Masson Street is to go fully pedestrian in spring 2011, although no announcement yet about how many blocks and whether it’ll be permanent or more like the Village summer arrangement.
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Dany Villanueva was closely questioned on his gang experiences today, although he stopped short of naming names. The point turns on whether Dany was in breach of probation by associating with gang members, or whether he was just hanging out with friends on a nice summer evening.
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The city’s half-million dollar deficit for 2009 doesn’t sound too bad, considering it’s 0.1% of the entire budget, but it shouldn’t strictly have a deficit at all. And there may be city tax increases in 2011, and a study group has further ideas how to squeeze the few remaining pennies from the taxpayer’s pocket, including metering water.
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Ingrid Peritz has a nice little introduction to Mile End in the Globe & Mail.
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The city’s going to make major changes in its plans for the Bonaventure autoroute conversion, and I suspect may put them on hold indefinitely.
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The public consultation office is unveiling its critique of the city’s Bonaventure plan today and is said to be recommending the removal of the Dalhousie bus corridor as being noxious to actual and potential housing.
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A study comparing 24 cities of roughly the same size as Montreal for their livability has put us near the end of the list because commuting takes too long here. Oddly, La Presse doesn’t mention the source of the study, so I’m not sure whether it’s the same one described here in Metro which emphasizes some odd things, like how easy it is to lay off your employees here.
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On Spacing, Emile Thomas wraps up his series on reimagining Saint-Viateur with a kind of manifesto: The car is our maid and yet we treat it like our king. If you want this to change, make it happen.
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There’s a reading Wednesday evening at the Grande Bibliothèque of pieces in praise of Montreal; a new web magazine called Montreal Mosaic has items about living in Montreal, written in English; a multicultural focus is also planned for next month’s Blue Metropolis festival.
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The mayor is pleased about the municipal gasoline tax allowed for in the Quebec budget with an intention it be spent on public transit. But news of health fees and hydro and tuition increases is bound to ruffle many.
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Le Devoir is hosting the project J’ai la mémoire qui tourne which consists of lots of home movies on various themes which will be released weekly for 20 weeks.
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Montreal is the top Canadian city for non-car commuting, with 29.5% of us getting to work without driving a car. But before we pat ourselves on the back, consider Hong Kong’s 89% or Paris’s 73.7%.