Petitions containing 20,000 signatures to a request for an inquiry into systemic racism were delivered at city hall on Friday evening.
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Kate
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Kate
A three-year-old was bitten by a coyote in an Ahuntsic park on Saturday evening.
Update: Sunday, TVA claims that three kids have been bitten over the last week in parks in that part of town.
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Kate
Jacques Corriveau is dead at 85. Corriveau was a successful interior designer in Montreal – worked on pavilion design at Expo 67 – then branched out into advertising and other forms of design. Tu Thanh Ha’s piece in the Globe and Mail describes Corriveau’s friendship with Jean Chrétien and his role in the sponsorship scandal.
Quebec has always been angry about this federalist scandal: the Journal writes a headline saying Corriveau died before doing his time, but at 85, how much time could he realistically have served?
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Kate
There may be a class action suit against Exo over unreliable train service.
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Kate
Public health would like to see the decriminalization of all drug use in Montreal, this coming a week after Toronto had said the same thing. This has nothing to do with cannabis: it’s mostly in support of Toronto and Vancouver, which are both facing a worse opioid crisis than Montreal’s.
But such a decision is up to Ottawa, not to the city or the provinces.
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Kate
The Société du Vieux-Port de Montréal is going to have to pay a large but unspecified sum to a woman who lost her legs after trying to clamber over a train stopped in the port, in an incident from summer 2013. The train started up unexpectedly and she fell under the wheels. Seems she and her friends spoke to a security guard before embarking on climbing over the train, and he didn’t try to stop them.
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