The use of horses in town began to be controversial more than a century ago, but it’s not for the same reason calèches are being phased out now. Now it’s concern for animal welfare, but then, as the historian in this story mentions, it was the noise and smell of horses and the potential for the animals to transmit disease. (Horse poo can be a vector for tetanus. I don’t know whether horses involve other medical risks – the story doesn’t specify.)
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Kate
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Kate
An artist entrepreneur planned to hold a body painting festival this weekend in a Village park – an idea brought from Europe – but the city has denied the festival a permit, saying this “art form” is illegal here in a public place. Yannick Descaries is mad, and points out here that Spencer Tunick was allowed to let 2500 people undress at Place des Arts in 2001.
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City hall’s new mobility squad is now at work in Ville-Marie and parts of the Plateau and Sud‑Ouest. They have the power to issue fines for road blockages and can get vehicles towed that are in the way.
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The city has bought the southern chunk of the Îlot Voyageur for $18 million. With a bit of the epic history of the block.
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A large truck on the turn killed a woman Wednesday afternoon in St-Laurent. The photo shows a pathetic detail: a fragile wire shopping cart standing beside the scarlet behemoth.
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Coalition Montréal, founded by Marcel Côté for the 2013 city elections, is in debt and may not go on existing, facing a debt left over from defeats that year. Only Marvin Rotrand remains on council from the party; Côté, unelected, died in 2014.
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Kate
How long can Sir John A. Macdonald linger in Place du Canada if even the Scots are disowning him?
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Kate
Rosemont-La Petite Patrie is closing down its two remaining food truck locations, although this item doesn’t say anything about the monthly food truck thing at the Olympic stadium. Is that still a thing?
Answering myself: it is still a thing IF this page is for 2018. I wish everyone would keep in mind that events pages NEED to have a year on them.
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The SAQ is holding a strike day Wednesday.
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Kate
Here’s a headline you can bank on: Traffic congestion to get worse as school begins. TVA goes into detail about how all the bridge accesses to the city are bogged down in repairs and roadwork while La Presse lays out how construction of the REM will snarl things up.
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