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While you were sleeping: Family reunited with dog after five years

They had feared their beloved dog had been killed by predators.

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Here’s what happened while you were out cold.

Quebec’s various business groups are trying to figure out what the new NAFTA means for them. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement gives U.S. producers access to 3.59 per cent of the Canadian dairy market, which means dairy farmers will have to reduce production. While it sounds small, it’s a real concession for farmers, said Pascal Thériault, who teaches in McGill’s Farm Management and Technology program. The deal does not end U.S. tariffs on aluminium and steel imports. The Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Québec, an industry group, has said it is satisfied with the agreement. However, the Chamber of Commerce is concerned about an increase in the amount Canadians can buy from U.S. retailers — for instance from an online store — before having to pay duty. That amount, called the de minimis threshold, would rise from $20 to $150. The Chamber worries that will hurt local retailers.

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Fançois Legault promised to impose his reforms in an “orderly fashion” and be the premier of all Quebecers. His first big decision was to name a new secretary-general for the government. Yves Ouellet, the current president of the Société québécoise des infrastructures, becomes Quebec’s top bureaucrat. Speaking at the Domaine Cataraqui in Quebec City, he announced he will form his first cabinet sometime in the next 15 days — upon his return from the Sommet de la Francophonie being held in Armenia Oct. 11-12, where he will probably have a first face-to-face meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He said there is a “good possibility” he will recall the National Assembly for a sitting before Christmas.

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A Connecticut family has been reunited with their dog five years after the beloved pet went missing. The Norwich Bulletin reports that Norwich Assistant Animal Control Officer Donna Gremminger spotted the 17-year-old female dachshund last Thursday in a parking lot in a city park. She had lost most of her sight and hearing. Through a microchip, they identified the dog’s owners as Rick and Michelle Riendeau, of Brooklyn, Connecticut, about 20 miles from Norwich, and reunited them Monday. An emotional Rick Riendeau said he contacted animal control when the dog, named Lady, first went missing. He said because they live near a wooded area, they feared she may have been killed by a predator, or had wandered off. He called Lady “the greatest dog we’ve ever had.”

With files from the Associated Press.

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