Last month’s Liberal policy convention in Montreal was more about convening than policy: the corridors of the Palais des Congrès were packed with 4,500 delegates networking away, while the policy sessions were sparsely attended. I wandered the halls to eavesdrop on gossip, attending a few policy sessions. One panel impressed me: under the title “Building Canada Strong,” the speakers were Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly,...
EDITORIAL How did we get here? How does a society lose sight of the big picture? These are questions that are always posed in retrospect. And they always come up in a context of a realization that a mistake has happened, that something has gone horribly wrong, that a tragedy has somehow failed to be averted. Is it that we rarely see the big picture fade from view...
READER'S OPINION The following is a statement from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office on the appointment of Louise Arbour as the next Governor General of Canada. As Governor General, Ms. Arbour will be the representative of His Majesty The King in Canada. She will be Canada’s 31st Governor General since Confederation and the first Governor General of Canada appointed by His Majesty. Ms. Arbour is a world-renowned legal scholar, judge and...
Less than a month remains before the launch of the West Island branch of the REM, but parking options for future users of the Fairview-Pointe-Claire station still remain unclear.
A popular martial arts centre owner is behind bars and facing serious criminal charges following a savage hammer attack inside his home in Ste. Anne de Bellevue last week that left his daughter — a Montreal police officer — severely injured.
McGill University cut the ribbon on a spacious greenhouse at its Macdonald Campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue earlier this month, calling the new facility an encouraging step forward in the school’s agricultural and environmental research capabilities.
The City of Dollard des Ormeaux signalled its interest in acquiring five properties within its territory last month by voting to approve registering a right of first refusal on the sites, a move that gives the municipality the option to buy the properties if ever they are put up for sale.
Residents living near the Ullivik homeless shelter and warming trailer in Dorval are calling for a stronger police presence in the wake of a stabbing incident near the shelter last Friday that left two homeless men seriously injured.
The Montreal Agglomeration council last week voted to put forward an application to have the Cap St. Jacques sector of the Grand Parc de l’Ouest designated as an Urban Night Sky Place, a classification issued by an international organization that recognizes sites near urban centres that promote what is described as “an authentic nighttime experience.”
With shovels expected to be in the ground in the coming months to start building its new $28.6-million cultural centre, the City of Beaconsfield last week kicked off a fundraising campaign to raise the final $2 million for the project, and announced 80 per cent of that target had already been pledged by several well-known community members, including former Beaconsfield Mayor Georges Bourelle and his wife Ellen, who...
It took nearly 16 months for Montreal police to gather evidence, including DNA, in the case of a Pointe Claire woman who suffered serious injuries in a horrific two-car hit-and-run crash on the Trans-Canada service road in Pointe Claire, but her case is now in the hands of the Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales (DPCP), which is set to determine if criminal charges will be laid against...
A grandson builds on his late grandfather's legacy.
