A man with a history of violent crimes which have been blamed on mental illness busted his way out of the Pinel Institute yesterday; I’m just posting this because you can’t have too many folks looking out for such a fugitive.
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If you know who to call, you can get illegal cigarettes delivered right to your door.
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The new city budget should be tabled January 13; recent news that the boroughs were going to have to make deep cuts may not be true, although there’s an awful lot of bureaucratic kerfuffling implied here.
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Henry Aubin praises six investigative journalists who uncovered the deep vein of corruption at City Hall as his people of the year; one of them, Fabrice de Pierrebourg, clips the print article showing the headshots.
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There’s going to be a special bus express route created up Pie-IX, but not before 2013. It’s meant to be announced today by the mayor and the transport minister.
Every time I see the minister’s name in print, I hear it sung to this tune – caution, Youtube video, loud. -
The Plateau’s public works czar says the borough saved $105,000 simply by not clearing snow last weekend, and they held a meeting last night with citizens to talk about it.
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Tenant group FRAPRU is concerned that there are few large rental properties any more for families to live in, apartments with three or more bedrooms at a modest rent being in especially short supply.
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It’s a nice chilly day for the 150th anniversary of the first train that crossed the Victoria Bridge in 1859. Andy Riga has all the links there on his blog page, to his own history of the bridge, some videos and other background information about the structure once called the eighth wonder of the world.
