Robert Poëti is leaving political life. He’s joining the exodus of PLQ MNAs that won’t be running again this October.
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Kate
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Kate
A judge has ruled that Westmount can’t call a halt to the Turcot construction because of noise.
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Kate
The Mon Nan, one of Chinatown’s longtime late-night eateries, and not bad either, has to close by 2 a.m. now and will lose its liquor licence in a deal with cops after gang members made it a favourite spot in the wee hours and started taking shots at each other in the street outside.
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Kate
Valérie Plante wants an end to the city giving no-bid contracts to Groupe CH, parent group of Evenko*, over use of the Parc Jean-Drapeau. But they have a deal that will linger into 2021.
*Yes, a capital letter. Foo on them.
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Kate
Some CP workers are on strike, but the Gazette says this should not affect commuter trains, which I find out have recently been rebranded “exo” after being AMT for years and then briefly RTM. The Journal has a photo of the new livery. Obligate lower-case names like “exo” and “evenko” are evidently of the moment.
No, it’s not labour action that’s going to mess with commuter trains – it’s the construction of the REM, which for now means fewer runs on the Deux-Montagnes line.
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Kate
The Quebec labour ministry raided several Montreal job placement agencies Tuesday, outfits that place undocumented workers in dangerous and uninsured jobs.
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Kate
The city plans to buy 17 more Azur trains in response to Philippe Couillard’s make-work scheme for Bombardier workers. Montreal’s basically paying for jobs in La Pocatière, because the STM was prepared to keep the MR-73 trains running.
The STM says the last few MR-63 trains, original to the system, will be withdrawn from service in June. The last MR-63 will run on each of the four lines June 18-21 according to the graphic shown at the end of this article.
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Kate
The city is establishing a $15 minimum wage for its own workers although since only 1.2% of them are earning below that rate it won’t make a big dent in its finances.
Meantime the city’s also ending sales of one-time-use plastic water bottles on its premises.
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Kate
ViSaMiPex mayor Giuliana Fumagalli has apologized to “anyone hurt by [my] comments,” two weeks after she was asked to work from home amid harassment allegations. She’s meant to chair a borough council meeting soon. I live in VSMPE but have heard no scuttle about what really happened at the borough offices.
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Kate
The federal Auditor General says Canadians are out of pocket an extra half billion dollars because of delays in deciding to build a replacement for the Champlain and – little fanfare here – “the decision to have the bridge built via a public-private partnership could cost Canadians more than if the bridge had been built outright by the federal government.”
Why do politicians persist in claiming PPP is cheaper, when it’s obviously going to cost the public purse more in the long run to supply the profit demanded by private investors?
The report also expresses doubt the bridge will be on time and within budget.
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Kate
A Sud-Ouest community group says cuteness is not enough for St-Henri and adjoining areas, and that serious commitment to social housing has been left out of borough planning.
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Kate
A man’s body was spotted in the river off Pointe-aux-Trembles Monday afternoon and police think it may be a suspicious death.
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Kate
Some concrete fell Tuesday morning off the old Turcot so parts of autoroute 15 are closed.
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Kate
The city has plans to revitalize the neighbourhoods bordering the Turcot, but only after the construction is completed. Dust and noise from the site are not included in the plan.
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Kate
Our firefighters are now equipped with animal resuscitation kits enabling them to save the lives of pets as well as people. They were paid for by the Firefighters Association itself.
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