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The City of Beaconsfield launched the i3P project to identify local actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and to adapt to climate change. The consultations held over the course of this project enabled residents to speak to their priorities on measures to increase community resilience and improve Beaconsfield’s quality of life. The work of the i3P project culminated in the adoption of the Climate Change Adaptation Plan and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan at the Council meeting held on May 17. The Climate Action Plan, a synthesis of these two plans, not only presents the...

Kirkland TOWN WILL FIGHT TO RETAIN BILINGUAL STATUS: The town recently released a statement regarding the status of officially bilingual municipalities in light of the proposed Quebec Bill 96, which would allow municipalities no longer eligible for the status by having less than 50 percent mother tongue English residents to pass a resolution to retain that status. Kirkland had 41.2 percent English mother tongue residents in 2016. “Looking back at the history of our fair city, one cannot but notice that the French and the English languages have always coexisted in harmony,” says the ...