Mayor Stéphane Boyer expressed that for him and his administration, there was no ambiguity and that the City has an obligation to award this contract to Beauregard Environnement, due to the rules obliging a municipality to choose the lowest bidder. in a call for tenders.

Misunderstanding and anger

For the opposition, this positioning of the Boyer administration and its public release in the media the very morning of a city council day would only be a smokescreen.

“It’s incomprehensible that the Boyer administration has waited this long to ask for a tougher law since Beauregard was banned in 2020 from the city of Montreal.”

It is that last April, this file recommended by the executive committee had been removed from the agenda of the municipal council after an intervention by the municipal councilor of Saint-François Isabelle Piché.

“The evolution of this file is surprising and particularly worrying, therefore affirmed Isabelle Piché, the day after the municipal council held on Tuesday July 11. It is really a flagrant lack of seriousness and I consider that the administration has lost control in this file. The practices of this company have proven to be questionable, which has led cities, such as Montreal, to place it on their blacklist.

For his part, the acting head of Action Laval and councilor for Val-des-Arbres, Achille Cifelli, regrets seeing Mayor Boyer in reaction mode and that no concrete action has yet been taken in this file, more particularly since resurfacing four months ago.

Council clashes

During the municipal council on Tuesday, July 11, the interim leader of Parti Laval Claude Larochelle also attacked the public outing made that morning by Mayor Boyer, judging it too late.

“What have you been doing all this time?” Asked the man who is also a municipal councilor for Fabreville, relayed by his colleague and councilor for Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, Louise Lortie, who was also surprised by this outing. media the very morning of the council, expressing: “Are you comfortable with this public outing to save your buttocks?”

In response to questions from the opposition, Mayor Boyer first clarified that “nobody likes to give a contract to a company that has been at fault towards other municipalities.”

For his part, the vice-president of the executive council of the City and councilor of Sainte-Dorothée, Ray Khalil rightly recalled that no elected official is present when the envelopes are opened for the granting of a contract.

Another response from the mayor

The day after the council, Stéphane Boyer reiterated that “for the City of Laval to be able to add a company to its own blacklist, it must have committed a fault on Laval territory. We have already done this with other companies in the past.”

“We all agree that legislative changes would nevertheless be relevant in order to change this situation, added the first magistrate of the City of Laval. However, such a change would require the Government of Quebec to amend two laws through an omnibus bill. Whatever the Opposition thinks, these kinds of changes are not made on the corner of a table, which is why we must give the ministers concerned time to take up the file during the summer period. The parliamentary session is adjourned until September 12.

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It was around 3:45 a.m. when 911 was notified of the incident by a fire alarm available to the establishment located on Curé-Labelle Boulevard, in Chomedey.

The first of the 4 Laval Fire Department units required for the intervention, i.e., 14 firefighters, arrived on site at 3:54 AM.

At this time, the sappers easily saw smoke coming from inside the restaurant whose sprinkler system had been activated.

Suspicious details

A window was found to have been smashed with what appears to be a Molotov cocktail.

After ensuring that no one was inside, when the business was effectively unoccupied, the firefighters quickly brought the fire under control, giving control at the stroke of 3:56 AM; certainly, helped by the efficiency of the sprinklers.

The action of the latter will have limited the material damage to $10,000 for the commercial building and $3,000 for its contents.

Investigation

Due to the suspicious items found at the scene, firefighters immediately transferred the investigation to the Service de police de Laval (SPL).

A crime scene was still in progress on the morning of Thursday, March 9, pending SPL investigators and forensic identification specialists.

Not a first Recall that the Nuits de Beyrouth restaurant had already been visited by a criminal hand on November 7 and 8, 2022; other incidents of a similar nature had also occurred in the past at this location.

It should also be noted that last October, the SPL made public the arrest of five individuals accused notably of arson, most of them caused on Curé-Labelle Boulevard, and intimidation of Laval’s restaurateurs.

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This well-known supermarket for people from Chomedey and surrounding neighbourhoods is said to have closed its doors last fall.

In the web search engine, Google, it is specified that Mourelatos supermarket has been permanently closed for at least 17 weeks. In Quebec’s entreprise register, it is indicated that the company is bankrupt.

Contacted at his residence by Courrier Laval, the family of President Efthymios Mourelatos declined to comment on the closure.

As the first shareholder, Efthymios Mourelatos would be the majority in his company, again according to the information available at the Registraire des entreprises du Québec.

The Groupe Serpone, specialized in insolvency and based on rue Jean-Talon East, in Montreal, would be in charge of the file as trustee in bankruptcy.

Since December 19, 2022, a new brand that presents itself as a family neighbourhood grocery store and responds to the name of Marché Vie en Vert, would have appeared at 4919 Notre-Dame Boulevard.

Note that this banner is already present on the territory of Montreal, rue Fabre, in the Villeray sector.

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It was 4:54 a.m. when 911 was notified of a fire in that residential area, located almost at the western end of Saint-Martin Boulevard, on the Sainte-Dorothée’s side.

Arriving at 4:57 a.m., the first of the nine units of Laval’s Fire and Safety Department required for the intervention (34 firefighters), had no trouble figuring out the magnitude of the situation.

At that time, flames were visible on the first two of the four floors of the building, in addition to reaching the rest of the structure and igniting some of the balconies.

Maneuvers in extreme cold

While the wind factor forced work to be done in a temperature of around minus 20 degrees, firefighters first completed the evacuation of the premises.

