Montreal City Weblog

The Guardian UK covers yesterday's royal debacle at the Black Watch; Toronto Star ponders how the protest gave the visit more importance than it deserved; now the police are defending their handling of the incident.

Spacing's Jacob Larsen does a quick critical analysis of the BAPE's Turcot report, finding some flaws and oddities unmentioned elsewhere; the city is at least sticking to its demands for reserved transit lanes on the Turcot plans; Nathalie Collard calls politicians to pay attention to the report's...

Diane Lemieux becomes Mayor Tremblay's chef de cabinet, despite not having been able to win her election in Ahuntsic.

The cost of redoing downtown Lucien-L'Allier station will cost the AMT five times the original price tag.I have what's possibly a stupid question. The AMT station is right by Windsor Station, which functioned as a train station for decades...

The Quebec Human Rights Commission has condemned two city by-laws as social profiling and as discriminatory to the homeless: a rule barring dogs from Émilie-Gamelin Park at Berri-UQÀM was targeted specifically at homeless youths who often include dogs in their entourage, and a general rule c...

The Jewish General Hospital is defending its H1N1 vaccination priorities although it's faintly comic that it saw fit to vaccinate "volunteers" whose activity involves sitting on hospital boards well away from any patients...

The gradual disappearance of the rooming house is becoming a concern to community workers, who point out that a single room without private bathroom is often the only living space the very poor can afford.

Just as autumn denudes our deciduous trees of their most salient feature, the Gazette brings Bronwyn Chester on board to do a weekly tree column somewhat transplanted from Spacing.

Longtime local venue Le Medley is to close at the end of this year, probably to become condos, and leaving the Ligue nationale d'improvisation looking for new digs.

The man who carried out a brutal attack on five people in Snowdon metro in 2005 has been given a sentence of two years after his original sentence in the community was overturned as too light. One of his victims suffers from permanent brain damage and disfigurement.

Carpenter Claude Larouche has pleaded not guilty in the murder of Natasha Cournoyer. Her employment with Corrections Canada had at first suggested some motive for her murder, but there was no connection between her and Larouche or with her job...

La Ville cherche un nouveau directeur général; dans l'histoire du comité exécutif, Claude Dauphin restera le président.

Un suspect a été arrêté et est accusé de la meurtre de Natasha Cournoyer en octobre. Claude Larouche n'a pas connu Cournoyer et a été rattrapé à cause des traces de son ADN sur la victime. En addition, il est connu aux policiers.

Les médecins ne sont pas contents du système de vaccination contre la grippe; des plaintes ont suivi les nouvelles que GlaxoSmithKine, la compagnie qui fait le vaccin, a vacciné des travailleurs et leurs familles avant tout autre groupe en priorité; les enfants et les ados ne sont pas les bie...