A car driver who clipped a truck in traffic in Montreal East Saturday night somehow ended up with his car upside down in a construction dig. “Police believe the man may have been drinking.”
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The village of Longue-Pointe has changed a lot over the years: this Centre d’histoire piece looks briefly at its history.
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A new book co-authored by La Presse gang specialist Daniel Renaud reveals what Vito Rizzuto was preparing to say at the Charbonneau commission had he not died of natural causes in 2013. “Just like everyone else, he noticed how often engineering and construction firms artificially inflated their bids. ‘I should’ve opened a consultancy business – I would’ve made more money.’ ”
Update: Metro reports on the co-authors’ appearance on TLMEP with an anecdote about an undercover woman cop who persuaded Rizzuto to tell her some stories.
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CBC looks back to how Montreal celebrated the end of World War I exactly a century ago. Jonathan Montpetit pulls no punches in his description of the riots seen here when conscription was imposed in 1917, and how the armistice was an end not only to war, but to the divisions caused by this demand by the federal government.
CTV has a brief preview of the day’s events.
Relevant items I’ve noted: the Musée d’Orsay, where a dinner for world leaders is taking place this weekend, has been tweeting pieces related to World War I, both photos and paintings; Daily Mail has a lot of photos of world leaders in Paris; the BAnQ has a great selection of local images from that time; Trump used rain as his excuse for avoiding the memorial in Compiègne; thousands held a memorial in Ypres; read the Wikipedia piece on the causes of WWI and, if you thought you understood that war, you’ll realize you didn’t.
Update: La Presse reports on the ceremony at Place du Canada.
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