Bishop Street merchants are mad as hell that they’re being dunned for business development fees by the Destination Centre-Ville SDC, which has done nothing to help them weather the 3.5‑year dig that’s devastated them.
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A babysitter who left a little kid in a burning building last summer has pleaded guilty to several charges. It was also her own negligence in the kitchen that started the fire; TVA alleges she had been smoking crack.
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The Biodome has to find temporary digs for its denizens for the duration of an 18-month renovation starting after Easter weekend and expected to cost $25 million.
Later: notes in Metro on some of the changes coming at the ‘dome.
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A man was shot overnight in lower NDG; he survived, but there have been no arrests.
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The city has contracted to a firm that’s using draft horses to haul diseased trees off Mount Royal.
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The parade to celebrate Greek independence was held Sunday afternoon but that community was also mourning the death of one of its elders, Dimitri Galanis of Mythos Ouzeri.
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The city is promising help for businesses afflicted by construction along Ste-Catherine but details are not yet explained.
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The city has received $75 million from Quebec to clean up contaminated sites, which may free up space for schools, social housing and parks.
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Sarah Leavitt eulogizes the Ogilvy Christmas window.
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A group calling itself the Wolf Pack Street Patrol is helping homeless aboriginals in town. I find the chime between their name and La Meute a little unsettling, but evidently their aim and purpose has nothing in common.
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The Centre d’histoire piece this weekend looks back to 1936 when Verdun had 3 movie houses.
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La Presse has a brief look at projects developing in Montreal as the Journal looks at the wealthy and their houses.
The same La Presse writer, André Dubuc, explains how the Olympic park will soak up a billion dollars in maintenance and upgrades between 2017 and 2023.
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A demonstration here Saturday supported the idea of gun control in the United States. I don’t think a demo here will make a dent but a lot of people marched in the U.S. and people here must have felt compelled to join in.
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New interim SPVM chief Martin Prud’homme tried to hire the police chief from St-Jérôme as a strategic advisor, but the man has quit before even starting the job after protest from management. Not a great start for Prud’homme’s housecleaning gig at the SPVM.
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Guatemalan Lucy Francineth Granados, arrested recently for being here with no papers, will be deported on Tuesday. Valérie Plante reminds us that Montreal is not a sanctuary city because it can’t contravene federal law.
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