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• Cyclist in critical condition after collision in Montreal North

  19-09-2018 23:58 via cbc.ca
  A 24-year-old cyclist was taken to hospital with serious head injuries after being struck by a car. Police say the man is in critical condition.
  
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• ‘Chien de Garde’ chosen as Canada’s hopeful for Oscars best foreign language film

  19-09-2018 23:48 via globalnews.ca
  Sophie Dupuis' "Chien de garde" has been chosen to represent Canada in the category of best foreign language film for the 2019 Oscars.
  
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• Is Québec Solidaire on the upswing?

  19-09-2018 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 19: Québec Solidaire remains fourth in the polls but their support appears to be growing ahead of the provincial election. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, some pollsters are now predicting the party could win more seats than originally predicted.
  
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• West Island green access road sparks petition

  19-09-2018 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 19: A battle is brewing over a green access road slated to connect Pierrefonds to an eventual REM station in Kirkland. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, a petition has been launched to include an urban boulevard to help ease traffic in the area.
  
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• Québec Solidaire gaining support from voters looking for change

  19-09-2018 23:29 via globalnews.ca
  Québec Solidaire remains the fourth party in the polls, but their its support could be increasing from voters torn between it and the CAQ.
  
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• Quebec election: Couillard wants First Nations to fill labour shortage

  19-09-2018 23:17
  VAL- D’OR — The Bolduc family didn’t want it to get to this point, but says it was left without a choice.
  Owners of nine Subway restaurants in Quebec’s northern regions, they started closing their Val-d’Or location at night and early morning last month, struggling to find employees to fill the hours.
  Then, after exhausting staff by asking them to pick up hours between their different restaurants, they decided something needed to give: they closed the Val-d&rsqu
  
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• Quebec election blog Sept. 19: Who’s running? Candidates tend to be male – and over 40

  19-09-2018 23:16
  If you’re viewing this on the Montreal Gazette app, click here and scroll to the bottom of the page.
  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 Wednesday, Sept. 19.
  
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• Police arrest man, 28, after worker stabbed at Douglas hospital

  19-09-2018 23:07
  Montreal police officers arrested a 28-year-old man at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute on LaSalle Blvd. in Verdun on Wednesday afternoon after a worker was stabbed.
  The victim was stabbed with a knife after unlocking the front door to let in a former patient of the institution, the police said.
  Other employees managed to lock the suspect in the vestibule, between doors, until police arrived. The police received a 911 call at 12:30 p.m.
  The suspect did not resist arrest, the p
  
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• CAQ candidates rally behind leader ahead of final Quebec debate

  19-09-2018 23:06 via globalnews.ca
  With Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault on the sidelines ahead of Thursday's crucial final debate, it was left to a collection of prominent candidates to rally behind him Wednesday.
  
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• Park-Extension woman, 34, has been missing since Sept. 1

  19-09-2018 23:04
  The Montreal police are seeking the public’s help to locate Josiane Arguin, a 34-year-old who has been missing since Sept. 1.
  Arguin left her home in Park-Extension around 8 a.m. that day without taking any belongings. The police say her family fears for her safety because she has expressed suicidal thoughts in the past and because they say she may be mixing with bad company.
  Arguin is white with long, wavy brown hair and stands 5-foot-3. She weighs 130 pounds and speaks French.
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• Cyclist in critical condition after collision with car in Montreal-North

  19-09-2018 23:04
  A 24-year-old cyclist is in critical condition after a collision with a car on Hébert Ave. in Montreal-North on Wednesday afternoon.
  The cyclist was riding north on the sidewalk on the east side of the street when a car that was also heading north on Hébert hit the cyclist as it turned into a parking lot on the east side of Hébert near Amos St. at about 3:20 p.m.
  The cyclist suffered a head injury, and the police said they fear for his life.
  The 27-year-old driver is collabo
  
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• New housing project set to help West Islanders with mental health issues

  19-09-2018 22:58 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sep 19: A new home for West Islanders facing mental health issues is set to open its doors in DDO. As Global’s Dan Spector reports, Sunshine Residence will help struggling people get back on their feet.
  
