The Cinéma Impérial, which was to close permanently, is now set to reopen in 2027 with grants from the federal, provincial and municipal governments as well as from Quebecor.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132808

A young man was hit by a train in Dorval early Thursday. He's said to have been lying on the ground beside the tracks. He's in critical condition.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132802

A woman who had defrauded a previous employer of thousands is now accused of flimflamming Moment Factory of more than a million dollars over the seven years she worked for them in payroll, and some of her friends are also accused of receiving some of the... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132800

The next mayor of Montreal will be facing the issue of encampments spreading across Montreal, but there are no easy answers.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132798

Records found by police in 2019 in the home of Bobby the Greek, killed last week in a Starbucks in Laval, reveal extortion activities on restaurants, and debts to be collected. Which I suppose raises the question of why he was still strolling around extorting... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132796

TVA has the background to the murder‑suicide on the Plateau on Friday night: the gunman had just gone through a breakup, and thought he was killing his rival. But according to the woman in the case, that wasn't true. Another piece about the reactions.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132794

A woman was attacked and seriously injured by three dogs Wednesday morning in St‑Léonard. Police shot two of the dogs dead after the owner gave permission.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132791

Ted Rutland posted this to Facebook on Wednesday and I can't link to that, so I'm kyping his text: The two old Montreal parties are promising exactly the same police "reforms": body cameras and mixed squads (police + social workers). The first policy is... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132789

Some store owners, weary of repeat shoplifters, have been posting their captured images at the door. Is this use of a person's image legal? An expert in this piece says the situation is not clear.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132787

A man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for stabbing his boss to death in 2022. The boss, who – like his attacker – had immigrated from the Philippines, had found the man a job, but the evolution of the situation that led to violence was apparently... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132785

A U.S. radio station is doing a series on the history of the Montreal music scene.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132783

A Piétons Québec study shows that most drivers don’t respect crosswalks.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132781

Ensemble is promising police bodycams but they haven't gone mano a mano with the Brotherhood yet.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132778

There's a boil water advisory in effect for the west end – CDN‑NDG, Côte‑St‑Luc, Montreal West and Hampstead.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132776

Aéroports de Montréal has razed 27,000 square feet of natural land which even its own policies had forbidden it to touch. But it's blaming a contractor and claiming its innocence.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132772

Hearing a ton of sirens north of here, a couple blocks south of the Met. Any story?... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132770

Dennis Trudeau, a familiar presence on local CBC for many years, has died. He was 77. The CBC item includes an unintentionally funny video clip from 1995 in which Matt Friedman explains the internet to Trudeau.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132765

Women's participation in municipal politics has stagnated with only 36.1% of the candidates for mayor or councillor in Quebec being women.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132763

Expecting protest action Tuesday, Concordia has closed its downtown campus. Students may be protesting in other places as well. Later, timestamped at 1 pm, a large crowd was in the street around Concordia.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132760

I didn't make this graphic but it's been circulating on social media: Giasson's now out, though.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132754

Quebec City mayor Bruno Marchand has stepped into the Montreal election campaign, pressing Soraya Martinez Ferrada to eject Alexandre Giasson as a candidate, after he called Éric Alan Caldwell – a Projet councillor and president of the STM – a "gros... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132749

Another Longueuil story Monday, strange but not tragic: a newborn baby was left on the front steps of a house in Longueuil late Sunday evening. TVA says it was a premature baby boy. Later, TVA spoke with the man who opened his door to see a newborn baby left... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132746

CBC's Benjamin Shingler has a good piece on the need for housing vs. the desire to save dwindling green space. But there's no one solution that will work everywhere. Shingler cites a case on Nuns Island where a project was blocked, and I was put in mind of... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132744

La Presse has a wild story Monday morning about a onetime doctoral student suing McGill for half a billion dollars. One element in the story is a disreputable academic publisher but it's not the only one.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132742

The question of temporary foreign workers is percolating, with items about how businesses are suffering from losing workers. But the phrasing here reveals a nastier side: CityNews ledes with a description of the federal limits to hiring low-wage temporary... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132738

Québec Solidaire's Vincent Marissal has sponsored a National Assembly petition to allow burial in a shroud rather than a coffin, as the law demands. This is partly based on the traditions of both Jews and Muslims to do so, but is also more ecologically sound... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132733

Ensemble's Alexandre Giasson is accused of making insulting and hateful posts about opposing candidates. Luc Rabouin is demanding he be withdrawn from the ballot.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132730

