An armed man has sparked a police deployment and standoff in Old Montreal near Notre-Dame.
Later: cops brought him down.
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Urbania has a thoughtful piece from Les justiciers urbains on the huge place given to parking and driving in our cities – and how this might be changed.
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Kristian Gravenor and Mutsumi Takahashi talk lost iconic restaurants of Montreal on CTV video. More Julep talk. I should have a blog get-together on the Julep parterre one of these days.
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Two lifeguards were fired this week for keeping their eyes on their phones rather than on the water.
In tangential news but a totally unconnected incident, a little boy was found half drowned at Doré beach in Jean-Drapeau park, but he was revived and brought to hospital. As everyone knows, Quebec has had a crazy number of drownings this summer.
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Bank of Montreal says it’s planning to stick around in its Roman-inspired digs on Place d’Armes, unlike the Royal Bank which has decamped from its own fantastically ornate branch a few blocks west on Saint-Jacques.
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Doobious
Every time I pass the “Head Office” sign on the 1950s office tower on Place d’Armes, I get this irresistible urge to scrawl “500 km” and a left-pointing arrow under it.
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Kate
I’d contribute to that.
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Hamza
Like totally radical. I agree banks are the devil
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Kate
We’re referring to the ironic fact that the real head office of the Bank of Montreal is in Toronto. Not bank evil generally.
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Laszlo Csatary, who lived in Montreal for 50 years, has been arrested in his native Hungary after some Nazi-hunters tracked him down. He’s 97.
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The man killed in Lasalle on the weekend was Walter Ricardo Gutierrez, known to be connected to the Rizzutos.
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A public memorial for Jun Lin is to be held Saturday morning in a tiny Chinese church in Hampstead. I have a feeling it will turn out to be too small a venue.
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A little more room for pedestrians is being made in Old Montreal, behind the Pointe-à-Callière museum, at least till August 5, and then on weekends till September. Pretty stingy, frankly, but better than nothing.
A bit of pedestrianization is also coming to Gilford Street where Rue Publique has created something called Gilford en vacances.
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Turns out the oldest metro cars, the MR-63s that run on the green line, are cooler than the more recent model because of how the air vents work.
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Stefan
I was in Montreal last week, and while it was slighly cooler than it had been in Vienna when i left (37 degrees there), the metro cars seemed much more hot in comparison. the old viennese metro cars have windows at the top lining their sides and the wind generated by travelling cools the passengers very effectively once they leave the station (the new wagons are air-conditioned but i feel it is not necessary).
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Tuesday morning’s panic in a postal sorting station happened because a worker noticed a letter addressed to Luka Rocco Magnotta that contained some powder later found to be harmless.
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Metro looks at Côte-des-Neiges contrasting its various features. I can’t agree that the Orange Julep is an atrocity, though.
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William
There is absolutely no signage indicating how to get on that garden roof, and as the gallery is closed during the lunch hour, most people in Cote des Neiges never get a chance to have a look in. How’s that for public service…
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William
(and thank you for letting us know how to get up there – mystery solved! i always assumed it was closed to the public)
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Clément
What I like about Orange Julep is that the orange drink dispensers are all connected to a network of pipes which (from memory) appear to be coming from the ceiling of the kitchen, supporting the belief that the big orange sphere is actually a huge tank full of delicious (and surely healthy) juice!
I also don’t think it’s an atrocity. It’s part of Montréal culture. Just a few days ago, I took a friend to the big parking lot at the top of the Oratoire from where you could see it clearly!
Wasn’t there a movie made where you see the big orange sphere rolling down Decarie?
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Kate
Clément, I think you must have dreamed that, I don’t remember hearing about it.
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Clément
I wonder what a shrink would say: “Yes doctor, I have dreams of large orange balls rolling down an urban thoroughfare. What does it mean?”
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SMD
I believe Clément is thinking of the opening sequence of last year’s Bye Bye: http://youtu.be/3ftkywoFo-s?t=1m4s. It is very well done.
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Kate
That looks like what he describes!
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Clément
@SMD: Thanks a lot. That’s exactly what I was thinking about!
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so down