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Justin Trudeau & Sophie Grégoire: A Look Back At Their Relationship With Montreal (& Each Other)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire have stood as Canada's first family since Trudeau's election in 2015. The couple almost always appeared as a united front, which is not surprising given the way we all manage our social media images — but we can't discount that the two have been married for nearly 20 years.

After tying the knot in 2005, the Trudeau duo began to expand their family and welcomed their first son Xavier in 2007. Justin and Sophie are also parents to 14-year-old daughter Ella-Grace and nine-year-old Hadrien.

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Justin Trudeau Ate At One Of His Favourite Montreal Restaurants During A Trip To The City

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Montreal on Sunday to visit his Papineau constituency and once again attend Montreal Greek Independence Day festivities. He also stopped by what he called one of his favourite spots in the city: Greek greasy spoon Marven's.

Trudeau took his Papineau office employees out to lunch at the Parc-Extension eatery.

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Legault Vowed To 'Restore Order' In Montreal After Broad-Daylight Gun Murders

"We will not accept, as a government, that Montreal becomes a shooting range for gangs," Quebec Premier François Legault wrote on Twitter in the aftermath of two deadly, broad-daylight shootings in Montreal on Tuesday.

Since those incidents, one inside a downtown restaurant, the other in a mall parking lot, officials at all levels of government have taken to social media to denounce gun violence and commit to, often vaguely, take action to, in the words of the premier, "restore order" in the city.

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Did Justin Trudeau Get His Awful New Haircut In Quebec? — An Investigation

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined the ranks of male political leaders with questionable haircuts this week, debuting extra short tufts and high, choppy bangs during a visit to Gatineau on July 15. But unlike the unruly wisps his former counterparts in the U.S. and U.K. strategically plastered around their craniums — like sticky helmets jealously guarding their fragile professions of youthfulness — Trudeau's unfortunate new hairstyle can't be explained as a desperate attempt to mask rapidly advancing male pattern baldness.

So the questions are: (1) why? (2) who would do this to him? and (3), perhaps most importantly for Montrealers' claim to Canadian style superiority, where?

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Justin Trudeau Was Spotted At A Montreal Terrasse & Stopped By A Grocery Store

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Montreal on Monday, July 11, visiting businesses and organizations in his riding of Papineau — and, later, even apparently sitting down at a Montreal terrasse.

A video posted to the Instagram account Montreal Stories and shared here with permission shows the prime minister seated on the patio next to Provisions boucherie, sandwicherie and wine bar at the corner of avenue Van Horne and avenue de l'Épée in Outremont.

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