Maisonneuve Magazine founder Derek Webster is leaving his baby of seven years to take an important job at Reader's Digest, according to Canadian Magazines.
UPDATE: More stories from Masthead and The Gazette.
UPDATE (June 16): Maisonneuve releases a statement. Carmine Starnino replaces Webster as EIC.
According to a recently released data set, what Montreal agglomeration entity (Montreal borough or demerged suburb) recycles the most of its household waste? And which recycles the least?
UPDATE: According to this chart, the most recycle-friendly (on a per-capita basis) is the sparsely-populated Senneville, thanks mostly to organic waste recovery. The most unfriendly is St. Leonard.
The intersection of Maisonneuve and St. Rose no longer exists.
What will you find there now?
Maisonneuve and St. Rose (from Montreal's archives)
UPDATE: Jean Naimard nails it below. You'll find the Parc de Champlain, which sits at the corner of Ste. Rose and Alexandre-Desève. Maisonneuve Street was renamed Alexandre-Desève with the creation of the similarly-named De Maisonneuve Boulevard.
This is one of the reasons I dislike Twitter. It makes perfectly reasonable people look like grammatically-challenged teenagers that make no sense.
WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg (left) with Q&A moderator Jeremy Clarke at WordCamp.
WordCamp, the WordPress conference, continues today at 10 a.m. (which is in like 15 minutes so I better get going). You can read a writeup about it in today's Gazette, or if you're really interested, follow the WordCampMontreal-tagged Twitter updates and check out the photos in the Flickr pool.
Above is a photo of Matt Mullenweg, who's one of many people behind WordPress (but certainly its most famous name). Everyone else in the room also took pictures (or video) of Matt. Or interviewed him.
One device at a time, please!
See also Cool WordPress things that speakers mentioned and WordCamp presentation slides.
Day 1
Day 2
More to come as I find it.
For those of you wondering what happened to former Gazette editor-in-chief Andrew Phillips, he's now the business editor at the Toronto Star. (Thanks Dave)
I'll leave the analysis of that career change up to you.
The owner of this giant parking lot revently announced measures to become more environmentally-friendly. What did it decide to do?
What was taking place when these pictures were taken?
UPDATE: So those are the answers.
Marché Central, the neighbourhood of parking lots and strip malls that represent just about everything environmentalists hate, is trying again to present itself as environmentally-friendly. For their greenwashing efforts, they got a no-questions-asked press-release-as-news article in the Courrier Bordeaux-Cartierville. (It's also unclear if their used battery plan was dependent on Eco-Centres, who have decided to no longer accept them from retailers.)
And they organized a sidewalk sale that few merchants participated in (even then it amounted to putting a rack of clothes outside and having a very bored sales rep sitting guard outside).
There are plenty of very big ways that Marché Central could reduce its environmental footprint, most of which involve discouraging car travel and excess energy consumption by retailers. But those measures would cause a revolt by the retailers and might affect their bottom line.
Marché Central believes in environmentalism, but not enough to pay for it.
It was spun as a victory at Rue Frontenac, but the union lost far more than it won in the latest round at the Commission des relations du travail.
In a decision issued Wednesday (PDF), commissioner André Bussière dismissed all but one of the complaints issued by the Syndicat des travailleurs de l'information du Journal de Montréal, which represents locked-out Journal de Montréal workers. The STIJM made numerous accusations about people and companies working as scabs for the Journal, mostly in roundabout ways.
Among the conclusions reached by the commission:
The one complaint that was upheld concerned Guy Bourgeois, who wrote the Défi diète column in the Journal. The complaint concerned the fact that he began conducting interviews in the 2009 version, which was different from previous versions and also violated the collective agreement. The commission agreed, and said the Journal can no longer make use of his services as an interviewer.
Notably, the decision used the Journal de Québec decision as a precedent, countering the Journal's argument that he wasn't a scab because he never entered the building.
It's a silver lining in a decision that the union is not happy with. The STIJM has vowed to continue the fight.
Len Dobbin, the host of the Dobbin's Den jazz show Sundays on CKUT Radio, died Wednesday night after suffering a stroke at the Upstairs jazz bar ... in the middle of the jazz festival.
Dobbin, who also photographed jazz artists and wrote about jazz, was a fixture of CKUT. His show had gone 736 episodes (he would count them), or about 14 years.
He was 74, and he is already being missed by many in the jazz community, his death coming at either the worst or best possible time, depending on your perspective.
You can listen to archives of Dobbin's Den here. Next Sunday's show, which Dobbin was scheduled to host, will instead become a special tribute show hosted by Mike Chamberlain. Details are still being figured out. It runs 11am to 1pm on CKUT 90.3FM.
UPDATE: La Presse has a short obit, as does The Gazette, with some thoughts from Bernie Perusse and James Hale. Hour and Mirror also chip in.
UPDATE (July 14): A memorial is planned for August 9.
CKUT has audio of the Len Dobbin memorial show online in MP3 format: Hour 1-2, Hour 3, Hour 4-5.
UPDATE (Sept. 29): A piece in This Magazine.
The Agence métropolitaine de transport has announced that, effective immediately, children under the age of 12 can ride free on commuter trains if they're accompanied by a paying adult.
Buried in the release is that this only applies to July and August (though The Gazette reports they might consider making it permanent). Children 6-11 who aren't accompanied by an adult still have to pay their fare (and have to get an Opus card to take advantage of reduced fare).
Children who already have a pass for July can get a refund.
The move not only encourages family outings on public transit (the STM has a similar program for kids under 12 on weekends and holidays), but means a lot of kids won't have to worry about getting Opus cards (under the pre-Opus system, only those age 13 and up needed student ID) until they start school in the fall.
The STL in Laval has a similar system in place for the summer.
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