Politics / Politique
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Griffintown’s citizen activists
This weekend in the Gazette, Steve Faguy spoke to a handful of the citizen activists who are casting a critical eye on the Griffintown redevelopment...
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Tarnished by corruption? Apparently not
Gérald Tremblay’s Union Montreal maintained control of Outremont in yesterday’s by-election, despite last fall’s booze-and-financial...
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Michel Dallaire to design new downtown street furniture
“Les amoureux se bécoteront sur de nouveaux bancs publics,” reads a headline in this morning’s Le Devoir — “Lovers will kiss...
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Opposition keeps mounting to Notre Dame plan
If the Ministère du transport du Québec expected a smooth ride for its plan to upgrade Notre Dame Street between the east end of downtown and Highway 25...
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Laval wants more metro
Whet by this year’s new metro extension, Laval’s appetite for public transit is now insatiable. Last summer, long-time mayor Gilles...
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East enders oppose the Notre-Dame highway
East end residents aren’t taking too kindly to the changes planned for Notre Dame St. between downtown and Highway 25. La Presse is reporting that a...
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The problems with the Griffintown project
Raphaël Fischler, a professor of urban design at McGill University, has weighed in on the Griffintown project with an op-ed published in today’s...
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SPACING MONTREAL POLL: Do you jaywalk?
Montrealers are known for the tendency to cross the street wherever they want. Simply put, most of us have no aversion to jaywalking, and there’s no...
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Thanks a lot, Laval, now the metro is too crowded
Montrealers are full of complaints. Sometimes they’re even willing to fill out of a form to make an official complaint, which is what 326 people...
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«Cette fois, c’est la bonne»
It’s been decades since politicians have promised to upgrade the east end of Notre-Dame Street into something more than a dangerous four-lane...
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STM lands to become new neighbourhood
Last month, the STM announced that it would start selling off some of its property for development, following the lead of many other transit agencies...
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$120 million to build the Quartier des spectacles
After years in the making, the plans for the Quartier des spectacles are finally coming together. Yesterday, it was announced that all three levels of...
By Christopher DeWolf