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• Coalition demands ‘life-changing’ cochlear implant surgery in Montreal

  17-09-2018 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  A coalition of doctors, families, university deans and Montreal mayors call for "life-changing" cochlear-implant surgery to be performed in Montreal.
  
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• $2M of damage after fire destroys Kuujjuaq office building

  17-09-2018 23:51 via cbc.ca
  Quebec provincial police are investigating an early-morning fire that destroyed an office building in Kuujjuaq. The building was home to the Nunavik health board's youth protection division.
  
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• Quebec election: Stream the first televised English leaders' debate here

  17-09-2018 23:24
  The day is finally upon us.
  The first-ever televised English-language debate between the leaders of Quebec’s major parties starts at 5:30 p.m.
  Organized by a consortium of Montreal English media outlets, you can watch the debate farther up this page or by clicking on this link.
  A team of reporters and producers from the partners in the English media consortium will be fact-checking statements made during the debate.
  The results will be posted on this website as well as those of the other
  
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• Quebec election: Party leaders face off in historic English-language debate

  17-09-2018 23:21 via globalnews.ca
  The leaders of Quebec’s four main parties face off in the province’s first-ever televised English-language debate.
  
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• QB Johnny Manziel to get start when Alouettes visit Winnipeg

  17-09-2018 23:14
  When Johnny Manziel was intercepted four times against Hamilton early last month in his Alouettes debut, he remained the starting quarterback — perhaps because the team didn’t know whether any better options existed.
  But after Antonio Pipkin was intercepted four times against British Columbia last Friday in his fourth game as the starter, he won’t receive the same immunity.
  The Als returned to practice Monday morning, and it became apparent almost from the outset that managemen
  
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• Quebec party leaders face off in first-ever English TV debate

  17-09-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
  The leaders of Quebec's four main political parties are facing off in the first-ever televised debate in English between provincial party leaders. You can watch it live online here, starting at 5:30 p.m.
  
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• Missed the debate? Get a full recap and watch it here

  17-09-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
  Immigration policy, once again, featured as a key issue in this provincial election campaign, as Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard and François Legault, the leader of Coalition Avenir Québec, sparred repeatedly at Monday's historic English-language debate.
  
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• Immigration takes centre stage at Quebec English-language leaders debate

  17-09-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
  Immigration policy, once again, emerged as a key issue in this provincial election campaign, as Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard and François Legault, the leader of Coalition Avenir Québec, sparred repeatedly at Monday's historic English-language debate.
  
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• Quebec election: Lower immigration would hurt Montreal, Plante says

  17-09-2018 22:58
  Having fewer immigrants entering Montreal each year would be a problem for the city, Mayor Valérie Plante says.
  Plante made the comments on Monday during a provincial election campaign that in recent weeks has been dominated by the question of Quebec immigration levels.
  “Yes,” Plante said when asked if having fewer newcomers would cause problems for Montreal. “Right now, the percentage of unoccupied jobs is already three per cent in Montreal, so that’s already
  
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• ‘Get out there and vote’: John Abbott College students meet local provincial candidates

  17-09-2018 22:42 via globalnews.ca
  John Abbott College students met their local candidates running in the upcoming provincial election.
  
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• Simons apologizes after naming bra in new lingerie line after Beverley McLachlin, former chief justice

  17-09-2018 22:39 via globalnews.ca
  Canadian fashion brand Simons is apologizing for a new line of lingerie the company named after trailblazing Canadian women, including former chief justice Beverley McLachlin.
  
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• Push for “life changing,” cochlear implant surgery in Montreal

  17-09-2018 22:17 via globalnews.ca
  A coalition of Montreal families, medical professionals and local Montreal mayors are calling for the establishment of cochlear-implant surgery in Montreal.
  
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• Free legal advice lectures for Pincourt residents

  17-09-2018 22:12
  The city of Pincourt is offering some free legal advice to local residents this fall.
  A series of lectures about various legal issues will be given, in French and English, by notary and legal adviser Myriam Léger.
  Topics covered include the importance of writing a will, how to settle a succession? the purpose of a power of attorney and/or protection mandate and the steps involved in buying or selling a property?
  English sessions take place at St.Patrick’s Elementary School, at 261 S
  
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• Simons sorry for campaign selling bras named after famed Canadian women

  17-09-2018 22:11 via cbc.ca
  Quebec-based department store chain La Maison Simons has apologized for a recent ad campaign in which it used the name of former Supreme Court chief justice Beverley McLachlin and other Canadian women to sell lingerie.
  
