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An Update On Jacques Demers' Health

10/23/2016 at 8:14am EDT

from CBC,

Former NHL coach and Canadian Senator Jacques Demers is in stable condition after being rushed to hospital on Saturday.

Radio-Canada and his employer, the sports television channel RDS, had earlier reported he had suffered a stroke — his second in six months.

But his wife, Deborah Anderson, told a Montreal newspaper last night that tests showed he was in fact suffering from an infection.

"He's fine, he underwent some tests and everything suggests that it is not a stroke, but an infection," she told Le Journal de Montréal.

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