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Category Archives: City Hall

At The Monument

October 18, 2016by neath 1 Comment

Funny, I hung around this park in front of Verdun City Hall in the 70’s and there are a zillion crazy stories about what that was like. So last month […]

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City Hall, Photographs, Verdun Quebec

Paris Rising, Montreal Falling, Neither Bodes Well

June 18, 2013by neath Leave a comment

The two great French cities of the world, well, Montreal used to be worthy, are having some development conundrums.  Paris has decided to add a dozen highrise buildings but away […]

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City Hall, Community, Griifintown

Goverment Talking Corruption Free Turcot

April 11, 2013by neath Leave a comment

To say I am behind the times on Turcot would be an understatement.  Seems I have drifted into focusing a lot of my online attention into relaying the ongoing tragedy […]

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City Hall, Corruption, Infrastructure

Richard Bergeron of Projet Montreal in Verdun on Sunday

March 22, 2013by neath Leave a comment

How To Put Montreal Back On Track with Richard Bergeron Sunday, March 24, 3pm Centre culturel et bibliothèque de Verdun 5955, avenue Bannantyne Verdun (QC) H4H 1H5 Canada   ***English […]

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City Hall, Community

Corruption Probe Just Keeps Scoring

March 12, 2013by neath 2 Comments

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows – Bob Dylan C’mon, tell us how you voted for Tremblay again and again and how much you […]

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City Hall, Collapse

Tremblay Resigns!

November 6, 2012by neath Leave a comment

One of the things that stands out in my mind regarding the merger of the cities on Montreal island involves former Verdun Mayor, Georges Bosse.  After the merger Bosse became […]

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City Hall, Montreal

Montrealers Getting Screwed By Tremblay

October 30, 2012by neath Leave a comment

C’mon, tell us how you voted for Tremblay again and again and how much you thought he was a good mayor. Tell us you had no idea that there was […]

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City Hall, Corruption, Montreal

Pimento #45: Montreal Cityscape

March 7, 2012by neath Leave a comment

Another excellent Pimento Report shows how  Tremblay’s City Hall doesn’t actually play by any rules, let alone their own, when it comes to development in the city. The Tremblay era has been erratically destroying […]

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City Hall, Development, Montreal, Video

City Fining Homeless Counterproductive

February 25, 2012by neath 2 Comments

What possible motivation could a homeless person have for getting off the streets when the first thing getting an apartment does is make you eligible for jail time for unpaid […]

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City Hall, Homeless

Griffintown Development Full Of Tremblay’s Hatred Of Good Urban Planning

February 24, 2012by neath 1 Comment

Henry Aubin: City’s approach to Griffintown shameful “This is what Tremblay’s improvisation has begat: An emerging area that, with cranes swinging overhead, still has no coherent sense of direction. Who […]

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City Hall, Griifintown

Montreal Failure To Fight Sprawl Is A Corrupt/Inefficient City Hall

February 11, 2012by neath 2 Comments

“It’s odd. City hall has the power to determine a condo building’s number of floors, its number of units and even its number of parking spots. But it doesn’t have […]

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City Hall, Development, Sprawl

Artists Being Evicted At 4000 Saint Patrick and Cote Saint Paul Eco Centre To Close

February 9, 2012by neath 1 Comment

Bad times when city parking lots get priority over heritage, culture, and environmental responsibility, let alone a real consultation process with citizens. Artists evicted in favour of city vehicles  4000 […]

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City Hall, Cote Saint Paul, Expropriation, Turcot

Tremblay’s City Hall Corrupt? Wow, Surprise, Surprise!

May 18, 2011by neath Leave a comment

Anyone paying even a little bit of attention over the course of the Tremblay administration can see corruption all over the place. Time and time again stories come out how […]

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City Hall, Collapse, Corruption

Gerald Tremblay Ultimately Approved Turcot Disaster

April 18, 2011by neath Leave a comment

Turcot : La balle est aussi dans le camp de la Ville de Montréal MONTRÉAL, le 14 avril /CNW Telbec/ – À la suite d’une série de rencontres avec le […]

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Activism, City Hall, Turcot

“Wash-Basin Politics” at Montreal City Council

January 29, 2011by neath 1 Comment

From Westmount Watch Jan. 24, 2011 — The New Year opened badly for Montréal Mayor Gérald Tremblay and his Union Montreal party at City Council on Jan. 24, 2011. Veteran […]

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City Hall, Montreal

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