James Gould, convicted of murder in 2010, was arrested Tuesday in CDN‑NDG with a gun and a woman carrying nearly one million dollars in cash.
He was wanted for breaching parole conditions but now he’s in deeper trouble.
(I wish media could be more specific than saying CDN‑NDG, but maybe that’s all the police would tell them.)
The STM maintenance union plans 28 days of strike throughout November, meaning services will be restricted to rush hour even on election day. Schedule is listed in the item.
And silly me forked out $104 for the November pass just yesterday. Went back to Pharmaprix today only to learn there is no such thing as a refund. Here’s hoping all the strike talk is just so much posturing.
Apparently you can get a refund, from the ARTM. They told Le Devoir the following:
« Un titre mensuel ou hebdomadaire du mois de novembre peut faire l’objet d’un remboursement ou d’un échange avant le premier jour de sa validité, ou au plus tard le sixième jour inclusif suivant l’achat, à la condition que celui-ci n’ait pas été utilisé. »
https://www.ledevoir.com/actualites/transports-urbanisme/929259/guide-greve-stm
I was wondering myself if I should get a monthly pass for November, or just a few fares for the times when I have to go places. (I usually get the monthly one.)
The Devoir does the math and finds that the monthly pass is worth it once you’ve done 28 single trips, or 15 round-trip journeys. That’s on the island of Montreal (zone A). For zone AB (Montréal + Longueuil + Laval), the break-even point is 33 single trips, or 17 round-trip journeys. Fewer than that, and you’re better off loading up ten tickets at a time.
The Bellechasse bus garage is described here as le plus beau garage d’autobus des Amériques, et peut-être même au monde by none other than Richard Bergeron.
Having gone past it recently by night, I have to say it’s quite something – you could think it a glitzy arts centre if you didn’t know otherwise. But if residents didn’t want a three‑storey building, as stated here, they got something a lot more imposing, which ended up costing more than half a billion dollars.
At least, because we listened to the people who didn’t want a three-storey building, we now have an affordable, functional building that can absolutely handle the electric buses it was built for and has no water or HVAC issues, necessitating loud, 24/7 ventilation. And even better, because we built affordably we have more money for other things, so there were no tradeoffs involved. Good work all around!
Nicolas, why do you say it was built affordably? Nearly $600M, double the budget…doesn’t scream affordability to me.
The building is great, but lets not pretend that excess $300M couldn’t have gone somewhere else impactful.
Nicholas is obviously being sarcastic. The garage can’t accommodate electric buses even though they will be the standard during its lifetime. The ground is sinking and it got flooded even before it opened. It looks good but it’s a mess on so many levels.
I wonder when the green spaces around it will be open to the public. They have put in grass and removed it a few times last year. This year they left in place what they had put down but it is still all fenced up. I predict the side facing Bellechasse will become a premium Krazy Karpet spot this winter.
“It looks good but it’s a mess on so many levels” is maybe the defining political maxim of our time.
Radio-Canada video report shows the arrival of parts for the massive tunneling machine that will dig the blue line west from Pie‑IX toward St‑Michel station.
The old St‑Sulpice library, vacant since the opening of the Grande Bibliothèque in 2005, has had several projects for its reuse proposed and abandoned. The most recent was the Maison de la chanson, meant to celebrate song in Quebec, announced by François Legault in 2022.
But this project relied on the Grande Bibliothèque selling that piece of land on its lot to Hydro‑Quebec and giving that money to the government to fix up the old library building. This may never happen now. A starting figure of $48.5 million is mentioned here for renovations needed on the old building.
At least we saved the green space! Maybe we’ll get this building used by 2045.
Also somewhat following from the homelessness theme, the woman who gave birth in a bus shelter in Longueuil this week then went to a warming shelter and sat in a chair to sleep. She didn’t say a thing about her condition, but shelter workers noticed evidence and linked her with the bad news about the baby.
A woman who could give birth alone outdoors in October then walk to a shelter and say nothing about it – there’s a story. And she may yet face charges.
Somewhat following from the previous post, Le Devoir says that the municipal party chiefs are concerned more about residents’ feeling of safety as opposed to actual criminal activity.
This is part of the suburbanificcation Ted Rutland was talking about. Some people want downtown to feel like a subdivision.
A dossier in La Presse on Wednesday:
Neighbours of some homeless shelters are turning to the courts to sue for damages, some hoping to force government to change how the situation is being managed.
But a legal expert thinks this is the wrong tactic and the city’s new commissioner for the homeless refused to address the story.
The only thing that everyone agrees on is that the present situation is untenable.
Nicholas 10:28 on 2025-10-30 Permalink
I agree. Every article I could find lists the info found in the press release: CDN-NDG. Gone is the time when someone would have a police scanner on in the newsroom at all times and dispatch someone to the block in question.