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• Kate 09:22 on 2018-09-03 Permalink | Reply  

  Following the example of Rotterdam, Montreal wants to investigate building watersquares, public areas used as retention basins during downpours. This would spare the sewer system and the river from the surge it normally gets at those times.

  Not sure about this. Such a square would be dry concrete 99% of the time, no? How does this work with the other aim of adding green space and reducing heat islands? Doesn’t green space, with a variety of plants and trees on it, also soak up water and hold it? And how would this idea work with snow accumulation?

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• Kate 09:11 on 2018-09-03 Permalink | Reply  

  Not the first time this has come up, but TVA covers once again the dissatisfaction of some Jean‑Talon market merchants at losing parking spaces while work is done around the market area.

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• Kate 08:28 on 2018-09-03 Permalink | Reply  

  Martin Leclerc’s argument for a new baseball stadium sounds like Credo quia absurdum to me: asked why he believed in God, Tertullian replied “I believe because it’s absurd.” Leclerc lines up all the reasons not to build a stadium, and then says “let’s do it anyway!”

  Also, once again, the religion-like evocation of “the return of the Expos.” I know I harp a little on this, but getting a second major league baseball team for Montreal is in no sense “the return of the Expos.” The Expos are history. They are not coming back and a second era of baseball here would have nothing in common with the Expos in many fond memories.

  Calling a new team the Expos is like a man marrying a woman who resembles his dead wife and wanting her to answer to the same name. It’s both creepy and pathetic. I can see how boosters somehow think they can evoke the feelings of the past in this way, but I don’t have to like it and I don’t think the public (or, more to the point, the media) should allow itself to be taken in.

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• Kate 07:58 on 2018-09-03 Permalink | Reply  

  Possibly useful open and closed listing for Labour Day (updated and brought forward). I think the photo shown on the Journal version is from a little further along in the season: I haven’t seen any scarlet sumacs yet, at least.