Some tourism-foodie bits: the London Evening Standard on visiting the city; Vermont’s Seven Days reviews Agrikol; a 25-year-old digital media editor tells us how she scrapes by in Montreal on a mere $60,000 a year.
Updates from May, 2018 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
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Kate
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Police won’t charge the unnamed man who waved a swastika flag in Park Ex during a May Day march.
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The SPVM union wants ordinary patrol cops to have assault rifles but neither the force nor the mayor are keen.
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After protests from the Chinatown community about respecting Sun Yat-Sen Park, the project to install an automatic toilet is on hold.
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Poor ViSaMiPex! We finally voted out the unimaginative Anie Samson as borough mayor, and now Projet mayor Giuliana Fumagalli has been asked to work from home while an allegation of workplace harassment is investigated.
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Residents of St-Henri are complaining about Turcot construction noise and wrong-way trucks on Rose-de-Lima.
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The PLQ’s Geoffrey Kelley, who has represented Jacques-Cartier riding in the West Island for 25 years, has announced he’s not running again this fall.
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The Banque Nationale is promising a new park down by the Quartier International, but there’s no mention here of any intention to give the land to the city. As with Domtar, which created a park and then, oopsy, sold the land for a condo project, any privately held land can be a park today – maybe for PR or tax reasons – and then disappear under bulldozers tomorrow.
In other park news, the Gazette says the McCord museum is not happy the city is proposing a new park on a piece of land it thought it had locked down for a new museum building.
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Christopher Curtis follows up last week’s exposé on Montreal’s neo-Nazis with a look at how the march in Charlottesville exposed and identified them.
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