Friday, March 29, 2024

West Island citizens advocacy to celebrate its fifth annual wine tasting event on April...

By Rhonda Massad   Excitment is building for the 5th annual west island citizens advocacy’s (WICA) wine tasting fundraiser, « In the Spirit of Advocacy « taking place on Wednesday, April...

Second councilor resigns in Senneville

By Rhonda Massad   Michael Van der Linden resigned from Senneville village council, March 27. The District 1 councillor is the second councilor to quit after the Nov. 3 municipal election.His...

Kuper students build prosthetic hand – for under $300 West Island teen scientists sweep...

 By Rhonda Massad   Kuper Academy Secondary 5 students Nicolas Theodore and Robert Riachi’s have dazzled McGill engineering and computer science professors with a working prosthetic robotic hand that they built...

Pointe Claire to spend $3.7 million on the Dongani overpass

 By Rhonda Massad   Pointe Claire has confirmed that it will spend $3.7 million this summer to repair the overpass on St. John over Donegani.The structure, which spans Canadian National and...

LBPSB reverses position on emergency measures

By Robert Frank   In a dramatic turnaround, Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) voted Monday to move forward with a plan to replace its outdated, 12-year-old emergency measures policy.Last month,...

Court orders Vaillancourt to appear in April

By Rhonda Massad   Though seventy-year-old former Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt was not present at the Laval Courthouse on March 31, thirty defence attorneys gathered to get the latest details in...

Demerged municipalities have to demand what they need from the provincial government

By Rhonda Massad   Demerged cities need to take a page out the Laval Mayor Marc Demers’ handbook on using the provincial elections to demand fiscal justice.Laval, the third largest city...

Suburban mayors refuse agglo pest-control takeover bid

By Rhonda Massad   Montreal’s 13 demerged suburbs have unanimously refused an offer to band with the boroughs of Montreal to centralize efforts to eradicate the emerald ash borer (EAB) under the...

SPCA West Division unofficially opened in Vaudreuil

 The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) quietly opened the doors of its West Division unofficially last month. The SPCA new branch will offer much relief to...

CJAD’s Dr. Joe to impart his love of chemistry at West Island College

By Rhonda Massad   Dr. Joe Schwarcz will speak to senior West Island College’s (WIC) students, March 31, to mark the school’s 40th anniversary. The director of McGill University’s Office for...