Tu Thanh Ha writes a detailed obituary for mobster Alan “The Weasel” Ross.
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citybridge corporation put in more expensive barriers on the Jacques-Cartier cycle-pedestrian path this year but there’s doubt they’re worth the more than $600K spent on them. -
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The city consultation office says local residents have given the nod to the conversion of the massive convent of the Soeurs de Sainte-Anne in Lachine for the housing of seniors, with other changes such as opening the chapel to the public. A few adjustments have been made in the original plan to preserve the heritage value of the property. Good on the nuns for not selling out for immediate condo conversion.
Update: More details on the plans in the Gazette.
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St-Hubert airport has opened a new, longer runway and will be able to accept flights from planes as big as a Boeing 737. Enlarging this airport may be the answer to Dorval being so overburdened.
I have no idea if this is related, but I don’t think so: CBC tweets that a Boeing aircraft will fly low over downtown Montreal Thursday between 11 and 11:30 as part of a Montreal police event.
Update: the stories were related.
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Odd that this is being reported on a Toronto site, a report of a bedbug spotted at a popular Montreal store. Mostly a video report.
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As I occasionally do, I’m linking this duplex conversion story for a few points: the subtly triumphant sound of the text is typical, the collapse of three living spaces into the one conversion is not mourned, and – yes – there’s the breakfast bar.
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Mayors and indigenous chiefs are holding a summit meeting Thursday behind closed doors at city hall.
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More work is being done at Place Vauquelin, beside city hall, where the experiment with heated steps failed so salt was spread on them last winter that damaged the concrete surfaces. Upgrading that small square has been a bit of a joke, with the newly redone fountain having failed almost immediately last year, flooding the basement of city hall. Denis Coderre should have taken that as an omen.
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