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• Investigating windstorms: Why it took days to confirm Ontario, Quebec tornadoes

  25-09-2018 23:57 via globalnews.ca
  It wasn't until Monday evening that Environment Canada confirmed Calabogie, located about 100 kilometres west of Ottawa, had indeed been hit by a EF-1 category tornado and downburst – and not just by a bad storm.
  
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• Deux-Montagnes train line delayed by police vehicle on tracks

  25-09-2018 23:45
  The problem-plagued Deux-Montagnes train line is experiencing rush-hour delays yet again Tuesday evening, but this time the problem is being attributed to a police vehicle that stalled on the tracks in the West Island.
  Exo sent out several tweets Tuesday reporting delays for a few of its trains heading toward both Deux-Montagnes and Central Station.
  The organization that runs the train service attributed the delays to a train being stuck at the Bois Franc station because of a police vehicle that
  
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• Quebec election notebook: First Nations demand say in sovereign borders

  25-09-2018 23:36
  For the first time since the 1960s, sovereignty isn’t a burning issue in a Quebec election.
  The Parti Québécois is soft-pedalling its raison d’être, promising not to hold a referendum in a first mandate, and the other pro-independence party — Québec solidaire — has until recently been seen as a marginal force.
  Now one group wants sovereignty on the agenda — First Nations sovereignty.
  In an open letter on Tuesday, Ghislain Picard, Chie
  
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• Sentencing delay leaves impaired-driving victim 'disappointed'

  25-09-2018 23:27
  Life has been a struggle for Tina Lyon-Adams ever since she and a friend were struck by a car driven by an impaired driver while the two women were jogging in Hudson three years.
  On Tuesday, Lyon-Adams struggled to get to the courthouse for what was to be the start of the sentencing stage of the case against Jordan Xavier Taylor, the 26-year-old Hudson resident who admitted in June that he was drunk when he struck the two on June 12, 2015. Lyon-Adams suffered a fractured skull and a severely inj
  
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• NDP Quebec hopes to bring left-leaning, non-sovereigntist voters to the fold

  25-09-2018 23:24 via globalnews.ca
  The NDP Quebec leader says his party aims to fill a void on the left of the provincial political spectrum.
  
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• Montreal hockey star Caroline Ouellette retires from national duty

  25-09-2018 23:19
  CALGARY — Four-time Olympic gold-medallist Caroline Ouellette has officially retired as a player from Canada’s senior women’s hockey team.
  Hockey Canada made the announcement in a release Tuesday.
  Ouellette, 39, made her debut with the national program in 1998, and won gold at each of her Olympic appearances (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014).
  Ouellette also represented Canada at 12 women’s world championships, winning six gold and six silver. She retires as Canada’s third-hi
  
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• Man sought after boy reports being followed into school bathroom

  25-09-2018 23:16
  Montreal police will examine surveillance camera images in an effort to identify a man in his 70s who allegedly followed a 13-year-old boy into a high school bathroom and then made sexual comments to him.
  The incident occurred around 10:15 a.m. Monday at Louis Riel High School in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district and while the school was being used as an advance polling station for the provincial election. Classes were being held while the polls were open.
  According to police, the boy says he w
  
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• Quebec election blog Sept. 25: Comedian's vox pop shows just how confused voters are

  25-09-2018 23:15
  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 Tuesday, Sept. 25.
  
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• Canadiens' Jesperi Kotkaniemi survives another round of cuts

  25-09-2018 23:05
  Jesperi Kotkaniemi is still with the Canadiens and Mike McCarron isn’t.
  That was the big news Tuesday in Brossard as the Canadiens cut their training-camp roster down to 33 players, including five who are on the injured list.
  McCarron was placed on waivers, along with fellow forwards Byron Froese and Hunter Shinkaruk and defencemen Brett Lernout and Rinat Valiev. The Canadiens also returned forward Nick Suzuki to the junior Owen Sound Attack and sent defencemen Michal Moravcik and Dav
  
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• Quebec election: QS has bold new ideas voters want, says Nadeau-Dubois

