Metro lists a few Twitter feeds useful to Montrealers but it’s just a drop in the ocean.
Updates from March, 2010 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
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Nathalie Collard is curious about a small ad that has been placed in Le Devoir and La Presse by some unknown entity fronted by the amusingly named Smart & Biggar law firm. The ad’s here and it’s a good question: who would start a new daily paper now?
(Could it be Quebecor, testing to see whether the Rue Frontenac people would stampede to a new job?)
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After one of their boats sank during a training session last week on the Lachine Rapids, firemen are asking for better rescue equipment including boats better designed for choppy waters.
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The Verdun triplex fire may have been caused by kids playing with fire. At least the death toll has been rolled back to 3 as one of the people initially listed as dead is still in hospital.
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In the wake of the Moscow metro bombings, security’s on red alert in our metro system, although the authorities decline to be specific about exactly what this means.
Later note: Or maybe not.
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Three teenagers got into a Montreal North grade school on Sunday and wreaked havoc, destroying computers and books and killing a rabbit belonging to one of the classes. If school commissions send in grief counsellors to a school where a student died in a fire, what do they do when the school itself is the subject of an attack?
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Fagstein comments on the Quebec government’s new merci de me servir en français campaign – and Kristian puts his own spin on the idea.
(Incidentally, if you take apart that government page, you find filenames like headerPage2.jpg and bottomRightPage2.jpg – tsk!)
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The testimony of police officer Jean-Loup Lapointe wrapped up after eleven days and that of Dany Villanueva began at the inquest into the shooting death of Dany’s brother Fredy. Lapointe closed his testimony by emphasizing he doesn’t think he’s racist.
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The 747 airport express started today, offering a one-shot ride to Trudeau, although still dependent on what Highway 20 traffic is doing.
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It’s been all over Twitter since last night, but J’ai tué ma mère took the best film at last night’s Jutra gala, with Polytechnique and Dédé à travers les brumes taking other prizes.
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A glimpse of the new audition process via which musicians get a permit to busk in the metro – a process run by a coalition of metro musicians.