It does feel a bit odd to be typing that Guy Lafleur turned himself in to police today. posted at 21:26

 
I'm posting from up in the Grande Bibliothèque, looking out at bright sun and blue sky, so it's a little hard to believe that tomorrow will see at least 15 cm of snow, maybe as much as 25 cm, as big weather returns to the metropolis. And we've already got our work cut out dealing with the 242 cm that have fallen so far this winter. posted at 15:42

 
The entire map of Griffintown would be redrawn, erasing some streets, enlarging others and creating new ones – if the city has its way. posted at 15:35

 
Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, already well populated with trees, is planning to add oodles more over the next decade, and waterways may be restored to the site. LCN has video. posted at 15:32

 
One murder in three committed here last year is being blamed on gang activity, as are half the attempted killings. Gangs are also arming themselves more and more, which may be inspiring the new gangster rap fad for hitting the clubs in bulletproof vests – something that is not illegal (although I don't see why it should be). posted at 15:22

 
There's more kvetching today about slow bus service and buses that are packed to the doors when they do arrive. posted at 15:17

 
Environmental groups are asking the Quebec government to at least hold off on extending Highway 25 to Laval until their cases can be heard, which starts next week.

Further south, the expansion of Notre-Dame East into an autoroute is analyzed in this thoughtful Henry Aubin piece in the Gazette. He too is remarking on the strange silence from City Hall when they want to force projects through. posted at 15:15

 
The mayor of southwestern Montreal is preparing for the public consultations on the redevelopment of Griffintown, although the detail here that the borough won't even be consulting any independent urban planners is a bit worrying.

It seems to me that, in some cities, people would be quizzing the mayor (the big mayor, that is) directly about a major project like this: why the city is going about it with a sledgehammer, why has there not been more consideration given to gradual and diverse means of achieving the redevelopment the area admittedly needs? But this city has a history of suddenly going mum at times when they want to force through a project. It does not bode well. posted at 23:11

 
Seems to be biggish news that an arrest warrant has been issued for Guy Lafleur for contradicting himself under oath at his son's bail hearing. Mark Lafleur is facing more than 20 criminal charges. posted at 23:05

 
Here is another suggestion that electric buses might be a better transit solution than trams. posted at 21:57

 
Possibly useful listing of where you can watch the Super Bowl in Montreal. There's also some talk about holding an NFL game here sometime next season. posted at 21:55

 
January bows out on a cold wind with freezing rain and snow, but it's just the start of several winter celebrations around Quebec. posted at 12:16

 
Plans to synchronize traffic lights are delayed again, the job being trickier than it sounds because the whole city has to be done at the same time.

Synchronization speeds up traffic through a city, but some citizen groups are more concerned about slowing traffic through their neighbourhoods.

Guess who will win. posted at 11:46

 
Chris summarizes what we know about plans to transform the Main between René-Lévesque and Ste-Catherine – and what we don't. posted at 11:36

 
The city plans to start disinfecting its waste water, using a plant constructed decades ago but never put into full use. It uses ozone which will kill pathogens in the vast quantity of water the city pours back constantly into the river. posted at 11:10

 
A Toronto view of the Montreal firefighters' recent stunt of decking out themselves and their vehicles with Toronto insignia. posted at 11:04

 
City auditor-general is scrutinizing more borough expenses in the wake of last year's expenses scandal in Outremont. posted at 10:56

 
Plans had been for the Station Centrale bus terminus to be demolished, and bus services to move somewhere in the new Îlot Voyageur building. But that's not happening, because the building's held up by UQÀM's financial difficulties, and the space set aside for the new terminus doesn't even have a direct connection to the metro. That last detail's a stroke of genius. posted at 10:22

 
The city is to open its parking lots at night for free during snow clearing, in order to help residents to get their cars off streets being cleared. posted at 12:17

 
The STM has declined to consider suicide barriers for metro platforms. This would mean an entire automated system that would open and close as trains come through: not a universal feature of subway systems. posted at 12:13

 
Norbourg investment scammer Vincent Lacroix got a hand of vengeful applause yesterday as the judge handed down a 12-year sentence plus a $255,000 fine. Le Devoir ponders the nature of the crime while the Journal dwells on Lacroix's privations in prison and talks to some of the victims. I saw the news break yesterday on a café TV and the proprietor said the same thing one of these folks says: "Il y a de l'argent qui l'attend, quelque part, quand il aura fini de purger sa peine."

