Spotted on bus stop pole Friday. Good spoof of STM style:
(I’ve been told this is not new, but this particular instance looked fresh and must have been posted within the last few days, as it’s a stop I use regularly.)
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Just spotted a tweet about the closure of part of Waverly for the San Marziale event on Sunday, one of the Mile End’s quirkier gatherings
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An informative brief video from Radio-Canada explains what happens with the contents of the brown bin.
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The heat wave may have killed as many as 54 people throughout Quebec, with 28 of them in Montreal.
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Robert Lepage has issued a statement about SLĀV saying the cancellation is a “direct blow to artistic freedom.” The full statement, in both French and English, is on Facebook.
Journal commentator Denise Bombardier calls it censorship. The New York Times covers the story, quoting opinions from both sides.
In a tweet, Jaggi Singh simply calls the show racist.
I could spend hours collecting responses to the show and its closure, but although I don’t like confirming a prejudice, it seems on the whole that francophones disagree the show should have been cancelled and feel it to be an attack on freedom of expression – n.b. most of those links were from the Journal while Radio-Canada sought out a more varied reaction – while anglos feel the idea was at best mishandled and at worst, like Singh, an act of gross racism. There are exceptions: Marilou Craft on Urbania wrote a doubtful preview of the show as long ago as December, and another this week.
Lise Ravary, for her part, wrote that protesters at the show were Une jeunesse de gauche, surtout anglophone, inculte, ignorante, abreuvée de l’antiracisme radical ‘séparatiste’ né aux États-Unis où les conflits raciaux font partie du quotidien. But she isn’t racist, no no.
A capsule view of the two sides can be read on the Twitter hashtag #slavresistance.
This is my final post about SLĀV unless there’s some new story. But it’s been an unavoidable topic all week.
One update: A writer for Metro points out that Robert Lepage is working on a show called Kanata with the Cirque du Soleil in New York – big names, big location. It’s supposed to be about Canada’s relationship with its aboriginal people. The writer, a Cree, says that to the best of her knowledge Lepage has not consulted with any first nations nor are there actual aboriginal people in the cast.
Another update: J. Kelly Nestruck has a good piece in the Globe & Mail pointing out that this is not the first time Lepage has been accused of laziness in his approach to depicting other cultures.
And one more: someone has compiled a bibliography of responses in various media.
Sunday, Lise Ravary continues the theme that the Québécois aren’t racist and to suggest they can be is racist.
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The Gazette rubs its hands at the thought of all the high-price rental properties opening up in Montreal.
All of them will have breakfast bars.
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The river shuttle linking Rivière-des-Prairies to Old Montreal is coming back but it’s not clear when.
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Police are putting out details on a man found dead two years ago in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, hoping to identify him.
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Tony Accurso wants to stay out of jail so he can help out his kids. Item doesn’t say how old they are or if any of them have special needs.
Tony, of course you want to stay out of jail. Who wouldn’t? I imagine most people who go to jail leave loose ends: family, jobs, friends, pets, projects. (What happens to the pets of people who have to do jail time?) But you’re not special – why should your family responsibilities mean more to a judge than anyone else’s?
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The Open Door shelter, which was in a church at the eastern edge of lower Westmount for years, is moving to a church in the southwestern corner of the Plateau and some business owners are not thrilled. This is the shelter that, among other things, gives Inuit artists somewhere to work.
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A list of the closures for the Turcot, some of which will last longer than a weekend.
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The Coderre-era project to install granite blocks and concrete belvederes around Mount Royal has never been completed, with some of the material still in storage. Nobody liked this thing – it was one of the poorest ideas for the 375th – so let’s not throw more money at it.
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