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• Watch: After the English-language debate, what's your take on this election?

  18-09-2018 23:54
  Some Montrealers are giving Parti Québécois Leader Jean-François Lisée good reviews for his performance in Monday’s historic #Quebec2018 English-language debate.
  Montreal Gazette photographer Pierre Obendrauf files this video streeter on public reaction.
   
  
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• Vaudreuil-Dorion overpass closed following inspection ‘to avoid further damage’

  18-09-2018 23:48 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's transport ministry has closed the Des Chenaux Road overpass above Highway 40 in Vaudreuil until further notice.
  
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• Cavendish Boulevard extension faces deadline

  18-09-2018 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  Deadline looms to negotiate deal with CN and CP rail to extend Cavendish Boulevard over the rail yards.
  
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• Police urge motorists to avoid Papineau Ave. after truck hits overpass

  18-09-2018 23:34
  Montreal police are urging motorists to avoid Papineau Ave. in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie borough during Tuesday evening rush hour after a southbound truck collided with an overpass crossing Papineau near Rosemont Blvd. around 4:30 p.m.
  The police issued a warning after 5 p.m. on social media to avoid the area.
  Papineau is closed in both directions from Rosemont to St-Grégoire St. Police officers are on site to help with traffic.
   
  
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• Cavendish Boulevard extension faces new obstacle

  18-09-2018 23:32 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Sep 18: The long-discussed extension of Cavendish Boulevard is facing a new hurdle. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, the city has two years to negotiate a deal with CN and CP to build over their railyards – but some opposition councillors complain it isn’t moving fast enough.
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Michel Therrien returns to RDS and L'Antichambre

  18-09-2018 23:31
  You knew it was only a matter of time.
  Former Canadiens coach Michel Therrien has been hired by RDS and will be part of the Hockey 360 and L’Antichambre shows starting Wednesday. The Canadiens play the Florida Panthers Wednesday night at the Bell Centre in pre-season action (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).
  The post-game L’Antichambre show has become a landing spot for former Canadiens coaches and Therrien will now join Guy Carbonneau and Mario Tremblay as regular panellists on
  
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• Carey Price only Canadien ranked in Top 50 on NHL 19 video game

  18-09-2018 23:30
  The new NHL 19 video game came out last Friday and it’s always interesting to see the EA Sports player ratings
  Goalie Carey Price is the only Canadiens player to make the Top 50 this year, coming in at No. 5 with a 92 rating.
  “At 92-overall, Carey Price retains his spot as the game’s top rated goalie, which gives him the #5 spot on our list,” EA Sports writes on its website. “Calm and collected while taking full control of the net, Price makes the game look easy, ev
  
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• Allison Hanes: What is the immigration debate really about?

  18-09-2018 23:29
  Immigration has become the defining issue of the 2018 Quebec election campaign.
  The question is: why?
  François Legault, the leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec, has put immigration front and centre by promising to reduce levels by 20 per cent, cutting the number of immigrants Quebec takes in each year to 40,000 from over 50,000. He says this is necessary because too many newcomers are failing to integrate.
  Legault also wants immigrants to pass a French exam and take a values test
  
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• Bonjour-hi debate resurfaces in Quebec

  18-09-2018 23:28 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Sep 18: A debate over a popular bilingual greeting has resurfaced after the English-language debate between Quebec party leaders. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard said he would vote again for the motion that calls on store clerks to greet customers only in French.
  
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• Bernier team 'can't keep up' with offensive, off-message online content

  18-09-2018 23:28 via cbc.ca
  From Facebook groups that suggest an affiliation that doesn't exist to a website that riffs off Bernier's party name, there's a lot of content circulating online that the leader of the People's Party of Canada and his team are anxious to put at a distance.
  
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• What can commuters expect on the Deux-Montagnes train line?

  18-09-2018 23:22 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Sep 18: How do transit authorities plan to maintain train service on the Deux-Montagnes line? As Global’s Dan Spector reports, each step in the REM construction project makes it a little more difficult.
  
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• Quebec election: Legault dogged by immigration-question blunders

  18-09-2018 23:09
  With indications mounting that his blunders on immigration are hurting his campaign, François Legault accused his rival Philippe Couillard of orchestrating a “campaign of fear” on Tuesday, and then failed his latest quiz on Canadian trivia.
  The Coalition Avenir Québec leader was asked how many of Canada’s provinces are officially bilingual.
  “I don’t want to enter into those questions,” Legault responded. “For Quebec, French is the official
  
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• Quebec election blog Sept. 18: New poll indicates François Legault's CAQ is losing steam

  18-09-2018 23:06
  If you’re viewing this on the Montreal Gazette app, click here to read the blog.
  If you’re viewing this in a mobile browser, scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the blog.
  This was our live blog about the Quebec election for Tuesday, Sept. 18. 
  
