It’s the dog days of local news

Every year I forget how news dips into the doldrums in August after the construction holiday and before the rentrée begins.

A man was stabbed in a park in Ville‑Marie just after midnight Wednesday, but his life is not in danger. There hasn’t been an arrest.

A Montreal man has been sentenced in the U.S. for running what the headline here calls a telemarketing scheme, but was evidently an outright system for defrauding people on false pretenses.

Longtime jazz magazine Downbeat has an approving report on the recent jazz festival.