Le Devoir pursues its mini series about books from various neighbourhoods with Le Sud‑Ouest, inevitably beginning with a passage from Bonheur d’occasion aka The Tin Flute.
Then Centre-Sud gets a look in with a survey of less well‑known titles.
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Kate
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Kate
CBC is making a lot of short explanatory videos these days. Erika Morris asks whether the housing crisis is due to too many people and not enough new housing units, and she shows us how government continues to blur social and affordable housing and why this is a bad thing. Monday, she added a third piece briefly debunking the CAQ claim that the housing crisis is caused by temporary immigration.
There’s also a piece by Shahroze Rauf on the slow progress of replacing lead water pipes and an explainer of the city’s hopes for 2050.
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Kate
The ARTM is planning to use facial recognition on its ticket terminals, and soon.
Joey
That’s an incorrect summary – the article says (quoting an ARTM RFP) that the agency is looking to develop a system whereby users authenticate themselves via some kind of biometric ID on their own personal device. In other words, they are looking to adopt a login system for their ticket purchasing website or app that will rely on a passkey that is linked to an individual’s phone. This seems pretty normal and consistent with the direction passwords and logins are going.
Kate
OK, I was going by the lede. Thanks for the correction, Joey.
Having a suboptimal news morning here. I have to admit that whatever news site I look at, I find myself looking at Donald Trump’s face, and – for the first time – I’m feeling a real aversion to news.
I’ll get over it.
Chris
Well, with Biden finally out, maybe, just maybe, you’ll get to hear less of Trump. But I wouldn’t bet on it.
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Kate
Ontario’s plan for a nuclear dump site not far from the Ottawa River may have consequences here, downriver.
Ramsay
The material to be stored there is “Low-level radioactive waste includes contaminated building materials, soils, and operational equipment (for example, protective shoe covers, clothing, rags, mops, equipment and tools).” So nothing from inside the reactor.
It’s already being stored there in a less secure way.
Yes we need to double check that things are done properly, but it’s nothing that shocks me.Rennie
“The dump will be operated for 50 years by CNL, which will be responsible for monitoring the site for the next 500 years. ”
Well, nothing to worry about then!Ramsay
I’m not saying there’s nothing to be concerned about, but it isn’t dramatic.
Plus, most of its already there, so this is an improvement.
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Kate
Serge Lamontagne, director-general of the city for six years, is retiring. La Presse had a brief note about his successor in May.
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