Recycling in Montreal
What actually happens to recycling in Montreal? Post the same question in reference to where you live!! Let’s find out what everyone believes and if that differs from what actually […]
Tag Archives: City Hall
Beaver Situation Takes A Turn For The Weird
Was down at the river today just trudging through the lower trail when I spotted some chicken wire fences wrapped around some trees. As I had blogged about a problem […]
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View of Verdun
Taken from a window on the fifth floor at City Hall.
Disgraceful Street Work In Verdun
For many, many years one of the most common pedestrian complaints on Wellington street has been the less than ideal condition of the granite tiles that run up the center […]
Construction On Gordon Avenue, Verdun
After being a vacant lot for 6 or 7 years condos are finally being built at the old CKVL location and also at the former parking lot across the street. […]
Transport Quebec warns motorists: stay away from Turcot Interchange this weekend
It was built below specs and has been poorly maintained. Saving on maintenance costs in the first 3 decades created full time maintenance contracts that has cost, and will cost […]
The Strange Case of an Environmentalist Environment Minister
It’s been interesting to see the media making so much of Daniel Breton’s long and illustrious “criminal” life. You would swear being poor automatically made you a breaker of rules, […]
Tremblay Resigns!
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 […]
Montrealers Getting Screwed By Tremblay
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 […]
A Funeral for Montreal Culture and Heritage
The whole Quartier des Spectacles concept has been incredibly misguided and a general disgrace! A funeral for Montreal culture and heritage Artists, heritage activists and stakeholders are planning a funeral […]
Pimento #45: Montreal Cityscape
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 […]
City Fining Homeless Counterproductive
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 […]
Griffintown Development Full Of Tremblay’s Hatred Of Good Urban Planning
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 […]
Montreal Failure To Fight Sprawl Is A Corrupt/Inefficient City Hall
“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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