A dépanneur worker was stabbed Tuesday night in Montreal North, and a suspect is already in custody.
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Kate
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Kate
CBC has some advice on spotting fraudulent apartment postings.
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Kate
Radio-Canada looks at a new style of social housing in northern St-Michel.
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Kate
TVA has a brief look at five construction projects that will change the city.
Ginger Baker
Odd they didn’t mention the super secret space laser being retrofitted into the dome of the Oratory…
Typical liberal media!
Tim F
I’d have thought the REM would come before the Bellechasse centre.
Faiz Imam
I believe the framing of the article is specifically projects that have been launched in 2019. Rem started last year.
Anyways. I was interested to read that the royal mount folks need to present amendments by this fall. Good to know there is still room to make the project less horrible.
I expect they’ll add some amount of residential, which will be great. The more the better. But what would really be helpful would be key social infrastructure. Community centers, schools, athletics stuff that isn’t a private gyms,etc.
Basically, anything they can do to make it more than a glorified luxury shopping mall would be great.
Ant6n
It takes a special kind of reality distortion field to take a shit project, add the unrealistic hope for some, any improvements, and start praising that same shit project based on that wishful thinking already. I guess it’s a kind of subtle pro-developer shilling/PR (are they paying you yet or are you still doing this work for free).
dwgs
Always the ad hominem…
Kate
To be fair, dwgs, Faiz Imam has a proven track record of wanting to believe the very best of any development, be it the REM or something like Royalmount.
Faiz Imam, I have seen zero indication that Carbonleo is community-minded, nor that they are likely to welcome amendments of the type you describe. Carbonleo has one interest: a buck. Anything they concede will have to be forced on them by the city.
ant6n
@dwgs
Okay fine, let’s put it another way: It’s ridiculous to claim that the Royalmount is the addition of an apartment unit away from being a great project.Faiz Imam
Dude, as usual you misrepresent me and take the least charitable interpretation of my words.
I literally said “there is room to make it less horrible”
Which is my way of saying the project sucks but there might be ways to put lipstick on the pig.
Then I make an additional point of what could be added to actually make it good.
In hindsight, I should have had a last line that said “but honestly given the owners, no way any real improvements will happen’
That might have made my position more clear.
Kate: I totally agree with you that the bottom line is the only line. But as we are seeing with the condo boom city wide, as well as the death of physical retail and many forms of shopping, it’s totally not Clear that the best money is in a classical shopping mall.
If you follow global retail development trends, the pattern is clearly towards mega projects with mixed use faux downtowns with a ton of luxury residential next to luxury retail and experiences.
The solar uniquartier in Brossard for example exemplifies this larger trend. And old suburbs all over North America are seeing a ton of them pop up.
My point is that Royalmount is the weird one here. They might be leaving a ton of money on the table by not having a strong residential component.
Also, note that residental doesn’t mean good. As you say we should not expect any sort of social infrastructure.
My expectation is that we will get griffintown 2.0. That’s probably the best we can hope for and I’ll be glad if that happens as opposed to the nonsense planned at the moment.
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Kate
We have a thunderstorm watch throughout the St Lawrence valley Tuesday, including Montreal, on top of the heat warning we already had.
Ian
So much for that. The skies were green, the wind was making the big trees creak… then nothing.
At least it’s a little bit cooler today.
Kate
Wow. Up here in Villeray it bucketed down, in several passes!
CE
I was fearing the rain as I knew I would have to bike all over the city yesterday. Luckily, I didn’t get hit by it at all despite seeing that it must have rained heavily in different neighbourhoods when I wasn’t in them.
Ian
Well I guess that’s why it cooled down even if it barely rained in Mile End… I guess instead of the one massive rainstorm that goes on for a couple of days that was predicted we got a bunch of mini storms floating through. My garden could have used the rain, and Jeanne Mance park was downright crunchy to walk in yesterday.
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Kate
A few dozen Montrealers jumped into the river Tuesday morning for the 15th Grand Splash, including a few elected officials but not, as last year, the mayor.
jo
whats the purpose of this website? you just copy what is in the news… waste of time
Kate
You know, you’re right. Thanks!
Marco
Thanks for the website and all you do Kate.
SMD
Kate, your links and opinions are as refreshing as this morning’s jump in the river. Don’t ever change!
DeWolf
I love this blog. Thanks for curating local news in an interesting way, Kate.
Michael Black
I was certainly glad that whiever added a comment the other day about the Grand Splash did so. That sort of announcement often doesn’t propagate well, so we only read about it after the fact.
