The Centre d’histoire piece this weekend looks at a classic Montreal switcheroo: a shoebox house from 1921, shown in a photo by Daniel Heikalo in 1983, replaced in 2011 by a three-storey condo building.
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A protest involving an outdoor classroom with desks and chairs was held Saturday near the old Children’s Hospital site by parents angry at the abandonment of the school project promised for the site.
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The city started its spring cleaning last week, earlier than usual. Temperatures will be fluctuating around freezing this week, with snowflakes in the forecast.
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Another thing meant to open soon in the Sud-Ouest area is Point St-Charles’s Bâtiment 7, a community centre the neighbourhood has campaigned for over years, built inside an old industrial building. It’s meant to offer everything from a food market to a daycare to a carpentry workshop, when it’s fully up and running.
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A thing called the Maison de l’innovation sociale has opened in Griffintown, its remit being to help into existence various nifty projects for improving things for people. If this sounds vague, so’s the story. Whether this means actual improvements, or just a quango for channeling money to friends of friends, remains to be seen.
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Juste pour rire has been sold to an American company, although La Presse thinks Quebecor may still make a counter-offer.
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