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 Côte St. Luc council voted 5-2 to approve a change in the citys top management, in which city manager Tanya Abramovitch becomes associate city manager, and co-city manager Jonathan Shecter becomes city manager. Councillors David Tordjman and Oren Sebag voted against, while Dida Berku, Mike Cohen, Mitch Kujavsky, Sidney Benizri and Steven Erdelyi voted in favour. All of council approved the promotion of Jason Prévost from assistant city clerk to director of legal services and assistant...

The news is still positive, for Quebec as a whole, according to the latest provincial and local COVID-19 case statistics. For the period between Feb. 24 and March 1, Quebec’s new daily COVID cases remained below 1,000, between a new low of 588 and 858. The week before, the new low was 666. Negative test results remained the same for two weeks in a row, at 97.1 percent last week, even as the amount of tests conducted varied between 17,456 and 32,744. For March 2, there were “729 new ca...

According to Côte Saint-Luc Mayor Mitchell Brownstein, most of these recent cases are linked to the city's elementary schools and daycares.

Quebec Court Judge Martin Bergeron ruled last month that the Allstate Insurance Company is not liable in a case brought by the City of Côte St. Luc regarding a damaged fire hydrant. CSL was seeking $6.126.07 after the driver of a vehicle damaged a city-owned hydrant on May 27, 2019. However, the judge ruled that Allstate "discharged the burden which was incumbent upon it to demonstrate by preponderance that the vehicle was stolen" when it damaged the hydrant. "Consequently, the exception pro...

The Décarie Square COVID-19 vaccination centre in Côte St. Luc opened Monday to long lines of those eligible to receive their first dose. Other CIUSSS West-Central Montreal vaccination sites serving the west end are at the Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Côte Ste. Catherine Road; the CLSC Métro, 1801 Maisonneuve Blvd West; and the CLSC Parc-Extension, 7085 Hutchison Street. One must first make an appointment by registering online at quebec.ca/vaccincovid or by calling (toll-free) 1-877 64...

The City of Côte St. Luc, represented by Mayor Mitchell Brownstein and Councillor Dida Berku, presented the citys brief on mobility in the Namur-De La Savane area during Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain hearings on a 2021-2030 Montreal transit plan. CSL has united with the City of Montreal, Town of Mount Royal, and the boroughs of Côte des Neiges-NDG and St. Laurent to call for a transit plan for the area, where there is already traffic congestion and several develop...

Richard Liebmann, who started his career as a volunteer paramedic and later director in Côte St. Luc’s Emergency Measures Service (EMS) and firefighter at that city’s former fire department, has

St. Laurent FIRST ELECTRIC DE-ICING TRUCK UNVEILED: Aéro Mag, a St. Laurent-based aircraft de-icing company, held a ceremony Thursday at their Trudeau Airport facility to unveil the “world’s first electrically powered aircraft de-icing truck.” A company statement says the truck will “help reduce the company’s environmental footprint by significantly reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.The new truck was designed and manufactured by The Vestergaard Company, â�...

Progress on the long-awaited Hippodrome housing project in Snowdon has not budged “by even an inch” under Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante, area councillor Marvin Rotrand wrote in a message to constituents. As well, “nothing will happen on the proposed Cavendish extension as no funds are budgeted for at least the next five years — and that is just to supposedly start the project,” Rotrand told The Suburban. Rotrand wrote to constituents that Plante is “now in her ...

  After over 50 years, the City of Cote-St-Luc is urging Montreal to get the ball rolling on the expansion of Cavendish Blvd. “The cities, towns, and boroughs with an interest in the Cavendish extension have reached a consensus on this road project,” Cote St-Luc Mayor Mitchell Brownstein said in a statement. “The next step is for Montreal to send the project to the (provincial environmental hearings bureau) for review, as was announced a year ago.” Assistant manager for the City of...