A lot on Mont-Royal that used to be a gas station will become a park this summer. The borough’s going to solicit public response to three possible layouts before work begins.
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Kate
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The Journal offers 17 reasons why Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie is the best part of town and 31 photos of the city from March.
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The city’s not happy with the organization running the St-Laurent Technoparc, so it’s taking over direct management.
It’s not mentioned in the articles, but notice the woods remaining around the Technoparc on Radio-Canada’s aerial shot. These woods, tucked right up against the airport’s runways, are a wildlife sanctuary. Photographers have been documenting the many species found there.
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Carlos Leitão is calling criticism of the REM fake news. “Le ministre a toutefois été incapable de préciser ce qui était inexact dans les nombreux articles sur le sujet qui ont été publiés depuis la semaine dernière. «Ce n’est pas l’information qui m’irrite, ce sont les commentaires (comme) «l’épouvantable projet du REM’, c’est ça qui m’irrite», a-t-il précisé.”
Quoting Taylor C. Noakes on Facebook: “Nothing fills me with confidence about a multi-billion dollar publicly-funded megaproject like a finance minister who labels valid criticism by journalists ‘fake news’ and who is completely incapable of answering basic questions.”
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The Gazette got its paws on some newly released UPAC search warrants, so Linda Gyulai has a story about police wiretapping Gérald Tremblay in 2015, crying on the phone with his onetime assistant and asking her to hang onto a document for him. But the entire story spreads out into the epic of UPAC trying to untangle the funding of the 2005 FINA Aquatics Championship from other shady doings around Tremblay’s city hall, so there’s no clear dénouement.
Update: In response to this story, Tremblay has sent a copy of a document to the media which he claims is the one under discussion in the phone conversation. It’s clear from the tone of the Le Devoir writer that there’s some skepticism that this is true.
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The DGEQ has opened an investigation into Russell Copeman, mayor of CDN-NDG till the last election. Marvin Rotrand alleges Copeman offered him the job of city ombudsman if he would agree not to run in the 2017 election. (Rotrand says he turned him down; he ran and returned to a seat he’s had for decades.)
Copeman denies the charge, but I’m wondering what the actual ombudsman thinks of Copeman possibly trying to shop her job around like this.
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Le Devoir says both the city and Vélo Québec are angry about changes in provicial law meaning much heavier fines for cycling infractions.
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Here are your notes on traffic issues for the long Easter-Passover weekend, and possibly useful Easter weekend open-and-closed items.
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As a pressure tactic, officers from the SAAQ have been issuing tickets to STM bus drivers, which has messed up scheduling on some routes. I can’t quite figure out the labour logic of annoying other unionized workers doing their jobs, but it must have seemed like a good idea at the time.
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