Thursday, February 21, 2008
- Montreal's job market is not very welcoming to anglophones, especially those from elsewhere whose French is rudimentary.
- The Montréal en lumière fest has opened, there's a festival site down around the Old Port, cheese at Complexe Desjardins and general noshing. Here's a view from south of the border.
- It doesn't bode well that on the first day of the scheme, there's already been a serious medical error at Rockland MD, the private clinic to which the public system is outsourcing some supposedly minor surgeries. Are the staff there properly trained and experienced?
- The city has marked an all-time record in fines, having raked in $130 million in 2007, and that's not counting the additional administrative fees. One downtown promoter thinks this passion for fines is counterproductive and will deter people from coming back to Montreal. The administration says the goal is public safety, not collecting those sweet sweet fines.
- Another round of construction hits the commercial strip on the Main, still reeling from the year-long dig that forced twenty businesses to close.
- An arbitrator has ruled in the standoff between the STM and its drivers' union, and the union only needs to meet next week to vote on it. Details of the deal haven't been announced. City firefighters, however, have reached no such deal, and are using PR tactics to swing public opinion and shame the city administration.
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