  25-09-2018 22:40
  In an era where right-wing, populist parties are trumping their liberal counterparts both in Canadian provincial politics and around the world, the best defence is a strong progressive offence, said Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois.
  “What is becoming clearer everywhere in advanced democracies is that right-wing populism cannot be beaten by weak liberal reform,” said the co-spokesperson for Québec Solidaire. Manon Massé is the party’s other spokesperson. “It can only be
  
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• Manon Massé misses the Marx

  25-09-2018 22:20 via cbc.ca
  Québec Solidaire co-spokesperson Manon Massé blames her limited English for confusion over her comment in a CBC interview that her party could be called Marxist. 'I meant to say that labels, they're not important to me,' said a frustrated Massé Tuesday.
  
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• Quebec Cree MP drops F-bomb in Commons, accuses Trudeau of not caring about Indigenous rights

  25-09-2018 22:00 via cbc.ca
  The tone of debate in the House of Commons was lowered for the second time in two weeks Tuesday when an NDP MP from Quebec used the f-word during question period.
  
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• MP drops F-bomb in Commons, accuses Trudeau of not caring about Indigenous rights

  25-09-2018 22:00 via cbc.ca
  The tone of debate in the House of Commons was lowered for the second time in two weeks Tuesday when an NDP MP from Quebec used the f-word during question period.
  
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• When the Montreal Star's long history came to an end

  25-09-2018 21:45 via cbc.ca
  The people who worked at the Montreal Star knew it was in trouble, but they had hoped it wasn't going to close. But that's the news they got in September of 1979.
  
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• Hudson jogger, Tina Adams, frustrated after drunk driver’s sentencing postponed

  25-09-2018 21:37 via globalnews.ca
  The sentencing hearing for the man who struck Tina Adams in 2015 has been postponed until January.
  
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• Montreal police seek two suspects in the resto firebombing on L'Acadie

  25-09-2018 21:26
  Montreal arson investigators have turned to the public in an effort to track down two suspects in connection with the firebombing of a L’Acadie Blvd. restaurant on Sept. 8.
  Surveillance cameras show the pair breaking the windows of the establishment, located in the city’s Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough, at about 2:55 a.m. that Saturday, throwing in two burning objects and then tossing in a container of flammable liquid.
  The first suspect is a black male with a thin build. He was
  
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• Opinion: Still not able to vote with my heart

  25-09-2018 21:09
  I’ve been voting for over 20 years, and nearly each time, it’s been for the lesser evil. The one time I was able to vote for something I actually believed in was during the 2011 federal election, when Quebec largely voted NDP.
  When it comes to provincial elections, I face a more complicated problem.
  I’m a francophone from New Brunswick, and many of us feel excluded from the sovereignty movement, even endangered by it. If Quebec ever were to leave Canada, French-language service
  
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• Quebec election: Legault says no to pot cafés

  25-09-2018 21:04
  CHIBOUGAMAU — A Coalition Avenir Québec government wouldn’t allow “pot cafés” — where cannabis could be smoked indoors — leader François Legault said on Tuesday.
  “I want to make sure that we don’t send the wrong message with those cafés,” he said. “It’s dangerous, this product, for young people under 25 years old, so we have to make sure that we send the right message.”
  The CAQ wants to raise the
  
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• West Island community calendar for the week of Sept. 26

  25-09-2018 20:38
  Galleries and exhibitions
  Kirkland Library, 17100 Hymus Blvd., presents an exhibit of paintings by Andrea Lavoie until Saturday. Call 514-630-2726, local 3216.
  Stewart Hall Art Gallery, 176 Lakeshore Rd. in Pointe-Claire, presents the exhibition Trajectoires. Continues until Oct. 14. Call 514-630-1220.
  Montreal Aviation Museum on McGill University’s Macdonald campus, 21111 Lakeshore Rd. in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, is open to the public on Monday, Tuesday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.
  
