A case of alleged police brutality from the 2012 protests was thrown out of court by a judge who refused to believe police had done anything wrong in the plaintiff’s case.
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Kate
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Kate
Tenants in Little Burgundy are fighting eviction by a new landlord with explicit plans to convert the building to short-term rentals.
Ephraim
Have they gone to the city to ask if he can even get the permits? In Ville Marie it’s already limited to St-Catherine street. In the Plateau it’s limited to St-Denis, St-Laurent and Shebrooke street for all new permits.
jeather
The article said the zoning permits it. And the timing seems like they’ve been given the 6 months notice, though the Regie can require them to give more notice or more money (3 months rent + moving costs).
Ian
Exactly, caveat emptor – always a good idea to know the zoning of the building you are in because that can change the rules around your rights as a renter quite drastically.
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Kate
Mathias Marchal runs down the list of environmental challenges in Montreal this year.
CharlesQ
I don’t get it, still no plan to address heat islands? We need a lot more trees, mandatory white or green roofs everywhere, cover those large parking lots with solar panels (cars could park under them), municipal geothermal (geothermal wells on public space serving multiple buildings), etc. It’s an actual health emergency.
Kate
Maybe that’s being tackled by individual boroughs? I seem to recall an announcement by Rosemont about mandating white roofs, for example.
CharlesQ
@Kate: I remember that, it was a couple of years ago but even the Plateau hasn’t jumped on board yet. Some boroughs accept gray roofs. It’s very uneven from one place to another.
mare
White roofs are required by law in Rosemont-Petite-Patrie since many years now. Our roof was done in 2012 and needed to be white. Unfortunately white is not just white elastomers, but also white gravel on tar which has a much lower albedo and will get dirty over time because of air pollution.
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Kate
David Lametti, MP for LaSalle-Emard-Verdun, was made federal justice minister in Monday’s cabinet shuffle. The Gazette has a brief profile.
Brett
Oh good. The activist lawyer is out and a more level headed attorney takes her place.
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Kate
Following Monday’s monoxide incident in a Lasalle school, the École des Découvreurs is remaining closed till further notice and other schools will be inspected.
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Kate
This is a minor chronic story that never ends, because I’ve seen mention of it in media and social media on and off for years. A man who will remain nameless for Google’s sake has persuaded Côte St-Luc to ask the urban agglomeration to deny permits to the Tour de l’Île events unless they turn them into charity fundraisers. This idea has never gone anywhere because everyone knows the Tour events are about the sheer pleasure of cycling.
I’ve said before, in previous recensions of this blog, that if this man wants to have a charity event, he should create one himself and not try to co-opt a successful event started for other reasons. I still think so.
DeWolf
“I don’t think a bunch of cyclists should hog our roads and prevent people from getting to hospitals and blocking people from going to different parts of the city.”
That’s the CSL councillor pushing this forward. The charity thing is just a ruse. He’s actually just anti-cycling. “I wish they would make it go on the Gilles-Villeneuve circuit,” he says. He’s not even making an effort to understand why people enjoy cycling in the first place.
qatzelok
Cote St Luc’s idea of turning the Tour de l’Ile into “Doing loops of a race track to cure cancer” is extremely office-cubicle-centric.
dwgs
I listened to that person being interviewed on Daybreak yesterday. He sounds like a jerk through and through.
Joey
That quote is telling, DeWolf. “A bunch of cyclists” have no place on “our roads.”
Tim S.
I wonder how Westmount feels now that TMR and Cote-St-Luc are competing for the title of “most annoying anglo enclave.”
Chris
Roads predate cars, and bikes were there first. So really it’s the cars clogging up *our* roads.
Jack
Michael Cohen’s day job is as the director of communications for the English Montreal School Board. It makes you wonder why there is little to no groundswell of folks supporting our school boards when people like Mr.Cohen are the public face of these institutions. His stupidity on this issue is unmatched and his day job is to promote public education, it makes one wonder.
Bo Mark
We need a few more days a year when cars can prevent people from getting to hospitals and block people from going to different parts of the city. 365 days is not enough.
While we are at it, how about we force drivers to donate to Centrade when they register their vehicles.
You just have to use Mike Cohen’s logic.Alex L
If we had a few more days like that, maybe fewer people would have to go to hospitals in the first place.
Ian
Shockingly both cars and cyclists are annoying to those of us rely on walking and public transit. 😉
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Kate
L’actualité has a good interview with Valérie Plante.
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Kate
Is it realistic to put on a ferry service to offset the congestion when lanes are closed during the lengthy renovations to the L-H-Lafontaine tunnel?
John B
The “Vue aérienne du tunnel Louis-Hyppolite-La Fontaine” graphic, with the red line shows the location of the tunnel in the wrong place. We can see the exit from the tunnel on the left of the image, it does not exit in the middle of the port.
Raymond Lutz 10:08 on 2019-01-16 Permalink
Tiré de l’article:
“La juge retient même une faute de la part de M. Duchesneau: la manifestation annuelle de la CLAC dégénère chaque année. Les personnes sont bousculées et peuvent être frappées. Il s’agit là d’un risque connu et assumé, surtout par un manifestant qui n’est pas un néophyte comme M. Duchesneau, écrit-elle. Il «a été négligent en participant et en ne quittant pas la manifestation en temps opportun. Il doit assumer une partie de la responsabilité, soit 50 %».”
C’est exactement le même argument qu’un jugement français de 2016 pour un lycéen éborgné en 2007: en bref, “t’avais juste à pas être là”. (Au moins il a touché la moitié des indemnités demandées). Flash-ball : le lycéen nantais jugé co-responsable du tir qui l’a éborgné