Projet is happy with the experiment of closing Camillien-Houde to through traffic all summer. The pilot project ends tomorrow, for the meantime, and the public will be consulted on their views later in the month. TVA has five suggestions for how the city could proceed.
The Journal claims that the closure was damaging to businesses in the Plateau.
Kwasi Benjamin, found guilty in the killing of Nellie Angutiguluk in 2015, was sentenced to life in prison this week. Angutiguluk leaves three orphans in the north.
Another Inuit woman, Siasi Tullaugak, was found hanging from a downtown balcony in August 2017. Police first assumed suicide, later reopening an inquiry after public criticism. But there has been no progress in the investigation.
Cabbies have been authorized to launch a class-action suit against the province for allowing Uber to do business for five years outside the laws normally governing taxis.
TMR’s demand that the REM be covered over inside its borders would add $300 million to the bill and add at least a year to the timeline.
As mentioned two weeks ago, McGill students held a protest Wednesday against the sports team name Redmen, which the university has used since the 1920s. The university admits that while the name originally came from its heraldic red and white, team names and nicknames later strayed into offensive use of native American visuals and terminology, although not recently. There’s no indication yet of McGill’s capitulation.
A body was found Tuesday morning in Viger Square. Police are treating the death as suspicious but not giving out a homicide number yet.
The city needs to borrow $100 million more than originally planned to repair its decrepit water mains and sewers.
Montreal wants to be able to tax foreign buyers of property, who have purchased 12% of available places so far this year.
A study from the public health bureau examines obstacles to pedestrian safety in Montreal, and there are a lot of them, with construction sites simply adding extra challenges to poorly designed intersections, sidewalks in bad condition and other problems that plague those of us who get around without wheels.
Police numbers show that, over the last five years, drivers have been responsible for 60% of the fatal incidents involving pedestrians.
The rotating postal strike is over in Montreal for the moment.
Update: Canada Post is cutting worker disability benefits in a mean, petty reprisal for the strike. Justin, not one of your sunny days.
A plan to refresh Lafontaine Park will be speeded up under new directions from city hall.
The family of Nicholas Gibbs is suing the city for a million dollars over the police shooting death of the 23-year-old in August. CTV has the video which is taken from above and at a distance, but Gibbs doesn’t seem to be brandishing any weapon, as police initially claimed.
The two city byelections planned for December 16 will cost more than a million dollars to conduct. Item goes into detail about all the expenses involved in electing a new mayor for RDP‑PAT and a new councillor in the St-Michel ward of VSMPE.
(The two councillors who left their jobs did so to enter Quebec politics, and not from illness or need. I know democracy has a cost, but I’m half inclined to suggest they should have to kick in to cover election costs for circumstances that would never have arisen but for their personal ambitions.)
In St-Michel, Ensemble is putting up Josué Corvil, a librarian, shown here with Lionel Perez and also with Anie Samson, who no longer holds any elected position. He’ll be running against Projet’s Nadine Raymond, who’s worked with the YMCA and is currently with Quebec’s Conseil du statut de la femme.
In RDP-PAT, Projet is putting up Chantal Bourgeois, who was chief of staff to previous mayor Chantal Rouleau, from Ensemble, while Ensemble is running Theo Vecera for mayor, a 47-year-old with a history in community work.
Incidentally, Anie Samson has given her first interview since losing last year’s election.
Over five years there have been 137 vehicle collisions on Mount Royal, mostly because of bad moves on the Camillien-Houde.
In response to the attack on the Pittsburgh synagogue, the McCord museum is making its current exhibit on Montreal’s Jewish history free all week.
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