Also yesterday, André Charbonneau, who used an insurance scam to defraud elderly people of their savings, was given a seven-year sentence. Might've been bigger news if Lacroix hadn't been sentenced the same day. posted at 12:04

 
Tireless Chris DeWolf has a Gazette piece today on the Jewish history behind the neighbourhood we now call Chinatown, and notes a historical exhibit on the community in a west-end synagogue. posted at 11:37

 
Gazette reporter Andy Riga walks on the other side of the street as a unilingual francophone in the west end. Not sure his experience confirms or upsets any theories. posted at 11:07

 
About the people who look after the city's lost, stolen and strayed, and help them find assistance. Part of a series La Presse is doing on emergency psych services, the lack of places to live for people afflicted in this way, and related stories. posted at 10:25

 
As a statement, Montreal firefighters have put the Toronto fire insignia on their vehicles, as a dig about how their Ontario colleagues got a far better wage increase from their city than the Montreal firemen have been offered in current negotiations. They're also annoyed about the city's generosity to its own management, provoking it to defend its policies. posted at 09:48

 
Preview of the symphony extravaganza planned February 20 to celebrate the centennial of the Canadiens. posted at 15:17

 
Here is a really great set of Montreal photos by flickr user Zut Le Flash, and some stellar recent shots by marielaura of the cathedral, Notre-Dame and the Aldred Building, a startling view up lower University, and a great view looking up from the Old Port. posted at 14:32

 
A commentary on the 1500 deaths annually that a recent report blames on automotive and industrial air pollution. But asking a public health official to keep cars out of the city is like King Canute ordering the tide not to come in. The will of the car is paramount and will be so until people simply can't afford the cost of fuel any more. Nobody cares if you die of respiratory illness or are knocked down and killed in the street, so long as nothing impedes traffic. Oh, and dig the irony of the advertising proximity here. posted at 14:17

 
A brief piece shows glimpses of the homeless life in winter. posted at 13:33

 
Nice piece on walking cities at night has a couple of good paragraphs about Montreal. posted at 13:30

 
Journalist gives a personal account of his evolving relationship with the Olympic Stadium. (Although only someone who'd never walked around the area would say that part of town is "lacking in grandeur": what about the Botanical Garden, the Château Dufresne, the Marché Maisonneuve with its wonderful fountain?) posted at 10:55

 
A preview of the new show of Cuban art stresses the similarities between Quebec and Cuba; items about a new exhibit on the origins of cartooning in Quebec at the Bibliothèque nationale; rave for a new downtown handbag boutique. posted at 16:02

 
The stubby metro entrance and empty lot that mark Saint-Laurent Metro are to be capped with a new building with cultural tenants, according to the city, although it seems to be waiting on completion of at least part of the Quartier des spectacles first. posted at 14:02

 
Workers at the Montreal Petro-Canada plant have been locked out since November and are asking for a boycott of the company's gas stations in support; they've also held a demo at the approach to the Jacques-Cartier bridge. posted at 13:59

 
Interview with a 13-year-old jazz singing virtuoso in Hampstead, who is being "seeded with a brand" by her canny father. posted at 13:49

 
Everyone's favourite convicted killer Valery Fabrikant is using the faint hope clause in an attempt to get early parole. The process requires the prisoner to show signs of rehabilitation which, by all accounts, will be difficult for Fabrikant, who at last report still thought his rampage justifiable. posted at 13:40

 
It's good to know that pressure tactics are on hold and that the STM drivers' union is returning to negotiations. posted at 13:28

 
A brief interview (by, it turns out, Fagstein) with Alfredo Munoz, canned from the Montreal police force because he was also operating a business helping people wiggle out of paying tickets. Now he's running a speed-trap alert service. Note the editorializing headline. posted at 11:53

 
Chris DeWolf visits Habitat 67 and takes some great photos from the roof. posted at 11:28

 
Review of Le Goût de Montréal, this city's first appearance in the classic series of French anthologies on particular cities and places. posted at 11:16

 
It's straying into the blog-meta again to note this interview by Chris DeWolf of Neath of Walking Turcot Yards. posted at 19:01

