Le Devoir examines Valérie Plante’s challenges in 2022.
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Kate
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Kate
The Journal looks at Adrien Hébert (1890-1967), a painter who created some fascinating views of Montreal in the 1920s and 1930s.
I’ve had a look in Lovell to find out where the Hyman tobacconist storefront was, as shown in the article, but the company had several locations along Ste‑Catherine as well as in the Windsor and Mount Royal hotels.
Looking for Hébert’s Wikipedia article, I find he’s not on the English side at all, but the French Wikipedia has him, along with a reproduction of a nice painting of St‑Denis Street.
Max
Hébert’s pretty much my favourite Montreal painter. Westmount Library has a catalog that was produced for an exhibit of his work at the Museé du Québec in 1993. I don’t have a membership, but the library does have a scanner…
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZrFg8BIPc6qIBYUJ1sKpNU979g8NtWz6?usp=sharing
Kate
Thank you, Max.
Max
The luminosity of the sky in the St. Denis Street painting is just gorgeous.
Another Hébert piece is on display at the chalet on Mount Royal. “Jacques Cartier atterrit à Hochelaga en 1535”, over at the west end. It’s not one of the Port paintings of his that I so adore, but it’s still pretty damn nice.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableaux_historiques_du_Chalet_de_la_montagne_du_parc_du_Mont-Royal
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Kate
A fire in an Ahuntsic restaurant early Sunday caused significant damage and is being investigated as arson.
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Kate
A demo against the new pandemic measures Saturday evening, led by François Amalega, ended with an arrest and 57 fines.
Updating to add: QMI is certainly mustering opposition to the curfew, getting 13 experts to inveigh against it, and collecting social media outcry.
qatzelok
A math teacher at Brébeuf.And originally from Cameroon.
Interesting that he probably has a good head for statistics, and comes from a continent that has had many vaccine scandals.
DeWolf
Le Devoir published this last May, when the curfew dragged on endlessly and uselessly:
// Un discours manichéen s’est imposé depuis le début de la pandémie de COVID-19 : soit on accepte l’ensemble des mesures sanitaires du gouvernement Legault, soit on appartient à la catégorie des complotistes. Derrière cette fausse dichotomie, il existe une troisième option : être en faveur d’une santé publique proactive, d’une campagne de vaccination large, de l’utilisation massive des tests et de la ventilation de lieux publics fermés, tout en refusant un couvre-feu liberticide, paternaliste, sans efficacité avérée par des données scientifiques. //
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