Galeries d’Anjou owner Ivanhoé Cambridge has come to an agreement with the STM so that part of the mall perimeter – presumably some of its vast parking lot – can be expropriated to build the terminus station of the blue line extension.
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Kate
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Kate
Québecor is cutting 240 jobs, 140 of them at TVA, sniping as it goes at Radio‑Canada for its “unfair” competition.
Ephraim
Says the company that tried to make everyone in Canada pay for their right-wing Fox-like TV news station. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_News_Network Who’s viewership was so high that no one noticed they had shut down at 5AM until later in the morning when it was announced on other networks 😀
DeWolf
Radio-Canada = generally reputable news
Québecor = hatebait content appealing to a demographic rapidly dying of old ageDeWolf
After reading the article more thoroughly, my comment is definitely unfair, because it seems most of the cuts affect the production staff of various TV shows, magazines, etc., which really sucks.
I wonder how much money they’d save if they kept all those employees and showed Richard Martineau and Denise Bombardier the door.
Chris
Less, likely. Outrage gets the eyeballs, eyeballs see the ads, ads bring the money.
Ephraim
It will be interesting what they will do when they become a national mobile company. They keep on promoting their mobile network by add-ons that don’t interest anyone but Francophones. A website that doesn’t store your language preference (or even check your browser language preference) and if you need to sign in to your account, 4 different sign-ins…. 4! And really, what am I going to watch on Illico? (Not to mention, my TV is on the wall, I have no place for a damn decoder!)
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Kate
An STM bus driver swerved off Côte St‑Luc Road onto the sidewalk Thursday morning and fetched the vehicle up into some bushes. The driver is assumed to have had a health crisis; nobody was hurt.
Later Thursday morning, a city bus collided with a garbage truck in Ville‑Émard. The driver was injured and some passengers also had injuries.
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Kate
The police who opened fire on Jean René Junior Olivier in Repentigny in August 2021 will not face charges. The Crown says the police did not commit a crime because they are allowed to use force in self‑defence, and Olivier had a knife. Olivier’s mother had called 911 asking for help because her son was in an unstable mental state.
Ian
The unstable mental state being that he thought the police were coming for him.
A perfect recipe for disaster, systemic racism and police impunity on top of it all.
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Kate
The city’s environmental commission has tabled a report recommending a ban on new natural gas systems and the phasing out of existing ones, whether for heating or cooking. Of course Énergir – which used to be Gaz Métropolitain – doesn’t agree.
dhomas
Énergir must be getting nervous now that their old buddy Sophie Brochu is stepping down as Hydro Quebec’s CEO. The deals that were struck between the two companies were… questionable.
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/energir-deal-could-cost-hydro-quebec-7-2-billion-1.5899660
Especially since the CAQ loves to tout their green bona fides with one hand while giving handouts to “dirty” energy with the other. It should be noted that before taking the head job at HQ, Ms. Brochu was at Gaz Métro for over 20 years.
Nicholas
We need to be adopting heat pumps the way Scandinavia is, now that they work even during our very cold temperatures. And that will mean a lot of retrofits, but it (and dynamic pricing) will help save Hydro Quebec so much power that they won’t need to partner with Energir by encouraging gas heating to reduce peak winter demand. Once that’s in motion, replacing gas stoves with induction and gas hot water heaters with electric (or maybe even electric tankless in smaller units) should follow without too much trouble.
shawn
I actually thought our biomethanisation plant would be feeding carbon-neutral gas into the system but I could well be wrong.
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Kate
Pierre Ny St-Amand, driver of the Laval bus that caused carnage a week ago, was set to get married next month to his longtime partner, with whom he has two daughters. La Presse talked to a close friend who says he had no clue there was anything amiss with St‑Amand.
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Kate
The city has finally agreed to protect the St‑Jacques escarpment, with that promised pedestrian and cyclist bridge over the highway still a part of the dream.
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Kate
Another night, another firebombing in St‑Laurent. No victims. TVA’s photos identify the business as do CTV’s – a small logistics company.
Joey 09:51 on 2023-02-17 Permalink
So did the STM Pay Ivanhoe or vice versa?
Kate 10:26 on 2023-02-17 Permalink
I would be astonished if it turns out Ivanhoe paid.
shawn 12:54 on 2023-02-17 Permalink
I seem to even remember them complaining about having to give up part of their parking, at first? Which amazes me, if so.
DeWolf 12:58 on 2023-02-17 Permalink
The dispute was never about parking, it was about which part of the property would be used for the bus terminus. The original plan was for it to be on the west side, which has the most redevelopment potential. Now it will be located on the east side, towards the A25.
Expect the Galeries d’Anjou to look something like Scarborough Town Centre or Metrotown in 20 years: a mall surrounded by a dense cluster of residential high-rises.
DeWolf 12:59 on 2023-02-17 Permalink
Sorry, I should rephrase: The dispute was never about parking, it was about redevelopment potential.