Along with everyone else today, I have to blog this YouTube: Si La Presse n’existait pas.
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Louis Roquet has been named director-general of Montreal and André Lavallée has been made Ville-Marie mayoral sidekick, the mayor of Ville-Marie being none other than
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Montrealers are more concerned about the environment than residents of other Canadian cities, although I think the explanation that it’s due to the recent election campaign is not a good one. Not enough people were involved in the campaign to stir up feeling, and I remember walking in a huge environmental demo a couple of winters back when no campaign was going on.
It’s a complex issue but I think there may be a clue in the photo that accompanies the article. It’s the river. The river mirrors the state of the environment and we’re all aware on some level that it would be bad news for Montreal to be bathing in a sea of effluent. Keeping the river clean is the consequence of a whole suite of sound environmental practice. It’s just the nature of our geography.
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The AMT is making a series of promises that train service will be better this winter than last. A couple of PDF files are available from its website. (But like everything else, so much will depend on the unknown factor of the kind of winter we get.)
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This morning, the (newly redesigned) Le Devoir site is reporting on the impending La Presse labour deadline while La Presse reports on Le Devoir’s impending centenary, a landmark also noted by the paper itself.
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The arson squad is looking into a downtown fire last night as well as a fire in NDG that killed a man.
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Good piece on CP’s unceremonious whisking away of the statue of Lord Mount Stephen from Windsor Station to its Calgary headquarters.
Although, if I understand it properly, he shouldn’t be called “Lord Stephen.” His name was George Stephen, but his barony is Mount Stephen and the name isn’t divisible. His assumed title, the Right Honourable the Baron Mount Stephen, was derived from a mountain in the Kicking Horse River Valley of Yoho National Park in British Columbia previously named in his honour. (Wikipedia)