By Tracey Arial www.thesuburban.com After spending five hours at the Montreal Children’s Hospital with her two-year-old son Xavier, a tired mom got on...
Tolls on new Champlain Bridge disappointing
By Tracey Arial www.thesuburban.com Early last year, Montreal’s board of trade asked for a new Champlain Bridge paid for with tolls. “We are counting ...
West Island infrastructure neglected
By Kevin Woodhouse www.thesuburban.com For West Island commuters, 2013 will be seen as more time wasted trying to get somewhere that used to take less...
Political pork flows as Montrealers pay through the nose
By Tracey Arial www.thesuburban.com Despite learning last January that Montreal businesses pay higher taxes than anywhere else in Canada, mu...
Head and Hands
Boosting the odds in Notre Dame de Grâce By Joel Ceausuwww.thesuburban.com There’s more than one hundred new reasons for optimism in NDG this year, th...
The West Island leads the way in community giving
Volunteerism is key component to success of non-profits By Jim Morrisonwww.thesuburban.com When it comes to community giving, nobody stands taller the...
New leaders bring new visions
By Kevin Woodhouse www.thesuburban.com The recent municipal elections held across the province in early November saw democracy in action with more Wes...
Mayors fall like dominoes
By Robert Frank www.thesuburban.com Montreal has gone through three mayors in a span of less than a year. Laval has gone through four. Gérald Tremblay...
School board elections present hope for progress in 2014
By Joel Ceausu and Robert Frank www.thesuburban.com Quebec will at last hold much-postponed school board elections, Nov. 2, 2014. The last time we wen...
Hospital corruption could be hazardous to your health
By Robert Frank www.thesuburban.com Even without the high-profile allegations of egregious defalcation, the McGill superhospital currently under const...