A plan to refresh Lafontaine Park will be speeded up under new directions from city hall.
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Kate
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Kate
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.
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Kate
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.
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Kate
Over five years there have been 137 vehicle collisions on Mount Royal, mostly because of bad moves on the Camillien-Houde.
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Kate
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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Kate
The city has finally won its case about those crumbling buildings on Esplanade just south of Mont-Royal. One will have to be demolished and the other repaired.
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A bit of positive news here: fentanyl overdoses are down this year.
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Kate
A man was shot dead in Tétreaultville Monday evening. In a typical refrain, he was known to police. Homicide #23.
An older but informative Urbania piece on Tétreaultville.
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