Tuesday, February 12, 2008
- More thoughts on dépanneurs from Chris DeWolf; a recap on rental rules from Midnight Poutine; Neath ponders the Notre-Dame East trench plan and thinks my estimate of $1.5B as the ultimate pricetag is still way under; Spacing also has a potted guide to a recent McGill Daily issue on Montreal housing.
- The two Canadiens players arrested in Florida are in some hot water since, even if not disciplined by their team or by the league, a criminal record could make it impossible to travel to the U.S. to play. One columnist blames the incident on a kind of hazing.
- Montreal museums have shown themselves pretty blasé about jumping for the federal government's national portrait gallery idea.
- More on the provincial road repair money which will start 55 separate repair sites including the beginning of the work on Notre-Dame East and the refashioning of the Turcot yards – and this is only the start of a $12-billion road infrastructure program.
- Despite difficulties, our hardier cyclists are still using the de Maisonneuve bike path, being kept open year-round by the city.
- The boroughs are running out of snow removal money, we're not even halfway through February and there's snow in the forecast. But the snow will be cleared anyway, since nobody has the power to push snowstorms away from the city, and somehow we will cope.
- A new book published in Brussels brings into prominence Montreal's modern architecture and its heritage value.
- Two buildings on Amherst near René-Lévesque were destroyed by a major fire last night, which blocked streets and threw a number of folks homeless into the chilly night.
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