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• Police arrest 28-year-old man after worker stabbed at Douglas hospital

  19-09-2018 22:45
  Montreal police officers arrested a 28-year-old man at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute on LaSalle Blvd. in Verdun on Wednesday afternoon after a worker was stabbed.
  The victim was stabbed with a knife after unlocking the front door to let in a former patient of the institution, the police said.
  Other employees managed to lock the suspect in the vestibule, between doors, until police arrived. The police received a 911 call at 12:30 p.m.
  The suspect did not resist arrest, the p
  
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• POP Montreal: Alanis Obomsawin, 85, revives singing career

  19-09-2018 22:41
  “I’m going through a lot of things, for sure,” Alanis Obomsawin said.
  Sitting in her small, wonderfully cluttered office in the depths of the National Film Board’s Montreal headquarters on Côte-de-Liesse Blvd., the 86-year-old Abenaki filmmaker attempted to put into words the feeling of rekindling her singing career, which never really was in the first place.
  Obomsawin has made 51 documentaries over her 51-year tenure at the NFB. She is working on her 52nd. Two of h
  
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• Police are asking for help to find missing LaSalle teen

  19-09-2018 22:32
  The Montreal police are asking for the public’s help to locate Zoulfath adjokè Olayide Oceni, 19.
  She left her home in LaSalle around 7:50 a.m. on Sunday and was last seen in Ahuntsic. The police say her family fears for her health and safety because she’s not in the habit of disappearing. 
  Oceni sometimes uses the name Sindy Oceni. She is black, with black hair and black eyes and stands 5-foot-7. She weighs 185 pounds. She speaks French and English.
  At the time
  
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• Quebec election: Man barred from municipal posts fit to be MNA, PQ says

  19-09-2018 22:31
  Even if Parti Québécois candidate Joël Arseneau is barred from being mayor or councillor in Îles-de-la-Madeleine, he’s fit to be MNA of the riding that includes the municipality, PQ deputy leader Véronique Hivon said on Wednesday.
  Arseneau, who was mayor of Îles-de-la-Madeleine from 2005 to 2013, says he reached an out-of-court settlement with the municipality concerning several thousand dollars in debts he incurred with the municipality.
  Asked to comm
  
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• Quebec election: Demand for questions in advance was 'clumsiness,' CAQ says

  19-09-2018 22:29
  The Coalition Avenir Québec denies it has a policy of requiring journalists to provide their questions 24 hours in advance to get an interview with a candidate.
  Mathieu St-Amand, a spokesperson for the party, chalked it up to “clumsiness” by volunteers working on Matane-Matapédia riding candidate Mathieu Quenum’s campaign.
  St-Amand was responding after Quebec City newspaper Le Soleil reported that Quenum’s team told a local media outlet to send its questions
  
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• New West Island residence will house people struggling with mental health

  19-09-2018 22:25 via globalnews.ca
  Sunshine Residence will help people struggling with mental health issues in Dollard-des-Ormeaux.
  
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• 34-year-old woman has been missing since Sept. 1

  19-09-2018 22:20
  The Montreal police are seeking the public’s help to locate Josiane Arguin, a 34-year-old who has been missing since Sept. 1.
  Arguin left her home in Park-Extension around 8 a.m. that day without taking any belongings. The police say her family fears for her safety because she has expressed suicidal thoughts in the past and because they say she may be mixing with bad company.
  Arguin is white with long, wavy brown hair and stands 5-foot-3. She weighs 130 pounds and speaks French.
  She may be
  
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• Lisée won't say what he would do if PQ were to hold balance of power

  19-09-2018 21:43 via cbc.ca
  With polls showing the race tightening ahead of the Oct. 1 vote, Jean-François Lisée was asked Wednesday about whether he would be prepared to enter into an alliance with other opposition parties to topple a Liberal minority. He refused to speculate.
  
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• Environmental coalition told to take down its party report cards

  19-09-2018 21:09 via cbc.ca
  A coalition of environmental groups says Quebec's chief electoral officer is trying to "muzzle" the groups by suppressing a report that graded the environmental platforms of the four main political parties.
  
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• No help available in Nunavik for children scarred by Nellie Angutiguluk's murder, court hears

  19-09-2018 20:58 via cbc.ca
  In a victim impact statement from the dead woman's mother, read to the court at Kwasi Benjamin's sentencing hearing, Maggie Nungaq Angutiguluk described the difficulties her daughter's three orphaned children face coping with their grief.
  
