The city has tweeted a map of all its pedestrianized streets.
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Kate
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Kate
Stationnement de Montréal, under the control of the Chamber of Commerce for years, will be turned into a paramunicipal organization with more direct input from the city.
As I recall, Ephraim has had a thing or two to say about this business…
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Kate
A thunderstorm Wednesday afternoon caused some power outages and made some trees fall over. I saw the storm, but it was pretty mild here in Villeray.
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Kate
The city has to cut a bigger cheque for the Office de consultation publique de Montréal because there have been more public consultations since the election of Projet.
I can only see this as a good thing.
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Kate
The city is determined to cut garbage in half over the next 12 years and has committed to a plan also signed by two dozen other cities worldwide to achieve this.
It’s a great idea – but we need to either have legitimate recycling that works, or serious efforts made to reduce packaging, the kind of thing that would completely revamp how we buy food and other products, including changes in sanitation laws, and I don’t see any sign of people working seriously on that one.
I notice that the PLQ tagline this election is “pour faciliter la vie aux Québécois” – “to make life easier for Quebecers” on the English side. We’re addicted to ease and convenience and we want more of it, but all that convenience means a hell of a lot of waste.
The world we’ve got to envision involves less convenience, involves having us all do more work for it. Imagine a world where, if you wanted to buy yogurt or hummus or tomato paste, you had to bring a reusable container to the store. And you had to wash the container, too. And you still have a full-time job and other things to do, of course. You want to be able to stop off at the store for dinner ingredients, but you forgot your containers, or didn’t have time to wash them out. Too bad.
Even if individuals are prepared to shoulder these efforts, corporations won’t easily give up the pop factor of bright packaging. Our species is likely to founder in its own lust for easily acquired stuff and the waste that comes with it.
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Kate
The Journal broke a story this week about a man who discovered that the entire dossier on his mother’s unsolved 1981 murder in Longueuil was openly available at the BAnQ archives, even though police had always told him it was confidential and he couldn’t see it. The story (recapitulated here in English by the Gazette without so much as a nod to the Journal) has forced the BAnQ to analyze its holdings to make sure other sensitive documents concerning unresolved crimes are not openly available.
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Kate
I had started a list of Montreal provincial ridings and a summary of who’s running, but Metro has already put one up, and theirs is map-based. It’s best if you enlarge the map to full screen.
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Kate
World Press Photo has opened at Marché Bonsecours accompanied by several local exhibits, as previously. Fourteen bucks to get in.
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Kate
Now that school starts before Labour Day there’s more likelihood of kids facing heat waves in their stuffy classrooms. So that’s what’s happening.
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Kate
Police are investigating after a body was found in a Côte-des-Neiges apartment Tuesday evening.
Meantime, a woman of 78 has admitted to stabbing a relative in St-Henri. His life is not in danger.
Update: The body in CDN has been identified, and although no name is given, the victim is said to have been only 18 years old. This is the 18th homicide on the island of Montreal this year.
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