Oddments from my trawls through the feeds: the Robb Report on places to eat in town; Alan Hustak seems to be writing a potted history of the city for the Suburban, because this piece is labelled Chapter 1; Radio-Canada looks back at Jean Drapeau’s crazy scheme to borrow the Eiffel Tower for Expo 67 – text and audio; Gabriel Deschambault has a nice piece on Pamplemousse about Luc Laporte, who gave us the interiors of Lux, Laloux and L’Express; St‑Henri is getting a new bookstore, while the owner of Librairie de Verdun is planning to open a new branch in Lachine.
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The Plante administration presented a $6.4-billion 3-year capital works program Wednesday, involving lots more work on roads and waterworks but, as CBC notes, no mention of the pink line.
Improvement of snow removal is now a hot item, including the possible purchase of machines to break up the ice. Metro has a photo of part of such a machine.
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School bus drivers have reached an agreement in principle and will be back at work Thursday.
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An older man said to be the father of singer Gregory Charles was badly injured by a snowplow Tuesday.
Update: Lennox Charles has died.
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City hospitals are coping with a bad flu season, although I doubt “unprecedented” is quite the word, given what happened a hundred years ago.
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The Office de la protection du consommateur says it’s illegal for the STM to charge $6 for an empty Opus card.
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Lise Bissonnette has quit as chair of the UQÀM board of directors. Her statement about her resignation speaks about her discouragement at the way the Quebec government favours the “old” universities over the public Université du Québec system: the creation of a downtown branch for the HEC in particular has been felt as an insult.
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The city is going to close two water treatment plants on the west end of the island, and connect Dorval and Lachine to more efficient plants at a cost of $235 million, but with an eye on eventual savings from the change.
La Presse says the city is running out of cash to fix the water supply system and this is why the Plante administration had to hike the water tax.
Metro has a complicated map of water main repairs by year and borough.
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Justin Trudeau called members of La Meute “nonos” Monday in Quebec City at a memorial for the men slain in last year’s mosque massacre – Global translates it as “dum-dums” – and made members of the right-wing group angry. Sophie Durocher in the Journal springs to their defense.
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The STM is letting its own transit app lapse because Transit is doing such a stellar job by comparison. NB this link may play a noisy commercial – thanks, Gazette.
Radio-Canada says there are more panhandlers and peddlers in the metro than ever, and that transit cops will be cracking down because both activities contravene the rules.
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The new École Baril has opened in Hochelaga, but the contaminated soil from the excavations has taken a strange route via the Hells Angels.
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The son of Denis Coderre perpetrated a $16,000 fraud, but the ex-mayor doesn’t want him to have a criminal record. Coderre describes himself here as “chômeur, pour l’instant.” La Presse says Coderre admitted his son was afraid of him.
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CBC talks about additional pedestrian streets for this summer, but in fact it’s just a block or so of each street named. Gilford has been pedestrianized before between St-Denis and Rivard, near Laurier metro – it’s a natural, with its row of small businesses and cafés; the other two locations are not even going to be fully closed to cars.
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School bus drivers are expected to strike Tuesday.
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Performers talk about Divan Orange as the fabled venue stages a final series before closing.
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