 
I heard this story on CBC radio yesterday: basically an undertaker wants the Quebec government to fork over unclaimed inheritance money to pay for "decent burials" for the unclaimed dead. This organization claims it's reasonable to ask for "at least $2,500 each" for "dignity" – i.e. fancy coffins, unrequested religious services, and other mortuary froufrou – a price tag that only exists because the funeral industry has inflated it up to this level. I don't know what it actually costs to put a body in a plain pine box and bury it, but it's got to be less than a grand. What a scam. posted at 15:39

 
In the absence of the Fête des Neiges because of labour problems, western suburbs are encouraging Montrealers to bring their families to their winter festivals. posted at 13:24

 
Good manifesto-style piece by a Heritage Montreal director, laying out the principles by which urban development ought to be judged. posted at 13:11

 
It's odd to think of a prison as a heritage building, but Bordeaux Jail counts as one, and a proposed new addition has displeased locals enough that a referendum must be held on the plans.

A very brief item here says that the CPR is trying to sell Windsor Station, another structure of historic importance.

The city's about to table a new plan for the protection of Mount Royal, although according to this item it won't rule out all development.

Spacing has a report on the Notre-Dame East project, commenting on the lack of real public consultation. posted at 22:17

 
The area around Rosemont metro, where the old municipal voirie stuff was demolished over the last few years, will get a billion-dollar upgrade and 3000 new housing units. And, just across the Van Horne viaduct, the old needletrade-industrial stretch of the Plateau up towards the tracks is going to be tarted up too – although this item casts it more in terms of being submitted to a scalpel. Saint-Viateur, among other things, will be extended east to Henri-Julien. posted at 12:19

 
Cheery piece about rats in the kitchen at Hôtel-Dieu, and how they've taken too long to deal with it. Parts of that building are 350 years old and must be full of nooks and crannies where the critters can hide out. posted at 11:39

 
There's actually been progress in talks between the city and the blue-collar union that represents 7,000 workers. posted at 17:18

 
The cultural flourishes planned by Devimco, who are planning to turn Griffintown into a ville dans la ville, and the rather high-handed preservations in their plans, which include plunking a different building down on the square where Saint Ann's church used to be, give background to this heartfelt statement by two residents of the area, who propose that what the city should do is reverse its damaging zoning decision of 40 years ago that doomed Griffintown to industrial development only, and allow multiple and independent owners and developers to improve it in a more varied and organic manner.

rorlan of Exploring Southwest Montreal also reminds us that the redevelopment of the fairly massive Canada Post lands will also have an impact on the area and on the city as a whole.

Chris Erb of Spacing has a good overview of recent articles on Griffintown. posted at 13:49

 
The STM is asking for bids on providing cellular service in the metro system. Not sure it will improve the metro-riding experience, but I can't say it won't be convenient. posted at 13:15

 
The big snow so far this winter is depleting the city budget, and with a couple more months of winter ahead of us, we could soon be down to clearing our own streets with soup spoons. posted at 13:04

 
La Presse underlines blue-collar dissatisfactions with more stories of individual workers' troubles and reveals that the city has a secret budget for surveillance of its own employees. Also a brief interview with union head Michel Parent and a handy list of the city's major public service unions. posted at 11:51

 
A rather touching piece about the first hockey player of Asian descent to play in the NHL – for a minute, against the Habs at the Forum. posted at 11:22

 
Montreal continues to lose residents to surrounding towns, although partly replacing the numbers with new immigrants; it's part of a still growing car culture that has Canada in its grip. (But if we're losing so many people, who buys all those condos?)

One corollary of having so many newcomers is the need to provide health care to people whose ideas and approach to the subject are different from ours here.

Another corollary of urban sprawl: it's a safe bet that, in retrospect, lives burned away in commuting, work, screen-based entertainment and sleep, will be understood to account for the great increase in depression in our society in our time.

Yet another corollary: smog is killing people and so is traffic on our hazardous streets. posted at 11:18

 
Quebec's riding boundaries are to be redrawn before the next election, and any suggestion that a little creative gerrymandering may be done to take the wind out of the ADQ's sails is purely in the realm of the imagination.

