Cute CTV story about city workers rescuing ducklings from a sewer.
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Kate
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Kate
If you’re going to the Grand Prix, go by metro: the facility is only allowing parking for the disabled. Service on the yellow line will be increased and there will also be plenty of bicycle parking space.
There are a few changes in this year’s race but the sex worker strike is still expected.
The Canadiens will also start their series against the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday, with an away game on Saturday evening. A week‑end mouvementée to start the summer. Radio‑Canada considers this unprecedented circumstance.
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Kate
The Times of London runs a nice piece by Taras Grescoe about taking the Train de Charlevoix downriver from Quebec City.
PatrickC
Yes, nice piece, gently sliding over the fact that the trip takes 4.5 hours, plus the time it takes to get to the departure point, which is not, as I would have thought, Quebec’s Gare du Palais, but what sounds like a non-station some distance downriver. Does anyone know why that is? I have two friends who had summer jobs at the Manoir Richelieu when they were young, and I’d like to see the place myself someday.
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Kate
Le Devoir has a piece Tuesday on the importance of urban agriculture in at least keeping heirloom varieties going, even if it’s unrealistic to think we could feed everyone on the island by growing things locally.
But I still have never seen a Montreal melon, even if it gets mentioned every spring during the mid‑May planting frenzy.
Kevin
There will be a planting of the Melons Wednesday at Blue Bonnets.
Kate
That has a pleasingly pagan sound.
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Kate
The massive blue line boring machine has been named Lisette after the metro’s first woman metro operator, Lisette Saint‑Onge.
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Kate
A bit late to the game, 24hres asks whether the closure of a local business like Station W means the space will be taken over by a chain store of some kind.
As commercial rents rise uncontrollably, this pattern has been seen all over, but we’ve also seen e.g. Starbucks locations fail to thrive. A street like Mont‑Royal still has a mix of business types, for example. Presumably not all landlords are willing to hike the rents till only McDonald’s can afford them.
Joey
Every time I’m on Notre Dame west of Atwater I’m amazed at how many franchise and chain places there are. There are lots of great indie places of all kinds, but you get the sense it’s a losing battle.
jeather
I object less to the local franchises, Cafe St Henri, Avenue, etc. But it’s just all restaurants (and a fantastic cat grooming location which I recommend to anyone who needs to get their cats groomed).
Nicholas
Not to be contrarian but chains are much less likely to violate worker protection rules or steal wages from employees, and also tend to pay more. They have their problems, but they can just afford compliance much more, and are more worried about being sued for such violations, as they have deeper pockets and more employees such that a lawyer will be willing to take a case. I remember going to the CNT, the precursor to the CNESST, to complain against them violating the law and not paying me for work, and they said my options were to use the commission, which would result in me having to do a ton of work and eventually all I could get was my job back with the same people who stole from me in the first place, or I could sue them, which would cost me a ton up front with a lawyer and if I won I’d get that back and a small amount if I won and if I lost I might owe their lawyer fees too. Even with other employees it wasn’t worth it because there weren’t enough of them.
CE
Maybe it was different back then or your situation was different but I’ve had to contact the CNESST due to employers not paying me two different times and each time just the prospect of having to deal with them has been enough to get both places to cough up the dough they owed me (one even overpaid me but keep that to yourself!)
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Kate
La Presse looks into a legal, but sneaky means that landlords have of getting rid of tenants whom they feel are not paying enough rent: they’re forced to waive legal recourse in connection with their lease.
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