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• Kate 20:51 on 2018-10-16 Permalink | Reply  

  Canada Post’s union has issued a strike notice, but that reminds me I wanted to float an observation and a question here. I seem to be getting my mail once a week these days. Nothing for three, four days and then several pieces of mail will show up at once. I’ve been wondering whether Canada Post was limiting door deliveries on the quiet, but a friend suggested it’s possible that individual posties simply let things pile up and then do it all in one day.

  This hasn’t affected my life materially but I wondered whether others have spotted similar phenomena.

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• Kate 20:16 on 2018-10-16 Permalink | Reply  

  Habitués of the Mile End will be familiar with Groll Street; Mémoire du Mile End writes about its origins.

  Now, if they can sort out Swiss Lane, I’ll be even more impressed.

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• Kate 19:11 on 2018-10-16 Permalink | Reply  

  Thousands of residents lost power overnight Monday to Tuesday because of the wind.

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• Kate 19:07 on 2018-10-16 Permalink | Reply  

  While admitting that the city hasn’t got a lot of options in the matter, Mayor Plante is creating a council to consider things it can do against hunger.

   

• Kate 07:05 on 2018-10-16 Permalink | Reply  

  Are too many movies shot in Montreal or not enough? There may not be all that many, numerically, but the problem seems to be that producers mostly want to use the same few locations in older parts of the city. Nobody’s asking to film in the West Island or Rivière-des-Prairies.

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• Kate 06:59 on 2018-10-16 Permalink | Reply  

  Even though Denis Coderre created the city’s inspector-general position to counter corruption, Ensemble is now militating for a more rigid set of rules to govern city contracting.

   

• Kate 06:54 on 2018-10-16 Permalink | Reply  

  A campaigner for disabled rights has produced red stickers to indicate places inaccessible to wheelchair users, as the city prepares to hold consultations on improving accessibility for people with reduced mobility.

  It’s not clear to me whether Jody Negley intends for government offices and services to be stickered, or every kind of business. In the older parts of Montreal, the majority of small businesses are in older buildings with steps up and no room for ramps. I’d guess not a single dépanneur or fruiterie in my neighbourhood is accessible, for example. One dep has a ramp but it’s probably not passable for most modern wheelchairs.

  Not many businesses on that level can afford to remodel their entrances – they don’t usually own the buildings – and redo their interiors to make them transitable by wheelchair. Several fruiteries I know are so crammed with products that customers can’t even squeeze past each other on foot.

  I have no solution to this.

  Update: I’ve spoken to someone who knows Negley and says she’s quite serious about her campaign being about every business.

   

• Kate 06:48 on 2018-10-16 Permalink | Reply  

  McGill’s male sports teams have used the name Redmen since the 1920s, but one student is determined to change that.

  I had thought the name derived simply from McGill’s heraldic colours of white and red, but apparently there was a time they used logos portraying native Americans in various forms and names like Indians and Squaws for some teams, although they haven’t done this in a long time. Nonetheless there will be a demonstration about it, and the name will have to be changed.

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