Shots were fired Friday in Ahuntsic, and three young men have been arrested, although there were no actual victims of the shooting.
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Kate
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Kate
A Montreal man found in possession of a huge cache of weapons which he was selling on the internet was given a maximum sentence of 10 years this week.
Another fella who killed his girlfriend’s adult son with a homemade spear, as well as injuring the woman, was sentenced to 12 years on Friday, and will only have to serve 8 given time already served.
A leading pedophile – can we even say that? – was declared guilty this week of a list of crimes. He too was using the internet to disseminate his foul wares.
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Kate
The provincial election is on October 1, but that’s a Monday, so voters in any doubt about getting their statutory four clear hours to vote can go this Sunday and Monday to advance polls (the location should be indicated on your voting card), or vote at the polling offices at other times this week. If you’ve misplaced the card, all your local details are on the Elections Quebec website once you put in your postal code.
This would have been a public service announcement if it wasn’t that I’m going on to advise Montreal residents not to vote for the CAQ even if every other party annoys you equally. The CAQ isn’t just a neutral option for change, it’s a return to the old Union Nationale mindset and is inherently hostile to the wellsprings of urban life in Montreal.
I’m not supporting any other specific party because options and situations vary depending on your riding and your personal politics.
Just not the CAQ.
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Kate
The city has revealed a list of rental buildings it considers unsanitary and Metro has put them on a map.
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Kate
The city’s budget for next year is coming, so there are pieces about how the other island municipalities want more of a say and how Valérie Plante is saying nice things about other towns, doing what she can to keep them happy. This is the kind of wave of story that makes me wonder what’s really behind it.
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Kate
Pedestrians may be having their deadliest year since 2013.
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Kate
The STM has arrived at a new deal with its drivers, but its maintenance workers are still without a contract.
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Kate
The Montreal Marathon adds to the driving notes for the weekend and will also be altering bus routes between Verdun and the Olympic park. The shorter distances being run as part of the marathon event are taking place Saturday and the full length marathon on Sunday.
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Kate
The city has bought a parcel of land to be added to Anse-à-l’Orme park. It’s part of Angell Woods.
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Kate
A magnificent elm tree in Jarry Park, estimated at 300 years old, has been taken down after it was discovered to be hollowed out by disease and therefore unsafe.
Update: Tree’s estimated age was adjusted down to 170 years after felling (see below).
Another update: La Presse notes that this tree survived the epidemic that destroyed most of this city’s elms in the 1950s, but the disease caught up to it at last.
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Kate
Contrarily to some expectations, crime is not up around the locations of supervised drug injection sites.
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Kate
Commuters are fed up with unreliable service on the Deux-Montagnes line, and held a demonstration this week. Construction of the REM has been interfering with the line, reducing the departures so that available trains are, as they say, sardine class.
In other REM news, environmentalists are distraught about damage being caused at the St‑Laurent Technoparc site.
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Kate
A cyclist was badly hurt in Montreal North Wednesday afternoon.
In addition, a pedestrian in her 80s who was knocked down by a vehicle this week in the same part of town has died of her injuries.
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Kate
Canadian Architect has a few sketches of the new office spaces being built inside the Olympic Tower.
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Kate
A construction contractor has been sentenced to 18 months in prison over the death of a worker on a site in 2012 when the walls of an excavation collapsed and killed the man.
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