The mayor defended property tax hikes in the new budget on Friday, but she says high property values in three boroughs mean taxes hiked more than inflation. The Gazette sees the hikes being passed on to tenants who can ill afford it.
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Kate
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Kate
A man in his fifties and a child of six were shot Friday evening in Kirkland by a suspect who has been arrested. (Some reports say Beaconsfield. The intersection given is on the boundary between the two towns.)
Update: The suspect appeared in court Saturday and the age of the older victim has been adjusted up to 69. Details on the names and relationships of the parties are being withheld to keep the kid’s identity private, but La Presse says the assailant knew his victims.
Another update: As it often does, the Journal got a lot more detail about the family drama, showing an image of the house as well.
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Kate
Tomas Plekanec has retired fron the NHL after being placed on waivers by the Canadiens this week. He played in his 1,000th NHL game on October 15.
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Kate
The candidate Ensemble Montreal put up for the mayoralty of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles in next month’s byelection has had to drop out because of illness, and a new candidate has been named.
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Kate
La Presse says the suburbs are much happier now with the Projet administration than previously.
Property owners can now pay their taxes in monthly instalments rather than having only the options of paying it all at once, or in two big chunks.
Metro has ten notable items from the budget and an explainer about city expenses and revenue.
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Kate
A group of cyclists is pressing Parks Canada to keep the Lachine Canal bike path clear through the winter.
As I’ve mentioned, I work near the canal. I don’t bike there, but I’d be very happy if this initiative made the feds clear the foot and cycle bridges, and the paths to and from them, which become difficult or impossible to use once the ice and snow build up. The city should’ve been pushing them to do this already, as they’re an important link between parts of Sud-Ouest borough.
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Kate
The mayor says the pitbull that bit six people in August should be euthanized, but she may be up against a fight with the Goldwaters, who for some reason think it’s worth the trouble and expense to keep this unpredictable and aggressive animal alive (short, you’ll notice, of offering to adopt it themselves).
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Kate
A man who set off pepper spray in the metro at rush hour in 2017, stopping all three lines that converge at Berri-UQÀM and sowing alarm and despondency among thousands of commuters, may be named as a long-term offender by the court. According to this piece, Émile Yombo had a lengthy list of crimes – robberies, assaults, threats – before the pepper spray incident. The categorization gives the authorities leeway to keep an eye on him for ten years after he leaves jail.
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Kate
Sunday is Remembrance Day and 2018 marks a century since the end of World War I.
The main city remembrance will be a mass at Marie-Reine-du-Monde at 9:30 followed by a ceremony at the Place du Canada cenotaph at 10:30. Some suburbs hold, or have already held, their own ceremonies, John Abbott College holds one in the West Island with the veterans’ hospital, and some locals will be going to Europe for ceremonies there, like this bus driver who belongs to the Black Watch.
Many media have done stories connected with the war, although nobody who fought in it is still living. Bells may be ringing on Sunday.
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Kate
The Turcot is really truly closed Friday to Monday or Tuesday – crippling, agony and catastrophique are words journalists are bandying around – and free shuttle buses and additional trains are in service.
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Kate
Thursday night there was a public consultation on the Camillien-Houde, discussing how the closure experiment went and what should happen next. The CBC headline promises “tensions” but doesn’t actually describe any heated debate; their radio reporter this morning said it hadn’t been easy to find any participant in favour of permanent closure to interview.
The Gazette describes the event more fully, including quoting one butthurt motorist: “Are we second-class citizens?” As drivers, yes, they are. Drivers have to accept that, in fact, as drivers, they have to be contained. I’m not saying necessarily barred from the mountain, but you can’t drive everywhere.
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