Original elevator shafts for the. eaton’s store in Montreal. New cabins/doirs and you request your floor before entering. Serves not only the 9e restaurant but also the few office floors below.

#montreal #quebec

Mad Max rages against Father Time -- literally -- in high-octane Game 4 https://www.mlb.com/news/max-scherzer-john-schneider-mound-visit-alcs-game-4 #bluejays

Montréal snow dump one of the largest methane emitters according to a McGill study https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/10/16/montreal-methane-emissions-study/ - - - Un dépôt à neige de Montréal un des plus gros émetteurs de méthane selon une étude de McGill […]

For those asking, here's a REALLY rough comparison of the Trump indictment and Bolton's. The biggest differences are: Bolton sent AND retained the docs, which resulted in Iran getting them Trump took marked docs Trump refused to give them back and lied about them

We'd see The Black Rock, whenever we drove across the bridge. During the Irish "Potato Famine," many thousands died of ship's fever (typhus) en route to Canada. 70,000 landed in Montreal (pop 50,000). More died in the "fever sheds" near the river. "A large […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

So that's what the giant hole was. (Ottawa) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxFcNOmND00

"[T]he text of the document and the process that led to it are so controversial that they constitute a masterclass in how not to write a constitution. To be clear, every province has a constitution, composed of relevant clauses from the Constitution acts of 1867 and 1982, along with provincial […]

The first beta release of Mastodon 4.5.0 is ready for testing! Quote posts are finally here, as well as automated fetching of remote replies and a lot of other improvements. For server moderators, there is also a way to block registrations based on keywords appearing in usernames. Please test […]

A #bluejays team that has been wildly entertaining since May has two more guaranteed games for us. Can they dig out of an 0-2 hole? Who knows? It won't be easy and we'll find out soon. You can do the Chicken Little routine if you want, but I'm just gonna enjoy the ride. On a historical note […]

Antigone Journal (@AntigoneJournal): "POV: you're 17 or 18, you've carefully read Homer's Odyssey, and you're ready to show how complete your knowledge of Homer is. The bad news is that the exam also tests Greek and Latin literature, culture and history, is closed book, and needs sitting this […]

I listened over the weekend to #thelineca's most recent podcast, in which they discussed Alberta teacher's strike. The most enlightening part of the discussion was about the special-needs students. They pointed out that -- partially in response to court rulings, partially for ideological reasons […]

Rob Roberts (@itsrobroberts): "HMCS Oriole, the oldest ship in the Royal Canadian Navy, is heading for open seas this morning." | nitter https://nitter.net/itsrobroberts/status/1978065756790063212#m

Well, I've been posting a fair amount recently about judicial overreach and the value of parliamentary supremacy. There is of course another side to the story, in particular the individuals who've achieved justice or greater freedom through the courts. #cbc has recently started a podcast on the […]

"Under the Westminster system of responsible government inherited from Britain, it is Parliament, not the courts, that is chiefly responsible for reflecting upon, making, and changing the law. By contrast, the judiciary is tasked with resolving disputes in accordance with law. The advent of the […]

Is the problem with Macronism that it is insufficiently liberal? "In 2021, Macron signed a law that commits France to zero net land development by 2050 (and half by 2030), making it illegal to develop any land in France unless some existing city or village is demolished. His governments banned […]

"This tendency of elites to lose touch with the rest of society can be widely observed. One could see the underlying pathology on display in the wake of the Occupy movement, when a spate of articles began to appear, written by members of the top 1 percent, explaining that they weren’t all that […]

"Anyone who has spent time in left-wing activist spaces, for example, knows that Antifa is not really a movement, much less an organization. It’s just a general term adopted by young men who have a somewhat excessive appetite for violence, and yet don’t want to be mistaken for mere hooligans or […]

"Sixteen-year-old Reuben Nsemoh was playing soccer for his school in Gwinnett County, Georgia last month when he was kicked in the head and ended up in a #coma. Despite the severity of Reuben's brain injury, he regained consciousness after a few days. But what happened next came as a complete […]

Combining Science and Technology for Growth feat. Joel Mokyr https://www.thepodcastbrowser.com/combining-science-and-technology-for-growth-feat-joel-mokyr/ I realise that I've listened to at least one discussion of economic history with #joelmokyr, one of the new #nobel laureates. #nobelprize […]

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance, ’Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. -- from Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

Expos documentary on Netflix is a whodunnit about the team's demise https://nationalpost.com/entertainment_life/movies/new-netflix-documentary-on-the-expos-is-a-whodunnit-about-the-demise-of-the-team/wcm/75906161-6e24-4c0a-8cd5-ae0fcc0ae5ca?itm_source=canada #Montréal #expos #baseball #mlb […]

Montreal finally gets Dutch-style protected pedestrian/bike intersections. https://video.canadiancivil.com/w/6gvGsJi8ctCxSfY7FnVQU7

https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/the-wheels-have-come-off-musks-monstertruck >>For most companies, a fiasco such as the Cybertruck would result in the sacking of the chief executive.<< #ElonMusk #cybertruck #Tesla

