It takes real class to fight a survivor of the Polytechnique massacre over her activism against guns, but the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights is doing it. I’m not linking to them: this is not the U.S.A., and we don’t have a “right” to guns in our constitution.
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The Montreal General is getting a new surgery wing. I was concerned about new construction on the side of Mount Royal, but this piece says it will be “built in the space between the General’s existing wings.”
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The city has admitted it’s lost its grip on painting street markings this year.
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Bricks fell off a façade on Mont-Royal near Boyer Wednesday evening, narrowly missing a passerby.
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Linda Gyulai reports on criticism of plans for a composting facility said to be too close to the airport.
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I’ve been knocked for occasionally linking tourism pieces about the city mostly to note their shortcomings, but this week French journalist Antoine Besse is being roundly mocked in local and social media for his sweepingly mistaken statements about the city.
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Mount Royal Cemetery is going to ban cyclists starting next week. The cemetery had issued a warning about speeding cyclists but apparently it wasn’t heeded.
It’s too bad that because of parties of training competition cyclists it means the occasional lone, less aggressive cyclist can’t go through, but them’s the breaks.
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A man (the Journal calls him an “internaute”) is facing charges after threatening to injure Valérie Plante and burn down her house. He’s also accused of hate speech against the Muslim community.
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A man was shot, not fatally, late Wednesday evening in New Bordeaux.
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A woman is in critical condition after an overnight triplex fire in the Plateau. Reports say the building exploded but it’s too soon to know why.
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