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Latest 375th anniversary contract is for once under estimate
Montreal’s Fleuve-Montagne project to create an urban walkway from the river to Mount Royal for the city’s 375th anniversary has been plagued by cost overruns, but it’s about to award a contract to...
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Elsie MacGill, 'Queen of the Hurricanes,' to have a Montreal street named...
Elsie MacGill was the world’s first female aircraft designer, Canada’s first female graduate in electrical engineering and the first woman in North America — and possibly the world — to earn a master’s...
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Elsie MacGill an 'icon' of why Montreal became an aerospace centre
The ‘Queen of the Hurricanes,’ Elsie MacGill, may yet inspire a new generation of girls in Montreal when they learn of why the city is about to inscribe her name on a street sign in St-Laurent borough....
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Projet Montréal calls on Coderre to re-think pit bull ban
The opposition at Montreal city hall is calling on Mayor Denis Coderre to withdraw a controversial animal-control bylaw that would ban the acquisition of pit bull-type dogs and require criminal...
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Anti-corruption agencies keeping close eye on upcoming projects
Such major public projects in Montreal as the proposed $5.5-billion commuter light-rail line and the city’s 375th anniversary celebrations are on the radar of anti-corruption agencies, which say...
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Trial of one accused in Contrecoeur corruption case postponed again
The start of former municipal fundraiser Bernard Trépanier’s trial in the Contrecoeur fraud case was postponed again on Friday because of his health problems. Quebec Court Judge Yvan Poulin set a new...
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BAPE hearings on light-rail line open to criticism of project
A $5.5-billion project to build a proposed light-rail line linking downtown Montreal with Trudeau airport, the West Island and the South Shore would compromise other transit projects that are being...
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SPCA sues Montreal over pit bull ban
The Montreal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has filed a lawsuit against the city of Montreal contesting its newly adopted municipal bylaw that bans pit bulls. The Montreal SPCA, a...
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Montreal police renew programs targeting contraband, money laundering
The Montreal police will renew two programs that give the department a financial incentive to crack down on contraband tobacco and alcohol and follow the money-laundering trail of criminal...
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Contrecoeur case: Zampino seeks to halt trial again
Frank Zampino, the former No. 2 politician at Montreal city hall, and others accused of fraud in connection with the 2007 sale of the city-owned Faubourg Contrecoeur are seeking again to have their...
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Montrealers recall Hungarian uprising on 60th anniversary
Sixty years ago this week, Gabor Szilasi began taking photographs in the streets of Budapest of what would become the first theme he ever documented in his artist career. It was the 1956 revolution in...
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Contracts awarded for Montreal water filtration plant raise questions
The cost and the longevity of Montreal’s plan to upgrade its water filtration plant in Pierrefonds aren’t the only elements of the project to raise questions. As the Montreal Gazette reported on...
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Costs mounting for Montreal water filtration plant in Pierrefonds
Montreal has been in the process of upgrading its water filtration plant in Pierrefonds for a dozen years, and by all indications it’s not about to stop. Successive administrations at city hall have...
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Mayors demand probe into cost overruns at water filtration plant
The island suburban mayors and the opposition at Montreal city hall are calling for an investigation into municipal contracts that were awarded during the past decade to upgrade the Pierrefonds water...
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International journalists say Montreal police spying threatens press freedom
International journalist organizations are condemning the Montreal police department’s spying on a La Presse journalist through his cellphone as a violation of freedom of the press and as an...
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Work on Atwater Ave. delayed till 2017
Two major roadwork projects that have choked traffic in western downtown for months are delayed — one of them until next year. Atwater Ave., between Sherbrooke St. W. and Docteur-Penfield Ave., has...
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Montreal police using "petty cash" for investigations
The Montreal police department has been paying thousands of dollars in expenses for “special investigations” from a fund it calls “petty cash” over the past two years, and the biggest and most frequent...
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Accused in Contrecoeur corruption trial seek to halt proceedings
The defence isn’t responsible for the long delay in the Contrecoeur corruption trial and the case should be stopped because it has dragged on for too long, a lawyer for some of the accused argued on...
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Contrecoeur trial: Crown questions motivations of the defence
The accused in the Contrecoeur corruption trial have said since the beginning of the proceedings that they want to go to trial as soon as possible, but the Crown cast doubt on that assertion on...
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From 2013 archives: Police anti-gang unit in space owned by convicted drug...
Editor’s note: This Montreal Gazette story was originally published Aug. 8, 2013. In November 2016, the space was occupied by a daycare. The Montreal Police department is renting a building from a...
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