The Place des Festivals has been temporarily renamed Place des Droits humains to mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (here in French and also in a lot of other languages).
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Kate
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Kate
Coyotes have become blasé about people, so the city is hiring a team of experts to go around and scare the hell out of them. I can see comedy possibilities here.
Lots in the local media Tuesday about the coyotes, La Presse talking about the GPS collars they plan to try on some animals to track their movements around town – we need an editorial cartoon showing some of them drinking in a bar – and the Journal emphasizing the 19 bites ascribed to them since June 2017, none of them very serious.
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Kate
Gentrification is having a devastating effect on the existing communities in Sud-Ouest borough, and more social housing is needed.
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Kate
You’ll notice I didn’t have a police blotter item this weekend, because things have been so quiet. Might be why the SQ has relaunched sixteen cold cases and the CBC is talking about the unsolved murder of Jessica Neilson ten years ago.
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Kate
The STM promised elevators for Viau station but they won’t be in before 2021. There are new plans to refresh the station, at the southeastern corner of the Olympic park, and not exactly one of the system’s architectural gems, so the elevators won’t be running till that’s completed.
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Kate
Lead and arsenic in products used during construction on the new Champlain have caused concern although, so far, no worker has seemingly suffered from their effects. But then, this kind of thing doesn’t always manifest right away.
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Kate
The owner of the Khyber Pass Afghan restaurant gave in to Plateau borough demands and has taken down part of his wooden façade.
Update: La Presse has more details on the borough’s continued pressure on Faruk Ramisch to do more work on the building.
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Kate
The phenomena of pop-up shops and temporary markets are ever more popular, especially toward the holidays.
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