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100,000 affordable housing units disappeared in Quebec in five years as a resultNearly 116,000 affordable housing units for less than $750 have disappeared in just five years in Quebec, including 90,000 in Montreal alone, denounces FRAPRU.“In the case of...

CENTRAIDE OF GREATER MONTREAL $1.7 million in emergency aid to 36 organizationsCentraide of Greater Montreal will support 36 community organizations involved in the fight against food insecurity, with emergency assistance of $1.7 million. Soaring prices has affected many people in...

As the shortage of affordable housing grows in the city and elsewhere in Quebec there were good news for the residents of Park-Extension who rent. The City of Montreal is launching an awareness campaign to equip tenants to defend...

A percussive experience for young Park-Exers is promised by SIXTRUM which is a percussion ensemble leading very young spectators in the exploration of its Archipelago of a thousand sounds.Le Vivier the Archipelago of a thousand sounds comes to the...

An explosion on a power line was the source of a fire on Saturday the 4th of February at night in Park-Extension according to CTV News. More than 1,500 Hydro-Quebec customers are still without power in Montreal the next...

Residents in Park-Extension and other areas of Montreal might be soon saying an uncomfortable “cheese” if they speed as Transport Minister Geneviève Guilbault is not closed to the idea of ​​installing new photo radars in Montreal, as requested by...

The office space vacancy rate could reach 29% by 2027Pending an increasingly likely recession, the office real estate market in the greater Montreal area including our borough of Park-Extension is already experiencing one of the worst periods in decades.According...

For many residents in Park-Extension as in other areas of Montreal, the brown bins for compostable garbage are a mystery. In many cases they are used for storage, gardening equipment etc.However, organic materials make up about 50% of the...

The number of stolen vehicles has increased markedly in Montreal a situation that affects our borough of Parc-Extension as well. A 61.8% jump in thefts was seen in the first three quarters of 2022, compared to the previous year....

The abstract works of Haitian artists Clovis-Alexandre Desvarieux and Carl-Philippe Simonise are being presented as of January 20 at the Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée in our borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension. Their work asks questions about the place of political...