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Quebec will match the funding, giving $1.8 billion for new housing construction.

Residents went back to what was left of their homes Monday after a fire destroyed part of a Dorval apartment building last weekend.

At issue is the removal of roughly 250 parking spots to widen and protect bike lanes on Querbes Ave.

Increasing rental costs in the West Island are an ongoing issue, while affordable options become even more limited in the region.

The mayors of Montréal-Nord, St-Laurent and Outremont held a press conference Wednesday, saying the payments from the central city aren't keeping up with inflation.

After months of planning and work, the official inauguration of the renovated St-Charles Park in Dorval on Thursday introduced the community to the fully accessible park for anyone with mobility issues. The park took 18 months to build, but the idea to convert the park came much earlier from former mayor Edgar Rouleau.

Formerly the site of a restaurant, the city purchased the lot on which the new Village Park sits in 2019. The green space is on Lakeshore Drive at the corner of Cloverdale Avenue.

Two West Island cities are hoping to implement plans for better safety for pedestrians and cyclists.

But are municipal authorities doing enough to improve mobility options?

Grade six students at Ecole Gentilly in Dorval are looking forward to the end of the school year, for a variety of obvious reasons, but also because the fundraising project theyve been working on is pretty sweet.