The PechaKucha organizers are looking for submissions on ideas what to do with the Main between René-Lévesque and Sherbrooke.
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The McGill hospital centre has launched a website on which individuals can create and store an electronic health record. I’m charmed to see that it requires Flash.
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It’s news, but it’s no surprise, that dozens of arrests have been made at this evening’s anti police brutality march, which drew a thousand people to Pie-IX metro. Some firecrackers and bottles were thrown and slogans chanted, particularly against Jean-Loup Lapointe, who’s still answering questions about how he came to kill Fredy Villanueva in 2008.
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The Conservative government has been explicitly silencing climate scientists on top of cutting their budgets presumably because if you can hedge on an inconvenient truth for long enough, you might get yourself re-elected.
A small festival of environmental films is holding its second outing at the cinema du Parc at the end of the month.
Metro has a brief piece on city composting, which doesn’t exist yet. Anyone with even a small amount of outdoor space should probably start composting for themselves.
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Some picks from Le Devoir and from the Gazette for the impending Festival of films on art. A film about art collectors will open the festival on Thursday.
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The accidental death of 20-year-old Alexandre Hamelin was the first fatality in 186 years of the St. Patrick’s parade. He and some friends climbed onto one of the last floats to pass then, jumping back off, he slipped under the wheels. Police are saying drink was a factor, and there’s inevitable talk about boosting security in the future (barricades?!).
Neath has some happier photos of yesterday’s festivities, showing people enjoying the day despite the rain.
I’ll say again: make the parade non-motorized. Walk, or have horses or people pull wagons or carts if you must, but it’s a red herring that the people are unsafe: it’s that having big motorized vehicles always creates a dangerous situation, even if they’re only moving at 5 km/h.