Check out the TVA headline here – Une autre piste cyclable à Montréal. The eyeroll is implied in the sheer lack of actual information there.
Pine Avenue has to be dug up from Park to St-Denis to fix infrastructure, so the city will be putting in a bike path and planting a lot of trees as well. QMI no like.
Valérie Plante has unveiled an official strategy for the city’s reconciliation with indigenous people, while also admitting that efforts from Ottawa and Quebec are also needed.
The CBC article says “consultations with 30 organizations that work with Indigenous people”. Didn’t they consult with People directly? Didn’t they consult with groups of People? The wording may be innocuous, but it implies that People are lesser, and they need groups to take care of them. As in homeless.
In related news, there is a story up at aptn about a campaign to pardon Louis Riel. For some reason the MMF or the national Metis council aren’t mentioned. But Marvin is, so there’s a local angle. It seems a bit too narrow, and because Marvin Rotrand is involved, I fear it’s for the wrong reasons. Louis wanted a place for all of us, you don’t have to have French ancestry to be Metis. Some have suggested that Annie Bannatyne horsewhipping Charles Mair in Feb 1869 was the impetus for Louis to act. And from a Metis point of view, we had few ties to “Canada”, so we couldn’ t have been traitors. I want an apology for the torching of James Ross’s house 150 years ago. I want an apology for the treatment of Metis people. Thomas Scott and his gang beat and lynched Norbert Parisien. The mystery is why Scott wasn’t tried and convicted of murder. Louis set up.a government, and involved people who didn’t fully agree with him. And oddly, he wasn’t that interested in native rights, just Metis. An apology isn’t good enough, a shift in thinking is needed.
Michael Black, the mayor can’t canvass every indigenous person in town. For good or bad, when politicians attempt to make changes affecting a definable demographic, they have to work with groups constituted for and by members of that demographic. The results will be imperfect, but part of the art of governing is to push the results as closely as you can to the curve of perfection while always aware it will never quite fit – some people will always be missed.
This is far from smart politics if you’re already losing the suburban voter, but probably doesn’t do any real damage, as there’s no significant cost attached to it.
Police think they know the identity of the man sought for several mosque break-ins but they haven’t got him yet.
People with businesses in the Village are not best pleased with the arrival of a big new refuge on their doorstep in the Place Dupuis hotel. They mention trouble around the Camillien Houde arena on Montcalm Street, used for a shelter this summer – trouble which may have happened but never made the news.
City hall opposition is demanding more free parking for the holiday season, which doesn’t mean they won’t turn around in a few months and demand to know why parking revenue is down.
They must know that the city is for sure going to do this, so this is very cynical.
I wonder, do they sit in rooms and come up with bad faith headlines they know will keep the ‘PM only cares about the centre-ville’ narrative going, is it done on the phone, or have they moved to zoom?
Sebastien Simon, doing time for the brutal murder of a 17-year-old gas station attendant in St‑Léonard in 2006, has been denied day parole.
The Montreal General is dealing with two Covid outbreaks on one of its floors. It’s a reminder that, even with the kind of precautions medical people take, this virus is a contagious bastard.
Frédéric 21:16 on 2020-11-04 Permalink
If their images were actually captured between Park and St-Denis, it would have shown the existing bike lanes that has been there for years.
Car traffic isn’t that busy on Pine near St-Denis either, as I turn right using the middle lane most of the time I ride there, which is something I only feel confident doing with light traffic.
MarcG 22:30 on 2020-11-04 Permalink
I was thinking the same thing; I worked near St-Laurent and Rachel years ago and there was already a bike path on Rachel east (and maybe west?) of that corner. The first 2 shots in the video are in front of the old Royal Vic near University, there’s even one shot of Dr. Penfield… pretty stupid.
qatzelok 10:32 on 2020-11-05 Permalink
Even their headlines are car ads.
Michael Black 11:46 on 2020-11-05 Permalink
The Rachel bike path was there in 1990, I think that was the first year. I think it was the full length, Jeanne Mance Park to Lafontaine Park.
It was early June 1990 that Cicely Yalden was killed at the corner of Rachel and Clark, either the bike path blocked or a car parked at the intersection.
MarcG 11:55 on 2020-11-05 Permalink
Ah I mixed up Rachel and Des Pins
MarcG 12:00 on 2020-11-05 Permalink
… but looking at Google streeview you can see that Fred is right and there is already a bike path between Parc and St-Denis so this story isn’t even a story.
DeWolf 12:17 on 2020-11-05 Permalink
This is pure disinformation on TVA’s part. Not only do they show clips of streets that won’t even be affected by the work (which is limited to the stretch of Pine between Parc and St-Denis), there as already a set of curbside bike lanes on Pine, as others have noted.