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id="Radio_career">Radio career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anne_Lagac%C3%A9_Dowson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Radio career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A longtime host of <a href="/wiki/CBC_Radio" title="CBC Radio">CBC Radio</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Radio_Noon" title="Radio Noon">Radio Noon</a></i>, a daily current affairs and phone-in program in <a href="/wiki/Quebec" title="Quebec">Quebec</a>, she left to run for political office in 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-gazette_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gazette-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also hosted <i><a href="/wiki/CBC_Radio_One_local_programming" title="CBC Radio One local programming">Home Run</a></i> in <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>, and was producer of <i><a href="/wiki/C%27est_la_Vie_(radio)" class="mw-redirect" title="C'est la Vie (radio)">C'est la Vie</a></i>. She was a news reporter, arts reporter, press reviewer, and has guest hosted <i><a href="/wiki/Cross_Country_Checkup" title="Cross Country Checkup">Cross Country Checkup</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/As_It_Happens" title="As It Happens">As It Happens</a></i>, where she was also a producer. Anne has been a frequent guest in the francophone media, she was a juror on the Radio Canada version of <i><a href="/wiki/Canada_Reads" title="Canada Reads">Canada Reads</a></i>, entitled <i>Le Combat des livres</i>, and she championed <a href="/wiki/Mordecai_Richler" title="Mordecai Richler">Mordecai Richler</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Barney%27s_Version_(novel)" title="Barney's Version (novel)">Barney's Version</a></i>. </p><p>She was a daily presence on the Radio-Canada radio program <i>Sans Préliminaires</i> with Franco Nuovo. She has been a member of a weekly politics panel on Radio-Canada's <a href="/wiki/Flagship" title="Flagship">flagship</a> television newscast <i><a href="/wiki/Le_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9journal" title="Le Téléjournal">Le Téléjournal</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Lis%C3%A9e" title="Jean-François Lisée">Jean-François Lisée</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liza_Frulla" title="Liza Frulla">Liza Frulla</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tasha_Kheiriddin" title="Tasha Kheiriddin">Tasha Kheiriddin</a>, hosted by <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A9line_Galipeau" title="Céline Galipeau">Céline Galipeau</a>. </p><p>Anne was the first ever Anglophone spokesperson for the Festival International du Film sur l'Art in Montreal, the biggest festival of films on art in the world. </p><p>From September 2009 to August 2011, she hosted a Saturday afternoon show on <a href="/wiki/CJAD" title="CJAD">CJAD-AM</a> in Montreal. She now participates in the Tommy Schnurmacher Show as a member of the Gang of Four, and does a weekly column on politics on the drive show with Aaron Rand. </p><p>Her column about Anglo Quebec entitled "Bloke Nation" appeared in the entertainment weekly <i><a href="/wiki/Hour_Community" title="Hour Community">Hour Community</a></i>. </p><p>In 2015, she was the guest host for the noontime Barry Morgan Show when Barry was on vacation on <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>'s CJAD 800 AM radio. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anne_Lagac%C3%A9_Dowson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She was the <a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Party_of_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="New Democratic Party of Canada">New Democratic Party</a> candidate in the <a href="/wiki/2008_Canadian_federal_election" title="2008 Canadian federal election">2008 Canadian federal election</a> for <a href="/wiki/Westmount%E2%80%94Ville-Marie" class="mw-redirect" title="Westmount—Ville-Marie">Westmount—Ville-Marie</a>, coming second to Liberal <a href="/wiki/Marc_Garneau" title="Marc Garneau">Marc Garneau</a>. She had originally been the party's candidate in a <a href="/wiki/2008_Canadian_federal_by-elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2008 Canadian federal by-elections">by-election</a> for Westmount—Ville Marie, which was superseded by the general election call. </p><p>She was endorsed by <a href="/wiki/Cory_Doctorow" title="Cory Doctorow">Cory Doctorow</a> of <a href="/wiki/Boing_Boing" title="Boing Boing">Boing Boing</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University">McGill University</a> academics <a href="/wiki/Charles_Taylor_(philosopher)" title="Charles Taylor (philosopher)">Charles Taylor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Desmond_Morton_(historian)" title="Desmond Morton (historian)">Desmond Morton</a>, human rights lawyer <a href="/wiki/Julius_Grey" title="Julius Grey">Julius Grey</a> and the former mayor of Westmount, May Cutler. </p><p>She ran for office in the <a href="/wiki/2015_Canadian_federal_election" title="2015 Canadian federal election">2015 election</a> in the riding of <a href="/wiki/Papineau_(electoral_district)" title="Papineau (electoral district)">Papineau</a>, losing against Liberal leader <a href="/wiki/Justin_Trudeau" title="Justin Trudeau">Justin Trudeau</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anne_Lagac%C3%A9_Dowson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dowson holds a B.A. in <a href="/wiki/Sociology" title="Sociology">sociology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_studies" title="Women's studies">women's studies</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Ottawa" title="University of Ottawa">University of Ottawa</a>, where she was a member of the student senate, and holds a M.A. (1989) in <a href="/wiki/Canadian_studies" title="Canadian studies">Canadian studies</a> at <a href="/wiki/Carleton_University" title="Carleton University">Carleton University</a>. At Carleton, Dowson served as vice president of the teaching assistant's union. She moderated at the <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Museum_of_Fine_Arts" title="Montreal Museum of Fine Arts">Montreal Museum of Fine Arts</a> to writers ranging from <a href="/wiki/Salman_Rushdie" title="Salman Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a> to <a href="/wiki/John_Ralston_Saul" title="John Ralston Saul">John Ralston Saul</a>. Invited