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Granite "stumps" on Mount Royal run counter to park designer's vision: experts
Ask preeminent experts on North America’s historic landscapes what they think of granite stumps and they offer the same answer: Mount Royal doesn’t need “art” added to it because it is a work of art....
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Montreal city hall says it's ready to compromise on granite 'stumps'
The administration of Mayor Denis Coderre says it’s ready to compromise on its plan to install granite sculptures that double as seats around Mount Royal for the city’s 375th anniversary next year....
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Group starts petition to open gate linking cemetery, rest of mountain
Access to a quarter of Mount Royal’s green space is cut off from the rest of the mountain because the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery is keeping its gate on Remembrance Rd. near Beaver Lake closed on...
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Contrecoeur trial will go ahead, but only in 2017
The Contrecoeur corruption trial will go ahead, albeit starting in January 2017. Quebec Court Judge Yvan Poulin rejected motions that had been filed by the defence to halt the trial in a ruling he...
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Montreal already over-budget on 'Fleuve-Montagne' project, and half the...
Montreal has already surpassed the $42.4-million budget for one of its 375th anniversary “legacy” projects, creating an urban walkway from the St. Lawrence River to the mountain, on the first few...
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Infrastructure blamed for ballooning cost of Fleuve-Montagne project
The city now says the Fleuve-Montagne project to create an urban walkway from the river to the mountain for Montreal’s 375th anniversary will cost $55.3 million, a 30 per cent increase from the most...
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Access commission orders city of Montreal to make losing contract bids public
In what is being called a precedent-setting ruling, the Quebec access-to-information commission has ordered the city of Montreal to make the losing bids on municipal contracts public. The 41-page...
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Quebec authorizes granite stumps but not in natural spaces in Mount Royal Park
The province has taken a chunk out of Mayor Denis Coderre’s granite sculptures on Mount Royal. The Quebec Culture Department gave its approval on Thursday to the granite objects to be installed as a...
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Documents reveal 24 UPAC raids to investigate Montreal water-meter contract
Quebec’s anti-corruption squad wiretapped, filmed and tailed former municipal officials and other targets as part of its ongoing investigation into Montreal’s scuttled $355.8-million water-management...
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UPAC warrants reveal fake 'cover' bids for water-meter contract
When investigators from Quebec’s anti-corruption squad searched Union Montreal party headquarters on Feb. 19, 2013, they found documents that had been faxed from the party offices in 2004 and 2005 by a...
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Montreal Formula E roadwork contract approved despite route being kept secret
Ville-Marie borough council approved $4.6 million in roadwork on Monday to prepare for Montreal’s first Formula E all-electric vehicle road race in 2017, though the councillors who voted on the...
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Mayor puts Biodôme project on ice after contract bids come in at double the...
Mayor Denis Coderre has cancelled a large contract to renovate the Biodôme for Montreal’s 375th anniversary after the bids came in at more than double an estimate of $14.2 million for the work. The...
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City to award contract for signs on Côte-des-Neiges for 375th anniversary
The city is set to award a $993,754 contract for the second phase of its project to install granite rest stops and route markers around Mount Royal for Montreal’s 375th anniversary in 2017. The city...
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Heritage activists want master plan to protect Côte-des-Neiges Rd.
A brown brick condo building now occupies the spot where Jean-François Corbeil’s father was born in a two-storey stone house on Côte-des-Neiges Rd. while his grandfather was superintendent of...
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Applebaum defence to challenge credibility of crucial witness against him
The police squad that arrested former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum on corruption charges while he was in office in 2013 stopped keeping a written record of its frequent contacts with the key Crown...
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Montreal adopts plastic bag ban
Montreal city council passed a bylaw on Tuesday that will ban the distribution of thin plastic bags at stores on city territory starting in 2018. The bylaw, which the administration of Mayor Denis...
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Judge to rule on Sept. 12 on Applebaum motion to halt corruption trial
Former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum is expected to find out on Sept. 12 whether a judge will grant a stay of proceedings to halt his trial, which is to begin in November. Quebec Court Judge Daniel...
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Judge rejects motion to halt Michael Applebaum's corruption trial
A judge has rejected a motion filed by former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum to halt his corruption trial before it begins. Applebaum’s defence didn’t show sufficient evidence to warrant a stay of...
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No prison time for Daniel Gauthier in Montreal corruption case
Daniel Gauthier, one of the men arrested in the Contrecoeur municipal corruption case, won’t spend time in prison for his crime. The former urban planner, who admitted a role in a fraud scheme...
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Coderre wants special fund to buy back taxi permits
Mayor Denis Coderre says he wants the Quebec government to create a special fund to buy back taxi permits from traditional cab drivers who say they can’t compete with Uber. “We need to create a fund...
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