Candidates push get-out-the-vote effort on advance polling day

Montreal’s two main candidates for mayor spent Sunday encouraging supporters to cast ballots in advance polls as they entered the final week of the municipal election campaign.
Advance polling stations were open Sunday in about 900 municipalities in Quebec. 
Incumbent mayor Denis Coderre was with his team at a Verdun polling station, while Valérie Plante, the leader of Projet Montréal, went to Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles and Anjou befo