The mayors of the CMM, the greater Montreal area, have replied to François Legault that they are not impressed with his attempt to stoke rivalry between the 450 and the 514.
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Kate
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Kate
Toronto Star has a brief piece on the new local site Mediafugees, which encourages refugee arrivals to tell their stories.
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Kate
Alan DeSousa is pressing for an extension of the metro’s orange line to Bois-Franc, not the first time it’s been mentioned, but he may be seeing the upcoming provincial election campaign as a moment. DeSousa claims the excavation for the Côte-Vertu train garage is an opportunity to also add a tunnel extension, but has anyone ever got anywhere in Quebec by suggesting ways to save money on public construction projects?
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Kate
New highway code rules are in effect Friday, and are we surprised they’ve been activated just before a long weekend when people will be moving around a lot and ripe for the picking? Changes include more severe fines both for motorists and cyclists.
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Kate
Toula Drimonis on the CAQ’s proposed expulsion plan for unwanted immigrants: “essentially a serving of pandering with a side order of scapegoating.”
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Kate
The Journal says the MUHC has paid a million bucks to SNC-Lavalin for two empty spaces in the superhospital but I think it’s simply trying to excavate a new scandal from the terms of the PPP the MUHC was forced into with the consortium.
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Kate
Turns out the Domtar garden is located in an area already preserved for heritage reasons – the “Maison Janvier-Arthur-Vaillancourt et des Façades de la Rue-Jeanne-Mance” – which may give the culture ministry leverage for preserving it. I’d never heard of the Maison Janvier-Arthur-Vaillancourt but there it is.
I tend to suspect profit will win out here anyway, but we’ll see.
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Kate
Eighteen people received the Order of Montreal this week, including Doudou Boicel, who used to run the Rising Sun club back in the day – I didn’t know he was still around. No blogger has yet made the list…
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