Rue Frontenac has the dernière heure: the port lockout is over.
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Hochelaga is having a summer fête this weekend at Parc Dézéry.
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About to move into the Hall of Fame, André Dawson looks back on his years as an Expo.
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Archives de Montréal is getting into the then-and-now groove with an image of what used to be under the gigantic pylon that carries the Jacques-Cartier Bridge over Notre-Dame. It’s interesting to see a whole row of buildings used to stand next to the pumping station that now sits orphaned under the bridge.
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The folks at La Presse are no fools, and have signed free agent Fabrice de Pierrebourg after he was let go by the employers who locked him out more than 500 days ago.
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Chris DeWolf shows us a clip of the locally made movie Peepers with some thoughts on the pleasure of looking down from rooftops.
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Downtown stores are to be able to stay open till 20h weekends; when this will start is not mentioned although it’s meant to last for five years.
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The federal opposition is trying to figure out what the Harper government is trying to do by abolishing the long-form census. The Tory claim that it’s an infringement of privacy seems to be a paper tiger – but then what? The government will have much less precise knowledge of demographics: what does that give them an excuse to do, or not to do?
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The Port of Halifax can handle the extra ships, but is snowed under with the additional freight brought by container ships avoiding Montreal’s silent port.
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Moment Factory is to do a multimedia spectacle on the Place du Quartier des Spectacles.
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Interesting Guardian UK piece about riding a Bixi bike, although the Montreal origin of the bicycle is not mentioned. The writer mentions London’s failure to come up with a snappy name (“Barclay’s Cycle Hire” sounds like something operating from a village shed) and compares the London bike to Paris’s Vélib’. I liked this detail about the Paris bikes and think we could adopt it when relevant:
It has also become etiquette, should you have a faulty bike, to lower the seat and turn it to face backwards to indicate to other users not to use it.
I don’t think he grasps that there’s no need to lock these bikes anywhere besides a docking station. One of the strengths of the whole concept is that you never have to be responsible for leaving a bike locked anywhere else.
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Joey
Nice etiquette suggestion, though it should be noted that users are supposed to report faulty bikes by tapping the “faulty bike” button on the dock; that instantly locks the bike, preventing others from taking it. Of course, there is no clear definition of a “faulty” bike.
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Isabel of Montreal
I love the Biki basket! I can safely strap in my purse and not worry about it flying out on the bumps.
Also, here is the link to Guardian article that does talk about the Bixi origins: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2010/mar/17/bixi-bike-hire-montreal -
mare
I don’t really understand his point about not including a means of locking up the bike.
Sometimes you just want to go in a store for 3 minutes. Now you have to find a Bixi station, hope it has a free place, park it, do your errand, and then go back to the station. Very complicated and time-consuming.
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The Association des employeurs maritimes is continuing to lock out longshoremen at the Port of Montreal.
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Metro blogger proposes ten ideas to make life more fun in Montreal. Most have been pondered before, but it’s always worth considering good ideas.
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The Alouettes play tonight for the first time in the embiggened version of the Molson Stadium. The history of the stadium’s reclamation by the team is looked at in the Hamilton paper; the Als are playing Hamilton tonight.
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Tux
Let’s hope they have a cromulent game!
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A plan by the ubiquitous Peter Sergakis to turn some run-down Ste-Catherine West buildings into a mega-bar has short-circuited various borough rules and is encountering some opposition from people living in the area.
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A new organization is to oversee the growth of a Blue Route, a waterborne trail that will encourage people to get out on the water in non-motorized craft.
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John Parisella takes the train from New York to Montreal and sees where the faults lie.
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A journalist from Metro visits the lock-outés of the Journal de Montréal who continue to maintain a presence at the gates, 544 days later.
Ian 08:03 on 2010/07/27 Permalink
It’s cunning, really – empirical evidence doesn’t support Tory ideology? No problem, we’ll just do away with it so policy can be informed by ideology, instead of inconvenient facts. There’s a good read on the matter here : http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/07/23/shooting-the-messenger/