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Highway 440 renamed for first mayor - Newscoverage

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Highway 440 renamed for first mayor. August 3, 2015. Wingding Thursday for Laval 50th. Centropolis is the place to be Thursday evening, as Laval pulls out all the stops to mark the city’s semicentennial. The party will cap a day of celebration of the date fifty years ago, when provincial Municipal Affairs Minister Pierre Laporte welded all 14 municipalities on Île Jésus into the single city of Laval. It will be a full day of events, executive committee vice-chairman David de Cotis told. The crescendo of ...

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Armand Frappier Museum offers children an initiation to science - Newscoverage

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Armand Frappier Museum offers children an initiation to science. July 22, 2015. The Armand Frappier Museum still has space in all of their four science camps in the coming weeks except for the week of August 17. The camp that has been in existence for more than 20 years, offering children from 6-13 years old the opportunity to have fun while discovering the universe of bioscience. According to Labelle the camper/counsellor ratio is 16:2 and the maximum capacity for the entire camp each week is close to 5...

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Shale oil producers defy shakeout. December 15, 2015. By Robert Frank Plummeting oil prices have put unprecedented pressure on energy producers in Canada and around the world. The shale oil revolution has. Maccarone: QESBA to defend minority rights. October 25, 2015. By Robert Frank The new head of the Quebec English School Board Association (QESBA) wants to forge a broad-based coalition to protect minority rights . Police investigate alleged fatwa against Conservative candidate. October 18, 2015. Octobe...

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Eligibility case against Demers lapses - Newscoverage

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Eligibility case against Demers lapses. August 5, 2015. No appeal to Supreme Court. The long court challenge that has dogged Laval Mayor Marc Demers is now over. Jacques Foucher has decided not to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, after the Quebec Court of Appeal upheld a lower-court judgment that Demers is indeed eligible to hold office in Laval. Foucher ran unsuccessfully as Demers opponent in the 2013 municipal election. The file is over, the page has been turned, Foucher told. They have supporte...

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Broad support builds for Conservatives - Newscoverage

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Broad support builds for Conservatives. June 17, 2015. Roland Dick attracted surprisingly strong support from across the political spectrum, June 15, when he opened his campaign office in the western Laval riding of Laval les Îles. We might not all be Conservatives I’m not a Conservative but I’m going to support Roland Dick in the upcoming federal election, declared David de Cotis, vice-chairman of the City of Laval’s powerful executive committee. Dick is an architect by profession and a North American l...

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Housing starts up in Laval - Newscoverage

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Housing starts up in Laval. July 22, 2015. Build it and they will come is the motto for Laval resident real estate developers. Housing starts were up 29 per cent in Laval for the first five months of 2015, compared to the same period last year, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) reported. Indeed, the only other region where CMHC saw a rise in housing starts from January to May was the South Shore, which lifted lightly by four per cent. That growth will likely lead Laval to ov...

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Plans for Laval's new city hall fountain spark controversy - Newscoverage

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Plans for Laval’s new city hall fountain spark controversy. July 22, 2015. By Abby E. Schachter. Laval Mayor, Marc Demers is proudly standing by his latest project; a brand new fountain in front of city hall. However, politician and Demers opponent Emillio Migliozzi says that the fountain is causing more harm than good. He told. That the fountain a waste of public funds and an insult to the community. We could have made a sports complex or arena. It would have been paid with private money not public ...

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Laval opens its data to app developers  - Newscoverage

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Laval opens its data to app developers. July 22, 2015. Starting this Fall, Laval will release to the public some of its computer databases that hitherto were available only to select civil servants. The move will be a boon to programmers, who can now develop applications that will put the information at the disposal of computer, tablet and smartphone users. It has opened up a world of opportunity to the community, city spokeswoman Valérie Sauvé told. Montreal’s French-only web page. One is designed to wa...

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Billion dollar class action registration for alleged exposure to toxic concentration levels - Newscoverage

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Billion dollar class action registration for alleged exposure to toxic concentration levels. June 27, 2012. Current path of toxic concentrations of SO3 could be enlarged to comprise two million alleged victims. Some 98,000 West Island, St. Laurent and off-island households received a notice in their mailbox last week, telling them how they can register to claim compensation for the alleged effects of sulphur trioxide cloud released from a Valleyfield zinc smelter in 2004. The dispersion model that we use...

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Schools get reprieve from closures - Newscoverage

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Schools get reprieve from closures. August 5, 2015. Quebec’s Education Ministry has backed off its push to force school boards to close their underused schools before children return to class next month. The provincial government had threatened not to fund capital improvements to schools operating at less than 50 per cent capacity. Without that cushion, a roof leak or a heating system failure could have provoked a sudden closure in the midst of the school year. We were hugely disappointed that our proven...