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.
A look at how urban dwellers cut desire paths through the snow.
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
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.
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.
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.