Fairview Forest News Today

Montreal is often praised for its green initiatives but people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods often get short shrift when it comes to green spaces.

The CSN bussed its members to three endangered green spaces Saturday, to help them get to know the woods and the groups trying to save them.

This weekends citizen science event connects people to nature and helps monitor wildlife distribution around the world.

Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre held a news conference in the Fairview Pointe-Claire shopping centres parking lot as part of a series of stops where he shed light on hyper-local

The federal Conservative leader held a news conference Thursday outside the Fairview Pointe-Claire shopping centre to denounce bureaucracy that he says has stalled housing projects.

Loto-Québec plans on building a 200-room luxury hotel next to the Montreal casino on Parc Jean- Drapeau. The project should open in two to three years.

The project would help alleviate traffic on existing main arteries in the West Island.

• Pointe-Claire

The developer says that 750 Peel, part of its much larger redevelopment in the city's core, will have 510 rental units with a 2026 completion date.

A new ecological study was commissioned by the Legacy Fund for the Environment on behalf of environmentalist groups that want to preserve Pointe-Claires Fairview Forest.