Woman killed after being hit by train in Mile-End A 26-year-old woman is dead after being hit by a train in Montreal’s Mile-End neighbourhood.

Today's news: www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Young woman's death on Mile End train tracks brings fresh anger to old stalemate over safe crossing The 31-year-old hit by a train while on an errand was described as quiet but 'forceful,' a talented artist. The city says it's trying again to lobby for a street-level crosswalk over the tracks, but m...

Sad to hear yet another young Montrealer has died crossing the Mile End tracks. When I covered the last death 4 years ago, CP said a safe crossing would slow the trains too much and the city said a raised walkway would be pricey & useless. These deaths are predictable. www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

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That's not to say any of the funding plans are clear, despite construction apparently slated for later this year. Both these projects are very expensive. The Arctic Infrastructure Fund from the last budget is only $1 billion over 4 years. Interested to hear more. #cdnpoli

A few weeks ago even the NWT government wasn't seriously expecting the Mackenzie Valley road project to get a nod. They told me Ottawa said it was focusing on the Taltson hydro project in their territory. Now Carney says road construction will start this summer. Stuff is moving fast on this file!

One solution is just to build more roads than anyone expected - don't pick one, pick two or three. That's what it looks like Carney is doing, judging by last week's announcement on the Mackenzie Valley and Grays Bay corridors. That's on top of previously announced funding for the Churchill railway.

I wrote about some of the tough calls facing the Carney government as it decides where to build roads and ports through the vast north.

All the routes serve such different needs, from delivering cheaper groceries to protecting sovereignty to spurring trade.

Helpful map included!

Legally speaking, how does this even work? The warrant wasn't approved.

Quebec’s Lake Rouge vanished – but was it a freak natural event or caused by human actions? Experts and community trying to untangle mystery of outburst that saw water travel almost 10km overland into a bigger lake

Wrote about a lake in Quebec that vanished last May with no warning - something experts had never known to happen, at least in recorded history.

Why? It's complicated, but we should probably expect more "mass movements" of water in places burned by wildfire. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Some background on Brad Lander’s arrest today by ICE agents at immigration court.

😂 highly classic

It's weird reporting on anything that happens to be Canadian from outside Canada.. have to suppress the embarrassing knee-jerk "hey did you see that's Canadian!!!" conditioning

Brooklyn Is Becoming a Sponge The country's most ambitious effort to deploy "sponge streets" as a flood mitigation tool is happening right here in New York City.

The technology of laying rain-soaking "sponge" underneath dozens of miles of the busiest urban streets. Only place in the USA to try this on such a big scale. hellgatenyc.com/brooklyn-spo...

A piece from last year that's relevant again now, about how AI is starting to help predict when/where wildfires will break out - even where lightning is likely to strike. t.co/GnDZNGlrb0

How Can My Valentine’s Flowers Show the Earth Love, Too?

Another from the same series on why there's actually one (but only one) kind of flower you can buy in North America in the dead of winter that's been grown locally and not flown in from Central America. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/c...

Which Cooking Oil Should I Use?

From this week, here's an explainer on which cooking oils are the least bad for the environment. No spoilers, but one actually acts as a carbon sink and is therefore *good* for the climate: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/c...

Hello! Still heavily tied up with children under 3 but I'm going to post my last few pieces here and thus inaugurate my Bluesky ✨