The name of the alleged shooter from Monday has been revealed: Seth Scott Hatfield, a 25-year-old from Lethbridge, Alberta, where a search is being carried out Tuesday in a house there. His name also appears on a lengthy manifesto found in a hotel room from which he presumably began shooting.
(CTV has started autoplaying commercials over their news pages, so be warned.)
Tennis Canada plans a new stadium in Jarry Park, which makes me wonder: isn’t there some other part of town where they could build without claiming more of the green space that’s in such short supply in Villeray‑Park Ex?
This dream stadium will have a retractable roof. Magic words, those.
The baseball field they want to take over is one of the nicer ones in the park – scoreboard, etc., IIRC.
Yes, that baseball diamond was renovated under Coderre for hosting the Jeux du Québec. I find it strange that at no point during the seven years of consultation, which led to the City’s Plan Directeur released last summer, Tennis Canada thought it would be pertinent to mention taking over that ballpark for their new stadium. Just zero good faith from these people. And of course, a complete reliance of public funds to pay for it. So that’s a non-public, non-accountable organisation occupying public land and announcing that they are going to take more of it through the media, instead of engaging with the public consultation process, and presuming that the massive costs will be borne by — the public! Talk about gall.
SMD, can you keep me posted about any protests or actions on this?
Any point in communicating with the borough mayor or councillors, or are they powerless in this matter?
Thanks, SMD. I had heard a few years ago that the city was hell-bent on getting rid of the parking lot, which struck me as (a) a bad idea, since LOADs of families rely on it to schlep sports gear, picnic gear, BBQs, etc., to the park, and (b) impossible given the inevitable parking needs of the tennis tournament attendees. I’m guessing that the SMF administration will allow no such thing; you can understand maybe why Tennis Canada would have bypassed a Projet-led consultation and is now ready to make moves under a more ‘aligned’ administration.
Villeray has over 8,700 people per square kilometer. Because so many apartments house large, multi-generational families without private backyards, the usage of every single square meter of grass in Jarry Park is multiplied.
A resident in Villeray has less than half the park space of the average Montrealer, and one-tenth of what provincial health guidelines recommend for urban spaces.
Notes on what’s open and closed on Wednesday for Saint‑Jean.
Why was Monday’s shooter aiming out of a window of the Hilton on Decarie? Police say the shooter’s manifesto included denunciations of pornography, and suggest that his purpose may have been to carry out an attack on Pornhub. He succeeded in blowing out several windows in the complex, directly across Decarie from the hotel, before police arrived and he turned his attention to them.
Aren’t the mindgeek offices in the “triangle” near Pare, while this was south of the tracks?
Could the SPVM and La Presse both be in error?
Aylo (formally Mindgeek) moved their offices down the street to that building across from the Hilton.
Imagine planning such a thing, and scrawling 100 pages, but not googling where Aylo is now.
If he’d just arrived in town he may not have realized the entire Decarie trench sits between the hotel and the Aylo complex either.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding the angle y’all are coming from but the Hilton and the current Aylo offices appear to be right next to each other, not across the Decarie… https://maps.app.goo.gl/1oKeUcW7XHAnuH949
Jimmy is correct. Steph`s info is old.
I have a friend who used to work at Aylo (when it was Mindgeek). He still knows people there. The offices have indeed moved to spot directly across from the Hilton where the shooter was, as Jimmy mentioned.
TVA says the perpetrator of Monday’s shootings was an incel from Alberta and Radio‑Canada/CBC also give some detail on the shooter, but also mention that it was police who shot the third person who died on the scene.
Radio-Canada has a video on this page titled “two minutes to understand what happened” but how the police action moved from the Hilton on Decarie around to the PA on de Courtrai (where, according to TVA, nothing happened) is not yet clear.
Before this incident we had a homicide count of 10. How many will this incident add? I haven’t yet seen a number.
Adding: The SPVM has named their fallen colleague: Mohamed Lamine Benredouane.
CBC also names the bystander who was killed.
I suppose the meeting between Fady Dagher and SMF was postponed?
The Hilton and the PA apparently share underground parking.
Aaah thank you – now it makes sense.
Sokath, his eyes uncovered.
Cyclists should be aware that police are handing out more tickets to riders breaking the law.
Good work as long as they’re being fair and reasonable. The tone of that JdeM report implies the cops are on an educational mission as much as anything, and that many of the people being stopped (and not all are ticketed) are not even aware of the rules. For example, you must wear a helmet when using an ELECTRIC Bixi (not required on a regular Bixi). Also, you’re not allowed to wear headphones while riding your bike. Not everyone knows this.
