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Tourisme Montréal actively soliciting Ripley’s to build aquarium, believe it or not.

A La Presse exclusive reports Tourisme Montréal is actively pursuing the Jim Pattison Group to develop an aquarium here in Montreal. Pattison owns the Ripley’s Aquarium in Toronto, as well as Ripley’s Entertainment of Orlando. As Réjean Bourdeau points out, … Continue reading

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Pedestrianizing Ste-Catherine Street: How to Make it Work

It looks as though Mayor Coderre is at the very least interested in discussing the possibility of pedestrianizing Ste-Catherine Street in advance of the city’s 375th anniversary. This is as a consequence of needing to dig up the street and … Continue reading

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Tramway Considerations for Montréal’s Birthday

So it looks like Richard Bergeron has his own ideas concerning our city’s 375th Anniversary, and has proposed 37.5 km of new tram routes ready-to-go by 2017. Apparently, a finance working group has been established, though precisely what this means … Continue reading

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