#Montreal might have Canada’s most beautiful manhole covers

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“#Montreal might have Canada’s most beautiful manhole covers” The city has transformed the most utilitarian and overlooked element of the urban landscape into an elegant piece of design that will beautify the streets for decades to come There are two versions of this story. The straightforward one is that Montreal recently unveiled a new design…

#When the plague won: a history of vaccine hesitancy

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“#When the plague won: a history of vaccine hesitancy” In the spring of 1885 at Montreal’s Natural History Society, Dr. J.B. McConnell delivered a lecture on the history of epidemics and the cutting-edge science that was then posting rapid advances in understanding them. When McConnell finished speaking, he invited audience members to line up for…

#The Montreal rematch? Denis Coderre leads Valérie Plante.

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“#The Montreal rematch? Denis Coderre leads Valérie Plante.” Philippe J. Fournier: At the campaign start line, a new Mainstreet Research poll suggests another face-off between the mayor and former mayor would be a clash of titans In the summer of 2017, a Léger poll showed then-Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre leading his mostly unknown city hall…

#Renters across Canada are banding together to fight high housing costs and evictions

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“#Renters across Canada are banding together to fight high housing costs and evictions” The pandemic has brought tensions over the decades-long housing crisis in Canada’s cities to a boiling point On March 17, B.C. declared a state of emergency, and 24-year-old Maya Schofield lost the restaurant jobs that had been putting her through school. Schofield…