End-of-year retrospectives

There isn’t a lot of live news Monday but there are retrospectives.

CBC has a 2018 news quiz.

Eater has several summaries about dining out in town, notably the closures and the complaints from critics. (The one that irks me here is from a La Presse an Eater writer: “Why is salmon tartare still a Montreal menu staple in 2018? It was out-of-date years ago, let alone now.” Maybe it’s still on menus because people like it and keep ordering it. Critics should remember they’re assessing restaurants as a service to their readers, not to show off how cutting-edge they are. Anyway.) Eater’s got more retrospectives as well.

The Gazette looks at four medical breakthroughs made by Montreal researchers this year and Global does sports stories. Radio-Canada ponders the public figures who died in 2018, both local and worldwide.

Also from the Gazette, a list of all 32 homicides with some details on each.

Le Devoir has quotations of the year.