Le violoncelliste de renom international et directeur musical, Yuli Turovsky, est mort dans la nuit du 14 au 15 janvier dernier, à l’âge de 73 ans. Atteint de la maladie du Parkinson, il a rendu son dernier souffle moins d’un an après la perte de sa femme, Eleonora Turovsky. «Pour moi, la musique est toujours “à propos de quelque chose”», ... Lire plus »
NDG residents braved the cold to attend the MUHC public meeting and voice their concerns about the city’s plans to demolish the Upper Lachine underpass and revamp the Decarie/de Maisonneuve intersection while including a public space reserved for cyclists and pedestrians. While they’ve reluctantly accepted the fate of the underpass, which links the St. Raymond neighbourhood to the area near ... Lire plus »
Since its publication in 1980, J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians has been widely acknowledged as one of the greatest books of the past century. Last August Russian director Alexandre Marine presented the first stage adaptation of the novel in Cape Town, and this winter he’s bringing his play and its original South African cast to the Segal Centre. The ... Lire plus »
CDN community groups recently held a press conference to reiterate their position concerning the future development of the former Blue Bonnets site. They are asking the City of Montreal, which owns the land, to commit to building at least 2500 social housing units, which they have been requesting since 2005, on the 43-hectare site. The community groups are taking part ... Lire plus »
Après une interminable tempête de neige qui a déversé 45 cm de neige sur Montréal le 27 décembre, quelques résidents sur certaines rues où le déblaiement s’est fait attendre sont venus suggérer des améliorations. Contrairement à ce qu’on aurait pu croire, en général les citoyens se sont montrés compréhensifs malgré tout. Environ un tiers des sièges sont restés vides dans ... Lire plus »
A brutal snowstorm dumped 45 cm of snow on the borough on Dec. 27 and residents on some streets had to wait a long time to have their streets plowed. Some of them came to the last council meeting to suggest improvements. Judging by the number of empty seats in the council chamber – about a third of them were ... Lire plus »
Did the Côte-des-Neiges–NDG borough miss a golden opportunity to provide parking on the Blue Bonnets site during the snow clearing operations? This possibility, already examined and dismissed, isn’t generating a lot of public reaction. Nevertheless, at the last council meeting on Jan. 14 a Côte-des-Neiges resident brought up the idea again, saying that it would make the vacant site useful ... Lire plus »
