New school in TMR becomes hot potato
TMR is scheduled to get a new elementary school (the article stresses repeatedly “nouvelle école francophone“) but the town’s mayor is being cagey about whether it will be plunked down in a park (which La Presse calls “parc Ernest-B.-Jubien” and Google can’t decide whether it’s Jubien or Julien) which many residents prefer to see preserved as parkland.
This story had a feel of déjà vu, because Nuns’ Island wrestled with a similar issue a decade ago – need for a new school, only obvious location a park not everyone wanted to hand off for construction. It looks like that project never came about.
steph 11:00 on 2022-08-28 Permalink
It’s really unfortunate when elected officials only present “hard dicisions” like “Park or School, whattaya want???” when in fact other options exist. I haven’t looked into the TMR situation but for Nuns’ Island I’d propose they build the school on the goft course, which belongs to the city but is currently leased and used for private profit…
DeWolf 11:50 on 2022-08-28 Permalink
Too bad TMR doesn’t have a shopping mall with a giant surface parking lot that could be expropriated for a public good like an elementary school…
qatzelok 12:11 on 2022-08-28 Permalink
TMR has far more drivers than it has children.
In our kind of democracy, the car always wins.
dhomas 12:15 on 2022-08-28 Permalink
It’s definitely Jubien with a “b”.
https://strollerparking.ca/bws-gallery/ernest-b-jubien-park/#gallery_fancybox_17805-2
Ephraim 12:28 on 2022-08-28 Permalink
The sign definitely says Jubien https://goo.gl/maps/xJ5zo3s2L6iC1Hzs6
Why not use the parking lot at Rockland. They have plenty of other parking…. and it’s a dying shopping mall anyway.
Joey 14:31 on 2022-08-28 Permalink
Too soon, Ephraim lol
Ephraim 15:02 on 2022-08-28 Permalink
The mall is dead… long live the mall 🙂 on Decoder Ring https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vZGVjb2RlcnJpbmc/episode/MTAwMDU3MTE0NTQ5OA?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjI5qmvnOr5AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQLA