No journalistic lede so hooks the reader as body found: Radio-Canada hints darkly the dead woman found in Pointe-aux-Trembles could be disappeared Corrections Canada worker Natasha Cournoyer, but no identification has yet been made.
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Blue-collar workers are holding a grève éclair tomorrow for four hours. Shown above: the éclair. -
CanWest Media, which owns the local TV station and the National Post, filed for bankruptcy protection today, a story which it’s reporting on itself. Not one of the glorious media companies, its troubles nonetheless do not bode well for media diversity, although they mirror similar issues in other media companies in Canada and elsewhere. They’ve received the protection they asked for.
Thanks to Fagstein for the clarification: Canwest Media is a subsidiary of Canwest Global that owns Global TV, cable channels and the National Post. The Gazette and other newspapers, plus canada.com are owned by Canwest Limited Partnership, a separate entity. -
The metro is running again after most of the system went down with a power failure toward the end of rush hour. Blogger Blork was one of the folks evacuated from a train on the yellow line: he snapped a couple of photos in the tunnel between Berri-UQÀM and Jean-Drapeau.
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Mayor Tremblay has pledged to protect pedestrians, a safe move just this side of Mom and apple pie; the city is planning to hire thousands of folks to count ballots, after the 2005 vote was marred by buggy voting machines; a brief piece on Plateau independent Marc-Boris Saint-Maurice; Henry Aubin examines reasons why we don’t get stellar leadership at the municipal level: some of his ideas are sociological generalizations, but his point that this city has been virtually under Quebec’s guardianship since 1976 is an interesting one.
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Vancouver and Montreal have won their series, so it will be an all-Canadian USL First Division final between the Whitecaps and the Impact.
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Bernie Ecclestone is demanding that his revenue from our Grand Prix be entirely tax free, but the feds are saying no, which could put an end to hopes for a return of the Montreal race.
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A poll finds that Montrealers think their city is safe; interesting that allophones feel safer than anglos, who in turn feel safer than francophones. And the impression is pretty well borne out by the actual crime numbers.