Also, a new provincial party supporting Anglo rights, called Affiliation Montreal, has been launched and plans to run half a dozen candidates in the next election. posted at 22:27

 
Cancellation of the Fête des Neiges has led to the layoff of 280 blue-collar workers who would otherwise have been employed in the park. That's a lot of workers, and makes me wonder how many bodies are needed and how much is spent normally to keep the islands open for this fête. posted at 22:21

 
The MUHC has presented its plans for the enlargement of the Montreal General to the borough of Ville-Marie. Another architectural change is in view in the borough: the enlargement and alteration of the Ritz-Carlton. posted at 22:08

 
Montreal's blue-collar workers are tough guys with a mean corporate culture, as examples tend to show – and contract negotiations are coming up this year. posted at 11:28

 
The Nuit Blanche schedule is launched with 123 activities and hopes for more than 200,000 participants. It takes place March 1 and 2. Details are on the Montréal en lumière site. posted at 11:00

 
L'âge des ténèbres did not make it into competition for the foreign-language Oscar. However, Montreal still has a front-runner with Madame Tutli-Putli in competition for best animated short, where it's up against another Canadian film among others. posted at 10:51

 
The STM plans to add 500 security cams in metro corridors. This article says they also plan to add some in buses, although the buses have had stickers saying there might be a camera on board now for some time. posted at 10:50

 
Financial news is going to dominate all media today, so I might as well look at the Quebecor World creditor protection story a little, as well as the fat aerospace contracts that landed in the area yesterday. posted at 10:47

 
Just for kicks, a UK celeb magazine piece about Montreal. Will Notre-Dame ever live down being the place where Céline Dion got married? posted at 10:40

 
STM bus and metro drivers occupied the transit garage on Saint-Denis today as a pressure tactic in the tense labour situation with the commission. posted at 19:20

 
Bloggers are keen on the Underground City run and walk that takes place February 24 as part of the Lumières fest. posted at 11:47

 
Homeless shelters are getting crowded as more itinerants come in from the cold. posted at 11:37

 
The developer in the big Griffintown project says that if the city doesn't start work on a tramway pronto, the deal's off. Coolpolis has a clipping about Griffintown's first resident, Jean-Baptiste Beauchamp, and Chris at Spacing considers trolleybuses as an alternative to trams. posted at 11:04

 
Chris has a look at street terrasses in Ville-Émard and some thoughts here and more thoughts there on those photos from the 1980s that I linked recently. posted at 11:32

 
A car parade this afternoon will honour the 60th anniversary of the fleurdelisé flag of Quebec. I guess it's a bit too cold for a lengthy pilgrimage on foot. posted at 11:21

 
I like this cheerful critique of weather forecasts as a wet blanket to outdoor activities, and wonder if the writer may not be correct about the psychological effect of those metric numbers. posted at 10:38

 
Stories persist of citizen dissatisfaction with snow clearing this winter. posted at 10:26

 
The city has reserved 20 lots in Griffintown presumably in preparation for a mass expropriation for the big Devimco development expected there. Ben Soo has a series of photos of the Horse Palace, one of the establishments threatened by the development. posted at 10:23

 
Two great sardonic dialogues show the importance of speaking French at work. posted at 10:00

 
The Plattsburgh paper gives an account of the Grey Nuns and the first hospital in Montreal: their main hospital was also founded by the order. posted at 09:50

 
The return of Louise Lecavalier; the impending show of Cuban art at the Museum of Fine Arts, and a brief Q&A with a Cuban museum director; notes on gastronomical events planned for next month's Lumières fest. posted at 17:29

 
The city has struck a deal on bottled water to distribute when water mains go blooie, as happened along Pie-IX a few months back. posted at 15:49

 
The Quebec human rights commission has agreed in two different cases that police were practising racial profiling when teenagers were fined for hanging around – outside the places where they were living. The mayor does not want the city to pay up. posted at 15:41

 
Fagstein, wearing his journalist hat, asks questions about some supposedly improved bus services; the STM makes a deal with Communauto to stimulate car-sharing; the Auto Show is on, and cycling activists plan a contrarian bicycle show tomorrow, although predicted low temperatures may discourage all but the most hardy. Urbanphoto also has a pleasantly snide piece on attitudes toward the de Maisonneuve bike path. posted at 12:47

 
Some great photos of Montreal in the 1980s in colour and from the same photographer in black and white. posted at 12:43

 
Montreal media are being tactful, so it takes a Toronto paper to trumpet that Quebec City's anniversary plans are beginning to wilt. The article doesn't mention the sudden death of Andrée Boucher: of course there's no way to be certain, but the loss of her leadership may be the reason for a certain lack of focus. posted at 11:35

