Sunday, March 2, 2008
- A conference at the U of M this weekend is looking at the exodus of young anglophone professionals from Quebec (although the National Post calling the Journal de Montréal "sensationalist" is a pot/kettle matter, considering the harsh choice of words in their piece). A call for anglos to participate in the broader political life of Quebec raises the question: do anglos only ever fight for anglo rights, and nothing else? No anglos involved in environmental groups, heritage concerns, health care issue groups, women's groups?
- More than 5500 people turned out to participate in last night's Nuit Blanche, capping off a successful Lumière fest. Not sure how they got a head count for the Nuit Blanche, with so many separate events and people moving around all night, but OK.
- An interesting look at the presence of Chinese folks in Montreal particularly via chats with Cedric Sam and Simon Law of the local blogosphere.
- As of this weekend, our 297 cm of snow is neck and neck with the record-holding winter of 1971 on this date, but that winter surged ahead with the massive blizzard of March 4 that year that established a season record of 393 cm – not one we want to break, I think, although winter is by no means over. It shouldn't come as a surprise that there's been a rash of thefts of privately owned snowblowers: apparently you can't buy one for ready money right now in a store, so a market has grown up for hot ones. So to speak.
- The Canadiens reached the top of the NHL eastern conference last night with a 2-1 defeat of the New Jersey Devils.
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