St. Joseph’s Oratory is seeing a run on Frère André tchotchkes following news of his impending canonization. Good photo, too.
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Mayor Tremblay wants the media to be more upbeat about the progress of the various big projects around town. These summaries are necessarily terse, but I hope he can see a distinction between critics of his administration’s supposed immobilisme and those whose concerns are based on legitimate questions about how a big project might adversely affect its surroundings or the fabric of the city itself.
It only takes one Maison Radio-Canada, with its destruction of an entire neighbourhood, its lordly detachment from the world around it, its wanton use of urban terrain as parking space, for people to remember – for a very long time – that they do not want this kind of “grand projet” imposed on them again in that way.
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Public sector workers are holding a big demo today as the deadline nears for a new contract.
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Urbanphoto has a photo and text piece on Quartier Concordia as it evolves around Guy and de Maisonneuve, plus an impressionistic piece about Café Myriade. (The pieces are in French, but the titles in English.)
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Andy Riga points out this fantastic panorama of steampunk Montreal in 1896, stitched from shots taken from a tall chimney.
Guillaume Saint-Jean continues with his then-and-now theme, showing us the chapel of the sisters of Mercy, a disused convent on René-Lévesque, and how it looks now; he has more photos of the elaborate chapel on Flickr. He also has an interesting then-and-now of the building at Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent contrasting 1910 with today’s view, with the McDonald’s on the ground floor.
And Kristian also has some then-and-nows done via the Google Streetview method, including the pretty much unchanged building on Brennan and another corner of the Main in Old Montreal with some, er, interesting updates.
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A guest writer on Spacing suggests that bike path opening dates should be flexible depending on weather, and given this mild spring I can’t but agree with him. I haven’t biked yet, with the bike paths unclear and many of the back alleys (often the best route) still blocked with old heaped-up snow spared by surrounding shadow.
Also, Andy Riga says he was mistaken and Bixi rates won’t be going down this year, but at least they stay the same as 2009, with a season costing $78.