The Conseil des arts de Montréal has launched nine new awards and a “prix hommage” to encourage artistic creation in the city.
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Possibly useful list of what’s open and closed for Labour Day.
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Stephen Welch
The typo(in the link) was funny,but the idea that the police will be getting out of their cars to issue parking tickets was the best joke of all.
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Tux
In Snowdon, Metro was closed while independently owned small grocery stores did a brisk business. It was lovely to see!
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Sundays on long weekends are usually pretty relaxed news-wise, but here are three vaguely interesting medical items in recent news:
Quebec’s medical residents could strike on September 17 if they don’t see negotiations in their demand for wages and benefits comparable to their colleagues in the rest of Canada.
The Neuro will be able to offer more surgical treatments to people with Parkinson’s, now that Quebec has removed some restrictions. Patients get a sort of cerebral pacemaker implanted in their brains.
And Zhiguo Wang, a researcher at the Institut de cardiologie, has been given the sack and his lab shut down after it became known that some of the material he had published in medical journals was falsified. Wang had voluntarily retracted the articles before the hospital was told. He isn’t a doctor and didn’t deal directly with patients, and had previously had a solid career in research on arrhythmias.
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Gerry Coss
With our actual system care is very important to get more health educated and be able in certain situations to help ourselves, before the eventual professional help arrives. The Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation says that each day, in Canada, 120 people die of a Sudden Cardiac Arrest! We should act before is too late.
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Montreal has a neighbourhood called Plateau. It’s got very specific architecture, called tri-plexes, with twirling exterior staircases made of this old metal. But it won’t turn up in Deus Ex.
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French item on a video shot in the Village which is linked toward the bottom of the page – not sure what I think, it’s mannered in a way that seems deliberately to misrepresent what the Village actually feels like (at least to the casual pedestrian and observer).
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William
I LOVE it! It’s obviously art, not marketing. There’s so many subtle references in there, beginning with the gay business man and his pink dollars flying out of his suitcase… balanced between the happy (dancing, families, love) to the unfortunate (aids, drug abuse, prostitution)… it’s very multilayered. Maybe it’s lost on a straight audience …
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Kate
Could be. Like I say, I’m only an occasional observer. It’s clearly a pretty slick production, whatever else can be said.
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The Journal says the city has promised to better orchestrate its roadwork planning with a new unit meant to make order out of the chaos created when boroughs act independently.
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Some folks were car surfing in Brossard Saturday night and a young woman was badly injured in the head. I think I’m mostly posting this because of Radio-Canada’s ill-chosen word “tragique” – life sees plenty of tragedy, but this is more of a Darwin situation.
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STM has a collection of transit landmarks from Septembers past from the first electric tram in 1892 (with a cow-catcher thing on the front that looks like a street hockey net) to the launch of the first bendy buses in 2009.
Note to the STM: While the image gallery is viewable from outside Facebook, you can’t see the captions unless you’re logged in and you can’t page through with the arrows either. You should not be putting up your PR material on a server that’s only accessible to people who log in. We knew that about internet stuff in 1995 – why is Facebook making people forget it?
Zeke 16:09 on 2011/09/04 Permalink
Howdy!
There are only three new awards. “To the existing prizes … are added three new awards.”
http://www.artsmontreal.org/en/news/2011-09-01/les-prix-de-montreal-pour-les-arts-et-la-culture
Kate 21:28 on 2011/09/04 Permalink
Thanks for the clarification.
I guess none of them is for sheer persistence in blogging…