Toula Drimonis lambastes Urbania for putting Richard Martineau on its cover as a Quebec martyr.
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As Saint-Luc hospital falls to the wreckers, Le Devoir looks back at its place in the city’s history.
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The SPVM has seen a recent surge in reported sex crimes, a trend being ascribed to the #metoo movement and its encouragement to victims.
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According to CTV, a new park to be named after Canadiens left winger Dickie Moore will be created in Park Extension, where Moore grew up. There’s already a small play park at the corner there, with the neutral name Parc Beaumont-de l’Épée, but there’s also an unoccupied lot that will likely become the new park, diagonally adjacent. The Journal describes the location as in Outremont but they’re wrong.
Moore died in 2015; he was a member of the team that won five consecutive Stanley cups from 1956 to 1960, thus in local terms a kind of saint.
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Le Devoir has a weekend dossier on gentrification, not just in Montreal but outside of the metropolis as well. Florence Sara G. Ferraris looks at mixed retail and how residents respond when old businesses die off and new ones open, and at a man who works in popup summer events like the village at Pied-du-Courant and Jardins Gamelin, which by enlivening certain areas may tend, in the long run, to make parts of the city more attractive to gentrifiers.
Is it possible to have nice things without inviting this to happen? Ferraris doesn’t even try to answer that question because the answer is probably no. You can’t easily turn over a moribund part of town without new money rushing in to profit.
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A river shuttle from Pointe-aux-Trembles to Jacques-Cartier pier will be tested soon. The boat can carry 45 passengers and 15 bicycles, and a trip will cost $3.25 one way.
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A drone, probably bringing something clandestinely to Bordeaux jail, came down on the roof of a school building in Ahuntsic on Friday. Police haven’t said what it was carrying, but one expert suggests drugs and cell phones are likely. Some people are concerned about what could happen if an unintended person took delivery of a package like this.
Update: Police say the package contained cannabis, tobacco, phones and SIM cards, and lighters. Nothing illegal, in short. Cops don’t know who prepared the package nor exactly who it was destined for.
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Kristian inquires into the local legend that it was Jean Drapeau’s homophobic puritanism that led to a razing of the undergrowth on Mount Royal in the 1950s. The resulting runoff and erosion damaged the park badly, so that decision still has consequences today. And the answer is: it was more complicated than that.
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Photographer Marc Vidal has been doing a series of black and white architectural glimpses of our metro stations, very nice and abstract.
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