Anti-calèche activists held a memorial Saturday afternoon on Place d’Armes for four calèche horses that have died, but it was shouted down by a calèche driver.
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Kate
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Kate
Deaths of pedestrians in traffic have reached five-year high this year. Seventeen people died, while 700 were hit and injured. Most of the fatalities were older people.
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Kate
A massive new project is being planned for Decarie Square. Add this to the Royalmount mall and traffic will really become fun in the area.
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Kate
“I’m attached to the fire-cooked bagel because I’m attached to the dirtiness of my city.” Joseph Rosen sees in the suppression of the wood-fired bagel oven a microcosm of the homogenizing force of global gentrification.
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Kate
Mr Malcontent mentioned a minor news story I don’t think I blogged last year about Joseph Kociper, who had walked up to the top of Mount Royal every day for 375 consecutive days. He follows Kociper’s Facebook and notes that Kociper is now up to 845 days uninterrupted.
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Kate
Verdun has wavered on creating a beach on part of its waterfront, but is now promising to deliver it next summer.
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Kate
The SPVM announced a success this week: it broke up a ring of luxury car thieves operating around the airport and wealthier parts of the west end.
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Sad story of a homeless person who lost his dog to cold on Thursday when he couldn’t get inside to warm up. It seems that, despite an earlier story, shelters were not all following winter procedures in response to the early cold snap. And then most shelters don’t accept animals.
CBC has a piece about a group that brings books, drawing materials and reading glasses to the homeless, and tries to talk to them about ideas. I think they’ve been mentioned before, but I still don’t have access to my old archive.
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