Dominique Ducharme, who got the Canadiens closer to a Cup last season than they’ve been in years, got his pink slip Wednesday with the team currently in last place. La Presse’s list of six possible replacements demonstrates that Patrick Roy doesn’t know how to wear a mask.
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Kate
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Kate
Michel C. Auger tears into the REM, saying it’s a hard drug for politicians, all about an immediate hit and no thought for the future. I want to quote bits for you, but it’s all good, incisive critique.
As a tweet I just found summarizes it, the REM involves:
- Privatizing public transit
- Competition for the STM that will sap its budget
- A project that can be sold off by the Caisse anytime after five years from the opening, including to foreign investors
- A scar on the city
- Vast cost overruns
The ARTM is right. It is not the answer for the east end of the city.
Matt G
And to think that this is an article from last year. It’s been known for some time.
carswell
And UdeM urbanist Gérard Beaudet tears into critics of the ARTM report. Assuming the intransigent Chantal Rouleau is speaking for Legault, it will be interesting to see if the CAQ government will continue trying to ram this through despite the growing opposition and unignorable evidence it’s bad urban planning.
Kate
Matt G, so it is. I saw it linked on Twitter today and thought it was so timely!
But I’ll leave it up.
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Kate
With nothing better to do, the city hall “opposition” is chucking mud, hoping some will stick. One item is that the city is on a “debt binge” which I strongly suspect is an attempt to frame institutional bookkeeping practices in terms that will make the current administration sound inept.
Were this the first term for Projet, such an allegation might carry more weight, but it isn’t.
Opposition is also all over the failure to get recycling working properly, now that the city is auditing Ricova, the firm that undertook to do the job. Recycling properly, finding markets for the resulting material, isn’t easily solved, and it may turn out to be one of those things that can’t be done both properly and profitably. Meantime it gives Ensemble something to kvetch about (while, as always, failing to make any constructive suggestions).
steph
when interest rates are lower than inflation, there’s nothing inept about borrowing to invest.
Blork
Does anyone anywhere do recycling properly?
Kate
We’ve all been kidding ourselves for a long time about recycling, especially plastic.
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Kate
The city is putting $10 million into its community gardens over ten years, both to improve existing ones and to create new ones. Interest in community gardens has grown a lot in recent years.
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Kate
The mayor’s service vehicle, a Toyota Highlander, was found in a Coteau-du-Lac warehouse being prepared for shipment to Africa along with other stolen vehicles. Police are certain that the thieves had no idea whose it was, and no sensitive documents were in it when it was taken.
YUL514 21:41 on 2022-02-09 Permalink
The job went to Martin St Louis who isn’t one of the six. BTW, it’s not just Roy who doesn’t know how to wear a mask in that article, add Bouchard and Vigneault to the list.
Kate 22:26 on 2022-02-09 Permalink
Indeed.
St Louis has not been an NHL coach before. I guess they figure it can’t get any worse, so why not give this guy a chance.