Wednesday, March 5, 2008
- Once again the weather is the news as snow, rain and ice pellets make roads hazardous and transit difficult. The city says it's on it.
- There's a tense partisan political background to the plan for a lengthy pedestrian closure of Ste-Catherine through the length of the Gay Village this summer.
- The plan to rename Lionel-Groulx station after Oscar Peterson was presented to borough council last night.
- More homeowners in Pointe-aux-Trembles receive unexpectedly huge tax bills for roadwork done on their streets, in some cases before they ever lived there.
- UQÀM has set out its belt-tightening plans, including staff and salary cuts and higher fees.
- Montreal has cut down 40 mature trees around the Îlot Balmoral and plans to cut more to make room for the Quartier des spectacles. It's happened before: Guillaume Saint-Jean has a Spacing article on the construction of Place des Arts: the 1955 photo shows some of the trees on that block that had to be cut down to build the complex.
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