The body of a man who’d been missing for a week was found in the Back River off Montreal North. Police said it didn’t look like foul play.
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Kate
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Kate
An employee of CN died Friday in an incident on CN territory in the east end, but no further details are mentioned.
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Kate
The REM, still in its testing phase, is already being called too noisy by people living near the line. People on Nuns’ Island in particular are already unhappy about the noise.
Tux
Oh boo f-ing hoo, I lived next to the train line in Montreal West for years. Your china cabinet rattles and you pause your conversation for 30 seconds. This is a city, there’s gonna be noise.
Anton
Well if the train comes every two minutes, per direction, and you need to stop conversation for 30s each time, then you need to pause like half the time. But I doubt the light rail is that loud.
John B
It’s kind of hard to have sympathy for someone who chose to live beside a railway line or the busiest bridge in Canada complaining about noise.
On the other hand, the Nuns’ Island request of an anti-noise wall seems pretty reasonable, and an opportunity to block out some sound from the freeway as well if done right. For those who bought near the train line in Griffintown, it’s kind of reasonable to be surprised at the increase in rail traffic. Even if they bought expecting train use to become more common and the number of trains per day to double or triple, they probably didn’t expect an additional 450 trains per day, (20 hours / 3.5 minutes * 2 directions).
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Kate
Things to do on the weekend from Metro, CityCrunch, CultMTL, Sarah’s Weekend List.
It will be a wet weekend, though.
Weekend traffic miseries.
shawn
I don’t where else to put this but here’s something we can all feel good about: Autoroute 50 is being renamed to honour Guy Lafleur: https://www.ledroit.com/actualites/2023/04/28/lautoroute-50-sera-renommee-lautoroute-guy-lafleur-SUKTMZRCBVDARPBYHDOG6N527U/
Shawn Goldwater
Cruise ship season is officially underway now too with the Zaandam scheduled to leave Old Montreal after a brief stop here: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/with-new-ships-more-passenger-visits-and-record-shore-power-use-the-2023-cruise-season-is-officially-underway-at-the-port-of-montreal–854070405.html
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Kate
The drowning death of firefighter Pierre Lacroix in 2021 has, not surprisingly, been ruled accidental. Coroner Géhane Kamel has recommendations that have already been predicted: better equipment and better training if the fire service is also expected to do river rescue.
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Kate
The Place Youville building that burned last month had been flagged for violations over the years. Inspectors came and reported, but the violations were never addressed.
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Kate
It probably won’t come as a surprise to most Montreal women (or parents of Montreal girls) that a recent study shows that sexual hassling in the street can start as early as age 10.
I wasn’t much older than that when I first encountered it, much like the woman in this story who was first lured at age 12. A man in the street said to me “I’ll give you a cigarette if…” and I didn’t hear the rest because I was hot‑footing it away from him.
Meezly
Oh my! This is an important study. It really does seem to be one of the first of its kind as I couldn’t find any similar studies done outside Quebec and within Canada, as they only looked at girls aged 15 or older and/or adult women (though there may . Kind of surprising (yet not) considering it’s a global phenomenon that’s been happening for eons.
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Kate
Mayor Plante, on official visit to Paris, says she’s inspired by that city’s changes making more and streets pedestrian‑only near schools, but temporizing that she needs to hold local discussions before going there herself.
She has also visited Vienna to admire their approach to social housing.
shawn
The mayor also confirmed in Europe that they are going ahead with the new slogan: « Métropole francophone des Amériques ».
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/grand-montreal/2023-04-28/metropole-francophone-des-ameriques/un-nouveau-slogan-pour-montreal.phpshawn
But does this replace Concordia Salus? The article doesn’t say… I don’t think so. Two different things…
Kate
One is a slogan, the other is a heraldic motto.
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Kate
There’s been an arrest in the attack on Leonardo Rizzuto last month. The assailant who shot at Rizzuto’s car was shooting from a Porsche Macan while another car of the same brand was hovering nearby.
Aaaand, the guy has been let go.
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Kate
The festival of vehicle arsons continues, with four cars destroyed by fire in Rivière-des-Prairies early Friday.
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