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  • Kate 20:02 on 2025-01-02 Permalink | Reply  

    Unhoused persons are going to ER waiting rooms to warm up or sleep, some making false claims of illness or injury as a pretext.

     
    • Kate 15:53 on 2025-01-02 Permalink | Reply  

      The fireworks at the Old Port, part of Igloo Nouvel An, a fork from Igloofest, were – as noted here earlier – a disappointment. The producer says there was a technical issue but not what kind. There are also complaints here about crowd control.

       
      • EmilyG 18:54 on 2025-01-02 Permalink

        Oh, so the better display at 1 AM that I heard about on Reddit, seems to have been the continuation of the one that failed at 12 AM. Or so I gather from the article.

      • Kate 19:02 on 2025-01-02 Permalink

        It sounds to me like a few fireworks went off at midnight, then stopped, and people assumed it was over. Then a lot more were let off an hour later.

    • Kate 10:54 on 2025-01-02 Permalink | Reply  

      Vogue has a fanciful little bit about thrift shopping on the Main in what it, naturally, calls Montréal.

       
      • Kate 10:07 on 2025-01-02 Permalink | Reply  

        Since January 2 is a nameless holiday, La Presse lists what’s open or closed as we ease ourselves from the holiday haze back to normal life.

         
        • Nicholas 10:26 on 2025-01-02 Permalink

          One of my collective agreements called it “le jour après le jour de l’an”.

        • Kate 10:57 on 2025-01-02 Permalink

          “Second hangover recovery day” for some.

      • Kate 10:05 on 2025-01-02 Permalink | Reply  

        La Presse’s Louis-Samuel Perron lists the upcoming trials of interest, including – finally – Frank Zampino’s trial for corruption during the Tremblay years.

         
        • Kate 09:56 on 2025-01-02 Permalink | Reply  

          Toula Drimonis, as always, faces the zeitgeist with aplomb in her year‑end wrapup and thoughts about 2025.

           
          • su 11:28 on 2025-01-02 Permalink

            What? No mention of all the local and global manifestations of runaway climate change.

          • Kate 12:37 on 2025-01-02 Permalink

            Toula’s been more focused on xenophobia and the immigrant experience, and how it plays out in politics, about which she has already written two books. But those are going to be huge themes as we enter the era of Trump II and Governor Poilievre.

        • Kate 09:46 on 2025-01-02 Permalink | Reply  

          Interesting notes on trials expected in 2025 of those accused in high‑profile cases in recent years.

           
          • Kate 09:23 on 2025-01-02 Permalink | Reply  

            CTV has an interesting piece about the 200th anniversary of the Lachine Canal.

            Later, also from Radio‑Canada.

             
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