A Centre d’éducation populaire in Sud‑Ouest has won a round in Superior Court, a ruling that they don’t have to pay thousands in rent demanded by the CSSDM, which hiked its rent from $1 per month to $13,459.68.
The CSSDM has been trying for some years to shake off these centres, which get very little government funding and are in no position to pay commercial‑level rents.
Early snow is apparently hypnotizing people to shop.
Will this be the first year in decades there isn’t a story about how retailers wre worried thre isn’t enough snow?
Forecast says Friday will be rainy with a high of 5°, so the magic shopping snow may soon disappear.
Well maybe Yule will pull through where Christmas magic doesn’t. All hail the old gods!
A recount confirms Ensemble’s Julie‑Pascale Provost as borough mayor of Lachine, while Projet’s Céline‑Audrey Beauregard remains mayor of Verdun. The results of three more recounts are still to come.
Mayor Martinez Ferrada has unveiled her executive committee. Aref Salem is rewarded for acting as interim leader for years, and Luis Miranda is in charge of citizen services – let’s hope no teenagers ask for help.
Landlords are finding it harder to get tenants because they’re setting the rents too high. Cue Nelson Muntz’s “Ha ha!”
Is this manufactured `balance`?
Do they think the hidden hand of the market applies only to those who are buying? (yes, yes they do)
Almost as if building more housing, even if it is not “affordable”, increases vacancies and causes landlords to reduce rents. Right now they’re at the stage of offering free months or other perks as they don’t want to lock in lower rents, but tenants are savvy and, as the article says, they’re negotiating down. And as they move into nicer and (formerly) more expensive places, they’ll vacate the less expensive places, driving up vacancies at the middle and lower ends of the market. We just need to keep building.
The article also notes that fewer temporary residents will also lower rents. That is a shame. It would be better if we built even more, so we could accommodate those people and more, while still lowering rents. If we can focus on building we can maybe get there.
The glut is small units, this won’t help families. It may force the construction market to self correct though, it’s not more studios and one beds that we need.
A truck that crashed into a viaduct Tuesday morning caused an interruption in the new REM service. But it’s running again now.
On reddit, a user claimed that they got stuck in the Édouard‑Montpetit elevator for an hour and had to be released by firefighters. That would be a news story, if true, but not seeing it mentioned elsewhere.
I heard on CBC that the famous 20-storey elevator at Edouard-Monpetit has already broken down. (No story on CBC web site yet.) It boggles my mind that they’d have only one elevator with no backup. Is that true? Only one elevator?
Update: it turns out an elevator stopped and got stuck with 20 people on board. They were stuck for an hour before the managed to get them out. (A backup elevator wouldn’t have helped in that situation, but I’m still curious… are there multiple elevators?)
I believe there are 5 elevators.
The Gazette has the stuck elevator story.
> stuck with 20 people on board
Let’s assume an average of 70 kg per person, so that’s 1,400 kilograms, or more than 3,000 lbs. I am most definitely not an operating engineer, but my layman’s initial reaction is that’s an awful lot of weight for one non-freight elevator to carry.
> an awful lot of weight for one non-freight elevator
After a little cursory research, I discovered that this isn’t atypical for a commercial-grade elevator such as you might find in a hotel. It’d be a lot of weight capacity for an apartment building, but for an application such as a hotel, commercial high-rise or (maybe?) metro station, a capacity of 1,300 kg to 2,300 kg is not unusual.
So 20 people were stuck in an elevator for a while. No big deal, I hear the REM is “not even as bad as the metro’s reliability”. /s
Sure, Ian, considering the metro doesn’t have elevators in most stations, there’s less risk of any of them malfunctioning.
According to the Gazette, the problem was the elevator that runs between the concourse and the platform, not one of the five high-speed lifts.
Yes of course, after all it’s only been open one day haha
I’m sure the folks stuck on the elevator were relieved not to be stuck somewhere they could just leave.
update:
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Not a truck this time, just a ‘technical problem’. That’s 2/2 so far, for those counting.
Yep. I got caught in that. This time I waited 20plus minutes for it to show up. Central station was filled with hyper school kids (I guess a field trip?) running around and acting like kids. More people kept on showing up and the crowd was about five people deep. When the train finally showed up security kicked out the passengers because I guess they had to check it out so the crowd was even bigger. Then the new train came and everyone piled into it like a Tokyo metro. It stopped at nun’s island, played the opening door flourish then left without opening the doors. At Panama I disembarked and I was lucky because the doors slammed shut while people were still leaving. Overhead some students saying “yo get used to this happening every week haha”. At least it was a sunny day so it wasn’t completely depressing lol
The latest is that they’re installing a guard rail to prevent future collisions. We’ll see if that works or if that viaduct will be Montreal’s version of the infamous “can opener” from YouTube lol
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