[URBAN NOTE] Five Montréal links: separatism, Westmount church condos, transport, Métro, Hovespian

[rfmcdonald]

• This MTL Blog article calling for the separation of Montréal after the CAQ electoral victory in wider Québec sounds, to me, akin to calls to separate Toronto from Ontario after the PC victory outside this metropolis.


• CTV News reports on the possibility of the conversion of an old United Church in Westmount to condos. There can be, I think, no surer sign of a city's strong real estate market than such conversions, I say as a Torontonian.


• Olivier Robichaud writes at Huffington Post about the transport choices facing greater Montréal under the CAQ government.


• CTV reports on how Montréal mayor Valérie Plante is continuing to work towards building a Pink Line for the Metro, extending to Montréal-Nord.


• Craig Desson at CBC Montréal reports on 79 year old Joseph Hovsepian, one of the last classic electronics repairpersons in the city.