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  • Kate 21:38 on 2019-11-13 Permalink | Reply  

    Usually parking rules change on December 1, but Ville-Marie is allowing the restrictions to lift in advance because of the weather. I’m also seeing on reddit that Plateau and Rosemont boroughs are following suit, but please don’t park insouciantly without checking.

     
    • Tim S. 09:15 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      NDG-CDN too, according to the borough twitter feed.

    • MJ 10:46 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      Sud Ouest has followed suit

    • SMD 12:57 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      VSMPE, too.

  • Kate 21:24 on 2019-11-13 Permalink | Reply  

    The CSDM has announced a new grade school will open in Griffintown, on Basin Street, although not when. I feel an urge to make book on possible names for it – of course you know what it should be

     
    • Jack 22:20 on 2019-11-13 Permalink

      If the CSDM is naming the new school here are the probabilities.
      1. Ecole Bernard Drainville
      2. Ecole Loco Locass
      3. Ecole Pierre Falardeau
      4. Ecole Pierre Bourgault
      5. Ecole Pauline Julien
      I put my money on 5, because Gerald Godin , Camille Laurin, Alice Parizeau are already taken.

    • denpanosekai 23:40 on 2019-11-13 Permalink

      Worse is that Basin street is actually going to be renamed Des Bassins: https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/basin-st-becomes-des-bassins

    • Filp 04:37 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      I like reading this blog, but the comments can be a bit hysterical at times. Did y’all get lost on your way to the gazette comment section or…?

    • Kate 09:00 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      Filp, you’re confusing satirical with hysterical.

    • Filp 11:11 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      To me the separatist boogeyman is hysterical. Watch out, a school might be named after one…or there might be one in your closet!!!!! Boo!!!
      Things get named after politicians, even the ones you might not have supported at the time

    • qatzelok 11:17 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      Likewise, the feigned nostalgia for “Basin Street.” So many memories of citing Winston Churchill, union jack under me arm, while eating a Tim Hortons donut on Basin Street. (satire alert)

    • Kate 11:49 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      qatzelok, Filp, I’m trying to discern whether you wish to police how we feel, or how we express ourselves here.

      Are anglos really not allowed to feel a certain way about the loss of their part of this culture?

      Are we assumed to be hypocrites, pretending to feel a certain way when you think, that as anglos, we really have no legitimate feelings?

      Or, if we do feel a certain pique about the gradual removal of our existence, culture and history from the public scene, are we being requested not to speak about it – even in jest?

    • Filp 14:22 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      Kate, I think you’re reading into my comment quite a bit. I don’t think me commenting on what I observe as hysteria is equivalent to policing this blog. There is a certain part of the Anglo community that has a big issue with dead politicians they don’t like, and cannot fathom why anyone would want to honor them. I don’t think naming a CSDM school after a separatist is a bad thing. And there are obviously others who agree with me. Politicians you may not have liked did have a long standing effect on Quebec’s history and culture, and deserve to have their place in the city’s toponymie and public spaces. Like the bust of Camille Lauren on Sherbrooke, which I’m sure doesn’t have many fans around this blog, but many would consider important to the survival of the French language in Quebec.

      On another note: Is renaming basin to des bassins really an erasure of culture though? Why does a street name describing a local geographical feature have to be in English? De la Montagne is basically just mountain street too.

    • Filp 14:28 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      Camille Laurin* just to correct myself lol

    • dwgs 14:31 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      Ah Flip, you’ve stepped in it there. Mountain Street was never named for the mountain but rather for George Jehoshaphat Mountain, who was a man of some accomplishments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mountain

    • Filp 14:34 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      Ah thanks for correcting me! Didn’t know that
      But it still stands, does something named after a geographical feature have to stay in English?

