Conservative campaign snowballs By Robert Frank Grassroot support is growing rapidly for Roland Dick [pronounced ‘deeke’]. The Conservative candidate ...
Pesticide threatens bees, songbirds
By Robert Frank The city is encouraging Laval property owners to treat ash trees on their land with TreeAzin, in an effort to save them from being wip...
Hydro poles to vanish on St. Elzéar
By Robert Frank Laval’s city council decided to move forward with a long-awaited $9.7 million project to bury the electrical and other public utility ...
Blaney: Stability only solution to refugee crisis
“Attack problem at its roots” By Robert Frank Partisan posturing over how many asylum-seekers to accept might help Canadian politicians to get ...
The hypocrisy of the Syrian refugee debate
By Beryl Wajsman, Editor Clearly the Syrian refugee crisis should not be allowed to degenerate into a Rwandan massacre or a Darfuri genocide or the ev...
Ouimet discusses decision to ditch politics
“More collaboration, less partisanship needed” By Robert Frank Quebecers want their politicians for focus more on policy and less on positioning for p...
Trottier quits Action Laval
Fifth opposition party in the offing By Robert Frank Another political earthquake rumbled through Laval last week. Municipal party plate tectonics shi...
Maccarone: Fix school boards, don’t abolish them
By Robert Frank Jennifer Maccarone wants the Couillard government to enable Quebec school boards to function properly, rather than abolish them. In pa...
“I didn’t have to ask ‘why?’”
September 11, 2001 Memories of a Times reporter By Robert Frank I wasn’t one of the millions whose first reaction was to ask “why?” I already knew the...
Ministry of Transport offers 75% funding deal on Beaconsfield sound wall
Poëti: “We felt this offer is reasonable and adapted to the history of this case.” By Kevin Woodhouse “This is the first time in 30 ...