The police is asking for your help to identify the idiots who have sullied our city’s reputation all over the continent. Several movies and photographs of the rioters have been posted on the SPVM website along with contact information should you recognize any of them and are feeling in a vindictive mood.
After you’re done, check out Fagstein’s excellent listing of various Habs riot myths.
It may not be the same at being in the Bell Centre or La Cage aux Sports but Twitter certainly makes for a more enjoyable game. I felt like laurentlasalle, TanMcG, JohnnyCanuck, stephdau and JeromeParadis were right here with me.
I have just learned that the “Commission scolaire de Montreal” has ordered the evacuation of all of its schools.
Évacuation d’urgence, le vendredi 14 mars 2008 - Compte tenu de l’accumulation de neige, à titre de mesure préventive, la CSDM procède actuellement à l’évacuation de tous ses établissements scolaires. Les endroits où les élèves ont été déplacés seront indiqués sur chacune des portes des établissements. Une chaîne téléphonique a été déclenchée pour joindre tous les parents. Tous les établissements scolaires seront donc fermés jusqu’au lundi 17 mars inclusivement.
High school students are being sent home while the evacuation points for younger students are listed on the doors of their respective schools. This decision came as a result of inspections that were ordered after a snow-induced roof collapse killed three workers in Morin Heights.
Schools from the Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys, which covers most of the West Island, are not considered to be at risk and classes will continue this afternoon.
By now, a lot of the local media has been covering the misadventures of all of those “poor” travelers who were returning from a week (or more) in the sun only to fall victim of The Storm of 2008 (trademarked). I still don’t understand why some companies still consider it normal to keep their passengers prisoners of their metal tubes for 12 hours as the water runs out and the toilets start to overflow. What do you think will happen when next year’s clients start their research by googling “Air Cubana”?On Saturday, we were on our way back from Rome via Amsterdam on a KLM MD11. We’ve known since Wednesday that we would be coming in during a storm but the captain was hoping to get us in just before the worst of it. Unfortunately, the position of the jet-stream forced us on a flight path that was much further north than usual (seeing Greenland was immensely cool) and KLM lost their bet.We were initially diverted to Detroit but, as we flew over Ontario, the captain was told that the weather over Toronto was “barely” acceptable. Since many of his passengers didn’t have a visa to enter the US, he decided to give Pearsons a try. That guy was one great pilot, although the visibility over YYZ was atrocious, this was the smoothest landing I’ve seen in years. Not everyone was so lucky, while we were taxiing to our gate, we could barely see the landing lights of another plane as it came in but then aborted its landing.From that point on, we would spend many hours simply waiting. Waiting to be allowed to disembark (1 hour), waiting for our bags (2 hours), waiting in line at the check-in the next day (4.5 hours), waiting for our departure authorization after boarding (1.5 hours) and waiting for the stupid people movers (1.5 hours) at Trudeau Airport because we were now a “domestic” flight. Total travel time from our Rome appartment to our house in Pierrefonds, 50 hours. Nevertheless, we were always kept informed, the water, booze and juices didn’t run out, the toilets didn’t overflow and, even through they were under no legal obligation to do so, KLM got all of their passengers to spend Saturday night in a nice hotel in downtown Toronto. They even paid for a breakfast buffet on Sunday which did wonders for our mood. Furthermore, we could really tell that they were doing all that they could to get us at our final destination. No bullshit, if they didn’t know about something they told us so. Importantly, if they told us a time estimate they also told us where the info came from and whether we should believe it or not. Sometimes the captain would get so frustrated with ground control that his communications were almost funny but we appreciated being treated like adults for a change. All in all, the crew performed admirably under very difficult conditions.The moral of the story is that sometimes you get what you pay for. Cheap flights are cheap because they can’t afford to plan for anything else than optimal conditions.
This is too much for my tiny little brain. I don’t get it. If it’s true, I will enjoy it, but I really don’t get it. January and February are supposed to be the coldest months of the year. DOeS nOT comPUte!
Nous sommes dans la période dans laquelle nous devons assister à plusieurs réunions et partys. Étrangement cette année, les soirées auxquelles j’ai été invitée sont à des jours différents.
But how would you choose from several parties in one night? I would probably take into account three things: weather, proximity and cost, assuming that the people who invited me are equal friends. Priority would obviously go for family, even if some I hate.
Why do people always run towards family even when there’s hatred and annoyance? I guess that’s only a part of what’s called holiday spirit and unconditional love.
Does anybody know about this thing? I have no idea what it’s about because I didn’t read the website. I just bumped into it while looking for something else that I haven’t found yet, but I’m interrupting that, because photography is interesting.
It’s at its 10th edition and it’s the first time I hear about it. Since photography has become so accessible, there’s a great increase in interest too.
Anyway, I’m going to get back to what I’m searching for, here’s the website for Le mois de la photo à Montréal.
Just in case you want to see a bunch of nerds talking about our favorites subjects, downtown parking and Apple Computers.
The Gazette editorial on the Ville-Marie borough’s refusal to remove three parkometers in front of the future Apple flagship store is now on the Slashdot front page.
Will the Canada.com servers survive the dreaded slashdot effect?
A month ago, I posted this image which says there’s free wifi in the Old Port of Montreal.
Yesterday, the announcement of Studio 20 Montreal was launched, but that’s neither the important nor interesting part. The cool part is that I was in the Old Port when I did that. I discovered that the upload speed is amazing, over 500 k/s!!! It’s better than what I get at home.
I don’t know if it slows down if there are many people, but I was alone at a table in the grass area in front of Place Jacques-Cartier. Outdoor wifi has a range of almost 100 meters, so I’m guessing the infrastructure is in the surrounding buildings. This is very cool, it’s something to take advantage of, while the weather permits it.
