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The mild weather boosted participation in the Nuit Blanche this year.
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Chilean Montrealers are gathering to try to find out more about the fate of their families in central Chile after an 8.8-magnitude quake hit there yesterday. Images from the quake are mind-boggling.
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For those concerned it’s big: this is Fashion Week and you can find out more on the website.
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Andy Riga answers his own question why we don’t skate on the Lachine Canal.
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Two major heritage groups have come out saying that condo conversion would be better than abandonment for Outremont’s Mont-Jésus-Marie convent.
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Review of a new show at the McCord featuring works from Jewish painters in early 20th century Montreal. (No illustrations, though there may be some on links from the museum’s exhibit page.)
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A Spanish firm wants a piece of the of the STM metro cars contract. And they’re willing to build them on pneumatic tires.
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The inquiry into several accidents fatal to pedestrians during last winter’s snow clearance has revealed that you can drive a snowplow or a snowblower if you have a basic driver’s permit – it doesn’t require the extra training needed to get a heavy machinery permit. Looks like that may change.
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Nice story about a 105-year-old woman getting her wish to see a performance by the MSO close up.
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Lots of folks in southern Quebec, including several thousand in Montreal, lost power last night as high winds struck the area. Some people have got their juice back at midday Friday, some haven’t. There are also road closures.
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An interview with Sud-Ouest mayor Benoit Dorais of Vision Montreal, who has the unenviable job of coping with the Turcot redevelopment on his territory.
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Neath of Walking Turcot Yards comments on a recent Henry Aubin column on the failure of the Tremblay administration to pull off any of the five big projects it has promised. Not that all of them were desirable, but the stars seem to be against this administration succeeding in focusing financial support and public enthusiasm on any major project.
Some of this can be blamed on financial woes bigger than the city, but I don’t think all of it can.
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A look at how urban dwellers cut desire paths through the snow.
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Suggestions for this Saturday night’s Nuit Blanche from Hour, the Mirror, even the Plattsburgh paper; trailers for some of the Sundance shorts to be shown at the Monument National; French site interviews Pascal Lefebvre, director of the event.
New City Gas by ben soo
One very interesting part of the festivities is a day-long festival at the New City Gas building in Griffintown, mentioned here in a Gazette blog; an interior view is shown above. Not often open to the public, this wonderful old industrial building is worth a look in and of itself, never mind what capers are cut in the course of the Nuit blanche. -
A man was hauled off a Westjet flight to Toronto yesterday and questioned, and the entire plane emptied and searched, but he was eventually freed with no charges and nobody is talking about what exactly sparked the investigation and delay.
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Noah Bernamoff of Mile End deli in Brooklyn must have a genius for publicity. Not only can he get notices in the New York Times and the Village Voice for his weekly Montreal bagel run, he can even get the Daily News to fulminate against it in an editorial which maintains that a Montreal bagel is not a bagel at all.
In all of which nobody acknowledges that a bagel is an ephemeral pleasure, delightful if eaten within an hour or two, but which after an eight-hour roadtrip will only be fit to be bisected and toasted. -
Framed as a discussion about urban sprawl, this article gets down to its real topic later on: whether the suburbs, verging on holding a bigger population than Montreal city proper, will be allowed to dominate policy in the metropolis.
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Metro interviews François Croteau, Vision mayor of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, who’s unusual in giving props to the previous administration of André Lavallée for having done good work.
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One for the concrete metaphor file: the public security office reminds us not to walk on thin ice. A mild winter has meant weak ice surfaces that can’t be trusted for people or vehicles.
Apropos ice surfaces, Andy Riga posted an interesting thought recently in his newspaper blog: why don’t we skate on the Lachine Canal?
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Metro continues with its mayors series, interviewing Luc Ferrandez, Projet mayor of the Plateau, about his ideals and his plans.
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Bit of a manifesto today from Spacing on how mobility is priceless, re the endless unrealized studies on fast trains.
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A vote at city hall has gone against Union Montreal and blocked the zoning change that would’ve paved the way for the Catania condo conversion of that huge old convent in Outremont. As noted in this Projet Montréal memo, enough Union members were absent to cost the mayor’s party its otherwise inevitable majority.
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Backgrounder on the Tiffany glass show at the Museum of Fine Arts.
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Lecturers at the Université de Montréal are going on strike as of tomorrow, salaries and class sizes being the issues.
At the same time, there’s a lot of honking from Lucien Bouchard over the perceived need to unfreeze university tuitions.