The orange line experienced two separate problems Monday toward rush hour. I came along a bit later, unaware of these issues, and only noticed a few more people than usual on the platform at LG.
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Kate
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Kate
The mayor says if you spot a probable Airbnb lock box, call it in to 311.
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Kate
While Lasalle borough stalls for time, a new engineering report says that a massive heap of dirt looming over some residential buildings is a dicey proposition. I find it bizarre that even though some residents have already had mud and water slide down into yards and basements, the borough is flailing for leverage to order the developer to cart the dirt pile away.
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Kate
Missed this last month: a BBC paean to spruce beer as brewed by Paul Patates in the Point.
Ian
I didn’t realize they brewed their own! I go there for poutine now and then, I will definitely be getting a spruce beer next time.
denpanosekai
It’s an acquired taste I tell ya what. Tried it for the sake of trying… whew.
Kate
I kind of like it. Don’t think I’d want it every day. My mom used to drink it hardcore style, with a pinch of salt, which changes the flavour more than you’d expect.
EmilyG
I tried spruce beer once. I agree with the author – I did feel like I was drinking a tree. (I got mine at Resonance.)
And during that summer heatwave, I tried as much as possible to avoid restaurants and stores without air conditioning – I was surprised at how many there were.Bert
This is the best news since the demise of the original Marco spruce beer!
Bert
That didn’t come out right…. Since the unfortunate demise of Marco spruce beer there has been nothing on the market that didn’t taste like commercial mass-produced stuff. I will certainly be giving these a try!
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Kate
Police are going to be using devices to measure the distance kept by motorists from cyclists on the road.
Ephraim
Thousands of laws on the books to ensure the safety of everyone and almost none of them are enforced. And we can’t seem to stop our police from stopping people for driving while black. But yet, we have enough money to buy new devices to measure the distance… but nothing to ensure that police do their jobs ethically or to have them enforce current laws to ensure pedestrian safety.
qatzelok
The most important places where the passing rule is dangerously ignored is on numbered provincial roads between towns where the STM police-on-bikes never venture. Give me one of these machines! (Posting from Québec City where I just biked to on the 138)
SMD
So glad to see that our former Minister of Transportation, Robert Poëti, has found a new job… as head of the Québec car dealership association and lobbying group. He wants to make cars great again:
« On ne le dit pas assez que l’automobile est le secteur le plus important au Québec, après l’industrie de la construction. […] Il parle de l’importance de montrer une image plus favorable de l’industrie « qui a été quelque peu dénigrée au cours des dernières années. »
With people like this still in charge of the MTQ, it is hard to imagine anything encroaching on the place of cars anytime soon.
ant6n
@SMD
I wonder whether there’s a way to find out whatever happened to politicians. For example, I hear Coderre and Chitilian work for CDPQ (Eurostar) and CDPQInfra now. These hires kind of put their policies into ‘perspective’.Joey
@ant6n you can get partway there via the QC lobbyist registry; linkedin can probably take you to about 95%…
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Kate
Anonymous donor of thousands of bicycles via Sun Youth, the identity of Avrum Morrow has been revealed on his death last week.
dhomas
A little nitpick: it looks like you made a typo in his name. It should be Avrum Morrow (not Murrow). This way, the name of his company, AvMor, doesn’t make sense! 😛
Kate
You’re right. Fixed.
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Kate
Restaurant critic Lesley Chesterman is saying goodbye to the Gazette with three big articles, the first about chefs. Only the Gazette would delicately quote Anthony Bourdain as saying “I know it could all turn to s–t.”
DeWolf
The New York Times too. They dance around expletives like no other newspaper.
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Kate
A group of HEC students is dreaming up a mobile pediatric unit that will visit the city’s poorer neighbourhoods. I can see something in the photo of the group that’s going to cause comment, can you?
Tim F
*le sigh*
Blork
I can see three things.
mare
The AI obviously wasn’t fed data on l’Office québécois de la langue française. Trust me, it’ll learn.
Test name
This is a test, please ignore and delete. My comment wasn’t published and my email isn’t remembered.
Kevin
“you may need a blood test; but you certainly don’t need a language test”
AnonForThisOne
The guy on the right kinda looks like he’s holding his dick out?
Raymond Lutz
The “make an impact” kerning and font are horrible?
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Kate
Buildings that have been hives of artists’ studios for years are being sold to renovate or build to make room for artificial intelligence companies. That we’re losing cheap artist spaces is nothing new, but that AI firms want the space is a bit of a departure.
david100
We need to be building and building, so that these moneyed companies take nice new spaces, and leave the older stuff to the traditional Montreal uses.
Kate
In some cases these older industrial buildings are being bought and demolished to build something new, so I’m not sure your solution always works, david100. There are some empty lots in desirable neighbourhoods, but not a vast supply.
EmilyG 21:58 on 2019-01-07 Permalink
Yikes. Berri-UQAM is already overcrowded in the afternoons normally.
One of the articles mentions that there was a suicide attempt. I thought those weren’t normally reported?
Blork 22:09 on 2019-01-07 Permalink
I got on at Lucient L’allier at about 5:20 and it was just fine. By the time we got to Square Victoria it was like an overstuffed sardine can. Berri/UQAM was an absolute madhouse at 5:30, at least at the Orange line platform.
EmilyG 22:26 on 2019-01-07 Permalink
I have a weekly appointment at Atwater metro, and I live near Jean-Talon metro. I usually take the green line one stop to LG and ride the orange line to Jean-Talon from there, to avoid having to try to stuff myself in at Berri.