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Town should not have paid councillor’s legal fees: Quebec
Albert Kramberger | The Gazette | August 19, 2014 …In a July 25 letter addressed to the director general, complaints commissioner Richard Villeneuve stated that “it is generally understood that it is...
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Next Council Meeting on Monday September 8
No agenda is available on Ville de Kirkland web site, but there should be a question period.
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Hey Kirkland, here’s a solution for you
by Victor Schukhov, The Montreal Gazette, 15 March 2014. Sometimes, West Island headlines are so close together that one can’t see that they are solutions to each other’s problems. You know, like...
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Webcasting public meetings is a growing trend. Not in Kirkland.
In February, Île-Bizard-Ste-Geneviève borough became the first West Island municipal jurisdiction to webcast public meetings, using its own staff and equipment, and opened an archive on YouTube. A link...
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Wake Up and Smell the … Roses
While Kirkland Town Hall is proud to have the crossed sewers’ issue swept under the carpet, another West Island neighborhood is starting to look into the water pollution problem: Dollard-des-Ormeaux...
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Kirkland takes creative approach to launching first book-sharing box
Published on: July 11, 2017 | Last Updated: July 11, 2017 3:29 PM EDT KATHRYN GREENAWAY, MONTREAL GAZETTE The box, fashioned by carpenters from Kirkland’s public works department, is a miniature...
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Mayors in Kirkland and Pierrefonds-Roxboro to seek re-election
KATHRYN GREENAWAY, MONTREAL GAZETTE Mayor Michel Gibson has announced he will seek a second term. Gibson was first elected as a councillor in 1991. He ousted Mayor John Meaney in 2013. Meaney had...
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Kirkland Mayor Michel Gibson seeks another mandate
Mayor Michel Gibson By Kevin Woodhouse, The Suburban Kirkland Mayor Michel Gibson announced last week that he will be seeking another mandate in the upcoming municipal election taking place this...
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Kirkland Book of Records: CONTEST OPEN!
The campaign has started. In the coming months, we’ll hear a lot of memorable revelations and promises from our local “leaders.” With your help, we won’t let them pass unnoticed. So far, the first one...
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Beaconsfield mayor bullish on new REM train network
by JOHN MEAGHER, MONTREAL GAZETTE Published on: July 19, 2017 Beaconsfield is not on tap for a new Réseau électrique métropolitain (REM) light-rail train station, but Mayor Georges Bourelle is bullish...
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Good Morning!
I was wide awake today at 07.30, on a nice Saturday Morning. There was a gentleman outside already riding his weed-eater over the neighbor’s hedge. Maybe it is my imagination, but the sound of his tool...
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Kirkland Book of Records: UPDATE
I was advised by the Town of Kirkland that the biographies of Kirkland Councilors are not available, and I have to contact them individually. Thank you, Town of Kirkland. Done (see text below). Will...
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Hungry? Grab fresh fruit off a tree for free in Kirkland’s ‘fruit alley’
By Dan Spector Global News. The City of Kirkland, in Montreal’s West Island, has created a “fruit alley” at des Bénévoles Park. Officials planted dozens of fruit trees and shrubs along a 100-metre...
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Mayor Wins Hands Down
Kathryn Greenaway, Montreal Gazette , 10 October 2017 West Island acclamations include two mayors and 20 councillors Kirkland incumbent Mayor Michel Gibson is one of two mayors in the West Island to be...
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