The city is devoting $100,000 to saving ash trees in Jean-Drapeau park, which recently lost 1000 trees to the important construction of an amphitheatre for Evenko.
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Kate
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Kate
The western half of the orange line was down for two hours Wednesday morning after rush hour was over. Item says it was because of smoke, but no details.
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Kate
Following from a story last week about a condemned Plateau apartment building, its tenants were bused away from their apartment building out to RDP on Wednesday after having their pets handed over to the SPCA. The mayor says she’s upset about it, but the city doesn’t have means to counter this kind of coup by a landlord. Property ownership is practically inviolate as a concept.
Meanwhile, real estate prices in the centre of town continue to rise.
Update: CBC talked to the new landlord, who’s quietly rejoicing that he got the city to remove those inconvenient poor people so he can now gut the place. Quoting: “The rent is going to be “adjusted to the market.” Once it reopens, the evicted tenants are free to come back. “If these people can afford it and qualify under our terms, for sure, they’re more than welcome.” ” Pardon me while I spit.
(Note to CBC headline writer: “Developer vows to make condemned building ‘brand new’ ” is very deceptive. A vow is usually a noble thing. The only thing that interests this guy is profit. It isn’t a vow, it’s just a plan.)
Meanwhile, CTV covers a similar story happening in Point St Charles.
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Kate
Not a Montreal story, but I was glad to see that Paul Bernardo was refused parole Wednesday. Bernardo says he cries all the time. Good. He should cry all the time till he ends his life – behind bars.
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Kate
Oh Montreal, how wicked and heartless you are, says Mathieu Bock-Côté, deploring how “la pression de l’immigration massive” has turned us all into shameless federalists, declining to vote PQ or display the fleurdelysée on our balconies. He even evokes the possibility the city could call on a fictional notwithstanding clause, in the future, to excuse it from the requirements of Bill 101.
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Kate
We talked hopefully of grandfathering recently, but bagel bakeries really may have to give up their wood-fired ovens soon.
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Kate
The city wants to open its nonprofit ventures to access-to-information requests so citizens can find out where the money is going.
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Kate
Wednesday is legal cannabis day in Canada and most media are buzzing with it. I’m not even going to try to survey the range of opinion, but I liked Jonathan Montpetit’s piece on Quebec’s attitude split on the matter. News that minor charges for possession will be pardoned is welcome. The Gazette ran a reefer madness piece by someone identified as “president of Superchute, a Montreal-based manufacturer of construction safety products” which clearly makes him the expert on recreational drugs.
CBC radio news said that people were lining up to get into the official cannabis stores; CTV gives us a view of what they’re like inside.
Global ran an explainer on how to grow your own: you can legally have four plants now (update: but not in Quebec).
In Quebec, of course, the real burning issue as the planet heats up is how to handle religious neutrality issues. Pass the deck chair, somebody.
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Kate
Griffintown’s distinctive Rodier Building has been saved and is being renovated to provide offices for various arts and creative businesses.
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