Various media are reporting on sailors stuck in Trois-Rivières, seemingly abandoned by their ships’ owner, and ill equipped for our climate. A man running a sailors’ support organization there says he’s never heard the like, but the CBC writer harks back to a similar situation in 2019 in Quebec City, and I was thinking of the Turkish sailors who were stuck in yet another such plight in Sorel in 2014.
And these are just the ones we hear about.
QMI seems to be setting itself up against the possibility that garbage pickup may go to every two weeks throughout the city – even though this has only been hinted at so far, and is only being tested out in part of Hochelaga‑Maisonneuve.
no it’s supposed to happen in Verdun this summer
What do you think? I have a feeling they may end up making it seasonal.
Has been every 2 weeks in Saint Laurent for years – not an issue in winter but can be pungent during the summer months.
Every two weeks is fine, if we can solve the problem of people leaving their trash bags o the street 2,3 or even 4 days before it’s scheduled to be picked-up.
Agreed. None of the articles I’ve seen about this (and thanks, folks, for explaining that the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve test is not unique) discusses the problem of trash being put out long before pickup: the possible smells in summer and the rats (which have been mentioned recently in some media but not linked to the biweekly pickup theme yet).
I follow a Facebook group for Park Extension and there are recurrent complaints about garbage being put out at odd times by some apartment janitors and stores.
While Postmedia cuts and cuts, La Presse has come up with a nonprofit model that works, with a surplus it plans to use as a reserve fund to keep it going through future recessions.
A woman was stabbed Saturday morning in Lachine, and a man has been arrested. Both these accounts have a coda about the arrest of another man with a gun although the two incidents are “not related.”
Since you all love to be pedantic about neighbourhoods: that’s Ville St. Pierre more than it is Lachine. 😉
There’s a singular house on de Grand-Pré Street in the Plateau and the singularly named Rose-Aimée Automne T. Morin tells us about it.
Wow, what a beauty! Amazing that all the details have been preserved over the years.
Mayor Plante is concerned about the alleged toxic work environment at the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) since the arrival of a new chief.
We see this over and over: some public or quasi‑public entity gets a new leader – in the event, it’s often a woman – and people who were accustomed to a style of management, let’s not quite say cosy jobs but in that general zone – are suddenly made answerable to a new boss. And they don’t like it, and then it gets into the news…
Anti-feminist blogger Jean-Claude Rochefort has been sentenced to one year for promoting hatred towards women.
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