Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Sidhartha Banerjee
Publication Date: July 2, 2025 - 09:59
Montreal slow to adopt biweekly trash pick up plan
July 2, 2025
The garbage may be piling up and causing some disgruntlement on the sidewalks of a few Montreal streets, but municipal officials say it’s all part of a plan to become a zero-waste city by the year 2030.And they say their plan is working.
They work on gruesome scenes of death, sometimes traversing rough terrain to access bodies in various states of decomposition.British Columbia field coroner Leena Chandi said the things that she and her colleagues encounter “are not what most people see, and nobody should have to see that.”
July 4, 2025 - 06:55 | Darryl Greer | The Globe and Mail
Greater Toronto Area-home sales ticked 2.4 per cent lower in June compared with a year earlier as 6,243 properties changed hands, while new listings rose.
July 4, 2025 - 06:32 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
My parents purchased their burial plots nearly forty years ago. My mother likes to pull out the story about what a great deal they got because the plots were a cemetery resale—the previous owners, then in the midst of a divorce, wanted to make their separation eternal. Years later, mom says, one of their descendants tried to reverse the deal and buy back the land. To which my father said, “Fuck him.”
I always laugh at this joke, not because it’s likely embellished (my dad rarely, if ever, cursed) but because who shops for graves in their prime? In rude health? Still in their...
July 4, 2025 - 06:30 | Ellen Himelfarb | Walrus
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