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• Inuk woman's killer faces sentencing after several delays

  19-09-2018 20:23
  Nellie Angutiguluk remained in a relationship with Kwasi Benjamin for more than a year before he killed her even though he had tried to end her life before.
  “He tried to kill me. He wanted to kill me,” Angutiguluk told Montreal police Constable Jean-Philippe Tseng-Valiquette on Jan. 4, 2014, when he found her standing completely nude and covered in blood inside the couple’s apartment in Côte-des-Neiges after she had called 911.
  Tseng-Valiquette testified on Wednesday at t
  
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• Ex-NYT critic who trashed Montreal bagels now on about maple syrup

  19-09-2018 20:19
  What did Montreal ever do to Mimi Sheraton?
  Just last week, the former New York Times food critic likened the venerable Montreal bagel to “chewing broken glass.”
  Now, the author of 1,000 Foods to Eat Before You Die has turned her attention to maple syrup. (One assumes the book is light on Québécois foodstuffs.)
  In a dig against ranch dressing, which she says “plays to everything that’s wrong with the typical American palate,” Sheraton notes that it&rsq
  
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• Quebec's police ethics committee rules against Montreal officer for 9th time after traffic stop goes awry

  19-09-2018 19:39 via cbc.ca
  Const. Éric Locas violated Quebec's code of ethics after he neglected a woman's safety during a routine traffic stop, then contacted her after she filed a complaint against him, the province's police ethics committee ruled earlier this month.
  
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• Montreal officer violated code of ethics after traffic stop goes awry, committee finds

  19-09-2018 19:39 via cbc.ca
  Const. Éric Locas violated Quebec's code of ethics after he neglected a woman's safety during a routine traffic stop, then contacted her after she filed a complaint against him, the province's police ethics committee ruled earlier this month.
  
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• The Pollcast: The tide turns in Quebec

  19-09-2018 19:22 via cbc.ca
  On the latest episode of the Pollcast, the CBC's Catherine Cullen discusses the first days of Maxime Bernier's new party, and Christian Bourque breaks down the latest numbers out of Quebec.
  
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• LIVE – Quebec election: Who’s running? Candidates tend to be male – and over 40

  19-09-2018 19:19
  If you’re viewing this on the Montreal Gazette app, click here and scroll to the bottom of the page.
  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 Wednesday, Sept. 19. It will be updated throughout the day.
  
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• Opinion: An election agenda for English-speaking Quebecers

  19-09-2018 19:02
  Monday’s first-ever English-language televised leader’s debate was a watershed moment and evidence of a heightened willingness across Quebec’s political class to reach out to English-speaking Quebecers in their own language. It also signalled acknowledgement by all parties that none can afford to ignore our community of more than one million.
  The Parti Québécois promise of no referendum in a first mandate is openly linked to a policy agenda geared to achieving sov
  
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• Quebec election: Where is CAQ Leader François Legault?

  19-09-2018 18:57
  Star candidates for Coalition Avenir Québec presented the party’s cannabis platform Wednesday, but their message was overshadowed by the absence of their leader.
  The day after a new poll emerged showing the CAQ had lost the considerable lead they had held for more than a year and were now running neck and neck with the Liberal Party, François Legault was absent from the daily announcements and media sessions that party leaders normally attend on the campaign trail.
  His handle
  
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• Most dangerous rail tank cars to be off Canadian tracks sooner with new timelines: Garneau

  19-09-2018 18:36 via globalnews.ca
  The rail tank cars least likely to survive a crash will be off Canadian railway tracks years sooner than originally planned.
  
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• Spike Lee hopes U.S. voters do the right thing in November

  19-09-2018 18:24
  Two years ago, prior to the U.S. presidential election and prior to his visit to the Montreal International Black Film Festival (MIBFF), Spike Lee was anticipating the worst should the man he calls Agent Orange occupy the White House.
  “The man appeals to the lowest common denominator,” Lee told me then. “I fear not just for the U.S., but for the world if he gets elected. The president has the digits to the nuclear bomb. For Donald Trump to have the nuclear code, that’s ni
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Jesperi Kotkaniemi won't be in lineup vs. Panthers

