The city will be gradually backing off garbage pickups to every two weeks. Quebec’s plan is to make this obligatory by the end of 2027. The theory is that this will make more of us use the composting and recycling pickups.
I predict that they’ll have to keep garbage pickup weekly in the summer, but we’ll see.
After a couple of police chase stories this month, La Presse’s Isabelle Hachey looked into how they turn out – and it’s not great news for passengers or innocent bystanders.
In addition, often the reason for the chase is some banal traffic infraction – hardly a reason to put lives at risk.
Once you have the licence plate you should just stake out their home and get them there, once they’ve left the vehicle, at least for these less serious violations. (And, of course, once they flee they should get more serious penalties; impoundment or forfeiture if you don’t know who the driver was, or jail if you do.) Some of these are serious, though, like stolen vehicles and shots fired, so I don’t think a full ban is justified. Obviously the cops who kept chasing even after their supervisors ordered them to disengage should be fired for insubordination, and criminal charges for not following orders and policy leading to a serious injury. 25 days suspension without pay and TBD for 5 others eight years after the incident is not good enough.
It feels a bit low-key to read the headline City of Montreal approves Cavendish extension after decades of discussion and delay. The story is merely that the city has acquired some land.
Not sure I trust anything in this article. First sentence it says it acquired the properties, then later it says the “expropriation process will allow it to obtain the properties”. Also I didn’t realize the city of Montreal can acquire land in another city (TMR), but who knows what the truth is.
Sacré-Cœur Hospital was robbed of $40,000 in material intended for bariatric surgeries last month. Theory is that either it’s been shipped offshore, or sold to a private clinic here.
La Presse went and talked to owners of small businesses in Montreal North about their responses to Fady Dagher’s presser of a week ago, and the ensuing fallout.
A man showed up at Jean-Talon Hospital ER Friday afternoon with a bullet in the leg. As it turns out, medical confidentiality stops where gunfire begins, so the medics called the cops. But the patient isn’t talking about who shot him, or where.
Last winter was the most expensive in ten years in terms of snow removal costs and overtime for police – but the city also collected a record number of fines as well.
La Presse’s Maxime Bergeron also discusses the effect of inflation on municipal expenses generally.
The SPVM is to discuss the racism accusations on Monday, but only behind closed doors to the mayor and other elected officials. A promised session allowing the public to quiz the police has been put off till later.
Good explainer article from the CBC, too.
A good way to really make sure the public trust this inquiry. Secret discussions and cancelling meetings with the public.
A cosmetic chain from France with several stores in Quebec has been fined $3000 for having its receipts in English.
Maybe they can go after the checkout machines at Intermarché, which tell you the price is “deux dollars et 50 centimes” and say “n’oubliez pas votre ticket.”
I’m surprised they didn’t also get nailed for signage – after all, “Prédiré Paris” doesn’t clearly state what kind of business it is. Prédiré Paris Soins de la Beauté Maquillage et Cosmetiques, SVP! On parle Français icitte!
I couldn’t help but notice in the photo there is another sign for a business called “Austria”, not “Autriche”. I can feel the culture of Quebec crumbling like sand under our very feet.
Kate, the link I posted has the official explanation from the Quebec government: ticket is from an old French word that went through English back to French, and is adopted in France but disliked here because it hurts francisation efforts. I could understand ticket being allowed here even if disliked (France taking over the Plateau!), but at a minimum centime is for Euros, not dollars. If they said pence or kopecks or öre there would have been a complaint years ago.
If QC survived the Parisian assault on French by Old River then it’ll survive this as well lol
I encountered the word “ticket” when I was in Paris last year and confused people when I asked for the “reçu”. There are so many little differences between the French spoken here and in France that I get myself into lots of funny situations over there.
SMF says her husband is Black and was stopped by police last year at least five or six times for nothing.
Do we have reason to doubt her husband is Black?
J/K I know what you meant haha
It occurred to me as I posted that I’ve never knowingly seen a picture of SMF with a partner, or seen his name or anything about his background mentioned anywhere.
I’ve never met her IRL, what if she isn’t real?
An AI mayor?!
If PSPP is correct, than a Liberal Party member that criticizes law enforcement might just be supporting immunity for organized crime in general.
I hope he’s incorrect, but Canada’s horrible finances over the last 50 years of non-stop deficits sure looks like “an inside job” by high-up organized crime.
The Gazette published a photo of them together at her inauguration.
I don’t agree with many of SMF’s political decisions, but I’m impressed she’s refusing to toe the CAQ party line and speaking out about systemic racism (though what’s happening in Mtl Nord is verging on systematic as that loc collecting is highly disturbing), as well as being in a mutually supporting marriage (at least optics-wise so far).
I think there are better ways to support organized crime than speaking out against systemic racism, which can be political suicide in QC where the provincial govt holds so much power.
Weekend notes from Le Devoir, CityCrunch, Journal de Montréal, CultMTL, the Gazette.
There are some events for National Indigenous Peoples Day this weekend.
The Samuel-de-Champlain bridge will not be closed all weekend. However, here are the actual road closures for the weekend.
Advance notice: the Jacques-Cartier bridge will be closed on certain evenings for fireworks from July 2 to August 6.
The Champlain bridge article has been updated to say the work is pushed to August.
Great, we can all flee the island now!
Ted Rutland, who’s been studying and critiquing the relationship between police, public and politicians for a long time, writes about the recent action by Fady Dagher in Le Devoir.
Excellent piece by Christopher Curtis describing the protest at Station 39 on Monday. No other journalist has even attempted to explain how things went down that night.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but what we’ve heard so far does feel like it would normally lead to an emergency 10 pm press conference, and I believe there is more, and worse, yet to come out.
CBC This is Montreal podcast covered this, interviewing Rutland and a number of Black activists, this week.
I think this is the podcast jeather mentions.
Some Black officers of the SPVM have written a letter saying they fear reprisals if they are blamed for blowing the whistle on racist and hateful actions by some of their white colleagues, causing a team at Station 39 to be disbanded, and bringing about criticism and possibly an inquiry into institutional racism in the force.
Ismaël Koné, Quebec’s biggest star on the Canada soccer team, has suffered a broken leg after a tackle by Qatar’s Assim Madibo. Canada got its first World Cup win ever, but at the expense of losing one of its top players.
A worker was impaled by a steel rod at a Kirkland construction site on Thursday morning. TVA has photos of the man being lifted from the depths of the site on a stretcher with the help of rescue workers from the fire department.
I can only guess it was probably rebar, not some kind of post as it was framework. Rebar punctures are really bad, that’s awful.
Nicholas 12:14 on 2026-06-20 Permalink
Funny that EM probably won MHM based on this garbage every two weeks requirement and they’re going to have to do it anyway.