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Despite polling at a statistical tie shortly before the election, Bergeron finished third in the mayoralty race. However, after being the only member of Projet Montréal elected in the previous election, he led his party to the election of two borough mayors, ten seats on city council, and four
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No one knows what really happened on Sept. 11, 2001. We have been sated with pictures of two airliners striking the twin towers of the World Trade Centre. This is the only event of which we can be sure. The reasons for this act remain unknown. As for the two other planes that would have
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I wanted to shock people, because I was a writer, I was writing an essay and our objective when we do that is to shock people just for fun. I'm not in that life anymore — I'm a candidate to run
Montreal for the third time. That was in my previous life and I was a bit stupid at that
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I am damn proud of that paragraph. I worked really hard on it. I had 10 people read it and they all said "don't do it". Even my editor. My duty as an academic was to incite intellectual questioning. It is a frivolous question to ask whether I agree with it or
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