by the governor general, she hosted events at <a href="/wiki/Rideau_Hall" title="Rideau Hall">Rideau Hall</a>, most recently three national panel debates on the arts. </p><p>Fluently bilingual, she is the daughter of trade unionist Hugh Dowson of Toronto and Québec City's Claire Lagacé. Claire Lagacé studied with the Ursulines alongside leading Québec author Anne Hébert, from whom Anne derives her name. </p><p>Her great uncle <a href="/wiki/Pierre_%C3%89douard_Blondin" class="mw-redirect" title="Pierre Édouard Blondin">Pierre Édouard Blondin</a> was a Conservative Minister in Prime Minister Robert Borden's government, and went on to become Speaker of the Senate. Her uncle <a href="/wiki/Ross_Dowson" title="Ross Dowson">Ross Dowson</a> ran for Mayor of Toronto after the war on a <a href="/wiki/Trotskyism" title="Trotskyism">Trotskyist</a> platform. </p><p>Her aunts Lois and Joyce Dowson co-founded the Ontario chapter of the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Hemophilia_Society" title="Canadian Hemophilia Society">Canadian Hemophilia Society</a> in the 1950s after Joyce, married to sculptor <a href="/wiki/Joe_Rosenthal_(sculptor)" title="Joe Rosenthal (sculptor)">Joe Rosenthal</a>, discovered that their son, Ronald Rosenthal, had hemophilia. 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title="2015 Canadian federal election">2015 Canadian federal election</a>: <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Papineau_(electoral_district)" title="Papineau (electoral district)">Papineau</a></span> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2 style=" bgcolor="">Party </th> <th width="250px">Candidate </th> <th width="48px">Votes</th> <th width="43px">%</th> <th width="52px"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span></th> <th width="90px">Expenditures </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Justin_Trudeau" title="Justin Trudeau">Justin Trudeau</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">26,391</td> <td style="text-align:right;">51.98</td> <td style="text-align:right;">+14.05</td> <td style="text-align:right;">$129,821.55 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #F4A460; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Party" title="New Democratic Party">New Democratic</a></td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Anne Lagacé Dowson</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">13,132</td> <td style="text-align:right;">25.87</td> <td style="text-align:right;">−3.6</td> <td style="text-align:right;">$111,652.95 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #87CEFA; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Bloc_Qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois" title="Bloc Québécois">Bloc Québécois</a></td> <td>Maxime Claveau</td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,182</td> <td style="text-align:right;">12.18</td> <td style="text-align:right;">−12.71</td> <td style="text-align:right;">$19,007.27 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #6495ED; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada" title="Conservative Party of Canada">Conservative</a></td> <td>Yvon Vadnais</td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,390</td> <td style="text-align:right;">4.71</td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.33</td> <td style="text-align:right;">$5,649.91 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #99C955; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Canada" title="Green Party of Canada">Green</a></td> <td>Danny Polifroni</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,443</td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.84</td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.95</td> <td style="text-align:right;">$82.71 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician#Canada" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></td> <td>Chris Lloyd</td> <td style="text-align:right;">505</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.99</td> <td style="text-align:right;">–</td> <td style="text-align:right;">$5,759.41 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #D8BFD8; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party" title="Rhinoceros Party">Rhinoceros</a></td> <td>Tommy Gaudet</td> <td style="text-align:right;">323</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.64</td> <td style="text-align:right;">–</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician#Canada" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></td> <td>Kim Waldron</td> <td style="text-align:right;">159</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.31</td> <td style="text-align:right;">–</td> <td style="text-align:right;">$2,101.20 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #CD5C5C; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Canada_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)" title="Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)">Marxist–Leninist</a></td> <td>Peter Macrisopoulos</td> <td style="text-align:right;">142</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.28</td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.25</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;">No affiliation</td> <td>Beverly Bernardo</td> <td style="text-align:right;">103</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2</td> <td style="text-align:right;">–</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Total valid votes/expense limit </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">50,770</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">98.64</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap"> </span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">$213,091.50</span> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Total rejected ballots </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">698</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">1.36</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">–</span> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Turnout </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">51,468</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">65.44</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">–</span> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Eligible voters </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">78,649</span> </td></tr> <tr style="background:white"> <td style="background:#EA6D6A; width: 16px"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a> <b>notional