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A Montreal North minor-league hockey coach convicted of sexual abuse is blaming Hockey Quebec for allowing him near children. 55-year-old Gilbert Dubé has been sentenced to five years in jail for sexually abusing four children on his teams.

Dubé was also convicted in 1993 for sexual touching.

He told reporters before his sentence hearing Tuesday that Hockey Quebec should have checked his background before permitting him to coach. Dubé says he's come into contact with over 400 youths during his 20 years of coaching. 

Although he's pleaded guilty to six counts,  Dubé vows he has protected most of the young players.

Quebec’s next speaker of the house could be veteran Liberal MNA Jacques Chagnon. He is to replace the outgoing speaker Yvon Vallières after a secret ballot is held this week.

Vallières resigned, stating that he could no longer cope with the endless unruly debates at Quebec’s legislature. The debates reached a climax last week when Vallières refused to force a Liberal to apologize for a controversial statement. While the Parti Québécois threatened to remove support for Vallières, the Liberals are accusing the PQ of initiating the crisis.

Months after pleading guilty, the teen killers behind Kimberly Proctor’s death in BC were sentenced as adults on Monday. Cameron Moffatt and Kruse Wellwood received life sentences, with no chance of parole for 10 years.

The publication ban on the teens’ identities was lifted at the time of the sentencing.

The judge says because the crime was so brutal, the boys should be jailed as long as possible. He says both teens tried laying the blame on each other, so it’s impossible to sort out the truth.

The teens raped and murdered 16-year-old Proctor in a Victoria home last summer. They were 16 and 17 when they committed the crime.

Read by Sofia Gay.

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