La Presse got hold of the final CNESST report on the injury and death of Jean‑Philippe Gaudreau, who was hit by a tooth of a concrete saw last year as he walked along St‑Hubert during its reconstruction.
The investigation found serious irregularities in how the equipment was being used near unprotected passersby – but this piece suggests that hazardous situations like this are still arising around town.
A group of anti-racist motorbike riders held a rally Saturday as did some Pierrefonds residents.
Another demonstration pressed for giving legal status to migrants.
It’s not the first time residents have complained about the Sanimax rendering plant in RDP, but they were out again Saturday in an organized protest.
Sifting Saturday’s news, I’m struck by the negligible popular response to the arrest of an Armed Forces member on Thursday in Ottawa. Corey Hurren used a pickup truck to crash the gate of Rideau Hall, the residence of the Governor-General; Justin Trudeau and his family have been living in a house on the grounds while the PM’s residence is renovated.
Neither the Governor-General nor the Trudeaus were home. Nobody got shot, although Hurren was armed to the teeth. He’s now facing 22 criminal charges.
Much of the response I’ve seen to this is people reacting to the fact that a lot of mainstream media are describing the guy in the way they usually do with white criminals – that he seemed like a nice guy and people didn’t see this coming – whereas non-white people committing lesser crimes are often portrayed as flawed, or druggies, or undesirable people in some way.
I suspect the negligible response is because no one was hurt. In these high tension times, with so much shit going on and all these various murders and other killings happening, this barely registers on the “end times radar” of most people.
It’s also notable that they’re being very quiet about the weapons involved. I don’t know why that is so. Most stories just mention “firearms” and “long rifle,” both of which are to vague to stir the imagination very much. I don’t know why they’re being so mum on this. As a member of the Rangers (reserve) he would have had access to their standard rifle, the awkwardly named “C-19”, which is basically a bolt-action hunting rifle not an automatic assault rifle. (Unless they are deployed overseas, the Rangers work in the mountains and other remote areas, so their weapons are for protection against bears and for hunting food on long missions; they’re not combat weapons.) Maybe a handgun too, but these days that’s as common as dirt in crime scenes. So why the hush?
The report I saw explicitly mentioned that his Rangers-issued rifle was not used in the attack.
Perhaps, this event is purposely underreported to prevent copy cat attacks given some of the over the top rhetoric, i.e. “Trudeau is corrupt. Join our fight to take back Canada”, in certain political circles.
I was expecting more in depth coverage as this is the 2nd incident of potential domestic terrorism from a CAF reservist. Also surprised that Rideau Hall has no bollards to stop ramming of the gates. Hell, I noticed even McGill has rectratable bollards on their campus the last time I was there
I would also like to see a stronger reaction against all the idiots and assholes constantly posting a stream of anti-Justin Trudeau propaganda and conspiracy theories. All of them contribute to an environment where a guy like this gets radicalized.
I’m not a huge fan of Justin and believe that critique of politicians is important. However, the personal attacks against him are almost entirely out of the far right/Russia/Chinese-driven propaganda and further bolstered by the Conservative party and all these losers in Alberta who get caught up in the manipulation. You’ll notice that they almost never attack the Liberal party, it is always Justin, Justin, Justin. And then a guy with military training decides to drive from Manitoba right to his residence with a weapon.
There is culpability here and it should be called out.
Almost all of our “terrorists” were members of our armed forces before deciding to give other Canadians a taste of the skills they learned abroad.
This is the most important lesson for Canadians (and Americans) to learn from this.
And most of the criticism of “Trudeau fils” is that he’s mainly a cute teleprompter reader, reading other people’s lines. That’s why he went blank when asked to reply as to what he thought of Trump. For Justin, it’s especially important to stick to the teleprompter with “in your opinion” type of questions. : )
qatzelok, that’s bullshit. Trudeau’s silence at that question was a statement in itself. He was telegraphing that he knows he can’t go on record saying what he really thinks of Trump – Canada can’t afford the blowback – so he left a little space there where we could all ponder that fact, then he resumed.
The Ottawa Citizen made a list of the attacks on political leaders in recent years. Except for Corey Hurren, the perpetrators were not from the armed forces: Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, Richard Bain, and André Dallaire – who got into 24 Sussex when Jean Chrétien was PM – were not army guys. Denis Lortie, who killed three people and injured several more at the National Assembly in 1984, was an army supply clerk, which is as close as it gets to armed forces personnel before Thursday.
