By Murray Sherriffs
Less than two weeks to go to election day in Quebec and several polls say that the majority of voters still haven’t decided how they will vote. Sébastien Dallaire, Léger’s chief insights officer says that four of every ten voters are undecided and that he’s “…kind of wobbly, it could go another way.”
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A poll out this morning reveals that, of those who have decided, the majority say that they favor the Parti Québécois.
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Party leaders are preparing for a final French-language debate tonight.
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Other election front news:
• Québec solidaire unveils plan for free education.
• The Liberals want to widen Highway 30.
• Conservative leader Duhaime is proposing a Quebec constitution
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The mayors of Lachine, Verdun, Lasalle and Montreal’s southwest boroughs are pushing the next government to build a tramway in their vicinity.
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Several Quebec university faculty associations want more money, saying that the lack of funding at the province’s institutions has reached critical proportions. They are urging the next provincial government to commit to proper funding of higher education institutions and allow schools to fulfill their missions.
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The Parole Board of Canada has told Guy Turcotte that he will not be allowed time away from jail to visit his parents, while he does time for murdering his two children in 2009; saying that Turcotte’s absence was “…not desirable, given the exceptional gravity and violent nature of his crimes and the impact the murders have had on Isabelle Gaston, his ex-wife and the mother of five-year-old son Olivier and three-year-old daughter Anne-Sophie, who were stabbed dozens of times.
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Montreal police are investigating the death of a woman in her forties, found in a downtown apartment building yesterday on René Lévesque near St. Christophe
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Investigators with the Sûreté du Québec are hunting a killer and asking for the public to help find 19-year-old Ayoub Mohamed, in connection with a shooting of a man in a Valleyfield restaurant, saying that he might be in Terrebonne, Laval or Dollard.
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A 12-year-old boy playing soccer at Pasquale-Gattuso Park in Rivière des Prairies, has been robbed at gunpoint by three teenagers, who stole his cellphone.
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Retirees who don’t have much money are at increased risk of poor health, according to a study from the Quebec Observatory on Inequality.
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The City of Montreal has asked the Quebec government to do something about the odours emanating from the Sanimax slaughterhouse in Rivière des Prairies, which has yet to follow an order from the Quebec Superior Court ruling, more than two years ago, which ordered the operation to comply with environmental standards.
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