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NEWS
Threat prompts Hudson to change street signs
After deferring requests to add French to all its street signs — and delaying taking action for years — a threat from the Office québécois de la langue française that would result in provincial subsidies being withheld has finally prompted the Town of Hudson to adopt a formal plan to outline how it will conform to the province’s language laws.
Vaudreuil slips in national rent-friendly ranking
The City of Vaudreuil-Dorion has dropped substantially on the Top 100 list of best cities for renters, according to a survey compiled by The Globe and Mail.
Hudson drops swimming ban bylaw at Sandy Beach, but it’s still prohibited
After deferring a vote on a bylaw to formally ban swimming at Sandy Beach in July, Hudson council at the end of August opted to drop the regulation all together.
OPINION
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It appears Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamandon thought using the old enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend approach to wooing English-speaking voters would somehow be successful. Well, it was not.
Part of the charm of living in a small community is that, after a while, you discover there are rules. Not the kind posted on a sign or buried in a municipal bylaw. These are the unwritten rules. Nobody explains them to you. You just pick them up along the way.
Recently the City of Montreal celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Olympics. Even after all this time, believe those Olympics will forever be an embarrassment to the city, to the province and to the legacy of former Mayor Jean Drapeau
I came late in life to pesto. Having grown up with only salt, pepper and occasional cinnamon in the spice rack, fresh pesto made with aromatic basil was a remote exotic world onto itself. But when I started gardening and planted out my first batch of herbs, a little pot of basil ignited a bit of a taste revolution. Now, I make fresh pesto every summer.
Looking back is often productive, although occasionally the victory exacts its own price, as evidenced by this selection of new viewing recommendations: another look back at an epic poem, a group vacation, an anniversary reflection on The Tragically Hip (sob), a missing-child crime thriller and the return of a fictional talk-show host.
