Expecting a blizzard on Sunday, the city has unironically suspended the Fête des neiges at Parc Jean-Drapeau. The deep freeze is also being blamed.
The city is also asking people to use public transit Sunday.
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Kate
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Kate
Voix Pop says Magnan’s was the third oldest restaurant in the city, after Schwartz’s and the Montreal Pool Room, although it closed in 2014 and, as shown above, the building, which stood empty for several years, was razed this week (photo taken by me on Friday).
Jim Strankinga
Now what will take it’s place? I am naive to say that it can’t be new condos, as the terrain was zoned commercial?
Morgan
Jim: It appears to be mixed commercial/residential.
DeWolf
More specifically, it’s slated to become an IGA with condos on top.
Kate
DeWolf, that’s rather less classy, if possibly more useful to the neighbourhood, than the image shown at Morgan’s link.
Ian
Kind of weird since there’s an IGA just down the street already… are they tearing the old one by the rail bridge down?
DeWolf
I think it’s the same building as in Morgan’s link. Here’s the floor plan, although maybe things have changed: https://mtlurb.com/topic/15457-2602-st-patrick-ancienne-taverne-magnan-3-etages/?do=findComment&comment=288844. It looks like a fairly small IGA, maybe an “express” version like the one that just opened in front of St-Laurent metro.
Blork
@DeWolf, maybe not so weird. That IGA on Charlevoix is sort of a shitty old-school IGA that primarily serves that section of the Point. I suspect they don’t get a lot of patronage from the people living along the canal in the new condos. But the IGA in the to-be-constructed building is probably going to be a smaller and shinier “IGA Express” like the one at the foot of that new condo tower that popped up across from the St-Laurent Metro station (seemingly overnight).
So in fact, IGA is sort of cornering the market. They don’t have to renovate the big IGA, yet they still capture some of the condo crowd by installing a smaller and fancier outlet closer to the canal. There’s no cannibalization methinks.
Jim
Thanks Morgan and DeWolf for sharing. I was curious. Supermarket there is always a plus. Looks like ‘design by commitee’ from the image, not much character, as most of the new buildings in that area. Not that the old building was that special, but I was hoping for something more original.
Uatu
The passing of an era. Anyone missing their food can cross the bridge to their store in the dix 30.
Kate
The only thing I remember as good was a sauce they served alongside the meat, with a lot of black pepper in it.
Sylvain Daignault
Bonjour, I would like to use this picture for a book.
MarcG
@Sylvain: You might also be interested in contacting Vanishing Montreal in case you haven’t come across his photos yet https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=26843652%40N06&view_all=1&text=magnan
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Kate
Montreal police have a new cold case squad and have strengthened their sex crime investigation unit. CBC says there have been 558 unsolved homicides since 1980.
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Kate
An art piece by an Algonquin sculptor will be installed beside the Bonaventure next fall. Radio‑Canada has a visual preview of a group of figures in black outlines meant to represent the 1701 Great Peace of Montreal.
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Kate
Bad enough to live in the 450. Worse to live in the 579. But soon some people will be in the outer darkness, living in the 354, since we need an ever‑growing pool of numbers.
Wondering about the logic here: we have a constantly growing population, but the surge when people had landlines and mobiles and pagers and fax machines must have subsided by now. Most people I know have just one number. Most offices except for medical ones have phased out the fax. A lot of numbers must have returned to the pool with trends like that, but I guess a family of four will have four separate numbers, now that even little kids have their own phones.
Ephraim
Honestly, the overlays were a stupid idea. They should have expanded the pools by creating 10 area codes per area… 5140 through 5149, but that would have meant updating the whole system at one time, instead of patchwork. Of course they managed to do that when they moved from area codes requiring a 0 or 1 as the second digit.
But there is a large need for numbers. I have a virtual number for my virtual fax line (I pay $36 a year to have a fax to PDF gateway for my business). I have a virtual number that I can give out publicly, a number that I can cancel and have reissued in 10 minutes). I have a virtual Toronto number for my VOIP while on vacation the company issued me a number, I don’t even know it… but they automatically issued it. And of course gateways into SMS all need numbers. Oh and since Bell uses the DMS system as extensions, so if a business wants 300 phones in an office that’s 300 phone numbers.
And of course, dead phone numbers…. advertised phone numbers that get too many fake calls for someone to want the number, like 867-5309 or a phone number ending in 1418 which on a DMS system, if someone forgets to dial 9 for an outside line, would ring when someone dialled Quebec city.
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Kate
If the vagaries of city limits mean only TMR can decide to build Royalmount, the city of Montreal, the urban agglomeration and the Quebec government have the power to block the project – and should, according to urban studies expert Raphaël Fischler.
La Presse says Quebec is worried about the project’s impact on traffic, mostly. François Cardinal points out how such a project, single-handedly planned by TMR, makes a mockery of land use planning on the metropolitan scale. CTV also covers the good arguments against it.
Vazken
This plan is stupid and should have never gotten off the drawing board.
I hope this gets blocked or delayed for years to come
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