Subway

Explore Montreal’s metro through the eyes of one of its train conductors. This is what Canada’s busiest subway system looks like from inside the conductor’s booth.

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In the competitive fast-food breakfast industry, chains are literally giving away their goods to win customers

The NDP apparently rejected a deal that would’ve made Lee Richardson the new Speaker. As a result, we now have a Speaker who will give you the business card off his back.

I think it was a case of horror victorianorum. I mean by this, that horror which even nowadays is felt by almost everyone who visits a display of Victorian stuffed birds under glass, for example, or of Victorian dolls and dolls’ clothes.

Via Mark Evanier, this 2007 clip of members of the Boston University Stage Troupe doing the opening number from The Music Man on the bus is pretty cool. (For those who haven’t seen The Music Man, the opening number is a patter piece for a bunch of salesman, accompanied only by the clickety-clack of the train. They’re just using the bus noise instead.)

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