A man died after a fall on Ste-Catherine Street at the Maison du développement durable near Clark. Raw video from TVA.
Update: The man was rappelling down the building in advance of a fundraising event for Amnesty International.
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Kate
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Kate
QC125 has some visualizations of religious believers in Quebec, with central Montreal largely a ghost until you reach the “nonbelievers” section where we show up in shocking pink blocks. The writer notes that the three Quebec ridings with the most admitted nonbelievers are also the stronghold of Québec solidaire.
This weekend David Mitchell has a good piece on what it means for a society not to have shared religious beliefs. He’s writing about Britain, not us, but this point could also apply in Quebec: “To change so quickly from a society where most people took comfort from the establishment telling them, loudly and clearly, that death is not the end, to one where many proclaim that it is, and few are totally convinced otherwise, will have had an incalculable impact on our state of mind.”
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Some notes on weekend traffic problems. But the Gazette looks hopefully toward a visionary future time when roadwork will be over.
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Four teenagers from RDP are in jail this weekend after a video showed them attacking a fellow kid, kicking him and stomping him as other teenagers looked on and, presumably, captured video.
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The Journal has some sketches of the improvements planned for Plaza St-Hubert after next year’s roadwork.
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Metro has a good summary of the third week of the election campaign.
Denis Coderre is trying to stoke anti-Ferrandez sentiment especially among people with businesses in the Plateau.
Radio-Canada crunched some numbers but concluded it’s impossible to know whether Projet’s projected pink line would reduce traffic congestion. Jonathan Montpetit also examined the pink line on the CBC side.
Le Devoir looks at methods to interest and involve voters in municipal elections, which chronically see a low voter turnout. If most people aren’t interested in democracy at that level, maybe they deserve to have their cities run by permanent and unchanging bureaucracies appointed by Quebec, and see how they like it.
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Everett-Green reviews the new MMFA show, about the Wild West. Simiarly from La Presse, the Gazette and Le Devoir.
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Metro stoppages have seen a 32% rise this year.
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