On Feb. 12, the Laval Police Department announced that it is donating nearly $47,000 to the Fondation Martin-Matte from the proceeds of the sale of the LPD’s 2013 police dog calendar.

Thirteen residents of the riding of Laval-Les Îles who have made important contributions to the community over the years got some recognition from NDP MP François Pilon at Laval City Hall on Feb. 2 when he presented each of them with a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

If interim-mayor Alexandre Duplessis is to be believed, some “fresh air” should start drifting through the rooms and assembly chambers at Laval City Hall in about a week’s time to replace the stale and (some would say) “hot air” that tended to blow at One Place du Souvenir in the past.

Laval’s public transit agency, the Société de Transport de Laval, has launched an automated phone call system which appears already to be improving the lives of handicapped persons who use adapted transportation services in Laval.

If there is something deeper underlying the message that representatives of Google’s Quebec division are taking to corporate audiences as the world’s biggest web service provider tries to drum up business in this province, it’s that some of you “old” media types better watch out – Google could end up eating your lunch.

Former mayor Dr. Lucien Paiement, who established many of the basic infrastructures which made Laval the modern city it is today, was laid to rest following a memorial and funeral mass celebrated at Église St-Elzéar in Vimont on Jan. 29.