So the city announces it’s going to dig up a commercial street, maybe for years, and make it unattractive if not actually impassable to vehicles and pedestrians, accompanied by media pieces about how this will hurt businesses along the street, so is it really news when it turns out
it’s really hurting businesses along the street?
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Kate
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Kate
A demonstration against antisemitism and other forms of racism is planned Sunday at noon at the Holocaust museum. There’s a Facebook link but it’s an open one. The museum is on Côte Ste‑Catherine, where the park across the street is mostly trees on that side, so it’s unclear where people are expected to gather, but I’m seeing this event tweeted generally so there’s bound to be quite a crowd.
Valérie Plante has tweeted her condolences to Pittsburgh along with many other Canadian politicians and notables (“Andrew Scheer wrote that he was praying for those affected”). CBC has a general piece about more security around Canadian synagogues but I imagine most Jewish institutions won’t be revealing many details about the measures they’re taking.
In tangentially related news, a man from Rosemont has been charged with inciting hatred of Jews (and, oddly, threats specifically to the family of Céline Dion, which may get him in more serious trouble).
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I know the REM is a divisive topic on the blog, but I’m curious what people make of this analysis of how costs and expected revenue from the system balance out. I have to admit, my brain starts fizzing part way through this (I pay someone else to sort out my taxes too), but I don’t know whether that’s my finance circuit melting down or a strong sense that flimflam has taken place.
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There are few traces left of Griffintown even as it was as recently as ten years ago. The curious structure that stands at the eastern end of the old Wellington tunnel has been turned into a condo sales office, and the item also harks back to St Ann’s church, once the heart of the Irish working class in the area, but demolished in 1970.
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Radio-Canada goes into detail about the big demolition of old Turcot pieces expected from November 9-13, and the street closures that are planned. By next June almost the entire old highway will no longer be standing.
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Police and firefighters held a sort of diversity drive Saturday, hard to say if it’s meant to have results or was simply a PR exercise. Numbers given: “less than” 9% of cops are visible minorities, 97% of firefighters are white males.
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Three men convicted of raking off thousands in takings from Stationnement de Montréal were sentenced varying amounts of jail time this week, but spared having to pay back by a merciful judge.
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Predictably, François Legault says Valérie Plante’s pink line would be too expensive but proposes a surface tram line instead.
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Poor old Park Extension-Villeray. We finally got rid of lame duck MNA Gerry Sklavounos and entrenched old-school borough mayor Anie Samson, but now the whole borough’s stuck with a mayor who has to have an official minder after accusations of workplace harassment and ejection from the Projet caucus.
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Girerd, editorial cartoonist at La Presse for years, but long retired, died last week. Some of his work is viewable on the BAnQ site, and here are some examples which could almost be printed again today. Click to enlarge.
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SAQ workers held a surprise strike Friday.
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The CSDM has
ordered an end to lockdown drillsstopped making lockdown drills mandatory because some kids became jumpy and nervous after being told to envision a shooter entering their school. The English board continues to hold an annual drill in its schools. -
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A big court case tackling gangs and drugs had a surprise Friday when gang boss Gregory Woolley and one of his henchmen suddenly pleaded guilty.
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The mayor and the new premier have agreed on plans to revitalize the east end of Montreal (where the CAQ voters live).
Update: Pierre-André Normandin at La Presse also notes that Montreal’s east end is in for a renaissance because they voted CAQ.
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CityLab has a piece on Mount Royal’s raccoons, with some nice watercolours. Suggested by reader Matthew S.
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