A new program to give the homeless a roof first is going to experiment with overturning the conventional notion that you have to get them off drink or drugs first. 300 people are being found homes in this pilot project, although it would be interesting to know whether they’re all going to live in some semi-institutional building or whether landlords will have to be coaxed into housing them.
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The lock-outés at Rue Frontenac are preparing to mark a year on the sidewalk on Sunday with a show at La Tulipe; their labour situation is at a total impasse.
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Projet Montréal has bigger and better ideas for a parking lot tax: they’re suggesting applying it more equitably over the whole city, which would raise more revenue and avoid penalizing downtown businesses.
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If you take a ride in one of the STM’s new buses you may notice a bus ad including the above message.So why did they use a faux-aged, distressed typeface for the word “neuf”?
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Creditors have seized Mont Tremblant as well as Whistler from Intrawest, which hasn’t been able to pay its debts. The ski station will be auctioned off during the winter Olympics.
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Ottawa is holding its line on family sponsorships for Haitians in need, barring nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles from being included in the definition of family. A woman from Montreal can’t bring her mother home with her after finding her alive in the rubble.
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Lots of tributes today to Kate McGarrigle, from Le Devoir, the New York Times, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, Guardian UK, a note from her son Rufus Wainwright on his own site; a 2003 interview from Brendan Kelly; an entire dossier from the Gazette.
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Eighteen Montreal police of Haitian background are on their way to Port-au-Prince today, accompanied by police chief Yvan Delorme as well as a party of doctors and nurses. It’s a purely municipal-level initiative. Also today is news that Haitians here can transfer money home for free for awhile.
There’s also more pondering on the sheer scale of the reconstruction in Haiti that will be discussed in a high-end meeting in Montreal on Monday.