The Canadiens have now lost 10 matches in a row. It’s the second time this has happened – and the last time was in the 1925‑1926 season.
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Some fire halls around town have the extra responsibility of doing water rescue or ice rescue. This piece in Metro says that the SIM has carried out eleven rescues on the icy river so far this year.
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A man fell 30 storeys from a condo tower near the Bell Centre on Sunday morning. It’s not being investigated as a criminal matter.
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Sunday’s Centre des mémoires montréalaises piece looks at mère Judith de Brésoles, one of the strong‑minded Frenchwomen who built Quebec. She came to Montreal to work at Hôtel‑Dieu as the pharmacist, which in that time largely meant growing and processing medicinal plants.
When I took a tour of the Hôtel‑Dieu garden a couple of summers ago, they added a piece of information not mentioned in the article: the nuns also learned about the medicinal properties of native plants by talking to indigenous experts. Their physic garden included both plants brought from France and plants native to Quebec.
In more recent history, La Presse has a piece on how the basic division of schools changed here, 25 years ago. Shifting the focus of school boards from religion to language was not easy, the provision of Catholic education having been guaranteed in the Canadian constitution.
If you’re feeling elegiac, CBC has a very brief archive piece about the demise of the Montreal Star and Radio‑Canada has archival stuff about the end of the Expos.
PatrickC
Yes, I feel a little elegiac, since I’m old enough to remember how the Star of the post-Expo 67 years had shaken off its problematic heritage (it was said that name of Frank Scott, the lawyer won some landmark civil rights cases, was a founder of the CCF (predecessor of the NDP), and leading poet, was never to appear in the paper). The 1960s Star developed a lively arts section, with the young Juan Rodriguez, for example, writing about rock music, and a good number of book reviews and other pieces in a special weekend section. Of course, Montreal by the late 70s probably didn’t have room any longer for two English dailies, and one wonders if these days the Gazette even qualifies as a wholly Montreal daily at all.
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When I was a kid we were a Montreal Star family, which was an afternoon-delivery paper IIRC?
As for today’s gazette, when we finally cancelled it a couple of years back it had morphed into what most days felt like a real-estate sales brochure and postmedia-oil-industry PR channel had a baby and called it the Gazette.
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Another demonstration held Saturday demanded more action on social housing from the Legault government.
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