Maxime Bergeron looks at some wins and losses in local heritage sites.
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Kate
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Kate
The overtime strike by the STM maintenance union will end Sunday evening, but it hasn’t settled anything. The union is not ruling out another strike.
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Kate
Some extra letters have been added to the old Molson Brewery tower and I must say the artists did the letters and spacing very precisely. Is Kong Sluk a person?
(See below. Kong and Sluk are two different graffiti artists.)
Ian
Two different painters, both known for achieving difficult placements. Both are also VERY good with lettering so their precision and superb execution are no surprise – but still impressive.
MarcG
Haha, nice touch adding some drip to the O
CE
Those two have really put Montreal on the map for graffiti. If you haven’t seen some of their work, look it up, they’re impressive!
Kate
Thank you, Ian and CE. Yes, they’ve individually done some excellent exploits.
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Kate
The second attempt by Charles Milliard to head the PLQ evoked the old “hands on the steering wheel” line from Jean Charest, from Chapleau, Ygreck and Côté.Trump’s ploy to distract attention from the Epstein files by launching the invasion of another country is seen through by Chapleau. Godin puts the state of geopolitics into one picture and petroleum politics into another. Côté has a sharp image of the reality of power.
Côté illustrates the growing phenomenon of violence in schools.
Godin broods on the ubiquity of Donald Trump and Chapleau illustrates ICE while Ygreck shows us Trump in Greenland. Godin has further thoughts about Trump – can’t get away from him.
And Côté shows various leaders wishing us a happy new year… or not!
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Kate
La Presse has a nicely morbid Sunday feature on a difficulty in repurposing old churches – often, the dead were buried in the basement.
A sidebar raises the question whether some of them may have died of communicable diseases, an issue that also arose when Concordia acquired the Grey Nuns convent in 2010, with its nearly 300 dead nuns in the basement, some of whom had undoubtedly looked after patients during epidemics. They’re still there, sealed in under new concrete.
At the time, I was never able to find out whether anyone knows if it’s possible to catch a communicable disease from someone long dead. I still don’t know for sure. I don’t imagine anyone wants to do any tests.
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