Nine arrests have been made in the rash of firebombings of Italian cafés in the northeastern part of town over last winter. All the suspects are young men with gang affiliations and, interestingly, one is Sébastien Calixte, who confessed in court last week that he was the killer in a case in which he was merely acting as a witness.
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Bixi racked up a $5.5-million deficit in 2009 but expects to turn a profit this year.
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As of next winter, a Rosemont high school will be heated geothermically, a pilot project which the CSDM hopes will save it money over the next couple of decades. Geothermal power explained.
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The Port of Montreal is asking for a new access road to relieve some of the congestion along Notre-Dame East. Souligny Avenue would be extended, following existing train tracks, and connect on to Notre-Dame just east of Viau.
This sounds like it could be a reasonable fix, considering the whole Notre-Dame highway vs. boulevard project went out the window awhile back, except that increased traffic might create hazards for residents in that part of town. There is, however, no denying that the port is one of the engines of the city’s prosperity.
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La Presse has a feature today on the Turcot, the traffic and its problems, the place of public transit (surprisingly overlooked, presumably because the original structure is a paean to individual mobiity) and the question of rail transport as part of the mix.
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Plans for the Fête nationale in Montreal are ambitious this year, with a bigger parade and as many big names as they can get.
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The CSN workers’ fund has put up a new chain sculpture which should be visible to anyone using the Jacques-Cartier bridge access. It was designed by Michel Dallaire, who also designed the Bixi.
I had expected it was an impicit nod to “Workers of the world unite – you have nothing to lose but your chains!” and was surprised to find out that those final words aren’t actually in the original Communist Manifesto, but inserted into it by the English translator and adopted as a slogan. In French it’s just Prolétaires de tous les pays, unissez-vous, which reflects the original German text.
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Opération Marteau rounded up a man described as a city fonctionnaire working in Saint-Léonard and will likely charge him with taking kickbacks over borough contracts. This seems a bit small-time for the news, so I’m wondering if it was announced to mask out some other, bigger corruption scandal that may be brewing.