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Taras Grescoe’s Straphanger: learning from car-taming and public-transit...
Below is my review of Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile, a new book by Taras Grescoe, a Montreal writer who traveled the world to examine how public transit can be used...
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House arrest in chop shop case
A man who was alleged to be the ringmaster of the largest stolen car parts network in Canada when he was first arrested seven years ago walked out of the Laval courthouse a free man Tuesday after being...
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Opinion: What I learned the day dad's Thunderbird caught fire
Nobody died. And it wasn’t an earth-shaking calamity. But no one who was there that sunny Sunday afternoon 50 years ago (June 27, 1965) will forget seeing my father’s Thunderbird go up in flames. It...
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Letter: Does a food bank need a drive-thru?
Re: “New MADA centre will help expand food distribution,” (Montreal Gazette, Oct. 22) I was frustrated to read that a drive-thru is planned to allow clients to pick up their food by car or taxi because...
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Editorial: Cellphones and Quebec drivers
The message, it seems, is not getting through: Too many motorists continue to use their cellphones while driving, sometimes with deadly results. The impulse for wanting to take firm action is...
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Editorial: No to right turns on red on Montreal Island
Almost 14 years after Quebec allowed drivers to make red turns on red lights everywhere except the island of Montreal, a coalition of suburban mayors is calling for the manoeuvre to finally be...
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