Opinions are deeply divided on the issue of traffic over Mount Royal. Metro has a good piece summarizing four points of view.
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Kate
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Martin Patriquin writes this weekend’s must-read column on the shifting meaning of minority in Quebec.
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The city has 957 emergency beds for homeless people this winter, most in shelters meant for men.
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One of St-Henri’s more egregiously gentrified stores was burglarized overnight Thursday, but TVA’s attempt to pin this on the anti-embourgeoisement crew is undercut by the fact that the single thief made off with only the most expensive goods. That’s not consistent with their modus operandi.
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Weekend driving notes from TVA. Likewise from CTV.
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CBC: Montreal isn’t the haven for renters it once was. La Presse: Montréal flirte avec la crise du logement. MtlBlog: Montreal Ranked Top City In Canada To Rent An Apartment. Compare and contrast.
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There’s never any objective view of history, let alone of which parts of any history are important enough to teach in schools.
The EMSB commissioned three historians to report on the history textbooks assigned for Secondary 3 and 4 and they found the books so bad they suggested removing them from classrooms. La Presse headlines this story Des historiens anglophones….
If kids are going to stay in Quebec, mightn’t they as well accept the local history/mythology?
Update: The CAQ thinks so. They have no intention of changing the textbook.
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Here’s an illustration of why I like Valérie Plante: I hadn’t even gotten around to blogging the news about the city facing a shortage of apartment vacancies when I see a piece about how she’s aware of the problem and beginning to work on fixing it.
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Now Carbonleo says there will be “as many as” 6,000 housing units included with the Royalmount mall project and that this will change projected traffic numbers.
They’re making it up as they go along. Note the weasel-wordiness of “as many as” which promises nothing.
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City councillors say they’d like a raise now that the federal government has changed tax rules to make certain of their expense payments taxable. For the moment, the Plante administration doesn’t plan on giving this raise.
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The city plans to keep tabs on noise levels in the Quartier des spectacles which suggests that the more residential towers go up around the area, the less noise will be tolerated. Soon we may have the quietest entertainment district in the world.
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The coroner’s report came in this week on the drowning death of 14-year-old Blessing Moukoko, who died last February during a swimming lesson organized by his school. His failure to check in after the lesson wasn’t noticed for nearly 40 minutes. His family plans to sue the CSDM and the city because the coroner found the class wasn’t properly supervised, and the lesson was given in a city facility.
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City council adopted the proposed 2019 budget on Wednesday.
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The MUHC hospital cost a hell of a lot more than it ought to’ve and there’s no chance they can recoup much of the lost funds – but they’re going to have a try.
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Because of deals in the PPP contracts at both the MUHC and CHUM hospitals, as has already been noted, even minor repairs and additions cost a small fortune. This is because of the tremendous importance of transferring public money into private hands as agreed by the Quebec government when it made these deals.
My question is this – about the MUHC at least – since we know now that contracts were awarded after bribes, could a court not be persuaded to break such a contract on the grounds it was signed on corrupt premises?
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