Smoke detected at Berri-UQÀM shut down three metro lines Wednesday midafternoon, but not for very long.
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Kate
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Kate
After a lacklustre string of losses, the Impact has fired its head coach.
Faiz Imam
Fun fact I saw today. The Habs, alouettes and impact have, since 2010, combined for 20 coaches over 26 seasons.
Very short leaches, all of them.
Wonder what happened here, impact were playing great to start the year, but over the summer it’s all fallen apart.
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Kate
Whatever’s gone wrong with the management of the markets is slowly coming out. Some kind of fraudulent activity was uncovered by the city comptroller, specifically at Jean-Talon.
Jack
“In 2012, the report found 16 members were resellers, but it could not determine how many were resellers last year.” It is the same now.
Baru
wow… what a story.
this kind of dysfunction and corruption seems to be the norm these days in just about every institution that matters to daily life..
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Kate
Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday a $50‑million package to help create the Grand parc de l’ouest.
david100
I really wish that Trudeau had rained a lot more money on Montreal before he was booted out. He could have ordered the money up for the Pink line, got the province to pass a law to waive the environmental process and shield it from lawsuits, and the project could be well underway by now, with rolling stock orders already signed. A great legacy for a mediocre man. Instead, he’s shoring up the West Island with a park.
Kate
You confidently expect Trudeau to be booted out?
Chris
david100, perhaps you are projecting? “He could have” done many things, but perhaps he has not done so because he does not believe in those things.
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Kate
A couple of weeks ago La Presse had an essay on eco-gentrification, when efforts to make an urban area greener and generally pleasanter are followed by a wave of higher rents and wealthier residents. Now an urban studies scholar says we shouldn’t think of better environmental management as necessarily entwined with gentrification.
david100
Again, it’s pretty hard to disaggregate this phenomenon from (1) the increase in demand because of massive immigration and vastly different tastes in housing preferences among younger people and (2) the fact that housing scarcity created by the artificial land shortage (ie. ultra lowrise zoning) necessarily means that people who can afford to will live close to the best amenities, shortest commutes, etc. And those people will improve their new neighborhoods, and that will draw more people like them.
The idea that improving a neighborhood necessarily makes it yuppie haven’t been out to the Pointe de L’ile or Sainte Anne’s, which – with nice new renovations aren’t exactly pulling people in or making waves with the perverse anti-growth alliance between conservatives and anti-capitalists.
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Kate
One of the authors of that report on the economic health of Montreal (PDF) says the main reason Montreal is outperforming the rest of the province is immigration. “Immigration remains a generator of economic growth” according to Jean-Guy Côté.
But that would be why the CAQ is at pains to damp it down. Can’t have the regions feeling bitter or envious of the big city.
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Kate
It took 100 firefighters to put out an apartment building fire in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve early Wednesday. Only one was slightly injured. The fire is said to have started on a rooftop patio. I’d put five bucks on it being a cigarette in a flowerpot again.
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Kate
Dear old Agent 728 has been stood up by the Barreau du Québec in an attempt to have the prosecutor in her assault case disciplined. Not only that, but her attempt was called frivolous, abusive and without foundation.
david100
Worth a try. Can’t tell if those are jail blues, but if that’s what she looked like in the slammer, I very much doubt that she had many problems.
Tim
@david100: she never spent any time in jail. Instead she was given a full pension (which usually requires 30 years of service) after just 19 years.
Kate
The force just wanted to get rid of her, without too much of a fight.
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Kate
Metro, which doesn’t usually make mistakes like this, illustrates a piece about Plateau borough’s plans to revive St-Denis Street with a photo of the street at the corner of Jarry – two boroughs north, in Villeray.
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Kate
Marvin Rotrand has succeeded in getting police use of facial recognition software on the agenda at city hall. But I think in the long run that government and/or police use of the technology will pale beside private use for commercial exploitation.
Ephraim
When you look at how the Chinese want to use it… it’s more than chilling…
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Kate
Tenants of those contentious apartments on Côte St-Luc Road want a referendum on the project to evict them, tear down their homes and build something fancier. Bill Steinberg continues to polish his reputation as one greedy guy, with his “let’s put it in perspective, these developers are going way above and beyond what’s required.” It’s not only about money, you putz.
Ephraim
Even if it isn’t, the tenants should have bonded together to buy the building and formed a cooperative. It’s unfortunate, but the deciding factor is ownership above all else….
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Kate
Airbnb abruptly shut down one of Canada’s most prolific Airbnb listers, AJ, based in Montreal, but like some kind of multi-tentacled alien beast, many of the listings popped right back up under new pseudonyms.
Ephraim
There is at least one more guy in Montreal using a stock photo and a fake name, changed his name after the last CBC report, he’s now known as Seb.
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Kate
The city has announced an intention to write its communications in a more gender-inclusive fashion – always trickier in French than in English.
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Kate
One of the selling points of building a new hospital was that all the rooms would be individual, and it’s turned out to be a good idea, reducing the transmission of infections at the new Royal Vic, although not C. difficile.
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Kate
I’m not sure what the Institut du Québec exactly is – it’s clearly some sort of economists’ platform, but it has no Wikipedia entry (in either language) and its political bias is not known to me.
Anyway, the Institut has a report (PDF) saying Montreal is doing pretty well, economically, compared to the rest of Quebec, but is held back by having too many unskilled workers.
(The secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.)
Kevin
The Institut du Quebec is overseen by the Conference Board of Canada and HEC Montreal.
Jack
It is run by HEC and Conference Board of Canada. It used to line up against the Institut de Rechearche sur le Quebec which said everything was Canada’s fault.
CE
Wasn’t there a story a few weeks ago about a deli not being to find employees because the workers are *too* skilled and not willing to take on manual work?
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