Thursday, February 14, 2008
- The 334.7 centimetres of snow that have fallen so far this winter are a record for snowfall up to this date.
- Cinéma du Parc is holding an Academy Awards event with contest prizes for best guesses on the awards. Nice idea.
- The Office de la langue française is making a downtown Irish pub remove its vintage Irish advertising posters because the words on them are in English. This kind of incident makes me wonder if the Office isn't harbouring an anglophile mole who invents ways of bringing Bill 101 into disrepute.
Great piece from Coolopolis about vanished news vendors in the city. There are still folks who sell newspapers to people at night at certain intersections around town, but they can't possibly make a living doing that. Photo by me.- Our police have been breaking their own rules about circumstances for using tasers.
- A teenager who brought a gun to his brother's high school this week has already pleaded guilty to illegal possession of a firearm; yesterday a man went to his kid's high school and punched a gym teacher in the nose over marks (which suggests two immediate questions: shouldn't a gym teacher be able to defend himself more effectively, and who cares that much about gym marks anyway?). Still these incidents pale before more violent school incidents in the U.S.
- Sentimental Valentine piece about Jean Béliveau and his 55-year marriage.
- Uncritical glance at changes planned at the Ritz as the landmark hotel strives to remain relevant in a new century. But it's Spacing that had the architect's rendering of how the renovations will look.
- City is planning to reconfigure intersections to make them safer for pedestrians, calm traffic and reduce top speeds on residential streets as new stats show that pedestrian accidents are on the rise – particularly in poorer parts of town – and one in five accidents involves a child. Chris has some thoughts on Spacing, and I'm not sure myself how traffic calming notions fit with recent news about work being done to synchronize lights so that traffic can flow faster and unimpeded through town.
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