A young man was shot Wednesday evening in St-Léonard and is in critical condition. In a familiar pattern, the 19-year-old is known to police.
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Kate
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Kate
One of the developers involved in the Rapido building demolition claims the building was in a dangerous state so had to be taken down. Nice detail: the man cited is a unilingue anglais.
Jebediah Pallindrome
Not Mr. Lieberman’s first demolition via neglect case in the PMR.
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Kate
There’s no doubt where Quebecor’s sympathies lie: the headline Autre victoire pour des commerçants mécontents leads with recent incidents in which city hall’s plans have had to be changed, and rejoices in a new incident involving lower Atwater, where a pathway for pedestrians and cyclists has been dismantled.
Since these are times of conflict, of course there’s a counter-movement in favour of boycotting businesses that have pushed back against bike paths.
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Kate
A policeman who rammed a citizen’s car in a road rage incident in 2015 has been let off scot‑free.
Ephraim
It’s a surprise?
Hamza
“Pokora blocked Tomarelli’s vehicle in a driveway and got out to confront him. After a verbal altercation, Pokora got back into his car and called 911. Surveillance video of the incident shows Tomarelli then getting into his own vehicle and ramming Pokora’s car.
Tomarelli also called 911 and then chased Pokora in his vehicle. When more officers arrived, it was Pokora who was arrested and charged with uttering threats and harassment.
this is insane. what the hell does “off-duty” mean anyway? the behaviour of both the cops and investigating commitees really gives you the impression that “reform” is not going to solve anything with the public problem of having a hostile armed force operating among us, totally unaccountable to civilian oversight
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Kate
A trove of old medical books, some dating back as far as 1694, were found in the basement of Hôtel-Dieu, and will go to four institutions as treasures.
Meantime, Quebec is preparing to scoop up the Sulpicians’ massive archive and look after it.
Ian
Wow, a collection of rare medical books is a heck of a thing to find just lying around!
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Kate
Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery is dealing with a lot of marmots this summer, which is being blamed on a shortage of foxes, their natural predator. What’s happened to the foxes this season is not explained.
Dhomas
There were a number of foxes living in the cemetery close to my place, le Repos Saint-Francois d’Assise. Sometime in autumn 2019, I saw them being trapped by some animal control types. I assumed they were being relocated because there was insufficient food for them here and some of the younger ones did look a little sickly. Maybe they relocated the ones on the mountain, too?
Ian
In years past my kids and I would go up to one of the high points in NDN and make a game of counting groundhog holes. This may be confirmation bias speaking but I think I did see substantially more groundhog holes than usual this year. I’ve been seeing more rabbits around town, too. I wonder if with the complaints about coyotes a few years back the city decided to quietly relocate as many predators as they could, and this is the result …
Kate
You do have to be careful walking down between graves that you don’t ankle yourself into a groundhog hole. Then there are the tinier, cuter holes made by chipmunks.
As for the foxes, we always seem to fall on our faces when we arbitrarily tinker with natural balances, even in the city. But the journalist in this article should have investigated further about the foxes.
Kevin
For the first time since I moved back to Canada I saw a racoon.
And the little jerks have ruined my apple trees…
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Kate
Quebec City mayor Régis Labeaume is worried about the state of French in Montreal and says he wants some action musclée to protect it.
EmilyG
I’ve disliked that guy ever since he called people “autistic” as an insult.
Jack
Be ready for a punishing affirmation, not of the French language, but of the French ethnic majority’s supremacy. Simon Jolin-Barrette already has made it clear where this is going. “Comme beaucoup d’autres Québécoises et Québécois, je suis préoccupé par les données récentes sur la langue française. Au travail. Dans les choix que nous faisons pour nous instruire et pour nous divertir. Dans notre environnement visuel et sonore. Dans nos échanges publics.” It doesn’t take much to realize what and who will be targeted. Again this has nothing to do with the French language it has everything to do with ethnic politics.
Kate
Yes, Jack. I’m quite accustomed to having my language and culture viewed as a contaminant. It comes in waves.
Update: Jack, did you already see this?
thomas
I am surprised, but perhaps shouldn’t be, by this statement “Le Service de police de la Ville de Québec (SPVQ), qui ne compte aucun policier noir”
Jack
“Quebec was, is and should be Francophone,” said Jolin-Barrette. “This is a non-negotiable principle.”
This conceit has no historic basis. Quebec was originally settled by members of the First Nations, who oddly didn’t speak french. Then it was colonized by France. Then came the British. By 1844 “According to the data available for Lower Canada as well as for the districts of Québec and Montréal (which include the cities and their surrounding areas), we can reasonably deduce that in 1844, francophones probably accounted for less than half the populations of the cities of Québec and Montréal.”. By Confederation Quebec was 75% French speaking and 25% English speaking.
