The number of city employees making over $100K, and even $150K, has more than quadrupled since 2003; immediately on this report this morning in La Presse, Louise Harel called for a special commission to look into the matter.
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Montreal has an amazingly low rate of officially classified hate crimes.
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An elderly Chinese woman visiting Montreal has vanished. She has a birthmark you can’t miss, and went missing in Cartierville last night.
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Kate
Later note: She was found dead in the Back River, but the only report I can find on this is in a media outlet to which I will not link.
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The Gazette unexpectedly lost a veteran reporter this weekend: thoughtful obituary and Fagstein’s backgrounder.
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It’s a tad disingenuous for the city to urge people not to forget their pets when they move house this July. People are not forgetting their pets – they’re abandoning them.
If the authorities want to reduce this problem there are two obvious moves: subsidize neutering clinics and decree that leases cannot forbid people to have pets, providing they’re not noisy or too numerous.
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Marc
In Ontario, it is forbidden to disallow pets in a lease. Only if they become a substantiated problem can the owner object.
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I’m never sure what “romantic” means, but Tourisme Montreal is insisting this city is romantic; Metro investigates. With a dodgy list of “romantic” locations. Meanwhile, people struggled this weekend to cope with road closures due to festivals and construction.
Neath 23:43 on 2010/06/14 Permalink
San Francisco sort of takes the cake on this, but it is getting out of hand here too.