The City of Côte St. Luc ended 2019 with an operating surplus of $2.964 million, compared to $1.749 million for the year 2018, says Mayor Mitchell Brownstein's annual report on the Financial Statements for the Year Ended December 31, 2019.
Montreal West ended the year 2019 with a $462,813 operating surplus, which adds up to 2.9 percent of the town's total budget, Councillor Colleen Feeney posted on the town's website.
Summer camps run by Côte St. Luc have been cancelled for this summer, because of the COVID-19 virus, the city has announced.
The Canadian Celiac Association (CCA) and Promise Gluten Free partnered to donate a variety of gluten-free products to Food Banks Canada and Second Harvest. The gluten- free products will be distributed in twenty food banks and community-based agency locations Canada-wide.
Town of Mont Royal has reopened its dog runs. Closed since March as part of its pandemic prevention measures, TMR is restoring access to its dog runs with strict hygiene guidelines: maintaining a physical distance between visitors is necessary and wearing a face mask is recommended.
Concordia’s engAGE living lab of the university's Centre for Research on Aging, opened a centre called Creative Living Lab at Quartier Cavendish in Cote St. Luc on January 16 funded by the Fonds de recherche du Quebec (FRQ). The goal of the project is to combat senior isolation whilst contri…
A Côte St. Luc meeting for residents of Districts 2, 6 and 8 will be held virtually 7:15 p.m. June 3, the city announced last week.
NDG-based Head & Hands has created a youth support service during the COVID outbreak.
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Côte St. Luc council passed a draft bylaw Monday night requiring the wearing of masks in municipal buildings and local businesses, in light of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and based on legal opinions received by council. The final bylaw is expected to be passed, possibly with some further cha…
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On first glance, it looked like Boxing Day on Monday as Montreal stores facing onto the street reopened downtown. As expected, there was a long line headed into the Best Buy store on Ste. Catherine West at about 12:15 pm. Some waiting in line told me they had been waiting for a half-hour to …
Snowdon councillor Marvin Rotrand introduced a motion at Monday’s Montreal city council meeting to ask the Montreal police (SPVM) to “collect race-based data for all stops of pedestrians and drivers, and on charges and arrests that may result from such stops as well as for all situations inv…
The Cornwall Bridge in TMR was closed for demolition and reconstruction by the Réseau express métropolitain (REM) last week.
The International Moot Beit Din (Court) was held via Zoom this past Sunday, May 24, with the participation of over 110 students. Though there were COVID delays and postponements, there was robust participation of students from Canada, the United States, Israel and Mexico. The teams were divi…
As a huge fan of the Netflix hit show Fauda, I was very excited last week to access a special Zoom broadcast featuring Alaa Daka. He played the key role of Bashar in the third season, which is still streaming.
As fundraising organizations try and make the best of a very bad situation during this COVID-19 pandemic crisis, Autism Speaks Canada has come up with an innovative way to keep their annual Dog Walk intact. The key word in today’s world is “virtual” and that was the way to move forward in th…
Build It Forward emerged from the philanthropic siblings Kai, 7 and Noa, 13, of Côte Saint-Luc.
A change.org petition was launched last week calling for the City of Côte St. Luc to repeal its longstanding overnight parking law, generally prohibiting parking on the street between 3 and 6 a.m.
Hampstead town council voted recently to set aside $25,000 to buy and donate personal protective equipment "to front-line health workers dealing with COVID-19."
Dormez-vous, the mattress retail store, announced it is donating a combined $275,000 in sleep essentials to vulnerable clients at the Salvation Army in Quebec and frontline workers at the Jewish General Hospital, to help out during the COVID-19 crisis.
Irving Roth, a survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, and death marches during the Holocaust, will be the guest speaker 7:30 p.m. Monday June 1 at a worldwide Facebook Live event hosted by the Chabad Seminary of Canada – Ben Weider Educational Center.
Santé Publique de Montréal has released detailed statistics regarding COVID-19 cases and deaths in the various boroughs and cities on the island of Montreal.
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