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• Signed NHL memorabilia gifted to Montreal boy after autographed hat stolen

  22-09-2018 23:47 via globalnews.ca
  Nine year-old goaltender Devin Mitchell received signed NHL memorabilia from a generous donor after his favourite autographed hat was stolen.
  
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• Chihuahuas take over Laval nature park for Guinness World Record attempt

  22-09-2018 22:57 via globalnews.ca
  Over 800 chihuahuas were expected at the Laval Nature Park on Saturday in an attempt to break a Guinness World Record.
  
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• Pedestrian critically injured after 2 vehicles collide at Montreal intersection

  22-09-2018 22:41 via globalnews.ca
  Four people were injured during the two-vehicle crash, including a pedestrian who was struck at the intersection of Langelier Boulevard and Bélanger Street.
  
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• Quebec election: Lisée admits he gave 'free ride' to Québec solidaire

  22-09-2018 22:31
  GATINEAU — Jean-François Lisée admits he’s partially to blame for the “free ride” he claims Québec solidaire has enjoyed in this electoral campaign.
  The Parti Québécois leader said Saturday he probably waited too long before directly criticizing the party, which is creeping its way up the polls as the Oct. 1 vote approaches.
  “It’s a shared mistake: I could have been more critical and the media could have paid more attention (
  
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• Dog rescued from tornado rubble in Ottawa neighbourhood of Dunrobin

  22-09-2018 22:13 via globalnews.ca
  A freelance journalist says a group of people rescued a dog who was trapped under the rubble in an Ottawa neighbourhood ravaged by a tornado.
  
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• Quebec election: $1.8-million bonus for CAQ candidate is 'competitive,' Legault says

  22-09-2018 22:02
  SAINTE-ANNE-DES-PLAINES — Bonuses for employees of Crown corporations have drawn stiff criticism from members of the Coalition Avenir Québec, but a $1.8-million bonus for one of the party’s star candidates was described as “competitive” by the party’s leader on Saturday.
  In 2016, CAQ MNA François Bonnardel, who is running for re-election, described $3 million in bonus payments at Investissement Québec as “indecent” and &ldq
  
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• Here’s what we know about possible cost of the Ottawa-Gatineau tornado

  22-09-2018 21:27 via globalnews.ca
  Similar tornadoes have caused damage that ranges significantly in terms of the costs incurred by cities tasked with recovering.
  
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• Quebec election update: $1 million donated and leaders united in Gatineau

  22-09-2018 20:52
  GATINEAU — Hours after a tornado ripped through Gatineau, two rivals put political differences aside to visit the disaster zone Saturday morning.
  Jean-François Lisée and Philippe Couillard walked shoulder to shoulder through a neighbourhood covered in debris.
  Roofing, broken glass and bricks lay scattered across the street, the storm ripped balconies from apartment buildings and forced hundreds from their homes.
  “Today our presence here is about showing our solidarity,&
  
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• Stay safe: What you need to know in the aftermath of the Ottawa-Gatineau tornado

  22-09-2018 20:21 via globalnews.ca
  Avoid travelling by car, use flashlights instead of candles, and stay away from downed power lines.
  
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• Clean-up efforts underway in Gatineau after tornado

  22-09-2018 20:16 via cbc.ca
  Crews in Gatineau are beginning to clean up after a tornado touched down in Ottawa-Gatineau, damaging dozens of buildings and knocking out power to tens of thousands.
  
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• In photos: Ottawa-area tornado leaves broken power lines, levelled homes, fallen trees in its wake

  22-09-2018 20:05 via globalnews.ca
  The tornado hit on Friday evening, demolishing homes in the town of Dunrobin to the north west of the city before crossing over to the town of Gatineau, which lies directly to the north of Ottawa in the province of Quebec.
  
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• #WhyIDidntReport: Social-media users respond to Trump with stories of assault

  22-09-2018 19:57
  A year into the current era of #MeToo and we’re still having this conversation: Survivors of rape and sexual assault are again explaining why they didn’t report these acts of violence right after they happened.
  The reasons are many: Shame. Confusion. Denial. Fear. Intimidation and lack of power. Concern that no one would believe them, that nothing would be done, or that the victims themselves would be blamed. Most survivors of sexual assault do not report such incidents to authoritie
  
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• Quebec election update: Leaders reroute to visit tornado zone

  22-09-2018 19:36
  GATINEAU — Hours after a tornado ripped through Gatineau, two rivals put political differences aside to visit the disaster zone Saturday morning.
  Jean-François Lisée and Philippe Couillard walked shoulder to shoulder through a neighbourhood covered in debris.
  Roofing, broken glass and bricks lay scattered across the street, the storm ripped balconies from apartment buildings and forced hundreds from their homes.
  “Today our presence here is about showing our solidarity,&
  
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• Pedestrian, 68, dead after being struck by vehicle in Costco parking lot

  22-09-2018 19:31 via globalnews.ca
  Terrebonne police say the incident happened at around 11 a.m. Friday, in the parking lot of a Costco store on Montée des Pionniers.
  
