CDN/NDG bike paths just lipstick on asphalt
You’d think that Côte des Neiges and Notre Dame de Grâce, being so young, urban, working-class and eco-friendly, would have lots of bike paths spread across its huge territory. And yet, when you look...
View ArticleVision Montreal: [Insert leader here]
Well, it’s official. Benoît Labonté is stepping aside as leader of Vision Montreal so that former PQ minister Louise Harel can run in his place for mayor of Montreal. I must say I’m surprised by this...
View ArticleBoulos defends Harel
Karim Boulos, the anglo at Vision Montreal, wants us to know Louise Harel is not to be feared by our people. As a Liberal and federalist, even he can find a way to support her, because she believes in...
View ArticleVision’s Boulos goes independent
The fallout from the switcheroo at Vision Montreal is continuing. Less than a week after the party’s vice-president quit because she couldn’t support a sovereignist anti-borough leader, token anglo...
View ArticleTime for new blood on the STM’s board of directors
Mayor Gérald Tremblay got yet more bad news when he found out that the president of his party, Brenda Paris, has defected to rival Vision Montreal to run as a borough mayor. In addition to her various...
View ArticleUnion Montreal’s new website
I got an email Friday morning, just as the municipal election campaign officially began, informing me that Union Montreal has redesigned its website. So, of course, I checked it out with my usual...
View ArticleWant to watch the city council meeting? Tough
I was invited for a short interview on the Ric Peterson Show on CJAD today. For those who missed it (which I imagine is about everyone), the audio is here: Me on the Ric Peterson Show (MP3) Apparently...
View ArticleIle Sans Fil in the park
Both Union Montreal and Vision Montreal have an element on their platforms that some technologically-inclined Montrealers might find interesting: free (or cheap) wireless Internet access in public...
View ArticleTime to have an adult conversation about municipal corruption
Before a week ago, Benoit Labonté liked the attention. But then, journalists started to discover things about him. The timing wasn’t a coincidence. According to anonymous sources that came forward,...
View ArticleProjet Montréal’s snow-removal plan
The snow hit the fan Tuesday morning, with La Presse reporting that Projet Montréal plans to change its snow removal policy for the Plateau and Ahuntsic-Cartierville (the two boroughs it holds the...
View ArticleWelcome to misquotania, Luc
Plateau borough mayor Luc Ferrandez went on a bit of a rant Saturday on his blog about the media’s handling of a story about changes to parking regulations. Apparently a Radio-Canada story was...
View ArticleMontreal Geography Trivia No. 65
What is this the shape of? And, for you smarty pants who already know, a tougher follow-up: why is it shaped like this? UPDATE: This is, of course, a map of the town of Côte Saint-Luc. Those things on...
View ArticleMy kingdom for a lid
I hadn’t paid attention to the matter until recently, but apparently the city of Montreal has a problem with its recycling bins. Actually, a few problems. The first is that after prolonged use they...
View ArticleAlex Norris wants to go tie-less
Video: Alex Norris won’t wear a tie (18:22) Alex Norris is on a mission. The former journalist, elected as a member of Projet Montréal in the last election as a city councillor representing the...
View ArticleSergakis’s ad turn and the development “loophole”
In Thursday’s Gazette, I noticed a mostly-text ad from the Station des Sports, signed by local … uhh … entrepreneur … Peter Sergakis, who owns the bar and many other bars around town. It was to thank...
View ArticleTout l’monde transpire jusqu’aux orteils
I’m not necessarily in favour of spending millions of taxpayer dollars on massive air conditioning systems for the three or four weeks a year they’ll be useful, but I have to admit this Projet Montréal...
View ArticleMordecai’s dilemma
With the 10th anniversary of Mordecai Richler’s death approaching (and the resurgence of interest in his work), city councillors Marvin Rotrand and Michael Applebaum are doing some political organizing...
View ArticleMontreal, where data is becoming free
This post has also been published at openfile.ca The City of Montreal has jumped on the open data bandwagon, setting up a website with raw data available for download. There isn’t that much there right...
View ArticleMetro screws up, but it’s just the wrong name
Congratulations to Metro, which had the scoop this morning (UPDATE: link now dead) that Saint Laurent borough mayor Alan DeSousa has quit Mayor Gérald Tremblay’s Union Montreal party to join the...
View ArticleMarcel Côté’s fake Montrealers
UPDATE 3:45pm: The website has removed its stock photos of people. Stock photos aren’t a cardinal sin. In most cases their use is obvious, and it makes sense to spend a couple of bucks on a stock image...
View Article