Kate, I was talking about what our media have called “terror attacks” in recent times. Alexandre Bissonnette was in the army, and Michael Zehaf-Bibeau had contacts in the various terror groups that Canada is at war with (or for).
Likewise, Trudeau “went blank” because some white hats shut off his telepromter feed for a period. This was “spun” as thoughfulness, but if you look at the clip, he is obviously flustered by the lack of lines to act out.
Kate, the Western world is waking up to the fact that it is run by organized crime, but this blog seems to be missing this scoop, just like the Gazette will always miss it.
Can you just ban qatzelok already? Allowing conspiracy theories to post unchecked is how they spread, and nobody has the time to carefully debunk everything.
qatzelok, Bissonnette was not in the army. He was a Laval University student and worked for Héma-Québec. He was an army cadet as a little kid, as shown in a photo on this CBC page, but he was never in the army as an adult, as far as I can discern from reports.
JoeNotCharles, you have a point.
Trudeau went blank without a teleprompter??! The guy is Mr. Congeniality and could have a charming conversation with a shoe. He does not need a teleprompter. His silence was a smart move; loose lips sink ships especially when the primary trading partner is run by a capricious madman. Let the analysts parse a silence; it won’t get much traction in the news media.
“loose lips sink ships ”
The eternal war state needs to ban opposing opinions so that it can commit atrocities with impunity. Thanks for helping them, JaneyB.
And that expression also explains why “the truth” is never exposed during a war, which demands secrecy and sneakiness. And we are always at war now.
What are the side effects of these perma-wars?
And….clicking David.005 reveals that he is in fact qatzelok. Begging to be banned, methinks.
Yes. qatzelok, you’re charged with pretending to be a different pain-in-the-ass commenter, and banned till I’m less annoyed with you.
“The eternal war state needs to ban opposing opinions so that it can commit atrocities with impunity. ” Do you not choke on the irony when you type this phrase telling someone that their opinion is wrong?
Trudeau had to be know there was a high chance he’d get a question along those lines that day. I don’t believe that silence was anything but measured. I find it likely he already had his response worked out ahead of time.
Uatu – those retractable bollards are related to the closing of the lower campus and nothing at all to do with terrorism.
Oh I know. I’m saying if McGill can install them to redirect traffic then Rideau Hall can do it for security. At the very least there should be some kind of traffic slowing path formed by concrete barriers/planters etc.
I agree – it should be a lot more common city-wide, including on streets like Mont-Royal, Sainte-Cath, all of Old Montreal, around Jean-Talon (or pretty much all the markets), etc. But it’s not cheap, and does require either (1) a lot of community buy-in that we’ve pretty much never been successful at shepherding, or (2) someone to impose it and be ready to suffer the blowback, something that more conservative leaders have no problem with, but that our craven so-called progressive leaders essentially never do.
Sad!
The Gazette’s René Bruemmer tells in slightly breathless documentary style – you can almost hear the ominous soundtrack – how Covid spread in Montreal once it had arrived.
Work has begun, a year late, on the Place des Montréalaises, meant both to honour Montreal women and to create a more accessible link between Champ-de-Mars station and Old Montreal.
I’m still very bitter that the provincial ministry of transport dialed back the expressway covering plan.
Premier Legault: I’m not usually a single issue voter, but I vow right now that if you cover this section of the Ville Marie freeway, I will vote for your party every time you’re on the ballot.
QMI has a whole dossier on the thirty years since the Oka crisis.
La Presse also looks at the anniversary, examining what has improved and what hasn’t, since the summer of 1990.
“Remembering the Oka Crisis with Rocks at Whiskey Trench” (probaby a repost for me, but always relevant)
A young man was savagely beaten and received a serious head injury early Saturday in Old Montreal. There’s little additional info and there have been no arrests.
Can we say “savagely beaten”? 😉
MtlWeb 08:15 on 2020-07-05 Permalink
Our team took care of this man in hospital; so heart-breaking. He never had a chance. Remember the hope that ‘this case’ would expose the everyday risk & result in forced changes to avoid re-occurrence.
david1828 18:54 on 2020-07-05 Permalink
This sort of tragedy, by the way, is a very good reason that everyone on a construction site should be legally employed and coming under the operative insurance umbrella, whether that’s the general contractor’s or the specific subcontractor hired by the GC.