#Montreal's $68.6M deal 2 house #VilleMarie borough’s future #SanaaqCentre in a private developer’s building on site o formr Mtl Children’s Hosp for 40 yrs could cost taxpayers more than $150M, an examination by the #MontrealGazette has found.
And the agreement locking in the city 2 the most expensive municipal library & community centre it will never own was passed by 6-member VilleMarie borough council in '18 w/o the approval o city council or the city’s finance dept.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/who-had-the-authority-to-approve-the-68-6m-sanaaq-centre-deal

"À la fin de janvier, le Montreal Gazette a appris qu’il devrait supprimer une dizaine de postes dans sa salle de rédaction, soit près du quart de ses journalistes. Une décision qui remet en question la survie même du Montreal Gazette fondé en 1778, selon des employés."

L’homme d’affaires Mitch Garber se dit prêt à racheter le Montreal Gazette: https://lp.ca/i9W7EV?sharing=true

#MontréalGazette #Montréal
#PostMedia #journaux #newspapers
#LaPresse

In the #MontrealGazette this morning, I see a new #Léger poll. "Does everything feel broken?": 67% agree (around 30% strongly), 25% disagree. Women agreed a bit more then men, the young more than the old. Top issues: #inflation , #HealthCare, #housing , jobs/economy, #environment / #ClimateChange .

Those are strong headwinds blowing against PM #JustinTrudeau .

#CanPol #CDNPoli

Yes! And Quebec and Hamilton. Why are there teams in Columbus and St. Louis but not in Canadian cities that live and die for hockey?

RT @TerryMosher1@twitter.com

Aislin Saturday. #MontrealGazette cartoon (self-portrait)…

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TerryMosher1/status/1611414978828828672

A Merry Christmas - 1939

This political cartoon of Santa Claus and his reindeer sporting gas masks was published as World War II broke out in Europe.
The drawing was done by the Montreal Gazette’s first editorial cartoonist John Alton Collins. Collins also contributed to Toronto’s Saturday Night Magazine.

Source: McCord Museum

#WWII
#Christmas #SantaClaus
#CanadianHistory
#Montreal #MontrealGazette
SaturdayNightMagazine
#CanadianArt
#PoliticalCartoon #et

@aderfel

#Health-care #Covid19
#MontrealGazette
#AaronDerfel

@andyriga

#AndyRiga #MontrealGazette
#Environment. #ClimateChange

Attention Canadians and others interested in quality news.
Montreal Gazette reporter Aaron Derfel has an account at Mastodon where he’s been giving daily updates on COVID and related health news.
If you’re interested in one succinct but complete daily summary, he’s your man 😃

@aderfel

#Canadians #Canada #health #Covid19 #Quebec #aaronderfel
#MontrealGazette #health-care. #CanadianJournalist

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The Astor Restaurant was opened by George Gavaris in 1924 on Montreal's St. Catherine Street.
In 1978, the Montreal Gazette's Stephanie Storey (link in next post) said: ”Now the Astor serves all kinds of food from scampi and snails to pizza and spaghetti .... The Astor’s strawberry tarts, filled with pure cream, are made by two pasty chefs in a separate fully-equipped pastry kitchen on the third floor.”

#Montreal #MontrealHistory #MontrealRestaurants #MontrealGazette #NeonLights

1/2 The Astor Restaurant was opened by George Gavaris in 1924 on St. Catherine Street in Montreal.
In 1978, the Montreal Gazette's Stephanie Storey (link in next post) said: ”Now the Astor serves all kinds of food from scampi & snails to pizza & spaghetti .... The Astor’s strawberry tarts, filled with pure cream, are made by two pasty chefs in a separate fully-equipped pastry kitchen on the third floor.”

#Montreal #MontrealHistory #MontrealRestaurants #MontrealGazette #VintagePostcard

By the same author, on the same general subject, an obituary: https://www.pressreader.com/canada/montreal-gazette/20121215/282003259743501

#Zellers
#MontrealGazette

Montreal's vanished landscapes are at the heart of two new books
https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/books/two-new-books-explore-montreals-vanished-landscapes

#Montréal
#MontrealGazette

In a free country, people are free to say disgraceful things.

Comedian Mike Ward case: A debate that started nearly a decade ago
https://montrealgazette.com/news/comedian-mike-ward-case-a-debate-that-started-nearly-a-decade-ago

#MontrealGazette

"In terms of mother tongue, for example, it is true that the proportion of French speakers slipped from 80.9 per cent to 77 per cent between 1996 and 2016. However, the proportion of anglophones also decreased, from 8.3 per cent to 7.5 per cent. No, the shift from French as a mother tongue has been toward “other” languages, that is, the mother tongues of immigrants."

#AndréPratte

Questioning whether French is in decline should not be heresy #MontrealGazette
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/opinion-questioning-whether-french-is-in-decline-should-not-be-heresy

#qcpol