In about an hour, the city will be turning off some of its big lights as Earth Hour touches down in EDT. The cross on Mount Royal and the big Q logo on the Hydro-Quebec building will go dark, and many individuals will also be participating.
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Chris DeWolf has some interesting thoughts on the montreal ’64 magazine that the archives tweeted this week.
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A junk shop on the Main is claiming to have a bar of Nazi soap for sale, made from the fat of Holocaust victims, but the story is vague: apparently Nazis did not actually produce these things and it is, in any case, illegal to sell human remains, which the owner of such a shop (he sells all kinds of odd items) must have known. I have a feeling this is a bid for publicity, although it’s in poor enough taste if it is.
I can’t quote a reference, but I remember this shop being in trouble before over Nazi memorabilia – part of its front window was boarded up for a time after a vigorous response to news that it was offering such things for sale. Ironically, the owner is a Jew himself.
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Pierre-Marc Johnson writes in Le Devoir today about the urban value of the Quartier de la santé meant to grow up around the CHUM – but someone more persuasive replies in the comments.
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Linda Gyulai’s third piece on Shaughnessy Village looks more closely at some of the people and how they ended up there, and by its omissions shows how little there is in the way of prospective improvements for them.
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Blue-collar workers will be negotiating with the city for four days in April, and if nothing comes of that, they may step up their labour actions. So far, it’s just the Biodome and the Insectarium that are closed: they’re staying low-key at least at the moment.
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The Gazette writes with ill-concealed admiration of the larger-than-life existence of Ducarme Joseph. Can’t help wondering, if he’s been the biggest gangster in town for years, why he hasn’t been mentioned in the media till very recently.