La Presse has a story today about the Plateau’s blue-collar workers writing an irate letter to borough mayor Luc Ferrandez. It’s a slightly odd story – first, nothing says it’s an open letter, and it dates back to June 6, so who sent it to the media now, and why?
Also, I would not at all be surprised to discover partisan shenanigans behind this affair.
Several hundred people dressed in black marched in a funeral for democracy on Saturday afternoon.
I think this comment was meant for the post below this one. I can’t move it, but that’s the context.
Slightly annoying piece about Carré Saint-Louis: it’s a long time since it had the sort of louche vibe the writer implies. And police horses aren’t wildlife.
yeah, i lived for a decade around the corner from the square, like i don’t know how old this writer is (definitely pre-prince arthur pedestrianization), but square saint-louis has been really nice for a really long time. that said, even if she was weirdly hyperbolic about it, she’s bang on about its special role in the hood. that place probably has more first kisses, shared bottles, read book chapters, meditative stares and various other interludes than any other block in the city.
More on the city’s plan to add 300,000 new trees over the next ten years with some stats on how existing trees are distributed by borough.
Rivière-des-Prairies councillor Maria Calderone has thrown in the towel on political life, which will mean a byelection in that district. La Presse says it’s considered a fief of Union Montreal but goes on to say every other councillor there is with Vision, which doesn’t quite make sense.
Work on the Ste-Catherine Street sinkhole has been completed before the estimated date.
The city has a page on moving house more greenly with information about recycling useful stuff you no longer need, dumping large items you no longer want, and links to pages about moving your pets and avoiding bedbugs.
There’s also a guy that moves your stuff using bicycles… no more moving trucks! http://www.demenagementmyette.ca/
The Timothy Leary archives have put up a new transcript of a conversation among John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Leary and his wife in Montreal in May 1969.
I’ve mentioned before that I’ve never really seen the point of the bed-in, but that event still gets this city a disproportionate amount of PR.
Other than interesting hair and clothes, and working polyphonic harmony to death, what was so great about the Beatles? Weren’t they just the biggest boy’s band in history because they came out just when the boomers were peaking.
I’ll let Adam Gopnik explain.
Trust @qatzelok to not recognize anglo culture :)
Doing my final OpenFile shift for the summer: some news briefs, notes on the quarter century of the loonie.
To be fair to the writer, she was writing about the square she knew during her childhood. And the reference to horses was meant, I think, to make the point that wildlife was scarce thereabouts.