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• Quebec election: First Nations want to help fill labour shortage

  18-09-2018 23:04
  What if politicians looked to First Nations as an asset to Quebec’s economy?
  Since the beginning of the provincial election campaign last month, Chief Ghislain Picard has been dogging Quebec’s party leaders with that question.
  While the province is aging itself out of the labour market, there aren’t enough skilled workers to replace them. Given that 55 per cent of Quebec’s Indigenous people are under 25 years old, it would seem logical to tap into that growing segmen
  
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• Couillard defends position in ‘Bonjour-Hi’ kerfuffle

  18-09-2018 22:44 via globalnews.ca
  Liberal leader Philippe Couillard said he would vote again for a National Assembly motion against the 'Bonjour-Hi' greeting.
  
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• P.K. Subban autographed hat stolen from Montreal boy

  18-09-2018 22:28 via globalnews.ca
  A Dorval mother is putting out a call, hoping the culprit who stole her son's P.K. Subban hat will return it.
  
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• 18 months for contractor after death of worker in Lachine collapse

  18-09-2018 22:14
  A sentence of 18 months has been handed down to a contractor who was found guilty of manslaughter earlier this year for the death of an employee buried by a collapse during work on a sewer line.
  Quebec Court Judge Pierre Dupras delivered his decision, considered to be a precedent in Quebec, on Tuesday at the Montreal courthouse. Sylvain Fournier, the owner of S. Fournier Excavation Inc., which was doing work at a home in Lachine on April 3, 2012 when Gilles Lévesque died, was also sentenc
  
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• Fisheries department announces new fishery closures, openings in bid to protect Right Whales

  18-09-2018 22:13 via globalnews.ca
  The DFO announced the closures on Monday and Tuesday — with the new rules set to go into effect at 5:00 p.m., ADT on Friday. 
  
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• Stu Cowan: Jesperi Kotkaniemi gives Canadiens fans a reason to smile

  18-09-2018 21:51
  No matter what happens during Jesperi Kotkaniemi’s NHL career with the Canadiens, I’ll never forget the smile on the Finnish teenager’s face after he scored his first goal in bleu-blanc-rouge.
  He looked like a little boy on Christmas morning.
  “It was a little kid’s smile,” veteran Tomas Plekanec said after Kotkaniemi scored the final goal in the Canadiens’ 3-1 preseason win over the New Jersey Devils Monday night at the Bell Centre. “We all had tha
  
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• Authorities update headaches to come for Deux-Montagne line commuters

  18-09-2018 21:49 via globalnews.ca
  What is on tap for Deux-Montagnes line train users?
  
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• Environmentalists back in court, trying to halt REM construction

  18-09-2018 21:22 via globalnews.ca
  Environmentalists vying to protect the wildlife in the Saint-Laurent Technoparc were back in court where they filed a safeguard motion.
  
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• Pedestrian in critical condition after being hit by car in Montreal North

  18-09-2018 21:20
  A woman is in critical condition in a hospital after being struck by a car at an intersection in Montreal North.
  The accident happened at 12:50 p.m. at the corner of Renoir St. and Désy Ave., said Montreal police Constable Jean-Pierre Brabant.
  A motorist was driving westbound on Renoir St. when he hit the pedestrian as she was crossing the same street. The victim is in her 70s.
  
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• LIVE – Quebec election: François Legault denies he once said he 'hated' anglophones

  18-09-2018 21:05
  If you’re viewing this on the Montreal Gazette app, click here to read the blog.
  If you’re viewing this in a mobile browser, scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the blog.
  This is our live blog about the Quebec election for Tuesday, Sept. 18. It will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected] 
  
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• Balconville returns to Montreal's Centaur Theatre for 50th-anniversary season

  18-09-2018 21:00 via cbc.ca
  Balconville is a simple two-act play about working-class people living in Pointe-Saint-Charles during the late 1970s. It's widely considered Canada's first bilingual play.
  
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• Safety concerns prompt closure of overpass in Vaudreuil-Dorion

  18-09-2018 20:47 via cbc.ca
  Transports Québec has closed the bridge on Des Chenaux Road over Highway 40 in Vaudreuil-Dorion indefinitely, after imposing load restrictions on the overpass last November.
  
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• Quebec provincial police create unit to crack down on contraband cannabis

  18-09-2018 20:32 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec provincial police say they'll continue to crack down on the illegal production of cannabis as consumption is set to become legal across the country in less than a month.
  
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• Museum of Nature unveils new cryobank lab for biodiversity preservation

  18-09-2018 20:30 via globalnews.ca
  On Tuesday morning, the museum unveiled its new cryobank lab in Gatineau where six new cylindrical freezers will house over 31,000 samples from all across the world.
  
