Friday, February 29, 2008
- It's good news that the Blumenthal Building, standing vacant on Ste-Catherine for several years now, will become the Maison du festival de jazz with offices, a gallery, a café and so forth.
- The folks on Delphis-Delorme Street on the far eastern tip of the island get their tax bills reduced but not cancelled after a wave of protest followed outrageously high bills being issued. I suppose the moral is you can fight city hall and win – partially. ...Incidentally, Delphis Delorme was a councillor of the town of Pointe-aux-Trembles from 1921 to 1923. With a name like that he should've been a poet.
- Tories' bill C-10 allows for the withdrawal of tax credits from film productions deemed "contrary to public order". In other words, any of these seven feature films supported by Telefilm Canada could effectively be nixed if someone in the federal government found them subversive or distasteful. Do we really want that government dictating our cultural life?
- Salvia divinorum, being called la menthe magique locally – actually, it's a sage – is a short-acting psychoactive substance, not a party drug and with very little potential for abuse; nonetheless, journalists seem intent on pressuring government to make it illegal.
- Engineers hired by The Bay store downtown are claiming that construction of the new bike path along de Maisonneuve caused the damage in the underground slab that started a panic about the reliability of construction around McGill metro last year. The city doesn't agree.
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