Grab lunch. Head to the metro. Learn how to sue your landlord. Go back to work. Ok, it doesn't really work like that. But getting legal advice or at least guidance on where to find resources can be that convenient with the return of Juripop's free walk-up legal clinics in the Montreal metro.
"Merci d'avoir voyagé avec la STM." A phrase many Montrealers who frequent the Metro are familiar with. But are you familiar with what the STM even stands for? More importantly, do you know what it definitely doesn't stand for? We decided to have some fun and ask Montrealers what the "STM" stands for, but we wanted wrong answers only, and wrong answers we got.
The STM will continue to hack away at its costs with a goal of saving $18 million in 2023. If successful, these cuts would bring the transit company's deficit to a mere $60 million.
Pie-IX, born Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti, was a 19th-century pope. Charles-Théodore Viau was a moustached businessman and landowner. Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire was a fervent Catholic preacher. And François Charles Stanislas Langelier was a career politician. All of them are dead. All of them were men. And all of them are namesakes for the provisional labels attached to future Montreal metro stations on the blue line extension: Pie-IX, Viau, Lacordaire and Langelier. But these monikers likely won't be as tenacious as the white patriarchy these men represent. An STM spokesperson told MTL Blog that the transit company plans to unveil the official names for blue line extension stations in 2023. The organization has also recommitted to including the names of women and nods to "multicultural and Indigenous realities" in its considerations.
A new station on the Montreal metro blue line has been green-lit. The Société de transport de Montréal (STM) confirmed on Thursday that the owner of an Anjou shopping mall had approved the development of one of five new stations slated for the line, as part of its long-anticipated extension project.