In the ill wind department, Quebec readers have been alerted to the pleasures of Haitian-Canadian writing by the sudden high profile of the culture in our scopes.
Updates from January, 2010 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
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Plans to replace Montreal’s aging collection of metro cars may be further delayed as Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive brings a case against the STM. Now the issue seems to be that the STM requires cars running on tires, as the Montreal metro always has, but the Chinese firm wants to press to make them accept rail cars instead.
This is a bit annoying, since the work really does need to begin – but would changing to rail cars necessarily be a bad thing? Our metro system can never allow trains to go outside because of the hazard of blowing a tire on random detritus. Changing to rail now would be a big shift, but it might save a lot of money in years to come. (If I’m not mistaken, there are already rails laid in the metro, although I don’t know how usable they are. Anybody?)
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Blue-collar workers began their rotating strikes yesterday with a demo at city hall but, in general, no major disruptions.
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The remains of Marguerite d’Youville have to be moved from the Grey Nuns’ mother house now that it belongs to Concordia, but 275 nuns will remain buried in the crypt because some of them – the hospital nurses of the era – died of communicable diseases, and nobody is sure whether disturbing them could still be dangerous.
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Antoinette Cyre
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Antoinette Cyre
Yes I want to see the video of the Transfer of the remains of Marguerite d’Youville to Varennes.
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City council adopted the proposed $4.3-billion budget last night, with support from Richard Bergeron (although not the rest of Projet) and sneering from Vision Montreal.
Wish to see a video of the transfer of remains of Marguerite d’Youville from Grey Nuns Mother House to Varennes with photos and text.