Water main break on Papineau Avenue stalls access to Jacques-Cartier Bridge
CBC
Montreal's Papineau Avenue is closed between Ste-Catherine Street and René-Lévesque Boulevard for an undetermined period of time after a water main broke Thursday morning.
Police officers are on site to redirect traffic and are asking that drivers avoid the sector if possible.
In a statement to CBC News, the city says its teams are currently working to seal the breach, which is about 15 to 20 centimeters long, but did not provide an estimate for when repairs would be over.
The break is complicating access to the Jacques-Cartier Bridge connecting Montreal to the South Shore said Jean-Pierre Brabant, a spokesperson for the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), given that a section of De Lorimier Avenue is also closed for renovations.
Traffic to the bridge is being fed through Frontenac, Atateken, Dorion and Ste-Catherine streets, as well as de Maisonneuve Boulevard.
In August 2024, a major water main break just one block over produced a geyser and led to dozens of homes being flooded. The event raised questions around the city's aging infrastructure.
The city replaced a six-metre section of pipe a couple of months later.
Paid plasma could be banned in Manitoba, the province's health minister said after two fatal adverse reactions at Winnipeg collection centres were reported to Health Canada.
Another day, another Saskatoon overpass damaged by a truck driver hauling a load too tall for clearance.
Six years have gone by since 73,466 people signed a petition calling on the Saskatchewan government to make Black history a mandatory component of the school curriculum.
P.E.I.’s health minister says months of tensions between frontline workers and senior leadership at Health P.E.I. led to the decision that Melanie Fraser would no longer serve as the agency’s CEO, but opposition leaders say her departure alone won’t fix the province’s struggling health-care system.
The emergency room in Hinton, Alta., will be without a doctor for seven nights in a row this week.
Vancouver's 2SLGBTQ+ community is mourning the loss of cherished local activist and elder Dan Wurzer, also known as Sister Diversity Rains, who died this week at the age of 82.
Kids and teens are committing — and on the receiving end — of an increasing number of bear spray-related crimes, including assaults and robberies, Hamilton police say.
On the heels of a historically bad season, the Sarnia Legionnaires are changing owners.
Calgary’s recent return to water restrictions has had several social media users placing the blame on AI data centres and their massive water consumption.
What does a complex classroom look like? Here’s a description submitted to CBC News from an Alberta teacher.
The City of Waterloo says it has declared a "community safety event" and its nuisance bylaw will be enforced starting at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.
Work on a new breakwater structure for a harbour on Prince Edward Island's North Shore is now underway, and fishermen in the area are glad to see it.
Councillors are split on Mayor Jeromy Farkas’s pitch to let Enmax take over Calgary’s beleaguered water system, but the city-owned power utility itself said it’s “well positioned” to run another service.