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• Opinion: Sovereignty — of First Nations — will be on agenda after Oct. 1

  25-09-2018 20:19
  The vote that may usher in a new provincial government is less than a week away. Yet, I am unimpressed by the parties so far. Even when they pretend to recognize First Nations interests, they minimize our reality and rights. The leaders’ cavalier response to First Nations priorities gives us with no other choice but to tell the next government that sovereignty will indeed be on their agenda: First Nation sovereignty.
  Only one party recognizes the evidence of our nations’ rights. When
  
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• Family of Quebec man held in Cuba blasts Ottawa's inaction on the case

  25-09-2018 19:10
  The family of a Mascouche man held for more than a year by Cuban authorities on Tuesday denounced the lack of aid being offered by Canadian authorities in the case.
  Kahina Bensaadi, the wife of Toufik Benhamiche, said her husband has received no Canadian consular assistance since his problems began 14 months ago. And one of Benhamiche’s co-workers presented Parliament with a petition calling for his immediate return to Canada.
  The appeal to the federal government is being supported by
  
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• Teen claims man followed him, asked for sexual favours during advance polling

  25-09-2018 19:09 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal police are searching for a man in his 70s who they allege followed a teenager into a washroom during advance polling at a high school.
  
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• Police search for suspect after teen claims man followed him, asked for sexual favours during advance polling

  25-09-2018 19:09 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal police are searching for a man in his 70s who they say followed a teenager into a washroom during advance polling at a high school.
  
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• LIVE – Quebec election: First Nations want to talk sovereignty – their own

  25-09-2018 19:01
  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 Tuesday, Sept. 25.
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Mike McCarron among five players put on waivers

  25-09-2018 18:35
  The Mike McCarron Project seems to be over now for the Canadiens.
  When the Canadiens selected the 6-foot-6, 230-pound forward in the first round (25th overall) at the 2013 NHL Draft they knew his skating was weak and that they would have to work with him. Unfortunately for the Canadiens and McCarron it didn’t work out and the 23-year-old was placed on waivers at noon Tuesday. The Canadiens also placed four other players on waivers: forwards Byron Froese and Hunter Shinkaruk, along with de
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: Summer lives on in tomato-chickpea salad

  25-09-2018 18:33
  Although we have moved from late summer into fall, U.S. chef Joshua McFadden believes it isn’t too late to find perfect tomatoes, cucumbers and fresh herbs to make this sustaining salad, which is extra nutritious thanks to the chickpeas. It’s one of 225 recipes in his beautiful and informative seasonal and local food cookbook Six Seasons: A New Way With Vegetables (Artisan/Thomas Allen, $50). The photographs by Laura Dart and AJ Meeker are exceptional.McFadden’s six-season
  
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• New Brunswick election puts proportional representation on map in Quebec campaign

  25-09-2018 18:29 via cbc.ca
  The post-election turmoil unfolding in New Brunswick has thrust the debate around electoral reform front and centre in the Quebec election campaign. All the main parties except the Liberals want to replace the first-past-the-post system.
  
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• Quebec election: Daycare promises won't be broken again, Couillard says

  25-09-2018 17:54
  SHERBROOKE — As he visited a children’s play centre to talk about his promises for young families, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard had to defend campaign pledges he broke nearly four years ago.
  In the last campaign, Couillard had promised to freeze daycare fees, but he then changed his tune when in office, introducing a sliding scale whereby parents pay between $8 and $22 per day, based on family income, meaning many parents pay thousands more annually.
  Couillard justified the hike
  
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• Dave Matthews Band announces Montreal show

  25-09-2018 17:19
  Dave Matthews Band will perform at the Bell Centre on Saturday, Dec. 8 as part of a 10-city arena tour, promoter Evenko announced Tuesday. It is the only Canadian date on the tour.
  Tickets start at $79.50 and go on sale to the general public Friday, Oct. 5 at 9 a.m. via the Bell Centre and Evenko (855-310-2525; evenko.ca).
  Members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association can access a presale that continues through Saturday, Sept. 29 at 3 p.m. via warehouse.davematthewsband.com.
  Dave Matthews Ba
  
