July 1, 2008 – 4:17 am
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Posted in Montreal
As low as $6 a box for fresh Quebec strawberries at the market. If you aren’t gorging on them by now, there’s something wrong with you.
Editorial staff at the West Island Chronicle, apparently running out of grandmothers, high school sports teams and stop sign campaigns to talk about, has moved on to eating pizza.
Sunday is Free Burger Day at Harvey’s in Ontario and Quebec (for once, a promotion where Quebec is included!). One per customer, 10am to 3pm.
Enjoy your 35% daily recommended value of saturated and trans fats and 38% daily recommended value of sodium (assuming, of course, you don’t want any topings)
Harvey’s website has a store locator (link fixed). Downtown there’s a location on Peel below Ste. Catherine which will no doubt have large lineups.
Forget Hamilton bagels, the real insult to our very being is in a new product from Kraft: cylindrical bagels filled with cream cheese. I honestly have no words to describe how wrong this is. (via AdFreak)
This week’s blog is Gypsy Bandito (and the Magic Flying Media Machine) by CT Moore, a social media marketing and other buzzwords-type person. His posts mainly take the form of videos of him thinking out loud while walking down the street, holding a video camera at his face. Others might think him insane, but we know better. (UPDATE: He just resigned from his job… so repeat previous sentence.)
This week’s Justify Your Existence is Gary Shapiro, a spokesperson for the Office québécois de la langue anglaise, the anglo rights group that is fighting for bilingual commercial signs. They launched last week and got quite a bit of media attention. They also ran this ad in the Suburban and Gazette on Wednesday:
My first question to Shapiro: “Is this a joke?” didn’t go over well. Though the name is a parody of the OQLF, the issues the group raises are apparently very serious.
(UPDATE: The West Island Chronicle does an informal survey of large stores and shopping malls to see what languages their signs are in. TVA also has a video report on the group, with the journalist talking to the OQLF, Mouvement Montréal Français, Gilles Proulx and just about every pundit he could talk to except Shapiro or another member of his group — no mention is made of an attempt to contact the OQLA to have them explain themselves.)
Finally, there’s also a Bluffer’s Guide on the history of Poutine. It may or may not have turned 50 this year, depending on whose story you believe. While the media tout the story of Fernand Lachance inventing it in Warwick in 1957, one restaurant proclaims it was the birthplace of the dish.
Local news is abuzz (well, kinda, when they’re not blowing Harry Potter) about Global Action Network volunteers infiltrating a Quebec foie gras producer and gathering some awful footage of what they call animal cruelty.
Today they supposedly released video of their findings. So you’d think that the news websites would at least provide a link.
So once again Fagstein steps in where others have failed. Check out the four-minute video on YouTube.
UPDATE: The above video was for some reason taken down. Here’s another link to another video with the same scenes.
Metro Boulot Resto, the restaurant review site that lists its recommendations by their proximity to metro stations, is the subject of Saturday’s installment of The Gazette’s 26-part Montreal A-Z series. The article points out the website’s value as well as its flaws.
June 14, 2007 – 2:28 am
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Posted in Business
Toucan Sam’s days may be numbered. Ditto Tony the Tiger.
I don’t care about the bird. But nobody better touch my Froot Loops.
As part of its six-day food series, The Gazette today looks at the personal culinary habits of its restaurant critic, complete with photos that keep her off camera so she won’t get recognized doing her job.
It’s about what you’d expect.
My daily profile of a supermarket shopper isn’t online, but it’s in the paper on Page A4. Today is Daisy Leclerc, who was lots of fun to interview (albeit for a brief period).
