The SDA, having erased the once lively block from the Monument national to Ste-Catherine, has been stymied by the owner of the Café Cléopâtre and has proposed a smaller project for that side of the street, involving two buildings of a dozen storeys each. No sketches yet; the important thing is going to be their presence on the street and their life on the sidewalk, but that’s not remotely known yet.
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At first afraid of the centralizing effect of the Grande Bibliothèque, neighbourhood libraries are seeing a resurgence of life; in recent weeks there’s been news of the Lachine library being renovated (it’s being called the Saul Bellow library even though Bellow left the area permanently at age 9, yet we can’t get a library named after Mordecai Richler), the new Rosemont library (running short of money already, but at least the new neighbourhood east of the metro will have a library) and a new slightly garish library for NDG. More on architecture for these new libraries.
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Two teenage sisters from Montreal North are missing; Collin Anthony Williams has still not turned up and another man who badly needs meds is also AWOL.
Monday morning: A tweet from police says Ashley Nourry, the younger of the two sisters, has been found and is OK.
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This is so sad. A model train layout that’s been decades in the creation will be demolished when CN evicts the model train club in favour of a more profitable tenant. Alas, they just had their open house for 2011.
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ant6n
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Tux
Oh man, that’s so sad!! I loved their space there, and the open house was always really cool! Lots of cool old train stuff, miniatures, models… and everyone with an interesting story or fact about trains or Montreal… plus it’s the perfect place for them, right under the rails! Ugh, doesn’t CN understand that this generations young model train enthusiasts will very likely be the people driving and repairing their trains in the future? Why is it always about the bottom line…
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Ian
Tragic that they don’t think they’ll rebuild. That was a great setup – it’s lovely to see model railroading done well. While model railroading isn’t as popular it once was, it’s the city’s loss as a whole that a model railroad of that scale & loving attention to detail simply won’t exist any more.
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The man whose baggage stopped everything at Trudeau airport Thursday morning has been let go. It seems he had a grenade-shaped cigarette lighter in his suitcase. He’s being charged with doing something stupid in an airport – mischief in other words – although whether it was deliberate or just dumb has not been made clear.
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Rick Trembles has a cartoon about Montreal Main, that iconic 1974 movie about local low-lifes that’s being shown this evening – where else, but on the Main?
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Must-read for this weekend: how Canadian democracy is being eroded.
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ant6n
While pondering the erosion of democracy in Canada, one could also check out cbc’s recent documentary of the Toronto G20 demonstrations. There seemed to be a clear suspension of basic democratic rights, and nobody seems to care enough to really look into it.
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May Cutler, publisher and late 1980s mayor of Westmount, has died at 87.
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The Côte-des-Neiges fire earlier this week has claimed a second victim and has become the subject of an investigation into why no fire vehicles were dispatched from nearby stations. The building’s smoke alarms also cut out early, failing to wake some of the residents.
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The STM has a Facebook photo set of transit events that happened in March in various years. It includes a cartoon from the March 4, 1971 blizzard – the first time the metro ever ran overnight – with a link to a PDF file of a 2006 newsletter reminding us that the memorable thing about the 1971 storm wasn’t just the quantity of snow, but also winds gusting up to 110 km/h that buffeted the city. Seventeen people died here directly as a result of the storm, well beyond what we’d expect now from a heavy snowfall: but I’m linking again to Radio-Canada’s Facebook photos after the storm to show the snow really was remarkable on that day 40 years ago.
Seriously though, don’t any of these entities have web space of their own? Do they really need to hitch onto the Facebook brand?
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Shawn
I think the storm was also accompanied by a blue collar strike, to make matters worse? Or it did out in DDO.
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A look at the risks of being pedestrian in Montreal especially if you’re a little kid walking to school: an average of eight kids per week on foot or on bicycles are hit by cars on our streets; an example of a Plateau school where an experiment in traffic calming will soon be under way.
Another reason for ‘canadian national’ to be ‘national’ :P