Condé Nast Traveler enumerates the ten best coffee spots and 15 best bars in Montreal.
Updates from August, 2018 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
-
Kate
-
Kate
TVA claims there’s a clamour on social media for Montreal city hall to give pride of place to the Quebec flag. In this brief piece you can see Valérie Plante exercising her diplomacy to point out that when there’s a single flag there, it will be the city flag, and otherwise she will play it by ear.
-
Kate
Ariane Krol writes about the two, conflicting visions of Jean-Talon Market and how they must be brought into balance.
-
Kate
As La Presse puts it, Montreal will soon have a fonctionnaires’ quarter east of the Jacques-Cartier bridge, where Quebec is buying the Télé-Québec building and planning to move hundreds of its employees in. At the same time, the city’s going to acquire the undeveloped section of the Îlot Voyageur.
In Le Devoir Tuesday it’s pointed out that while the building – which is no architectural gem, have a look at the photo here – is costing Quebec $31 million, it will save millions in rent by moving people from more expensive offices downtown. Has anyone asked the fonctionnaires how they feel about getting moved east of the bridge?
-
Kate
Saying it’s not a utopian dream, Mayor Plante is persisting with the pink line.
-
Kate
The Guardian Cities section ledes a piece on global warming in urban settings with a description of our canicule that killed more than 50 vulnerable people. Thanks to the reader who tweeted this story to me.
-
Kate
The STM plans to buy four electric buses from a Chinese firm. The item says they’re meant to run on the short 212 route in Ste-Anne, so they’re not going to be seen downtown.
-
Kate
There’s bound to be a little rain in the course of the Rogers Cup tournament, and this likelihood is justifying discussions of a retractable roof for the stadium.
-
Kate
CBC asks why Montreal does its pride events in August; in La Presse, Mario Girard talks about how quickly things changed for the gay community here.
Reply