“Lawyers for the developer of a proposed 325-unit residential project on the former site of Marianopolis College on Mount Royal have threatened to sue a local Cégep teacher for slander and libel over her outspoken criticism of the project.
In a legal letter dated June 15th, lawyers for Cato Development Inc. accuse Anushree Varma of inferring or implying that “our client is some how, and/or in some way, involved in scandalous, illegal and inappropriate business practises.” Story<a href="Lawyers for the developer of a proposed 325-unit residential project on the former site of Marianopolis College on Mount Royal have threatened to sue a local Cégep teacher for slander and libel over her outspoken criticism of the project. In a legal letter dated June 15th, lawyers for Cato Development Inc. accuse Anushree Varma of inferring or implying that “our client is some how, and/or in some way, involved in scandalous, illegal and inappropriate business practises.”" Story here.
One of the most puzzling things about the whole sad stupid history of Montreal’s Green Spaces (for an interesting eye opening account go here) is that we do not yet have Mount Royal rightfully zoned off. Such a law should be ironclad, no exceptions! But it has not happened and every mayor who has ever served here needs to share the blame, as they all must in regards to the city as a whole. Makes it seem they are all just puppets in the hands of developers, doesn’t it?
And you can’t blame the developers. Developing real estate is what they do and some of them make a very healthy chunk of change for their efforts. It must be very hard work.
But unless something is done soon, the rest of us can say bye bye to the mountain.
