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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A study will consider the options for a second train tunnel under Mount Royal since the REM will have full control over the existing tunnel soon.
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A stone wall forming part of the heritage area of the Hôtel-Dieu, on land belonging to the city and not the CHUM, was demolished last September by the CHUM without a permit from the patrimoine people or the city itself, presumably on the principle that it’s easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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A second census of the homeless will be held April 24.
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An 18-year-old guy was shot in Riviere-des-Prairies Wednesday evening and taken to hospital in critical condition. There are no witnesses or suspects.
Footnote: The items mention Alexis-Carrel Avenue. Last year there were news items saying this street name was going to be changed but evidently not so far.
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Valérie Plante is now showing a willingness to be persuaded about baseball. Absolute power… how does it go?
Update: Rusty Staub has died.
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City director-general Alain Marcoux is being shown the door but with no apparent rancour. The DG is the city’s top bureaucrat.
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Where have all the pigeons gone? I commented on the springtime return of the ringed gulls today, to which a friend countered that he used to see a lot of pigeons, all year, scrounging in the gutter or otherwise mooching around, but doesn’t see them so much any more. When I thought about it, last week I noticed the flock of pigeons that loops over Jarry in Park Ex, but the general urban presence of the lone pigeon does seem to be diminishing.
We were wondering if this was some natural cycle or cause, or whether humans have intervened and done something to reduce pigeon fertility or something like that. Anyone know?
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Some local feature will be named for Martin Luther King but it’s not yet clear what it will be.
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Even though there are only a couple of baseball games yearly at the Olympic stadium, numbers were down by half this year although reports say Stephen Bronfman is still intent on getting a new stadium built.
Once again, writers describe this plan as the return of the Expos, warming the idea with a glow of sentiment. But the Expos as people fondly remember them, as part of their childhood or whatever, are never coming back.
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Les Foufounes has been awarded a ten-day shutdown for having violent bouncers. Somewhere, le Gros Michel is laughing.
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Mario Girard asks the question who Montreal belongs to apropos of the new documentary Main basse sur la ville to be shown soon at the Cinéma du Parc.
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The city has contracted with a firm of experts to trap coyotes and move them off-island (or are they “going to live on a farm somewhere”?) but the SPCA says it’s futile as more coyotes will replace them.
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There’s money for the blue line extension in the Quebec government’s final budget before the election this fall. Valérie Plante sees signs of optimism in the tendencies of the budget.
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Metro alleges there’s evidence that councillors have been warned not to criticize the REM.
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