There’s a brief video at the CBC site, and Kate is credited, or maybe just for tye tweet, so in this case, it may be fresh news followed by others.
Maybe next year I’ll attend. It can’t be too dangerous if they wear life jackets.
Michael
Jack
Thanks Kate, bye jo.
Kate
Oh guys! Guys! Thank you!
ant6n
On another meta note, would you consider removing the ads and adding a Patreon (or alternative?) instead. Browsing this site without adblocker has become rather scary, and I’d rather directly support with money rather than indirectly with eyeballs and personal data.
Kate
ant6n, I tell you what. I’m halfway to a Google payment now. When I hit that number I will take them down and do Patreon. It’ll be another couple of months but I tend to agree with you – the ads do detract.
Daniel
So glad you do this and so grateful for this blog. 🙂
dwgs
Thanks for all you do Kate. Jo, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
meezly
If this is a waste of time, then move along. I like having a local news aggregator with a personal touch 🙂
Mitch Davis
I adore this site, and visit it daily. The sorry state of Montreal media has it so that local news stories often only appear at a single outlet while being ignored at the others. Were it not for this blog, I’d be missing tons of news. I consider Kate’s work to be invaluable, to put it mildly.
Ginger Baker
Kate has inspired me to kickstart a new local media endeavour
Jo inspires nothing.
Be like Kate
Ban Jo to Drummonville
Raymond Lutz
EH! Ginger, there’s at least one MtlCityWeblog reader who’s living in Drummondville! Stay classy… 😎
walkerp
I would be a patreon backer to help remove the ads.
JP
I really enjoy this site too. Thanks Kate. Go to hell, Jo!
Ian
I guess Jo doesn’t understand or appreciate what an aggregate is for… their loss. I would also support bus patreon. I would also volunteer to make the site mobile friendly…
Mo
Thank you Kate for the all the work you put into this blog over the years.
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Kate
It isn’t surprising that in the city recycling centre the air is contaminated and workers easily get respiratory illnesses. Food remnants in containers are an excellent growth medium for bacteria, especially in this weather – and the status of this work means workers often can’t afford time off, or don’t want to tell their bosses they’re sick.
Douglas
This is why China stop accepting all our recycling garbage.
Ian
Let’s get real for a second, China only stopped accepting our recyclables because it was no longer profitable. Life is cheap in China’s industrial zones.
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Kate
The new Turcot is already covered in graffiti, not surprisingly.
Max
That’s a misleading headline. It’s a problem with one (highly visible, I admit) retaining wall. The rest of the interchange is pretty clean. So far.
Kate
Thanks for the report. Not driving, it’s a part of town I don’t get to look at.
Ginger Baker
Yeah but it’s always been this way and both sides are at fault… we rarely hear about all the graffiti covered in highway interchange retaining walls, more evidence of the liberal media bias.
Ephraim
Is it graffiti or is it tagging? We have some beautiful graffiti murals around St. Lawrence… and some horrible tagging on top of them.
Max
Dude, you only need a quick look to come to a logical conclusion. Retards whose mummies didn’t love them enough are pissing all over the escarpment below the MUCH. There is nothing artistic about that.
Ian
Oh no, our pristine concrete canyons are being ruined. /s
Chris
Ephraim, tagging *is* (a kind of) graffiti. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti#Tagging
If people keep painting them, get some of them together to draw something nice.
Uatu
Hopefully they will plant trees or shrubs to hide the wall. Probably the easiest way to discourage unwanted scribbling…
Jonathan
I would like to request that Max’s offensive comment be taken down.
Max
Did my comment hit a little too close to home, Jonathan? Lol. If you’re one of the needy little tagger pukes defacing our fair city, you’re the one that should be taken down.
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Kate
I’ve been saying we see more stabbings in hot weather, but there are apparently studies demonstrating that it’s true. The Journal counts five stabbings over the weekend, of which two were fatal (a second victim died Monday night, homicide #10); the five listed includes one attack in Laval.
It isn’t always hot-headed young guys, either. In the second death, from a fight that happened in the Plateau, the victim was 54 and the man in custody is 62.
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Kate
Griffintown’s Rodier building was bought in 2017 by Georges Coulombe, a rare bird among owner‑developers with a track record of elegant, responsible restoration of older buildings. But because of city work on one side and REM construction on the other, the Rodier project has become an albatross.
Update: Radio-Canada also has text and audio on this story.
Ian
Oh wow, what a shame! I was wondering what was going on with that building – so much potential. It’s also a shame the city is being less than helpful here.
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