There’s a warning of an ice storm coming Monday evening.
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Kate
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Kate
The city is embarking on the renovation of its digs, starting by fixing up the neighbouring Édifice Lucien-Saulnier, aka the old courthouse, to act as a temporary home while the 19th-century hôtel de ville – completed in 1878 but rebuilt after a serious fire in 1922 – is renovated.
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Kate
François Cardinal writes about Ste-Catherine Street and backs improvements for the street that stop short of full pedestrianization. It’s a sidebar to his other piece on La Presse+ suggesting ten ideas to improve the street.
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Kate
Kristian Gravenor digs into why six Côte St-Luc councillors brazenly named parks in their town after themselves in 2001. Robert Libman, who initially suggested the idea, is now asking the others to relinquish the dubious honour, but so far, no dice.
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Kate
The weekend’s Centre d’histoire piece evokes Verdun’s history via a 1973 photo of Bannantyne Avenue versus today.
The Journal also put up a collection of what it calls 16 photos of the city from 110 years ago, but they’re specifically postcards, some of them tinted, not simply photos. Nice though.
CBC looks at the 1950s cutting of trees on Mount Royal for “moral” reasons, and how this is still affecting the mountain’s tree coverage today: ash trees became more prevalent after the cut, but now they have to be cut themselves for other reasons.
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Kate
Some notes on a new movie, Hochelaga, terre des âmes, a historical fantasia telling Montreal’s history in four times. Director François Girard is best known for The Red Violin (1998). Radio‑Canada interviews Girard; the film reviewed in La Presse; in Voir; in Le Devoir.
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