Montreal Gazette

blogs.montrealgazette.com — Turn down the heat, grab a hot chocolate and turn on CBC tonight. At 9 p.m. on Feb. 9, watch Life Below Zero, a new documentary by film-maker (and Gazette columnist) Josh Freed. He makes the case that Canadians have become winter wimps compared to people in other frigid parts of the world.

blogs.montrealgazette.com — Quebecers want their province to be a North American leader in the fight against climate change, but they don't seem to see the impact their own actions are having on greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new poll.

montrealgazette.com — MONTREAL - Montreal Fashion Week got off to a potentially frigid early-February start for 2012, with local designers presenting their Fall/Winter 2012 collections before the runway shows in New York, Paris and London. But thanks to mild temperatures all parkas were off on Monday's opening night, and the affair turned out to be a stomping ground for Montreal's most serious streetstylists.

montrealgazette.com — MONTREAL - The former Canadian Power Boat Co. building at 4000 St. Patrick St. in Côte St. Paul is the last standing witness to Montreal's contribution to the war effort along the canal. The modern and streamlined complex was built by the renowned architecture firm Ross & Macdonald, says architectural historian Jean Bélisle, who teaches in the art history department of Concordia University.

montrealgazette.com — MONTREAL - Montreal's pledge to value culture and history should be working to save a landmark industrial building along the Lachine Canal from the city's plan to expropriate and demolish it so it can relocate a public works yard to park municipal vehicles.

blogs.montrealgazette.com — Seats were a big concern among readers who tweeted and emailed me about the new-look Nova Bus interior that I wrote about in Wednesday's Gazette. 1) Some riders don't like the fabric-covered seats that are now standard on Société de transport de Montréal buses.

montrealgazette.com — MONTREAL - A métro surveillance video showing the altercation between Farshad Mohammadi and Montreal police inside the Bonaventure station on Jan. 6 is confidential because releasing it could impede the investigation into the fatal shooting of the homeless man by police, the Société de transport de Montréal says.

blogs.montrealgazette.com — In St. Eustache Tuesday, Nova Bus showed off the new interior design of its buses. Nova Bus is bidding to supply the Société de transport de Montréal with hundreds of buses in the coming years so you may see this new look on Montreal streets one day.

montrealgazette.com — MONTREAL - Quebecers want their province to be a North American leader in the fight against climate change, a new poll shows, but they don't seem to see the impact their own actions are having on increased greenhouse gas emissions.

blogs.montrealgazette.com — By Monique Beaudin, Gazette Environment Reporter Katia Pineda spent five years fighting to get a car impound lot moved out of her St. Michel neighbourhood because of the truck traffic and air pollution. Now the daycare educator is fighting another project that could bring up to 70 extra trucks into St.

blogs.montrealgazette.com — By Monique Beaudin, Gazette Environment Reporter Katia Pineda spent five years fighting to get a car impound lot moved out of her St. Michel neighbourhood because of the truck traffic and air pollution. Now the daycare educator is fighting another project that could bring up to 70 extra trucks into St.

montrealgazette.com — MONTREAL - Quebec's recent announcement that it will protect 12 per cent of the boreal forest gives no guarantee that the more than 300,000 square kilometres of commercial forest will not be logged, boreal forest experts say. The commercial area of the forest, which has the largest trees, makes up about 30 per cent of the boreal forest's 1.2 square kilometres.

montrealgazette.com — (Reuters) - Hackers sought $50,000 from U.S. anti-virus firm Symantec Corp in return for the stolen blueprints to its flagship products under what the company says was a sting operation run by an undisclosed law enforcement agency via emails. The company said the emails were in fact between the hacker and law enforcement officials posing as a Symantec employee.

montrealgazette.com — MONTREAL - Before Jeff Reinebold's first game as head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, he showed up on the field for the pre-game warmup wearing flip-flops and cut-off jeans. When it came to style, Reinebold was pure genius. He drove a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and had earrings in both ears.

montrealgazette.com — A "tragic" and "horrific" accident involving a transport truck and a passenger van west of Kitchener, Ont., has claimed the lives of 11 people, according to Perth County Emergency Medical Services. Linda Rockwood, chief of the Perth County EMS, told Postmedia News on Monday that 11 people were killed instantly when the truck broadsided the van near the hamlet of Hampstead, Ont.