Parks Canada removes trash bins along Lachine Canal to spur citizen responsibility

Parks Canada removes trash bins along Lachine Canal to spur citizen responsibility

The agency says it will monitor the pilot project, but people who use the path say litter is already piling up.

Parks Canada removes trash bins along Lachine Canal to spur citizen responsibility

MONTREAL — On warm days, Montreal’s Lachine Canal can attract thousands of picnickers, cyclists and pedestrians.  But since Parks Canada recently removed around 30 trash bins from the paths along the historic waterway, Ariana Ranjbar says she has begun to notice a new phenomenon at one popular lawn. “I started noticing a lot of poop […]

Parks Canada removes trash bins along Lachine Canal to spur citizen responsibility

MONTREAL — On warm days, Montreal's Lachine Canal can attract thousands of picnickers, cyclists and pedestrians.

Parks Canada removes trash bins along Lachine Canal to spur citizen responsibility

MONTREAL — On warm days, Montreal’s Lachine Canal can attract thousands of picnickers, cyclists and pedestrians.  But since Parks Canada recently removed around 30 trash bins from the paths along the historic waterway, Ariana Ranjbar says she has begun to notice a new phenomenon at one popular lawn. “I started noticing a lot of poop bags building up,” Ranjbar, 26, said on Wednesday alongside the canal in Montreal’s Griffintown neighbourhood. In …