I know the REM is a divisive topic on the blog, but I’m curious what people make of this analysis of how costs and expected revenue from the system balance out. I have to admit, my brain starts fizzing part way through this (I pay someone else to sort out my taxes too), but I don’t know whether that’s my finance circuit melting down or a strong sense that flimflam has taken place.
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Kate
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Kate
There are few traces left of Griffintown even as it was as recently as ten years ago. The curious structure that stands at the eastern end of the old Wellington tunnel has been turned into a condo sales office, and the item also harks back to St Ann’s church, once the heart of the Irish working class in the area, but demolished in 1970.
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Kate
Radio-Canada goes into detail about the big demolition of old Turcot pieces expected from November 9-13, and the street closures that are planned. By next June almost the entire old highway will no longer be standing.
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Kate
Police and firefighters held a sort of diversity drive Saturday, hard to say if it’s meant to have results or was simply a PR exercise. Numbers given: “less than” 9% of cops are visible minorities, 97% of firefighters are white males.
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Kate
Three men convicted of raking off thousands in takings from Stationnement de Montréal were sentenced varying amounts of jail time this week, but spared having to pay back by a merciful judge.
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Kate
Predictably, François Legault says Valérie Plante’s pink line would be too expensive but proposes a surface tram line instead.
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Kate
Poor old Park Extension-Villeray. We finally got rid of lame duck MNA Gerry Sklavounos and entrenched old-school borough mayor Anie Samson, but now the whole borough’s stuck with a mayor who has to have an official minder after accusations of workplace harassment and ejection from the Projet caucus.
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Kate
Girerd, editorial cartoonist at La Presse for years, but long retired, died last week. Some of his work is viewable on the BAnQ site, and here are some examples which could almost be printed again today. Click to enlarge.
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