After being partly rained out last summer, the 18th-century market is back in action at Place Royale in a summer that has hardly known what rain is.
It’s going to reach 31° Sunday afternoon, but Jean-Drapeau beach has been closed since August 12 and Sunday is the last day of official opening for Cap St-Jacques beach, two hours away from downtown by public transit anyway.
The Gazette examines why so many contests are void in Quebec.
The U.S. leftish journal The Nation eyes our “massive student protests” but doesn’t quite seem to grasp they’re not really continuing.
A cyclist was very nearly killed in the wee hours of Saturday morning on a Plateau side street. Reddit has a vivid eyewitness account of the incident.
What is really vivd here is the difference between what the two journalists reported and what the eyewitness saw and felt.
How does one find out if this motorist gets charged? The never seem to charge motorists, and the media never follows up…
What possibly makes this a more serious crime for the police was the fact that the driver damaged so many other cars, that makes it more serious.
Jack, you’re getting cynical!
Along with ongoing reports of infrastructure decrepitude comes the news that the Nuns’ Island bridge is in particularly poor condition.
That’s annoying. Aside from the usual reasons, that bridge has the only bike path going from Nun’s Island to “mainland” Montreal.
Time to build that second bridge right to downtown Verdun.
Absolutely willie. The new bridge (possibly with some restrictions on car traffic during rush hour) is the right thing for the Verdun borough (Nun’s Island + original city of Verdun).
Anyone have links to stories pro or con on this Verdun bridge idea?
$20 mil pedestrian/bike/emergency vehicle bridge approved by council 4 years ago……methinks needs to include car traffic too otherwise a waste. http://coolopolis.blogspot.ca/2008/07/verdun-bad-bridge-planning.html
It’s possible Verdun is making a rational choice not to route a lot of extra motor traffic onto their streets.
I don’t know much about Verdun borough politics, but I recall that Nuns Island is sort of embarrassed about its poorer twin on the main island. I don’t know whether that’s a factor in this bridge business.
Bill Binns 07:52 on 2012/08/26 Permalink
This heat is killing me. I went to the “Maker Fair” yesterday. It was held on that giant slab of naked gray concrete optimistcally named “The Olympic Park Esplanade”. Between that and the sweaty Metro ride home, I needed a four hour nap in a dark air conditioned room to recover.
Chris 08:12 on 2012/08/26 Permalink
Yup. At least you have A/C Bill. I think I’ll go see a movie today to get into the cold. I now appreciate much more the siesta culture in hot climates.
walkerp 13:22 on 2012/08/26 Permalink
I’m loving it!
It is so stupid, though, the way the city seems to think the summer ends mid-August when this through mid-September is when citizens need the cooling resources more than ever.
Kate 15:51 on 2012/08/26 Permalink
The usual excuse is that most lifeguards are also students and have to get back to school. I would counter that this is a big city and surely they could scare up a few qualified lifeguards to see the hot weather out.
Chris 15:57 on 2012/08/26 Permalink
Kate, but they can pay students much less… :(
Kate 15:59 on 2012/08/26 Permalink
Yes, but closing a beach in mid-August makes no sense at all. Surely the city could stretch to hiring a couple of non-students for a few weeks so that people can make use of the only accessible damn beach in the entire urban area.
Chris 18:44 on 2012/08/26 Permalink
Oh, I’m not disagreeing. It’s infuriating!