10 Years of mobilization for a Public Elementary School in the Neighbourhood
For nearly 10 years, families and residents have been advocating for a public elementary school in the Peter-McGill neighbourhood. And yet, the project is still on hold. Today, children from the neighbourhood attend a school in the neighbouring Saint-Léon-de-Westmount area. That school is now overcrowded, and some families are beginning to be redirected to schools […]
What future for McGill College ave ?
McGill College Avenue has remained in a state of transition since the completion of the REM construction work, particularly the section between Maisonneuve and Sainte-Catherine, which is looking rather run-down. If the post-construction site improvements have been limited, it is because McGill College Avenue was supposed to undergo a complete transformation in the summer of […]
Open Letter – Our Children Deserve a School in the Neighborhood
For more than six years, we have been raising the alarm about this situation: the Peter-McGill neighborhood, right in the heart of downtown Montreal, does not have a single public elementary school. And yet, the children are here. So are the families. Hundreds of them live in often small apartments, in a dense urban environment […]