One event and promises from politicians to fight social isolation of seniors
It was only one giant coffee klatch lasting a few hours on Saturday, but organizers of the second edition of On jase-tu? say the gathering was meaningful by raising awareness of the social isolation...
View ArticleMontreal asks residents to avoid ecocentres after they're crippled by backlog...
The city is asking Montrealers to avoid taking trash to any of its ecocentres as an overflow caused by the closure of two of the facilities in the past two weeks is causing havoc at the remaining...
View ArticleQuebec identifies three schools to be taken away from EMSB
The Quebec government has identified three schools in the east end of the island that it intends to take away from the English Montreal School Board to resolve an overcrowding problem at a...
View ArticleMontreal making public 1,500 contracts worth $60M after glitch revealed
The city of Montreal is about to render public 1,500 contracts worth $60 million that were hidden during the past four years. Read More
View ArticleCar dinged in a parking lot? Don't call the Montreal cops
The scenario plays out often enough: a person returns to their parked car only to discover that it was dented by a scofflaw who has since vanished. Read More
View ArticleEcocentre woes pile up as city fails to elicit new bids
Montreal's troubles with its ecocentres aren't over yet. Read More
View ArticleElection 2019: Liberal, Bloc candidates slug it out in Hochelaga
Three political parties split most of the votes in Hochelaga riding in a narrowly won federal election in 2015, and the same three were poised to do the same in Monday's vote. Read More
View Article'We've failed as a society': Quebec youth protection commission launched
Nancy Audet's earliest memory of the abuse she suffered as a child was being thrown down the stairs of her family's residence in a village in Abitibi when she was around four years old and then being...
View ArticleHearings on racism and systemic discrimination drawing much interest
A consultation on racism and systemic discrimination in Montreal that was launched as a citizen initiative will only begin hearing briefs from the public on Nov. 4, but its host is already declaring it...
View ArticleSPCA rescues hen who flew the coop in back of egg delivery truck
Beatrice the hen was apparently making a break for freedom when she stowed away in the back of a truck delivering eggs to a Montreal grocery store on Thursday. Read More
View ArticleCorruption-fighter Denis Gallant quitting contracts watchdog for private law...
Denis Gallant, who was Montreal's first inspector general, is stepping down as head of the province's public contracts watchdog to enter private legal practice. Read More
View ArticleT.M.R. residents contest sports complex in latest burst of activism
Perhaps it's all the construction rattling the rose bushes in Town of Mount Royal, but the island's "garden city" has awakened as a hotbed of activism. Read More
View ArticleN.D.G. residents decry development that would raze 'secret garden'
A corner lot that houses a "secret garden" in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce has become an urban development battlefield pitting residents against a developer's plan to raze the green space to build a residential...
View ArticleN.D.G. residents were consulted on obsolete renderings of project, developer...
The borough of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce has learned it presented obsolete renderings of a residential project that has been arousing strong reaction in the neighbourhood when it held a...
View ArticleT.M.R. to hold referendum on new sports complex in February
The fate of a new municipal sports complex in Town of Mount Royal will be left to a referendum, the town council has announced. Read More
View ArticleC.D.N.—N.D.G. trying to block developer's housing project with zoning change
Disputes over municipal zoning requests often unfold like this: A developer gets the local council's support for a zoning change for a project that raises hackles in a neighbourhood, so residents sign...
View ArticleBack to the drawing board for controversial N.D.G. condo project
A seven-unit condo project that has drawn opposition from residents in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce will not be presented to the borough council for approval on Monday as planned. Read More
View ArticleRegister to force referendum on rezoning C.D.N. land gets only 2 signatures
A housing developer in Côte-des-Neiges has lost its bid to prevent the borough from rezoning the land it owns to industrial and commercial to block its project. Read More
View ArticleConjugal violence reaches into workplace, campaign tells Quebec employers
Conjugal violence starts in the home, but it carries over into the workplace through threatening text and email messages, phone calls, tracking devices and unwelcome visits from the abusers, a new...
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