaign, Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault found himself grilled on whether or not he would expel immigrants who failed to pass French tests and a Quebec values quiz after three years in the province.
  Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard said during the debate the CAQ’s immigration policies would lead to fathers who could
  
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• The faces of suicide: A photographic exhibition

  14-09-2018 18:27 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Sep 14: A Montreal woman is using her love of photography to raise awareness about mental illness. Billy Shields reports.
  
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• A photographic exhibition in Montreal explores mental illness

  14-09-2018 18:27 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Sep 14: A Montreal woman is using her love of photography to raise awareness about mental illness. Billy Shields reports.
  
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• Buchignani: Ferrari seeks to shake demons as F1 goes to Singapore

  14-09-2018 18:25
  This weekend, Ferrari returns to the scene of the crime — or, at least, to where it famously shot itself in the foot.
  That’s right, it’s time for the Singapore Grand Prix, where one year ago the Formula One drivers’ championship took a dramatic and devastating turn for the scuderia and its legions of tifosi.
  Remember? Sebastian Vettel was poised to leapfrog Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton atop the standings at a track where Ferrari arrived as the clear favourite.
  With only
  
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• Young Quebecers ‘highly engaged’ in provincial election: IPSOS poll

  14-09-2018 18:18 via globalnews.ca
  Young Quebecers are highly engaged in the provincial electoral campaign, according to an IPSOS poll for La Presse.
  
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• Quebec election: PQ offers a third way forward on immigration

  14-09-2018 18:12
  QUEBEC CITY — The heated exchanges on immigration in Thursday’s debate made for a rare moment when candidates set aside talking points and grappled with the idea of what it means to be a Quebecer.
  Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard and Coalition Avenir Québec chief François Legault were at each other’s throats, each accusing the other of fear-mongering.
  Couillard says Legault’s idea of forcing immigrants to take a “values test” and a French exam a
  
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• Police asking for help in locating missing St-Hyacinthe teenager

  14-09-2018 18:10
  The Sûreté du Québec is seeking the public’s help in finding a missing teenager from St-Hyacinthe.
  Kelly Dalpé-Pouliot, 16, was last seen walking on Casavant Blvd. E. in St-Hyacinthe on Sept. 12 around 5:15 p.m. Police say she could be in Montreal,  St-Jean-sur-Richelieu or St-Hyacinthe.
  She is about 5 feet tall, weighs about 100 pounds and has blond hair and blue eyes. When she was last seen she was wearing jeans and a blue-checkered shirt.
  Anyone with info
  
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• Carb wars: Ex-NYT food critic likens Montreal bagels to 'broken glass' - Montreal Gazette

  14-09-2018 18:06
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  Carb wars: Ex-NYT food critic likens Montreal bagels to 'broken glass'
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  Important bagel news from the country that gave us the fireball whiskey bagel: former New York Times food critic Mimi Sheraton has taken to the internet to liken the Montreal bagel to “broken glass.” ...
  Ex-New York Times Critic Says Montreal Bagels Are 'Like Chewing Broken Glass'Eater Montreal
  Food critic dares to slam Montreal bagels, Montrealers react accordinglyDaily Hiv
  
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• Carb wars: Ex-NYT food critic likens Montreal bagels to 'broken glass'

  14-09-2018 18:05
  Important bagel news from the country that gave us the fireball whiskey bagel: former New York Times food critic Mimi Sheraton has taken to the internet to liken the Montreal bagel to “broken glass.”
  The author of 1,000 Foods to Eat Before you Die, like anyone else with an internet connection, stridently expressed this food opinion on Twitter.
  “I have tried from all famous sources up there,” she said, “too thin, sweet not salty, so many seeds atop it’s like ch
  
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• Joy – and cafés – are the heart of author Kim Thúy's Montreal - The Kingston Whig-Standard

  14-09-2018 17:51
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  Joy – and cafés – are the heart of author Kim Thúy's Montreal
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  "You feel like you can embrace Montreal totally, even though it's actually quite big and cosmopolitan. It's doable.” Ian McGillis. More from Ian McGillis. Published on: September 14, 2018 | Last Updated: September 14, 2018 11:49 AM EDT. Share Adjust ...
  
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• Joy – and cafés – are the heart of author Kim Thúy's Montreal - Montreal Gazette

  14-09-2018 17:50
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  Joy – and cafés – are the heart of author Kim Thúy's Montreal
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  "You feel like you can embrace Montreal totally, even though it's actually quite big and cosmopolitan. It's doable.” Ian McGillis. Updated: September 14, 2018. Share Adjust Comment Print. We've caught Kim Thúy on a good day. But then, if you've spent ...
  
