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Canada expands simplified renewal process for passports

As COVID 19 restrictions are lifted, more and more Canadians are looking to travel abroad. In Park Extension, home of many families of diverse ethnic origin, travel during the summer months will become vital. For the years of the...

New certification for multi-unit owners in Montreal

To promote access to healthy, safe and affordable housing, the City of Montreal announced that it wants to make multi-unit owners-landlords more responsible. As of now they will have to obtain responsible landlord certification and disclose the rent for...

Getting easier for Ukrainians to enter Canada

As the war in Ukraine drags on, more and more Ukrainians will be seeking refugee status in Canada. Park-Extension has always been a welcoming borough for many immigrants and the announcement from the federal minister of Immigration Sean Fraser...

Residents react to traffic appeasement plan

A step in the right direction but key aspects still missing Last week, the borough released the first draft of the traffic appeasement plan for Park Ex and asked residents to weigh in with their comments and suggestions as part...

Spring clean-up starts in Park-Ex

Weekly parking restrictions in effect since Apr. 1 As the weather warms and the ice thaws, the spring brings people back outside and offers a much-needed reprieve from the cold. Unfortunately, it also means all the trash that has accumulated...

Séance du conseil d’arrondissement: Avril

Le conseil discute de la propreté et des mesures de circulation Mardi soir dernier, l'arrondissement a tenu sa séance ordinaire du conseil d'arrondissement. Les élus se sont réunis en personne pour répondre aux questions des citoyens et voter sur des...

April Borough Council Meeting

Council returns in-person to discuss borough cleanliness and traffic measures The borough held its regularly scheduled monthly borough council meeting last Tuesday evening, where elected officials met to answer questions from citizens and vote on borough initiatives. City councillors wished Muslim...

Welcome news for housing in Park-Ex

Quebec budget 2022-2023 Welcome news for Park-Extension and its ever present housing problem is the announcement that as part of the 2022-2023 budget, the Government of Quebec is investing more than half a billion dollars, or $634 million, for structuring...

Social housing in danger

The Parti Québécois and the FROHME want urgent action to prevent the privatization of other social housing Social housing has always been a lifejacket for many families and individuals with financial difficulties especially in our borough of Park-Extension. On March...

Home support in Quebec

As the population of Montreal ages, more and more seniors in Park Extension are looking for home care. This is not a Park-Ex phenomenon only and it represents part of the major shift towards home care that the government...