Radio-Canada says that a recent attack by a pitbull which left a Cartierville woman with multiple injuries has reopened the debate about the breed. The writer notes that if the Plante administration hadn’t cancelled the requirement that such dogs wear muzzles in public, this attack would have been less likely (although is the kind of person who has an uncontrolled pitbull likely to have obeyed that law, especially given that the breed is not well delimited?). Plante herself blames the owner, who grabbed his dog and fled the scene.
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The PLQ has promised a new emergency room for the Lakeshore General, in a piece that goes on with suspicion about the party’s shaky confidence in the anglo vote this fall.
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Valérie Plante gave her condolences to Toronto Monday after the deadly van incident on Yonge Street; Quebec’s alert level is not changed nor is Montreal’s.
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A 202-page document about the REM was made public Monday but some basic details are still unanswered, like how much passengers will have to pay. A 99-year deal has been made but the Caisse de dépôt could apparently sell the whole thing anytime after 2028, although the spokesman says they don’t plan to sell it. Only the government is mentioned as a possible buyer: I don’t see anything stopping the Caisse from selling it to, say, a foreign investor or government.
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Three teenagers are in court Monday, accused not only of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old but of recording the incident and circulating the video. Five kids were arrested but it’s only the three that were detained that face charges so far.
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According to La Presse, the city’s working toward ethical management of personal data. Toronto is using Google to find things out but Montreal, in a way that’s entirely typical of this city, wants to find a better way.
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A new report tells us something we already knew about the city waterworks: they’re getting older and more decrepit all the time.
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CTV’s piece on how green alleys are good for people is hard to argue with.
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As if to justify the A-19 extension, media have pieces Monday morning about traffic congestion in the couronne nord and the hell it causes for drivers.
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One borough has asked residents to stop calling in when they see a wild turkey wandering around because they’re harmless.
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The Centre d’histoire piece this weekend looks at the faubourg Saint-Louis and La Gauchetière, one of the city’s oldest streets outside of Old Montreal.
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Condé Nast has one of those 3 Days in Montreal pieces in which the usual suspects are trotted out – the Ritz, Notre-Dame, Toqué, bagels and poutine. With video, and with an accent on “Montréal” that flickers on and off, but none on “Quebecois”.
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A woman was attacked by a pitbull in her back yard in
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A couple who were roughed up by police and fined for making “too much noise” while walking on the Main at 10 a.m. on a Saturday are alleging racial profiling because the woman is black.
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Jonathan Montpetit writes on CBC about how Philippe Couillard scrapped his own environmental credibility by flipping from a well regarded mobility plan to announcing the extension of autoroute 19 the same week.
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