New day shelter opens at Cabot Square
Not a moment too soon, a new day centre has opened at Cabot Square. Resilience Montreal is in that onetime restaurant building we’ve discussed at Atwater and Ste-Catherine. CTV says it’s a wet shelter. There’s one catch: it’s only a one-year lease.
Michael Black 23:31 on 2019-11-14 Permalink
What’s interesting is that David Chapman is involved. At some point he’d suddenly become “acting director” of the Open Door, without explanation, then a later story said he’d been terminated. The Open Door now has a new director.
He didn’t start the shelter, but I had the impression he was behind the sculpting of it towards Inuit. Things like a soapstone carving room. When The Open Door moved, it seemed like an abandoning, though the did try to find somewhere closer.
So now he’s back and that probably is a good thing. Realistically, this shelter is due to multiple grouos getting together.
In other news, note the Resistance has a stamp as of last week, though after checking, no close relatives that I know of are in the photo. The stamp.booklet actual shows who is in the photo. But the MMF sent me a list of who was considered part of the provisiinal government, and there were six relatives, not the three I had noticed previously. But Red River was a small place and the families large, so it’s not hard to find relatives. Even Louis is related, though many steps and only through marriage.
And on Wednesday it’s the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the occupation of Alcatraz, coming out of the doldrums of the fifties, the mpact still felt today.