Larry Smith makes a smooth move from Alouettes president to senator.
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Tonight’s lunar eclipse is the first one in 372 years that coincides with the solstice; this one and the 1638 one are the only two such coincidences so far in the Common Era.
Totality will occur here between 2:40 and 3:53 a.m. and the Planetarium will be open from 1 a.m. till 6 a.m. for sky observation – although with 60% chance of flurries overnight, visibility may be a problem.
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Matthew Besner, out with friends in Old Montreal, vanished mysteriously early Sunday morning. He went outside for a smoke (or to send a text) and didn’t reappear, leaving his car and his worried friends behind. Cops say he is “sans histoire.” Here’s the police page with another photo.A bit of later clarification about the evening but as of Tuesday morning he’s still AWOL.
Later note: Found in the canal. RIP.
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The price tag for the new CHUM superhospital has been revised upward to $2.1 billion and the opening date delayed by nine months (“Accouche!”).
So far.
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Chris
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Montrealers feel the forced city mergers of 2001 were not a good thing in that they confused people and increased municipal expenses, according to a recent poll. We also tend to think there are too many elected officials and too many councils (check the article for comparisons with other cities).
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NDG is threatening to annex the bit of Westmount off Glen Road where the access point to the MUHC site is found – the road Westmount will not permit construction vehicles to use. When the hospital is completed, of course, all vehicles and noise will have to go via the Montreal side, as has been part of the plan since the beginning.
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Jack
I remember as 12 year old sitting in Westmount Park with my cousin when a Westmount security guard looked at me and asked if I had a Westmount recreation card. I said no I was from NDG, suffice to say he told me and my cousin to leave the park. Thats a memory thats been burned into my consciousness. It happened 38 years ago, but whats changed?
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Kate
It may not have been explicit official policy, but security folks often carry out the intention, not the actual law, as we all know.
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Notable deaths this weekend: a woman died after falling from the 11th floor of a Holiday Inn on René-Lévesque; an elderly man was killed after a truck ran him over in Côte-des-Neiges; a woman in Montreal North was found at home in a pool of blood – she’s being counted as the 37th homicide of the year (according to the Gazette) or the 36th according to Rue Frontenac.
That’s still 900$ million less that the Turcot overhaul! At least this new hospital will be there to treat the increase in respiratory problems causes by the increase in automobile capacity and usage from the new Turcot!