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Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante Shared Her Sud-Ouest Date Night Itinerary

Mayor Valérie Plante often uses social media to showcase the Montreal businesses and institutions she visits, both as part of her duties as the city's chief executive and, occasionally, in her personal life, as just another Montrealer seeking a good time in the buzzing metropolis.

On May 21, she took to the city's Sud-Ouest borough for an apparent date night, "playing tourist," in her words, as she zipped between some of the area's trendiest drinkeries — with some time for architecture gazing along the way.

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After A Fatal Fire In Old Montreal, Mayor Plante Is Calling For A Crackdown On Illegal Airbnbs

"It's important to determine the causes of this tragedy," Mayor Valérie Plante said of the Old Montreal fire that claimed at least one life and left six people missing late last week. The building was multipurpose, Plante said, including homes, an architectural firm and, most likely, one or more illegal Airbnbs.

"They've been a blight on cities for a long time," Plante wrote of illegal Airbnbs in a Facebook post on Monday, March 20.

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Montrealers Are Protesting For Safer Streets Following The Hit-And-Run Death Of A 7-Year-Old

Over a hundred Montrealers gathered in the snow outside Jean-Baptiste-Meilleur primary school on Friday morning. Many held signs calling for safer roads in the Centre-Sud, where seven-year-old Ukrainian refugee Maria Legenkovska was killed in a hit-and-run two days prior.

In addition to honouring Legenkovska, who died on her way to school, protesters demanded more secure school zones and less car-centric infrastructure in Montreal and throughout the province.

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Mayor Plante Just Gave A Striking, Impassioned Call For A Less Car-Centric City (VIDEO)

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante just gave perhaps some of her most impassioned public remarks yet. Speaking to reporters during a march on Friday in honour of the seven-year-old girl who was killed in a hit-and-run in the Ville-Marie borough on Tuesday, the mayor delivered a striking call for a more pedestrian-friendly, less car-centric city.

"It makes no sense that [our children] die on the way to school," she said in a streetside scrum. "We want families to stay in Montreal, to live downtown and feel safe."

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These 12 Montreal Streets Will Be Pedestrianized For The Summer Of 2022

The city has announced the Montreal streets that will be pedestrianized for the summer of 2022. They are:

  • avenue du Mont-Royal from boulevard Saint-Laurent to rue Fullum;
  • rue Wellington from 6e avenue to rue Régina;
  • rue Sainte-Catherine E. from rue Saint-Hubert to avenue Papineau;
  • rue Ontario E. from boulevard Pie-IX to rue Darling;
  • avenue Duluth E. from boulevard Saint-Laurent to rue Saint-Hubert;
  • rue Saint-Denis from rue Sherbrooke to boulevard de Maisonneuve;
  • rue Émery;
  • rue Sainte-Catherine O. from boulevard Saint-Laurent to rue de Bleury;
  • rue Clark from rue de Montigny to the Maison du développement durable (one block);
  • place du Marché-du-Nord from avenue Casgrain to avenue Henri-Julien;
  • avenue Bernard from avenue Wiseman to avenue Bloomfield;
  • and rue de Castelnau E. from rue Saint-Denis to avenue de Gaspé.
In a press release, Projet Montréal, the party of Mayor Valérie Plante, said that the administration has devoted funding to keep subsidizing the summer pedestrian street program for three years. Pedestrianized streets became a citywide phenomenon in the summer of 2020 when social distancing requirements inspired the city to create more space for foot traffic.

"Boroughs, business owners, residents, customers, passers-by and tourists appreciate the quality of life offered by pedestrianization projects," Mayor Plante said in the release.

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Mayor Plante Is Calling On Quebec To Get Its Sh*t Together & Save Montreal Summer

Montreal's mayor is as impatient for a reopening plan as the rest of us. She's calling on the Quebec government to get its business together to save the city's entertainment industry and lively spring and summer seasons.

In a February 6 Facebook post, Mayor Valérie Plante said the provincial government's "vagueness" around reopening rules and aid for the entertainment industry is "intolerable," suggesting the city stands to lose a competitive edge as other North American cities organize "cultural springs" this year.

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It's The 15th Anniversary Of Montreal's Dawson College Shooting

Today marks the 15th anniversary of Montreal's Dawson College shooting. 18-year-old Anastasia De Sousa was killed and 19 others were injured.

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante offered her thoughts to De Sousa's family and the victims of the shooting in a Twitter post. The mayor also implored the federal parties to make "better gun control" a priority so that a mass shooting doesn't happen again.

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