The Gazette follows a day in the life of a Plateau dépanneur guy apropos of the publication of Sacré dépanneur by a photogenic blonde writer.
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Ste-Catherine Street swallowed up a car wheel this afternoon. It’s not quite the Guatemala sinkhole but it’s ours.
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Just wanted to give a boost here for Google Chrome as a browser for anyone struggling to read items in a non-native language. Its translation facilities are not perfect and it makes a few mistakes (when I was experimenting, it kept translating M. Roquet, the city director-general, as “Mr. Pug”) but it’s massively better than the earlier machine translations from Babelfish.
Google Chrome also identifies languages itself and translates them into your home language without being reminded what that is.
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Some of the canals on Île Notre-Dame have been filled in with dirt from the casino works without any discussion, and Luc Ferrandez isn’t thrilled by the lack of public consultation. The Société du parc Jean-Drapeau claims they were stagnant and nasty.
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The view from CBC News North on reactions to the plan to place an Inuit residence in Villeray.
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Blue-collar workers are planning to strike on June 16 which will shut the Insectarium and Biodome again as two of the nonessential services they provide.