By Murray Sherriffs
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The CAQ’s performance regarding health care received a lot of negative attention in last night’s Quebec party-leaders debate, with challenges centring on Christine Fréchette repeating promises made and broken by former party leader Legault.
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Liberal Leader Charles Milliard says that Quebecers feel “betrayed” by the CAQ for failing to decrease emergency room wait times and failing to give all Quebecers access to a family doctor and promises to create a telehealth platform to allow people to see a health-care professional without an appointment.
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Parti Québécois leader Pierre Saint-Paul Plamondon says that the CAQ has disrespected the intelligence of Quebecers and says that his party would set up CLSCs to treat minor emergencies and remove the pressure now seen in emergency rooms.
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Quebec Conservative Party Leader Éric Duhaime says that more family doctors are needed and hospital wait times must be reduced and that repeating prior promisesis not the way to go: that ongoing PQ and Liberal health care promises have been broken for decades.
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Québec Solidaire is strongly opposed to private-public health care alleging that private practices steal doctors from the public sector.
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Montreal business groups have challenged the province’s political parties over strict immigration policies that could hurt the Quebec’s finances and its economy. They want the next government to take another tack to avoid the double shock of a decline in the labour force and an increase in the number of people such as the elderly, who depend on government benefits.
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Montreal Police say that a woman murdered in her apartment this week, 45-year-old Leïla Ben Salem, was on a video call with a co-worker when the killer broke into her unit in the building on René Lévesque near St. Christophe.
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A city of Montréal bus driver suffered a medical crisis that caused in his vehicle to leave the road and slam into three parked vehicles and two terrasses on Monkland, in Notre Dame de Grâce, between Harvard and Oxford, causing injuries.
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The Metropolitan Community of Montreal claims that it is a myth that the economic benefits of public transit are not greater than automobiles.
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A $16 million dollar renovation project has begun at St. Mary’s Hospital in Montreal, with monies raised by private donations.
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The United Kingdom’s communications regulator has launched an investigation into Montreal’s Pornhub, to determine whether the website is failing to stop minors from accessing pornography.
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A class-action lawsuit application has been filed in Quebec Superior Court against the English Montreal, Lester B. Pearson and New Frontiers School boards as well as scores of others, over the designation of a single supplier for the purchase of uniforms.
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Montreal police have arrested 23-year-old Clément Christian Masséman, suspected of dealing crack and cocaine at the Notre Dame Street homeless encampment.
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George Gillett Jr, former majority owner of the Habs, has passed, aged 87.
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The Montreal Canadiens have kicked off the second phase of their training camp by grouping players labelled “NHL” together, but a few prospects are in the mix: Florian Xhekaj, Owen Beck, David Reinbacher and Adam Engström.
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