The Alouettes have won the Grey Cup, first time in 13 years.
There will be a victory parade Wednesday at 11:30 am along Ste‑Catherine from Crescent Street to the Place des Festivals.
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Kate
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Kate
An overturned car was found Sunday morning at Notre‑Dame and Ste‑Catherine in Hochelaga, with an injured woman inside.
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Kate
La Presse inquired into where the millions will come from to pay for the Los Angeles Kings to play matches in Quebec City: from a regional fund for community groups. But François Legault is still defending the plan and Québec solidaire is demanding an inquiry.
qatzelok
Lacking a structural urban transit system, sprawled out Quebec City has simlilar civic concerns as a city like Moncton, New Brunswick: New Rec Center, new highways, bringing in entertainment from away.
What a sad state for a city with a million people.
Kate
Legault will soon realize that he can treat Montreal as badly as he likes and get away with it, but doing the same thing to Quebec City is going to bite him on the ass.
bumper carz
Kate, you make it sound like the CAQ are big in QC but not in MTL. But the divide is more suburb-versus-city. It just so happens that Montreal has the largest urban demographic, by far. And lots of Anglo-suburanites who vote Liberal for “roads is my only issue.”
The CAQ are popular among suburbanites all over franco-Quebec, especially those for whom “roads” are the only political issue. Roads scholars.
Uatu
Legault’s desperation has led him into the realm of cartoon villainy. Taking money from the community to pay millionaires in the hopes that it’ll trickle back down into the community is some nutty thinking. Also the team’s not coming back. Qc doesn’t have the cash and the provinces’ taxes and restrictive language laws make it unattractive to players and their families. So get over it and move on.
DeWolf
I didn’t expect the CAQ to crash and burn so quickly but here we go.
Turns out the pandemic was their saving grace, and identity issues helped them along for awhile, but with stuff like this, all the labour unrest and a declining economic situation, it’s going to be tough going for monoc Frank.
carswell
The crumbling of the public health care system while the feckless Dubé fiddles is surely another major factor in the CAQ’s declining popularity.
Kate
I’d be more pleased, except if the CAQ really crumbles, it’s back to another PQ government, more erosion of the remaining anglo institutions, and money to “protect French” rather than for housing, health care and other necessities. It won’t change much.
Ian
Qatzi, i think you are (as usual) confused by your prejudice against suburbs … when we talk about “suburbs” that aren’t connected to cities the term is “rural”. Again, outside the island of Montreal, most people have to dtive. Even Baie d’Urfé has a higher population density than Sherbrooke, for example.
Joey
@Ian perhaps ‘exurbs’ is more appropriate – from Wikipedia: “An exurb (or alternately: exurban area) is an area outside the typically denser inner suburban area, at the edge of a metropolitan area, which has some economic and commuting connection to the metro area, low housing density, and growth. It shapes an interface between urban and rural landscapes holding a limited urban nature for its functional, economic, and social interaction with the urban center, due to its dominant residential character.[1] Exurbs consist of “agglomerations of housing and jobs outside the municipal boundaries of a primary city”[2] and beyond the surrounding suburbs.[3]”
Ian
So by that definition anything within a 2 hour drive of Montreal is a suburb or an exurb? There are actual farms well wihtin that radius …
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Kate
La Presse’s journalist and artist made a visit to the Café central portugais on Duluth.
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Kate
The foreman at the old Francon quarry says there’s still snow from 2008 in the city’s biggest snow dump. The city sends in machinery to flatten out the old snow before the new stuff falls.
Annette
Où sont les neiges d’antan? Another mystery solved.
Tim S.
I laughed.
Kate
Me too. Good one, Annette.
Ian
LOL yiss, well played.
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