The Marie-Victorin school board announced last week that it would be shutting several schools in the Vieux-Longueuil & St Hubert areas. Forecasters at the school board have determined that they will have 7700 fewer pupils in 2013 and this will cause a financial deficit if they don’t act.
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Living on the South Shore
Posted in Areas, hints and tips on Sep 15th, 2008
If you look at a map of Montréal, you’ll notice that there are three bridges connecting downtown to the south shore. So you can be closer to the city centre being off island than on it.
So, is it a good idea to be off island? The catch of course are the bridges, they become bottlenecks [...]
La Prairie
Posted in Areas on Aug 29th, 2008
Today we passed through La Prairie to have a quick look. The town is on the bank of the Saint Laurent just east of Brossard. The old centre is quite pretty with a few shops, the rest is standard strip malls. We saw some suburbs that looked pretty good, very similar to Brossard, although we [...]