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Saturday, February 16, 2008

Posted March 3rd, 2008 by mtlweblog
  • McKibbin's Irish Pub is planning to fight the OQLF over its decorative signage, but Fagstein points out a media blog in which it's explained that the bar owner only has to write a letter requesting that an exception be made for his vintage posters with words on them in English only. You may think that surely anyone ought to be able to distinguish between a 1920s Guinness poster and today's special, but that's to underestimate the subtleties of the bureaucratic mind.
  • The city's snow depots are bursting at the seams so it's looking for more places where cleared snow can be piled up.
  • Some of the great Canadiens players of the past are dubious and disapproving about the kind of hijinks that got two players arrested in Florida this week – but then hint about the rookie initiation of their own time.
  • Snow removal machinery is beginning to wear out and we're still only halfway through February.
  • A plea for classier architecture done with less obsession about the bottom line (but no practical suggestions how to arrive at this outcome).
  • A nice piece by someone named Viau about the origins of the Whippet cookie introduces a museum show about the Viau plant at the Écomusée du fier monde.