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• AGI’s Amazingly Fun Race

  18-09-2018 19:57 via globalnews.ca
  On Sunday, October 14, 2018, corporate and private teams will gather at the Montreal Forum for AGI’s Amazingly Fun Race to support local Montreal families affected by Alzheimer’s or other dementias. Although the fun challenge is to claim the AGI Cup, the ultimate mission is for teams to raise awareness and much-needed funds for Alzheimer...
  
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• Sûreté du Québec sets up cannabis contraband squad

  18-09-2018 19:52
  The Sûreté du Québec will assign more than 50 officers to a squad created to suppress whatever black market exists after the legalization of cannabis in Canada on Oct. 17.
  Dubbed ACCES Cannabis (ACCES being a French acronym for “co-ordinated action against the underground economy”), the new squad will echo the work being done by similar divisions tasked with enforcing laws on contraband alcohol and tobacco.
  The squad’s patrol territory will cover all of Queb
  
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• Quebec election: Legault botches bilingual New Brunswick question

  18-09-2018 19:51
  Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault was quizzed once again on basic Canadian trivia Tuesday, and did not pass the test.
  Asked by journalists during a press conference how many of Canada’s provinces are bilingual, Legault first responded: “I don’t want to enter into those questions. For Quebec, French is the official language.”
  “Do you know how many there are?” the journalist persisted.
  “I will take the question under deliberatio
  
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• Canadiens' Nicolas Deslauriers out indefinitely with facial fracture

  18-09-2018 19:51
  The Canadiens announced Tuesday that forward Nicolas Deslauriers  will be sidelined indefinitely after suffering a facial fracture during a fight with the New Jersey Devils in a pre-season game Monday night at the Bell Centre.
  Deslaurier was taken to hospital after the first-period fight with the Devils’ Brandon Baddock and underwent surgery to repair the fracture.
  The Canadiens won the game 3-1 on goals by Victor Mete, Charles Hudon and Jesperi [email protected]
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• Appreciation: Bill Shaw fought for anglophones' rights

  18-09-2018 19:44
  On Sept. 22 in Pointe-Claire, there will be a memorial service for a former member of the Quebec National Assembly, William (Bill) F. Shaw, who died May 26. Shaw’s own election as MNA coincided with the electoral victory of the Parti Québécois in 1976. Those of us old enough to remember that momentous event will recall the very disquieting era it would usher in for anglophones.
  I can appreciate that the PQ’s victory was greeted with joy and pride of heritage for francop
  
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• Quebec election: Couillard lambastes Legault in board of trade speech

  18-09-2018 19:29
  In a speech to the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal on Tuesday, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard boasted about his record as premier, discussed the economy and immigration, and attacked Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault.
  Couillard also used his speech to announce a new campaign promise: a $350-million expansion of Montreal’s Palais des congrès.
  In prepared remarks, Couillard alluded to Legault as “sloppy and confused” and sai
  
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• Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin insists he doesn't read newspapers

  18-09-2018 19:26
  “I don’t read the papers,” Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin told Tony Marinaro of TSN 690 Radio during a one-one-one interview interview that aired on Monday. “No, not at all.”
  Bergevin added he doesn’t listen to Marinaro’s show.
  “I don’t,” the GM said. “But I like your show, though. I hear it’s a good show, but I don’t listen to it.”
  Bergevin might not listen to Marinaro’s show, but the GM did sit down with the
  
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• New police squad will crack down on contraband cannabis in Quebec

  18-09-2018 19:24 via cbc.ca
  The new Sûreté du Québec unit is to include 54 new members from provincial and municipal forces across the province who will combat smuggling — including online smuggling.
  
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• Pedestrian injured in collision in Montreal North

  18-09-2018 19:20
  A woman is in critical condition in a hospital after being struck by a car at an intersection in Montreal North.
  The accident happened at 12:50 p.m. at the corner of Renoir St. and Désy Ave., said Montreal police Constable Jean-Pierre Brabant.
  This story will be updated.
  
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• Tour operator Transat donates $500,000 to Le Devoir

  18-09-2018 19:15
  Readers of Le Devoir will see more international news in its pages thanks to a $500,000 grant from tour operator Transat.
  The tourism company will give the French-language newspaper $100,000 annually for five years through a journalism fund the company is setting up.
  The money will help pay for travel expenses of reporters covering events around the world at a time when print newspaper revenues are declining.
  The newspaper’s publisher, Brian Myles, said the agreement with Transat says Le D
  
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• Why are Montreal's roads so bad? Contractors bid low, cut corners, report finds

  18-09-2018 18:00 via cbc.ca
  Montreal contractors often submit low-ball bids to win contracts and then compensate those bids with corner-cutting repaving techniques that fail to meet quality standards, the city's inspector general has found.
  
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• LIVE – Quebec election: Does François Legault still 'hate' anglophones?

