A man was attacked and killed by a fellow inmate in Rivière-des-Prairies prison this week. No homicide number is given here, but I should imagine this counts as homicide #10.
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Kate
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Kate
The third heat wave of this summer is about to settle in for a spell. Piece also notes that June 22 was the hottest high at that date in 150 years.
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Kate
Slightly off topic, but it seems worth noting that the CUSMA – i.e. the new North American free trade act – comes into effect July 1. CTV’s details here are clear, but several things are worth noting from things I have previously read. Editing down CTV’s text and then adding some details:
American farmers will have increased access to […] Canadian dairy, egg and poultry markets. This is unlikely to bring down the cost of Canadian products, but it could result in a larger variety of options on grocery store shelves.
This is a good moment to make plans to buy locally when it comes to these products. The U.S. allows a growth hormone to be used on dairy cows. The residual effects of this hormone on humans are not clear, but the effect on cows is not beneficial. It has been banned in Europe since 1990 and in Canada since 2000 – till now.
Poultry from the U.S. can be chlorinated. Chlorinated chicken is banned in Europe, and the UK plans to continue banning it even after Brexit. I cannot make out what Canada’s position is here, but obviously it’s better to eat humanely raised chicken (also eggs) even if it means you eat less of it.
My local butcher has a sign up basically saying “Eat less meat, but better quality.” With our borders forced open to a greedier regime, that’s even better advice today.
Ian
Having worked at a slaughterhouse, I think it’s important for meat eaters to realize that if you get your meat from a smaller butcher supplied by a smaller farmer your food will simply be fresher, will have had a shorter processing (fresher and more flavour) and have more quality control.
You shouldn’t be buying meat from the grocery store if you can avoid it in any case.
DeWolf
Any recommendations for good local sources of meat, Ian?
Kate
Lufa Farms has deals with several Quebec sources which guarantee grass‑fed beef or free‑range poultry.
I don’t eat a ton of meat, but I do go to Pascal le Boucher in Villeray, because they’re a small, local outfit and very aware of all their sources.
Faiz imam
Muslim grocers are always a good bet for meat. they all tend to maintain relationships with farmers to make sure religious obligations are fulfilled.
SMD
I highly recommend the co-op meat farm Au point du jour (www.fermepointdujour.com).
MarcG
St-Vincent offers tours of the farm in normal summers, that says something.
Ian
There are lots of co-ops as others have pointed out. In the country it is quite common for several people to go in on the price of a pig and have it custom butchered for you by a local butcher, costs a lot less but you need freezer space. In town I suggest you find a good small butcher and start asking questions. Living in Mile End I like Chez Vito a lot, Tino’s quality control is impeccable. If your tastes run more toward homemade sausage & classic German fare Boucherie Atlantique on Queen Mary is unbeatable.
DeWolf
Excellent, thanks everyone!
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Kate
More than 125 evicted households haven’t found new digs yet on Moving Day. The situation is worse in the Plateau than elsewhere, but it’s not great in general.
As usual, the SPCA is receiving a lot of pets given up by people who can’t bring them to their new addresses.
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Kate
Valérie Plante says she’s happy about making masks obligatory in the STM but accepts that the STM has no authority to enforce the rule. Of course the Journal has to “balance” their story about the mayor with criticism from both Lionel Perez and Marvin Rotrand, ignoring the fact that whatever Plante did or said about masks would be loudly interpreted by those two as the wrong thing.
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Kate
The Grand Séminaire, which has trained more than 8,500 priests in its time on Sherbrooke Street, is going to move to Petite-Patrie, where the 16 postulants now studying will train. Imagine moving from that magnificent site to this frankly tacky little box on Bélanger.
But this article says nothing at all about what will happen with the massive site that includes the two towers. But I hear people muttering “condos – what else?”
John B
The Radio-Canada article says that the archdiocese has created a new corporation, “Corporation du Grand Séminaire de l’Archidiocèse de Montréal” – which it controls – to manage the site, so maybe there’s a bit of hope it’ll be something public-ish. OTOH the new corporation could be just to shop it around to the highest bidder. It’s not like the church is growing and needs the space.
walkerp
Assume the archdiocese will choose the most venal path possible in this situation.
Ian
It would be nice if the CSDM could buy it, they are suffering a pretty bad space deficit…
Chris
And after turning to into a school it should of course be renamed, since the Catholic Church has a history of misogyny, homophobia, racism, anti-semitism, slavery, patriarchy, etc. To this day, their holy book does not condemn slavery!
