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• New USMCA deal leaves Quebec’s dairy farmers with a sour taste in their mouths

  01-10-2018 23:27 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Oct 1: The province’s dairy producers say the new United States Mexico Canada Agreement will have a negative impact on farmers. The new deal could result in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for the Quebec dairy industry.
  
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• Changes coming to some level crossings on the Deux-Montagnes train line

  01-10-2018 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Oct 1: In an effort to limit dangerous behaviour near train tracks, Exo has removed pedestrian platform crossings at three stations. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, some train users say these changes will have an impact on people with limited mobility.
  
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• A Quebecer spoke out against the Saudis - then learned he had spyware on his iPhone

  01-10-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
  Omar Abdulaziz believes the Saudi Arabian government is trying to intimidate him into silence for his protests against its human rights record.
  
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• Quebec premier tells Trudeau he's 'not happy at all' with NAFTA deal

  01-10-2018 22:49
  Canadian dairy farmers have panned the renegotiated trade pact between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, saying the new deal will undercut the industry by limiting exports and opening up the market to more American products.
  The renegotiated trade pact between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, which will open up Quebec’s dairy market to American farmers, will likely not have an affect on Monday’s provincial election because all the province’s political parties have vowed to support Quebe
  
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• Return of Canadiens forward Andrew Shaw adds wrinkle to roster plans

  01-10-2018 22:48
  Just when you thought the Canadiens’ roster was set for Wednesday’s season opener in Toronto (7 p.m., Sportsnet, SN360, RDS, TSN 690 Radio), forward Andrew Shaw dropped in on the Canadiens’ practice in Brossard Monday and declared himself ready to go.
  Shaw said he would like to be in the lineup Wednesday but, even if head coach Claude Julien decides to wait, his return is imminent, which means Jacob de la Rose and Nikita Scherbak are back on the bubble.
  Shaw was sidelined
  
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• Quebecers head to the polls against backdrop of trade deal

  01-10-2018 22:36 via globalnews.ca
  Quebecers were voting in a provincial election Monday against the backdrop of a renegotiated trade pact between Canada, the United States and Mexico that was greeted with immediate criticism in the province.
  
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• Editorial: A NAFTA deal by any other name …

  01-10-2018 22:20
  Not long after he took office, U.S. President Donald Trump assured Canada that, for all of his pillorying of NAFTA during the election campaign, the Canada-U.S. part of the trade relationship was merely in need of tweaks.
  Little more than 18 months later, that is what has happened — but only thanks to steadfast negotiating on the Canadian side that has largely spared this country a host of harsher, even catastrophic, provisions that the Trump administration had tried to bully Canada into a
  
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• New NAFTA deal worries Quebec dairy farmers, politicians

  01-10-2018 21:20 via cbc.ca
  Granting greater access to Canadian markets to the U.S. came as a trade-off for maintaining Chapter 19 of the agreement, NAFTA’s dispute resolution process.
  
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• It's International Coffee Day. Wherever shall we celebrate?

  01-10-2018 21:07
  If you’re worried about how you’re going to stay up to get the final election results and you’re also a woman — or know women — then Monday is your lucky day.
  It’s International Coffee Day, which — under the unfortunate tag line “Women In Coffee” — aims to “highlight the need for equity and equality in the coffee sector, from bean to cup, and that can only be achieved by empowering women.”
  If you live in Montreal, you&r
  
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• Robert Lafrenière, head of Quebec’s anti-corruption unit, steps down

  01-10-2018 20:57 via globalnews.ca
  On Monday, UPAC officials announced the head of Quebec's anti-corruption unit, Robert Lafrèniere, has resigned.
  
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• Shea Weber jokes father’s reaction to being named Canadiens captain

  01-10-2018 20:24 via globalnews.ca
  Shea Weber suggested he was overly emotional compared to his father, who he joked would likely say “good job” in response to the 30-year-old being named captain of the Montreal Canadiens.
  
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• ‘Not there yet’: Shea Weber on speaking en français

  01-10-2018 20:15 via globalnews.ca
  Newly-named Montreal Canadiens captain Shea Weber said he is working on learning to speak French, but isn’t quite ready to fluently speak en français.
  
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• Shea Weber says being named Canadiens captain ‘an honour’

  01-10-2018 20:10 via globalnews.ca
  The Montreal Canadiens named veteran defenceman Shea Weber the club’s captain on Monday – a title the 33-year-old described as an “honour.”
  
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• Shea Weber describes how he’ll lead team despite injury

  01-10-2018 20:05 via globalnews.ca
  Injured defencman Shea Weber was named captain of the Montreal Canadiens on Monday, and described how he intends to lead the club despite not being able to play.
  
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• Shea Weber laughs about being called ‘Dad’ by teammates

  01-10-2018 20:04 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal Canadiens captain Shea Weber isn’t sure why his teammates refer to him as “Dad,” but said he was not bothered by the nickname.
  
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• Obvious choice: Bergevin explains why Shea Weber named captained

  01-10-2018 20:04 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal Canadiens General Manager Marc Bergevin described why he chose now to name defenceman Shea Weber the team’s captain prior to the start of the NHL’s regular season.
  
