A year ago, TVA reported that two mosques in Côte-des-Neiges had requested that no women workers be allowed on road construction sites near their locations. This week TVA is finally admitting the story was unfounded and have apologized. (Via a Toula Drimonis post on Facebook. She had written about the manufactured scandal at the time.)
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Kate
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Kate
Several readers have told me, and I have noticed myself, that the pared-down mobile version of this blog is now appearing randomly even on regular screens. I don’t know why this is happening, but I will see what I can do to fix it.
Over Christmas I will be tinkering with a few other aspects of the blog’s appearance, so don’t be too surprised if you pop in some day and it looks a little different. But it’s still me, and it’s not going away anywhere.
Blork
It was wonky like that for me this morning but it’s ok now.
A tinkering request: can you try to bring back the old look & feel where comments were indented? (Currently only the comment name and link info is indented.) It really helps demarcate the lines between posts and comment threads and will probably result in fewer comments put in the wrong thread.
Kate
I’ll see what I can do.
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Kate
The entire blue line is now wired for cell service, but Metro put the wrong photo on this story. Can you tell me why?
CE
Azur train at Lionel-Groulx. Double whammy!
EmilyG
Yeah, they should’ve used a picture of someone yammering on their phone in a metro car, and me getting annoyed. 😛
ant6n
Maybe the Metro writers of the Metro newspaper don’t ride the Metro often enough to know what the Metro trains and Metro stations look like.
Kate
ant6n, it’s probably just a rushed page editor reaching for a photo in their archive and not thinking about the details.
Faiz Imam
It’s really too loud in trains to hold a phone conversation, I’ve personally never seen anyone do it. But having data service in the tunnels and stations is a huge benifit to everyone.
No matter if you want to just skim social media, respond to email or get work done, it’s a boon to everyone’s productivity.
Uatu
I’ve heard conversations usually by some loudmouth adolescent or adult gasbag. But it’s good for emergencies etc. I’m just lamenting the elimination of one of the few public places where I don’t have to listen to idiotic conversations or dodge people watching a TV show while they’re walking.
Kate
Faiz Imam, I bet you’ve seen dozens of people having phone conversations, but they’re not doing it with their phone to their ear, they’re talking quietly into an earbud microphone you can’t even see. I ride the metro daily and often see people doing this.
The main drawback is that you can’t readily distinguish between someone on the phone and someone muttering to themselves, but so long as they keep the dialogue quiet this sort of doesn’t matter.
Blork
I’ve actually seen/heard people having regular ear-to-the-phone conversations on the Metro, and they tend to be yelling, which is highly annoying. There’s a certain type of person who does not give AF how loud they are, and those people seem to gravitate to my orbit. :-/
Michael Black
Wait, I was sure I’d been on a new train on the green line. And yesterday I did get on at Lionel-Grioux. Just as I noticed Santa Claus (he was wearing red, and had white hair and a beard) was waiting in the wrong spot, where you aren’t supposed to stand so passengers can get out, an Azur train pulled in, not aligning with the mark. So they are using the new trains on the green line.
Michael
Kate
Michael Black, there are definitely some Azurs on the green line. Maybe one out of four or five trains now is an Azur. The story was about the blue line, where there are no Azurs yet, and where they can’t be used until the STM removes the barriers that shorten the blue line platforms. Unlike the old trains, Azurs aren’t modular so can’t be shortened to fit.
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Kate
Not an angryphone piece but a Lise Ravary column: CAQ language minister Nathalie Roy plans to crack down on too much English in Montreal’s downtown. Ravary is still upset (estomaquée) about seeing English on signs in photos from before 1977.
Kevin
I believe Ravary now lives in Ontario…
DeWolf
Quebec’s median age is 41, which means Bill 101 has existed for longer than most people here have been alive. And yet the spooky pre-101 days still haunt the memories of old-timers like Ravary. History is important but so is being able to give your historical grievances a bit of perspective.
Uatu
Eh she’s got to write about something. JDM white haired columnists= seniors yelling at clouds cheered on by other, bored seniors.
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Kate
A man was seriously injured in a hit-and-run Wednesday evening in Montreal North.
For some reason a hit-and-run in November in Old Montreal is only reported this week in the Gazette and police are trying to find the perpetrator of a fatal hit-and-run in the West Island back in May.
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Kate
We’re expecting up to 20mm of freezing rain Friday, and at any rate a lot of rain.
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