Montreal City Weblog | what's happening
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Montreal City Weblog | what's happening
9h ago
TVA says a man has put up a tent near the new Maison Benoît Labre in St‑Henri and they report that some locals are not happy with the presence of others attracted by the drug inhalation site ..read more
Montreal City Weblog | what's happening
14h ago
In 2021, the CAQ announced a big project of 17 museums to glorify the culture of Quebec, to be called Espace Bleu. It was recently cancelled, but now there’s a plan to put $92 million into a history museum in Quebec City instead ..read more
Montreal City Weblog | what's happening
16h ago
CBC investigates how vacant buildings keep burning down. The city estimates that 800 buildings are standing empty around town ..read more
Montreal City Weblog | what's happening
17h ago
McGill’s expansion into the old Royal Vic space will be adding a new downtown lookout and an additional access to Mount Royal park ..read more
Montreal City Weblog | what's happening
17h ago
Cars are bursting into flame all over, Thursday morning’s incident involving three vehicles in Île Bizard being the latest in a series ..read more
Montreal City Weblog | what's happening
19h ago
Once again a pedestrian has lost against a heavy vehicle: a woman was killed Wednesday afternoon in Pointe‑aux‑Trembles by a truck driver that may have been impaired ..read more
Montreal City Weblog | what's happening
1d ago
Geneviève Guilbault, Quebec’s minister of sustainable mobility, says it’s not up to Quebec to manage public transit. Quebec looks after the roads, but she’s washing its hands of public transit funding ..read more
Montreal City Weblog | what's happening
2d ago
Quebec is handing off $40 million for repairs to the Olympic stadium sports complex needed after the March 21 fire ..read more
Montreal City Weblog | what's happening
2d ago
The opening of the REM branches to the northern and western parts of the city is being held off till 2025, and while it’s being blamed on complications in the Mount Royal tunnel, I tend to wonder if it’s at least as much because of the drop in commuting numbers generally ..read more
Montreal City Weblog | what's happening
2d ago
Professors of law at McGill are now on strike.
The SAQ is striking on Wednesday with intentions to continue through Thursday. Management may be keeping some stores open, but no decent person will be buying booze today. This is what workers want.
Incidentally, the SAQ is going to stop stocking more than a hundred locally produced hooches.
Crossed my mind just now: is the CAQ undermining the SAQ system just as they’ve been determinedly undermining socialized medicine ..read more