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• Simons apologizes for campaign selling bras named after famed Canadian women

  17-09-2018 22:11 via cbc.ca
  Quebec-based department store chain La Maison Simons has apologized for a recent ad campaign in which it used the name of Supreme Court Justice Beverley McLachlin and other Canadian women to sell bras and other items.
  
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• Simons sorry for 'poor taste' bra campaign, apologizes to former chief justice

  17-09-2018 21:34
  Simons clothing store has issued a formal public apology — with a special appeal to former chief justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin — for its recent promotional campaign to sell bras named after important women in Canadian history, including the “Beverley bralette.”
  Calling the campaign in “poor taste,” Peter Simons, the president and CEO of the Quebec City-based company, also apologized to McLachlin, the only living woman featured in the ads, for the &ldquo
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Jesperi Kotkaniemi not feeling pressure at training camp

  17-09-2018 21:21
  All eyes will be on Jesperi Kotkaniemi when the Canadiens play their first of seven exhibition games Monday night at the Bell Centre against the New Jersey Devils (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).
  The Canadiens selected the 6-foot-2, 184-pounder in the first round (third overall) at this year’s NHL Draft after he posted 10-19-29 totals in 57 games last season with Assat Pori in the Finnish Elite League. There’s going to be a lot of pressure on the 18-year-old as the Canadiens lo
  
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• Simons says sorry for bra campaign, apologizes to former Chief Justice

  17-09-2018 20:47
  Simons clothing store has issued a formal public apology — with a special appeal to former chief justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin — for its recent promotional campaign to sell bras named after important women in Canadian history, including the “Beverley bralette.”
  Calling the campaign in “poor taste,” Peter Simons, the president and CEO of the Quebec City-based company, also apologized to McLachlin, the only living woman featured in the ads, for the &ldquo
  
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• Private refugee sponsors wait in line overnight for a chance to submit applications

  17-09-2018 20:46 via cbc.ca
  Dozens of people lined up overnight outside the downtown office of Quebec's Immigration Ministry this weekend, hoping to get their application to sponsor a refugee family accepted.
  
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• Construction begins for REM station on McGill College Ave.

  17-09-2018 20:41
  Motorists and pedestrians will not be able to use the east side of McGill College Ave. over the next four months because construction has begun for the Réseau express métropolitain McGill station.
  Workers must relocate infrastructure for public utilities and municipal services between de Maisonneuve Blvd. and Ste-Catherine St. The work will create noise and dust, the REM warns.
  One lane of traffic, in each direction, will be allowed on the west side of McGill College Ave.
  
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• 'The boss here is me': Judge faces possible reprimand after yelling at guard

  17-09-2018 20:32
  A Quebec Court judge found himself before a panel of his peers who will determine if he was out of line when he yelled at a prison guard during a hearing at the Montreal courthouse last year.
  Judge Jean-Paul Braun, who retired this year, appeared before the Conseil de la magistrature du Québec on Monday and is scheduled to have another hearing before the judicial council that oversees the behaviour of judges, for comments made in a different case, in the coming weeks.
  On April 20, 2017, B
  
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• Lise Ravary: What resurgence of hate groups in Quebec?

  17-09-2018 20:29
  In a recent article, Ottawa-based human rights lawyer Richard Warman was quoted as saying that the ultra right-wing group Atalante Québec was part of a resurgence of right-wing hate groups in Québec.
  Pardon moi? A resurgence? As I recall, the last time there were right-wing hate groups in Quebec, and in Canada, worth worrying about was in the 1930s.
  Atalante Québec is a nasty piece of work. Its slogan “to exist is to fight against what denies my existence” c
  
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• Quebec election: Legault is an expert on immigration, Granby candidate says

  17-09-2018 20:13
  SAINT-SAUVEUR — The day after Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault erred repeatedly over two successive days on basic questions about Canada’s immigration laws, his candidate in the riding of Granby declared him an “expert” on citizenship regulations.
  “Of course Mr. Legault is an expert on immigration,” said François Bonnardel. “We explained our idea two years ago. We want to receive 40,000 immigrants, we want them to spea
  
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• Doug Ford's plans to cut Toronto city hall denounced by Montreal's opposition

  17-09-2018 19:55 via cbc.ca
  Montreal city council will hear an emergency motion supporting the City of Toronto in its fight to block the Ontario government’s bid to shrink its council.
  
