Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery is considering offering night‑time tours designed by Moment Factory. Possible effects on its wildlife are mentioned.
“A public consultation was held in mid-February, though no residents attended.”
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Kate
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Kate
Hydro-Quebec has received permission to raise domestic rates by 3% next month, beating inflation. But they didn’t get as much as they wanted.
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Kate
A 21-year-old Montrealer was sentenced to 33 months on Monday for dangerous driving causing death.
Somehow Mouad Boubakra rented a BMW at his age with nothing but a learner’s permit. I didn’t think that was possible.
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Kate
I’m hearing radio discussions as well as this CBC piece on whether drivers should get a rebate on rising gasoline prices.
Why should the government effectively subsidize oil companies?
If you’re going to subsidize gasoline, why not subsidize groceries and rent?
Time for a Universal Basic Income?
Blork
Yeah, that was my reaction too, but I think the idea of a rebate is based on the fact that a big part of that gasoline price is from taxes, so as prices go up so do tax revenues, and some people might see that as exploitative on the government’s part. I suppose the thinking is that by lowering the RATE of taxes they’d still get the same net amount while giving gas consumers a break.
Personally, I think it’s a silly idea, especially at the levels we’re talking about. The gas has only gone up by 15 or 20 cents a litre, and the price is yo-yo-ing like crazy. Don’t forget that during the pandemic is was over $2.20 a litre for a while.
Anecdote: on Friday morning I gassed up at $1.75 a litre. Two hours later I went by the same gas station and it was down to $1.68. Many people I know would be stamping their feet and crying foul over that, but if I do the math it amounts to a difference of about three bucks. Big deal. (It would be triple or more if I had an enormous truck with a gigantic fuel tank, but maybe people who drive those need to question their choices. People who actually need to haul things notwithstanding.)
Tim S.
With all the disruptions coming up, I think the government(s) need all the revenue they can get at the moment. As transportation and fertilizer prices increase, they may not have a choice but to start subsidizing groceries, in one form or another, anyways.
Kevin
If the price of bread and milk were on giant billboards, people would get upset about those too.
The way out is to not choose a life based on the variable pricing of something whose supply is completely out of your hands.
Bloomberg has had several articles in the past week about how the price for large batteries has dropped considerably in the past 4 years, making EV cars (and home batteries! Apartment solar!) much more affordable.Kate
There used to be a Couche-Tard around the corner that posted their price of milk on a pole outside. I never buy the stuff, so I never had much basis of comparison.
Ian
When I was a kid in Ontario the big chain Mac’s Milk used to post their milk prices alongside gas prices
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Kate
Pierre Ny St-Amand, declared not criminally responsible last year for crashing his Laval city bus into a daycare in 2023, has now been deemed a high-risk accused. Radio‑Canada covers more about the response of the father of one of the seriously injured children, who had been disappointed by the NCR verdict but was somewhat relieved by this further ruling. Ny St-Amand will be living at the Pinel Institute indefinitely.
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Kate
Bernard Ostiguy, a 72-year-old attacked by a teenager in the metro last August, died in December in hospital, never having returned home after his head injury. This piece discusses the difficulty of proving that the attack was the direct cause of Ostiguy’s death, and the family’s feeling that justice wasn’t done.
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Kate
Cleanliness brigades start sooner and work longer this year after the mayor heard complaints about the filthy state of the city after winter.
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Kate
The city’s Centres d’éducation populaire, which for many years benefited from low rent at disused schools belonging to the CSSDM, have been fighting to go on existing since the CSSDM massively hiked their rents.
These six CEPs do a lot of beneficial if non‑flashy stuff – teaching illiterates how to read and write, teaching French, basic computer courses – and now they hope to get funding in the impending Quebec budget. But the CAQ has never given them much help in the past.
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Kate
The city has had the bright idea of removing all the garbage bins from Lafontaine Park. When Parks Canada decided to do this along the Lachine Canal in April 2024, it didn’t prove popular (discussion here) so later that month they changed their minds.
That was fast: The city has done a 180 and will not be removing the bins after all.
Joey
SMF is nothing if not consistent in her ridiculous flip-flopping: “Dans la plateforme électorale d’Ensemble Montréal, en 2025, le parti de la mairesse s’engageait à ‘augmenter le nombre de poubelles publiques et de bacs de tri dans les parcs.’
And now: Montrealers should be expected to bring their park garbage home with them.
Kate
Especially since this follows close after a report on how much littering we do.
roberto
Ask a politician how to stop garbage cans from overflowing and they`ll tell you to remove the garbage cans!
Joey
Kate
Thank you, Joey.
Ian
Sounds like it was Cathy Wong not SMF?
Joey
@Ian yeah the story reported her explaining that the pilot project was from the city (not the borough), implying to me, at least, that it was a SMF initiative, but it actually was developed by the Plante admin.
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Kate
Montrealers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski are taking home the Oscar for the animated short The Girl who Cried Pearls.
DavidH 07:17 on 2026-03-17 Permalink
Residents of the cemetery?
Joey 09:58 on 2026-03-17 Permalink
They would participate but they’re so busy, practically buried… (Sorry…)
Mozai 10:43 on 2026-03-17 Permalink
“1,800 visitors per night” that’s at least six movie theatres’ worth of people; even if they had enough staff to guide them, that seems like a disruptive volume of visitors.
Ian 07:33 on 2026-03-18 Permalink
It also seems like wishful thinking.
I am sure the groundhogs will be acommodating.