I understand that taxi drivers could use a little extra revenue from advertising on their cabs but the other stuff quoted here by Andy Riga is just rubbish. Sticking ads on the roofs of taxis won’t “freshen up” or “rejuvenate” their image which wasn’t, in any case, in trouble, contrary to the ad sales guy’s claim. Taxis are what they are. So long as the car is clean – and, most particularly, that you can find one when you need one – it isn’t going to be improved by having an ad panel stuck on top.
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It’s an English story and an English film, but the Cinémathèque québécoise has contributed to the revival of a silent British film made in 1920 that hasn’t been shown for 80 years. The only viable copy was found in the Cinémathèque’s archives. I don’t know whether it will be shown here sometime after its relaunch in England.
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It’s the season for journalism awards. Lise Bissonnette, who was managing editor of Le Devoir and later the first head honcha of the Grande Bibliothèque, is getting a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Journalism Foundation.
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Chris Haney, who co-invented Trivial Pursuit when he was a photo editor at the Gazette, has died at 59.
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As if the pervasive forest fire smog wasn’t enough, there’s a big fire in an industrial plant in Saint-Léonard which may be belching toxic smoke.
Last night’s smoke invasion created a record particle level in our air, at least in modern times. I suspect 19th-century coal fires and industry might have been as bad.
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The forest fire smoke that drifted into town in the wee hours is the big local story today. The Gazette has a photo set about the fires and the media are full of anecdotes about people waking up in a panic, thinking their house or something nearby must be on fire.
Warnings are in effect for anyone with respiratory problems to stay inside or at least not exert themselves outdoors. The city’s air quality index page is the thing to keep an eye on. There are hints the wind direction may change today and whisk it away.
Five years ago we experienced a similar effect from forest fires.
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The Quartier des spectacles opened a new parterre yesterday on the east side of Place des Arts, with a lot of colourful balloons as shown above. It’s really just a piece of newly landscaped green space – might get greener if we get any rain. -
It’s kind of a non-story, news-wise: a plane made an unscheduled landing at Trudeau yesterday on a route from Paris to Mexico City and a man was removed because he’s on the U.S. no-fly list. Unnamed, the man remains in custody in Montreal. That’s the extent of the news because there’s no further explanation forthcoming.
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The city will have spent a good few thousands on police presence at hockey festivities while the Canadiens were winning.
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Ten of the city’s festivals have created a festival meta-group, the Collectif de festivals montréalais, in hopes of building our festival culture into a bigger draw internationally. Whether they’re also hoping to gang up on the government for more funding isn’t mentioned.
Later item from Radio-Canada mentions eleven festivals but lists twelve.
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The Gazette’s multiculturalism specialist reviews Montréal multiple, the book on the city’s cultural communities by two of her La Presse colleagues.
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Quebec money’s going to buy more green space to be added to the West Island’s Anse-à-l’Orme park.