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• From the ‘Regina Cyclone’ to the ‘1974 Super Outbreak’: 10 of Canada’s most notable tornadoes

  22-09-2018 19:30 via globalnews.ca
  A tornado carved a destructive path through the Ottawa-Gatineau area on Friday, tearing roofs off of homes, overturning cars and felling power lines.
  
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• Quebec election: Legault heads to Gatineau, calls for unity

  22-09-2018 19:11
  SAINTE-ANNE-DES-PLAINES — Nine days before Quebecers go to the polls, Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault called on Quebecers to unite behind the premier — his arch rival Philippe Couillard — as he prepared to head to tornado-ravaged Gatineau. 
  “It’s not the time for politics,” Legault said on Saturday. “It’s important that we’re all united today behind the premier.”On Friday evening, Couillard said
  
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• Quebec's party leaders head to Gatineau after tornado rips through region

  22-09-2018 18:57 via cbc.ca
  On day 31 of a whirlwind election campaign, four party leaders dropped everything Saturday and headed out to Gatineau, Que., to tour the devastation and offer assistance after a violent tornado ripped through the area Friday night.
  
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• Couillard to take break from campaigning to tour tornado-stricken Outaouais region

  22-09-2018 18:11 via globalnews.ca
  Premier Philippe Couillard took a break from the campaign trail Saturday to tour the Outaouis region after a tornado ripped through the Ottawa-Gatineau area on Friday, leaving thousands without power.
  
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• Couillard, party leaders break from campaigning to tour tornado-stricken Outaouais region

  22-09-2018 18:11 via globalnews.ca
  Premier Philippe Couillard and leaders from the main political parties took took a break from the campaign trail Saturday to tour the Outaouis region after a tornado ripped through the Ottawa-Gatineau area on Friday, leaving thousands without power.
  
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• The mass(e) appeal of Manon

  22-09-2018 18:00 via cbc.ca
  Once a perpetual runner-up, Manon Massé is making big waves this election.
  
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• Quebec election: Leaders reroute to visit tornado zone

  22-09-2018 17:41
  Just hours after a tornado destroyed and damaged homes and injured dozens in Gatineau Friday, Jean-François Lisée led his campaign bus into the disaster zone.
  The Parti Québécois leader had been scheduled to campaign south of Montreal on Saturday but decided to divert his caravan east after talking to the mayor of Gatineau.
  Others followed suit: Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard and the Coalition Avenir Québec’s François Legault cancelled thei
  
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• Put the phone down: Police cracking down on texting drivers

  22-09-2018 16:47
  Avoid texting and driving because it’s dangerous, but also because it will put you on the radar of a police crackdown in Quebec and across the country.
  Supported by public-service messages from the Société de l ‘assurance automobile du Québec  (SAAQ) titled Everybody Knows It’s Stupid to Text and Drive — shown on TV, radio and social media — police will be stepping up texting-and-driving checks.
  The Highway Safety Code was recently updated
  
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• Montreal North inaugurates Place de l'Espoir in honour of Fredy Villanueva

  22-09-2018 16:02 via cbc.ca
  Ten years since 18-year-old Fredy Villanueva was shot and killed by police in Montreal North, a small area at the southeast end of Henri-Bourassa Park was inaugurated in memory of the teen and the riots that followed.
  
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• Suspected tornado rips through Quebec neighbourhood

  22-09-2018 15:46 via globalnews.ca
  Video recorded on Friday shows a man reacting to a suspected tornado ripping through his neighbourhood in Gatineau, Que. as severe storms moved across the region.
  
