TVA has some headaches for drivers this weekend.
And there are some possibly useful open and closed notes as well.
TVA has some headaches for drivers this weekend.
And there are some possibly useful open and closed notes as well.
The Guy-Favreau YMCA has been saved for at least ten years.
It was thirty years ago that the botanical garden opened its Japanese garden: Radio-Canada looks back in its archives for the opening.
A brigade of young folks will be going door to door to check on smoke detectors this summer.
In related news, five people died last year because of carelessly stubbed out cigarettes.
The city’s vowing to do a better job of coordinating construction sites, admitting it’s not been well handled.
The city is tightening the screws on bad landlords – CTV calls them slumlords outright – tripling inspections and giving inspectors powers to act quickly rather than waiting for extensive evidence to be gathered. In response the landlord group spokesman kvetches a lot.
Iconic monuments to Maisonneuve and to Sir John A. Macdonald were defaced Tuesday night by soi-disant anticolonialist militants, but the red paint was cleaned up by city workers Wednesday.
The father of a baby who died in a parked car two years ago in St-Jérôme is reaching out to the family who experienced a similar loss here last week, via La Presse.
Bricks fell off the façade of a student residence on Park Avenue near Prince Arthur Wednesday – the one that used to be a hotel. Nobody got hurt, although a car was damaged. The Gazette says they dropped from the tenth floor.
The jazz festival is standing by SLĀV despite protest. Medium has a piece describing the scene.
Discussion with an academic of African ancestry on Radio-Canada.
Also, thoughts on CBC by a black artist and historian initially consulted about the project who feels it missed an opportunity to make a point and educate the public and by a black op-ed writer at Le Devoir.
Le Devoir’s critic liked it. But then Robert Lepage does know how to mount a show.
Update: thoughts from the Globe’s Everett-Green although is he correct in saying Lepage and Bonifassi had “a promotional and media apparatus that naturally made it more likely that their view of their show would be the one that the public heard about”? I’ve only seen and heard pieces criticizing the cultural obtuseness of the work. I haven’t seen anyone asking Lepage and Bonifassi why they thought their concept was a viable one.
Although other entities are open about how much cash they grant to festivals, Tourisme Montreal refuses to say how much they chip in even though 86% of their financing comes from taxes and other public funds.
Ensemble Montreal says it’s put the Coderre era behind it and is focusing on the 2021 municipal election.
The city is promising $106 million for economic development over three years, creating three “pôles” or hubs of activity and employment, but the only concrete thing I see mentioned so far are autonomous electric shuttles to help workers commute.
I occasionally wonder what happens to the money when political promises and programs like this are announced. There’s a flurry of PR, and then life goes on.
A squirrel is being blamed for the power outage Tuesday in NDG and the ensuing data outage at the MUHC.
The far-right group La Meute is planning a demonstration on July 1, and the SPVM says it’s ensuring that none of the police assigned to keep an eye on it are personally involved with the group or ones like it. The implications that some police, or ex-police, are members of this kind of group and that the SPVM in general cracks down harder on groups of the left than of the right, are things Valérie Plante needs to take seriously.
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