City spending $5.3 million on rented snowblowers

With most of Montreal’s snow dumps already nearly full, the city is spending $5.3 million to rent 10 extra-powerful snowblowers for the next two months.
The city’s executive committee approved the expense Wednesday morning.
The snowblowers, which are able to blow snow higher and farther than regular models, will help the city make use of the temporary Blue Bonnets site and former Miron quarry in St-Michel, said Jean-Francois Parenteau, the mayor of Verdun and executive committee memb