Glimpse of the city’s Zoroastrians, a group of around 250 people. I would’ve liked a little more about how their religion influences their way of life, but it’s always interesting to hear about these smaller traditional communities among us.
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Although recent stats show cycling is more and more popular among adults, they also show students are not cycling to school much. Nervous overprotective parents are largely blamed, but I wonder whether some kids are not also worried about looking after a bike around schools where bullying and theft might be common.
Bike theft also inspires another story today: the STM is considering placing bike lockers near metro stations. Some cities have them. But it occurs to me that if you can steal a bike, you can also break into a bike locker, which would reward you with as many as six bikes for the price of one.
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qatzelok
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ant6n
Maybe it’s just a matter of bike paths not being designed with schools in mind. I think there was some piece about how New York’s bike paths don’t connect well to certain interest areas like Schools very well, but I can’t find it.
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William
Oh yeah, helmets are a big money conspiracy, that makes plenty of sense :S
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A young guy was stabbed to death Tuesday night in Saint-Henri after a dispute with some other young men. No mention of any capture or arrest. Homicide #24 of the year (beginning to think I need a graphic for this).
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megan
and because he was known to authorities his murderer will be walking around scott free.. no investigation, closed book,,,,that boy was 18 and abused most of his life it aint his fault
what happened to him.. he was a brother, a son, a father, a student, and a teacher…. these fkn news people done even have the decency to put his mane smh… R.I.P. Shamarqui Mintou you are loved and you are missed… you will never be forgotten boo -
Kim
Shamarqui will be missed I know am gonna miss see him in class everyday. He was a great guy he was always making people laugh he was the life of our classroom and even tho he didn’t speak the same language as many people in that class he still tried to get to know everyone and tho I have only known Shamarqui for only a few weeks before his death I miss him our whole class miss him and I know his family and his kids are missing him like crazy. I know that God is a just God and the people that took his life will get theirs and so will the authorities that are doin nothing about it. R.I.P Shamarqui Gone but surely will never be forgotten. My depest regards to him family, relatives and all his close friends
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Kate
I am sorry you have lost your friend. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about him.
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nick
RIP shemarqui you were a chill homie :`( rip
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This Thursday the survivors and relatives of the 1972 Blue Bird Café fire will gather at the location on Union Avenue to mark 39 years since the café was torched by three disgruntled patrons, killing 37. The city is apparently willing to consider having a memorial or monument placed there in time for the 40th anniversary.
Kristian wrote about the fire in 1999 and commented on the lack of any memorial; more recently he posted some sad photos from the aftermath.
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Laval has just bought its first full-size electric bus for the best part of a cool million, and will be testing it for a year.
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Twice as many Montreal adults are riding bikes, regularly or occasionally, than ten years ago. (The Journal interprets the numbers a little differently.) Either way, those traffic jams on the bike paths are not your imagination.
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The Plateau is reserving three lots of land for social housing.
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David M
three fantastic lots for development! now let’s hope that they do a minimum of 5 stories on the babies – pushing some good density in there on these sites is win/win, more housing and precedent-setting heights and fsr.
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Matthew
Good news. With so many areas being gentrified these days, it’s important to reserve space for these types of projects.
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Kate
I think it’s good, yet I live across the street from a social housing project, and I have to say this much: all the trouble on this street emanates from those two buildings. If the police or an ambulance arrives it’s always for someone there – blaring music, screaming fights, dogs out of control, cars idling while people go inside to “do business” – you name it, it’s coming from there. So it’s a mixed blessing, I have to admit it.
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A lot of international designers and architects are going to make suggestions on brightening up the road from Trudeau airport into downtown.
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Shawn
Hint: just fix it so the roads, bridges and tunnels aren’t crumbling. That’ll amaze us all.
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Shawn
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William
Umm, Shawn, yeah. I think they just want it to look nice.
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The new symphony hall is provoking carping of various kinds from various quarters, but except for the issue of funding, I don’t think we’ll know what impression it makes until it’s open and music is actually played there.
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Guillaume Saint-Jean compares the corner of Sainte-Catherine and de Lorimier in 1960 and today. Worth clicking through to the Flickr version and examining the large size to see the details in the old buildings. The building at left is covered in posters for somebody called Poupart but I can’t make out whether they’re for a cultural event or an election campaign.
Lots more new then-and-nows in Guillaume’s Flickr, always worth looking at.
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A new festival called OUMF is to open in the Quartier Latin on Thursday and run for ten days as a celebration of the rentrée.
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Some people have received letters ostensibly from the police asking them to be home at a certain time for a police visit and interview. Police say they don’t do that and are asking people to let them know if they receive such a letter.
I can’t figure out why crooks would want to make people be home at a certain time.
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Matt
Puzzling. I’d be interested to know what their racket is.
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Benoit
I’m guessing it’s a way for them to get in the house and scout what’s valuable to steal when they come back later.
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Kate
I guess. Have to have at least one plausible person in uniform, preferably two. If I were the (real) cops I’d be setting up a sting, pronto.
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David M
could be debt collectors, it’s really impossible to underestimate their cunning and resourcefulness. my old roommate used to get calls regarding ostensible job opportunities or contests he’d won that would turn out to be the collections contractor for hydro quebec or some others. could be that this is a new way of forcing you to deal with them?
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One of the main reasons kids bike to school less and less is bike helmet paranoia. Bike helmet ads and laws have convinced enough parents that riding your bike to school is as dangerous as alligator-wrestling. Nice work, Big Money.