Montreal continues to lose residents to surrounding towns, although partly replacing the numbers with new immigrants; it's part of a still growing car culture that has Canada in its grip. (But if we're losing so many people, who buys all those condos?)

One corollary of having so many newcomers is the need to provide health care to people whose ideas and approach to the subject are different from ours here.

Another corollary of urban sprawl: it's a safe bet that, in retrospect, lives burned away in commuting, work, screen-based entertainment and sleep, will be understood to account for the great increase in depression in our society in our time.

Yet another corollary: smog is killing people and so is traffic on our hazardous streets.
posted at 11:18