The New York Times writer with the Montreal beat attempts to explain Sugar Sammy.
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Kate
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Kate
The English Montreal School Board has voted to rent more space in Marymount Academy to a private school. The Marymount kids will therefore get a practical lesson in the power of wealth in a capitalist society.
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Kate
Not a specifically Montreal story, though it’s a case being heard at the Montreal Palais de justice and a hell of an entertaining tale: a Sûreté du Québec agent on permanent disability for supposed major depression has been caught out helping run a family business as well as making many trips around the world while pulling down his full police salary for years. The trial continues.
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Kate
In the second of his four-part series on Mount Royal, Andy Riga explores Westmount’s Summit Park. Link may autoplay video.
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Kate
A couple of weeks ago I reported being mad at my bank for withdrawing its ATMs from the metro system. They’re being replaced with generic ATMs that charge $3.50 for a simple cash withdrawal.
This is the notice posted on the Laurentian’s remaining ATMs before they’re taken out, kindly photographed for me at Plamondon station by a reader:
SANS FRAIS SUPPLÉMENTAIRES was the phrase that caught my eye initially, although I didn’t plow through the asteriskery.
I emailed Laurentian and the reply I received says:
These ABMs are replaced by the company Access Cash ABMs, which is not affiliated with the Laurentian Bank. Therefore, withdrawal fees are charged when using their ABMs.
The catch is, these new metro machines are not the Exchange ones mentioned in the notice. I have no idea where those are, because I have yet to see one.
I think it may be the STM I’ve got a beef with, and not the bank.
Update: I downloaded the Exchange app to my phone and it claims the ATM in Jarry metro is one of theirs. It’s a straight-up lie that I can use that machine for withdrawals “sans frais supplémentaires”!
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Kate
Le Devoir profiles LaFontaine riding in the northeastern part of town, which it characterizes as the area where people have the longest commutes on the island.
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Kate
It’s still sad about the teenager who died at Osheaga but, once again, as with the woman last year who blamed security for not protecting her drink from someone who may have put a drug in it, in this case the young man’s mother is blaming security for her son wandering away from a show and ending up in the river.
When adults come together in large groups for some kind of Dionysiac party – by which I mean drugs, noise and dancing – there is a limit to what “security” can do to protect people from themselves. There will always be that random element, that person with nefarious intentions or that rock by the river that shifts and pitches a person in. Until we attend concerts by putting on a VR headset without stirring from our assigned life cubicle, that is how it is*.
*Yes, I know. Then someone infiltrates the VR feed. Etc.
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Kate
I suspect the next few weeks will see the Quebec government dishing out various persuasive sums. Friday it was $50 million to Montreal to fight poverty. That money is spread over five years, and there’s mention of 300 organizations. That’s $33,333 per year for each organization, about enough to pay one modestly reimbursed person or rent a small office somewhere, each.
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