Montreal wants a cut of the tax grab coming when cannabis is legalized for sale.
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Kate
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Kate
A beam from the Turcot has just fallen down and St-Patrick Street is blocked. At least nobody got hurt, going by this brief TVA report, which plays video.
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Kate
Two paramedics who got the fright of their lives during an incident in the metro will receive more than half a million dollars each from the STM. Neither has been able to do their old ambulance job since the incident.
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Kate
CBC has a rather fancy multimedia feature on Leonard Cohen and Montreal.
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Kate
The common Montreal commercial greeting “Bonjour! Hi!” is ruffling feelings in Quebec City. Philippe Couillard says the issue of French at work doesn’t worry him and that squabbling over the greeting is silly. TVA link plays video.
Some of this is spinning off the recent Adidas store incident, some from Statistics Canada’s revelation that the proportion of exclusively French-speaking workplaces is declining and probably some from a recent report that francisation is not working very well on immigrants.
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Kate
The relatively new transport minister is a nutbar. He’s not satisfied with the idea of a fast bullet train between Quebec and Montreal, but wants some new thing that will ring down the ages with its magnificence. I don’t like the idea of helping pay for this folly. What we need is non-glamorous transit solutions like more buses for Montreal’s east end, not millions or billions spent developing some dead-end technology to show that Québec sait faire.
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Kate
The story of the doctor missing from his downtown practice gets weirder. It’s impossible to discern from this account whether the man is in real trouble, or having some kind of paranoid breakdown.
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Kate
Police don’t welcome the idea of a memorial to Fredy Villanueva, which would by its very existence be a reminder of a fatal police error.
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Kate
The percentage of vacant apartments is falling in Montreal; rents all across Canada are rising much faster than inflation.
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Kate
A new petroleum terminal planned down the east end will be using a pipeline dating back to 1952 although assessment of the project doesn’t take this aging equipment into account.
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Kate
There was a truck accident in the tunnel at rush hour Tuesday that caused a huge traffic mess all over via the domino effect. TVA says it was infernale: report plays video.
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Kate
Molson is moving operations to Longueuil, spending half a billion bucks to build a new brewery near St-Hubert airport. TVA spins this that Valérie Plante couldn’t convince Molson to stay in Montreal, but the decision was likely made by the board long before her election. Do we really think a second Coderre term would’ve changed their minds, despite Coderre’s slavish courting of Evenko? TVA link plays video.
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Kate
A co-op of some kind has come forward and offered to cook up plans for a monorail if Quebec will fork over a quarter billion bucks for research.
Look, it takes three hours to get to Quebec City. Whether you take a bus or a train, or drive, that’s how long it takes. Does anyone really need to shave an hour or 90 minutes off that time except politicians?
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Kate
Twenty women are hoping they can mount a class action suit against Gilbert Rozon, whom they all say has at some time sexually harassed or aggressed them.
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Kate
A group of gun nuts is going the extra mile. Not only will they be holding a rally this Saturday, they’ll be doing it in the park established as a memorial to the victims of Marc Lépine. Classy.
Update: As the gun nuts must have expected, there’s been a chorus of disapproval.
Second update: The group has decided not to hold its demonstration in the park, after getting a lot of free publicity. TVA link plays video.
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