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• Watch: Hiroshima ginkgo biloba saplings take root in Westmount

  22-09-2018 15:24
  The pouring rain couldn’t dampen the spirits of representatives from four different communities who gathered Friday morning, on the International Day of Peace, to honour the memory of Hiroshima with a special planting and peace pilgrimage.
  Saplings of a ginkgo biloba tree that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 were planted at Dawson College, Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom, Westmount Park United Church and the Unitarian Church of Montreal.
  “This is an initiative inspired b
  
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• Karl Lohnes: Decor trends you should invest in for 2019

  22-09-2018 15:00
  Trends are constantly affecting our decorating decisions. Thanks to the internet age, style and trend information is accessible at a very fast rate, which makes it easier to source on-trend products soon after seeing them at trade manufacturing shows. Every week, there’s a new, hot, must-have colour, fabric or style. Although trends come and go, a few have more longevity. My long and short list of 2019 trends will help you figure out which ones you should invest in and which ones should be
  
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• While you were sleeping: Storm cleanup in Outaouais, attack in Iran

  22-09-2018 14:43
  Good morning. Here are some stories from the overnight desk and they’re all pretty sobering.
  Ottawa-Gatineau cleaning up: At least six people were injured, two of them critically, in the tornado that hit Gatineau and Ottawa Friday night. Winds destroyed buildings, ripped off roofs and overturned cars in addition to felling trees and branches. Thousands were still without power as the cleanup begins in earnest this morning. The hardest hit was the Gatineau quartier of Mont-Bleu where more t
  
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• Quebec power outages update: Outaouais is the hardest hit

  22-09-2018 14:31
  According to Hydro-Québec, as of 8 a.m. Saturday, just under 104,000 Quebecers were still without power after storms and high winds Friday night caused considerable damage, especially in the Outaouais region where more than 42,000 outages were reported.
  Ottawa and Gatineau were especially hard hit by a tornado.
  Trees and branches falling on power lines were the principle cause of outages.
  While only 27 outages are currently reported in Montreal and just under 800 in Laval, 14,500 are stil
  
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• Thousands without power, several injured after tornado rips through Ottawa-Gatineau region

  22-09-2018 14:29 via globalnews.ca
  The twister left several people injured, including a handful in critical condition. Many others have been left without homes.
  
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• Week in Review: Bras, pot, Airbnb, Shwap and Osheaga

  22-09-2018 14:00
  Catch up on what stories you might have missed this week in Montreal.
  Simons sorry for ‘poor taste’ bra campaign, apologizes to former chief justice
  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
  
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• Quebec election: François Legault is a pragmatist at heart

  22-09-2018 14:00
  By his own admission, François Legault is an impatient man.
  In 1997, when he was president of Air Transat, the company he helped found, he abruptly sold off his shares and divested himself of the company in anger after a dispute with his partners. They found out after the fact that he had packed his bags and left them for good.
  Later, serving as then premier Lucien Bouchard’s education minister in 1998, he complained about Quebec’s notoriously slow-moving bureaucracy, saying t
  
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• Shelter: Globetrotting artist puts down roots in St-Henri

  22-09-2018 13:53
  After almost a decade of globetrotting, Frederic Bigras is ready to stay put. The 28-year-old, who grew up in St-Lambert and Montreal, says that while travelling sounds romantic, he finally wearied of owning only a few things — especially cooking utensils. Bigras loves to entertain friends and he missed having a decent kitchen where he could prepare his favourite dishes.
  Seeking a home base, however, was not the only reason for his return to Montreal. Bigras is an artist and he is pursuing
  
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• Five traffic hotspots to avoid: Runners might make better time than motorists

  22-09-2018 13:30
  The Montreal marathon and the usual construction closings will make life miserable for motorists today.
  Here are five traffic hotspots to avoid:
  1) Highway 15 North will be completely closed from the Exit 58 at Highway 10 West to the Turcot Interchange to 5 a.m. on Monday.
  2) The Southbound Décarie Expressway will be closed between Turcot and Atwater Ave. to 5 a.m. on Monday.
  3) The ramp from Highway 13 South to Highway 40 West will be closed to 5 a.m. Sunday.
  4) Two of the three lan
  
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• Lesley Chesterman's quest for perfect skin

  22-09-2018 13:00
  It’s a quiet morning in downtown Montreal. At the Crescent St. branch of Mandy’s, some 20 women gather for a Tata Harper skin-care master class. Harper is a hot name in skin-care circles, and we’re going through the entire line of her Vermont-made, all-natural and rather pricey products.
  We begin with the requisite double cleanse, followed by masks, toners, serums, hydrating sprays and moisturizers, in order to exfoliate, decongest, purge and, most importantly, moisturize. The
  
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• Josh Freed: What you might not have heard at the election debates

