The federal government is investing $39.8 million in a new sports complex for Montreal North, which has been desperate for community facilities since I can remember.
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Kate
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Kate
I was looking back through old posts and was reminded that a regular reader had asked to be told about the Holiday Train. It will be visiting Montreal on November 19 this year.
The UN site says November 19 is World Toilet Day but I doubt this is the holiday the train will be celebrating.
It’s also International Men’s Day.
Heres another report on the Holiday Train listing other dates as mentioned below by Nicholas.
Blork
I thought every day was international men’s day.
Kate
Echoes of my mother saying “Every day is children’s day!”
Nicholas
Smash Mouth is playing, at Montreal West then Beaconsfield. The other holiday train will be at Kahnawake, Sainte-Catherine and Delson the 24th, with a different musical lineup.
CE
That may have been me who asked, thanks Kate! I might actually be in town this time around and will finally get to see it!
dwgs
I’d like to give a shout out to all the domestic men as well.
PatrickC
I notice the Montreal West station is given two different street addresses on the CKAC page: chemin Broughton and Harley Avenue
Kate
On Google Maps, it seems they are both the same street, but they change name just about where the station is. Might be a question of Montreal West giving the street a different name at the border.
H. John
@Kate You are correct.
It’s a street of many names: Harley (in Montreal), Broughton Road (in Montreal West), and rue des Erables (when it reaches Devil’s Hill – now Lachine, used to be Ville St Pierre).
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Kate
San Francisco has voted to take down Armand Vaillancourt’s fountain on the claim that it could be dangerous during an earthquake. Maybe… if someone were standing right under it at the exact moment?
Meezly
They also claim there are fewer accidents with driverless taxis but one has recently killed a beloved bodega cat.
Kate
Yes, that story made me sad.
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Kate
One theme this week was the federal budget, which Godin, Ygreck and Chapleau all illustrated – Chapleau with a sequel.Godin illustrates France‑Elaine Duranceau‘s approach to cutting government bureaucracy, a theme that also inspires Ygreck.
The departure of doctors tickles Côté’s fancy – the vastness of the healthcare problem having inspired him earlier in the week. Godin’s gathering of doctors at the Bell Centre planned for Sunday is good.
Côté draws up the ballooning of project costs and Chapleau illustrates Valérie Plante passing on a very hot potato.
Côté’s rough sketch shows shoppers faced with early Christmas music.
Later in the week, the loss of Tory members inspired Chapleau and Ygreck, who drew Poilievre panicking as the wheels come off. Similar view of the CAQ’s fortunes from Ygreck.
Cartoon of the week goes to Godin, as Legault and Drainville reach up to grab the Fonds vert.
Ian
THese are all great but that Godin one made me literally LOL 😀
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Kate
CBC has a video report on the homeless shelter in Pierrefonds and why it makes people nervous, although why isn’t it preferable to have an organized facility with social workers and help available than to make people live in tents in marginal scrubland? (Or maybe some developer had their eye on that old Jesuit building to gut for million‑dollar condos?)
And yet another report on the Maison Benoît Labre in St‑Henri, and the admittedly difficult situations that have arisen between its habitués and the nearby residents and grade school.
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Kate
The Alouettes are on their way to the Grey Cup final, November 16 in Winnipeg.
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