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Trudeau met with Montreal mayor Denis Coderre for 45 minutes Tuesday to discuss issues including proposed Energy East pipeline, which is being opposed by Montreal-area municipalities.

Western politicians are at loggerheads with Montreal municipalities after their rejection of Energy East - but this is not the only pipeline proposal to hit the skids.

Canada's second largest urban community is saying No to TransCanada's Energy East pipeline project.

City began dumping billions of litres of raw sewage into the river to perform critical repair work on the support arches of a major sanitary line as well as relocate a snow chute on Wednesday.

extent of the corrosion and rot of the arches supporting a major sewer interceptor convinced Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre that he made the right choice authorizing a massive waste dump.

Everything was proceeding as planned and the infrastructure repair work that necessitated the discharge remains on schedule.

Mayor Denis Coderre says the dump will begin Wednesday morning at 12:01 a.m.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says situation "less than ideal" but the best solution to the city's waste water crisis.

Infrastructure Minister Denis Lebel made the announcement on behalf of Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq on Wednesday, saying she'd issued an interim order under Fisheries Act.

...but Leona Aglukkaq tweeted Wednesday that her office only learned last week of the wastewater dump plan - a claim zeroed in on by opponents as election looms.

One-week sewage dump is to relocate a snow chute on a tunnel that needs to be empty for workers to access it - as part of ongoing plan to raze the downtown Bonaventure Expressway.

Quebec's education minister says he'll issue a decree to transfer three English schools in Montreal to an overcrowded French board.

For the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Quebec Premier Francois Legault visited Montreal on Thursday, May 14, 2020, to announce the province recorded 131 new deaths linked to the virus — 91 of them in the hard-hit city.

The densely populated slums of Montreal's Griffintown were the subject of a famous 1897 study by businessman and philanthropist Herbert Ames, whose work on the disease-ridden tenements influenced generations of urban planners on how to develop healthy cities.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says she will speak out about the lack of media freedom in Russia during a conference that Canada is co-hosting next month with Great Britain.