Owners of buildings constructed on old dumps in the eastern Plateau are having a hell of a time dealing with the city. They say the city knew the landfill had never been decontaminated but didn’t let on, and their property is worthless, but city lawyers are holding them off.
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Kate
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Kate
The STM is planning to spend $800 million for a shopping list of new and improved stuff: more buses, more drivers, a brand new service centre at Bellechasse and St-Denis and the enlargement of other service centres.
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Kate
The city’s embarking on redoing the northern bit of Dorchester Square, including adding a new Victorian-style fountain.
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Kate
Residents are slow to adopt the brown composting box, although Mathias Marchal notes here that, since some boroughs combine composting with yard scrap pickups, the numbers aren’t entirely clear.
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Kate
Excellent piece by the Journal’s Cité Métropole blog on the city’s secretive parapublic groups that take public funds but are not answerable for them.
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Kate
Montreal’s style is all about quality of life over pure economic numbers and long may it be so. This item talks about the economic stuff as if it’s a weakness, but we don’t want Silicon Valley rents here either.
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Complaints are up at the STM especially concerning the metro, where downtimes and unrepaired escalators are particular irritants.
The metro is also seeing a growing number of users compared to the bus, which TVA ascribes to the difficulties of roadwork. It’s an odd statistic because there are, after all, still many locations in town you need a bus to get to. It’s not a matter of simply deciding to take the metro instead, for most bus riders.
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Five years ago the SPVM bought an armoured vehicle, to the derision and disapproval of most of the public. But it hasn’t been used all that often.
Reading this item I expected to see that it was news because it was being lent for the upcoming G7 summit, but no. The summit’s a huge thing: Hydro-Quebec’s been handed $3 million by the federal government to secure the power system around the Manoir Richelieu area where the event is planned June 8 and 9, for example. Protests are expected in Quebec City, the nearest big town, and as close as possible to the event, which won’t be close at all after security barriers go up.
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