A superior court judgement has backed the STM’s desire to open its bid for new metro cars to foreign bidders in the face of Bombardier-Alstom’s insistence that no one but them be allowed to bid.
Radio-Canada’s done a nice thing here: it’s linking back to earlier stories on the issue, and it’s even posted the full text of the court judgement on the same page as the story. This is how to do online news!
Now, can we get those new metro cars built before the existing ones crumble to dust?
Possibly useful list of things open and closed for Canada Day. Also via Rue Frontenac.
In pondering yesterday’s killing of Agostino Cuntrera Daniel Renaud reminds us that Paolo Renda is still missing. Both men were known to be part of the Rizzuto clan. More about the clan and yesterday’s shooting.
One of the people rounded up in the U.S. this bizarre Russian spy story took the identity of a Montrealer who died as a small child.
Last minute to tell the city what you think they should do with the old Empress cinema (Cinema V) in NDG. In a different part of town, a cinema of similar vintage is also starting to crumble.
Where are the private developers? Both these theatres are potential gold mines and if this were a big American city, someone would have turned them into trendy martini bar theatres. There is no vision in this city in the private sector, probably linked as well to an ignorance and possible even self-loathing of the value, both financial as well as cultural of this old architecture.
Meanwhile, the city spends 8 million dollars on an underground vacuum / garbage collecting system in the Quartier des spectacles and no one says a peep. There’s plenty of municipal money out there, it’s just being spent in one place.
So where is this supposed vacuum-based garbage collection system of which Carlos speaks anyway? It’s the second season of the newfangled QdS and I haven’t seen hide nor hair of it yet. The last I’d heard, implementing the system would’ve required the cooperation of Complexe Desjardins for the “compacting room” (or some such thing), and their cooperation was not forthcoming. Know anything about this, Kate?
No, I don’t. If I see any items about it I will post a link.
A chef from Pied de Cochon is bringing more Montreal food attitude to New York, specifically to Queens. NYTimes link.
Possibly useful house moving checklist for the many folks changing address this week.
When it rains heavily, sometimes raw sewage still gets into the river. The city’s going to be constructing four massive holding tanks to stop this from happening.
West Island mayors want to see better train service to their towns given priority over an expensive airport shuttle. I’m with Jason Prince on this: why not do both at the same time?
A Saint-Léonard shootout has killed one and injured another. Nothing else is out yet about the incident, which took place an hour and a half ago.
Later note: Two men died, and they appear to have connections in the underworld.
Despite denials it turns out that two funnel clouds seen over town yesterday were indeed baby tornadoes and it’s lucky they didn’t get any bigger.
On the other hand, I can think of a few prominent folks here who could use a brain or a heart.
Quebecor has just quit the Quebec press council, which is more or less journalism’s professional guild here. It’s tantamount to saying that we should no longer regard any of their media content as news.
“Good day for bangs” ?? As in, good day for banging? Who thinks up these titles :(