Jaddle
Maybe FACE could move there during its upcoming renovations….
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Kate
A Cree man in Montreal who received a document titled Casting sauvage from a film production house was offended, so the term – which is used to refer to open casting and has nothing to do with indigenous people or roles – will be retired from the film industry.
Francesco
Is there another word for “wild” in French? I know an “open” casting call can be called something other than wild, but how will I know when the myrtilles-des-bois show up at JT later this month? I’ve only ever seen them called “bleuets sauvages.”
Kate
I was also wondering about longtime postering company Publicité sauvage. It’s a tricky one.
Chris
Is it me or does the CBC article read very biased in agreement with Daybi?
If you’re an anglo reading this, you don’t learn until paragraph 14 that the word’s primary meaning is *not* a slur. Paragraph 5 gives the opposite impression: “In French, the term sauvage is a slur when used to describe an Indigenous person. It translates to “savage.”” The next paragraph says “In both English and French, the word has a colonial history as it was used by European settlers to refer to Indigenous people.” which conveniently omits that “savage” is a ‘false friend’, i.e. it seems like it translates directly because it’s a word in both languages, but in fact the English meaning does not include the primary French meaning: wild. Paragraph 1 also says “a Cree man turned down a gig because of a word deemed offensive used in the file name of his contract.” Deemed by who? The public at large, like the n-word? No. By anyone other than Daybi himself?
I guess we better stop saying “photo shoots” too. “shoot” conjures police violence and I’m sure someone somewhere is offended.
Blork
While I see Daybi’s point, and I could understand him bringing up the issue with the production company, turning down the job because of it just comes off as shooting himself in the foot. As has been abundantly explained, sauvage has two meanings in French. “Casting sauvage” is widely used in the industry, so it’s not like they sent him that document specifically because they were casting a first nations person.
I have no objection to most of the calls to re-think the terminology we use, but some are just silly, like this one. Clearly the “sauvage” in this case is used in the sense of “wild.” Is he also going to boycott wild rice (riz sauvage)?
Azrhey
*puts on my linguist of the french language hat*
Sauvage when used against a human or group of humans is a slur, because it is a word that originally used for non-human things, so it was used to dehumanize native peoples. In the hierarchy of colonial racism, you had civilized people (whites, but not all whites), sauvages were untamed wild beings that needed to be domesticated by civilized people. Once civilized , they became chattel, aka slaves, as that was the best they could become. hey at least they were useful for work, or so the idea was.
*excuse me while I go throw up*
So you have nature sauvage, animaux sauvages ( as opposed to animaux domestiques ), affichage sauvage, fraises sauvages, camping sauvage, etc. Semantically, all those are ok ( I didn’t know about casting sauvage before this post, but IMO, why not? ) because it all means undomesticated, or uncivilized, or outside of what is common habits. It is just not a word that you can/should apply to a human being ever. period.
Because it has as a primary meaning not human.
OTOH I don’t wan to diminish this person’s anguish over the word, so maybe changing the word for that type of casting is the easy way out?
*takes off linguist hat*maybe this person had the same reaction to casting sauvage that I have every time I hear English speaking persons using “pet” as a term of endearment to their SO? My romance language heart balks at the “people are not animaux de compagnie ni des possessions!”
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Kate
Some notes on what’s open and closed for Canada Day.
Francesco
Intelcom is delivering for Amazon Prime today. I just received a package. 🙂
Bert 20:19 on 2020-07-01 Permalink
Why do you describe one as “man” and another as an “inmate”?
Michael Black 20:55 on 2020-07-01 Permalink
Surely because “an inmate was killed by another inmate” is repetitive. But, one needs to specify that inmates were involved, because there are other combinations of men that could be involved. Since there aren’t coed prisons, it would have to be a man, well.unless it was a female guard or visitor.
Kate 23:46 on 2020-07-01 Permalink
What he said, Bert. Just stylistic variation.
Alison Cummins 14:14 on 2020-07-02 Permalink
The killer being « a fellow inmate » and not « an inmate » means Kate *was* calling the killed an inmate.
Blork 15:05 on 2020-07-02 Permalink
Bert: don’t quit your day job. You have no future as a content editor.
Ray Ballchinnien 22:48 on 2021-09-15 Permalink
who cares It’s just a god damn label that we give people that are in prison. A human died in a provincial prison. Rare in Quebec provincial prisons