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Citizen Kane playing outdoors this evening

mont_aaron — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:00:27 +0000

There’s a thirty-percent chance of showers tonight, and we may receive less of the Katrina hurricane than originally thought. I saw this great film many moons ago, and I look forward to seeing it among a decent crowd at Cinema Under the Stars.

CITIZEN KANE Thursday August 30 - 20h30

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mont_aaron — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:40:09 +0000

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Videotron’s Cable Telephone now here

mont_aaron — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:47:13 +0000

When I live alone, I’ll be giving Montreal telephony a try:

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Nice compliments for Bob Gainey

mont_aaron — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 04:36:19 +0000

A Vancouver Canucks fan expresses his opinion on Rob Niedermayer, and he has nice things to say about our Montreal Canadiens’ GM, when he played in the NHL.

Bob Gainey, of course, was a great player, and not merely good. Ken Dryden once wrote that Bob’s contribution to the game was that he proved once and for all that a forward could be a genuine star without scoring a lot. Anatoli Tarasov called him the best player in the world depite the fact he did not score. Gainey was so good the NHL invented a trophy to give him even though the Selke was defined incorrectly.

Harper’s transit tax break

mont_aaron — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 17:48:02 +0000

Stephen Harper actually has a good idea? Wow. Of course, he won’t get to make it law or anything, but at least the Libs may actually go forward with this idea. I don’t know why students get such a discount in Montreal, while the poor have to pay so much to use the metro. Just one of the reasons for the underground economy, I guess.

Last week, at the party’s national caucus meeting here, Harper embraced a long-overdue idea: Tax breaks for people who use public transit — and/or for businesses that encourage their employees to use it, for instance, by subsidizing GO train or TTC passes.

(via Nealenews)

NYC cabbie returns jewelry to Montrealer

mont_aaron — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 05:24:17 +0000

Good news can be found, reported, and linked:

Take a Muslim cabbie from New York City, a Jewish businessman from Montreal and a forgotten suitcase containing valuable diamonds and precious stones and what do you get?

One honest taxi driver and one relieved jewelry dealer.

Thierry Bellisha, 32, and two colleagues had just finished lugging several suitcases out of Hossam Abdalla’s taxi at LaGuardia Airport on Thursday morning when Bellisha realized one was missing.

The co-owner of Montreal-based Crown Ring immediately looked up but it was too late - Abdalla had already sped off, unaware he still had a suitcase worth several hundred thousand dollars in the trunk of his yellow cab.

Free Event: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

mont_aaron — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 04:20:04 +0000

Hi, I recently discovered MEETinMontreal and the following event will be held on August 13, 2005 at Westmount Park:

Repercussion Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in 1760’s Montr

The Summer Montr

mont_aaron — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 05:55:03 +0000

6-7 August, Sherman’s Forest, Bolton Sud, QC
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