Wildfire smoke is drifting into town in Sunday, making the air quality mildly lousy.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132728

The plight of François Legault was big this week, Godin eyeing the CAQ's inability to get any bites with the issues headlined since the party conference. Legault's Rocky pose was inspirational to multiple artists. Côté in turn looked at Legault's track... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132705

A march was held Saturday, along with others elsewhere in Canada, to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132721

A crowd of hundreds demonstrated Saturday in support of the people of Gaza and in condemnation of the actions of Israel. Another march was held Saturday, along with others elsewhere in Canada, to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. And a... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132702

The REV is being called a victim of its own success with too many cyclists riding wheel to wheel at rush hour. The STM strike has also encouraged more cycling over the last two weeks.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132699

Adding new info up top: the incident is now being called a murder‑suicide and we are told it had no connection to organized crime. Two men were shot dead in a bar on Mont‑Royal (Street) at Laval (Street) on Friday night. Both Radio‑Canada and TVA are... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132690

When Bobby the Greek was shot this week it was in the presence of SQ officers who were following him that morning. At least ten police were on site when two guys walked in, shot Theologou dead and injured two of his henchmen, then left. No arrests! Nobody... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132683

At least nine mayors in the Montreal metropolitan community (CMM) have been returned by acclamation as the candidacy period ended Friday with nobody to challenge them. The city of Terrebonne – tenth largest in Quebec – must be a happy place, as they... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132681

CTV has a possibly useful rundown on how to check that you're registered to vote in next month's election. This is particularly useful info at a moment when it's not certain everyone will get a voter card. Deadline to be registered is October 16.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132677

TVA asks whether the killing of Bobby the Greek means we can expect a heightened gangster war but who can say? CTV talked to La Presse's organized crime specialist, Daniel Renaud, about the "brazen" daytime shooting. Renaud points out that daytime shootings... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132671

Owners of the building at 5998-6000 Park Avenue are suing the city and the owner of 5990 when its partial collapse meant the tenants of 5998‑6000 had to evacuate for months. The city is included because it waited too long to force the owner of 5990 to act.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132669

La Presse's investigation has found that there are still hundreds of Airbnbs offered in ways that break the law using fake permit numbers and other methods that the authorities seem powerless to detect.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132664

Friday is the last day of the limited strike at the STM, but nothing has been settled. The Journal talked to people who say their businesses took a hit because of the partial strikes.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132661

Weekend notes from CultMTL, Le Devoir, La Presse, CityCrunch, CTV. Weekend traffic notes, and you cannot flee the island via the Île aux Tourtes bridge. Traffic en anglais.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132658

Cops are seeking these five wanted men in connection with gang‑type murders around town, but three of the five are described as being out of the country. Meantime, the car thought to have been used by the killers of Bobby the Greek was found destroyed by... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132654

Journal Métro starts up fast with a one‑pager laying out the main candidates and the point‑form platforms of the two main parties in the election campaign.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132652

Dr Balfour Mount, who introduced the idea of palliative care to Canada, has died in the unit named in his honour at the Royal Vic. He was 86. There's a lot here about how great and kind Mount was, but almost a footnote mentioning that he opposed medical aid... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132639

As the Canada Post strike continues, Elections Quebec is to allow other methods for the distribution of voter cards: other delivery methods, volunteers, or the distribution of more general information by print or media that encourages voters to go online and... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132635

The headline here says a judge has denied McGill's request to limit pro‑Palestinian protests on campus, but the lede says it sought "an interlocutory injunction preventing excessive noise and obstruction of its buildings." Seems a little sneaky to me,... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132633

Work is beginning on the expansion of the Port of Montreal in Contrecœur. It sounds like government has decided that the demands of capitalism mean we can live without the western chorus frog (Pseudacris triseriata) and the copper redhorse (Moxostoma... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132627

I was pleased to hear on CBC radio that the Journal Métro is back, in website format, in time to cover the final month of the election campaign.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132621

One man is dead and two injured in a shooting outside a Starbucks in a strip mall in Laval. The victim was known as Bobby the Greek, otherwise Charalambos Theologou. Later radio news said it was inside the Starbucks. Later, TVA posted video from inside the... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132618

A suspect has been arrested in the arson of a house belonging to Pornhub cofounder Feras Antoon. The Ahuntsic mansion was under construction when it went up in flames in April 2021. At the time, Ephraim had a relevant comment on the oddity of someone having a... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132614