Concordia is going to have the first engineering faculty named after a woman, because a successful graduate has donated $15 million to the university.
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Kate
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Kate
Once again, mainstream media tells a story about an online feature, this one a means of reporting coyote sightings in town, tells us “Il est disponible sur le site de la Ville de Montréal” but doesn’t deign to give us the link. This is the page the story is about, which has some useful visuals comparing foxes, wolves, dogs and coyotes so people can ascertain which canid they’ve actually seen.
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Kate
Residents of east-end Bourbonnière Street have not been thrilled to learn that the busy 139 route will be diverted down their street for four years while the bus rapid transit lane is built on Pie-IX.
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Kate
The man said to have become temporary interim mafia chief after the death of Vito Rizzuto is profiled here, although the writer is fairly honest in admitting that neither he nor the police know who’s running the mob today.
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Kate
Bureaucratic complications mean there’s been no hand soap in the CSDM’s schools. Toilet paper and cleaning products are also in short supply, or being brought in by the teachers and janitors themselves. Think about that if you have to share a bus with a lot of young students.
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Kate
McGill University has opened a medical museum with various physical curiosities on display. It’s named after Maude Abbott, one of the first women to study and practice modern medicine here.
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Kate
Records were broken Sunday at the Marathon as African runners won both the men’s and women’s events, on a cool day felt to be ideal for running. Last year’s event was cancelled because of a heat wave.
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Kate
This is what’s scary as a pedestrian: a law-abiding person waiting on the sidewalk gets hurt when two vehicles collide and at least one ricochets into him.
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Kate
The sentence of Gordy Joseph, who had just turned 18 when he was found in a car with three other guys, one of whom actively carried out a gangland execution on a rival drug dealer, will stand: no parole before 10 years are up. Item also briefly looks at three other gang assassinations including poor Angelo d’Onofrio, killed two years ago in error for another man; some media still have items up saying d’Onofrio was mobbed up although this was debunked long ago and the TVA item mentions the name of the man he was mistaken for (who is, I gather, still alive).
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Kate
Radio-Canada has detailed explanations about the marathon route and how to avoid it. CBC promises a headache.
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Kate
It’s not strictly local but it’s been the big news all day that Gatineau got whacked by a pair of tornadoes and flooding, leaving many buildings damaged or destroyed. CTV video shows how bad it is.
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Kate
Workers at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, which operates Montreal’s popular Grande bibliothèque, have agreed on a new contract after lengthy negotiations.
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Kate
T’cha Dunlevy goes on here about how Cinéma Moderne is the first café bar movie theatre in Montreal which makes me wonder where I was having coffee on the Main years ago – can’t have been in the Cinéma Parallèle’s Café Méliès – not the “new” one but the old one, further up the street, can it? Not if Dunlevy is unaware it ever existed.
In other café news, it was reported last week that the Olimpico made the Telegraph UK’s list of fifty greatest cafés on Earth. It’s in some hefty company here, magnificent old establishments in places like Naples and Porto and Prague.
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Kate
I’ve read through this piece twice about the issue of reorganization of events in Jean-Drapeau park, about the new amphitheatre being built for Evenko and about some master plan involving the islands, and I can’t make sense of any of it – who’s on what side, what Evenko wants, what the city wants, and why. I don’t think it’s my French comprehension either.
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Kate
The city’s on a hiring rampage for programmers to help upgrade its computer systems.
Update: On Twitter, a reader corrects me, saying they’re looking for IT specialists, not programmers.
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