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Kate
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Kate
The city’s going to consult public opinion on what we’d like done with McGill College Avenue. The Journal emphasizes that the city “promised” to pedestrianize the street in 2018, but as I recall the whole matter of redoing Ste-Catherine and reworking McGill College will partly depend on the progress of the REM, over which the city has no control.
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Kate
Following the abandonment of Mina Aculiak and her fortunate survival after five days lost in the city, Valérie Plante is ordering the police to change how they deal with the homeless. Apparently it isn’t unheard of for them to hand a person a bus ticket and push them out the door – even if they’re vulnerable, are unfamiliar with the city, and don’t speak the local languages.
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Kate
Rick Genest, known as Zombie Boy, has died, an apparent suicide. Radio-Canada mentions Genest’s fragile mental health. Obit in the Guardian.
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Kate
The Journal occasionally notes interesting real estate listings, but this one doesn’t add up. The date of the building is given as 1976, which doesn’t tally with the pictures, and the cost of the condo at $169,000, which seems even less likely.
It does, however, feature the inevitable breakfast bar.
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Kate
Valérie Plante is advising us not to attempt to take selfies with coyotes. I fully expect Lionel Perez to come out in favour of the slighted cultural value of coyote selfies later today.
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Kate
Le Devoir has a look at how the Mies van der Rohe service station on Nuns’ Island is doing. Part of its summer series on key buildings.
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Kate
Despite a blitz of repair work, a new report shows the city still loses a lot of its drinking water from its aging water mains system. Studies also show that Quebec wastes the most drinking water in Canada.
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Kate
An Inuit woman receiving medical treatment in St-Laurent left the premises and vanished five days ago. She was in Montreal to look after injuries sustained in her northern town when she was hit by a police car there. She doesn’t speak French or English and is about 4½ feet tall.
Update: An off-duty cop spotted Ms Aculiak walking along Crémazie.
A good Twitter thread from Les Perreaux on the story. How this woman was treated is unconscionable. No wonder she got lost; we may never know how she got by for five days when she doesn’t know the city, doesn’t speak French or much English, and was already in a weakened state from injuries and intoxication.
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Kate
Blocked from crossing Mount Royal and unable to use the Gilles-Villeneuve track because of construction, serious cycling athletes say they need somewhere to train in the city. (Hey, what if we had a velodrome? Oops…)
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