  18-09-2018 17:26
  If you’re viewing this on the Montreal Gazette app, click here to read the blog.
  If you’re viewing this in a mobile browser, scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the blog.
  This is our live blog about the Quebec election for Tuesday, Sept. 18. It will be updated throughout the day. Email me at [email protected] 
  
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• Quebec election: Independent candidate's poster riddled with bullets

  18-09-2018 17:25
  An independent candidate running in the Quebec City riding of Jean-Talon has filed a complaint with local police after one of his campaign posters was vandalized.
  The poster was riddled with bullets, likely fired by an airgun, said Ali Dahan, who is a candidate in the Oct. 1 provincial election.
  Dahan said other posters, which were put up near the Centre culturel islamique de Québec, have been torn during the campaign, but he decided to file a complaint on Monday after realizing that an a
  
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• Quebec election: PQ will 'eliminate' daycare waiting list by 2022

  18-09-2018 17:11
  REPENTIGNY — A Parti Québécois government would open up an additional 26,800 spots in subsidized daycares across the province during its first mandate.
  That’s what PQ leader Jean-François Lisée says it will take to wipe out the waiting list for families who want affordable child care.
  “There’s a historic aspect to this announcement … by September 2022, we’ll have completed the promise of one child one spot,” said Lisée
  
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• Quebec restaurant combatting drunk driving with free poutines

  18-09-2018 17:07
  A restaurateur in Boisbriand has found a new way to encourage Quebecers to take a cab home if they’ve had too much to drink: free poutine.
  La Belle et La Boeuf Burger Bar posted an image on Facebook of a letter thanking the driver of a car parked in their lot overnight.
  While they couldn’t be sure if the driver had been drinking, the restaurant said it wanted to thank the driver for not drinking and driving. That thanks would come in the form of a free poutine.
  On Sunday, when it pos
  
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• 'Bonjour/hi' resurfaces in Quebec's debate, but Couilard wants to move on

  18-09-2018 17:04 via cbc.ca
  Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard told Daybreak host Mike Finnerty there's nothing preventing people from saying "hi" in stores, a day after the controversy over "bonjour/hi" resurfaced in the English-language leaders debate.
  
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• 'Bonjour/Hi' resurfaced in Quebec's English debate, but Couillard wants to move on

  18-09-2018 17:04 via cbc.ca
  Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard told Daybreak host Mike Finnerty there's nothing preventing people from saying "hi" in stores, a day after the controversy over "Bonjour/Hi" resurfaced in the English-language leaders debate.
  
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• 'Bonjour/hi' resurfaced in Quebec's English debate, but Couilard wants to move on

  18-09-2018 17:04 via cbc.ca
  Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard told Daybreak host Mike Finnerty there's nothing preventing people from saying "hi" in stores, a day after the controversy over "bonjour/hi" resurfaced in the English-language leaders debate.
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: Totally excellent chili in 'alien territory'

  18-09-2018 16:56
  For the student leaving home and facing cooking for the first time, or for any would-be cook needing the basics, a handy little cookbook called Clueless in the Kitchen; Cooking for Beginners, is the solution (Firefly, $16.95).Author Evelyn Raab, a veteran of 30 years writing the Cooking With Kids column in Today’s Parent magazine, has produced a winner of a book that covers such favourites as sloppy Joes, Buffalo wings, spaghetti sauce, lasagne and crêpes, as well as roast chicken, c
  
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• Quebec is getting better at integrating immigrants into labour market, study finds

  18-09-2018 16:47 via cbc.ca
  Quebec has seen improvements when it comes to the retention and employment, but still lags behind Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta, according to a new study that comes amid heated debate over immigration in the election campaign.
  
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• Stunt riders take over the Bell Centre

  18-09-2018 16:41 via globalnews.ca
  The Nitro Circus Tour “You Got This” hits the Bell Centre later this month. BMX sensation Todd Meyn joins Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan to talk about the tour and the crazy tricks they do.
  
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• Sherbrooke to adopt severe restrictions on cannabis use

  18-09-2018 16:32
  The city of Sherbrooke intends to adopt a bylaw that will severely restrict where cannabis can be consumed on its territory once legalization goes into effect on Oct. 17.
  Council is contemplating a ban on cannabis in all public municipal installations, all streets, alleyways, dog runs, pedestrian tunnels, sidewalks and multi-purpose thoroughfares, as is presently the case for alcohol.
  It will also be illegal to be under the influence of marijuana in a public place and tickets may be issued.
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• Integrating mindfulness into your daily routine

  18-09-2018 16:25 via globalnews.ca
  Are you back at work or school after a relaxing summer? Now’s the time to integrate mindfulness into your daily routine. Join mindfulness meditation teach dawn Mauricio and Global’s Kim Sullivan to find out how.
  
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