Preliminary runs made with an electric bus that the Société de Transport de Laval is now testing in preparation to possibly purchase others of the same type suggest that heating the vehicles during winter cold snaps greatly reduces the amount of time the buses can stay on the road before having to be recharged, STL officials revealed last week.

Bursaries totaling $62,000 were handed out recently to 44 young artists during the Fondation de soutien aux arts de Laval (FSAL) gala, which celebrates three decades of the arts in Laval.

Peter Hall, vice-president and chief economist at Export Development Canada, presented a mixed outlook on May 8 to Laval Technopole on Canadian exporters’ chances of increasing their profits over the next year.

During Laval city council’s May 6 meeting, the mayor and councillors faced a large number of questions from an overflow crowd of lobby group members concerned about Hydro Quebec’s imple

Festival Offers Three Free Shows At Espace Montmorency For Saint-Jean-Baptiste
The festival that started nine years ago as a celebration of choral music has grown into what is now one of the hottest music festivals of the summer – and it all takes place in Laval. The 9th Edition of Mondial Loto-Quebec de Laval is an 18-day festival boasting Grammy award-winning bands, home-grown stars, folk and nostalgia acts, orchestral arrangements, a classic-album tribute, along with hundreds of choral singers from all over Quebec, and around the world.

If Charbel Abi-Saad wished, he could pursue a career in documentary filmmaking or in medicine. The way things stand, it looks as if he’s going to opt for the latter, although he’d probably do very well in the former.
He seems to have a natural talent for motion picture production, based on a documentary he recently made which was influenced by his medical calling.