Allison Hanes: Time to wake up and smell the garbage problem

Montreal’s integrity watchdog has detected the whiff of corruption emanating from a contract for garbage collection in the borough of Verdun.
If the possibility of fraud wasn’t alarming enough, the investigation by the Bureau de l’inspecteur général (BIG) has also uncovered a larger and equally worrisome problem: The city doesn’t have a good-enough handle on what’s happening to all the waste being picked up from its streets. And that lack of scrut