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  • Kate 20:29 on 2020-10-08 Permalink | Reply  

    The monument to Patriote Jean-Olivier Chénier, which long stood near Viger Square, was removed during the construction of the CHUM hospital. Le Devoir noticed the base dumped in a corner in Griffintown while the statue itself is presumably better protected somewhere in city storage. This is how the statue looked previously, although it has lost its gun a few times over the years; there’s another photo on the Wikipedia page. The mayor is said to be unhappy about the treatment of this bit of the city’s heritage.

    Crossing two threads, it was the Chénier cell that kidnapped and murdered Pierre Laporte.

     

    • Kate 15:48 on 2020-10-08 Permalink | Reply  

      Eater has a possibly useful list of 25 iconic dishes you can have delivered.

       

      • Kate 15:46 on 2020-10-08 Permalink | Reply  

        The driver who knocked down and killed a woman in Brossard a month ago is facing a second murder charge now that the other person he injured that day, a cyclist in his fifties, has died. Radoslav Guentchev has been behind bars since that day, and although Longueuil police think he acted deliberately, they see nothing in the fact that both victims were Asian.

         

        • Kate 09:14 on 2020-10-08 Permalink | Reply  

          Coverage of the October Crisis anniversary continues. La Presse describes how Pierre Laporte’s body was found following the placement of a crude map at Place des Arts.

          The paper also looks into what the French thought about Quebec nationalism and the October Crisis.

          (Footnote: Marc Lalonde is still alive.)

          (Later footnote: Lalonde died in May 2023.)

          Radio-Canada reveals how Westmount’s posh Selwyn House School spends a good deal of time studying the actions of the FLQ, “parce que comprendre cet événement permet de mieux saisir le Québec.”

          The Gazette says it’s lucky James Cross survived his ordeal at all.

          Last week the PLQ managed to block a National Assembly motion to demand Justin Trudeau apologize for his father’s actions fifty years ago. Le Devoir’s André Pratte asks whether the remnants of the FLQ would ever apologize for kidnapping James Cross and murdering Pierre Laporte.

           

        • Kate 08:57 on 2020-10-08 Permalink | Reply  

          Posh hotels Saint-Paul and the Four Seasons are shutting down at least till the end of October and possibly longer. Others never reopened after the first wave of Covid.

           

          • Kate 08:52 on 2020-10-08 Permalink | Reply  

            SPVM police have tended to make calls to border services a lot, but a new decree is forbidding them from calling them directly.

            You may remember talk a couple of years ago about making Montreal a sanctuary city where undocumented people would not be harassed purely based on their immigration status. This is a step in that direction.

             

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