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| Montreal City Council Needs Fixing and We Should Start With the Executive Committee City councils are supposed to be places of calm deliberation where bylaws and business are debated openly and voted upon and decided in public. Unfortunately, in Montreal everything is done in secret and council itself acts largely as a rubber... ( added 127 days 19 hours ago.) |
| And, Now For the New Library. Ndg Sports and Recreation Complex Funding Points the Way After downtown Montreal with its money generating office towers and high rentals, the borough of NDG/CDN is the biggest contributor to the city tax pool. However, for the longest time it has had the lowest per capita budget of any borough in the... ( added 136 days 17 hours ago.) |
| If the city is dirty, blame Marcel Tremblay If you think that the city streets are clean and that the snow is removed expeditiously and on time, call the mayor's brother, Marcel and congratulate him. If not, read the following article and, if you agree with the conclusions, call the mayor... ( added 143 days 17 hours ago.) |
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| The Police Should Stop Picking On Pedestrians As long as it operates in isolation, the current Montreal police campaign to enforce the law relating to pedestrians crossing the road seems likely to endanger the walking public and result in needless additional deaths and injuries. Montrealers... ( added 150 days 7 hours ago.) |
| Dog Owners Are the First Line of Community Policing Every day of the year, regardless of weather, tens of thousands of dog owners take to the streets and parks with their beloved pooches. They are out early in the morning, late at night and throughout the day and their presence on the streets lends... ( added 156 days 13 hours ago.) |
| Reviving Montreal's 'coffee Shop' Economy
Unfortunately for all of us, Montreal seems to have descended to the level
of a coffee shop economy in which expensive cups of coffee are status symbols
for people whose personal finances are often in a tight way.
Recently, I wrote about... ( added 164 days 8 hours ago.) |
| Do Yourself a Favour and Be Polite. It Might Even Speed Up Traffic. Practical politeness (or interaction without hostility) allied with civism (the willingness to police ourselves) is the cornerstone of our civilization and any improvement in these areas benefits us all. Happily, although not much remarked, we... ( added 171 days 15 hours ago.) |
| Team Tremblay or New Vision Montreal? The troubling role of Richard Bergeron
Ralph Nader gave us George Bush and now Richard Bergeron and his one-man Projet Montreal municipal party wants to give us another four years of Grald Tremblay. Ralph Nader could have done the American... ( added 178 days 14 hours ago.) |
| Exploding Environmental Myths In recent years marketers and politicians have become increasingly enamoured of creating environmental myths. Marketers want to encourage sales of their products and to increase the chances of getting government grants while politicians want to... ( added 185 days 15 hours ago.) |
| How To Eliminate Montreal's Potholes Much has been written about the nature of Montreal winters and how the melting snow gets into the road through the cracks and then contracts and expands during alternate thaw and freeze cycles. However, the real reason that all those cracks and... ( added 191 days 18 hours ago.) |
| Don’t Blame the Olympians. If Public Life Is Deteriorating, It's Your Fault In Quebec and in Montreal we have become accustomed to an apparent spiralling decline in the quality of public life with representatives who appear more-and-more useless getting themselves elected. Less and less people are turning out to vote and... ( added 194 days 15 hours ago.) |
| How We Learned To Lose Our Good Driving Skills There are few hard and fast rules in the world but one of them is that if you treat people badly they will usually respond in kind and that what you give is usually equal to what you get. These truisms are especially relevant to traffic management... ( added 194 days 15 hours ago.) |
| Building Better Bridges In recent years there have been a disturbing number of bridge collapses in North America. Ageing infrastructure and tired concrete can, to a certain extent, be blamed but the real cause lies in our having forgotten how to build for the millennia.... ( added 194 days 15 hours ago.) |
| Pity the Overpaid Public Sector Workers Last year, I decided to renew my bus driver's licence so that I could have the pleasure of continuing to hone my driving skills with lots of people on board and even earn some money in return. I did a few trips for the private sector where the pay... ( added 194 days 15 hours ago.) |
| Why Not Eat It On the Street Montreal's food vendor ban is bad for business
Montreal is one of the few major cities in the world where food vendors are not permitted to sell cooked food to people on the street even though that is what people like. Most everywhere else... ( added 194 days 15 hours ago.) |
| The Highway 30 Ring Road Is Not a Priority Finish building Highway 15 by digging the Dcarie/Laurentian tunnel Everybody who uses the Montreal highway network knows that traffic on the Dcarie and Metropolitan is routinely slowed to a crawl or a standstill that creates delays not only during... ( added 194 days 15 hours ago.) |
| No tramway for now for Avenue du Parc Montreal municipal leaders are out of touch with transit issues
In the past year both Montreal mayor Grald Tremblay and Projet Montral chief Richard Bergeron have flaunted their failure to grasp Montreal transit issues by proposing an immediate... ( added 194 days 15 hours ago.) |
| Higher Gas Prices Would Make Us All Better Off Big cars are a drain on the economy
Quebecers often complain that gas prices at the pump are too high but, of course, it is they themselves who decide how much they will spend when they chose their make and size of car and how fast to drive... ( added 194 days 15 hours ago.) |
| The Invasion of the Window Scratchers Surveillance cameras could help beat the graffiti epidemic Today's graffiti epidemic is caused by society's refusal to protect itself Currently, Montreal is in the grip of a wave of extensive graffiti vandalism that makes our city look sadly... ( added 194 days 15 hours ago.) |
| New York Comparisons Some things we could learn from the Big Apple to the south
Whenever I visit our near neighbouring New York State and the City of New York, I find myself making comparisons with how we do things here. Most of us would agree that we, in Canada... ( added 194 days 15 hours ago.) |
| Montreal Needs Much More Traffic Efficient traffic flow and economic vitality go hand in hand The petrol engine was a Germa n invention, the work of Gottried Daimler and Carl Benz. It first drove a vehicle in 1885. In England, the early movements of the motor car were hindered by... ( added 194 days 15 hours ago.) |
| Benny Farm Sports and Recreation Complex Dear Neighbour, Many of you may have given up on the NDG Borough Council and the Centre City administration, believing that nothing ever happens in NDG and that you do not get fair return for your tax dollar. You hear the lies about federal and... ( added 194 days 16 hours ago.) |
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| Politics, Property and Real Estate Development It's time for new conflict of interest rules
Currently, Quebec's most important city Montreal has laughably porous conflict of interest rules that allow elected people to engage in potentially conflicting private and public activities as long... ( added 194 days 16 hours ago.) |
| Developing downtown Montreal Why Griffintown proposal is dumb for Montreal and why we should focus on eliminating downtown empty lots
C urrently, a private a developer is proposing to take a large area of Griffintown, to the sou th of Notre-Dame Street and, with the help... ( added 194 days 16 hours ago.) |
| An Infinite Number of Monkeys. Or: How Not To Plan a Public Transit System There is a theory promoted by some philosopher, statistician or wit to the effect that an infinite number of monkeys, sufficiently equipped with typewriters, ribbons and endless reams of paper would, if left to their own devices, ultimately... ( added 213 days 13 hours ago.) |
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