Montreal City Weblog

Mauro Biello, capitaine de l'Impact, prend sa retraite comme joueur et embarque sur une carrière comme entraîneur.

The city is planning to establish reserved bus lanes on Pie-IX and Saint-Michel, but not before Christmas. Eventually there will be special buis lanes on 350 km of the city's roads.

City budget will be tabled in January, a bit late to allow newly elected councillors to get up to speed.

H1N1 flu continues its grip on the city and a third wave is forecast for January. Students will be bused to vaccination centres starting next week.

Nez Rouge is looking for more volunteers to undertake to drive folks home during this 26th year of its operation; the police are to be looking out particularly for intoxicated young drivers this year.

Montrealers are more concerned about the environment than residents of other Canadian cities, although I think the explanation that it's due to the recent election campaign is not a good one...

The AMT is making a series of promises that train service will be better this winter than last. A couple of PDF files are available from its website. (But like everything else, so much will depend on the unknown factor of the kind of winter we get.)

This morning, the (newly redesigned) Le Devoir site is reporting on the impending La Presse labour deadline while La Presse reports on Le Devoir's impending centenary, a landmark also noted by the paper itself.

Fagstein lists up the award winners from this weekend's pow-wow of the Quebec journalists' association.

Later this month, Place Émilie-Gamelin will turn into the 11th annual État d'Urgence festival, ATSA's event of the year, this time promoting "proper social hygiene."

It's ten years since the disappearance of Julie Surprenant just like that, at a bus shelter a few yards from where she lived. No trace of her has ever been found. The SQ has a brief page and picture in their missing persons section.

At the risk of poking a sacred cow with a stick, I'm going to suggest that the notion of blocking access to education for any reason will be seen, in retrospect, as slightly insane in a society where 29% of kids are dropping out of high school and, even when they reach CEGEP, many can't pass a...

Lonely Planet says Montreal is the world's second best party town – but you'll never guess which town made #1.

Apropos the whole royalty thing last week, I've never been personally keen (most of my ancestry is Irish) but I have a couple of devil's-advocate points to make about it.One, it sets us apart from the U.S.From the various things I've read this week I imagine that, if anything, it's the French...