Laïka, a well-known spot at the corner of St-Laurent and Duluth, has closed up shop after 19 years.
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Kate
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Metro has a brief piece on all the work going on at La Ronde in wintertime.
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Some readers of this blog will be delighted to know that fines for cycling infractions are set to be multiplied by five (but even the police think this is silly).
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The city is staging some discussions on pet control matters, but again it’s pitbulls, pitbulls, pitbulls. What about the ridiculously high fines you risk if your cat is found off your property? What about the shortage of dog parks for people with dogs other than pitbulls, for once?
Most pet owners don’t have pitbulls, but the breed has used up all the oxygen in this matter.
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Luc Bourdon, whose collage documentary La mémoire des anges – an impressionistic portrait of Montreal composed from 200 snips of NFB movies – came out ten years ago, has just released a new film some are calling a sequel: La part du diable, treating the years 1967 to 1983 in a similar style with clips taken from 320 movies. Notes from Le Devoir, the Globe and Mail, the Journal, Metro.
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A dump truck crashed into the overpass where Sherbrooke meets autoroute 25 overnight: nothing was damaged except possibly the driver’s ego.
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A peek at how many cities Montreal has mimicked for film productions.
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Daniel Renaud presents the saga of convicted mobster Francesco Del Balso, who took his life in his hands and broke bail conditions to get a good espresso. This is a motive I can completely understand.
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