The curfew begins
I suppose we all got the curfew alert at 6:30.
I’m seeing on Twitter there’s a march, one guy mentioning them passing Saint-André and Laurier just now. Also seeing mentions of police helicopters.
And now a tweet saying the march is over 20 minutes after it began.
Update: La Presse reports on the first night of curfew. CTV reports that a couple of people were detained by police.
Morning update: Global mentions 17 arrests after protests, and there are reports that homeless shelters were getting overcrowded.
GC 22:05 on 2021-01-09 Permalink
I heard what sounded like a helicopter, in the Plateau.
Bill Binns 00:09 on 2021-01-10 Permalink
I took a walk around 10 (with my dog so totally legal). There was a helicopter circling but no other activity.
I did see about 30 cops and some ambulances outside the 4 star hotel the mayor gave to the homeless. I’m guessing stabbing. You heard it here first.
EmilyG 09:51 on 2021-01-10 Permalink
I think that for every nasty comment Bill says about homeless people, I’ll donate a dollar to an organization that helps them. Sounds like a good cause.
Bill Binns 10:07 on 2021-01-10 Permalink
I don’t know why you would consider that a “nasty” comment. It was just an observation. As for you donating your own money to the homeless, please do. It’s one less dollar that needs to be taken from me to give to them.
EmilyG 10:09 on 2021-01-10 Permalink
A winning situation.
Kate 12:18 on 2021-01-10 Permalink
Bill Binns, I see no reports Sunday morning of contretemps at the hotel.
MarcG 13:04 on 2021-01-10 Permalink
I think Bill is just making shit up at this point (e.g. A Christmas Story being censored).
CE 13:57 on 2021-01-10 Permalink
Haha or his Mad Max post-apocalyptic hellscape i.e. Sherbrooke street.
Bill Binns 15:24 on 2021-01-10 Permalink
I didn’t see anything either but at 10:20 pm there were 5 cop cars out front (including a dark blue supervisor car), 2 ambulances and all of the “guests” had been evacuated from the building and were standing in front of the entrance to Place Dubois. There were at least 20 cops in front of the hotel and in the lobby.. I walked by an ambulance where a man was on a gurney and speaking to a uniformed cop. Something happened in that place last night.
Here a photo but thanks for calling me a liar
https://www.flickr.com/gp/drpenfield/044Q6m
Kate 17:35 on 2021-01-10 Permalink
Bill Binns, thanks for the photo. I still haven’t seen a news story, but I will definitely post a link if I do.
There are bound to be incidents in a hotel serving that purpose and media editors may feel that something like a scuffle between two of the residents isn’t worth the column inches.
Bill Binns 18:12 on 2021-01-10 Permalink
@Kate – Where do you go for overnight police blotter type stories? I was shocked by how little is left of the Gazette.
Kate 19:27 on 2021-01-10 Permalink
I look at the major media at least once a day, often twice, for the blog. In English, CTV, CBC and Global will have some of those stories. TVA’s Info Patrouille section is pretty good, but it’s incident stories from all over Quebec, not just Montreal. Lots of snowmobile accidents in St-Glinglin this time of year.
La Presse and Radio-Canada, depending on the scale of the incident, may also cover them. Seriously breaking stuff it’s got to be Twitter, of course.
In a sense, one reason I do the blog is because no single media platform, in either language, delivers everything that interests me. So I kind of scout around and summarize it.
Bill Binns 20:26 on 2021-01-10 Permalink
I thought most papers had a daily column of every police incident from the night before. I guess they disappeared with the classifieds. The Gazette has a “While you were sleeping” column but it’s just a bunch of stale random stories.
“In a sense, one reason I do the blog is because no single media platform, in either language, delivers everything that interests me. So I kind of scout around and summarize it.”
Yep, thats why I read the blog too. Especially useful when you don’t speak French.
Kate 22:08 on 2021-01-10 Permalink
Bill Binns, it’s a long time since there’s been anything like that here. The closest I’ve seen was when I worked on the Westmount Examiner as a larva. They had listings of things like fire calls. But Westmount’s a small, circumscribed town and the owner was an old-fashioned guy.
david229 03:23 on 2021-01-12 Permalink
The Journal probably has the best blotter these days.
You know, Bill, if you’re not all that familiar with Montreal media, you seem like a born reader of The Suburban, which is actually pretty solid.