La Presse mob expert Daniel Renaud looks at why deaths in fires have gone up, with 14 fatalities in fires here this year. Renaud also notes that the first 11 months saw 27 instances of businesses hit with Molotov cocktail attacks.
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Snow clearance will begin Tuesday at 19:00. TVA link plays video report.
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Radio-Canada asks and answers the question how much Christmas lighting costs, noting that the coming of LED lights has reduced demand generally.
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A woman died on Sunday in a fire in a Lasalle duplex. TVA link plays video.
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The New York Times reports on the Plante administration’s lifting of the pitbull law, as does Fox News (don’t read the comments!).
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In the spirit of retrospectives this time of year, I’m reposting the weblog list of reliably cyclic stories, adding one:
Very early spring: So many potholes! How did that happen?
Early spring: Who threw all this trash around the streets? Why is the city so filthy?
First heat wave: Why don’t we have air conditioned buses and metros?
Moving Day: How quaint, except for junk left on sidewalks and sad abandoned pets 🙁
Construction holiday: Gasoline is suddenly so expensive!
High summer: Please don’t feed the raccoons at the lookout.
Rentrée: The traffic, my god the traffic!
Rentrée: It’s still hot out, why are the pools closed?
Christmas season: Why are the ERs jammed with so many noncritically sick people?
Deep winter: What to do about the homeless when it’s too cold to be safe outside. -
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You can stop dreaming now: it is a white Christmas, and the roads may be tricky. TVA link plays video.
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The Centre d’histoire piece for this weekend is about the giant crèche that used to be put up at street level in front of St Joseph’s Oratory. Doesn’t say when they stopped doing it, but I don’t recall ever seeing it, although I took the bus past there quite often in my childhood.
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Pamplemousse’s Simon Van Vliet traces the history of Mile Ex, which he calls the “far west” of Petite-Patrie.
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The new St-Laurent sports complex has led to a $27M suit against the city of Montreal, the contractor alleging that the city kept adding additional modifications after the contract was signed.
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There’s been an arrest in a murder in October – as reported then in the Journal; it’s not clear whether the man named this week is the same one picked up at the time. TVA link plays video.
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The Globe’s Everett-Green writes about the new comedy festival and the old. The inaugural Grand Montréal comédie fest unveiled some of its schedule this week and caught criticism for three errors in the name – “…des fautes de français, souligne l’Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF). Avec le lieu au tout début du nom, le nom présente une syntaxe inversée, typique de l’anglais. On retrouve aussi le mot (anglais ou allemand) « fest » au lieu de festival, ajoute le porte-parole de l’OQLF, Jean-Pierre Le Blanc. Enfin, l’utilisation du mot « comédie », aussi français soit-il, ne fait pas référence aux pièces de théâtre ou aux oeuvres cinématographiques, mais à l’humour qui se traduit par « comedy » en anglais.”
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Ville-Marie is testing an addition to the public garbage can with spots for bottles and cans that can be collected by voluntary pickers and returned for deposit.
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It’s entirely media typical that Radio-Canada has a story about a popup shop in Paris selling Montreal-made goods while its anglo twin covers a bagel shop in Edinburgh opened by an expat Montrealer, who claims to have the best bagels in the UK. That may be true, but it brushes off the bagels made by this London shop, which I’ve tried and were as authentic as anything from the Mile End. I might buy that she makes the best bagels in Scotland.
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Radio-Canada says some hospital emergencies are overwhelmed by fracture cases caused by icy sidewalks.
At 11 Saturday morning I can hear rain pattering down and there’s a freezing rain warning posted on the government weather page. An icy day for Christmas shoppers.
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