The city was suing Tony Accurso and his businesses, along with Frank Zampino, for $44 million. Accurso will now pay $3.8 million to settle with the city.
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Kate
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Kate
A 19-year-old man was stabbed on a street corner in Montreal North on Tuesday afternoon. There have been no arrests.
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Kate
The STM has begun the process of seeking firms qualified to build the blue line extension. This will be the first time the STM is to use a tunnel boring machine.
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Kate
Le Devoir is looking at the grim state of landfills in Quebec, which are almost full. Le Devoir is thus launching its new Pôle environnement section, grouping a dozen journalists to cover the topic.
Also, anglo CBC is finally promising to have an environment news section, something almost all local media have long since done, including Radio‑Canada.
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Kate
The Université de Montréal has received a $159M donation from a private foundation, to go toward scientific research, specifically the discovery of new materials.
Joey
That headline (“Montreal university receives ‘largest donation ever made’ for natural sciences in Canada”)…
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Kate
It hardly seems worth a headline in most of our media now that Covid hospitalizations are rising and the death toll continues to accumulate.
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Kate
La Presse accompanied the moble mediation and social intervention team as they cope with difficult, drunk or intoxicated people who can’t be integrated into normal homeless shelters. It’s a team designed to step in before the police.
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Kate
A hefty tree fell on a Hochelaga street Monday, damaging parked cars. Fortunately, nobody was hurt.
Joey
That is one big tree that fell. I’ve seen three others this morning. Think this snow caught everyone off guard; surprised the school boards didn’t close but perhaps they were asleep at 5am…
Kate
Seems to be a thing. A large branch dropped off a tree a few doors down from me, just saw it when clearing the steps.
Blork
This morning’s snow was very wet and very heavy. I’m surprised more trees didn’t come down.
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Kate
As TVA says, it’s a day aux allures hivernales, or as La Presse says, l’hiver n’a pas dit son dernier mot. And I stowed my shovel on the weekend, and dried my laundry on the clothesline Monday afternoon.
Looks like we’re in for one of those weeks containing all four seasons.
Edited to add: I wonder whether the snowplows were also stowed away. My sidewalk has not been cleared, and it’s thick wet mushy snow too.
JaneyB
I’d like to know who was the person who put their shovel and car brush in storage before May 24….sigh. Keeping them at the ready til the danger is past is our only defence!
DeWolf
May 24!? I can’t recall Montreal getting more than a few stray snowflakes in May, and even that is unusual. The only shovel you should need in May is one for gardening.
(I wanted to make sure I wasn’t talking à travers mon chapeau so I did a quick search of weather history… it seems like measurable amount of May snow happens ever 15 or 20 years, but it’s rare enough that the official average for the month is still 0.0cm.)
In any case, this will all be gone by tomorrow evening, so enjoy your last chance to make a snow sculpture!
Andrew
The city spokesperson on the CBC said that all the contracts for snow clearing had ended on April 15th, but all the equipment owned by the city would be in use. They’ll be focusing on hills and other limited areas, most residential streets they won’t get to before it melts.
Kate
The street was cleared here in Villeray, but not the sidewalk. It’s still pretty thick slush.
Also, I was looking back through some photos and noticed we had snow last year on April 21.
James
I got married on April 8th, 2000, and 30cm of snow started falling during the evening reception. My relatives from sunnier places were shocked. Even today they still talk about it!
The event even made the news at the time (the snowfall not my wedding):
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/record-april-snowfall-blankets-montreal/article22402781/
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Kate
A 16-year-old was shot late Monday night in Ahuntsic. There have been no arrests yet.
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