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Laval using online platform to consult on urban plan revisions

Martin C. Barry
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Laval using online platform to consult on urban plan revisions

City’s ‘virtual open house’ consultation will continue until Nov. 15

With the COVID-19 pandemic limiting public gatherings, the City of Laval launched a new kind of public consultation process last Monday on its urban planning rules using a computerized platform to stage a “virtual open house.”

Urban plan revision

The City of Laval is holding an online consultation until Nov. 15 on planned revisions to its master urban plan.

Over the past few years, the city has been involved in the massive undertaking of revising and harmonizing By-Law L-2000, the name of the comprehensive set of municipal regulations that define every aspect of urban planning in Laval.

The city wants to include residents in the revision process as much as possible, hence the purpose of the virtual online consultation.

Since 2019, the city has held several information meetings as well as some preliminary discussions with residents in preparation for a major consultation to be held in the spring of 2021. The virtual “open house” consultation will continue to be available online until Nov. 15.

Regulations simplified

“The new regulations will be based on best practices in urban planning, the most important of which and the one that inspired us the most is form-based code,” Thierry Basque-Gravel, an urban planning expert with the City of Laval, said during a recent Zoom presentation of the platform for the media, while noting that the method prioritizes the form of neighbourhoods rather than uses.

The new regulations will be based on best practices in urban planning, the most important of which and the one that inspired us the most is form-based code

municipal urban planner Thierry Basque-Gravel

According to Basque-Gravel, the consultation platform will maximize the use of illustrations to simplify concepts, while using plain language that is more familiar to ordinary people to make technical jargon better understood. He said the new regulations will place emphasis on the creation of living environments, as well as neighbourhoods built for people, so that their scale is appropriate and in keeping with what residents expect.

A major revision

The scope of the revision of the city’s master urban plan might best be understood knowing that such a vast undertaking has only been done twice in Laval’s history: in 1970, when the city was just five years old, and in 1989.

All the same, the plan has been amended more than 3,000 times over the past 50 years, although most Laval residents have found L-2000 frustratingly complex in its highly precise legalistic language when they have tried to interpret it for a specific problem regarding a property or a zoning issue.

Pandemic’s impact

Diane Durand, a communications and citizen participation specialist with the City of Laval, said the city had to develop the online consultation platform when the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring made it impossible to hold in-person gatherings.

“The goal was to allow citizens to have an experience the same as they would have with a regular open house, while allowing us to gather their opinions and views on the future regulations,” Durand said. The online consultation can be found on the web at https://www.repensonslaval.ca/revision-urbanisme.

CISSS de Laval to hold Annual General Meeting on Nov. 19

Martin C. Barry
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CISSS de Laval to hold Annual General Meeting on Nov. 19

With ongoing concerns about COVID-19 still on many people’s minds, the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de Laval will be holding an online version of their annual general meeting on Thursday Nov. 19 from 7 to 7:30 pm.

CISSS de Laval releases survey on kindergarten children

The Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux oversees public health and social services throughout the Laval region.

People from Laval will be able to take part in this “virtual” meeting and public information session, hosted by CISSS de Laval board chairman Yves Carignan and CEO Chantal Fiset, during a Zoom teleconference that can be logged into by going to this web address:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81696872267

For those without computer, tablet or smartphone access, taking part in the meeting will also be possible by telephone. The number to call is (438) 809-7799, after which there will be a prompt to enter the following ID code: 816 9687 2267.

During the meeting, the following information on the CISSS de Laval from the past year will be presented:

  • Highlights of the 2019-2020 activities;
  • The financial report as of March 31, 2020;
  • The report on the implementation of the complaint review process;
  • The 2019-2020 activity report of the CISSS de Laval users’ committee.

The presentation will be followed by a question period. For instructions on participating in the question period, please go to https://bit.ly/3kVVJvF

For more information on the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de Laval, you are invited to visit www.lavalensante.com.

Laval News Volume 28-21

Costa Hovris
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Laval News Volume 28-21

The current issue of the Laval News volume 28-21 published November 4th, 2020.
Covering Laval local news, politics, sports and our new section Mature Life.
(Click on the image to read the paper.)

Front page of the Laval News.
Front page of the Laval News, November 4th, 2020 issue.

Union reps report inadequate measures for violence in Cité de la Santé’s psychiatry wing

Martin C. Barry
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Union reps report inadequate measures for violence in Cité de la Santé’s psychiatry wing

Unionized staff at Laval’s Cité de la Santé say the hospital’s administration needs to move faster to improve security measures following a violent incident in the psychiatry department that is not the first of its kind.

