Fifty thousand people turned out on a chilly, damp Saturday afternoon to demand more action on climate change.
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Kate
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Kate
CTV reports, with timelapse video, on the installation of a tunnel under the train tracks to unite Vendome metro station with the MUHC hospital. Also a report in the Journal.
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Kate
Radio-Canada has a quiz testing what you know about Montreal’s city hall. (One of the “correct” answers is currently out of date. Which one?)
Alex L
Archives were moved!
Kate
Ding!
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Kate
Garnotte’s take on help for Notre-Dame is a good one.
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Kate
Column-inches devoted to reporting on the Good Friday march get shorter every year, as does the march, which used to bisect the island from Gouin to Old Montreal, but now ends at Laurier.
Kevin
Best comment I’ve seen is someone remarking that if they were Muslims rural Quebecers would start a riot.
qatzelok
Rioting is more of an urban thing. You can’t really “demonstrate” much in suburbia or small towns. Everyone is in their car all the time listening to trash media.
Ian
I guess you didn’t hear about the banlieues of Paris, eh?
Kate
Ian, your link got hosed.
Ian
ah bleurgh, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_French_riots
Uatu
Or even closer, like Blainville….
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/19-arrested-in-blainville-riot-released-from-custody-1.1417204
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Kate
It’s only glancingly a Montreal story, but that’s why local media are reporting that distillery heiress Clare Bronfman has pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn courtroom in the NXIVM sex cult case. She faces more than two years in prison but is still a very rich woman, having been held on $100 million bail.
Ian
Such a weird, weird story. Québec has a remarkable number of cults, I’m surprised she had to go abroad to find one worth squandering her inheritance on. Did the Raëlians find her too weird?
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Kate
Metro reports on the growing popularity of coworking for freelancers and other independent workers.
michael 10:58 on 2019-04-23 Permalink
The linked article is about a march in November — not sure there was a major march this weekend? (Thanks for all your work on this site, by the way!)