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Montreal city hall: What Valérie Plante's inner circle might look like
Valérie Plante’s first task as mayor of Montreal will be to present a city budget for 2018 that is imbued with the pink hue of the promises she made during the municipal election campaign. But to get...
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Coderre's eponymous party to change name, choose interim leader
The official opposition party at Montreal city hall is looking for a leader and it’s seeking a new name. But councillors from Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal who survived the Projet Montréal wave...
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Zampino wants trial separated from co-accused in corruption case
Frank Zampino, the former No. 2 politician at Montreal city hall, is seeking a separate trial from seven others with whom he’s accused of setting up a system of awarding municipal contracts among a...
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Former councillor Helen Fotopulos forms association for ex-municipal politicians
Thursday will be a celebratory time for the victorious candidates of this fall’s Montreal municipal election when they attend their swearing-in ceremony at Marché Bonsecours. However, the losing...
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Mayor Valérie Plante, 'the Happy Warrior,' is ready to fight for all Montrealers
She’ll be the mayor for mobility, road safety, housing, quality public services and economic development, Valérie Plante declared on Thursday at her swearing-in as the 45th mayor of Montreal and the...
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Defence in Contrecoeur trial rests, final arguments expected in January
The Contrecoeur fraud trial may be nearing an end, nearly two years after it began. The defence rested its case this week, and dates were set for Court of Quebec Judge Yvan Poulin, who is overseeing...
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Meet the longest-serving Montreal councillors
Michèle D. Biron and Dominic Perri may be harbouring the best-kept secret in Montreal politics. They are the longest-serving councillors among Montreal’s 103 politicians, beating councillor Marvin...
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Montreal police seek permission to refuse access to petty cash claims
Quebec’s access-to-information commission is deliberating on a demand by the Montreal police department to have two requests to see its petty cash claims declared “abusive.” Police department lawyer...
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Analysis: Police report finds lack of rules for investigations into...
Much of Michel Bouchard’s damning 96-page report on the Montreal police force’s internal affairs division focuses on the absence of rules that should guide its investigations into officers suspected of...
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OSM launching investigation of sexual harassment complaint against Charles...
The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal says it is launching an independent investigation into a sexual harassment complaint it received on Friday against former conductor Charles Dutoit in the wake of a...
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Municipal corruption theme to carry on into new year
Montrealers haven’t heard the last of municipal corruption, UPAC arrests, Contrecoeur or a decade-old water-meter contract. In fact, the new year is expected to open exactly as 2017 began on the...
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Ailing Trépanier seeking to be released from Contrecoeur trial
The lawyer for former municipal political fundraiser Bernard Trépanier, one of the accused in the Contrecoeur fraud case, says he’s seeking to have his client released from having to stand trial...
View ArticleCity says it will expropriate to save Notman Garden
The city of Montreal is preparing to expropriate the Notman Garden, one of the last remaining gardens of the historic mansions that once lined Sherbrooke St., and preserve it as a park. Plateau...
View ArticleUpdated: Defence files motion to halt Contrecoeur trial as final arguments begin
A new defence motion to either halt the Contrecoeur fraud trial or declare a mistrial added to the start of closing arguments in the long-running case on Wednesday. The last-minute motion was filed two...
View ArticleDefence at Contrecoeur trial blames 'media storm' for UPAC probe
There may have been an “accumulation of irregularities,” but there was no fraud in the sale of the city-owned Faubourg Contrecoeur, a lawyer representing Frank Zampino, the former No. 2 politician at...
View ArticleProsecution presents final arguments in Contrecoeur fraud trial
There was a conspiracy from the beginning of the $300-million Contrecoeur land deal to rig the call for bids in favour of Construction Frank Catania et Associés Inc., the prosecution said on Tuesday in...
View ArticleTwo years in the making, Contrecoeur trial verdict will come May 2
The judge who will decide the fate of Frank Zampino, the former No. 2 politician at Montreal city hall, businessman Paolo Catania and four others who are charged in the sale of the city-owned Faubourg...
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Rosemont school holds memorial for student found at bottom of city pool
It was a village that said goodbye to Blessing Moukoko. The 14-year-old boy, who died in hospital on Wednesday, a week after being found unconscious at the bottom of a municipal pool, was celebrated on...
View ArticleCity hall extends consultation on seniors policy
Bending to public pressure, Mayor Valérie Plante announced on Friday that her administration is extending its public consultation on how the city can better serve senior citizens to March 15. The city...
View ArticleTrial for Bernard Trépanier in Contrecoeur case postponed indefinitely
The trial of former municipal political fundraiser Bernard Trépanier in connection with the city of Montreal’s sale of Faubourg Contrecoeur won’t begin next month, and it may never begin, his lawyer...
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