The Globe’s Everett-Green traces down a cool piece of Montreal history: cookie baron Charles‑Théodore Viau, his factory and his dream of a City Beautiful.
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A driver ran his car into a group of transport ministry workers in Dorval late Friday, killing one and injuring seven others. There’s no suggestion it was deliberate. Metro has more details about the incident.
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Valérie Plante is talking about a subsidized low transit fare for the Montreal area, citing Laval’s free transit for seniors as an example. It’s one of the things promised during her campaign.
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Seems to be the season for data visualizations. Besides Roberto Rocha’s recent water main breakage map, Metro has an interactive map showing where vehicles are being towed most for snow removal, and Le Devoir has a festival of ten maps displaying aspects of the city demographics.
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A fire broke out overnight at Atwater Market and it took fifty firefighters to put it out. Radio news says the market will be closed Friday morning for a cleanup. It’s being blamed on an electrical problem.
Update 11 am Friday: CBC is saying the market has reopened.
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A Globe & Mail writer strolls around the Vieux.
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Christopher Curtis examines the Journal’s anglo fest last week. An entertaining read.
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Residents of two buildings in the Point have been told to leave their homes by Thursday at noon, and not given any compensation up front to help them find new places.
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Urbanist Jean-Claude Marsan demolishes the Royalmount (15-40) plan with a keen critical eye.
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Since 2005 the city has been collecting money from condo developers in lieu of including social housing in their projects – but hasn’t been building social housing with it. Valérie Plante wants to put the millions to work.
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TVA says the feds will be announcing that the old Champlain bridge will have to hang on till June 2019 because the new bridge won’t make the deadline of December this year.
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Roberto Rocha has taken data about water main breaks all over the island and displayed it on maps.
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While debate continues to swirl around the question of blocking off Camillien‑Houde, Urgences‑Santé has spoken up to point out that emergency vehicles want to be able to go on using the road.
Although in general I’m not a big fan of the car, that road has gone across Mount Royal for years and I don’t see any value in chopping it in two. Isn’t there some law concerning public right of way that can be invoked here to stop this nonsense?
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A 14-year-old boy who very nearly drowned last week in a swimming pool incident in Rosemont has died, and there will be an investigation into how this could happen during a swimming lesson with a teacher, an instructor and a lifeguard on duty.
La Presse has named the victim.
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In the headline QMI seems very keen to report the decline of Ste-Catherine Street, blaming it on internet shopping and the shortage of parking. But in the second half of the item the writer talks to other sources that are not so alarmist.
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