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CLASSE is touring against the Charest government although it’s also refraining from endorsing any particular party for the upcoming (yet still to be declared) election.
They’re hewing to the principle I’ve often quoted, which is that there may be nobody you want to vote for, but there’s almost always somebody to vote against.
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montrealfilmguy
or as i like to say,im not voting for the one i love the most,but the one i hate the least.
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Matt
Seriously, montrealfilmguy. And this for all elections, federal, provincial and municipal.
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david m
again, weird. npd federal is obvious, solidaire provincial is obvious, project montreal municipal is obvious. just look into it.
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Kate
david m, do you mean for the students, or generally? I’d say NDP and Projet are obvious choices for me, but even as a lefty I feel uncertain about Québec solidaire’s ability to take on a more serious role – and they’re stuck with their promise of working towards Quebec independence, which may just be lip service, or may involve a big waste of time and effort.
And the students are just as stuck as we are, provincially. Not so long ago the PQ would’ve embraced them and they would’ve been the PQ’s bitch, but things are not like that any more in Quebec. The students know that if the Liberals are not bending, the PQ might make a few cosmetic concessions but are unlikely to propose free university tuition either. Polls have shown that not enough voters support the idea.
The students have wisely refused to endorse any party, but there you go. They know no credible party is going to accompany them into the radical ventures they’d like to see.
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qatzelok
Kate, in your predictions for the elections, you are mixing who/what ought to win, with who/what has a chance of winning, rather than just sticking to one axis or the other. This is something commercial news does as well, and it just comes out muddled. Either tell me who I should vote for, or who has the polling numbers. But please don’t put these two concepts into a blender.
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Kate
You misunderstand me. I am considering both whom I’d like to see win, and whom I think could actually do a competent job. I’m not really thinking about who has a chance of winning.
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Radio-Canada has a nice multimedia visit to Silo No. 5 with some voice-over by a man who worked there when it was operational.
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Heritage Montreal and the Chateau Ramezay have teamed up to do an exhibit on how citizen action has preserved some of the best aspects of this city – Old Montreal, Mount Royal, the Chateau itself, and one could also add the Milton-Park neighbourhood.
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emdx notes that we’re losing the view of Place Ville-Marie from Phillips Square (photo link, via reddit).
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Chris
was that a view anyone cared about?
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Kate
I did, enough to have photographed it a few times. It was a way of showing several layers of architecture, the Birks building, the deco building behind it, and PVM behind that.
I always like seeing PVM on the skyline anyway, it’s iconic.
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Marc
Well, you can still see a quarter of it. Better than nothing, I suppose. I’ve always liked that Philips Sq. view.
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Kate
Here’s a night view in winter:
and a day view:
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ProposMontréal
After all, maybe this will be an improvement !
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Doobious
The view of PVM is half obscured from the QdS too now. Not good.
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Matt
Ugh. Plus, that new tower just looks like a lot of the other uninspired pieces going up these days.
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Martin
But most importantly, we’re loosing a surface parking lot and getting more residents downtown. Win-win. PVM is great, but we can still see it from many other vantage points.
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Chris
Martin, but I bet there’s more parking underground than there was on-surface. So we’ll probably get more car traffic too. :(
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qatzelok
Place Ville Marie is a pretty bland “icon” for Montreal. And its monotonous horizontal bands of steel and glass cheapened the panorama at Phillip’s Square.
Its presence will not be missed. Kate, why are you defending incredibly mediocre, large-scale buildings?
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Doobious
Heretic.
Kate, the “deco” building is called University Tower.
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Doobious
Extra ugh… Assuming presales are good, this thing is going up on Union on the parking lot where the Bluebird Cafe used to be. At 40 storeys or so, you can kiss your view of PVM from the east goodbye.
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Doobious
Oh, and it’s aluminum, not steel. Heretic.
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Kate
Doobious: I’m glad to know the name. It was part of my old weblog logo:
qatzelok: you really are a heretic. It’s iconic. What building would you propose instead?
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Doobious
Because I’m short on useful stuff to do at the moment: pic.
University Tower for a time housed the headquarters of Shell Oil Company of Canada.
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boblemieux
La PVM étant situé au centre de notre centre-ville, il est impossible de protéger les vues sans sérieusement limiter le développement en hauteur. Peu importe où un nouveau gratte-ciel sera construit, la PVM disparaîtra un peu… La tour Altitude n’est pas si laide non plus, son revêtement est un peu banal, mais elle a une volumétrie intéressante, et des balcons qui ne sortent pas de la structure comme de vilaines verrues (ce que je déteste le plus à Vancouver). La tour Union sera d’un style très différent aussi, alors il y a aura une bonne diversité d’architecture dans le secteur. Ce n’est pas si mal.
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qatzelok
@ Kate: “What building would you propose instead?”
For modern icons of Montreal: The Big Owe, Habitat, and the Biosphere are all more interesting as quirky one-offs with culturally-interesting agendas.
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Kam 21:35 on 2012/07/16 Permalink
“Ou plutôt d’un butler puisque l’anglais, et seulement l’anglais, sera exigé de sa part.” Très professionnel de la part du Journal…. Est ce que c’est vraiment nécessaire, ce “zing”? et d’introduire cette tension francais vs anglais dans l’article?
Blah.