    • Filp 14:38 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      On his wikipedia page it does mention some ambiguity regarding the street name, saying Montagne has existed on maps for a while. Would be curious to see the history behind that one

    • Clément 14:49 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      dwgs, Filp, according to the “Répertoire de toponymie de Montréal” (Doesn’t seem to be linkable content):

      rue de la Montagne

      Date de désignation :
      avant 1761

      Arrondissement :
      Le Sud-Ouest

      Ville-Marie

      Certains ont prétendu que ce nom n’avait aucune relation avec la montagne et qu’il rappellerait Jacob Mountain, premier évêque anglican de Québec. Toutefois, la rue de la Montagne est à l’origine un chemin ou sentier qui conduit à la montagne et, à partir du XVIIe siècle, à la mission amérindienne des sulpiciens. Une carte de la ville, tracée par Jourdain La Brosse, en date de 1761, montre le chemin appelé «chemin des Sauvages de la montagne». L’emplacement de ce chemin correspond à celui démontré plus tard sur des cartes comme étant le «chemin de la Montagne», aujourd’hui rue de la Montagne.

      Il est démontré dans un plan de la ville de l’arpenteur Jean Péladeau, tracé en 1778, que «les courbes du chemin devront être redressées». Cela prouve encore une fois que le «chemin de la Montagne» existe et est nommé bien avant l’arrivée de Jacob Mountain, en 1793. Il semble que ce chemin rejoint un sentier qui suit à peu près la rue Sherbrooke.

      Tiré de :
      Ville de Montréal. Les rues de Montréal. Répertoire historique. Montréal: Méridien, 1995

    • Kate 16:07 on 2019-11-15 Permalink

      Using that logic, Bishop Street ought to become… rue l’Évêque!

    • Jack 14:57 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      Flip thanks for your comment I was being flip. The reason is when I was riding my bike in P Ex and saw the naming of the schools it made me laugh. Because Camille Laurin and Barthélemy Vimont have had a lot to do with the cultural construct of P Ex over the years. The PQ dominated the CSDM commissioners for years so they’d name things after their canon ( Alice Parizeau, Gilles Vigneault, Felix Leclerc). Thats what I was making fun of and of course everything else named after Michel Chartrand.

    • jeather 16:29 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

      I’m mostly against renaming streets in general and to politicians in particular, but in particular I see that a lot of renaming is from English street names to French words or politicians. I haven’t done a statistical analysis of this, but it’s been ongoing for a long time.

    • J.T 01:28 on 2019-11-15 Permalink

      Bernard Landry? a fermentor of sectarian hate who has no relation to the area? Even a french Griffintowner like myself wouldnt approve of that… The pq and bloc have never had strong support from french ppl in the griff or even the rest of the southwest…Oscar Peterson? again? He shoulda got Lionel Groulx st and metro but he’s already got Campbell park in his own neighbourhood Little Burgundy….Hysteria & satire aside it would be nice of the city to name places in Griffintown after actual local ppl or institutions that mean something to Griffintown ppl, french and english alike… if they dont know just ask it aint like we are all dead most ppl still live minutes away in the other parts of the southwest…just off the top of my head Leo Leonard…Frank Hanley…Tony Walsh founder of labre house…Papa Palmerino Sorgente …Emily Coonan…Someone from the O’Connell or O’Donnell families long time employers in the area who stuck around…if it absolutely has to be french then someone from the clergy over at ste-helene church or school …Valerie Plante and her southwest lapdogs Ben Dorais Craig Sauve and Sterling Downey should pull their heads out their asses on this one…It only adds insult to injury after their drastic property tax increases thru out the poorest parts of the southwest…I’m now looking at 5+gs in taxes for a tinderbox triplex in Village-Turcot that hasnt been renovated since the flash flood of 87…Un gros marci val !

  • Kate 21:23 on 2019-11-13 Permalink | Reply  

    It was news a couple of years ago that the Guy-Favreau YMCA would close, but the closure was held off, with a hopeful ten-year lease signed with the federal government, which owns that building. But the parent organization is shutting it down by the end of the year, as well as gutting programs in Hochelaga and Point St Charles.

     
    • Kate 13:42 on 2019-11-13 Permalink | Reply  

      Nice piece in Metro about Louis Rastelli and Expozine, as well as an exhibit of zines at Concordia.

