The STM’s driver and metro operator union has voted 99% in favour of a strike mandate. It’s not money. It’s that drivers are having a hard time keeping to schedule with so many obstacles on the road (including cyclists!). Maintenance workers are also planning a no-overtime strike next week. All these workers are constrained from an outright strike by the Essential Services law.
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The city’s firefighters have been coping with post-traumatic stresses, especially since they also became first responders ten years ago. Now a major study will evaluate how they’re doing mentally and they may be offered help if they need it.
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Kate
A firm that sells an urban chicken coop for a lavish $1,200 gets a lot of free publicity even though keeping hens is only legal in two boroughs so far.
Global says the SPCA is rescuing abandoned chickens. You know, I have an idea what we could do with chickens nobody wants, and it’s got noodles in it.
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A man convicted of attacking a father and son three years ago after an automobile scuffle on Mont-Royal is on the way to jail. Notably, he bit off the little finger of one of his victims and ran the other down with his vehicle. He’ll find out his sentence next month.
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Hundreds of crane operators plan a demonstration Saturday and intend to hoist their cranes on Sherbrooke around McGill, which may be a sight worth seeing. They’re mad that the CNESST has softened up the rules governing who can have a crane operating permit, saying this endangers the public; whether it waters down the value of existing permits is not mentioned.
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Metro’s brief notes on some Canadian domestic design caught my eye because I really like the Montreal toile de jouy pattern in the first photo.
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A woman was hit and dragged by a car and badly hurt downtown Wednesday night.
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Someone is, or has been, flying a Nazi flag on the rooftop of a condo building in Park Extension. While not illegal in itself, displaying that symbol can be interpreted as hate speech.
Christopher Curtis has a good, detailed report in the Gazette about an influential neo-Nazi living and recruiting in Rosemont.
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Globe and Mail has a brief excerpt from a new book on Guido Nincheri, with a couple of nice illustrations.
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This item says the people running both Notre-Dame-des-Neiges and Mount Royal cemeteries are not happy with the closure of Camillien-Houde, but mentioning this in the same breath, so to speak, as words from Lionel Perez, mostly suggests the opposition are using this situation to play politics. La Presse simply tells us Ensemble says Projet is anti-car, a term reliably proven to rile people up.
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