Four animal species are under threat in Montreal but is that so surprising when we also learn that while human beings constitute 0.1% of all life, we have caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half the plants that were extant when we showed up?
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Kate
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Kate
Researchers are using willows to clean up contaminated land in the east end.
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Radio-Canada considers how people are making women more visible in toponymy, including even in graveyards.
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Kate
A hundred people marched Monday in honour of the Patriotes, putting an independantiste spin on the history.
I’ve noticed this year a much stronger trend to refer to this day, in English, without sarcasm, as National Patriots Day. I wonder how many Montreal residents know which patriots are referred to.
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Kate
The Guardian has a report – made from Toronto, mind you – on the Rosemont Nazi.
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Kate
I don’t remember who it was that asked me to take note of ice cream articles, but this weekend we have Lesley Chesterman’s nine favourite ice cream shops.
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Kate
A body was pulled out of the river Sunday morning near Haig and Notre-Dame East after first being spotted near the clock tower. Police say it isn’t Ariel Kouakou, although that seems fairly obvious as it’s a different river. But nobody knows yet who it is.
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A year and a half ago, bagpiper Jeff McCarthy was fined for wearing the traditional sgian-dubh, the small dagger that’s part of a full Highland outfit. The charges have been dropped and he’s getting his knife back.
In the previous version of the blog (which I can’t access at the moment) I believe we had a discussion about the legalities of carrying a knife, but I don’t remember the details. I almost always have some kind of knife with me simply because it’s useful in so many ways. (I also carry a spork and a pair of portable chopsticks.) Leaving aside air travel, surely it can’t be illegal to have a folding knife with you? Anyone have the letter of the law on this?
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Kate
A group of victims of the MKUltra experiments at the Allan Memorial are still waiting for a public apology and compensation. Many of the original victims are dead, but their children maintain that the disruption caused by the experimental brainwashing of parents, mostly women, had harsh consequences on their lives.
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CBC has the story of Léo Major, a Montreal soldier who single-handedly bluffed the Nazis out of a Dutch town toward the end of World War II and is still regarded there as a hero.
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The city is planning a ban on sales of bottled water in its own facilities. It had already planned to end sales of sugary soft drinks.
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