       
      • Kate 13:32 on 2019-11-13 Permalink | Reply  

        The city intends to completely cancel bylaw P-6, created in 2012 in the ferment of the student protests, which outlaws face coverings during protests and requires police approval for protest itineraries. The face covering part of the law was already struck down.

         
        • Kate 13:24 on 2019-11-13 Permalink | Reply  

          An 80-year-old woman was killed by a truck Wednesday morning in St-Léonard.

           
          • Jack 14:58 on 2019-11-13 Permalink

            You often wonder what it would take to get our own traffic laws enforced.
            Which would directly save lives.
            What would it take to get trucks that could see their immediate surroundings.
            Which would directly save lives.
            You can see her covered in aluminum foil by the trucks left tire on the TVA footage.
            Both my Grandmothers died in bed surrounded by people that loved them.

          • david100 15:55 on 2019-11-13 Permalink

            It really has to be something, being hit by a car.  You’re walking or riding your bike, you have a million things on your mind – pick up this or that at the shop, remember to check in on some friend you haven’t connected with in a while, maybe some old song or scene pops into your head – then WHACK! you’re hit by some inattentive bonehead piloting what’s tantamount to a weapon at his speed and attention level.  Then when you stop rolling along the pavement and your consciousness is fading, and you realize that’s it, you have to just be amazed.  Like, how the ordinary thoughts you had were your last.  I bet a lot of people hit by cars croak thinking of what to wear or what to cook.  

            Say what you will about a grinding terminal illness, you have time to take stock of things.  I was in a plane than made an emergency landing after engine trouble, and my life really did flash before my eyes when we were in free fall.  Going to war, jumping off a bridge, hypothermia – you have time to take stock of things.  Getting hit by a car is a pretty odd thing in that it’s one of the few common ways that a person just doing whatever can go from making a laundry list to the morgue.  I guess the only other ones would be heart attack or stroke.

          • Kate 12:07 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

            You’re giving me existential heebie-jeebies here, david100.

        • Kate 09:06 on 2019-11-13 Permalink | Reply  

          The city is seeking a stable ten-year transit financing deal with the Quebec government.

           
          • Kate 09:05 on 2019-11-13 Permalink | Reply  

            STM inspectors want to emulate some SPVM patrollers and ride bicycles downtown in summertime. Give ’em trikes, I say.

             
            • denpanosekai 23:44 on 2019-11-13 Permalink

              So, about these STM rental cops… the other day I saw an STM “police” car blast through a red light with their flashing orange lights and siren on. I thought this was strictly reserved to emergency services. I mean I guess it’s possible one of the STM drivers called 911 or something like that?

            • Joey 09:38 on 2019-11-14 Permalink

              Maybe STM cops are trained as first responders?

          • Kate 09:03 on 2019-11-13 Permalink | Reply  

            Radio-Canada talks to several people whose lives are about to be shaken up by the closure of the Mount Royal tunnel and the loss of the Deux-Montagnes line for three years. Although the man who’s retiring because it’s too hard to get from Canora to Central Station any other way is older, frankly, there are other ways to do that which aren’t so terrible. The folks stranded in distant suburbs are in deeper trouble.

            In other news, TVA has a mildly clickbaity headline here with Pont Samuel-De Champlain: où sont les travailleurs du REM? but the answer is simply that various agreements are about to be signed before workers can get to the job of running the line across the new bridge.

             
            • Francesco 09:25 on 2019-11-13 Permalink

              I clicked on the TVA piece last night and was all “Oh. Getting ready. That’s where.”

          • Kate 08:54 on 2019-11-13 Permalink | Reply  

            In response to the recent lead scare, Global has some brief notes on how far you can go in filtering lead out of your water supply.

             
            • Alex 14:03 on 2019-11-13 Permalink

              $1000 seems a lot, you can pick up a good 5 stage under sink RO filter for around $300 from a hardware shop

          • Kate 08:43 on 2019-11-13 Permalink | Reply  

            La Presse follows up its piece on drivers ignoring crosswalks with some public health concern about making them work, but it will be an uphill battle.

             
            • Kate 08:38 on 2019-11-13 Permalink | Reply  

              It’s no surprise that the early snowfall messed with public transit on Monday.

               
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