The last Centre d’histoire piece of the year looks back at a snowshoeing club that met in Côte‑des‑Neiges for a party at a long-gone hotel after trekking across Mount Royal.
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The Journal says that some Projet Montréal election placards are still up around town but I’ve only seen placards for other, defeated candidates around my area.
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Previously we’ve seen concerns about calèche horses suffering in the heat, but the SPCA thinks the rules about making them work down to –20°C are inhumane as well.
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Daniel Renaud runs down a list of the SPVM’s activities against dangerous drugs in 2017, with fentanyl topping the list.
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Some lists of what’s open and closed over the New Year holiday.
Official celebrations are proceeding despite the lingering deep freeze. The party at the Old Port starts at 21:00 and the metro will be open all night.
The 2018 Montreal City Weblog calendar is still available: in low rez or in high rez (18.7 MB, better for printing – 13 pages of 11×17 tabloid size paper).
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A new snow hill for tobogganing has been created in the Sud-Ouest near Angrignon metro. But note: it’s a private enterprise and you have to pay to use it.
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As well as year-end retrospectives, we’ll be seeing some pieces about the 20th anniversary of the 1998 ice storm, which began on January 5 that year. Andy Riga has a detailed piece asking whether we’re better prepared now for that kind of extreme weather, both collectively and individually. TVA link plays video.
I have to admit, I have flashlights and candles (and know where they are) but I don’t think about most of the other things listed in the linked emergency kit, which apparently covers things like being stranded in a vehicle, not stuck in your house in the dark.
When the Y2K scare was abuzz I bought a tiny camping stove and a gas canister, determined not to face caffeine withdrawal in the dark, but I’ve never used it. Maybe I should resolve to find and test it in the new year.
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Le Devoir interviews the city’s first gentleman, Pierre-Antoine Harvey, husband of Valérie Plante, whose life also changed suddenly on November 6. But Le Devoir is so sober in its report – there’s nothing about Harvey’s clothes or haircut or fitness regime, tsk.
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Efforts are being made to persuade university students to stay in Montreal and join the workforce here after their studies are completed. But with the anglo students there’s an additional effort needed to get them to speak French.
CBC reports that we’re seeing a growing number of international students coming to Montreal universities. (Note to the writer: it’s a boom, not a boon.)
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CBC went along with the Old Brewery Mission bus as it shuttled around town trying to find homeless people and persuade them to come inside. The cold snap will see night temperatures around –25°C until Tuesday at least, and we now have a smog warning up on the weather page alongside the extreme cold warning: don’t go outside, but if you do, try not to breathe too much.
Le Monde has a report on the cold weather in Quebec City: “Malgré le froid, le travail continue”!
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Homicides connected with organized crime are down, in fact homicides are way, way down compared with the 90 killings in 1977. For CBC, Joanne Bayly tells the story of an unsolved murder that year and shows that Montreal police have a relatively low solution rate that hasn’t changed even as numbers have dropped.
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Not all the city’s boroughs think the sugary drinks ban in municipal buildings is viable or sensible.
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Toronto Star says Montreal is Canada’s most trilingual city, going by Statistics Canada findings. That’s not surprising, given how many people I’ve known who speak English, French and a third other language, often one they grew up with.
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For CBC, Roberto Rocha looks back to a worse cold snap and all the days under 20°C since 1970.
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