Stop signs and red lights are a bit trickier. Everyone SHOULD know you’re required to stop. On the other hand, there are times and places where it just seems silly, and the good ol’ “Denver stop” is sufficient. But I don’t think the law here recognizes that.
OK, I know you’re all wanting examples. Here’s one: cars are pretty scarce in my neighbourhood, especially outside of commuting hours. It’s not hard to ride along my street and through six or seven intersections and not see a moving car within 100 metres in any direction. Asking a cyclist to come to a full stop under those circumstances is just dumb. That doesn’t mean you can just blow through without even looking, but a full stop? Nah.
I think this Beaverton article kind of sums it up haha
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/06/complex-man-hates-bikes-when-hes-driving-hates-cars-when-hes-biking/
Ideal would be to treat it like a crosswalk, no? You must always slow down when approaching but you don’t have to stop unless someone (pedestrian, bike or car) is crossing.
Joey, that’s the Denver stop (or Idaho stop) that Blork was referring to: treating a stop sign as a yield sign. It’s the law in 13 US states plus DC. Plus in lots of countries stop signs are rare, they use yield signs or the default yield to traffic on the right.
It would be great if we got this here, and one could ask their candidates this question in the upcoming election (it’s the province that regulates this).
Idaho stop was heavily lobbied for during the last CSR review, but the gov did not want it.
I guess the question in terms of legislation is whether people can be trusted to use their judgement and… well, you can’t turn right on a red in Montreal for reasons, and maybe Idaho stops fall under that too. Riders blowing through stop signs and red lights like it’s a suggestion not a rule should endure an occasional reality check.
I would be fully supportive of stricter enforcement of cyclists putting people in danger, such as those not yielding to pedestrians everywhere, in exchange of non-enforcement of cyclists doing non-harmful things, such as going through while slowing down when there is no traffic to yield to (or wearing earbuds even in one ear, something I never do but that distracts me much less than when in a car with a loud radio and the windows up, which is completely legal).
To anyone on a high horse about cyclists not doing their stops, I would ask: do you? I mean a full legal stop, which requires you to stop moving completely and put your foot on the ground?
Because that’s absurd. And it’s why approximately 99.9% of cyclists do Idaho stops.
People who demand cyclists make so many full stops have never ridden a bike in traffic. In traffic, a cyclist’s momentum is their fuel, and it’s what keeps you safe, able to move quickly when needed.
>Riders blowing through stop signs and red lights like it’s a suggestion not a rule should endure an occasional reality check.
Agreed; but that’s not what the Idaho stop is.
>or wearing earbuds even in one ear
Hilariously, that’s legal for car drivers (hands-free = safe, don’t you know?), but not cyclists! Somehow operating a 1000 kg vehicle with one ear is ok, but operating a 10 kg vehicle with one ear is just too dangerous.
>I would ask: do you? I mean a full legal stop
Motorists don’t ever do full stops either.
I used to think talking hands-free while driving was no big deal until I apparently completely missed a stop sign on a street I had driven on hundreds of times while on the phone.
Stop signs: the first spark in the unthinkable but world-changing romance between Idaho libertarians and Montreal cyclists.
@chris “Motorists don’t ever do full stops either.” The fine is over 300 bucks and you lose 2 demerit points. Bicyclists not so much. Go sit by the cop station on Remembrance some morning and count the bicyclists that stop at the stop sign.
@Joey since bike delivery, bixi, and maybe a deathwish have become increasingly common I often see people in my neighbourhood riding no-hands while consulting their phone, presumably for directions.
A policeman has been shot and a gunman is at large in Côté-des-Neiges. Posting from fone, more soon.
A cop is dead and another person injured, but the attacker has been stopped.
According to these reports, a police officer, another person plus the suspect are all dead.
Watching interview with Fady Dagher, who observed that it’s 24 years since the last SPVM cop died doing their job.
BBC covers Monday’s shooting (is Ana Faguy a relative of Fagstein’s?).
Dislike the journalists asking him how he personally feels,come on. That said the safety of policing as a job here puts into spotlight the lack of balance in their killing innocent people.
That police officer straight up murdered Michael Moshe Mizrahi. Is this going to be the straw that breaks the camels back on the “systematic racism” issue?
I don’t understand the sequence of events. Apparently the shooter was in a room at the Hilton overlooking the scene, but there’s video of the cops busting the glass on the PA store and going in there. What’s the connection?
That police officer did not “murder” anyone, she reacted to what she perceived as the shooter coming at her, and shortly after that was wounded herself.
Flooding remains the biggest story Monday, many householders still coping with the aftermath.
Really cursed us with that “biggest story”.
No kidding.
