Teachers not immune to jitters ~ The Montreal Gazette

Today is the day most young West Islanders head back to school.

And if your kids were anxious and having nightmares about going back to school, you'll want to let them in on a little secret: It happens to teachers, too.

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It's liftoff for AirMédic ambulance ~ The Montreal Gazette

It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's an ambulance.

AirMédic, the non-profit group that aims to provide air ambulance service in Quebec, yesterday unveiled an equipped helicopter dedicated to serving the Montreal area, along with a new home for the chopper and its staff in Mirabel.

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Airports could see strike in November ~ The Montreal Gazette

Blue-collar workers at Trudeau and Mirabel airports are putting passengers and cargo operators on notice for possible strike action in November.

"There's one thing for sure," said Wayne Wilson, a spokesperson for the 280-member airport employees' union, affiliated with the Centrale des syndicats démocratiques. "We started (protesting) and ... we won't spend the winter without going on strike" if outstanding issues aren't settled, he said.

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Charkaoui awaits decision on restrictions ~ The Montreal Gazette

A confident Adil Charkaoui left court yesterday, hoping he would soon be free of the "unlivable" conditions he has had to adhere to since his release in February 2005.

"I hope the judge will apply the Supreme Court decision," Charkaoui told reporters, referring to the February ruling that rendered the security certificate, under which Charkaoui was imprisoned for 21/2 years without seeing the evidence against him, unconstitutional.

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Charkaoui looks to federal judge as his 'Père Noël' ~ The Montreal Gazette

Adil Charkaoui says Federal Court Judge Simon Noël is his children's "Père Noël," and he's waiting for the gift of permission to leave Montreal "to have some moments of joy with my children."

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Charkaoui seeks to have strict conditions dropped ~ The Montreal Gazette

Adil Charkaoui will be in federal court this morning, arguing strict conditions imposed on him be abolished.

"I feel the government doesn't apply appropriately the decision of the Supreme Court," he told The Gazette yesterday, referring to the high court decision in February that quashed the security certificates that had allowed the federal government to detain Charkaoui as a suspected terrorist for two years without laying charges or revealing the evidence against him.

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Four rabid raccoons found near St. Jean ~ The Montreal Gazette

Animal control officials are searching for raccoons in south shore St. Jean sur Richelieu after four of the animals infected with rabies were found near the city.

This marked the first time in recent years that diseased raccoons have been found close to Montreal, a health official said.

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Quebecers support immigration levels ~ The Montreal Gazette

With the reasonable accommodation debate taking centre stage and the province's first public forum on the issue set for Friday, you'd think the province's appetite for immigrants would be diminished.

But that's not so, according to Jack Jedwab, executive director of the Association for Canadian Studies.

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Partnership viewed as a threat to sovereignty ~ The Montreal Gazette

A coalition of Canadian, American and Mexican energy workers' unions and nine lobby groups yesterday denounced the Security and Prosperity Partnership discussed by leaders of the three countries in Montebello, as a threat to each nation's energy sovereignty.

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