This Radio-Canada piece starts in Quebec City but also considers the evolution of the commercial streets in Montreal.
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Kate
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Kate
A gray week in view
maggie rose
Well, at least things have greened up a lot, and still blooming. I heard a Canada Goose honking out my window today.
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Kate
I haven’t ranted about this in awhile, but announcing that a teenager is missing and telling us she’s from “Villeray–Saint‑Michel–Parc‑Extension borough” is virtually useless. Yes, technically it may be true, but those three parts of the city are very different, even if welded together to create an administrative unit.
If the kid is from Villeray, she isn’t likely to be found mooching around St‑Michel or Park Ex and vice versa. (It’s not CBC’s fault – it’s how it was announced on X by the SPVM.)
Thursday, May 22, CBC posted that the girl was found unharmed.
Taylor C. Noakes
Bring back beat reporters responsible for specific neighbourhoods
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Kate
The waning popularity of the CAQ was in Godin’s sights this week, as he crosses the wires with the Michelin story. Côté in Le Soleil also ponders the CAQ situation, but – more happily – gives Bonhomme Carnaval a grin as he shows off that city’s stars.
The waning state of our healthcare system was also on cartoonists’ minds this week.
And the pope made another appearance, rekindling hopes that Robert Prevost might, after all, have some ancestry that came via Quebec.
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Kate
La Presse reports on UNESCO making the Notman archive part of its Memory of the World register, with some excellent examples of photos from the studio.
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Kate
The CAQ can open some champagne. Because of laws limiting international students – both from the provincial and federal governments – the HEC is canning its English MBA program because of lack of demand.
Taylor C. Noakes
Hooray!
Everyone loses!
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Kate
The idea had been to refit the Olympic stadium, including the observatory at the top of the tower, so that it would reopen for the 50th anniversary of Montreal’s summer games in 2026.
It’s entirely fitting, then, that the work won’t be completed in time, just as the tower wasn’t completed in time for the 1976 games – in fact, the observatory only opened in 1987.
Robert H 23:08 on 2025-05-20 Permalink
That was an enlightening article. Oddly, though it’s focused on Quebec City and goes into such detail about the various transformations and issues that have occurred over the years for Rue Saint-Jean, I’m surprised there was no mention at all of Rue Saint-Joseph in nearby Saint-Roch. I think that street has gone through even more changes than Saint-Hubert. The first time I walked it in the 1980s, the street had a glass roof and tile pavement as if it were a corridor in a shopping mall. It had been pedestrianized years earlier, and the roof was removed in 2000. The street is open to cars again, but looks better and it’s still a lively spot.