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• Shea Weber aware of pressures of being captain in Montreal

  01-10-2018 20:03 via globalnews.ca
  Newly-named captain of the Montreal Canadiens, Shea Weber, said Monday that he’s aware of the challenges that come with playing in a hockey-crazed, bilingual city like Montreal.
  
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• Shea Weber discusses differences in leading Habs compared to Predators

  01-10-2018 20:02 via globalnews.ca
  Shea Weber was named the 30th captain in Montreal Canadiens franchise history on Monday, who previously served as the team leader for the Nashville Predators.
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Andrew Shaw back practising with his teammates

  01-10-2018 19:51
  Shortly after the Canadiens named Shea Weber as the 30th captain in franchise history Monday morning, his teammates hit the ice for an 11 a.m. practice in Brossard and Andrew Shaw was among them.
  Shaw hasn’t practised with his teammates since suffering a concussion and a knee injury when he checked the Dallas Stars’ Greg Pateryn during a game at the Bell Centre on March 13. Shaw had surgery on his left knee on April 25 and was expected to be sidelined for six months. He started
  
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• 5 things you should know about Habs' new season

  01-10-2018 19:49
  Here are five things you should know about the 2018-19 Canadiens.
  Youth will be served, Part 1: Jesperi Kotkaniemi has earned a roster spot to begin the season and the 18-year-old Finn is the youngest Canadien since Mario Tremblay broke in shortly after his 18th birthday in 1974. The Canadiens have a reputation for bringing young players along slowly but these are desperate times and Kotkaniemi, who was drafted third overall in June, forced coach Claude Julien’s hand by standing out in the
  
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• Controversial UPAC chief Robert Lafrenière resigns

  01-10-2018 19:36
  Two days after a high-profile investigation involving a Liberal MNA fell apart, Robert Lafrenière, director of Quebec’s anti-corruption squad, has resigned from his post.
  UPAC officials confirmed that Lafrenière would be leaving his post on Nov. 2 but provided no other details.
  The resignation, announced Monday, follows a decision on Friday by Quebec’s office of criminal prosecutions not challenge a motion by lawyers for Liberal MNA Guy Ouellette that warrants that allo
  
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• What the Puck: Habs management is busy spinning the truth

  01-10-2018 19:33
  It’s all about the public-relations spin with the Montreal Canadiens.
  If management spent half as much time on hockey operations as they do managing the media, the Habs really would be contenders. There was a lot of talk about the team’s off-seasons moves — bringing in mighty nine-goal scorer Max Domi and Vegas playoff bench-warmer Tomas Tatar — but I maintain that the biggest move since that miserable last season was Geoff Molson’s decision to hire Paul Wilson as h
  
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• Quebec election: 'Every citizen is equal,' including leaders casting votes

  01-10-2018 19:26
  As Jean-François Lisée lined up to vote at a polling station in Rosemont Monday, a reporter asked him why he had to wait just like everyone else.
  “Every citizen is equal today,” the Parti Québécois leader replied.
  “I thought every citizen was equal every day,” an elderly man replied.
  “Well, of course!” Lisée fired back.
  He left the station and walked up to some children playing in a schoolyard. It’s unclear whether they
  
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• Head of Quebec's anti-corruption unit will step down next month

  01-10-2018 18:40 via cbc.ca
  Robert Lafrenière's last day will be Nov. 2, according to a UPAC spokesperson.
  
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• Montreal Canadiens name Shea Weber the 30th captain in franchise history

  01-10-2018 18:29 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal Canadiens defenceman Shea Weber has been named as the 30th captain in franchise history.
  
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• Quebec election: 'Compromises' in new NAFTA deal infuriate dairy farmers

  01-10-2018 18:22
  The renegotiated trade pact between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, which will open up Quebec’s dairy market to American farmers, will likely not have an affect on Monday’s provincial election because all the province’s political parties have vowed to support Quebec dairy farmers, the head of Quebec’s largest employers’ group said on Monday.
  “This is a federal decision — if we see an impact it will be during the federal election next year,” said Yves-
  
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• Defenceman Shea Weber is the Montreal Canadiens' new captain

  01-10-2018 17:56
  Shea Weber is the new captain of the Canadiens.
  The club announced before practice Monday morning in Brossard that Weber will be the 30th captain in franchise history with Brendan Gallagher and Paul Byron as his alternates.
  Weber replaces Max Pacioretty, who was traded to the Vegas Golden Knights this summer.
  The 33-year-old Weber was acquired from the Nashville Predators two years ago in exchange for P.K. Subban. Weber underwent off-season knee surgery and isn’t expected to be ready to pl
  
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• Canadiens Notebook: Jonathan Drouin misses practice for therapy day

  01-10-2018 17:56
  Shortly after the Canadiens named Shea Weber as the 30th captain in franchise history Monday morning, his teammates hit the ice for an 11 a.m. practice in Brossard.
  The Canadiens scheduled a 2 p.m. news conference in Brossard with Weber, who will be sidelined until mid-December following off-season knee surgery.
  Jonathan Drouin and Jacob de la Rose both missed practice Monday, taking therapy days. Andrew Shaw, who underwent off-season knee surgery, took part in his first practice with his teamma
  
