Beaconsfield nixes plan to extend Elm Ave.
While a copy of Beaconsfield’s draft planning program for Angell Woods handed out to the public Monday included a proposal to extend Elm Ave. into the Baie d’Urfé industrial park, the option was...
View ArticleFuture of Pierrefonds-Roxboro condo development to be decided in September
Neighbours of a proposed six-storey condo development on Gouin Blvd. and Aumais St. in Pierrefonds-Roxboro will decide the fate of the project in two public registers on Sept. 11. Residents concerned...
View ArticleMan arrested at Trudeau airport for making threats, police say
A 25-year-old man is in police custody after making threats during a flight to Istanbul on Sunday night. The man was on board an Air Transat flight that left Trudeau International Airport around 6:30...
View ArticleProtest sparked by woman who went topless at Cap-St-Jacques beach
On a hot, sunny day this month, Rebecca Anne Clark went for a stroll with her boyfriend along the Cap-Saint-Jacques municipal beach in Pierrefonds. At one point, she said, she took off her dress to...
View ArticleEnjoying late summer day at Cap St. Jacques
Hundreds of people spent a day in the late summer sun at Cap St. Jacques Beach on Saturday, Aug. 24. Photos by John Mahoney, The Gazette. To view all the photographs, click on the arrows.
View ArticleTracks repaired at Pointe Claire train derailment site
Four cars on a Canadian Pacific Railway freight train derailed in Pointe Claire early Saturday, closing off a section of track for several hours as repair crews worked to get the vehicle moving. The...
View ArticleCorporate funding for the birds
The McGill Bird Observatory in Ste. Anne de Bellevue is calling on West Islanders to help it get its hands on a share of Canadian corporate funding now up for grabs. The MBO is one of five...
View ArticleStash of PCBs shocks Pointe-Claire; Authorities found illegal storage after...
Quebecers should be worried that it took 15 years for officials to clue into the fact that a Pointe-Claire company had a yard full of toxic materials, says one environmental expert, and the public...
View ArticleResidents angry about illegal storage of PCBs in their neighbourhood
A Pointe-Claire neighbourhood was in a state of shock Tuesday as residents learned that a warehouse on Hymus Blvd. close to their homes is a storage facility for electrical transformers containing PCBs...
View ArticleAqueduct flushing in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue begins today
Unidirectional aqueduct flushing begins in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue today. The work takes place on weekdays only, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. until all the aqueducts in the North and South sectors are flushed...
View ArticlePCB spill sparks the question: Do we really learn any lessons from a disaster?
Disasters like the Lac-Megantic rail fire serve to focus the public’s attention on the need to tighten controls on how dangerous substances are handled. But do the lessons we learn have lasting...
View ArticleFirm storing PCBs took Pointe-Claire to court over restrictions imposed on...
The history of Reliance Power Equipment Ltd., the Pointe-Claire company revealed Tuesday to be illegally storing hazardous waste laden with PCBs, goes back decades in Pointe-Claire as does its...
View ArticleDecontamination of PCB site will take months; Cleanup to cost millions, and...
It will take months and cost millions of dollars to decontaminate a Pointe-Claire warehouse and yard of PCB-tainted soil, says a leading Quebec expert on cleaning up hazardous sites. There are many...
View ArticlePCBs: ‘No excuse’ for not warning residents; Provincial and municipal officials
Provincial and municipal officials had no legal obligation to inform the residents of Pointe-Claire that there was an illegal stockpile of hazardous waste in the middle of their community, but experts...
View ArticleProvince vows to seize assets of ‘bum company’; Says it will move in to clean...
The provincial government is poised to step in and clean up after a company that’s been illegally stockpiling toxic materials at its Pointe-Claire headquarters. The government gave the delinquent...
View ArticleIllegal PCB site: Second ultimatum issued to Pointe Claire firm
CARLETON-SUR-MER — Environment Minister Yves-Francois Blanchet has issued a second ultimatum to a Pointe Claire firm to clean up a stockpile of toxic PCB waste. Blanchet said if it was up to him alone,...
View ArticlePointe Claire council didn’t know about PCB leak; Staff assumed province...
Pointe-Claire city council didn’t know about toxic leaks at an illegal PCB storage site until this week, Mayor Bill McMurchie says. “The council became aware of it, along with a lot of other people,...
View ArticleProblem of PCBs and toxic waste too often buried: report
The number of contaminated sites across Quebec keeps growing year after year, and usually the provincial Environment Department becomes aware of them only after chemical spills — like the one in...
View ArticleMinister had power to give ultimatum months ago
Clean up your act. We really mean it this time. That’s the message Environment Minister Yves-François Blanchet appeared to be sending on Wednesday to the delinquent company responsible for an oil...
View ArticleJoe Schwarcz: PCBs are not ‘toxic time bombs’; The potential for risk from...
We hadn’t heard much about polychlorinated biphenyls since the fire at St-Basil-le-Grand in 1988, but we sure are hearing a lot now. There are two angles to news about the illegally stored PCB-filled...
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