Les cols bleus à la disposition des déménageurs | Moving is a dirty job – for city crews: one of the several down-sides of having a coordinated “moving day”, for sure. Yuck.
Critics fear more development at Benny site. NDG citizens worry that the planned construction of a sports complex across from Benny Farm will bring other, less community-minded development.
Later store hours debated | Montreal seeks later hours for downtown stores. Laws currently require stores to close at 5 pm on weekends, but many believe staying open until 8 pm for tourists would be good for business.
Naked Laval cyclist faces charges (No photos, unfortunately.)
Suspect in beating death expected in court: That vacant lot surrounding St-Laurent metro station has “bad news” written all over it. Despite hearing of plans year after year in the ten years since I moved Montreal, nothing ever seems to happen there.
Accès restreint à J.-Cartier : la grogne gagne le Plateau-Mont-Royal: Re-routing of traffic at the city side of the Jacques-Cartier has its opponents.
Technoparc land holds dangerous chemicals | Technoparc leaches toxins into St. Lawrence while city waits for funding | 70 M$ pour dépolluer le Technoparc: PCBs and other very nasty stuff found lurking down in the Point.
Info-Crime Montréal lance une nouvelle campagne de publicité
Dialing and driving gets you a $100 fine in Montreal beginning Tuesday. Even just holding a cellphone while driving, or even while at a red light, can incur you the fine. This is in contrast to California’s law, also coming into effect soon, which strangely does not specifically bar text-messaging on the road. (That will have to be covered by reckless-driving statutes.)
Photo of projections from the jazz fest’s Leonard Cohen tribute show by 35mmmonkey on Flickr.