Cactus Montréal has reached its 20th anniversary handing out clean syringes to intravenous drug users, but it still hasn’t succeeded in establishing a supervised injection site.
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Wednesday evening there’s a charito-sociable event to gather funds towards saving the Griffintown stables as a core for a museum about the history of the area.
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A new program has been launched to help homeless folks with mental problems get places to live and support in establishing more normal lives. Another effort afoot is to find any homeless veterans of the armed forces and do something to help them.
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Not only is Ville-Marie directly ruled by Gérald Tremblay now, he also gets to choose two councillors from other boroughs to sit on the Ville-Marie council. Not surprisingly, he’s chosen two Union Montreal people, which gives him a solid majority on the council.
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Montreal is one of the regions which will start vaccinating everybody for H1N1 flu starting tomorrow, a jump on the original December 7 date.
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School kids are being vaccinated against the flu but authorities are concerned that general demand for the vaccine has peaked too soon and not enough folks have received the shot to confer herd immunity on those too sick or too addled to get immunized.
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Chris Erb resumes his project of looking at every 1st Avenue on the island of Montreal, this time visiting the one that traverses Rosemont and Saint-Michel.
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Under Projet Montréal guidance, Ahuntsic and the Plateau are rethinking snow clearance: they’ll hold off on carting snow on weekends and create a special sidewalk brigade to make sure those stay walkable. Other changes are afoot in the Plateau and it will be interesting to see how a different approach to borough management works out.
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Yet another Italian café was attacked early this morning, this one in Rivière-des-Prairies. Is it to do with drug-dealing and unpaid debts? Patrick Lagacé ponders whether it’s a fight among different Italian factions and what the role of street gangs might be – if any – and Daniel Renaud has another theory that the attacks are a power struggle following from the killing of a key player earlier this year.
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Big project is meant to bring 6000 new residential units to an area near Namur metro. I’ve marked the zone in pink on the map above. Possibly not the most fruitful location in terms of air quality, given the massive convergence of highways nearby, but it is near the metro and close to transportation.I wish the use of the weasel word “affordable” didn’t hang over this thing. “Too many affordable housing units could create a ghetto,” says one urban planner. Doesn’t that beg the question (look, I’m using it properly!) ? Does he actually mean: we don’t want people who are not fully employed to be able to buy a condo? Or: we don’t want people working at minimum wage? Or: we don’t want too many recent immigrants? If so, then let’s have them say it, instead of fudging with words that are meaningless in context.