A demonstration being planned by truck drivers may disrupt traffic on Monday morning. They’re angry that unregistered drivers are getting work, which they say will lead to corruption and under‑the‑table dealing.
Update: a report on how it worked out.
Aéroports de Montréal says it’s worried about the costs of the REM, particularly how expensive it’s likely to be for people using it to commute to airport jobs. The airport also built a train platform which has never been used, but which the REM can’t use, so it has to invest in building another one.
CapitaineQuebec, never mind chipping in to tell us (again) how this is all fine and the REM is wonderful. We know that’s your job.
TVA went up the Camillien-Houde and found that people go way too fast – motorists and cyclists both. But this item mostly moans that it’s not possible to punish the cyclists for speeding.
The Centre d’histoire this weekend compares the corner of St-Laurent and Craig (now St-Antoine) in 1960 vs. today where the west side is the Old Brewery mission and the east side a gaping parking lot. Back then, it was a lively segment of the Main, before the Ville-Marie was allowed to slice through the city.
The Journal itself has a look back at Blue Bonnets when it was a popular and vital feature of town.
The city has been installing Trekfit gym bars in parks and CBC talked to some folks who use them.
An anti-nazi march was held Saturday in Rosemont, near the home of a known local Nazi.
Kevin Tierney, who wrote and produced Bon Cop, Bad Cop, has died. He was supposed to be “roasted” in a fund-raising event this month, but now the April headline Kevin Tierney to face the ultimate fire rings a bit odd.
Police blotter stories for the weekend: a body was pulled out of the river near the Pont de la Concorde; one man was stabbed down the east end (gotta hurt) and another found injured in NDG. (“Police found a 21-year-old man laying on the ground” – oh come on, Gazette.)
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