I kvetched recently about Siri going “brrr!” when telling me it’s –1C°.
Just now, Facebook tells me “The forecast is showing that the clouds will clear tomorrow in Montreal. Enjoy the sunshine!”
Tomorrow the forecast high is –10°C.
These people shouldn’t mess with climates they don’t understand.
The Globe has a piece on a new Plateau building it calls soft densification. It’s a flashy architect’s project that replaced this goofy little shoebox house on de la Roche near Marie-Anne:
In other housing news, the Gazette says that, despite the floods last spring, people are still keen on waterfront properties around the western end of the island. Buying such properties ought to include a clause recognizing the buyer knows the hazard and will not expect public help if the river drops by for a visit. There’s no reason the public should subsidize private housing built in disregard of such an obvious risk.
Toronto Star’s Allan Woods looks at the “Le Montréaler” exhibit and finds it lacking in diversity. Nonetheless, it must be one of the most popular shows ever at the Plateau’s Maison de la culture, going by the media notices I’m seeing.
The soi-disant oldest public market in Montreal, in Lachine – I wonder by what metric – is reopening with new tenants and being renamed “marché Station Angus” although I’m unclear why, as I associate the name Angus more with a part of Rosemont.
The Centre d’histoire piece this weekend finds that Sherbrooke East was land of the car in 1968 and is much the same today. I can’t say I’d ever heard of the Sambo, though.
Carbonleo, the developer of the 15-40 project, of which we haven’t seen any mention lately, is trying to cosy up to Projet Montréal with a promise of a pedestrian overpass to link the new development with de la Savane metro station.
If there’s a headline saying Geoff Molson says Marc Bergevin has his full support, how long do you give Bergevin in the job?
CBC has a chatty piece on winter cycling and CTV has a video with tips.
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