Inevitably, with the Spanish triumph at the World Cup, Montreal’s supporters of the team got to throw themselves a party.
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Interesting Rue Frontenac column on the lack of civility in public life here, and reminding us that French has the advantage of a polite escalation to vouvoiement as means of indicating respect.
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Andy Riga with a more formal, non-blog article on Pointe-à-Callière museum’s plans for the Place d’Youville, the remains of the old parliament building that burned down in 1849, and the old sewer which may be opened to the public.
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Archives de Montréal has put up a photo album on the visit of Nelson Mandela to Montreal in 1990. So many people crowded onto the Champ-de-Mars for his speech. Mandela, 92, may be appearing at the closing ceremony of the World Cup today.
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Tremendously poetic account of leaving Montreal on board a ship.
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This week will be hot again – it’s not unusual, but we had no heat waves at all last summer, so we may be out of practice. Public health authorities are keeping an eye on the thermometer but services are back to their normal, non-canicular operations.