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• Opinion: It's 4 a.m., and I'm thinking about the Quebec election

  17-09-2018 19:52
  I wish I were a politician. But I’m not. I’m just a no-name philosophy professor. The destiny of humankind is in someone else’s hands.
  I’m assuming most Quebecers feel powerless, like I do. I wish I had power to make the world a safer and fairer place to live. I wish I could make it so that all people would thrive and be happy. It’s cheesy, I know, but that’s what I’m hoping for. I listen to the news and all I hear is wildfires,
  
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• Quebec election: PQ 'Made in Quebec' message derailed by Blanc controversy

  17-09-2018 19:38
  As the Parti-Québécois presented its economic policy Monday morning that centred on a “Made in Quebec” label, Leader Jean-François Lisée once again had to sidestep questions about embattled Mercier candidate Michelle Blanc.
  On Sunday, Blanc turned down an invitation to be an honorary co-president of the annual gala by LGBTQ+ organization Équipe Montréal after the group distanced itself from Blanc because of online comments she made
  
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• Former Laval school principal pleads guilty to child luring

  17-09-2018 19:03 via cbc.ca
  Harold Vallée, 53, has also been charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation, two offences for which he has not yet submitted a plea.
  
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• Youths charged in connection with 87 Laval arsons

  17-09-2018 18:33 via cbc.ca
  Laval police believe a group of minors is responsible for dozens of fires that caused more than $375,000 damage last spring.
  
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• Couillard's Liberals need English debate to resonate beyond anglophones

  17-09-2018 18:32 via cbc.ca
  Polls suggest that Philippe Couillard's Liberals can continue to bank on the non-francophone vote, but they'll need more than that to beat François Legault's CAQ.
  
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• Driver, 82, in critical condition after SUV, truck collide in St-Léonard

  17-09-2018 18:18
  An 82-year-old man was in critical condition Monday morning after the SUV he was driving collided with a tractor-trailer at the corner of Pascale Gagnon St. and Des Grandes Prairies Blvd. in the borough of St-Léonard.
  The accident happened at 9:50 a.m. Witnesses interviewed by police say the collision occurred when the truck, travelling north of Pascal Gagnon, turned left to head west on Des Grandes Prairies at the same moment the SUV was travelling south through the intersection on Pasca
  
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• Quebec election: Québec solidaire vows to clean up corruption

  17-09-2018 17:27
  Québec solidaire promises to take steps to clean up corruption in the province if the party is elected on Oct. 1.
  The party says it would change the way the leaders of Quebec’s anti-corruption unit and the Sûreté du Québec are selected.
  Within the first 100 days of a mandate, Québec solidaire would change the rules so that future leaders are chosen by members of the National Assembly, co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said Monday.
  The internal structur
  
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• Montreal authors well represented on Giller Prize long list

  17-09-2018 17:23
  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Novelists Esi Edugyan and Patrick DeWitt are among the familiar names on this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize long list.
  Michael Redhill, last year’s winner, announced the contenders at a ceremony Monday in St. John’s, N.L.
  The prize awards $100,000 to the winner and $10,000 to the other finalists.
  A short list will be announced Oct. 1 and the winner will be announced at a televised gala in Toronto on Nov. 19.
  Edugyan, who is nominated this year fo
  
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• Quebec election: Liberals promise more money to buy electric cars

  17-09-2018 17:22
  The Quebec Liberal Party would look to add more electric cars to the road by offering Quebecers an extra $1,000 rebate to buy one, Leader Philippe Couillard announced Monday morning.
  A Liberal government would also add a $200 grant for people to buy chargers for their homes.
  The additions would bring the total rebate available in Quebec for buying electric cars to $9,000.
  While making the promise, the party said it helped 37,000 families in the province purchase electric or hybrid cars in the la
  
