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.
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The STM says it hasn’t yet received any report on the Spanish firm that wants to build our new metro cars, so the whole issue takes on yet another layer of uncertainty and confusion with hints of yet longer delays till new rolling stock is running.
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The riot police came out, but last night saw only a few arrests and no major damage as a huge crowd fêted the Canadiens’ win on Ste-Catherine.
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Legendary club owner Bob Di Salvio died this week. He was 66.
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The Grande Bibliothèque is five years old today and has been more popular by far than was originally imagined. Interview with Guy Berthiaume, who took over a year ago as director.
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The city’s community gardens officially open on Saturday. If you can get a plot it’s sort of fun, and since the gardens are officially organic it gives you respect for the difficulty of getting a crop out without any pesticides.
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Some ebullience was observed on Ste-Catherine tonight after the win.
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The Canadiens take the series with a 2-1 win!!
They’ll face the Penguins on Friday.
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Fagstein poses a trivia question and answers with a history of the Pie-IX bus lane that’s a piece of local transit history with a tragic twist to it. And now the disused blue median shelters are being taken down.
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An American urbanist blog brings us a fresh look at rebuilding the Turcot: it’s a novelty even to think of the structure as being a bridge. The article also looks at the linear neighbourhood that’s in the Tremblay plan more closely than any local writer did, but the blogger has been led to believe that Autoroute 30, meant to allow traffic to bypass the island of Montreal completely, is “almost completed” which, as we know, is far from true. In fact, there’s an entire official website about the 30, with lots of classic bureaucratic waffling in both languages.
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Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve has declared itself a fair trade zone and is holding a fair at Marché Maisonneuve next month featuring businesses that fit the pattern. I’m not quite sure what it means for a borough to declare this, but I guess it can’t hurt.
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This weekend sees the Jane’s walks in various parts of town, organized here by the Urban Ecology folks. The walks are citizen-led discoveries of urban life done in the spirit of late urbanist Jane Jacobs. I enjoyed the one I went on last year around Villeray and may find time for another this time around.
Spacing’s Alanah Heffez makes some choices of walks focusing on ways to appropriate public spaces.
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The blizzard has knocked out power here and there in Quebec including a few thousand households in the city.
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Review of a possibly interesting book on being a student in Montreal on a budget.