Over two billion tonnes of iron ore have been mined from the Labrador Trough of Quebec and Labrador over the last 70 years. The paleo-Proterozoic sediments have been variably metamorphosed (you can see the bend in the southern part of the belt caused by the […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

La beauté de l’automne à Montréal. Ave Duluth (toujours zone piétonne!) à l’angle St-Hubert. #Montréal #pmr

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

"The surest way to screw up the world’s best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it," Massie wrote. "Congrats to my alma mater for turning down a bribe to let the executive branch dictate what happens on its campus." GOP lawmaker praises university for standing up to Trump […]

Howard Anglin (@howardanglin): "Tradition matters. Bring back the robes *and* the woolsack." | nitter https://nitter.net/howardanglin/status/1976392548131467595#m

American news media now routinely -- and lazily -- use the word "conservative" to label the radical right wing, i.e. the Trump regime and its cult, now firmly in control of our government and increasingly our media. This is just one way our purported "news" organizations have normalized extremism.

Pope Leo’s secret letter to U.S. bishops just leaked. TrumpWorld is not going to like what it says. This week in Rome, Pope Leo XIV quietly handed a letter to a group of visiting U.S. bishops. Inside were messages from migrants families separated by deportations, children afraid to sleep and […]

There are literally a million things worse that Donald Trump could be striving for than a Nobel Peace Prize. We really have to keep that dream alive.

“ #Gold has become so big . . . that you cannot ignore it. There becomes a level when it becomes impossible not to own it.” adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-...

Le prédicat de l'objet se place avant l'adjectif sauf si le verbe de l'indicatif déplaît à Chomsky.

"[L]e Projet de loi 1 est un texte hallucinant dont le manque de sérieux est total. Dans ce billet, je présente brièvement quelques unes des failles flagrantes dans, d’une part, la logique interne de ce projet de loi et, d’autre part, dans son agencement avec le cadre constitutionnel canadien […]

"The chart is usually used to demonstrate that most swing voters are left of center on economic issues and right of center on cultural issues" [...] "But the most important thing to note about the chart, from the perspective of hypothesizing a shift in […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

The figure of Grief sits with two urns flanked by a walrus and an elephant at St Mary, Bury. Robert Hood was 'assassinated by an Iriquois' on the 1821 Arctic Expedition, his brother George 'on the eastern coast of Africa, perished by a fever' in 1823. The perils of Empire. #31DaysofGraves 10: urn

"Plus de 20 ans après leur départ de #Montréal, les Expos demeurent bien présents dans la mémoire collective québécoise. On se rappelle les bons moments, mais aussi la longue agonie du club. Pourquoi sont-ils partis à Washington ? C’est ce que le documentariste Jean-François Poisson a voulu […]

Yuan Yi Zhu (@yuanyi_z): "Thanks to the cowardice of Trudeau when Quebec "amended" the BNA Act 1867 to "abolish" the Oath of Allegiance, they can now claim that they can amend the rest too. Pathetic." | nitter https://nitter.net/yuanyi_z/status/1976339997927276659#m @yuanyiz.bsky.social #polqc […]

Lyle Skinner (@SkinnerLyle): "This is despite the bill proposing to unilaterally change the Legislature of Quebec to be comprised of the Officer of Quebec and the National Assembly. This is likely a drafting oversight that does have the fun effect of causing all laws passed in this manner to be […]

you know a gov't is in trouble when it introduces this kind of thing https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-tables-draft-constitution-to-affirm-its-distinct-national-character-premier-says-9.6933153

This week's newsletter makes the case that the AI companies foisting LLMs on us simply can't be trusted not to break our brains. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/hey-grok-i...

What do Catherine McKenna, Bill Morneau, Jody Wilson-Raybould and Marc Garneau have to say about #justintrudeau? https://nationalpost.com/opinion/all-the-liberal-memoirs-that-have-bashed-trudeau-so-far?itm_source=index I looked for retrospectives on the Trudeau legacy after he resigned, and I […]

In which I try to explain to Americans the Chagos surrender deal. www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3829...

Ca fait 5 fois que je relis, je comprends toujours pas si je dois répondre oui ou non...

Louis de Bourbon (@Louis_DucAnjou): "Ces derniers mois, c’est avec inquiétude que je constate la paralysie de plus en plus critique des institutions françaises. C’est donc en tant que Chef de la Maison de Bourbon et héritier de la dynastie qui a fait la France, que je prends la parole […]

#janicestein thinks that this ceasefire agreement may stick: "Both sides are exhausted. Both sides are out of options. And Donald Trump finally turned up the heat." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60gOlDAr5n4 #israel #hama #gaza #cbc

#ZannyMintonBeddoes, our editor-in-chief, sat down with @mark-carney.bsky.social, #Canada ’s prime minister, to discuss #tariffs, trade and negotiating with #DonaldTrump. 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli, #ABpoli, #Ableg youtu.be/g-GcmOYd8hc?...

Je ne suis pas contre un projet d'écrire une constitution du #Québec. La Colombie-Britannique a une constitution qui la sert depuis longtemps. Par contre, j'ai peu de confiance dans tel projet à ce moment, principalement pour deux raisons : 1. Une constitution devrait être des règles pour le […]