150 Montreal firefighters respond to three-alarm blaze in CDN-NDG

Montreal firefighters responded to a fire at a three-storey building in the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood on Monday evening. About 150 firefighters were called to the scene. Firefighters received a call around 9 p.m. about a fire near the intersection of Rue du Frère-André and Rue Coronet. The fire began at the back of the building, which […] The post 150 Montreal firefighters respond to three-alarm blaze in CDN-NDG appeared first on CityNews Montreal .

A project introduced during the mandate of former CDN-NDG mayor Sue Montgomery is finally coming to fruition, but with a slightly higher price tag: the renovated and expanded Trenholme Sports Centre. The chalet where the renovated and expanded facility will be built has been closed for some time, with the project originally announced in 2021. While it has not been made clear as to what took so long to get the project off the ground, interim borough mayor Sonny Moroz says excitedly that “it’s finally going forward.” He calls the funding for the project one of Montgomery’s “true wins.”“It’s these kinds of federal-provincial funds that go directly to municipalities that Côte des Neiges-NDG needs to get its fair share to make up for historic lack of investment in our area. I’m very proud that we’re able to finish that job,” he adds, “because we want people to have access to modern, high-quality facilities in Côte des Neiges-NDG.”The new facility is slated to cost $11 million. The outside will not look very different from what it looks like now.

PARIS (AP) — Paris returned to calm on Tuesday after its first quiet night since a weekend marred by France’s most destructive rioting in years, as authorities imposed curfews in several cities in an effort to prevent another round of rioting and looting. At least 2,400 people were arrested after rioters in cities across France on Saturday clashed with police, set cars on fire, stormed public buildings and engulfed a historic city hall in flames, during nationwide protests against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools. On Sunday evening, small groups set fire to trash bins, bicycles and other objects in the streets and looted businesses in Paris, Lyon, Marseille and other cities. In the capital, a curfew ran from 11 p.m. on Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday, and a police helicopter circled over Place de la République overnight, a central point in the weekend clashes, sweeping the square with a searchlight to check that the order was being respected.

The Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable informs the public that Highway 25, including the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine tunnel, will be closed toward Montreal during this weekend.…

Seven years ago, in the pages of The New Yorker, Haruki Murakami published an essay so odd, so vulnerable, so personal that it burrowed into my psyche and changed the way I view a favorite author forever. That essay, “Abandoning a Cat,” has since been expanded into a slim, small, beautiful hardcover book that will appear in the U. S. this month. If you’re considering buying the book for a cat lover in your life, however, think again. An anecdote involving a cat that Murakami and his father abandoned is merely a portal onto a painful and perplexing history: personal, familial, cultural, national, and ultimately universal. The story that emerges is quietly devastating, all the more powerful for the restraint and epistemological humility with which Murakami presents it. “Abandoning a Cat” begins with deceptively casual ease: “Of course I have lots of memories of my father. It’s only natural.” Soon, however, the potentially comforting abundance of memory turns cold comfort: these visions of the past are often fragmentary, lack context, or impossible to interpret. The memory of abandoning the cat is epitomizing.