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• LIVE — Quebec election: Projection shows CAQ slipping into minority territory

  14-09-2018 17:49
  This is the Montreal Gazette’s live blog about the Quebec election for Friday, Sept. 14. It will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected]:30 a.m.: CAQ one seat shy of majority
  It does not reflect any impact Thursday’s debate might have had or the possible impact of François Legault’s recent emphasis on immigration issues.
  But the latest projection from election-forecast site Qc125 shows the CAQ slipping down into minority territory.
  A party needs
  
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• Joy – and cafés – are the heart of author Kim Thúy's Montreal

  14-09-2018 17:49
  We’ve caught Kim Thúy on a good day. But then, if you’ve spent any time around her, you get the feeling all the days are good.An interview in print with the Governor General’s Award-winning Montreal novelist can’t quite convey the essence of a conversation with her: she is ebullience personified, frequently breaking into infectious laughter, making new friends seemingly instantly. On this particular day, she has freshly received the news that she is one of four wri
  
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• Quebec election: ‘Highly engaged’ youth vote

  14-09-2018 17:36 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Sep 14: Young people in Quebec are most concerned about issues related to education, according to an IPSOS poll for La Presse. Global News Montreal Senior Anchor Jamie Orchard talks to IPSOS Quebec Senior Vice-President and General Manager Sebastien Dallaire to find out how engaged the province’s youth are.
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: NHL veteran Joel Ward invited to training camp

  14-09-2018 17:36
  The Canadiens have invited veteran forward Joel Ward to training camp on a PTO (professional tryout).
  The 37-year-old right-winger played 52 games with the San Jose Sharks last season, scoring five goals and adding seven assists for 12 points. Ward was never selected at the NHL Draft and broke into the NHL with the Minnesota Wild during the 2005-06 season after playing four years at the University of Prince Edward Island.
  In 726 career regular-season games, Ward had 133-171-304 totals.
  The Canad
  
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• Woman dies after falling from 6th floor of Quebec City hospital

  14-09-2018 17:33 via cbc.ca
  A spokesperson for the hospital called it an "extremely sad and unpredictable event," but would not release details about the woman or the reason for her stay.
  
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• The Right Chemistry: Chess, trickery and a turbaned automaton

  14-09-2018 17:30
  “Witches can only be found where there is ignorance. This man is no more capable of witchcraft than I.” With those words, Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, countered superstitious beliefs of the times and went on to pardon the poor soul who was to be beheaded, accused of practicing witchcraft. The 18th century ruler also supported science, having herself and her children inoculated against smallpox, a controversial procedure at the time. While the q
  
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• Quebec election: Montreal councillors want smoking age raised to 21

  14-09-2018 17:28
  Montreal North Mayor Christine Black and two city councillors are calling on the provincial government to raise the legal smoking age from 18 to 21, arguing that such a measure would ultimately save lives.
  Black’s motion, proposed by Snowdon councillor Marvin Rotrand and Andrée Hénault of Anjou, already has the backing of the director of the Montreal Public Health Department.
  “According to the Canadian Cancer Society, tobacco use is responsible for 20 per cent of all de
  
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• Montreal Canadiens invite Joel Ward to training camp - A Winning Habit

  14-09-2018 17:05
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  Montreal Canadiens invite Joel Ward to training camp
  A Winning Habit
  The Montreal Canadiens have added to their training camp roster signing Joel Ward to a professional tryout ahead of the season. Training camp is ready to rock. The Montreal Canadiens have already announced their 66-player roster, but they felt the need ...and more »
  
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• Named in a #MeToo exposé, OdM's Bernard Uzan gone but not forgotten

  14-09-2018 17:01
  The Opéra de Montréal opens its 2018-19 season on Saturday with Verdi’s Rigoletto, the first of four productions in Salle Wilfrid Pelletier of Place des Arts. Twenty-five years ago, a schedule of seven productions was under way, six of them in Pelletier and one in the Théâtre Maisonneuve.
  Assessing the number of shows and spectators in 1993-94 requires more math than I can muster, but most operas then ran for six performances, not four (the OdM this season is haz
  
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• Laval’s first comedy festival

  14-09-2018 16:29 via globalnews.ca
  The Laval Laughs Festival kicks off September 20! Find out who’s performing and what’s in store for the city’s first ever comedy festival. Comedians Franco Taddeo and Peter Radomski join Global’s Laura Casella for some laughs.
  
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• Maxime Bernier launches the People's Party of Canada

  14-09-2018 16:21 via cbc.ca
  Quebec MP Maxime Bernier has announced the name of his new party, the People's Party of Canada, three weeks after leaving the Conservatives.
  
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• Bernier faces a challenge keeping racists out of his new party, says Stockwell Day

  14-09-2018 16:21 via cbc.ca
  Quebec MP Maxime Bernier new federal political party: the People's Party of Canada, will have a challenge ensuring anti-immigrant and racist activists do not infiltrate the candidate system said former Conservative cabinet minister Stockwell Day.
  
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• Maxime Bernier officially launches new conservative People’s Party

  14-09-2018 16:13 via globalnews.ca
  Maxime Bernier has officially announced the name of his new conservative party.
  
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