The news cycle starts again: we’re already at OMG potholes.
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The expensive concrete barriers Denis Coderre bought for his Formula E race may be repurposed to create dikes for future flooding. Item also mentions a flood report from last spring: 430 homes flooded and $8 million spent by the agglomeration.
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The city is getting a wave of notice this week: a mental ability test administered on the U.S. president is called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test because it was designed here by neurologist Ziad Nasreddine. CBC emphasizes in a headline that Nasreddine is an immigrant, and in its text, the kind of immigrant openly despised by the president.
It’s one of those odd spikes in searches for the city that doesn’t directly concern us, like the Montreal Protocol, but we’ll take what we can get. Warning on that CTV link: photo of Donald Trump.
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Two cultural honchos write in Le Devoir about their hopes for the city’s cultural life under the Plante administation.
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Four thousand trees will have to be cut down on Mount Royal because of the emerald ash borer.
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