TVA reports that as of 7:04 pm Monday, the Old Port fox was still at large.
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Kate
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Kate
The Mayor is promising to add 17,500 more trees this year at a cost of $3.5 million. It sounded like a lot till I did the calculation: the trees cost $200 each to buy and plant, which is not unreasonable.
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Kate
Le Devoir visited the Village with two of its agents d’accueil, part of a six‑person team that tries to make peace among the homeless living in the Hôtel Dupuis, the merchants along that part of Ste‑Catherine, and the people living in the area – not always, as noted here, easy to do.
DeWolf
I thought this was a nicely written article. And the project it describes is particularly interesting given that it’s an initiative of the SDC. Merchant-funded social work, basically.
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Kate
The STM says its ridership is inching up towards pre‑pandemic levels, with 85% of its previous ridership expected back by next fall.
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Kate
The city’s inspector general is so dissatisfied with the city’s contract with Ricova that she’d like to see it cancelled, and also wants it investigated by the UPAC. But she recognizes that services must continue, so Ricova will go on operating the recycling centres in Lachine and St‑Michel for now.
The allegation is that Ricova, which has a virtual monopoly over the city’s recycling, is not remitting the required revenue to the city from selling recycled materials abroad.
Update: CBC news on Tuesday clarified that there seems to be some shady stuff where different branches of Ricova are selling recycled materials to each other while not conveying any profits back to the city.
Bert
Isn’t there a compound phenomena going on?
we don’t separate our recycling much, so secondary separation is required. Be it that the recycler does it, or gives less favourable prices.
since this is getting shipped off-shore, recent increases in shipping prices can’t be helping
many recycling processing countries are fed up being the dumping ground of the world, this includes e-waste processing and heavy equipment (ships and the like) processingKate
I imagine that will be the basis of Ricova’s defence.
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Kate
A man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder in that stabbing in Westmount early Sunday. The Gazette says Curtis Jonas has a long criminal record and will be sent for a mental health assessment.
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Kate
Quebec has announced just over a billion dollars over two years to redo highways and overpasses in Montreal, with a list of the locations.
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Kate
There are a cascade of stories lately about labour actions of various kinds. Urgences‑Santé is on strike and managers are now at the wheel for the first time ever in response to a judge’s order.
Maxim Baru
Interesting decision. I wonder what the inside baseball was the led to this new ruling. In the US there’s quite a few people tracking changes at the NLRB with a fine tooth comb. Any readers here know of some nerdy sources to track changes in policy and leadership at tribunal administratif du travail?
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Kate
Thousands of students plan to strike Tuesday, reviving the printemps érable call of ten years ago for free university tuition. It’s UQÀM, UdeM and CEGEPs that will be out.
Ephraim
We should set up a system that rebates over 10 years the tuition, but only if you are a tax-paying Quebecois. And in fact, if you learn outside the province and come back, you get the same rebate amount, over 10 years. So you stay in Quebec after university, you get free education. You leave, you don’t.
Even better, charge the same $5K they charge in other provinces and rebate that over the 10 years of being a taxpayer… My guess is that it won’t cost all that much in the end, but it will incentivise staying in Quebec and keeping the investment in their education here.
Kate
What if they made university free – but only in French?
walkerp
Both innovative and interesting ideas!
Kevin
It’s kinda de rigueur for people to do Masters and PhDs and post-docs to head to a different school, usually out of province… sometimes out of country.
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Kate
The city banned glyphosate as of January 1, but Radio‑Canada found it still for sale at a couple of major hardware stores.
seb
Saw a bunch of it up here in Lachute too.
We, as people, will never give a shit.dhomas
It’s still legal in Lachute, unfortunately. It’s only illegal in Montreal.
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Kate
The city has presented its ideas for connecting Cavendish boulevard via a tunnel under the CN and CP tracks, and with room for pedestrians and cyclists as well as motor traffic.
DeWolf
Glad to see there’s only one lane for cars in all of the different arrangements. This will presumably help prevent overwhelming the NDG portion of Cavendish with traffic, since it only has two lanes of traffic anyway.
But which of the three arrangements would be best? I’m thinking that 1 would be okay, but there’s a risk that drivers will use the bus lanes. There’s no problem of that happening in 2 but the wide shoulders on the car lanes would invite them to speed. 3 resolves all of those problems but it would create some tricky intersections.
DeWolf
(One lane for cars in each direction, I should clarify.)
Kevin
The trees and multiple medians are a good touch that shows designers are thinking about the psychology of driving and how to force drivers to slow down.
But I think that it may be a very long time before the route gets to look like any of these sketches. The primary short-term reason for this road is to move trucks from the 40 to Blue Bonnets while that sector is developed, and that’s going to very inefficient with just one lane in each direction.
With that in mind, I suspect they will pick Option 1 or 2, with the bus lanes being open to trucks during construction.
mare
For some reason I had never actually looked at a map of the area, probably because last fall was the first time I’ve been in Cote St-Luc.
I was looking at the satellite view and noticed the three giant parking lots next to the CN and CP tracks. Not for their workers, but to store *new* cars. Thousands of them. So it’s not just train infrastructure that occupies a lot of land in that area, but car infrastructure as well, on top of all the “normal” roads and space used for parking.Also, the tunnel is much shorter than I thought after all those years of delays. I thought it would be something like the REM tunnel to the airport, crossing a multitude of ladder tracks, but there are only a few tracks between the two Cavendishes.
I also agree that variant 3 would be best, but guess it will be 1 or 2, and number 3 is only suggested for the “good, better, best” spiel, common in commerce.
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Kate
Radio-Canada has a long thoughtful piece on the Indians of Canada pavilion at Expo 67, and its surprisingly radical approach for the time. The pavilion is long gone, but park management is pondering marking the place with some kind of memorial. The totem pole is still on site, although if you compare the photos and the drawing you’ll see it never had the wings that were originally pictured near the top. Photo by me in 2007, rather badly backlit.
thomas 21:44 on 2022-03-21 Permalink
If this story has a happy ending, “Le Renard du Vieux-Port ” is a great name for a bar.
Meezly 09:14 on 2022-03-22 Permalink
I’m confused now. I thought the fox was marooned on floating ice, which was why they were trying to rescue ‘him’, now they have discovered his den, so I assume this den is on solid ground, so why are they still trying to ‘rescue’ him…? Now I’m starting to agree with the biologist and think the fox knows what he’s doing and the dumb humans should just leave him be.
mare 10:10 on 2022-03-22 Permalink
The fox is spoiled. They now know what ice floes are and will go back for a ride every year, over and over again. Just like bears and trash cans.
Leave the fox alone.
(Coop café Le Renard, on Bellechasse and De Normanville, unfortunately didn’t survive the pandemic. Maybe they can restart in the Vieux-Port?)