I was wondering as I read about the UK Labour prime minister leaving office voluntarily part way through his term to make way for a more popular choice as leader – has something like this ever happened in Canada?
This doesn’t look too much different from Trudeau’s resignation last year.
Short memory here. You’re right.
It was a voluntary resignation but the lede makes it clear that his choices were quite limited – “… forced out by his own party after missteps and mistakes…”
Same thing more or less happened to Francois Legault earlier this year (though obviously at different moments in both his career and his mandate, but broadly…).
I would draw the Chretien-Martin analogy, since it seems Starmer’s choice was forced by the election of a rival who would have made internal party politics extremely difficult for him.
I was also thinking of Chrétien but wasn’t he already planning to retire and just wanted to set up the next leader for the upcoming election?
Chretien was going to retire but then refused when he felt he was being forced out. He intentionally screwed over Paul Martin, which led to that long period where the Liberals were searching and searching for a viable candidate until they finally had the brainflash to make Trudeau do it and just shadow government the whole shebang until he found his feet. I personally blame Chretien for Harper. In the end Carney’s not much better than Harper was, but hey.
Police chief Fady Dagher is to meet with the mayor and other elected officials Monday, behind closed doors.
CBC reports on a relevant incident from last fall, in which a Black family holding a birthday party in their back yard in Montreal North was allegedly pepper sprayed by police, including the senior parents.
CTV has put together a useful piece on what you need to know if your home has been flooded.
The Middle East was unavoidable this week, with no one quite knowing how things will progress.
There was surprisingly little about the World Cup, although Chloé linked it with the FIFA peace award.
Côté and Chapleau both commented wordlessly on the Montreal police scandal.
The intricacies of Quebec politics was the topic de la semaine. The exodus of names from the CAQ in advance of the election was one theme that was widely covered, with various metaphors, and the arrival of a new candidate another. The lurking presence of Dubé and Legault was effectively spoofed by Ygreck, as was Fréchette’s advantage in watching PSPP and Charles Milliard squaring off.
However, Côté on the kangaroo was the single best cartoon of the week.
Ian Lafrenière – who originally came to public notice as a spokesman for the SPVM, let’s not forget – has named an “independent” observer into the SPVM’s investigation into racism at station 39.
And yes, I put scare quotes there on purpose, qatzelok.
An observer is okay as a start — we need an inquiry too, though they do need a non-cop there watching — and she’s a lot more independent than I would have guessed they would choose (based on looking her up — she’s an academic). I’m not entirely convinced but it’s not the worst choice I can imagine.
The relentless rain through Saturday has caused flooding and power failures in Pierrefonds.
2 pm Sunday, thunder and more heavy rain. Quite a way to celebrate the summer solstice.
It’s about 4 am here in Pierrefonds now, and the power is finally back on here (hoping I don’t jinx it.) And there is some flooding in our house, which won’t be fun to deal with.
I was biking through Pointe-Claire yesterday, and many of its intersections were also flooded, forcing me to take a zigzag route avoiding interestections where water-logged cars stood as warning signs.
Is this because of the fast, ticky-tacky planning of bungalow suburbia?
It wasn’t so much the kind of construction, as a determination to ignore natural waterways and lowlands, and build on them anyway.
What worries me at the moment is the warning that all of this might happen again today (Sunday.) Arrgh.
I’m at the highest point of the West-Island near Fairview. Dollard got flooded too, houses here are 60+ years old. The highest rainfall estimate is 170mm. I think the big floods of the previous summer were closer to 100mm and weren’t preceded by a week of rain. Pointe-Claire got hit again, too, in their 100+ year old neighbourhood, new and original buildings.
It’s not always about the ticky-tacky.
Apart from housing, we’ve covered almost everything with impermeable asphalt for the benefit of cars. That stops the soil from absorbing so much rain.
That’s not really the issue in the WI Chris, there is a lot of undeveloped space and wetlands. The issue is that it is low-lying and a lot of it, especially places like Pierrefonds is historicaly floodplain.
Pierrefonds was built on wetlands and swamp dredge-and-fill development, and the city kept handing out permits because they were chasing tax revenue. They completely ignored the fact that the drainage infrastructure couldn’t handle it—and they didn’t even factor climate change projections into those decisions. Now residents are paying the price for decades of bad planning.
Ian I was speaking generally, not about West Island.
If they built 10 story condos, 90% of them wouldn’t be flooded. (yes I’m being goofy with statistics)
@su exactly.
The Gazette talks to several arty types who are facing the loss of their affordable studio spaces in a building north of Mile End.
And once again Shiller-Lavy’s legacy through Mondev continues to destroy everything fun about this general area.
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