Le Devoir explores Radio-Canada's extensive art collection, although without enough images. Interestingly, half its pieces are still in the old Maison Radio‑Canada because, for various reasons, they can't be moved.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137078
The big spring cleanup seems to have been an empty promise as many city streets are still festooned with post‑winter trash.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137076
In 2024, a Superior Court judge ruled that the city is liable for racial profiling committed by its cops. The city is appealing the ruling.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137074
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is facing a dilemma: polls show that he can win the October election easily, but only if he gives up the promise of a referendum on the Quebec independence that's the raison d'être of his party.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137070
The STM bus network will be changing as of May 18 when the Anse à l'Orme REM opens, and not just in the West Island. The list of routes changing is a long one (but the map being used to show certain routes is disorienting, with west at the top).... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137068
A branch of the REV bike path meant to go along Lacordaire has been put on hold. Alan DeSousa's claim that this branch "goes nowhere" doesn't fit with the map, where the path was designed to link Montreal North, St‑Léonard and Hochelaga‑Maisonneuve.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137065
The Word bookstore is holding a fundraiser to restore their very old, singular building on Milton. I have no connection with the store but would not like to see it go away, so I'm passing this on.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137063
The number of aggressive dogs reported to the city has risen by 41% since 2021, a trend blamed both on the growing popularity of dogs, and on owners who have no idea how to train or discipline their animals.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137060
People who bought a house in Hudson in 2024 are demanding money back from the seller after finding out that an intruder had been killed on the premises by the previous owner during a home invasion. Previous owners are sticking to the point that the intruder... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137057
Pretty much the only local news Monday morning is the Canadiens winning their first playoff match on a hat‑trick by Juraj Slafkovský, and Habs fever taking over the town.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137055
Plans are finally going ahead to build a new swimming pool in Baldwin Park. As previously reported, the old pool needed to be replaced, but was found to be built in an old dump, so it had to be rebuilt in a new location. The old reports suggested a new pool... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137044
Spring flooding is happening all over Quebec; sandbags have been piled along the Back River in Pierrefonds and on the other side in Laval.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137042
Artists love a cartoonable face like Christine Fréchette's, with her big eyes and arched eyebrows. Ygreck shows her accepting a dud torch and crossing the desert with two familiar vultures looking on. Côté brings in Legault's compass (it's been a recurring... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137015
Radio-Canada has a good piece Sunday on two men getting help from Diogène, an organization that helps homeless individuals overcome addictions, and helps pay for them to have a place to live.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137034
Projet gets to snipe from opposition now, taking down Ensemble on an unmet promise to clean up the city for spring. Le Devoir also looks at city hall having to face rising salary demands. As a longtime supporter of Projet, having watched Ensemble take... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137027
Bars are getting hyped to welcome the playoff crowds that will start piling in on Sunday. Le Devoir chased down some locations connected with the Canadiens, beginning with the fossil of the old Forum.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137013
Charlie Billions says he'd renew the notwithstanding clause that protects Bill 96 from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Obviously it's in Milliard's interest to demonstrate that the PLQ is not on the side of the anglos. And Mark Carney assured... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137010
It's the 50th anniversary of Robert Charlebois' classic Je reviendrai à Montréal, so his son has recorded a new version with a video featuring historic views of the Canadiens in their glory years, and new lyrics about playoff season. The video.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137005
City blue collar workers are marking the last day of their three‑day strike with a protest in front of City Hall on Friday.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=137002
Weekend notes from CityCrunch, Le Devoir, Journal de Montréal, La Presse, CultMTL, the Gazette. Some weather notes.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136997
Mile End Kicks, a movie about the neighbourhood back around 2011 when it was felt to be a hotbed of new pop music and coolness, opens on Friday. Wikipedia says the working title was Anglophone. Descriptions in Le Devoir and La Presse. Tangentially relevant,... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136994
It looks like more deer will have to be culled in parks in and near Montreal. Deer are vectors for ticks, besides damaging the greenery in enclaved spaces like Longueuil's Michel‑Chartrand park. A specific species of mouse (not the house mouse) is also... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136992
The Centre des mémoires montréalaises has acquired a collection of memorabilia from Wings Noodles, which closed at the end of last year. It includes 1700 objects spanning 130 years of business in Chinatown. La Presse has a few images.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136990
As the playoffs approach, voices of four Canadiens players have been recorded to announce Bonaventure and Lucien‑L’Allier metro stations and buses may return to flashing "Go Habs Go!"... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136986
Salim Touaibi, who killed Meriem Boundaoui in 2021, was sentenced on Thursday to minimum 25 years in prison. A few more details about the circumstances are mentioned in this piece than we've seen before: Touaibi is also guilty of four counts of attempted... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136984
The hammer attack on a woman on Tuesday morning, allegedly by her own father, is being called an attempted honour killing because she was planning to marry a man who is not a Muslim. Medhat Darwish is shown in several dramatic photos because he's a martial... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136980
A former Kahnawake Peacekeeper detoured from his route last week and saved five people from a duplex fire that took 55 firefighters to put out. I was charmed by one witness's “I was lying on my chesterfield when I heard a boom.” My folks used to use that... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136975
School workers – mostly women in hijab – have received letters saying they must abandon their headscarves or be fired. But this is hardly news – we knew it was coming. The CSSDM is about to lose 100 workers.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136973
A new pair of peregrine falcons is living in the nesting box on the Université de Montréal tower, and they've already produced an egg. Live cam via YouTube (which also gives a nice view of the fog over the city, Thursday morning, but you may be greeted by a... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136971
City blue collar workers blocked Sherbrooke Street near the Olympic stadium Thursday morning as part of their three‑day strike.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136966