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  Supreme Court of Canada - Decisions - Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 301 v. Montreal (City)
To ascertain whether the question facing the Council was one which the legislature intended it to decide, a pragmatic and functional interpretation of the enabling statute is required, one which considers the wording, purpose and underlying reasons of the legislation in creating the tribunal, as well as the tribunal’s expertise and the problem before it.
The Council noted the difference between their role during times of legal strike, which is to ensure “essential services” for the health and safety of the public, and their role during times of illegal collective action, which is the broader duty to protect all public services.
These provisions reveal the Council to be a specialized body eminently capable of ensuring both the balanced determination of the essential services to be rendered during a legal strike and the fashioning of fair and effective injunctive and reparative measures in cases of illegal actions arising from labour conflict.
scc.lexum.umontreal.ca /en/1997/1997rcs1-793/1997rcs1-793.html   (12017 words)

  
  montreal - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Montreal is situated in the southwest of Quebec, approximately 200 kilometres (120 miles) southwest of Quebec City, the provincial capital, and 150 kilometres (90 miles) east of Ottawa, the federal capital.
The city sits on the Island of Montreal at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence River and Ottawa River; the island divides the Saint Lawrence between the main channel and Rivire des Prairies.
The city council is a democratically elected institution and is the primary decision-making authority in the city.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Montreal   (4044 words)

  
 Montreal, Canada
Montreal is situated in the southwest of Quebec, approximately 250 kilometres southwest of Quebec City, the provincial capital, and 200 kilometres east of Ottawa, the federal capital.
The situation on the island of Montreal was further complicated by the presence of municipalities predominantly English-speaking that were due to merge with the predominantly French-speaking city of Montreal.
At the 2001 census, the city of Montreal (185.94 km²/71.8 sq.
www.creekin.net /c2538-n33-montreal-canada.html   (3580 words)

  
 Montreal, Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Montreal is situated in the southwest of province approximately 200 km southwest of the capital Quebec City and 150 km east of Ottawa the federal capital located in the province of Ontario at 45°30 north 73°35 in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC-5).
Montreal sits on the Island of Montreal at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence River and Ottawa River ; the island divides the Saint Lawrence the main channel and Rivière des Prairies.
Montreal is a port city being at the start of Saint Lawrence Seaway a deep-draft inland waterway which links to the industrial centres of the Great Lakes.
www.freeglossary.com /Montreal,_Quebec   (3072 words)

  
 Montreal City Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Montreal City Council is the governing body of Montreal, Quebec.
Pierre Lapointe, M.I.C.U. - City Councillor, Ahuntsic, Ahuntsic-Cartierville
Bertrand A. Ward, M.I.C.U. - City Councillor, Pierrefonds-Senneville
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Montreal_City_Council   (556 words)

  
 Metroblogging Montreal: Politics Archives
The Gazette in a recent editorial equated Montreal city council with Pyongyang.
The Conference Of Montreal, otherwise known as The International Economic Forum of the Americas, is taking place in Montreal this week.
Yesterday, I was bemoaning Vision Montreal for its lack of publicity in the West Island as it was giving the wrong impression.
montreal.metblogs.com /archives/politics   (2082 words)

  
 Montreal
These committees are established by the Council to consult the public on current issues under their separate mandates, and advise the City Council on their findings.
City Hall's website includes a collection of the mayor's speeches and announcements, as well as links to current issues and initiatives undertaken by his office.
Overview of immigrant populations in the City of Montreal and each boroughs, including data from the 1996 and 2001 Censuses.
www.mcgill.ca /govinfo/collections/links/city/montreal   (1132 words)

  
 Montreal - World Wikia - A Wikia wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Montreal, or Montréal in French, is the second largest city in Canada and the largest city in the province of Quebec.
Quebec City, capital of the province of the same name, is situated 270 km from Montreal.
Montreal has an extensive bus service and 4 underground lines which serve 65 stations, 10 of which are linked to 'Underground City' a system of tunnels and underground passageways, home to 1,600 shops, restaurants, hotels and cinemas.
world.wikia.com /wiki/Montreal   (1604 words)

  
 City Farmer: Montreal Community Gardens
The City of Montreal maintains the most by far, and has some 75 garden sites, in many sizes, containing 6654 allotment plots.
Noticing this, the City tried to regulate the activity, and these regulations began to formalize a process to permit and organize community gardens.
A complete review of the program by the City of Montreal took place in 1985, the year of the departure of Montreal's long serving boss-mayor Jean Drapeau.
www.cityfarmer.org /Montreal13.html   (1137 words)

  
 Montreal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Montreal is the second-largest Francophone city in the world (after Paris) and largest city in the Americas where the majority of the population is francophone.
Montreal is situated in the southwest of Quebec, approximately 200 kilometres (122 miles) southwest of Quebec City, the provincial capital, and 150 kilometres (93 miles) east of Ottawa, the federal capital.
By 1860,Montreal was the largest city in British North America and the undisputed economic and cultural centre of Canada.
www.info-pedia.net /about/montreal   (1703 words)

