Montreal’s transit agency has a plan to reassure Metro users, who report feeling unsafe while taking the system. Montreal police have reported that more homeless people and drug users are using the transit network.
After more than two decades of operation, the weekend water shuttle connecting Montreal’s Lachine borough to Saint-Bernard Island in Châteauguay won’t be motoring across the St. Lawrence River this season.
A weather system far more typical of early autumn is dumping rainfall and breaking temperature records across southern Quebec. "It's very unusual," says an Environment Canada meteorologist.
The Old Brewery has gotten rid of the dormitories at its Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion in downtown Montreal, replacing them with semi-private rooms. CBC's Matt D'Amours spoke with staff and a former client about what this will mean for women experiencing homelessness.
CBC reporter Matt D'Amours took it upon himself to put the winter bikes available from Montreal's bike-sharing service to the test during the season's first snowstorm.