Meanwhile, help was requested from the Service de police de Laval (SPL), Hydro-Québec, the Société de transport de Laval (STL), and the City of Laval’s public works department.

The firefighters mainly concentrated their efforts on stopping the spread of the flames to the other floors and to the roof of the building, valued at $6 million, noting that the smoke detectors of the place were functional.

It was around 6:24 a.m. that firefighters brought the fire under control, but it caused damage summarily assessed at $300,000 for the building, and $100,000 for its contents.

Eight people will have to relocate following the fire. The investigation was transferred to the SPL, the firefighters having been unable to determine its origin 100 per cent.

However, the fire would have most likely started on the first floor.

Due to freezing weather conditions, a firefighter injured his ankle while executing his duties.

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The major operation, related to urban firearm violence in recent months, is being deployed in collaboration with the police forces of Montreal, Deux-Montagnes, Saint-Jérôme and Longueuil.

About 150 police officers are working on that case, carrying out the various interventions, some of which are taking place in Montreal, Saint-Jérôme and Deux-Montagnes.

That’s the result of an investigation, initiated in August as part of the Centaur project, in which the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are also taking part.

At the SPL, it’s the Organized Crime Division that’s involved in the operation, which has already been helpful, since narcotics and firearms would have already been confiscated.

A more complete report of the operation, which is still in progress, will be presented later.

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The activity took place in collaboration with the Public safety research and innovation centre (RISC Centre).

“Bringing together many organizations that would be called upon to intervene and take decisions during a rail accident involving dangerous materials, the scenario for this exercise was developed on the basis of a very real risk on the territory,” said Claude Lussier, head of operations division of the Laval’s Fire and Safety Department.

The initiative aimed to enable participants to better prepare, practice and update their knowledge of response procedures for such a disaster.

“It was also an excellent opportunity to discuss with stakeholders from the different organizations, and share our knowledge,” Lussier added.

Many Goals

The main goal of that exercise was to allow Laval’s emergency responders and main partners to practice managing a disaster occurring on the territory.

It also consisted of practicing the alert and the mobilization of the various services involved in the management of a major disaster, without forgetting to allow stakeholders from different departments to practice coordinating such an situation.

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The scene occurred around 4:16 p.m., time of the 911 call, yesterday afternoon, in the busy sector of Laval-des-Rapides.

An 81-year-old man, with a 54-year-old passenger by his side, was trying to park his car at the supermarket.

Wanting to position himself to immobilize his car in a parking space, the man first backed into a car, already parked behind him, and inside which was a lady.

In panic, the driver then made a turn, and pressed the accelerator, hitting a 41-year-old woman who was on the road.

She ended up on her hood, while the 81-year-old man then hit two other vehicles, as well as a 68-year-old person. He then hit the two posts installed in front of the main entrance to the business.

It propelled the 41-year-old woman to the ground, the latter finding herself in an unfortunate position, partially lying under the engine block of the vehicle, which then smashed the front doors in its tracks.

Intervention

Arriving on site at 4:20 p.m., barely four minutes after the 911 call, the eight firefighters required for the intervention, two units from Laval’s Fire and Safety Department, quickly gave first aid to the victim.

In addition to experiencing severe nervous shock, the victim suffered very serious arm fractures, and facial lacerations.

After stabilizing the victim, firefighters were able to hand her over quickly, at 4:23 p.m., to the Urgences-santé paramedics, so that she could be transported to a hospital. Luckily, her condition remains stable.

As for the other two people injured, they were both treated at the scene for minor injuries.

The scene was then entrusted to officers from the Service de police de Laval (SPL), to investigate the circumstances of that spectacular accident.

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For its part, the Fraternité des policiers de Laval came out publicly, first to direct its thoughts to the victims, families, as well as students and staff of the CEGEP, having lived through horrible hours in being confined after the discharge of gunshotsthat occurred on the evening of Nov. 11.

It also mentioned “the great work, commitment and availability of its members during the large-scale operation deployed”.

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The fire allegedly occurred around 4:40 a.m. in a commercial complex, on Curé-Labelle Boulevard, located a bit north of Cartier Boulevard.

Once at the scene, Laval’s firefighters and police officers found that the small strip of garden adorning the front of the Nuits de Beyrouth restaurant had flamed.

An object would have also been thrown against the shop window, but the fire would have extinguished itself, even before the arrival of emergency services on site.

Laval’s police indicate that this wouldn’t be the first event of that kind to occur at the location.

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The attack would, in part, affect orders and deliveries, warehouses, and employee payroll.

Let’s note that Laval has 10 IGA and IGA Extra banners on its territory.

In a press release, Empire Company Limited maintains that “the Company’s grocery stores remain open to meet customer needs, and are not facing significant disruptions at this time.”

However, some in-store services are operating intermittently, or are subject to delays, Empire Company Limited admits.

“In addition, some pharmacies are experiencing technical difficulties when filling prescriptions,” the press release added. “However, it remains committed to ensuring continuity of care for all patients in its pharmacies.”

“At Sobeys, going beyond the needs of our customers is our top priority,” said by press release Pierre St-Laurent, Chief Operating Officer of Empire Company Limited. “At this time, we’re focused on resolving the issue, and will provide further updates as relevant information becomes available.”

Empire Company Limited isn’t in a position right now to determine when the problems affecting its systems will be fully resolved.

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