STM hikes managers’ pay again
They did it again. Even as it raised transit fares and slashed bus service, Montreal’s transit authority hiked salaries of its top executives in January, with three of them enjoying 4.5-per-cent...
View ArticleAMT keeps executive pay hikes in check
Unlike Montreal’s bus and métro authority, the agency that runs commuter trains kept executive salary hikes in check this year. The Agence métropolitaine de transport increased the pay of its eight...
View ArticleFIFA offers winter dates for 2022 World Cup
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ZURICH, Switzerland — FIFA has offered January and November in 2022 as alternative kickoff dates for the World Cup in Qatar. FIFA says it presented the two options Monday when its...
View ArticleMontreal inaugurates new traffic monitoring centre
Don’t you hate when you’re waiting in a backlog of cars at a red light, but no one is driving through the opposite green light? So does the city — and now, it can do something about it. The city...
View ArticleCouncillors want to help better co-ordinate road work on major arteries
The next time you’re stuck in traffic on a main street under construction, consider whether a committee of elected officials could have gotten you through faster. That’s the belief of at least two...
View ArticleSupervised injection sites coming to Montreal, Coderre says
The city of Montreal will see supervised drug injection sites on its territory in the near future, Mayor Denis Coderre announced Wednesday. “Following the (2011) ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada...
View ArticleMontreal’s inspector general critical of Old Port land deal
MONTREAL — In the first report issued by the inspector general, the city of Montreal’s new watchdog bureau created to police suspicious public contracts, the office has recommended a...
View ArticleLetter: Montreal's 'Person of the Year' would be Mayor Denis Coderre
If you are looking for a Montreal Person of the Year, my vote is definitely for our mayor, Denis Coderre, who not only initiated legal action against the municipal pension rampagers, but has fully...
View ArticleDaycare to be offered during Ville-Marie borough council meetings
Parents of young children no longer need to arrange for a sitter if they want to attend the Ville-Marie borough council meeting. The downtown borough council will offer a daycare service for people for...
View ArticleBombardier defends pay structure after public outcry over executive pay...
Bombardier was doing damage control Saturday in the face of an uproar over a hefty increase in compensation to senior management, but the company’s explanations didn’t satisfy all its critics....
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