Psychiatry department staff at Laval’s Cité de la Santé hospital say safety measures are still inadequate to deal with a growing number of violent incidents.

On Oct. 25, according to a representative for nurses belonging to the Syndicat Des Infirmières Inhalothérapeutes Et Infirmiers Auxilières (SIIIAL-CSQ), a patient attacked another patient, strangling him to near-asphyxiation, before three burly security guards and an orderly were able to intervene.

According to the union, this followed at least five previous attacks during a single week in the same ward by mentally ill patients, which were reported by psychiatric department workers to hospital management, with a recommendation for better safety measures to protect employees.

Last March, Quebec’s workplace health and safety board identified several security failings in the ward, after which some changes were made. These included new panic buttons and special isolation rooms for deeply disturbed patients. As well, new staff was hired to respond to incidents involving violence.

Still, union officials say ongoing shortcomings include outdated security cameras and the indiscriminate placement of violently psychotic patients alongside others who are much more subdued.

Cité de la Santé isn’t the only Montreal-area hospital where staff have complained about inadequately safe working conditions in psychiatric facilities.

Union officials at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Montreal reported in November 2019 that there had been four violent incidents over the preceding year, including an assault with a chair by a violent patient on a 63-year-old psychiatrist who was knocked out, and an assault on an orderly in his 60s in June that left the employee with serious brain damage.

The same patient was known to have assaulted a nurse a month earlier, while another patient stabbed an orderly in the neck in September the previous year.

Give plasma for Samy!

Martin C. Barry
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Give plasma for Samy!
The Laval Police Department is inviting all Laval residents and others from around the Montreal region to take part in an important plasma donation drive that will be taking place from November November 9 to December 5 at the Centre Globule on Le Corbusier Blvd. at the Centre Laval mall.
Initiated by colleagues of LPD sergeant-detective Aziz El-Fara, the purpose of the drive is to come to the help of El-Fara’s son, Samy, who is not quite 17 months old, and is the only child in Quebec suffering from a condition known as Roifman Syndrome. This rare congenital disorder is characterized by immune deficiency, abnormal growth and formation of bones and joints, vision problems and cognitive delay.

“Samy has to undergo a transfusion of immunoglobulin each week,” says sergeant-detective Sara-Imane Chemloul, a member of the committee that organized the drive. “His life depends on it. Taking an hour to make a donation of blood or plasma can make all the difference for Samy or anyone else who needs plasma or blood products. We are hoping to bring out the most donors possible, because even during a pandemic the needs are important in order to ensure an adequate supply for hospitals all over Quebec. Every donation counts. On behalf of Samy, we say thanks.”

To become a donor, a reservation must be made at jedonne.hema-quebec.qc.ca (for plasma donations only), or by telephone by calling 1 888 666-4362. Donors wishing to make a blood donation are also welcome. A plasma donation can be made every six days, while a blood donation can only be made every 28 days by men and 56 days by women.

Additional information is available at this web link: https://www.laval.ca/Pages/Fr/Nouvelles/microsite-police/unecollectedeplasmapoursamy.aspx

Vimont gunshot victim identified as cocaine dealer

Laval News Contributor
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Vimont gunshot victim identified as cocaine dealer

The Montreal daily La Presse reported on Saturday morning that a man who was shot Friday evening near the corner of René Laennec Blvd. and Namur St. in Laval’s Vimont district is a known cocaine dealer with connections to organized crime and biker gangs.

The Laval Police responded to the scene (identified in another news report as being on nearby Place de la Fagnolle) Friday around 8 pm, after learning that a man in his 50s was lying on the ground not far from Cité de la Santé Hospital after being shot.

On Saturday morning, La Presse identified the victim as Stéphane Dupuis, saying that he was “known to police,” and that he had served 35 months in prison after being convicted of cocaine trafficking and gangsterism.

Car exiting Tim Horton’s seriously injures 60-year-old pedestrian

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Car exiting Tim Horton’s seriously injures 60-year-old pedestrian

The Laval Police say a 60-year-old pedestrian walking outside a Tim Horton’s coffee and donut outlet near the corner of Curé Labelle and Cléroux boulevards during the early afternoon Friday was struck and seriously injured by a car on its way out of the parking area.

Despite what the police described as serious injuries requiring hospitalization, the pedestrian’s life was not in danger, according to the LPD.

