New Canadiens GM Pierre Gauthier has already announced plans to try to keep Tomas Plekanec and also to keep both Halak and Price on the team.
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The disappearance of two young men continues to puzzle police, who are looking for leads on where they went in the wee hours of Wednesday after they left the Diable Vert bar on Saint-Denis. The car they were using has also vanished.
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Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive has its eye on the old Dominion Bridge site in Lachine in hopes that it will somehow get to build cars for the Montreal metro.
Let’s see: undercuts the Bombardier-Alstom offer, changes the system over to the cheaper and more flexible steel wheel model, and creates a thousand new jobs in the city. I’m beginning to wonder what arguments there are against this, unless pneumatic tires are seen as emblematic of the distinct society.
Yet the STM remains adamant that the Chinese offer is not acceptable.
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Guillaume Saint-Jean has a terrific Flickr photo set of the abandoned Franciscan church both as it looked before it burned down on the weekend, and as it looks now, accompanied by a chronology of its beginning and end.
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A man who beat an elderly nun to death in 2007 has been declared not criminally responsible and will not stand trial for the incident.
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Bob Gainey has stepped down as general manager of the Canadiens, and Pierre Gauthier will replace him.
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Quebec is giving several construction consortiums a final chance to submit acceptable bids to build the superhospitals under the provincial government’s pet PPP system. If that doesn’t work, it may revert to building them as a conventional public works project.
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A steady stream of Haitian exiles continues to arrive in town; the other side of this coin is the story of a Haitian-Canadian nurse who went back to do what she could to help out.
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The Casino is closing its cabaret for four years so a massive $305-million renovation can be done.
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A man hit with a speeding ticket has not only challenged his own ticket for having no police signature, but also put in legal doubt millions of dollars worth of tickets issued in this way. A judge has to rule on the case soon.
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I hope it’s not permanent, but the Gazette site is dead this morning.
Later note: Back. But it’s not exactly zippy.