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

CBC investigates how vacant buildings keep burning down. The city estimates that 800 buildings are standing empty around town ..read more

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

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

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

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

Quebec is handing off $40 million for repairs to the Olympic stadium sports complex needed after the March 21 fire ..read more

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

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

Data show that REM downtimes closely followed the temperature last winter ..read more