There are six villages in France called Montréal. La Presse went to Montréal‑du‑Gers in 2022, and reports Monday on Montréal‑la‑Cluse in the east of France.
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Kate
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Kate
A survey shows that a lot of people are still annoyed with road construction even while the city tries to minimize its impact.
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Kate
The city’s Philippe Sabourin says on Bluesky that pickups (garbage, composting and recycling, presumably all three) will be suspended this week.
GC
People in my building put ours out Sunday evening, in anticipation of a Monday morning pickup. I guess it’s just going to sit there all week, now :(.
jeather
They picked up in St Henri this morning.
DeWolf
I guess I got lucky because I put out my recycling and compost last night and they picked it up early this morning before the city cancelled the rest of the rest of the collection. I’m honestly pretty impressed, the amount of snow they’d have to have trudged through is no joke.
GC
Yeah. Ours was actually picked up, too. I can’t see the front of the building from my windows, so I wasn’t sure until I went outside. I suppose it must have happened before the official cancellation.
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Kate
La Presse reports that 11 suspended teachers from Bedford School are still being paid and will go on being paid.
I don’t find it shocking or immoral. That’s what belonging to a union can do for you.
bob
And how is this a story other than the “principalement maghrébins” angle?
Kate
It’s been a story since it broke that some people with authority in the school were behaving in ways described here (October 2024) as intimidating, refusing to allow special attention to kids with learning disabilities, meting out humiliating punishments, and refraining from teaching science, sex ed, and the official curriculum on religions. They were basically old school – my grandparents might have approved, but this is the 21st century.
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Kate
We have a blowing snow advisory Monday.List of closed schools and other institutions.
There’s a daycare strike but is anyone going to notice?
Radio-Canada says nearly 75 cm of snow fell over four days here. For people who use real measurements, that’s 177 picas.
MétéoMédia says it’s close to breaking a 70‑year record.
It will take eight days to complete the impending snow clearing operation.
Later report on planes and trains cancelled by the snowstorm.
jeather
They didn’t clear my sidewalks at all, and the Journal de Montreal article says they can’t because there is too much snow. It’s a lot of snow.
CE
Wow, that’s 0.0373 chain of snow!
walkerp
No indistinct grumbling from me this time! Damn, that was a serious dump. My neighbour and I cleared both sets of stairs, two walkways and a beautiful rectangle of the sidewalk in front of our place last night. Woke up this morning and it was all covered up again, including some big drifts. I’m not even sure if it is worth doing anything until the wind stops.
Stay warm and safe out there and big thanks to the city snow clearing teams. They are going to be busy!
steph
I got plowed in. Literally, a snow plow zipped past me dumping his snow bank onto me, leaving me waist high in snow. I must have been an inch away from being a statistic.
Is that a complaint to the city, or the police?
Kate
Good question, steph. You could submit a complaint online to the relevant borough but that might feel a bit bland?
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Kate
The REM is down in both directions for an indefinite period.
8:45, CBC says the REM is slowed down but running.
Jonathan 10:56 on 2025-02-18 Permalink
I recently visited a town in Sicily called Monreale and felt some sort of affinity because of the name.
azrhey 11:23 on 2025-02-18 Permalink
ha! My aunt and grandmother live in Montréal-la-Cluse (with assorted cousins living in Oyonnax next door , been doing the “I live in the actual Montreal” joke for over 30 years! I will share this article with the family asap, thanks Kate!
Nicholas 15:33 on 2025-02-18 Permalink
I’m at Namur métro station right now and on the walls they have 8 panels on the different Namurs: the city, province and capital, the Wisconsin town where Walloon farmers immigrated to, and the town in Papineau RCM similarly, and the Walloon-Quebrc friendship. Interesting and well done, we should do more of this.
Kate 00:38 on 2025-02-19 Permalink
Nicholas, I’ve never seen that, but then I can’t remember the last time I passed through Namur station.
azrhey, Oyonnax is such an odd name. Even French Wikipedia can’t give a definitive etymology.