The mother of the toddler who was lost and found earlier this week has been charged with child abandonment and will be kept locked up for two weeks at least till a bail hearing in July. Her lawyer says she’s suffering distress and needs help.
The names of the woman and her daughter are now under a publication ban.
A homeless man who pushed an acquaintance into the Lachine Canal earlier this month has been accused of manslaughter and faces possible life in prison.
Weekend notes from CityCrunch, La Presse, Le Devoir, CultMTL.
La Presse and Le Devoir focus on the Francos; CultMTL on Suoni per il Popolo.
Driving advice involves bridges this weekend.
A heat wave is imminent.
The ARTM is supposed to be modernizing how it collects transit fares, but it’s taking a long time and questions are being asked about rising costs as people worry about another SAAQclic‑style fiasco.
The site of the old NFB building on Côte‑de‑Liesse is set to be redeveloped into a mixed‑use enclave by 2028.
I guess if there’s a REM station nearby it’s not so bad. Sounds like a pretty neat project but hopefully one of those retail spaces is a decent size grocery store.
I always wonder, was that where Borden’s used to be? What was there before the NFB?
I’m pretty sure it was farmland before the NFB opened. They built their complex in 1956 which is also when the adjacent residential neighbourhood was developed.
Ian, the McGill urban planning guy the CBC talked to is quoted talking down the need for community space and for grocery shopping. As if developers need to be convinced to include less of that kind of thing!
How close will this development be to major highways? I guess that’s attractive for some because it means you’re driving on a highway in minutes. But air quality would concern me.
It’s on CDL, a stone’s throw from the 40. About 20 minutes drive to buy a carton of milk. And of course that side of the 15 and the 40 has terrible bus service.
Still with a bit of infra and necessities it’s a good reuse of space… but for low income you’ll need to solve for residents that don’t drive.
The gigantic T&T Asian grocery store is 800 metres away.
How accessible is it, though? I know from experience that sometimes things that look close on the map can be hard to access if there’s a highway in the way.
800m as the crow flies. Easy 16 minute walk for humans. No need to cross the highway. https://maps.app.goo.gl/4peBN5TjD2YFkAiw6
Regarding the location, it is right on CdL/40, but as far as I know the buildings that are fronting on the highway will be used for community things. The housing units will be built a bit farther back, where there is a large parking lot now, and some other small buildings.
Air quality will not be great, and there will be the constant roar of cars and trucks. But there are plenty of single family houses on both sides of the 40 (VSL on one side and TMR on the other) that are just as close or even closer, so it’s not like they’ll be alone with this problem.
Satellite view: the big parking lot is where the new housing units will be built (AFAIK) and some of the smaller buildings will also likely be torn down and replaced by larger housing units. https://maps.app.goo.gl/2Ptm6NcmMtybCQWS9
Good one, Blork. I misremembered the NFB site further west. If you cross the 40 at Ste Croix where it turns into Lucerne there’s also a mall right there with a Provigo etc.
That’s a useful story to know which, uhhh, director of the school of urban planning to never listen to. He complains about needing to do their weekly grocery shopping elsewhere. As mentioned there’s the T&T and the Provigo, and also a Metro Plus on Cote-Vertu, and with the pedestrian/bike crossing of the train tracks on Montpellier, you can just stay on the REM for another stop and then walk by the Metro on the way home (same with T&T on the way home from du College). When you take transit regularly it’s common to stop at a grocery store on the way home a few times a week to pick up a few things you can carry, rather than drive to a massive store once a week and load up a car, and I think we can all guess why this guy doesn’t understand that.
Which is why he also complains there’s not enough parking. “Unless people happen to work along the REM line, getting to work … typically requires a car.” Has this guy not heard of transfers? Does he think the only people who use transit live on a one-seat ride to their work? Hundreds of thousands of Montrealers use transit every day, and many of them need to switch between buses and/or metros. The REM will get people downtown in something like 15 minutes, after a 12 minute walk or a short bus trip. Or take the orange line. Or there are a bunch of buses, and even an express bus down CdL to the airport. In a city where a third of households don’t own a car, and being so close to high capacity, frequent rail transit, I suspect the statement “I suspect that housing units will be more difficult to sell without at least one space per unit” is not based in reality.
This is a weird location, next to industrial, boxed in by a few rail lines and the highway. The air quality won’t be good. There’s a dearth of retail nearby, and it didn’t have much of a neighbourhood feel when I’ve been there. But the transit access is/will be surprisingly good, there is some green space nearby, there are three nearby grocery stores. Tons of people live much farther from this stuff. If I was asked to speak to the media about something as a professional I would try to spend more than thirty seconds researching and thinking about it.
A postscript: when I googled him here was the phrase that popped up as the sample text from his blog, the third hit: “Montreal has different urban morphology, public transport, and weather. I think that these differences are well-understood by most commentators.” Most. And after reading that blog post, and the one linked, I’ll make sure to recommend people not go to McGill for urban planning, and go somewhere like Polytechnique instead.
Just going back to my question. After some research, I found that Borden’s distribution was 333 Bd Lebeau which is now Natrel/Agropur. But I think that was the distribution. I remember a location on Cote-de-Liesse. And I’m thinking it was 2365 De la Côte-de-Liesse with the building behind also part of it.
Haven’t been able to help, Ephraim – I never knew that part of town well.
Taylor C. Noakes 19:15 on 2025-06-20 Permalink
They are *now* under a publication ban?
Ship’s sailed, no?
Ian 23:05 on 2025-06-20 Permalink
I’ve noticed the child’s images being blurred in media now, not like they were splashed across the papers already.
jeather 08:21 on 2025-06-21 Permalink
It’s useful because the stuff that is easy to access won’t have her name everywhere, so her friends won’t be able to just google her and find it in the future.