Quebec is passing a new law that would make it easier for promoters to hold large-scale noisy events.
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Kate
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Kate
One of Denis Coderre’s claims is that he cleaned up city hall, but a joint report by the Gazette and La Presse finds the same people contracting to the city as in the bad old days, just under new business names. What a four-handed byline!
We ignored the work of journalists like these in 2009 and idiotically re-elected Tremblay. Let’s not make the same mistake again.
(Interesting that La Presse’s editorial board officially supported Coderre this week, while three of its journalists were working on this story…)
Update: The same four writers compare Montreal’s transparency to American cities which put a lot more information online about their contracts. A third piece is expected soon.
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Kate
Brian Myles writes in L’actualité about how the Evenko project on St Helen’s Island pulls the old trick of privatizing profit while making the public purse pay.
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Kate
Is it a surprise that Old Montreal souvenir shops are selling fake aboriginal tchotchkes? Radio‑Canada’s Corde sensible show did a segment on it.
(Am I allowed to write “tchotchkes” or is that to appropriate Yiddish culture? Am I allowed to make this joke without sounding like a redneck? Can I even say “redneck” without impugning rural workers? I seem to be painting myself into a corner… or is that too critical of inept renovation guys?…)
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Kate
Buildings held by the city for decades in Côte-des-Neiges have been allowed to deteriorate over time while tenants’ groups clamour for affordable housing.
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Kate
It’s a provincial rather than a municipal matter and it doesn’t affect the operations of this blog at all, but the daycare centre workers’ strike was probably the biggest story of the day in local media.
Cuts in recent years to daycare operations have resulted in a lot of burnout among workers.
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Kate
Denis Coderre and Valérie Plante have drawn even in the polls in the last week of the election campaign. Plante admits she’s facing greater scrutiny as her bid for election looks more solid. TVA runs a ten facts about Plante and Denis Coderre attacks her promises, asking where she’ll find the money. TVA links play video.
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Kate
Election Montreal says veiled women will be able to vote on Sunday provided they’re willing to quickly lift the veil to one official for purposes of identification.
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