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• Quebec election: Fewer immigrants in Montreal would be a 'problem,' Plante says

  17-09-2018 17:09
  MONTREAL — Having fewer immigrants entering Montreal each year would be a problem for the city, Mayor Valérie Plante said Monday morning.
  Plante made the comments in the middle of a provincial election campaign that has been dominated by the question of Quebec immigration levels in recent weeks.
  “Yes,” Plante said when asked if having fewer newcomers would cause problems for Montreal. “Right now, the percentage of unoccupied jobs is already three per cent in Montre
  
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• Watch: What makes Jean-François Lisée tick?

  17-09-2018 16:37
  The Parti Québécois may be languishing third in the polls and its raison d’être — making Quebec a sovereign nation — is less popular than it’s been in a generation, but you wouldn’t know that by watching Jean-Francçois Lisée.
  While his rivals labour through carefully scripted talking points, the 60-year-old is part standup comic, part itinerant preacher at his nightly rallies. He appears to be having the time of his life.
  
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• The pitfalls of dating when you’re over 50

  17-09-2018 16:29 via globalnews.ca
  How do you get back into the dating game when you’re over 50? Find out more about the 2018 dating game and how it’s changed, with Global’s Laura Casella, Kim Sullivan and relationship expert Margaux Casutto.
  
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• Ditching disposables: How to prepare waste-free lunches

  17-09-2018 16:23 via globalnews.ca
  Tired of single-use items and too much packaging? Watch Global’s Laura Casella and registered dietitian Sylvia Meo talk about what you can do to reduce your environmental footprint while giving your kids healthy lunches and snacks.
  
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• From ‘Gilmore Girls’ to Gym Owner

  17-09-2018 16:17 via globalnews.ca
  Canadian actor Yanic Truesdale may be best known as Michel on “Gilmore Girls”, but he also has an entrepreneurial spirit. Truesdale joins Global’s Kim Sullivan to talk about how and why he opened a spin gym five years ago.
  
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• Turning your passion into your dream job

  17-09-2018 16:13 via globalnews.ca
  Can someone really turn their passions into a job? How is it a job versus a hobby? Join Global’s Laura Casella and career coach Sheri Rabinovitch as they look at the steps involved in turning your passion into a paying job.
  
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• Quebec election: Bring cochlear-implant surgery to Montreal, coalition pleads

  17-09-2018 15:53
  With the support of Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante, a coalition of parents and medical specialists is urging the four main political parties campaigning before the Oct. 1 provincial vote to commit to establishing cochlear-implant surgery in Montreal.
  At present, Montreal-area residents who are deaf or who suffer from profound hearing loss must travel multiple times to Quebec City for pre-surgical assessment, for the surgery itself and then afterward to activate and program the cochlear imp
  
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• End-of-summer heat continues Monday after record-breaking weekend

  17-09-2018 15:29 via cbc.ca
  This end-of-summer heat broke at least one record over the weekend and will continue throughout the day today.
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ pledges $5 million for Alzheimer's research

  17-09-2018 15:24
  SAINT-SAUVEUR — Coalition Avenir Québec says it will increase provincial funding into Alzheimer’s research by $5 million a year, and reopen the debate on advanced consent for medically assisted deaths for those suffering from Alzheimer’s and related diseases.
  CAQ candidates Marguerite Blais and François Bonnardel made the announcements in St-Sauveur Monday morning. Leader François Legault was absent, preparing for Monday evening’s English-language lea
  
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• Cops arrest 6 teens, 1 adult in connection with rash of arson in Laval

  17-09-2018 15:18
  Laval police have arrested seven suspects between the ages of 15 and 18 in connection with a series of fires they contend caused more than $375,000 in damages since last May.
  The suspects were arrested last Thursday and police allege the fires and vandalism targeted parks and other public spaces in the city’s Chomedey and Fabreville districts.
  While evidence garnered thus far links the suspects to only four events, an investigation is examining a total of 87 incidents causing $377,000 in d
  
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