 
There's a certain irony here: the impending transit strike has been delayed beyond next week because the parties haven't arrived at an essential services deal. posted at 10:51

 
Nice piece on the Maurice Richard exhibit at the Château Ramezay. Radio-Canada has a few images from the exhibit. posted at 10:18

 
McGill tries to put a cork in rowdy student behaviour in public. posted at 10:11

 
Coolopolis calculations say that, on average, January 18-27 are our coldest days of the year. posted at 01:30

 
Rivière des Prairies is in hot water for bulldozing several trees in a park which it wants to pave over and turn into a municipal office block, against the wishes of many residents and environmentalists. posted at 23:48

 
If you're prone to feeling creepy about bugs, don't read this piece about the increasing prevalence of bedbugs in this city. posted at 23:43

 
After an extension and a plea for a truce, the Fête des Neiges is still cancelled after the Parc Jean-Drapeau union refused to agree not to invoke pressure tactics. It seems they chiefly want parity with the main blue-collar union. I'm a tad confused by the CBC's description of the islands as a "privately owned park" - can that really have happened without my noticing? posted at 23:21

 
A bit of a paean to the old Quat'Sous theatre on Pine Avenue, soon to meet the wrecker's ball. posted at 23:16

 
Half of the public primary and secondary schools on the island of Montreal are considered underprivileged according to a new rating. Of course, half of all students are always below average, so what can you do? posted at 15:55

 
Changes are seen at the decrepit Seville Theatre site, but the journalist seems as much in the dark as anyone about what's going on there. posted at 15:51

 
With things going badly between the STM and its drivers' union, we can expect a strike as ground rules are laid out for minimal essential services. posted at 15:43

 
Denys Arcand is getting closer to a second Oscar now that L'Âge des ténèbres is on a list of potential titles for finalists for the foreign-language Academy award. posted at 23:47

 
Fagstein notes that the CBC is finally wising up that not everyone wants to watch a bottom-of-the-league hockey team play on Saturday night, so they'll be airing the Habs-Penguins game in most of the country instead. posted at 23:41

 
The ubiquitous green recycling box may be replaced by a new gadget that will be tested this summer. posted at 23:01

 
A couple of La Presse columnists also find fault with the Journal's methodologies in sparking the recent flap about unilingual anglophones being hired in some businesses, and comments are also made about Pauline Marois prodding the sleeping dragon of Quebec nationalist feeling. Meanwhile the Quebec minister responsible for the language portfolio is in no rush to ramp up language charter rules, and the minister for the Montreal area is also trying to douse the flames which the Journal continues to fan. Although they did also unearth the interesting tidbit that people working in Westmount absolutely have to speak French because the enclave is under surveillance as an anglo bastion. posted at 16:08

 
Mayor Tremblay has unveiled three transit innovations that have been discussed but are now on the table: extension of the blue line east to Pie-IX and a fast bus for that street, and a direct link from downtown to the airport. (In the meantime, they could easily create a city bus link from downtown to Trudeau that wouldn't involve schlepping luggage through the metro onto the 211 and the 204, and it wouldn't cost half a billion dollars.)

The high-speed train project proposed for the Windsor-Quebec corridor is also getting more notice. posted at 14:55

 
A feature film intended to celebrate the Canadiens' hundredth anniversary in 2009 has been delayed while the script is entirely reworked from scratch. posted at 23:51

 
Predictably, PQ head Pauline Marois jumps to condemn the businesses that the Journal de Montréal revealed yesterday had heedlessly hired unilingual anglos to serve the public. The Journal also went back to the businesses and asked for explanations. The Gazette critiques the methodology.

