A school commission fights to keep kids from dropping out of school, meanwhile Pauline Marois prepares to fight to extend Bill 101 restrictions to CEGEP level. When you have a problem with kids not getting sufficient education to face a complex world, is this a time to tighten access to any kind of education?
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A UdeM student has picked a pretty harsh week to live as a homeless person in order to grasp their problems. Interestingly, he says they have enough food and clothes, but grapple with drugs, loneliness and problems of mental health.
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Ducks Unlimited has launched a map of the urban wetlands in the Montreal area: equivalent to 36,000 football fields apparently.
Later note: the Quebec parks minister is refusing to consider a moratorium on the destruction of many small wetland areas around the metropolitan area.
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Rich
You do realize Ducks Unlimited is a bunch of hunters that are only interested in preserving wetlands so that they can blow ducks out of the sky?
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Kate
Oh dear. No, I hadn’t. But it was just a curious bit of news, and sort of fits in with a current theme about people taking information and massaging it into graphic formats.
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Rich
Sad, but true. At least they do know how to make a nice map:
http://www.ducks.ca/fr/province/qc/outils/images/carto_mhs_cmm_poster_11x17.jpgThe American version of their website is much plainer about their objectives. See for example the recipes section:
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walkerp
Just because the organization was founded by hunters does not mean they do not do good work for the environment. I’m no hunter, but responsible hunters are often much better stewards of the environment than urban liberals who buy “green”. Ducks Unlimited have done a lot of great lobbying work to protect wetlands in North America from development, a far greater threat to birdlife than a shotgun.
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Kevin
@Rich, Are you saying that people who actively and legally enjoy the environment should not be allowed to preserve it? What is wrong with knowing exactly where the food they eat comes from?
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Rich
Nah, I actually agree with all the points walkerp makes. It just amuses me to point out the awesome irony of the situation.
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Interesting Kristian piece on two guys who are making a business of putting art on office walls.
I think they should consider a subscription service. What if you signed your business up, told them how many square feet, and every 3 months they send in a squad to hang a new show? That way you don’t stop seeing the art that’s there all the time.
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Benoit
That’s pretty much the idea behind the Artothèque (www.artotheque.ca)
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Protesters at the Egyptian consulate plan to keep up their presence on the street here as long as protests continue back in Egypt. Meanwhile, Canada is sending planes to repatriate any Canadians caught in the Egyptian chaos, but not for free.
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Interesting interview with one of the open data enthusiasts hoping to make Montreal’s raw data more accessible for citizen crunching.
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The Casino is about to trash a big mural in the course of its renovations. Painted by Serge Lemoyne in 1993 when the building was first reopened as a gaming palace, it’s been pretty well ignored since, according to this report. Seems to be a risk of putting a major art piece on a wall (viz. Leonardo’s Last Supper).
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The Gazette notes a serious fire in a row of handsome graystone buildings on Sherbrooke Street downtown. This row has already seen serious fire damage – it used to connect onto the Medical Arts building but that section burned down and was demolished some years ago, the missing buildings having housed, among other things, the original location of Nebula bookshop and the Amrad African art gallery.
Later reports note that hundreds of art pieces were saved and that the fire does not appear to have been arson.
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NDG councillor Peter McQueen writes feelingly about the Turcot, asking pertinent questions about the project as conceived by Transport Québec.
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A little-known waterway on the island of Montreal, the Ruisseau de Montigny, is meant to be cleaned up and made more presentable over the next few years. Unless I’m mistaken, it’s the creek that probably originates from the pond in the middle of Anjou sur le Lac then surfaces again north of Henri-Bourassa and eventually flows into the Rivière-des-Prairies, as shown above.
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Another demo in support of the popular uprising in Egypt was held this afternoon near the consulate.
Meanwhile, Belhassen Trabelsi, brother-in-law of the recently deposed Tunisian dictator, has applied to be a political refugee which will put the brakes on any intention Canada had of deporting him and his family.
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Alanah Heffez thinks radically about Meadowbrook: is preserving it as a golf course necessarily a categorical good if a well considered green project has been proposed? But what do you do about the fact that the area is almost completely boxed in by train tracks? Good piece.
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Chris
It needn’t be one or the other. It could be made into a park!
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Stefan 10:08 on 2011/02/01 Permalink
having to camp out the whole night at -27 (-38 with wind chill) to ensure your child gets into a decent school also seems pretty wrong:
http://ruemasson.com/?p=6512
Kate 12:39 on 2011/02/01 Permalink
Maybe, but that’s not really what I was posting about.