The April 28 paper edition of Rue Frontenac was the final one: the RF group plans to continue doing the website, but they never succeeded in getting enough advertising to support the weekly paper edition.
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Quebec is cracking down on Berger Blanc at last, as two boroughs cancel their contract with the disgraced animal pound.
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walkerp
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Kate
Oh, good tip – thanks!
I think it’s also important that the pound be more centrally located. BB is way the hell and gone if you haven’t got a car.
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Tux
We need a good metro-accessible animal hospital too. The best one in town, DMV, is way out in Lachine, accessible only by car.
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Kate
Tux, I agree, but that’s not a public service so it’s harder to militate for.
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The headline on this Wikileaks piece suggests there was a plot to bomb the Montreal metro, but if you read the article you’ll find that, like so much Wikileaks cable material, it’s about something somebody thought might be happening, but there was never any substantiation of the impression that the man mentioned in the story so much as lifted a finger to do anything illegal. Of course people need to speak up if they think something shady’s going on, but if it comes to nothing, it doesn’t have to make the news.
Later: Radio-Canada picks up the non-story and commenters detect the same lack of substance that I do. Maybe the headline ought to be “Man denied Canadian citizenship because of unfounded claims in anonymous letter.”
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Two insiders colluded with IT businesses to defraud the city of millions between 2005 and 2008. If they were any good at IT shouldn’t they have been able to cover their tracks better than this?
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Tux
Network subterfuge and financial subterfuge are very different animals. :)
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It hardly seems plausible in the midst of such a chilly damp week, but a heat wave last summer was responsible for causing 106 deaths in the Montreal area, mostly folks with either cardiovascular or mental health problems. New services will be available this summer to bring vulnerable people to air conditioned places, and to check up on fragile people living alone.
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Just happened on this excellent short film about the U.S. pavilion at Expo 67, with an interesting voice-over by Peter Chermayeff, who helped develop the exhibits inside it.
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Jason67
Great link!
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Kate
I’m so impressed by the technical quality of that video – it looks like it was shot yesterday.
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David Tighe
It is very strange how the images have not aged. It could in fact have been, say, last year. But when one looked at images of previous world fairs say ’51 (Brussels) or ’39 (New York) they seemed far away in that past where “people did things differently”. Is it because nowadays technology ages slowly: we live with objects that change little over decades (planes, cars)? A bit sad really. Imagine looking backwards from the ’30′s to 1890 or from the ’50′s to 1910.
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Kate
I think it may partly be because the people were mostly shot from a distance, so we didn’t get close-ups of their outmoded clothes, and there are no cars, so two major clues that tend to date things of that era are not a factor.
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David Tighe
True. Bad technology does change slowly now and we do not look over as big a gulf over 50 years or so as did previous generations. I think when in 2050 or so they look at photos of us they will say the same thing
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Police are not releasing details yet, but the body of Jolène Riendeau has been found, 12 years after she disappeared from a street in Point St. Charles. She was ten years old in 1999 when she went missing. Cops say it was homicide and they have a suspect in mind. Rue Frontenac has a short photo essay showing the neighbourhood where the girl, who at ten had already run away from home once, had lived.
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Guillaume Saint-Jean has done another run of his terrific then-and-now studies – this quaint small row on Saint-Urbain virtually unchanged from 1979 to 2011, the handsome modern building that used to be at the corner of Saint-Denis and de Maisonneuve and was later replaced with a box of indifferent ugliness, a pair of lost schools and more.
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Brief look at the couple who run Épices de Cru that you can get at Olive et Épices in Jean-Talon market.
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A new massive tower is planned for Square Victoria. I’m trying to figure out what will have to disappear, because there are quite a lot of things on that block including Chien-Chaud Victoire…
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AJ
It’s the small building on the north end of the square, across from the aluminum Bell building, corner of Beaver Hall. Slowly, all their tenants have moved out and the stores and restaurant (that odd Russian place) closed.
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RB
Victoire moved a few months ago to the renovated food court inside the 700 Gauchetiere west (BN and Bell towers) across the street. Same employees, new decor.
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Kate
Just one building? It it’s not going to displace the row of buildings that face St. Patrick’s across La Gauchetière? They’re a mixed bag, but the one at the corner of St-Alexandre is architecturally rather nice, and the one second from the corner of Beaver Hall Hill has good windows and friezes on it. (This whole area used to be a sort of printers’ ghetto, full of printing companies and associated services, through to the 1980s, but not any more.)
RB: Oh good. Last time I was at Victoire (last summer?) it was looking a bit bleak although the fries were as good as ever. Thanks for the tip.
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Marc
I walked by Victory’s a few weeks ago and it looked abandoned. I haven’t eaten there in about 5-6 years; wish I could have again. Unlesss someone can tell me otherwise…
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Marc
oops…ignore my comment :)
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Charles
I don’t understand why they have to demolish buildings to make way for this tower when there’s a lot of parking lots downtown that could be replaced…
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Mike
Victoire definitely hasn’t changed, food-wise. Nonetheless, the fact it’s located in a food court makes it a bit.. weird. :)
The buildings that have to be destroyed, at least to me, seemed like they were practically left to die a long time ago already, they just didn’t seem like they were very well taken care of. If you had ever been in there, it was looking somewhat bad (there was a vietnamese restaurant in the building where the russian place was, too).
Another upcoming building which should change the landscape a bit downtown would be the Altitude, right in front of PVM, at least the construction of that one is seemingly progressing…
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This is great news, but we need positive solutions as well. I hear rumours that a coalition of vets is working to put together a properly run pound. Anybody know anything about this?
Let’s keep the pressure on! Remember, there is another manif a week from Friday (May 13) at 5:30 in front of City Hall.