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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Kate
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Kate
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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Kate
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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Kate
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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Kate
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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Kate
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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Kate
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