Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Posted March 3rd, 2008 by mtlweblog

The Public Consultation office wants the city to have an overall plan for new development, which seems an entirely reasonable notion, especially with big projects cropping up all over town. What kind of city do we want this to be, looking at the big picture? Isn't it time we had some way for studies to be done on that scale, and citizen views to be heard?
More snow has been added to the vast quantities we've already got – between 10 and 17 cm depending who you read. The usual transportation troubles ensue.
Benoit Labonté, mayor of Ville-Marie and only candidate so far for the leadership of the Vision Montreal party, has his borough working on a new by-law to limit the number of dogs a person can be seen with in the street. Itinerant Mario Paquet, shown here in a photo by Ben Soo, thinks the law is specifically aimed at him and his pack of eight dogs.
A video and photo report on Montreal's firefighters adopting Toronto insignia as a protest.
Giant lobster won in a contest will come to live at the Biodome instead of becoming someone's dinner.
It's going to cost megabucks to cover the Ville-Marie and the new trench planned for the Notre-Dame enlargement to make the area tolerable for the Radio-Canada residential development.
As if we didn't already have enough to worry about, now it turns out that radioactive waste is turning up in city sewage, probably from medical procedures. City authorities say it's no big deal, but if so, why is it tripping alarms?

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