Dog owners will be holding a demonstration Saturday afternoon in Lafontaine Park.
The Gazette looks at the dog patrol story.
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Kate
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Kate
An archeological dig in Verdun near the site of a traditional portage site has turned up arrowheads and pottery shards as well as a post-Columbian glass bead and porcelain.
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Kate
As mentioned earlier, there’s to be a Black Lives Matter event Saturday afternoon in Cabot Square.
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Kate
Le Devoir has a small dossier this weekend on the 1976 Olympics: from the infamous cost overruns to more positive things like how well the actual Games went off – and also another look at Corridart.
The Gazette has also been looking back at those Games.
Global on the exhibit about the Games at the stadium.
CBC has a weakish piece on four Olympic legacies you may not know about which even includes an athlete that wasn’t born yet in 1976, kind of pointless, and a bit about lotteries that I suspect is simply wrong. The first modern lottery in Montreal was not done by the feds for the Olympics, but instituted by Jean Drapeau in 1968 as a “voluntary tax” with a grand prize of $100,000. After quashing Drapeau’s lottery with a court ruling that it was illegal, Quebec seized the moment and established Loto‑Quebec.
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Kate
This is an effective but disturbing bit of guerrilla street art. Another, possibly even more disturbing view.
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Viviane
Always wondered what would happen if someone placed smiling nude mannequins standing exactly above those fountains.
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Kate
The city’s biggest street fair along Ste-Catherine takes place this weekend.
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Michael Black
I thought I’d seen an error, this is the first time it’s been three days. I didn’t see anything in the news about that, so until I got there today, I thought it might not be closed.
It’s about the same as usual, and the stores really aren’t interesting enough to make it a good event, other than the lack of cars. Most of the stores I never go in, and there is nothing I bought because the street was closed. Indigo had its usual bland table, though at least they had some clearance books out, while in recent years they’ve been hawking the gift stuff. When Chapters was still there, they at least used it to sell off the discounted books.
Victorias Secret didn’t have anything out, but one of the other lingerie stores did.
I went underground for a bit, then suddenly there seemed to be an influx of people. It turned out to have rained, so a lot used that as an excuse to close down, though it was only 7pm, if that late. So coming back it was mostly over for the day.
Lots of cadets out fir traffic, they at least seemed to be stopping cars as well as pedestrians. It can be sadly amusing when they treat pedestrians like children, while ignoring impatient car drivers who think thy have a right to ignore the lights.
One shouldn’t miss it, and yet none of it is memorable.
Maybe the Black Lives Matter meeting at Cabot Square, I think it’s 2pm,,will parade down the closed street. That would beat the time the zombies visited the street sale.
Michael
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Kate
This CP story has appeared in several media outlets Friday: Philippe Couillard has apologized for writing a brief message in English in a corporate guestbook in Germany where he had been speaking in English with the boss of Siemens. But surely that too is a solecism.
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Kate
CTV’s Annie DeMelt visits the hidden parts of the Olympic stadium in one of her video ventures, with extended video sidebars as well.
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Kate
The city’s planning to put millions into updating and enlarging the Maisonneuve library, a handsome classical pile on Ontario at Pie-IX. I wonder if this will be felt to be too gentrificational.
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Viviane
Finding ways to get underprivileged kids to enjoy reading doesn’t seem gentrificational to me.
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Kate
A new cohort of animal control officers will be patrolling dog runs and other areas of canine habituation as of Monday to enforce dog registration.
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Nathan
Montreal needs MONEY
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Nathan
Seriously, they fine you 250$ if you don’t register the dog? I feel like there are driving related infractions that are much more affordable than this. 15$ registration is fine by me, but I struggle to comprehend the value of registering that they need to fine you so hard.
FYI you just have to give your name, address, dog name, dog breed and that’s it.
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Kate
Nathan, it’s happening because the mayor wants to be seen to be acting on the pitbull issue.
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Kate
The Gazette predicts traffic headaches this weekend, and there are traffic nightmares in the text as well.
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EmilyG
Now that I often get headaches (not caused by traffic!), I’m getting really tired of the word “headaches” being used to describe traffic problems.
I’m vaguely curious how many real headaches are actually caused by driving in heavy traffic.
There don’t seem to be many articles mentioning if bus service is disrupted, but thankfully the STM has a page about that. http://www.stm.info/fr/infos/etat-du-service/bus -
Philip Ossowski
Being stuck on a bus for more than an hour, without a seat, and in the full heat of summer, has given me a headache in the past. Not sure why it’s an improper term.
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Kate
Philip, I’ve made a point of noting these usages (in both languages) because I have a theory about metaphors that situate difficulties from traffic as physical symptoms within the body or mind – nightmare and headache are the two most common, but we’ve also seen a monster taking hostages in a recent story.
I feel that journalists make lexical choices that direct people in how to feel about things, and emphasizing the intolerability of traffic is one of the things many of them do reflexively by now. Bigger and faster highways are not just built on concrete pylons, they’re also built on rhetorical devices.
Your situation on the bus was different: you were physically stressed, probably mildly dehydrated, so getting a headache was not a metaphor. Having to take a detour or wait a few minutes in traffic is an inconvenience. It isn’t a headache.
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Ian
Next you’ll be telling me that when traffic congestion is a pain in the ass my ass isn’t really hurting. It’s called a figure of speech. And yes, the media does exaggerate for the sake of effect, but they do it for everything. People want to celebrate their inconveniences because otherwise it just sounds like they’re complaining.
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Kate
The city’s first female firefighter to retire has hung up her hat at 59 after 25 years of service in five different firehalls around the city. Gazette covers the same story a few days later.
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Kate
Wow, this brief piece gives me, like, total faith in the Glen hospital: even a flicker in the electrical power supply can knock all its systems offline and then they have trouble rebooting everything. Shouldn’t a hospital, of all things, have armour-plated UPS backups?
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EmilyG
PK Subban donated money to the hospital, and I once enjoyed a concert on the hospital grounds – those are actually the only two good things I have ever heard about the Glen hospital. It seems like whenever it’s in the news, it’s bad news.
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denpanosekai
Well, we had a baby there, and it was fantastic. So they’re doing something right.
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EmilyG
That’s good to hear, denpanosekai.
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Ian
Congrats, denpanosekai!
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Kate
24H looks at some events and features at Jardins Gamelin this summer.
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Kate
Two men have been charged in a homicide in Cartierville in April that was so low-key I don’t know that I saw reports of it at all.
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