When nations fail to arrive at climate agreements, action has to come up from city governments and individuals. Several interviews for Earth Day propose ideas like city neighbourhoods where you can find everything you need within a 20-minute walk or bike ride – hardly high-tech, but some of the answers may be as simple as that.
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It’s one of those sordid urban tales: a man of 70 has been accused of murdering a woman aged 61, but had she gone to hospital with her injury she needn’t have died. And they’d been living together, too. Ninth murder of the year, if you’re counting.
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There’s a proposal to centralize all municipal tenders to make the process more transparent – and, I suppose, more impersonal and less buddy-buddy. Thing is, do we trust the Quebec government to oversee this, considering their record on corruption on construction matters? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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A suspect in the metro stabbing Thursday is in custody after someone identified the security cam image. Motive is still a mystery.
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Richard Bergeron is in favour of the new Griffintown plan but another critic points out that there are no family-sized living spaces and no schools or daycares included in the preliminary design.