  19-09-2018 18:12
  Jesperi Kotkaniemi will not be in the lineup when the Canadiens face the Florida Panthers in NHL preseason action Wednesday night at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).
  Kotkaniemi, the team’s first-round pick (third overall) at this year’s NHL Draft, scored a goal in his first preseason game Monday night at the Bell Centre when the Canadiens beat the New Jersey Devils 3-1.
  While Canadiens fans won’t get to watch Kotkaniemi again Wednesday night, they will get
  
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• Montreal's Café Olimpico among '50 greatest cafés on Earth': report

  19-09-2018 18:10
  Montreal is a coffee city.
  If you don’t agree, it’s probably a sign that you’re behind on your daily caffeine intake, which has dulled your faculties.
  England’s The Telegraph has definitely been caffeinating.
  The newspaper included Montreal’s Café Olimpico on its list of the “50 greatest cafés on Earth,” which includes coffee houses on every continent save for Antarctica.
  Olimpico, author Chris Moss notes, “is great because it&rs
  
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• Former CEGEP director, accomplice fined more than $100,000 for tax fraud

  19-09-2018 17:57
  Stéphanie Paquette, a former director of finance at the CEGEP Édouard-Montpetit in Longueuil, has been handed a nine-month suspended sentence for tax evasion.
  Paquette and co-accused Dino Marcoux were also ordered to pay fines totalling $107,132 while Marcoux was given a 12-month suspended sentence.
  Revenue Quebec and the province’s anti-corruption unit, UPAC, made public the sanctions in a statement published Wednesday and noted that Marcoux had pleaded guilty Sept. 10 to ha
  
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• Hwy. 20 reopened after 4-car accident

  19-09-2018 17:44 via globalnews.ca
  The incident, which left one car lying on its roof, happened around 8:15 a.m.
  
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• Montreal ranks 9th in airport satisfaction study. Seriously

  19-09-2018 17:13
  Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport is above average, according to J.D. Power’s 2018 Airport Satisfaction Survey.
  The airport scored 774 points out of a possible 1,000 in the “large airport” division, placing it above the average of 761 points and slightly behind Vancouver International Airport’s score of 781 points.
  The study considered the state of terminal facilities, airport accessibility, security checks, the baggage claim situation, check-in
  
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• LIVE – Quebec election: Four-way race makes for unpredictable election night

  19-09-2018 17:12
  If you’re viewing this on the Montreal Gazette app, click here and scroll to the bottom of the page.
  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 Wednesday, Sept. 19. It will be updated throughout the day.
  
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• Slim majority opposes Waskaganish traditional powwow; organizers moving ahead anyway

  19-09-2018 17:07 via cbc.ca
  Organizer Susan Esau says this vote "shows that people need to be educated about what a powwow really is.' She didn't cast a ballot in the vote because 'we don't vote on other cultural matters.'
  
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• Martin Patriquin: Why Québec solidaire should back off the S-word

  19-09-2018 16:59
  Here in Quebec, we were witness this week to a truly Canadian spectacle for the first time: the sight of our political leaders hacking their way through a debate in their second language with varying degrees of success.
  As with federal party leaders, who suffer through the same indignity in French every election cycle, the same rules apply. One must speak well enough to be understood, but bad enough to evoke pity.
  By this quaint measure, the clear winner of Quebec’s first televised English
  
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• SQ arrests South Shore man in connection with child pornography

  19-09-2018 16:54
  A 42-year-old South Shore man has been arrested and charged with possession and distribution of child pornography, the Sûreté du Québec announced Wednesday.
  David Séguin of McMasterville was arrested Sept. 13 at his home and charged the same day. He has been released until his next court appearance, after agreeing to respect certain conditions.
  The SQ has a group of investigators who specialize in online child pornography investigation and work in collaboration with mu
  
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• Quebec election: Man surrenders in case of bullet-riddled poster

  19-09-2018 16:26
  A 26-year-old man has been arrested in connection with vandalism done to a poster for an independent candidate in Quebec City running in the provincial election, local police announced Wednesday.
  On Monday, candidate Ali Dahan, who is running in the riding of Jean-Talon, filed a complaint with police after one of his posters was riddled with projectiles.
  Police said on Wednesday that an arrest was made after a Quebec City man surrendered to authorities at a local police station on Tuesday. They
  
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