Monday, March 3, 2008
- The Committee for the Sustainable Redevelopment of Griffintown has an online petition asking the city to back off awhile, consult the public more, and consider major projects in the context of their effect on the whole metropolitan area, not just individual boroughs. It's worth signing: the recent Griffintown "consultations" were basically the presentation of a fait accompli, not an inquiry into how residents would like to see the neighbourhood evolve and how beneficial change could be encouraged by the city administration. It's important that they be made to understand that many people care about the life of this city and are well aware of City Hall's tendency to try to railroad things when they're unilaterally chosen, as the Griffintown PPU has been.
- The Institut économique de Montréal is recommending the return of tolls on bridges and highways throughout Quebec. This could raise $1.5 billion annually.
- A meeting of new English rights group Affiliation Quebec came to blows yesterday with Les Jeunes Patriotes du Québec, the sticking point being the presence of quondam local shit-disturber Howard Galganov at the meeting.
- We're running out of space in the garbage dump, nobody wants to open any more of them, and we haven't got a plan in place to reduce garbage in other ways.
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