Marois also laid out plans today for making sovereignist moves even before a referendum. That her party placed third in the last election almost seems to be a forgotten detail. posted at 23:46

 
A good piece about how mayors in the couronne nord don't want to allow Loto-Quebec to build a new hippodrome/casino in their towns. posted at 23:37

 
Spacing has an account of a meeting with the Griffintown developers, an item about an upcoming gallery show on Montreal a century hence, and a look back at the Mount Royal funicular, which was last seen in 1920, and a piece about a heritage property in Ste-Anne that is now in the hands of developers. posted at 23:34

 
Contract talks broke down yesterday and bus drivers moved closer to a strike. posted at 18:30

 
The CHUM hospitals have a worsening emergency situation with a shortage of ER doctors; the health minister is telling them to do something about it. posted at 18:25

 
Chris looks at the positive transformation of a building near Concordia, at the notion of planting fruit trees and other food plants in the city, and reports on the origin of the mystery igloos on Mount Royal. posted at 23:49

 
The Journal finds that French is not considered mission-critical in some businesses. I can see how this is news, but I can also feel a certain cynicism having noticed that the Journal has a fairly predictable tendency to run language outrage stories in slow news seasons. But then, Air Canada is also getting some heat for not providing French services either. posted at 22:13

 
Citizen pressure has forced a referendum on the enlargement of Bordeaux jail, mainly because of fears at having a larger number of convicts living close by. posted at 21:58

 
Big story today is the death of a woman and her four kids in Ohio, presumably at the hand of her husband, a man from Laval – but he hasn't been tried yet, so isn't talking about the death penalty a little premature? posted at 21:15

 
The Fête des Neiges has been cancelled with the Société du Parc Jean Drapeau blaming the union for refusing to give assurance that no pressure tactics would be undertaken during the event, and the union blaming the Société for shutting the event down so precipitately. posted at 21:01

 
Have I missed some zeitgeist clue that would explain why both the Gazette and Le Devoir have run pieces on meditation this weekend? posted at 12:54

 
Part of Pie-IX will be closed starting tomorrow for water mains repairs; work is soon going to start on repairing the roof of city hall, which has been leaking; millions are being spent to enlarge Bordeaux Jail even though some are against the changes planned for what's essentially a heritage building; Quebec has approved plans for the enlargement of Molson Stadium for the Alouettes; local people are still holding out against the conversion of Notre-Dame East into a Decarie-style autoroute. posted at 12:43

 
One of the few really pertinent ice storm stories is this CBC piece about the lasting damage to trees from the 1998 storm – including thousands of trees on Mount Royal. There's also an epilogue giving some figures and summing up some of the changes made as a consequence of the crisis. posted at 15:59

 
Ben Soo has a good Flickr set this week on the Côte de Liesse underpass, a transit bottleneck that's obviously in bad shape. posted at 14:36

 
On Spacing this week, Chris looks at the STM-Bombardier-Alstom metro car story (some articles are calling it renouvellement but it really seems to be a matter of replacement of the MR-63 cars that are as old as the system itself), and he's also got a piece on the proposed tram-train connection to the airport.

Also a note on a presentation on urban art, and a trip to Little Maghreb in Saint-Michel. He's also got the beginning of a catalogue of apartment building names and a glance at a new multicultural environmental group. posted at 14:30

 
The Fête des Neiges may be cancelled if workers at Parc Jean-Drapeau won't promise not to use the festival as an opportunity to engage in labour action. But if our weather keeps up like this, the fête may be rather short of neige anyway. posted at 14:16

 
Neath of Walking Turcot Yards points to a fascinating Gazette piece that examines some major conflict of interest in the plans to convert Griffintown into a massive suburbotopia. Meanwhile the promoter is miming surprise that the Conseil du patrimoine has found major problems with the plans, but this other La Presse piece has the flavour of bending over backwards to be fair and thus succeeding in saying nothing much at all. posted at 12:14

 
A news bit about the impending new fare cards in the STM doesn't tell us anything new, except perhaps the price tag; yesterday's court ruling constraining the transit corporation to open bids for the refurbishment of old metro cars will delay their delivery for a year or two; the drivers' union is to meet management on Tuesday in an attempt to avoid a strike; discussions are being held about another tram-like form of transit from Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue downtown, with a stop at the airport; a government study will ponder a high-speed rail link along the Quebec-Windsor corridor. posted at 10:29

 
Weather continues to be news, with 95 km/h winds causing damage and blackouts and a 10.6°C high yesterday also breaking records and adding to the flooding that's plaguing many towns. posted at 09:06

 
STM drivers are talking pressure tactics building to intermittent strike days beginning next month in an effort to speed up contract talks. It's too bad the transit-riding public is the stooge in this silly game of cat and mouse between the STM and the union. posted at 08:48

 
Quebec superior court has ruled that the STM must put out open tenders for the refurbishment of 336 metro cars. The STM had handed this