I don’t even remember which reader asked me to link to selections of the best ice cream places, but here’s a good one from Eater.
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Urbanist Jean-Claude Marsan critiques the plans for the Oratory-topping observatory because they don’t make the pinnacle accessible to the disabled.
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One number crunch says Montreal had the highest rate of job growth in 2017 out of the 20 biggest metropolitan areas in the U.S. and Canada.
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The Toronto Star waxes mildly snarky about why Montreal may be attractive to FIFA as a place to hold World Cup matches in 2026.
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Horse-drawn calèches will be phased out by 2020.
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The city has collected a cool $31 million in voluntary payments from companies caught up in the storm of collusion around the Tremblay administration.
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Serge Lamontagne has been named new city manager.
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Media are publishing notes on weekend driving obstacles earlier and earlier in the week.
Update: But most still wait till Friday to post this information.
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Quebec is going to invoke closure to ensure that the bill to permit La Presse to become a not‑for‑profit will pass into law.
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Crane operators on the Champlain construction site are not working Thursday. They say it’s because it’s raining; the Quebec construction commission is calling it a wildcat walkout. Crane operators are unhappy that Quebec has softened the requirements for the training required to operate a crane.
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Adam Gopnik writes a stirring piece about what it is about us that makes Justin Trudeau able to stand up to Donald Trump.
If I need an excuse to post this, Trudeau is a Montreal MP.
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In the “you can’t keep everyone happy” department, the prospect of hosting several World Cup matches at the Olympic stadium is apparently considered a detriment to the eventual return of major league baseball here, because money that “should” go to a new stadium will instead be poured into fixing that eternal fact of Montreal life, the stadium roof.
It makes no sense. Baseball adherents constantly repeat that no public money will go into a new baseball facility, so having the government upgrade the Big O oughtn’t to have anything to do with their aspirations.
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According to this history piece, the Spanish flu took hold here after a religious gathering in Victoriaville in September 1918. Writer Monique T. Giroux has investigated the incident and the lingering effect the epidemic had on families there.
Curiously, although the writer calls it a eucharistic congress – Montreal had held one in 1910, they were a really big deal with Catholic prelates and their entourages coming from all over, and usually held in major cities – I don’t see any mention of Victoriaville in this list.
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Metro has a list of pubs and cafés where the partisans of specific World Cup teams may be expected to gather, although it’s a bit of a reach for Denmark, Iceland, Japan and a few others that don’t have a numerous local contingent.
Likewise from Cult MTL and from Eater.
Noise is guaranteed Friday whichever team wins the Spain-Portugal match…
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