  
 Tri-City Mental Health Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lantz was elected to the Pomona City Council in April of 1991.
Council Member Baldonado was elected to the City Council March, 1999.
CIVIC MEMBERSHIP: Council Member Baldonado was elected to three terms as Claremont’s representative on the Board of the Three Valleys Municipal Water District; was a board member of the League of Women Voters, YWCA, Pilgrim Place, and the House of Ruth.
www.tricitymhs.org /GovBoard/GovBoard.htm   (881 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
MONTREAL - Jewish voters are finding it difficult to make their choices in the newly merged City of Montreal's first election Nov. 4.
They are Saulie Zajdel, a 15-year council veteran and executive committee member; Bill Surkis, former director of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre; Armand Elbaz, who once ran for the PQ; former Montreal West councillor Stanley Reinblatt; Harvey Liverman; economist Harold Chorney; and Irina Tsarevsky, a Soviet-born health professional.
On the other hand, the community, which represents 15 to 17 percent of the city of Outremont's population, openly supported Tremblay when he was the area's MNA between 1989 and 1994.
www.cjnews.com /pastissues/01/nov1-01/front2.asp   (988 words)

  
 The Political System is Broken: Don't blame the people
On many of the pages of all the dailies all sorts of informative stories on the elections, the issues, the significance of the voter turnout [over 80%], and the color of the future city council were being reported in depth.
After the international conference on cities, I spend some research time in the city’s municipal library, newspaper offices, city hall and talking to informed citizens about the particularities of their city politics and their political culture.
In 1974, the Montreal Citizens Movement [MCM] was founded, in six months it contested its first election, and won 18 seats on city council.
www.montrealserai.com /2006_Volume_19/19_1/Article_10.htm   (1185 words)

  
 Midnight Poutine | Montreal Blog
In Montreal, a city that prides itself in its hedonistic reputation, it seems fitting that the streets are patrolled by pollution-spewing trucks that do nothing else but chauffeur around poorly designed oversized ads for crappy nightclubs.
Now that the heated city council vote has come and gone, and Montreal undergoes the awkward year-long transition of renaming Parc-Bleury after the late great Robert Bourassa, I figure it is time for some healing.
After delaying a vote that was supposed to happen last night, Montreal's city council has finalised the name change of Avenue du Parc (and Bleury, but no one really cares about that part of the street) with a vote this morning.
www.midnightpoutine.ca /montreal   (1552 words)

  
 Montreal targeted with fluoridation - again
Calls for the introduction of fluoridation in Montreal's water system have been revived in the wake of a study that shows kindergarten children in Dorval have twice as many cavities as they did when fluoride was added to that city's drinking water.
She also is a spokesperson for the Montreal Coalition for Healthy Teeth, a 1,000-member group pushing for fluoridation of the city's water supply.
Bernard Larin, spokesperson for the Montreal city council executive committee, said the city has commissioned a report on water fluoridation and will make no decision until the study is complete, probably this fall.
www.fluoridealert.org /news/2643.html   (748 words)

  
 City of Austin - Austin City Council
Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a wholesale wastewater agreement with Travis County Water Control and Improvement District No. 17 (WCID No. 17) for the provision of wholesale wastewater service to the proposed Comanche Canyon Ranch Planned Unit Development that is located in the vicinity of Oasis Bluff Drive and Bullick Hollow Road.
Approve an ordinance authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute a lease agreement with the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston for the operation of Austin Women's Hospital, amending Chapter 2-4 regarding the Brackenridge Hospital Oversight Council and repealing Chapter 6-1 regarding the Hospital and the Hospital Board.
City of Austin, Cause No. 97-12434, in the 261st Judicial District Court of Travis County, Texas (concerning development of land in the Barton Springs Zone near the intersection of William Cannon Drive and MoPac); and the proposed Walmart at the intersection of Mopac Bouldevard and Slaughter Lane.
www.ci.austin.tx.us /agenda/2003/council_102303.htm   (4365 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A Montreal city council motion supporting a United Nations-led solution to the Iraq crisis was denounced by a Jewish opposition member, who says the UN is a discredited institution that cannot be relied upon, especially when Israel's security is at stake.
Veteran city councillor Saulie Zajdel was one of two who voted against the motion, which was presented by the executive committee.
The motion opens with the statement that it is in keeping with the city's having taken stands in favour of 'non-violent approaches to resolve international conflicts' many times in the past.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=628   (780 words)

  
 City of GP - Spotlights - City of Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada, Official Government Web Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
City Council will develop the long-term vision and “big picture” priorities of the program, while the plan will be implemented by our Economic Development Team.
The City of Grande Prairie is inviting regional residents to let Council know their views and opinions on the range of options that must be reviewed to cope with the region’s continuing growth.
The City and County have a long history of working together and we are confident that the expected growth needs of both the City and County will be addressed in the best interest of the Grande Prairie Region.
www.cityofgp.com /Spotlights   (4906 words)

