Two protests were held Sunday against Bill 21, one in the west end, and another downtown. Politicians from three levels of government and representatives from various cultural groups participated.
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Kate
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Kate
The Centre d’histoire piece this weekend is about spring cleanup in Viger Square in 1961.
This week, Radio-Canada looked back to the debut of the Expos in 1969, fifty years ago. Also on CBC.
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Kate
It’s a beautiful Sunday morning and Bixi is free today, but hold onto your hats – it’s soon going to cloud over and we have a rainfall warning for a heavy rainstorm coming between this evening and tomorrow morning: 25 to 40 mm of rain is mentioned by Environment Canada.
There’s been a lot of stuff about potential flooding around Pierrefonds and other areas down by the river.
QMI went out along St-Denis as the nice weather returned, and found that merchants are still pretty gloomy at their prospects, many of them complaining of taxes and rents too high for their businesses to thrive.
Update: It wasn’t as bad as they said.
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Kate
There was a demonstration Saturday at the Ste-Catherine Apple store against the company’s evasion of tax. Protesters want corporations like Apple and Starbucks to pay taxes where profits are earned, and not be permitted to launder them into tax havens as they are now.
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Kate
A man was shot in Point St-Charles around bar-closing time early Sunday, not fatally, but there’s little detail about who he was, and why.
Ian
My friend lives down the street from there and observed “Well in the Point everyone knows you never, ever talk to cops”.
Kate
Granted, that’s been a rule there since time out of mind.
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Kate
A woman died after falling from a hotel roof in Old Montreal Saturday evening. The Radio-Canada account, from Canadian Press, mentions that police were evasive about details; unusually, TVA’s account is even more sparing of details. The Gazette, too, mentions police evasiveness but tells us the woman was trying to retrieve a lost object. None of the stories suggest suicide was the motive.
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