Accident investigators from the LPD were on the scene Friday afternoon to determine the cause, although it would appear initially, according to a media report, that the driver simply didn’t see the pedestrian while leaving the parking area.

Cartier Arena to serve as treatment centre for COVID-19 patients

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Cartier Arena to serve as treatment centre for COVID-19 patients

With the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic now acknowledged by public health officials, the City of Laval will be turning the Cartier Arena in Pont-Viau into a secondary site for the treatment of patients.

The City of Laval’s Cartier Arena in Pont-Viau is being called into service as a secondary site for COVID-19 patients during the second wave of the pandemic.

Around 50 beds are being set up at the arena for COVID patients who are ill, but not seriously enough to require regular hospitalization.

During the first wave, the City of Laval’s Place Bell was used as an alternative treatment site. As the Cartier Arena is a much older city facility, some changes had to be made, including modifications to the ventilation system.

The arena is expected to be ready by next week to take in patients from Cité-de-la-Santé, but also from the CISSSS de Laval, as well as from retirement residences.

LPD Blue – Crime news from Laval

Renata Isopo
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LPD Blue – Crime news from Laval

Theft: Laval police request citizens to
identify dangerous suspects

Laval Police Department related news
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The Service de police de Laval (SPL) is requesting the public to cooperate in identifying
suspects who have committed a robbery, in
a school parking lot in the Ste-Rose district,
in Laval.

Chronology of the event:
On August 12, 2020, at around 2 a.m., a
security guard supervising a construction site
heard screams coming from the stands behind a
school. He walked over and turned on the headlights of his vehicle to investigate the situation.
Three suspects reportedly walked up to him and
punched him in the face, before he could get
out of the cabin.

He attempted to call 911, but
one of the suspects allegedly snatched his phone
from him, then forcibly removed him from his
vehicle. The suspect then allegedly hit him
several times with the help of his accomplices.
They allegedly fled on foot with the victim’s
cell phone, wallet and keys.

A young woman
accompanied them at the time of the criminal
events, but she allegedly did not participate.
She is considered an important witness and
investigators would like to identify her.

Description of suspect 1:
Male, Caucasian, apparently of Arab origin,
about 20 years old – Measures approximately
1m 83 (6 feet) – Short hair

Description of suspect 2:
Caucasian male of appearance of Arab origin,
about 20 years old – Measures approximately
1.75 m (5 feet and 7 inches) – Short hair and
a beard

Description of suspect 3:
Caucasian male of appearance of Arab origin,
about 20 years old – Measures 1m 75 (5 feet
and 8 inches)
Description of suspect 4:

Caucasian woman about 20 years old – Long
brown hair

Anyone who has information about these individuals is asked to communicate confidentially
on the Info Line at 450 662-INFO (4636) or
dial 911 and mention the LVL 200812-006 file.

Laval pledges to cut greenhouse gas 33 per cent by 2035

Martin C. Barry
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Laval pledges to cut greenhouse gas 33 per cent by 2035

City claims to be far ahead of other municipalities for GHG reduction

The City of Laval has announced that it is pledging to reduce its output of greenhouse gases by 33 per cent by the year 2035.

“I am especially proud to announce a series of ambitious measures that will allow us to significantly reduce our output of greenhouse gases,” Mayor Marc Demers said in a statement.

“From now to 2035, Laval pledges to reduce its output by 33 per cent, which is significant. Our target surpasses even the one proposed by the Paris Accord.”

Meeting a goal

The City of Laval is pledging to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 33 per cent according to a plan going to year 2035.

According to the City of Laval, Laval stands out among virtually all municipalities in Quebec and across Canada as the only city to have made a firm commitment to follow a program designed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

“Political courage means not only announcing an ambitious goal,” said city councillor and executive-committee member responsible for environmental issues Virginie Dufour. “It’s also making sure we reach it. At the City of Laval, we did a sector-by-sector priority analysis which will culminate with the implementation of three five-year plans covering the 2021-2035 period.”

Actions taken

The city says it has taken the following steps to reduce greenhouse gases so far: subsidies and services to companies; subsidies for the purchase of electric bicycles; subsidies to replace oil heating systems and to convert them to electric; household pick-up of old refrigerators; adoption of a plan to adapt to climate changes; creation of several memoirs and participation in consultations on climate change issues; plans for conserving natural areas, urban forests and urban parks and green spaces; a strategy for acquiring natural areas; protection of wetlands of interest in Laval.

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