Slightly cute piece on old ladies going out for a drink.
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The Canadiens face the Penguins tonight in the first game of their semi-final series. Various writers are pre-emptively dreading their potential to face down the current holders of the Stanley Cup in an opening game in Pittsburgh. List of factoids, Sidney Crosby’s boyhood Habs worship and Red Fisher.
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Police rounded up 30 suspects today in a well publicized swoop on drug dealers in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. The Gazette has an interesting bit about how the police moved in response to complaints from new condo owners in the area.
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Thoughts on the Grande Bibliothèque as grand gesture and how governments sometimes need to think big.
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Rima Elkouri writes about Montréal multiple and its origins over the photocopier at La Presse.
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Craig Silverman explains the renovation of Dorchester Square (aka Dominion Square for oldtimers). A website lays out the plans and the background.
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Advertising on taxi dome lights can begin on Monday.
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A new tax on gasoline comes into effect Saturday, the proceeds going (in theory, anyway) to support public transit.
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The summer’s MMFA show, “We Want Miles”: Miles Davis vs. Jazz, noted here, there and elsewhere.
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Marie-Claude Lortie ponders the reintegration of back yard chicken runs and other elements of rural life back into the city.
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The Gazette headline Noxious substance detected downtown brought to mind a positive torrent of possibilities…
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The Carifiesta parade has been nixed for this summer by the city as two groups battle it out for control of the event. Radio-Canada explains it better, noting that the issue is waiting for a ruling and that the event may yet be held if things are settled in time.