It’s off-island but interesting enough to mention: one of the two remaining flight-worthy B-29 bombers has landed at St-Hubert airport and will be there till Sunday.
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La Presse interviews Adrian King-Edwards of The Word.
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CTV has a brief item on a fire burning in a residential building on Jeanne-Mance at St-Viateur. There’s only one corner there that has a house rather than a commercial building.
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The Centre des sciences now has a piece of moon rock which visitors are supposed to be able to touch.
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A cyclist has been critically injured in a collision in Rosemont early Monday. Cops say he ran a red light.
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Numbers show that ridership is down by 13% on STM buses over the last five years, a trend blamed by one critic on Denis Coderre’s cuts to the STM budget in 2012 and 2013. The STM suggests it may be the frustration of road congestion.
There are a lot more numbers in the item including some details about the most and least popular routes. If the Gazette has the whole list it would be interesting to see it.
Sunday I rode in an STM bus driven by a guy with a heavy foot. He’d coast the bus along a bit and then apply a sudden jolt to the gas randomly so the bus leapt forward and all the passengers slewed around. His treatment of the brakes was equally rough. Even after I got a seat the ride was unpleasant, but standing had been worse. Maybe the STM could send anonymous testers around to assess their drivers occasionally.
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The 15-year-old who went into the closed pool in New Bordeaux has died. TVA spoke to the boy’s father, who says he doesn’t understand why his son left a group of friends, climbed the fence and jumped into the water alone.
Incidentally, no other media have reported the boy’s death, but this piece says the family took him off life support Sunday.
Update: CTV reports his death Monday.
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