It’s a bit ironic that a PETA ad showing Pamela Anderson divided into butchers’ cuts has been condemned as too sexist for Montreal eyes.
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L’actualité has several interesting pieces on the subject of the Grande Bibliothèque on its fifth anniversary (which took place at the end of April, if I’m not mistaken, but the articles are more recent).
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Like La Presse, the Gazette is to silence its presses on Sundays and do a web-only edition.
Later thought: I wrote that, but then wondered what “edition” means on the web. A web-based newspaper can now change its articles incrementally or retroactively. The idea of an edition, where somebody says “Put her to bed!” and the presses turn, is now history.
We can rummage through the Google news archive and read scanned newspapers from the 19th century up to the 1980s for free – just considering local papers, there’s fascinating stuff in there from the Gazette and other papers since defunct. In 100 years where will interested readers find the media of our time?
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The Gaz. possesses all of the Star’s archives. I can’t help but wonder if that’s being digitized. It would be nice considering it was by far the better of the two.
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Kristian follows up on the Matha Park story but it seems clear the city will have to be persuasive with the parish; most parishes now would dearly love to latch onto a $2.5-million nest egg free and clear.
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Saint-Viateur will be closed for festive purposes on several days this summer, including this Saturday, between Jeanne-Mance and Saint-Urbain.
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Yesterday’s downpour caused more flooding in dicey spots around town, including the l’Acadie Circle, which clearly has aspirations to become a water park once we all abandon the internal combustion engine. For the moment, Montreal and Quebec are intending to join forces to try to at least warn people off getting stuck in the interchange during rainstorms, if nothing can actually be done to fix it in the short term.
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Competitor Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles says the new STM tender could bring down the cost of new metro cars by as much as 20%; meanwhile, the Chinese firm Zhuzhou is threatening to sue the STM if it sticks to its guns about wanting rubber-tired trains. This piece gives a good summary and timeline of the drama of the metro car contract; I’m not sure I believe this bit of sulk from Bombardier-Alstom about not bidding at all this time and see how the STM likes that (nyeah nyeah).
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Review of the hibiscus wheat beer at Dieu du Ciel.
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The oil leak in the Seaway this week was the first one it has seen in over fifty years’ operation, and conditions make it manageable: most of the oil was spilled inside a lock, which makes the cleanup relatively easy. Also the vessel was hauling wheat, not oil.
Note to Gazette: it’s “booms” not “boons” – I should start sending in a bill.
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The harvest of many fruits and vegetables in Quebec is coming early, following the unusually early start to summer temperatures. Everything’s been in advance of its usual time this year: we saw lilacs and other flowering trees blossoming in April, and I’ve been noticing hollyhocks in bloom all over, and they’re usually an August and September flower. Also saw a stand of ragweed taller than I am in an empty lot, the other day – and will autumn come early?
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Brief item that Montreal loses 30 to 40 percent of its drinking water because the water mains are in poor shape, but I’ve seen this bit of information before so it’s not exactly news.
Tiger 10:06 on 2010/07/15 Permalink
Since when is a girl in a bikini sexist? They’re everywhere! lame excuse.