A May Day march to show support for workers will be held Saturday afternoon – not unreasonably, given that May Day itself is Tuesday when a lot of those workers will be unavailable to march.
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Kate
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The Journal reported this week that among the public expenses for the 375th were a custom written song by Gregory Charles and a dessert recipe served to 700 guests at the opening party. And now the paper is revealing them to you.
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SPVM police training with assault rifles in Laval left one on the roof of their car as they drove away and it fell off on the autoroute. A passing motorist recovered the gun, by then very damaged, and brought it to a police station.
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City council lumbers into the 21st century by abolishing the requirement for men to wear a tie. Thérèse Daviau flouted the rule for women to wear a skirt or dress as long ago as 1974.
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Eater has a list of 24-hour restaurants with a map.
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Starting on June 2, it won’t be possible to take a legal spin over Mount Royal in a motor vehicle, in a pilot project meant to end on October 31 for now. Meantime, discussions will take place and the 711 bus will resume service on June 2.
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Kate
Some nice sketches of Ste-Catherine Street of the future, but I’m still not entirely convinced by the happy people and all the greenery.
Update: More pieces showed the projected scenery over the weekend.
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Dialing 211 will now connect you to social services in Montreal.
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Communauto, blocked from downtown throughout Denis Coderre’s stint as mayor, will finally arrive there Friday.
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A project to build a duplex to house two indigenous families has begun in St-Henri, with Habitat for Humanity involved in organizing community efforts.
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Hadrien Parizeau, welcomed as a candidate by Denis Coderre’s party last summer and elected councillor for Saint-Sulpice in Ahuntsic, has been chucked out by its successor party Ensemble Montréal. Lionel Perez denies that the dismissal has anything to do with Parizeau participating in the city’s executive committee, but Radio-Canada quotes Valérie Plante saying she thinks it does. Parizeau says he’ll sit as an independent.
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La Presse previews the disturbances in transport and transit to be expected from the construction of the REM.
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Those three teenagers charged with sexual assault have been released into parental custody and one report says they are back at school with their alleged victim.
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We already have driving notes for the coming weekend. And another one, and another.
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Radio-Canada says it has a leaked document showing that the revamped Ste-Catherine Street will have only one lane for drivers between Mansfield and Bleury, and some parking spots will be gone. There’s also a plan to make McGill College Avenue pedestrian and spiff up Phillips Square with more greenery.
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