This weekend’s history piece is a then-and-now on Park Avenue at Laurier, looking south.
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Kate
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Kate
Eater has put up a restaurant guide to Montreal which pretty much covers the territory. It includes a glossary of terms (Pizzaghetti – “…not something you need to try.”).
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Kate
The Turcot was to be almost completely closed this weekend, but the snowstorm has delayed the closure till Saturday evening. Mind you, we’re still being advised to stay home if we can, flights are disrupted, and 911 is overwhelmed with calls.Update: Media report we got 36 cm of snow over the last 24 hours, that’s 14 inches or almost 200 agate lines of snow.
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Kate
While we’re talking natural disasters, a report by the fire department’s civil security unit notes the many ways in which the city was unprepared for the flooding we saw around the western end of the island last spring.
Allowing people to build on known flood plains is not mentioned, but is one man-made aspect of the problem. Also, I read some items last year about water controls upriver by the lakes which affect river levels here, but, oddly, not much about this since.
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Kate
Nothing has actually happened, but a new report suggests that any sizable earthquake here could cause serious and expensive damage.
Note to copyeditors at CTV and the Gazette: damage is what is caused by an earthquake. It is not a countable noun. “Damages”, which you’ve both used in your headlines, is a legal term describing money that has to be paid by court order in restitution for some injury.
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Kate
Concordia University has acted on recent allegations of exploitation of students by professors in its creative writing department, reassigning them to other duties, which aren’t specified although we can assume they’re not cleaning toilets, and an investigation has begun. It’s a complicated story, with allegations being raised – in another blog post – even against the male writer whose blog post put accusations into the public eye and sparked this scandal.
One prominent anglo Montreal writer is speaking up about her experience there in the 1990s.
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Kate
The city budget has provoked a cascade of stories, most ignoring the fact that the city administration needs cash to do the job right. Yes, as comments below suggest, there could be improvements in efficiency – but those take time. You can’t just change a city’s administrative culture overnight, but you can increase revenue quickly.
If Projet is in this for the long haul, it also makes sense for them to raise the cash now, when the next municipal election is far away, and put the money to work to keep their other promises.
The demerged municipalities are kvetching about their contribution rising, but let’s not forget that most of them are wealthier than the core city that gives them a raison-d’être.
Business owners are threatening to mobilize.
For some, the availability of an English version of the budget was more of a problem than any of its content. Mathieu Bock-Côté claims that Valérie Plante is turning her back on Quebec.
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