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• Quebec election: CAQ's Legault coaxes Quebecers: 'Get out and vote'

  01-10-2018 17:40
  L’ASSOMPTION — After placing his vote in his home riding of L’Assomption Monday morning, François Legault admitted to having “mixed feelings” ahead of the election and once more urged Quebecers to make their way to the polls.
  “It’s a close race between the CAQ and the Liberal Party in many ridings so it may be a difference of a few votes, so each vote counts,” he said. “I’m asking all Quebecers to get out, it doesn’t take m
  
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• Opinion: After divisive election, let's listen to each other's stories

  01-10-2018 17:18
  With the end of another divisive election cycle in Quebec, one of the lesser known recommendations of the Bouchard-Taylor commission into reasonable accommodation comes to mind. It called for the creation of a special fund to document the life stories of immigrants. Then, as now, heated debates around immigration usually included sweeping statements about “immigrants,” “refugees” and “pure laine” Quebecers. Gérard Bouchard and Charles Taylor believed if
  
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• 'The choice was obvious:' Shea Weber named Canadiens' 30th captain

  01-10-2018 17:02 via cbc.ca
  On a day when Quebecers headed to the polls to elect their new leaders, there was no vote needed for the Montreal Canadiens to select their new captain. The decision to give the "C" to all-star defenceman Shea Weber was "unanimous."
  
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• Shea Weber named Canadiens' 30th captain

  01-10-2018 17:02 via cbc.ca
  Defenceman Shea Weber will become the 30th captain of the Montreal Canadiens, the team announced Monday. But the veteran defenceman won’t be wearing the C anytime soon following arthroscopic knee surgery in the summer.
  
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• Charles Aznavour's love affair with Quebec

  01-10-2018 16:47 via cbc.ca
  The legendary 94-year-old singer, who has died at his home in Alpilles, may have been from France, but he always said he had a soft spot for our francophone province.
  
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• Charles Aznavour, who had lifelong love affair with Quebec, has died

  01-10-2018 16:20
  The death of French singer Charles Aznavour closes a long and storied chapter of Quebec’s musical history.
  The singer and actor, who died Monday at the age of 94, left an indelible impression on the province, one he visited frequently over the course of his career.
  It’s a love story that didn’t begin recently. In 1948, about two years after coming to the notice of French singer Edith Piaf, Aznavour played at the Faisan Doré, a Montreal nightclub where, with pianist
  
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• Quebec election: Leaders, dairy farmers on high alert for NAFTA talks

  01-10-2018 16:18
  “The worst has happened.”
  This was Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée’s reaction to news — late Sunday night — that Quebec’s dairy farmers will bear the brunt of trade concessions between Canada and the United States.
  “Canada has already made significant concessions on dairy. Why? To protect Ontario’s auto industry against tariffs,” said Lisée during a campaign stop at a cheese factory.
  “We&rsq
  
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• Global News Morning weather forecast: Monday, October 1

  01-10-2018 16:00 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Sullivan has Montreal’s weather forecast for Monday, October 1.
  
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• World Sake Day

  01-10-2018 15:34 via globalnews.ca
  It’s World Sake Day! Learn more about this oriental rice wine from sommelier Marc-André Nadeau and Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Charles Aznavour has died; Senators sorry for unilingual anthem

  01-10-2018 15:03
  A few things you might have missed while you were sleeping.
  The death of a legend: Beloved singer-songwriter Charles Aznavour has died at his home in Alpilles, France, at age 94. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 1,200 songs in seven languages, sold more than 180 million records and was seen in more than 80 films. In 2008, he was named an honorary officer of the Order Of Canada. That year, he performed on the Plains of Abraham as part of Quebec’s 400th anniversary celebrations. Aznav
  
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• Cool-weather foods for healthy living

  01-10-2018 14:59 via globalnews.ca
  As temperatures drop and fall settles in, should we be making any changes to our diet? Get the answer from Global’s Laura Casella and registered nutritionist Robin Glance.
  
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• French singing legend Charles Aznavour dead at 94

  01-10-2018 14:45 via cbc.ca
  French singer Charles Aznavour has died at 94, French media reported on Monday, citing his spokesperson.
  
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• Celebrating the seniors in our lives

  01-10-2018 14:27 via globalnews.ca
  Honour National Seniors Day with Global’s Kim Sullivan and Irene Steiner, a remarkable 89-year-old author and recent university graduate.
  
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• Quebec City police travel to Bogota to make arrest in sexual assault case

  01-10-2018 14:07
  A three-year investigation that began in Canada and ended in Bogota, Colombia, has resulted in a 43-year-old man’s appearing in a Quebec City courtroom Monday to face a charge of sexual assault.
  The investigation began in 2015, after Quebec City police received a complaint of sexual assault against a minor, allegedly by a family member. However the case was complicated by the fact the suspect was outside the country. What police describe as a partnership between themselves, the RCMP, the f
  
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