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A group of homeowners in Vaudreuil sur le Lac is hoping to convince at least 121 residents of the small town to sign a register later this month to block the municipal council’s plans to buy a wooded area. But the residents are not opposed to the purchase — they simply object to the price, a figure they claim is much higher than the market value based on the town’s own assessment commissioned last year.
The owner of the Hudson-Oka ferry announced yesterday that service on the lake crossing will be reinstated today — although only one ferry will be in operation.
Setting aside legal advice on a move viewed by many residents as unpopular, Hudson council last week deferred voting on a motion to ban swimming at Sandy Beach, effectively stalling the town’s ability to fine swimmers until at least the end of August.
In a world that is being engulfed in wildfires, where a war in the Middle East has no conclusion in sight, where artificial intelligence is set to revolutionize economies, where middle-power allies are learning to flex their economic clout, where tariffs have become the economic baseball bat carried by a bully looking to extort lunch money from everyone in the schoolyard, where grift and gangsterism in the White House is put on full display like it is just part of the gilded faux-fashion of the Oval Office, would it be that outlandish to wonder if the crumbling relationship between the U.S. and Canada will come down to milk?
Described as “the largest federal investment ever made in Vaudreuil,” the Canadian government announced a $211-million contribution to the construction of the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Hospital earlier this month.
After hitting record-setting levels last year, housing prices in Vaudreuil-Soulanges have cooled somewhat in the first half of 2026, with the region emerging as the only area in Greater Montreal where the median selling price has dropped, according to the latest data from the Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers.
St. Lazare Mayor Geneviève Lachance invoked her power of veto last week after a majority of the town’s council refused to support a resolution to formally begin the process of looking into how the municipality could — or even should — regulate the use of electric scooters and other personal motorized mobility devices, a topic that has generated much public discussion this spring as the popularity of these devices has soared.
We have always known that politics are politics. But when you see the slithery cold quality that frequently shades the practice of public service up close, it strikes a blow, and raises the question: Would it be so hard to do better?
Why do we keep trying to jam square pegs into round holes?
A total of 371 people died on Quebec’s roads last year, according to the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec’s Bilan routiere 2025 released last month — with nine of these fatalities recorded in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges region.