Quebec announced $153 million for Montreal culture on Wednesday. The amount is meant to be spent over three years.
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Kate
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Kate
An 11-km bus and taxi lane with carpooling also permitted will be installed on Sherbrooke East between Haig and Parthenais.
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Kate
Doug Ford is chopping Toronto’s city council. Martin Patriquin thinks the same should be done here but Taylor C. Noakes (he’s been busy) writes in the Gazette about why Montreal’s council should not be similarly cut.
Noakes reminds us how relatively recently this city allowed all adults to vote. It wasn’t so long ago that tenants had no vote, or that property owners had a vote with more clout (“Class A”). Noakes also points out that the forced merger of Toronto’s suburbs and the partial forced merger of Montreal’s were done on the premise the change would save money – but it hasn’t. Not everything benefits from being decided or costed on a grander scale.
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Kate
Work is about to start on Plaza Saint-Hubert between Jean-Talon and St-Zotique: a dig to fix underground infrastructure, reconstruction of the awning, better sidewalks and so forth.
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Kate
A woman caught on video jostling people in the metro and sometimes punching people who reacted is being sought by police.
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Kate
The man whose baby died in a parked car in June will not face charges in court.
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Kate
John Ciaccia has died. Tu Thanh Ha has a good Twitter thread about him.
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Kate
Duke Investments, a tiny old bank building alongside the Bonaventure, is going to be “preserved” i.e. worked into the façade of a new 25-storey development.
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Kate
Hundreds of Saudi students at Montreal’s universities may be sent home because of a diplomatic spat between Canada and their home country. Both patients and doctors in training may also be going home.
Saudi Arabia has also been trying to troll Canada on Twitter, not very convincingly. Garnotte got in a dig on Tuesday about it.
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Kate
Since other bridges in the Montreal area have full names, Ottawa wants our new bridge to be the Samuel-de-Champlain bridge.
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