  
 Montreal News - Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Montreal City Council retained Greenfield, Wis., attorney John Carter as special counsel Tuesday, while Jodie Bednar-Clemens is out sick.
MONTREAL, Wis. -- Floor plans are in place for the new fire-city hall in Montreal, and cost estimates came in lower than anticipated.
MONTREAL, Wis. -- Firefighters battled a blaze that destroyed the Louis Tygard residence at 25 Indiana Avenue in Montreal Wednesday morning.
www.topix.net /city/montreal-wi/page2   (1165 words)

  
 Unis Pour du Parc - Stop The Name Change
The residents of Montreal call on the other Montreal city parties to “immediately” announce that, if the name change takes place, they intend to rename Parc Avenue when the (dis) Honourable Mayor Tremblay and his cohorts are voted out of office.
To underline to the Commision the enormous political controversy with the decision of the City of Montreal, over the objections of a significant number of Montreal citizens and the vast majority of the citizens of the affected boroughs.
Contrary to the "miserabilist" editorial published in the Montreal Gazette on Nov. 29, appealing to the CTQ is not a lost cause, and this body has a rigorous set of criteria for judging the merit of proposed place name changes.
geocities.com /helpsaveparc   (6131 words)

  
 news5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Before City council's June meeting, amateur baseball and soccer games throughout the City were canceled and 300 volunteer coaches, referees and kids in team uniforms gathered at City Hall to demand that municipal funding for amateur sport and recreation be reinstated.
Berland attended council meetings for the last few months prior to the protest to question the City administration's decision.
The City and the sports volunteers reached an agreement for the next two years to reinstate funding and add $80,000 to help pay sports officials' salaries.
www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1997/022097/news5.html   (302 words)

  
 Save the Expos News
Jean Fortier, chairman of Montreal city council's executive committee, echoed the mayor's sentiments.
The city had okayed zoning changes, waived property taxes and watered down a number of conditions put on the construction of the 36,000-seat ballpark.
Councillor Michel Prescott, leader of the opposition at Montreal city hall, said it looks as if this time, the writing is on the wall for the Expos.
members.tripod.com /~Daniel_Arnold/news/10.html   (513 words)

  
 EcoCity Cleveland | Transportation Choices
Chicago was picked as the Best Cycling City in the United States with a population of more than one million residents in the November issue of Bicycling, the world's largest bicycling magazine, which wrote "Chicago has made incredible strides to become a great cycling town."
Chicago was named the Number Two city in North America, with Montreal, Canada, at Number One.
To come up with its list of Best Bicycling Cities, Bicycling magazine rated cities on their bicycling infrastructure (bike lanes, bike racks, access to bridge and public transportation), the involvement of bicycle advocacy groups, and their bike culture, including bike clubs, bike shops and everyday riders.
www.ecocitycleveland.org /transportation/bicycles/chicago_bikes.html   (428 words)

  
 Montreal Hotels : Montreal Dining, Night Life, Sports
Most city of Montreal departments, including Access Montreal offices, are either closed or on reduced hours until Jan. 3.
The Montreal Coalition on dental health was very happy with the announcement.
In fact, this week Montreal city council was authorizing debt increases of $430 million to meet most of its 2007 borrowing.
www.mlb-players.com /expos/expos_city.php   (333 words)

  
 Special Amenity Area Guide 22 - Gloucester/Montreal - Christchurch City Council
SAM 22 is in the inner city, in the blocks between Worcester St, Montreal St, Armagh St, and Rolleston Ave.
SAM 22 is in a Living 4C zone in the Christchurch City Plan.
If you are considering altering the external appearance of a building in SAM 22 and you need a Resource Consent it is recommended that you seek advice from the Urban Design Team in City Solutions of the Christchurch City Council, before submitting your application.
www.ccc.govt.nz /cityplan/sams/22   (521 words)

  
 Closing Down Shop in Montreal (washingtonpost.com)
Fans, critics consider city's future as the Nationals are reborn.
When the city's former team hired a general manager this month, the development warranted a single paragraph in one newspaper, eight in another.
Marvin Rotrand, a Montreal City Council member for 22 years and a supporter of the Expos, said Delorme and the team employees that remain have nothing of which to be ashamed.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A55493-2004Nov16_2.html   (1017 words)

  
 City of Austin - City Council Agenda
If necessary, the City Council may go into a closed session as permitted by law regarding any item on this agenda.
City of Austin, Cause Number GN200259, filed in the 200th Judicial District Court of Travis County.
Approve an ordinance to amend the Austin City Code, Section 16-4-15-Speed Limits, by adding Alameda Drive from 150 feet north of Rosedale Terrace to 105 feet south of Algarita Avenue to the list of streets having a maximum speed limit of 20 miles per hour during certain times for students attending Travis Heights Elementary School.
www.ci.austin.tx.us /agenda/2002/council_020702.htm   (2402 words)

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