Tuesday, March 4, 2008
- 70% of Montrealers drive to work, 21% take public transit, 7% walk and only 1.6% cycle. Sad thing for Canada is that these are among the greenest commuting numbers in the country.
- Ville-Marie proposes to close Sainte-Catherine Street to traffic in the Village for a good part of the summer.
- There's a movement afoot to rename Lionel-Groulx metro after Oscar Peterson, based on his having grown up nearby, versus Groulx' writings espousing racist views and supporting fascism. But the STM has had a moratorium on renaming stations since the unwieldy "Longueuil-Université-de-Sherbrooke" business a few years ago – they've been resisting "Beaudry-Village" too.
- A young man of Saudi origins but who had emigrated to Montreal with his family has been sentenced to death for an incident in Jeddah followed by a trial the family claims was bogus. Canadian officials are being asked to step in.
- Residents of Repentigny are dead set against the enlargement of the Lachenaie garbage landfill that takes much of the metropolis's garbage.
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