The Royal Bank made a present to the superhospitals today, giving $4 million jointly to the CHUM and the MUHC.
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Yet another paper on racial profiling in Montreal North was filed at the Villanueva inquiry today, showing that black folks in the area were being stopped and questioned by police at an increasing rate before the riots in summer 2008.
I noticed, reading the Guardian UK site on the weekend, that a similar problem exists in England too.
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Radio-Canada has a web feature showing some of the workings of the Port of Montreal, a part of town most of us will never see otherwise.
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Sam Neylon
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The building most recently known as the Medley, at the corner of Saint-Denis and René-Lévesque, is going to be torn down and in its place will be constructed – wait for it! – a condo tower.
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The weekend saw duelling October Crisis memorials, with the SSJB putting up a slab with the names of everyone rounded up under the War Measures act vs. a monument in memory of Pierre Laporte being installed in St-Lambert. More from Radio-Canada on this unresolved bit of our history.
The anniversary of the Crisis also coincides with the hot potato of the Charest Liberals forcing through a new law which allows parents to send their kids to English schools if they can afford to pay for three years of private school first. I can’t think of a more bald-faced way of separating the bourgeois sheep from the poor and immigrant goats, granting the former the mobility and convenience of learning English, and basically telling us the ideal of making a sacrifice to help preserve French is something you can ransom your kids from. Nobody’s happy with this compromise, but that’s more or less the motto of the Charest administration, isn’t it?
At any rate we can soon all settle down to another long constitutional scrum, since the majority of people seem to want it.
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Sarah Gilbert tells about the dismantling of a Bernard Street landmark, Riddell’s fishing lure store. George Riddell died in June, and eventually his relatives had to clear the space out…
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The building on St. Helen’s Island that was known for a long time as Hélène-de-Champlain Restaurant, closed since January, is to be reopened, but I can’t say it’s good news that the building’s to be massively renovated and expanded. It’s ironic that while the area has been deemed un site de patrimoine, what that may turn out to mean is that you can build all kinds of new stuff all over the dwindling green space in the park.
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Marc
The site de partimoine laws here have no teeth. This and Eaton’s 9th floor are prime examples.
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The Alouettes became champions of the east division yesterday, but the Impact lost their chance to repeat last year’s success.
Port coverage from the McGill Daily!
http://mcgilldaily.com/articles/34280