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• Kate 10:26 on 2019-01-20 Permalink | Reply  

  The Centre d’histoire piece this weekend is a few fragments about the Old Port.

  The Gazette is doing an intermittent feature called “history through our eyes” and this weekend it’s the discovery of an abandoned baby at the airport in 1968. It’s a lame piece, though, because the main point about doing archival items is to add something, either a comparison or an extension to the story, and there’s nothing here about either finding out whose baby it was, or tracking her down and finding out how she’s doing now. Just an old news bit.

   

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• Kate 10:01 on 2019-01-20 Permalink | Reply  

  A Twitter feed called YUL Weather Records posted Saturday: “Coldest snowstorm in almost 100 years possible tomorrow. Temperatures are expected to stay below -15°C with up to 25cm of snow. The last time that happened in Montreal was January 16, 1920 when we received 30.2cm of snow with a daytime high of -19.4°C.” More on this from CTV which also has details about power failures.

  The STM tweets that parts of several bus routes have been suspended because they take steep hills.

  A west end astronomy club has faint hope of seeing the lunar eclipse Sunday night into Monday morning.

  The city will start clearing up the snow Monday night. As of 5 pm Sunday there’s more snow in the forecast till late Monday afternoon anyway.

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  • Brett 12:56 on 2019-01-20 Permalink

    Do they cancel the whole route or only the part with hills?

  • Brett 13:02 on 2019-01-20 Permalink

    So the bus driver just answered my question. On the 168 right now and getting dropped off at square Victoria because the driver can’t make it up the hill to McGill station

  • Kate 13:04 on 2019-01-20 Permalink

    Thanks, Brett. I updated my post.

  • Raymond Lutz 13:43 on 2019-01-20 Permalink

    And as always, nothing in the article about AGW… Thanks to Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), extreme events like this (and the -25C flash freezes in 24h we had some weeks ago) are more and more frequent. “Once in a century” become “once in a decade”… See Canadian Paul Beckwith (and his cat) videos about climate news:

    “I join-the-dots on extreme events like Australia’s heat waves (50 C), eastern North America and European deep freezes, torrential rains in Europe and California, accelerating ice melt from Greenland and Antarctica releasing methane, and huge insect kills in near-equator rainforests.” link

  • Kate 15:31 on 2019-01-20 Permalink

    To be fair, Raymond Lutz, you can do a piece on local weather conditions without necessarily invoking global warming as a cause. This is about what the city’s undergoing today. It doesn’t mean denial, it’s just a question of focusing on a specific topic.

  • Raymond Lutz 17:49 on 2019-01-20 Permalink

    Kate, you’re right. Mais le point essentiel de ce genre d’article est justement de relever la rareté de l’événement mentionné… or cette rareté est complètement chamboulée par l’AGW… Je peux en conclure que ces articles sont incomplets (et même mensongers?).

    En ce qui nous concerne (ici au Québec) c’est l’affaiblissement du Jet Stream qui crée ces patterns inhabituels de température et cet affaiblissement est directement relié au réchauffement de l’arctique. Please, mtlcitywebloggers, follow P. Beckwith! He’s fun (and his cat too).

  • Kevin 21:39 on 2019-01-21 Permalink

    The difference between daily news and current affairs.
    Newspapers are the first draft of history, but they don’t necessarily delve into the deeper meaning for every article.