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• Quebec election: Manon Massé reads QS platform after inhaling helium

  25-09-2018 16:25
  Buoyed by Québec solidaire’s rising fortunes in the polls, Manon Massé talked politics with Youtuber PL Cloutier after inhaling helium from a balloon.
  In the video, Cloutier said the Québec solidaire co-spokesperson was the only party representative to accept his invitation.
  Remaining as on-message as one can in an interview involving helium and Scandal-sized wine goblets, Massé opted for a balloon in her party’s orange colour.
  After taking a hit from the
  
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• Quebec election: ‘Situation is dramatic,’ Legault says of Nunavik suicides

  25-09-2018 16:17
  VAL D’OR — François Legault said on Monday a Coalition Avenir Québec government would listen to the recommendations of the Viens Commission.
  The Viens Commission was created in 2016 to study the relationship between the Quebec government — and its employees — and Indigenous people. It came in response to allegations that Sûreté du Québec officers physically and sexually assaulted Indigenous women in Val d’Or.
  However,
  
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• Man sought after boy reports incident in school bathroom at polling station

  25-09-2018 16:12
  Montreal police will examine surveillance camera images in an effort to identify a man in his 70s who allegedly followed a 13-year-old boy into a high school bathroom and then made sexual comments to him.
  The incident occurred around 10:15 a.m. Monday at Louis Riel High School in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district and while the school was being used as an advance polling station for the provincial election. Classes were being held while the polls were open.
  According to police, the boy says he w
  
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• Quebec election: PQ would boost democracy, protect media from Google

  25-09-2018 16:06
  MONT-LAURIER — A Parti Québécois government would bolster democracy by supporting Quebec media, strengthening freedom-of-information legislation and making decisions by the National Assembly’s ethics commissioner mandatory, leader Jean-François Lisée announced Tuesday.
  Provincial and local media are “an indispensable tool for democracy” that need protection from digital giants like Facebook and Google, which scoop up 70 per cent of media advert
  
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• Montreal’s first professional Muslim theatre company

  25-09-2018 15:33 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal’s very first professional Muslim theatre company is presenting “The Domestic Crusader” at Espace Knox in NDG. Find out more about the Theatre Company and “The Domestic Crusader” from Global’s Laura Casella and her guests.
  
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• Beauty & Fashion: Transitioning from summer to fall make-up

  25-09-2018 15:33 via globalnews.ca
  Want to know which products and techniques will make your transition from summer to fall makeup seem effortless? Watch Global’s Laura Casella and makeup artist Elizabeth D’Amico to find out.
  
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• Rethinking social entrepreneurship

  25-09-2018 15:26 via globalnews.ca
  September 26th marks the 3rd edition of Cooperathon – the world’s largest innovation challenge to create digital solutions for social issues. Find out more from entrepreneur Ilias Benjelloun and Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Adapted physical activity

  25-09-2018 15:26 via globalnews.ca
  How can you stay fit if you’re wheelchair-bound or injured? Join Global’s Kim Sullivan and fitness expert Patrick Burkhard for some great adapted exercises.
  
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• Inside the struggle to make a light beer Canucks would admit to drinking

  25-09-2018 15:25 via cbc.ca
  Forty years ago, Canadian beer companies were competing to produce a low-calorie beer that tasted good, and it wasn't easy.
  
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• Rail safety week

  25-09-2018 15:07 via globalnews.ca
  More than 2 thousand people are killed every year across North America from unsafe behaviour around trains and tracks. Find out more about Rail Safety Week from CN Police Assistant Chief Shawn Will and Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Canadiens down Maple Leafs 5-1 in pre-season play

  25-09-2018 15:04 via globalnews.ca
  Leafs head coach Mike Babcock saw the game as an opportunity lost for his players sitting precariously on the roster bubble.
  
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• Cabot Oysters recalled in Quebec due to salmonella risk

  25-09-2018 14:37 via cbc.ca
  Oysters harvested in Havre Boucher, N.S., on Sept. 16 have been recalled due to possible salmonella contamination.
  
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