A thirty-year veteran of the STM has been named its director‑general, taking over from Luc Tremblay. Both articles, which read quite similarly, consider the challenge she faces to rebuild ridership and secure better funding for transit.
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Kate
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Kate
Residents of Rivière-des-Prairies may finally get a break from the stink coming from the Sanimax facility. The CMM is instituting a new rule saying you can’t store dead animals outdoors – an idea you might expect to have been enshrined in law in, say, 1830. Sanimax is not happy.
There are other stories this week about city residents and their concerns. TMR is trying to build a school in a park, which is not universally popular, St‑Lambert wants to remove a swimming pool and build a daycare in another park, which also doesn’t have unanimous support, and people living in Dorval are mad about more planes going over at night. All three of these stories spin off in some way from population densification and we will see more of them.
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Kate
One man was killed and three other people were injured Friday morning at an industrial lab in Dorval.
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Kate
As the construction holiday begins, the outbound tunnel and the Pie‑IX bridge are closed.
It’s not mentioned here but the Jacques‑Cartier will be closed Saturday evening for the fireworks.Kevin
There are no fireworks this Saturday nor next.
Kate
Thanks, Kevin.
steph
There’s no fireworks, but the sign on the side of the 132 said “pont jaques cartier ferme samedi 20h00”
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Kate
In vaccine news, kids as young as 6 months will be able to get the Covid vaccine starting Monday.
Meantime, Canada is short of monkeypox vaccine as the global outbreak (not being called a pandemic yet) continues to grow.
Faiz imam
Booked our infant immediately. Got an appointment next Tuesday.
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Kate
Christopher Curtis has an excellent piece Friday on the arrest of Sacha-Wilky Merazil last weekend.
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Kate
A man was shot late Thursday in Ahuntsic but his life is not in danger.
Early Friday, shots were fired at an Italian café in Lasalle. The café was closed and the only damage was to the window. Thank goodness there was no damage to the espresso machine.
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Kate
This story has been percolating through local news all week: comic Philippe Bond was accused of sexual predation by podcaster Thomas Levac. He denied the accusations, but was immediately accused of sexual assault by eight women. Now Bond has announced he’s stepping away from public life. And there’s commentary.
As a bad anglo I admit I’d never heard of either guy till this week, but it’s a big story so there you go.
steph
He on the 2020 anonamous Facebook list, multiple times.
MarcG 20:27 on 2022-07-22 Permalink
If they want me to ride again they can do something to help contain covid.