Here’s a list of impending metro station upgrades expected this year, on the STM site.
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Kate
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Kate
Bombardier’s bitter tears over not getting selected to build the REM has resulted in Quebec pressuring Montreal to buy more metro cars from them sooner rather than later so’s to keep people employed at their factory in La Pocatière. It’s an attempt to make this city subsidize jobs in another part of Quebec, and at least partly to sustain support for the PLQ there in the upcoming election.
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Kate
Odile Tremblay writes about Claude Dolbec who does sign lettering on the Main. A new documentary, Claude n’est pas mort, tells his story. Unfortunately, the Le Devoir piece doesn’t show any of the man’s work, but there’s some in this 2011 blog piece by Brigitte Schuster (which includes work for Laïka and Fuchsia, both now gone).
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Kate
Every time Formula E is mentioned in the media, the total on the bill gets bigger. Creditors now want $34 million from the Montreal c’est electrique group – which doesn’t have it.
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Kate
The lousy hockey season means lower bar takings as owners try to find other ways to entice people in.
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The Globe’s Everett-Green traces down a cool piece of Montreal history: cookie baron Charles‑Théodore Viau, his factory and his dream of a City Beautiful.
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Kate
A driver ran his car into a group of transport ministry workers in Dorval late Friday, killing one and injuring seven others. There’s no suggestion it was deliberate. Metro has more details about the incident.
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