A human rights group has decided to stop picketing a Saint-Denis Street shoe store for carrying Israeli-made shoes.
What’s curious about this story (which has been percolating for weeks) is that Le Marcheur is just a store carrying a few models of Israeli shoe, while a block away on Saint-Denis is another shoe store with an Israeli name carrying only Israeli shoes, and it hasn’t been in the news at all.
The Island of Montreal finds itself short of classroom space (this after a generation of turning school buildings into condos, no?) and we all know about shortages of hospital rooms and rooms for long-term care. But the federal government busies itself with building more jails and mustering support for more and longer jail sentences, even though crime statistics have mostly been falling.
The Supreme Court of Canada has decided that Île Bizard remains part of Montreal.
The city has sprung another surprise on lower NDG: the St-Jacques exit from the Ville-Marie will soon be closed for five months. Added to the closure of part of Decarie, this puts a tourniquet on some of the busier roads in that part of town.
More on the vigorous flocks of crows that hang around the city. The Gazette even has a brief video showing a flock gathering noisily at sunset.
Ben Cahoon announced his retirement from the Alouettes yesterday. He’s 38.
Vincent Lacroix is out of prison, having served one sixth of his 13-year sentence on a long list of fraud charges. He’s moving to a halfway house for a time and is not permitted to do paying work. Rue Frontenac’s Beaudet has a comment on Lacroix’s freedom.
The Museum of Fine Arts wants the mayor to step in, in the matter of saving the Redpath mansion – or, at least, to stop the construction of a condo building that would block their view of Mount Royal, long planned as one of the attractions of their new wing. Actually saving the house may be a lost cause, but sticking to the three-storey zoning limit is still a possibility.
Urbanphoto looks at rue Charlotte, one of the more obscure downtown streets.
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It’s a “murder of crows.” There aren’t all that many opportunities to use that term, you should be taking advantage of it every chance you get! :-)