I would argue that this language debate has never really been about language, it is about supremacy (affirmation sounds nicer). The use of linguistic terms to identify ethnic cleavages is even more telling. Francophone, Anglophone, Allophone are used to cut us up ethnically by savvy politicians like Dr.Laurin and Labeaume.
I am not looking forward to what Jolin-Barrette has coming because he more than anyone else knows the power of targeting minority’s in Quebec’s racial landscape. The CAQ will also use this as an opportunity to further other Anglade.
Also let’s be honest at one point their will be a reckoning of how badly the Government of Quebec handled the Covid crisis. This issue will help them turn that page, especially if the right people are targeted.Ian
Ratcheting up interethnic tension as a means of political misdirection is as old as the hills, and that nobody sees through it even after all these centuries is a bit saddening but not very surprising.
Let’s be real here, the only reason the CAQ is playing this card is because they know it works – they are all about money and business, and couldn’t give a rat’s ass about people speaking English or wearing hijabs or whatever else except insofar as it keeps them in power.
I think that Derfel is a Jewish name plays no small part in all of this. “The troublesome Jew is getting the Anglos all worked up” is Legault’s implicit message, and a lot of his constituents are hearing a name like Derfel and know exactly what Legault is getting at by singling him out.
Kevin
Absolutely nothing that any government can do will be effective.
Francophones, like all other Canadians, don’t want to have children at a replacement level for society.
Without that, there is no hope for Montreal bring a French city. The minister has said it himself that fewer than 50% of the inhabitants of the city are Francophones. That number will only continue to drop.
Dhomas
Let’s just see how the CAQ are hypocrites.
Danielle McCann: Ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur. Educated at McGill University.
Eric Girard: Ministre québécois des Finances. Educated at McGill University.
Pierre Fitzgibbon: Ministre québécois de l’Économie et de l’Innovation. Educated at Harvard Business School.
Mathieu Lacombe: Ministre québécois de la Famille. Educated at the University of Ottawa.
André Lamontagne: Ministre québécois de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation. Educated at Mount Saint Vincent University.
Lionel Carmant: Ministre délégué à la Santé et aux Services sociaux. Educated at McGill University.And this is just doing a 5 minute Wikipedia search. There are a number of ministers who list no alma matter.
Uatu
Typical of the double standard. These ministers are ok for English post secondary, but apparently everybody else is a weak minded fool susceptible to the Jedi mind tricks of Anglos
DeWolf
Kevin, that doesn’t make any sense. The last census showed that Montreal is 49% francophone, but 65% of the population describes French as their predominant language. Just 23% of the population use English as their main daily language. Allophones will soon represent a plurality in Montreal but most of them are de facto francophones.
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Kate
This Daily Hive article clarifies a few things about the contactless bus fare payment meant to start soon.
It’s a pilot project meant to last till the end of the year.
You have to use either the Transit or the Chrono app on your phone.
The payment of $3.50 allows access to all the ARTM’s buses for 2 hours, which presumably means all the bus services on this map. However, if you’re staying within the STM, a block of 10 trips bought on an Opus card costs $29, so it’s slightly cheaper per trip. (This goes up to $29.50 on October 1, when a few fare increases come into effect.)
Shoe dropped: another drawback (mentioned in the graphic shown on the Daily Hive piece) is that the $3.50 ticket doesn’t allow transferring, so if you need two buses to get where you’re going it will cost you $7.00 and so on.
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Kate
A La Presse journalist followed and observed the activities of the city’s Escouade mobilité for a day, as they moved around, unjamming the city’s roads.
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Kate
phys.org reports on the opening of Lufa’s latest rooftop greenhouse in St-Laurent, said to be the world’s largest. Bill Brownstein also writes about it, as does La Presse.
I have no connection with Lufa except being a satisfied customer. If anyone here wants to join, I can send you an invitation and we’ll both get a discount. Hit me up.
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Kate
A Globe & Mail editorial excoriates François Legault for his handling of the pandemic, but more specifically for his targeting of Aaron Derfel. And this was probably written before Quebec turned down the contact-tracing app.
(I can see the article – apologies if anyone runs into a paywall.)
Kevin
Quebec has one of the highest covid 19 death rates in the world, and Legault is busy going after schools that want to enforce masks.
thomas
I know that Mila (UdeM) is quite disappointed that their proposal was not selected and was counting on that money to fund some activities. Perhaps, this is a way for the Quebec gov. to subsidize it.
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