The question what we should do with all those unwanted churches was considered recently in a conference in Montreal. Basically, the answer is to transform them into something the community needs – residential, sports or performance spaces and so on. But of course, that takes money, always in short supply.
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Kate
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Kate
The pothole alert system is prone to marking potholes as terminated although they haven’t been fixed, according to 24Hres.
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Kate
If the language law is applied to vocational training and adult education, it would move 27,000 students from English to French instruction, exults Jean‑François Roberge in this brief piece.
Whether there are sufficient places available for those thousands of students on the franco side is not discussed, nor what happens to the teachers on the anglo side whom he’s putting out to pasture.
Kevin
We’ve come a long way from “Give me the child until he is 7 and I will show you the foundations of the man.”
They’ve already got these people from birth until the end of high school, but apparently that’s still not enough–they lose all their Frenchness in just a few years of trade school.
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Kate
Radio-Canada has some critical thoughts on airport privatization from an expert at the HEC.
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