hold</b> </td> <td colspan="2" align="right"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </td> <td align="right">+8.83 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="7" style="border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Source: <a href="/wiki/Elections_Canada" title="Elections Canada">Elections Canada</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br /> </p> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:758px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:left;"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:2008_Canadian_federal_election/Westmount%E2%80%94Ville-Marie" title="Template:2008 Canadian federal election/Westmount—Ville-Marie"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319" /><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span></th> <th width="90px">Expenditures </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Marc_Garneau" title="Marc Garneau">Marc Garneau</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">18,041</td> <td style="text-align:right;">46.47</td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.79</td> <td style="text-align:right;">$78,009 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #F4A460; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Party" title="New Democratic Party">New Democratic</a></td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Anne Lagacé Dowson</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,904</td> <td style="text-align:right;">22.93</td> <td style="text-align:right;">+7.56</td> <td style="text-align:right;">$79,186 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #6495ED; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada" title="Conservative Party of Canada">Conservative</a></td> <td>Guy Dufort</td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,139</td> <td style="text-align:right;">15.81</td> <td style="text-align:right;">−1.84</td> <td style="text-align:right;">$34,968 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #87CEFA; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Bloc_Qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois" title="Bloc Québécois">Bloc Québécois</a></td> <td>Charles Larivée</td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,818</td> <td style="text-align:right;">7.26</td> <td style="text-align:right;">−5.30</td> <td style="text-align:right;">$8,281 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #99C955; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Canada" title="Green Party of Canada">Green</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Claude_William_Genest" class="mw-redirect" title="Claude William Genest">Claude William Genest</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,733</td> <td style="text-align:right;">7.04</td> <td style="text-align:right;">−1.31</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #D8BFD8; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party" title="Rhinoceros Party">Rhinoceros</a></td> <td>Judith Vienneau</td> <td style="text-align:right;">62</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.16</td> <td style="text-align:right;">–</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #CD5C5C; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Canada_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)" title="Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)">Marxist–Leninist</a></td> <td>Linda Sullivan</td> <td style="text-align:right;">49</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.13</td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.10</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician#Canada" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></td> <td>David Rovins</td> <td style="text-align:right;">47</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.12</td> <td style="text-align:right;">–</td> <td style="text-align:right;">$30 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF6347; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Canada" title="Communist Party of Canada">Communist</a></td> <td>Bill Sloan</td> <td style="text-align:right;">34</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.09</td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.08</td> <td style="text-align:right;">$2,433 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Total valid votes/expense limit </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">38,827</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">99.43</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap"> </span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">$83,153</span> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Total rejected ballots </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">224</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">0.57</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">−0.06</span> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Turnout </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">39,051</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">50.64</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">−3.05</span> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Eligible voters </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">77,112</span> </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:white"> <td style="color:black;background:#EA6D6A; width:16px; border-top:border-top:1px solid darkgray;"> </td> <td colspan="2" style="border-top:border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:right;border-top:border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:border-top:1px solid darkgray;">−3.39 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anne_Lagac%C3%A9_Dowson&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=c683b20c-38e3-4654-b56d-2451b98d67ae">"NDP prepares star candidate for Westmount"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121104144748/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=c683b20c-38e3-4654-b56d-2451b98d67ae">Archived</a> November 4, 2012, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gazette_(Montreal)" title="The Gazette (Montreal)">The Gazette</a></i>, July 4, 2008.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cory Doctorow, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/18/personal-endorsement.html">"Personal endorsement for Anne Lagacé Dowson, candidate in Westmount-Ville-Marie, Quebec"</a>. 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