Company to clean up Pointe Claire PCB storage
A company that is storing thousands of litres of PCB-contaminated oil in a warehouse on Hymus Blvd. will begin cleaning up the site, the provincial environment ministry said on Friday. “The company...
View ArticleReliance Power Equipment will clean up PCB site: environment ministry
A company that is storing thousands of litres of PCB-contaminated oil in a warehouse on Hymus Blvd. will begin cleaning up the site, the provincial Environment Department said. “The company informed us...
View ArticlePointe Claire issues chronology of PCB presence on Hymus
The city of Pointe-Claire has provided residents with a chronology of events related to the discovery of a yard full of PCB-contaminated oil in their community. The notice was sent out over the Labour...
View ArticleEditorial: Provincial and city officials failed the public over PCB storage
Residents of Pointe-Claire have been ill served by various levels of government in the matter of the illegal toxic-materials dump in their community that came to light this week. It took a report in...
View ArticleWalter Surface Technologies opens state-of-the-art facility in Pointe-Claire
Walter Surface Technologies officially opened its new $30-million, LEED®-Gold-certified, sustainable-manufacturing facility in Pointe-Claire on Aug. 22. The company provides for the metal working and...
View ArticlePierrefonds mayoralty race takes off as another borough councillor throws hat...
Another Pierrefonds-Roxboro councillor has announced he will run in the upcoming municipal election to replace Monique Worth, who is retiring as borough mayor. On Monday, Christian Dubois announced he...
View Article22-year-old man caught on video with pants down, becomes victim of extortion
Police are investigating an attempted extortion after a 22-year-old man complained that a woman he met online threatened to post sexually-explicit videos of him if he didn’t pay up. The incident took...
View ArticleKirkland robbery servers as cautionary tale
A 21-year-old woman was robbed last weekend after she withdrew money from a Kirkland bank and then was unknowingly followed to another mall. The incident took place Aug. 31 at about 1 p.m. Police say...
View ArticlePointe-Claire residents react to illegal PCB warehouse
Many Pointe-Claire residents were surprised to learn last week that a warehouse on Hymus Blvd. has been illegally storing thousands of litres of PCB-contaminated oil for 15 years. City council members...
View ArticleWith the Coach: Mark Datko
With the Coach is a weekly series featuring a conversation with a local coach. Coach: Mark Datko, 45, a Pierrefonds resident who is a sales manager for UPS Team: Pierrefonds bantam B Yankees Years...
View ArticleBeaconsfield attempting to recover $74K from gas leak intervention
reclaim close to $75,000 the city has spent to intervene following a gas leak at a Beaurepaire Village service station in the spring of 2011. The city filed a damages claim against the operator of the...
View ArticleMarla Newhook: School is the place to teach kids to be good digital citizens
It’s going to be very interesting at Macdonald High School this year, as students and teachers embark on an innovative model of tech-infused education by introducing the “bring your own device to...
View ArticleBill Tierney: Election may alter West Island beyond recognition
There are rumblings in the village of Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Ears are burning with election gossip. Here’s a very eccentric update from our little town. There is nothing scientific about it. Just...
View ArticleHouse making way for offices in Valois Village
A small dilapidated house in Pointe-Claire’s Valois Village is to be torn down to make way for a proposed commercial project. This year, a developer purchased a King St. property, a 5,175-square-foot...
View ArticleEnvironment minister okays Reliance plan for PCB cleanup
Quebec’s environment minister has given the green light to a cleanup plan submitted by Reliance Power Equipment Ltd. to eliminate the health threat of PCB storage at its Pointe-Claire property. The...
View ArticleApproved plan for PCB cleanup includes trucking contaminated oil to disposal...
The Quebec government approved a cleanup plan on Wednesday for a Pointe-Claire warehouse that has been illegally storing thousands of litres of PCB-contaminated oil for over a decade. “Whatever we do...
View ArticleWestbound Highway 40 to be closed completely overnight for three nights:...
Motorists who use Highway 40 in the western tip of the island be warned: The westbound lanes of the autoroute will be closed completely overnight on Wednesday, Sept. 4; Thursday, Sept. 5; and Friday,...
View ArticleLindsay Place Eagles win first football game after 14-year hiatus
After a 14-year hiatus, the Lindsay Place High School boys’ football team won its first competitive game on Thursday evening. “I was proud to be part of Lindsay Place,” said head coach Jordan Coones, a...
View ArticleLachine candidates running with mayoral contender Marcel Côté revealed
Candidates running in Lachine with mayoral contender Marcel Côté were revealed Friday. Bernard Blanchet, elected for the first time in 1993, is running for city councillor representing Lachine borough....
View ArticleBeaconsfield home invasion perpetrator granted day parole
One of three men who took part in a home invasion in Beaconsfield, which resulted in a fatal police shooting, has been granted day parole with the condition attached that he not associate with his...
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