  22-09-2018 13:00
  After four weeks, three debates, 4,700 news stories, 150 tracking polls and several François Legaffes, the Quebec election has gotten exciting.
  The Confused CAQ has plunged in recent polls, and the Lacklustre Liberals are suddenly running even. How did we get here from there?
  Phase 1: The candidates
  For 11 months François Legault was Quebec’s premier-in-waiting, CAQ-ling over his lead in the polls. But in recent weeks he’s looked agitated, confused and not very premier-
  
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• Montreal weather: Bright, brisk and breezy

  22-09-2018 12:30
  It will be jacket weather under mainly sunny skies with cool temperatures.
  A northwest wind will blow at 20 km/h, becoming light late in the afternoon.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of 16 and the UV index will be 5, or moderate.
  Tonight: Clear and cold with a low of 8.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by tagging them with #ThisMtl. We’ll feature one per day right here in the morning file. Today’s photo
  
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• New Montreal theatre company puts Muslim stories centre stage

  22-09-2018 11:00 via cbc.ca
  A brand-new Montreal theatre company, billed as "Canada's first professional theatre company dedicated to celebrating Muslim stories," is hoping to bring a diversity of stories to the stage.
  
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• Trouble aboard the CAQ: Is the problem the captain or the crew?

  22-09-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Suddenly nothing looks so certain for the CAQ. Polls vary about its current standing, but all agree CAQ support has started to drop — and fast.
  
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• Former Canadien Alex Galchenuk sidelined with lower-body injury

  22-09-2018 06:03
  The Arizona Coyotes won’t have Alex Galchenyuk in the lineup Saturday night when they play host to the Anaheim Ducks in NHL preseason action and it’s not certain when the former Canadien might return to action.
  Galchenyuk, acquired from the Canadiens in exchange for Max Domi this summer, suffered a lower-body injury during the Coyotes’ 4-2 preseason win over the Los Angeles Kings Tuesday night in which he scored two goals.“Alex is going to meet with our medical team,&rdqu
  
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• Tornado rips through Ottawa-Gatineau region

  22-09-2018 05:45
  OTTAWA — A tornado ripped through the Ottawa area Friday afternoon, damaging homes and vehicles as severe thunderstorms and high wind gusts also pounded southern Ontario.
  Extensive damage to houses was reported by residents in Ottawa and in nearby Dunrobin. In Gatineau, Que., cars were overturned on Highway 50, said Environment Canada, which confirmed a tornado had touched down in the region.
  Related
  'It's devastating': Tornado levels houses, leaves trail of destruction in OttawaPhotos and
  
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• Election debate at Concordia University

  22-09-2018 05:14 via globalnews.ca
  Candidates from six parties tried to woo young voters at Concordia University. Global’s Elysia Bryan-Baynes was there.
  
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• Young voters gear up for Election Day at Concordia University

  22-09-2018 05:07 via globalnews.ca
  Candidates make their pitch to young voters at Concordia University.
  
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• Quebec election: Philippe Couillard suspends campaign to travel to Gatineau after tornado

  22-09-2018 04:31
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard announced Friday night he will suspend his campaign so he can head to Gatineau and visit areas damaged by a severe storm hours earlier.
  A tornado damaged cars and buildings in Gatineau and caused severe damage in the eastern Ontario town of Dunrobin on Friday evening.
  Couillard’s plan for Saturday had been to go to Sherbrooke and Magog and end the day in Montreal.
  Je suspendrai ma campagne demain matin pour me rendre en Outaouais afin de rencontrer les cit
  
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• In case you missed it: Here's what happened on September 21

  22-09-2018 03:40
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal.
  Macpherson: Free-falling Frank’s barf-bag campaign
  Baseball great Yogi Berra said two things that apply to the Oct. 1 Quebec general election. One is “it ain’t over ‘til it’s over.” But if you hear a politician quote that one, then according to Macpherson’s First Rule of Politics, it already is over, at least for them. Berra also said, explaining why he was blinded by the early-setting sun in an Oc
  
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• From the inside of a tornado, a Gatineau man shot video on the third floor of his building

  22-09-2018 03:33 via globalnews.ca
  He described the damage in his area like something out of the 1996 movie "Twister."
  
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• Police arrest three after gunshots fired from moving car in Ahuntsic

  22-09-2018 03:21
  Montreal police arrested three people on Friday after shots were fired from a moving car in north-end Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough.
  No one was injured in the incident, police spokesperson Constable Caroline Chèvrefils said.
  An apartment building on Émile-Yelle St. in Ahuntsic district was struck by bullets, she said. Officers found a firearm and a few shells at the scene, Chèvrefils said.
  The police responded to a 911 call at 2:10 p.m. about shots heard from
  
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