The city has donated a lot in Point St Charles to a community group that’s been trying to create a cultural and social centre in a disused industrial building for years. Meantime, community groups in Centre Sud are pressing the city to buy the old Centre hospitalier Jacques-Viger building, disused for years, to use for social housing and other beneficial ends.
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Kate
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Kate
Even though a judge ruled last year that fines on the spot for not having a valid ticket in the metro are unconstitutional, the STM continues to give them out.
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Kate
The SPCA says that although coyotes are getting more numerous in town, we can coexist with them without any problems and that capturing them and moving them off-island is futile because others will replace them. But some people are concerned about coyotes seen lurking around a north-end school.
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Kate
A crane fell over on d’Iberville Monday and crushed a car but luckily nobody was inside. Raw video from TVA.
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Kate
The city plans four years of roadwork along Plaza St-Hubert and La Presse talks to one shopkeeper who’s already decided to pack it in.
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Kate
CBC has more photos of the newly discovered cave under the city. BBC News has the story too.
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Kate
Valérie Plante plans to give the city more ambitious goals in reducing greenhouse gases. Radio‑Canada says Montreal has cut emissions by a quarter since 1990, but wonders what moves we can make next.
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Kate
Radio-Canada has a video report on how metro drivers are trained to deal with fire. The only time there’s been a serious metro fire was in 1971 at Henri-Bourassa, when the driver died and a lot of damage was done.
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