Port workers carried out their intentions Saturday by refusing weekend shifts.
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Kate
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Kate
A man was stabbed in an altercation with two others Saturday in a grocery store near the Bell Centre. No arrests have been made.
It was news to me that there’s a grocery store near the Bell Centre.
GC
Isn’t that the one under the Canadiens condos?
DeWolf
There’s a big Provigo directly across the street from the Bell Centre. There’s also an Italian grocery store around the corner on Mountain.
Max
The Provigo on de la Gauch is actually on the small side. A limited selection of products and clumsy to access what with the escalators.
Kate
Obviously that part of town has changed and I haven’t kept up. I’d very little reason to be around there, even before the pandemic.
Bill Binns
It seems like if you get enough people living in a given area, the services find a way. Look at the near miraculous transformation of Griffintown for example.
dhomas
It’s been there for a number of years, even before the pandemic. Though I prefer the Adonis that is less than a 15 minute walk away.
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Kate
The site Patrimoine Montréal – not a city site, but a project of Martin Bérubé from ProposMontréal – looks at plans for the Hélène-de-Champlain building that were included in this week’s detailed plan for Parc Jean-Drapeau. The same site teased out the plans for Place des Nations and the sole remaining remnant of the Expo-Express park transit system, a bridge between the islands, which will be revived to be used by cyclists and pedestrians.
ProposMontreal- Martin
Wow, thanks for sharing the new site Kate. Greatly appreciated.
Kate
It’s very promising, Martin. I’m keeping it on my list of sites to look at regularly.
Bill Binns
I made the mistake of reading that “Chicken War” article and now I must have a chicken sandwich from Serrano BBQ today.
ProposMontreal- Martin
@Kate Thanks again.
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Kate
Eater tells how some restaurants are taking advantage of public parks, renting out tables and preparing take-out picnics.
The Gazette looks at the proliferation of chicken restaurants in the Mile End.
JaneyB
Very enterprising. I’m now thinking those rental table/take-out picnics may actually be the truly Montreal version of the food truck. I like it.
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Kate
Mayor Plante is concerned about the future of Fête nationale celebrations in Montreal as the decision is made to hold a single, televised show in Trois-Rivières. The Jean-Baptiste society feels the same way.
The Gazette looks at the prospects for other festivals this summer. I’ve been checking out sites for my festivals list and am finding most are hedging, not stating specifically yet whether they’ll be able to go live, or will hold some kind of placeholder online, as many did last summer.
The pandemic has brought about the definitive end for the old Montreal film festival, which had been sputtering to a close for more than a decade – deprived of funding and only hanging on because Serge Losique wouldn’t say uncle. The website is dead.
Max
You should add the Folk Sur le Canal to your fest list. Last year’s edition was cancelled and no word yet about the 2021 edition (scheduled for June 18 to 20, it’s customarily on the Father’s Day weekend).
LJ
You can also add the Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival. It is on for this year, mainly online but also some live events. This year’s lineup not yet announced, but will be soon-ish.
Kate
Thanks! I know I’ve had them listed before, but you’d be surprised, even during non‑pandemic times, how tricky it can be to figure out whether a festival still exists, when it’s going to be, and – most annoyingly – whether a festival website that keeps going on about “this year” is talking about THIS year, or is actually not updated since LAST year and is still talking about past events.
Festival people, put a year on the website for your annual events, please.
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Kate
A new grade school is being planned for the Outremont campus of the Université de Montréal. The city is taking the view that, since there will be housing, there will be kids, and they need a school. Mayor Plante is also underlining the errors made in the redevelopment of Griffintown, when nothing like that was included in the plans.
Meezly
And yet, instead of commending Plante for some actual foresight, people will probably look for ways to still dump on her about Griffintown, even though the utter lack of planning had to do with the Gérald Tremblay admin.
Kate
I just saw a complaint on a Facebook group blaming Plante for the disappearance of neon signs on Ste-Catherine Street – something that started happening decades ago.
su
As far as I know the current administration has been involved in protecting iconic heritage signage.
https://dailyhive.com/montreal/montreal-heritage-signs-farine-five-roses
It seems only logical that as a city’s population expands exponentially in order to pump up GDP growth, we will need more schools and parks, so good on the mayor for recognizing this fact .
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