Spacing has a brief piece on ATSA’s État d’urgence 2009, which opened today. The event/installation/festival focuses on the homeless, and on generally helping the seriously hard up.
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Nice piece on hacker who has made a system to send out email alerts for late AMT trains. Now all it needs is an iPhone app.
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There’s apparently hope that negotiations for a deal on new metro cars are drawing to a close, and none too soon. We’ve got some of the oldest rolling stock in any subway system, some dating back to the origins of the system, and it’s getting more difficult to keep it all running.
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Getting a flu shot is called a social responsibility as Montrealers are urged to go for the vaccination. And while cases of flu are down, hospitalizations for serious symptoms are still on the rise. Vaccination centre information for Montreal.
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Some Plateau merchants are already upset about their new Projet council’s plan not to remove snow on weekends. Patrick Lagacé ponders the importance of snow in Montreal life.
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A report on the first Ville-Marie borough council meeting suggests people are unhappy about the whole business of the city’s mayor being also ex officio mayor of Ville-Marie, but one thing’s mentioned in passing here that’s inconsistent with this view of things.
OK: the premise for Ville-Marie being special, and governed centrally, is that it’s unique. The mayor gets to bring in two councillors from other boroughs because V-M in some sense is Montreal and belongs to all of us, in that its fate deeply affects the rest of the city. Granted. But then Tremblay says that he’s changing the bylaws so that only V-M residents and business owners can ask questions at the borough council sessions. How does that square with the notion that V-M’s business is the business of all Montrealers?
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Two items on the recent spate of café attacks quote the same organized crime expert, Pierre de Champlain: in both the Globe and Mail and the Gazette he opines that this kind of nickel-and-dime thuggery is not typical of the Mafia proper, which does things in a less chaotic style. The Globe does a great job, though, catching Nick Rizzuto patronizing one of the damaged cafés and unearthing some great stuff about the mob and the coffee supply.
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Kind of a vague piece on the STM rating high in an international study of transit systems and expecting to continue to do so, although it’s odd that the actual statistics and study are not made public.
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There were two fires overnight, one considered suspicious in a Plateau condo under construction, and the other in a transition house for psych patients in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. The condo fire is just across the tracks from the Rosemont fire last week, also in a building under construction.