Part of the Metropolitan westbound is to close this weekend so that paving that was done with poor‑quality asphalt during the height of the pandemic can be redone.
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Kate
Le Devoir looks at how temporary housing for the homeless has worked elsewhere. Will it be built and hang around much longer than planned? Will it offer homeless people a home just until someone has a more profitable use for the land? Or will NIMBY block it everywhere?
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Kate
Denis Villeneuve has made a large donation to Cinéma du Parc to enable it to renovate and stay open, although the actual amount is not mentioned here.
Adding video from CBC.
walkerp
Very cool! Though has not it already been renovated? We went to the cat video fest a couple of weeks ago and the interior of the lobby has all been redone and at least one of the theatres has new chairs.
Meezly
What a mensch!
Meezly
@walkerp The renos have been completed. DV’s donation was to help CdP’s continuing mission to provide great cinema to the community.
carswell
Glad to hear the seating has been upgraded and the cinema’s future appears assured, especially post Excentris. Though they weren’t torturous, I never felt particularly comfortable in the old seats. Actually, I often wondered whether that had less to do with the seats themselves and more to do with their attachment to the inclined floor.
Chris
Last I was there, some weeks ago, only 1 of 3 theatres has new seating.
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Kate
The city’s professional women’s hockey team now has a name and a logo: la Victoire de Montréal.
bob
Well, that’s a little presumptuous.
jeather
As per the CBC: “The PWHL worked with New York City-based creative agency Flower Shop to assist in the process.” Unsaid: they refused to work with a Canadian agency.
I don’t think the names are particularly amazing, but they’re not terrible.
Joey
They refused??
The hidden M in the logo is great – callback to the Expos…
Ian
@bob I suspect they meant Victoire as in the French name for Nike, goddess of victory
faizm
compared to the others its decent. most of the rest are really bad
walkerp
Maybe it resonates better in French, but just sounds generic to me. Like the Alliance. Why can’t we have names that have more to do with Montreal and/or Quebec?
Ephraim
Did they name the Toronto Team the Disappointments? (Running and Ducking)
Kevin
I, for one, will call them the Queens
Orr
The Ottawa Outaouais… Les Zoots.
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Kate
There wasn’t much local news Monday morning, so CBC radio headlined a plan to make PPE more accessible during any future pandemics.
As they’ve been doing a lot lately, CBC reports it with a brief video, not in text.
What they don’t discuss is how difficult it will be to get people to wear masks and behave differently, even if the next pandemic is something worse. It will be a problem of social engineering, not supply.
Speaking of pandemics, La Presse notes that hand‑washing in medical settings has fallen off now that people have become more casual again about germs.
Meezly
You’d think that washing your hands with soap after a number 2 would be a fundamental common sense concept or social norm that’s been drilled into people who haven’t been raised as savages. But you’d be surprised at how many don’t.
PatrickC
The video thing is annoying. I much prefer being able to scan through news articles at my own pace, skipping the filler parts, rather than be constrained by a video. Plus, in public places I don’t have to worry about sound levels or having to put in earbuds.
Chris
PatrickC, then you must be over 30 :), because the young prefer the opposite.
Daniel
Yes, there’s definitely an age break. Also, video ads tend to generate more revenue. (I’m over 40 and prefer text myself unless I’m specifically seeking out video.)
jeather
I was looking at the video of “what are you required to buy for kids re school supplies/uniforms” which referred to a website with the detail, but the link was nowhere in the article, I needed to search based on what the video said. The video also didn’t have closed captions, nor could I speed it up.
I hate videos so much except for guides to how do to something in the physical world, where it is often handy.
walkerp
The pivot to video was a big (and mistaken, it turns out) initiative by Facebook to generate more advertising revenue and added another layer of garbage to the web. Yes, the kids like video, but they also want to be able to find stuff in text. The ubiquity of video on the internet is driven by money, not utility or user preference.
PatrickC
@Chris, Busted! and yes, as others have said, searchability is a significant consideration too.
jeather
I never checked up the result of the lawsuit, but a lot of companies said that Facebook knew video did not get extra views and hid it because profit.
Chris
PatrickC, oh, I entirely agree with you. Alas, our view is literally dying out.
Kevin
Facebook pushed video because it kept users on Facebook longer, and lied to companies about it, and a lot of managers of said companies should have listened to staff that the clickthrough rate from videos was worse than for text posts.
Joey
I think two things are true:
1. The famed “pivot to video” era of the Internet was a bust, with Facebook at the forefront.
2. Young people currently consumer much more of their Internet-based content in the form of reels/stories than everyone else. The cost of producing and consuming video (devices, apps, bandwidth, etc) has never been lower. Similar for voice notes instead of emails/texts.
Chris
>Similar for voice notes instead of emails/texts.
Next they’ll discover live voice-to-voice communication, and we’ll have come full circle once again. 🙂
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Kate
Answering the question of how many people will be shopping at Royalmount’s designer boutiques, La Presse points out that one quarter of the city’s households earns more than $150,000 a year.
General reports from the weekend say that the mall was buzzing, but 24Hres reports that it’s… just a mall.
And it’s already racking up complaints at the OQLF, including that the name is not French enough.
Tim S.
Thanks for the 24H link, I enjoyed that perspective.
I wonder if the luxury boutiques will end up with a rent discount in order for the mall to retain its cachet, while most money is just spent at the usual chains.
walkerp
That last photo in 24H article was too funny!
Robert H
Mais, on n’a pas besoin d’un deuxième centre-ville! Though I suppose it doesn’t have much to do with need unless I were part of that blessed one quarter and, Calvaire! I wish I didn’t need to go all the way downtown to get to Tiffany!
Yes Tim, I think you’rel right; the luxe labels feed the mystique, but the stores you can find in all the other malls feed the bottom line.
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