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A small minority give the neighbourhood a bad rap over garbageOn a warm Victoria Day holiday Monday, many Park Extension residents took advantage of the day off and nice weather to do some spring cleaning or to work in...

Ogilvy and De Castelnau passageway once again blocked, causing frustration among residents.A fence was yet again erected at the passageway between Ogilvy and DeCastelnau last Thursday, blocking residents from both sides from crossing the tracks, frustrating many.The passageway, which...

Hundreds of demonstrators demand permanent residency for all immigrantsHundreds of people took to the streets of Villeray on Sunday to demand that the government grant permanent residency to hundreds of thousands of essential workers and people on precarious immigration...

In the concrete schoolyard next to Sinclair Laird Elementary’s gym, a mix of educators, students and citizens gathered last Thursday to underline the exceptional work of 8 teachers from the English Montreal School Board.Coinciding with National Teachers Appreciation Week...

Sarker Hope Foundation Helps With Access to Technology Local community group The Sarker Hope Foundation continued its tablet distribution campaign to local students over the weekend.Five local primary and secondary students were awarded brand-new tablets to make their online learning...

An update on what happenedThe city held its regularly scheduled monthly borough council meeting on Tuesday evening, where city officials and politicians met virtually to answer questions from citizens and vote on borough initiatives.A number of these initiatives were...

Assuna Annabawiyah Mosque temporarily opens its doors to raise vaccination rates“Parc-Extension has catching up to do,” said Francine Dupuis, associate CEO of CIUSSS West-Central Montreal.Dupuis, the mosque’s imam, and the coordinator of the Parc-Extension Round Table announced on Tuesday...

Parc-Extension Housing CrisisEvictions and harassment are occuring at increasingly alarming rates across the Parc-Extension neighbourhood, according to figures recently released by Comité D’Action de Parc-Extension (CAPE).The local housing group, which works on advocacy issues for local tenants, recorded 71...

Tablets For StudentsThe Sarker Hope Foundation, a local Parc-Extension community organization distributed tablets to local primary and secondary students on Saturday.Five local students were awarded brand-new tablets in an effort to make at-home learning and virtual classes easier and...

Protesters gathered on Saturday to demand that the provincial government regularize the status of all migrant workers.“We are essential, we are not disposable,” shouted a spokesperson for Pinay Quebec, one of the many organizations present at a rally held...