In Case You Missed It, Here's What Happened in Montreal on July 27

The companys fleet of 200 electric cars has captured a huge chunk of the local market, and most of those vehicles are serviced in Point St-Charles. Its parent company, Taxelco, owns about 40 per cent of the citys taxi permits.Donna Lewzey, who has been in Point St-Charles for 22 years, cant remember a time when the noise was this constant.

Her apartment is wedged against To Taxis St-Patrick St. repair shop. The workers screaming, the compressors, the loud music it makes my dogs go crazy, said Lewzey, who lives on Ropery St.

She filed a complaint with the Sud-Ouest borough last summer, but hasnt heard back.One neighbour said the racket has become so bad this summer that she no longer sleeps in her bedroom. Instead, she blows up the inflatable mattress and camps out across the hall.

Taxelco CEO Dominique Lemay says he empathizes with residents concerns.Youll notice the parking lot is full, so weve had to park our cars in lots all along St-Patrick St., said Lemay, the CEO of Taxelco.

I understand how that could be bothersome. But were about to undergo some pretty dramatic changes on that front.Lemay says the majority of Tos fleet will be moved to an underground docking facility in another part of town next month.

During the night of Thursday, July 19, French border agents patrolling the waters off of the French Antilles in the Caribbean Sea intercepted a sailboat with a small blue fleur-de-lys emblazoned on its side.The sleek, white yacht pitched and rolled on the open sea in what Jean-Damien Moustier, the head of the French governments Caribbean anti-drug trafficking unit, called difficult conditions. Unable to board, agents began escorting the sailboat, called theto the nearby port of St-Martin.

The ships sailed through the night until, at 10 a.m., theburst into flames.

The two Quebecers bobbed nearby in a life raft. Moustier alleges they set the vessel on fire in an attempt to sink it before authorities could seize its cargo. The yachts masts caught fire and fell amid clouds of smoke.

Six hours later, border agents and firefighters had the blaze under control and were able to inspect the badly charred boat. Below decks they found no less than 1.5 tons of cocaine, an amount that Moustier estimated would be worth about $300 million on the Canadian market.

The two Quebec men, aged 53 and 55, are now in a Martinique prisonafter havingappeared before a judge on Tuesday in Fort-de-France to face charges of drug trafficking, criminal association and destruction of goods by dangerous means. Their identities were not released.Led by former Projet Montral candidate Balarama Holness, Montreal in Action, which describes itself as ais a citizen-based group comprised of community leaders, was expected to file the petition at city hall on Friday.

It has more than cleared the 15,000-signature threshold required to compel city hall to hold consultations.The petition, which wasin February in collaboration with several anti-racism and community groups, was ruled admissible by the city clerk last April.According to the right of initiative enshrined in the citys charter, any citizen can petition the city to hold a public consultation on any city matter.

Holness, has said he wants the consultation to result in a strategy to deal with systemic racism and discrimination based on such grounds as gender, religion, citizenship status, age, social condition and sexual orientation.