Valérie Plante has announced city funding for 150 new units of affordable housing around town.
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Kate
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Kate
It seems of a piece with the luck of the Alouettes lately that their new star quarterback has a concussion.
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Kate
A new street in Outremont will be named for Thérèse Lavoie-Roux. Le Devoir manages to encapsulate this bit of news without mentioning it’s in the old railyard being refashioned into a new campus for the Université de Montréal.
Downside: Lavoie-Roux was a politician. Upside, she was a female politician when that was still a rarity.
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Kate
A central chunk of the Plateau is under a boil-water advisory.
Update: Still in effect Friday.
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Kate
A man with a repeated record of exhibitionism on the bus has been banned from using the STM, a punishment seldom invoked.
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Kate
Platform doors are on the agenda at the STM, although the buried lede is, I think, of more importance: progress is also being made on the extension of the blue line, even though it’s another round of studies.
Update Friday: A bit more on the platform doors. I see the point but I can’t say I like the picture shown of the doors used in Beijing.
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Kate
The city has pledged to pay the rent for Sun Youth now that it’s been dislodged from its longtime digs at the old Baron Byng high school. Item, annoyingly, autoplays video, which seems to be a new policy on the Gazette site.
Shoe dropped after I reread the lede: “Their new location will be 6700 Parc Ave., just 600 metres away from their current St-Urbain St. headquarters.” In fact, that address is north of the tracks and, going by Google maps, more than 3 km from Baron Byng.
I miss the days when journalists (and editors) actually lived in the city and knew it well, instead of rewriting press releases in the suburbs.
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