Illustrative stock photo: Boxed Water Is Better / Unsplash (Unsplash License). Not a Statistics Canada survey participant. Cropped and resized.
Business
Retail sales reached $76.3 billion in August, up 4.5% from a year earlier, with gains in 15 of 18 commodity classes.
Illustrative stock photo: MChe Lee / Unsplash (Unsplash License). Not Boulevard Lalande or the park. Cropped and resized.
West Island
The borough says work on Boulevard Lalande and Parc de la Promenade-Lalande is complete, adding cycling links, public space and shoreline protection.
Illustrative stock photo: Tomás Robertson / Unsplash (Unsplash License). Not Pointe-Claire’s ceremony. Cropped and resized.
West Island
Pointe-Claire will lower municipal flags for the local Remembrance ceremony on November 8 and again on Remembrance Day.
Illustrative stock photo: Lucian Alexe / Unsplash (Unsplash License). Not the Pointe-Claire work zone. Cropped and resized.
West Island
Excavation work is expected to close the right lane of Highway 40’s westbound service road between Bancroft and Tecumseh in Pointe-Claire.
Illustrative stock photo: Boxed Water Is Better / Unsplash (Unsplash License). Not a Statistics Canada survey participant. Cropped and resized.
Business
Retail sales reached $76.3 billion in August, up 4.5% from a year earlier, with gains in 15 of 18 commodity classes.
Illustrative stock photo: Towfiqu barbhuiya / Unsplash (Unsplash License). Not the federal estimates documents. Cropped and resized.
Canada
Supplementary Estimates B ask Parliament to authorize $22.1 billion in additional spending, including defence, child care and dental-plan funding.
Illustrative stock photo: Gautam Arora / Unsplash (Unsplash License). Not a workplace covered by the announcement. Cropped and resized.
Business
Low-wage labour-market applications can now seek employment periods of up to two years, and early-childhood educators gain a regional exception.
Illustrative stock photo: Andy Holmes / Unsplash (Unsplash License). Not a Labour Force Survey event. Cropped and resized.
Business
Québec’s unemployment rate fell in October as fewer people searched for work, while Canada’s rate rose to 6.7%, Statistics Canada reported.
Historical illustration: landlocked Atlantic salmon. New York Public Library / Unsplash (Unsplash License). Cropped and resized.
Canada
The federal government is seeking public input through January 29, 2027, on possible Species at Risk Act listings for 12 Atlantic salmon populations.
Illustrative stock photo: Canadian banknotes. PiggyBank / Unsplash (Unsplash License). Cropped and resized.
Business
The federal government and Bank of Canada have renewed the country’s 2 per cent inflation target and 1-to-3 per cent control range through December 2031.
Illustrative stock photo: Canadian passport at an airport. Kylie Anderson / Unsplash (Unsplash License). Cropped and resized.
Canada
Canada’s new Immigration Levels Plan targets 380,000 permanent-resident admissions in each of 2027, 2028 and 2029, with economic programs making up more than 64 per cent.
Illustrative stock photo: INFRAME Studio’s / Unsplash (Unsplash License). Not Lachine’s water system. Cropped and resized.
Montréal & Québec
A roughly one-hour water interruption is planned for parts of Rue Victoria and 36e Avenue in Lachine on November 9 or 10.
Illustrative stock photo: geothermal heat-and-pipe infrastructure. Bernd Dittrich / Unsplash (Unsplash License). Not a funded Québec project. Cropped and resized.
Montréal & Québec
Québec has directed waste-heat recovery applicants to the revised ÉcoPerformance program, whose new framework supports feasibility studies and infrastructure projects.
Illustrative stock photo: no-parking sign in deep snow. Alex Moliski / Unsplash (Unsplash License). Not a LaSalle street. Cropped and resized.
Montréal & Québec
LaSalle has changed some seasonal parking restrictions and the phone numbers shown on Info-Stationnement signs ahead of the November 16 winter period.
