Filmmaker Gilles Carle has died at 80 after a long illness and will be given a state funeral. Retrospectives of his life and works depict a man deeply in love with filmmaking. Here’s a six-minute scene from Les Plouffe.
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Louise Harel is being sued over remarks she made about one of the engineering firms involved in the water meter debacle.
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A writer looks at bloggers looking at burgers as Sarah Musgrave talks to the Montreal Burger Report guys. Fagstein thinks Ed Hawco’s photo of Chris “Zeke” Hand is adorable.
As far as seasonings, Hawco sticks to salt and pepper, and limits the toppings – ? As far as what? This sloppy usage is creeping into mainstream journalese. The expression as far as X is concerned is bad enough if you can’t phrase it better, but dropping the is concerned makes gibberish of it. If you must, it’s As for seasonings….Yes, I’m feeling prescriptive today.
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The 20th anniversary of the Polytechnique massacre (Radio-Canada archive video) is coming up, and of course there would be websites calling Marc Lépine a hero and supporting violence against feminists. I’m not looking for those sites or pointing to them – they can get their hits somewhere else.
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CN locomotive engineers are on strike although AMT has filed an injunction and this news item suggests that no commuter lines should be affected. I guess Monday will be the moment of truth if the strike continues.
In other AMT news, the Rigaud run may be eliminated: only a few people ride the scarce train to that town, but of course a train without many departures won’t have a big ridership. It’s a long-standing tactic for train operators to cut an unprofitable route down and then argue that nobody uses it so it should be axed.
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La Presse writer gives us ten places to get pizza; the question of buying a bagel in French; an aperçu of New York chefs indulging in Montreal restaurants.
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Here’s a surprise: the CHUM superhospital will cost even more than expected as the government moves to cover payments that were originally going to be handled by the private part of the PPP ideal. At this point, does anybody but Jean Charest think that the PPP thing is going to save money for the government? It’s simply a mechanism set up to assure a constant flow of public money into private hands.
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These two beauties were given ten years yesterday for beating and killing a random young guy on the Main last summer. They apologized to the family but the victim’s mother is shocked at the plea bargain that let them plead guilty to involuntary homicide.