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Côte St. Luc FLAGS AT HALF-MAST: The city flew its flags at half-mast last week in reaction to the discovery of the remains of 215 children at a former Kamloops residential school, and in honour of them and “all Indigenous children who never made it home, the survivors, and their families.” BLANKETS FOR VETS: Former CSL councillor Allan Levine, now the head of Branch 97 of the Royal Canadian Legion, announced a donation of blankets for 100 veterans at Ste. Anne’s hospital for veterans in Ste. Anne de Bellevue on behalf of the branch. The idea came from Larry Rosenthal, who o...

St. Laurent council voted last week at a special council meeting to authorize the City of Montreal to use $540,500 from a social inclusion fund—reserved for the borough— to "help finance the construction of the Coopérative d’habitation laurentienne's project." The planned 169-unit project is located in the Bois-Franc Transit Oriented Development area, on Marcel Laurin Blvd. A borough announcement says the project "provides for 75 percent of these social housing units on eight storeys to include two or more bedrooms in order to meet the diversified needs of the target populat...

Côte St. Luc TORDJMAN CONTINUES EFFORTS FOR THOSE IN NEED: Côte St. Luc councillor David Tordjman continued his efforts — more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic — to deliver meals and snacks to frontline workers and the vulnerable with a food distribution event.This past May 12, the CSL mayoral candidate led a team of volunteers and Station 9 police officers in setting up a food distribution site in the greenspace known as Emerald Park. They visited numerous apartment buildings and “delivered hundreds of containers of soup, snacks and smiles to Emerald Street residen...

The borough of St. Laurent is investing $2 million in pedestrian safety projects for 2021, starting this month, as part of its 10-year capital investment plan. The projects include the "installation of curb extensions, speed humps and curb radius reduction, as well as raised intersections and crossings at 38 different locations." The cost is $2,003,740 for 2021, and is being paid for by the borough and the City of Montreal. "Promoting safe walking on St. Laurent territory is one of the main concerns of our administration, as evidenced by the pedestrian master plan that we launched in Septembe...

Côte St. Luc VOTE BY MAIL FOR 70+ PASSES, UMQ BLASTED: Côte St. Luc council voted, as have some other municipal councils, to enable voters 70 and older to vote by mail in this November’s municipal election, as allowed by a new Quebec law Bill 85 and in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. All councillors seconded the motion. But Councillor Mike Cohen, who worked on the file, blasted the Union of Quebec Municipalities (UMQ), calling what he said was their near inaction “shameful. “They’re supposed to represent us,” the councillor said. “I tried to communicate wit...