Alanah Heffez joins in the fun of rifling through the Gazette archives with an interesting piece on an attempt to pedestrianize six blocks of Mt Royal in 1970. She also discovers the probable reason it didn’t work.
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Be aware that speed limits are now down to 40 km/h in some parts of town.
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Yesterday, RCMP and city police were pressed into service to help process the backlog of passengers needing to be depth-searched before boarding at Trudeau, so today the airport has joined the trend to completely ban carry-ons, meaning you’ll be stuck with the airline’s magazine and in-flight movie, and your own inner resources, until things calm down again.
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The means used by police to quash the brawl on the Green Line on Saturday night are being questioned, particularly their treatment of bystanders and a mention I’ve seen of a gratuitous hassling of black kids who had nothing to do with the fight. Luckily nobody was hurt and, what seems even more unusual, no charges have been laid.
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Journalists are commenting today on the implications of the killing of Nick Rizzuto: is it a power grab in an ongoing struggle to dominate Montreal’s mafia, left somewhat rudderless with Vito Rizzuto in an American jail since 2006? That’s what La Presse’s expert thinks, and it’s not so far off what the Gazette’s experts think too. What Nick Rizzuto was up to and whether his death will spark further killings remains to be seen.
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Someone started joyeuxfrontenac.com for people to send messages of support to the lock-outés. Only catch, messages have to be sent via Facebook.
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Fagstein, wearing his journalist hat, looks at several local radio folks turning to podcasting to keep themselves in the public eye one way or another. What he doesn’t pause to consider is that dang little detail, revenue model.