The Gazette has told this story before, but now they can tell about the suspension of the lawyer in the story of the defrauding of an older woman by the lawyer, his social worker wife and a couple of other people. Sadly, the victim in this case is already dead, and the punishments meted out are pretty low-key.
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Kate
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Kate
A lot of the people who bought items at the weekend’s STM sale are flipping them for much higher prices on Kijiji.
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Kate
The drivers of Téo Taxi are unionizing with the Teamsters. I wonder how this tails in with reports of owner Alexandre Taillefer asking for financial aid a mere ten days ago.
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Kate
A man was fatally shot through his apartment door on Decarie in NDG Monday. Twenty‑second homicide of the year.
Update: For some reason, the Gazette characterizes the location as near Monkland Village. I don’t think that apartment building on Decarie has anything to do with Monkland Village, even if it’s geographically nearby on a map.
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Kate
The city is going to install 730 security cameras around the Quartier des spectacles supposedly to help with a McGill study on crowd management – but later in the piece Pierre-André Normandin notes that most of the cams will have “une fonction de surveillance plus classique.” Smile!
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Kate
Accueil Bonneau is celebrating twenty years since it reopened after a gas explosion in June 1998 tore the façade off the building, killed 3 people and injured two dozen more. The video with this shows how bad the damage was, and looks back to recent history when Lucien Bouchard was premier and Pierre Bourque was mayor. An interview with someone who was there.
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Kate
TVA tells about two older women who would like to have a stop sign – not a light, just a sign – near their old folks’ home, but Rosemont borough has not responded. Piece notes that half the pedestrians knocked down in Quebec are over 65; more than 1000 pedestrians are hit in Montreal annually.
Meanwhile, the city is slowly creeping up on the idea of installing lateral bars on its big trucks and requiring them on contractors’ trucks too.
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Kate
Police blotter for the weekend is short, with one non-fatal stabbing in N.D.G. I’ve noticed year after year that things always calm down when the weather gets chilly: stabbiness goes up with the temperature here.
This isn’t to minimize the fairly hair-raising things that have been happening off the island, but that’s outside my remit.
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Kate
If readers thought I was snarky last week about Joey Saputo coming hat in hand for handouts, have a read of Martin Leclerc on Radio-Canada. Leclerc tells how Saputo in fact got a very favourable 40-year emphyteutic lease from the city for his initial stadium. Then Leclerc shows how Saputo got government handouts so that the stadium eventually cost him no more than $14.5 million, rather than the $60-million gift he claims he made to the city.
Leclerc also reminds us that while every other landlord in the city coped with a tax hike in 2017, the evaluation of the Impact stadium and training ground (as well as the Bell Centre) mysteriously went down by as much as 25%.
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