An anti-curfew march was held Saturday afternoon in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
La Presse looked at Montreal after 8.
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Kate
Radio-Canada solicited opinions from four experts on the logo for the rebranded Club de Foot Montréal. As a logo for a summertime sport, a snowflake seemed an odd choice, they said.
And in French, the pejorative use of the word snowflake would not even apply.
Chris
Let’s go snowflakes! Let’s go snowflakes! 🙂 I can imagine the taunting chants now… 🙂
Matthew H
It is not a good logo. It is not even a good snowflake – snowflakes have 6 points, not 8.
Kevin
I would have rotated it 45 degrees—because it’s a soccer ball, not a snowflake.
js
Am I the only person with a dirty mind?
Kate
js, you are not the first person I know online to make this suggestion.
Michael Black
If we’re talking logos, the new gmail logo looks a lot like the MMFA logo. Though I’ve not checked to see if the colors are the same.
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Kate
So this week Yves-François Blanchet, leader of the Bloc Québécois, blew the big dogwhistle, alleging that the prime minister’s choice for new transport minister, Omar Alghabra, MP for Mississauga, is an Islamicist. This has caused a political reaction but the accusation is still there, even if condemned outright by Justin Trudeau.
I wasn’t sure I was going to post about that till reading this op-ed by J-F Lisée in Le Devoir, titled Une bonne semaine pour l’islam in which he hauls off at not only Alghabra, but also Bochra Manaï and the new CBC news anchor Ginella Massa, who wears hijab. Lisée’s stock in trade is to parade his xenophobia as a virtue, but – as Nora Loreto says on Twitter – “Jean-François Lisée is going to go full Atalante by 2022.”
Jack
Since the turn to identity playbook by the PQ during the Charter fiasco the Bloc have followed suit. Plamondon has also taken a dark turn, which is the only place he can be in the PQ. The understanding that Quebec nationalism was a civic enterprise is now a joke. The PQ and BQ support an ethnic project that identity politics serves. At least we all know it now.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bloc-qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois-anti-niqab-ad-takes-aim-at-ndp-1.2974146Uatu
There are times I wish I was white. It would make my life a lot easier
Blork
There are times I wish I were NOT white, so I could fully distance myself from these idiots.
Alison Cummins
There are times—most of them, actually—when I wish I weren’t so gormless and would just do something about these idiots already.
qatzelok
As all our social programs are gutted as a sacrifice to neo-liberalism – keeping the rich better off than everyone else, ID politics will be the only social justice we have left. Think Obama starting five wars and destroying a generation of African development in the process – as the kind of empowerment we will continue to see.
Commercial media seems to be ignoring all the gutting of real equality probably because it’s called “commercial” for a reason.
dwgs
Obama started 5 wars??
ant6n
“U.S. military forces have been at war for all eight years of Obama’s tenure, the first two-term president with that distinction. He launched airstrikes or military raids in at least seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.”
MarcG
Is it still war if only one side is killing?
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Kate
Plateau borough is to allow year-round terrasses, as of next winter. But these terrasses can’t extend into the street, so there won’t be too many establishments with room to set them up.
DeWolf
That’s just one change in a rather sweeping reform, which the borough outlined in a press release:
1) The Plateau is doing away with its restrictions on how far apart bars and restaurants must be from one another. This has apparently led to speculation and high rents on the retail outlets authorized to host an eatery. Instead there will be a quota on the number of bars/restos allowed in any given area and they can open in any suitable space within that area, even if it’s next to an existing bar/resto.
2) Larger terraces will be permitted, kind of like that we saw last summer. Terraces can occupy the space in front of neighbouring businesses (with their consent).
3) More intense commercial activity will be permitted on Rachel between Berri and Lafontaine Park.
4) The maximum possible size of bars and restaurants will be expanded in areas where they had been restricted.
5) Terrasses will be allowed on streets where they had been prohibited, including Laurier East and Fairmount.
6) A new café category of business licence will be created to accommodate restaurants that had been operating under an épicerie or traiteur licence, which restricted the amount of seating they could have. Apparently many of these restaurants had been exceeding the maximum amount of seats which left them vulnerable to fines.
7) A new “craft brewery” category of licence has been created. I guess this didn’t exist before which explains why the Plateau has no breweries other than RJ. The borough says in a press release that it’s hoping to attract more breweries (which could probably make good use of the industrial areas along the CPR tracks).
Press release: http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=7297,75337594&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&id=33280
DeWolf
Oh and I forgot another one:
8) Outdoor cooking will now be allowed on restaurant terrasses.
david855
Thanks for the summary. It’s a good start.
Joey
These are all great. Kinda hard to understand what took so long, tbh. Guess they ran out of ruelles to turn vertes.
Mark Côté
A bagel-shop-turned-Indian-restaurant here in NDG had a long fight to get a full restaurant permit… which, years later, they finally got just before covid hit. :\
Kate
Thanks for the exposition, DeWolf!
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Kate
La Presse says it’s costing the city millions to keep certain police officers idle. With a list of men who have been put aside on full pay.
Ephraim
That’s the union. Instead of idle, they should put them to do awful jobs that no one else wants. Filing, traffic control, no-stopping tickets, etc.
Kate
These would be guys with valuable experience, despite doubts about their judgement. I’m sure they could be put to useful work – maybe not straight up filing, but going over cold cases, making connections that weren’t previously made, using the internet and DNA databases to search for suspects. They don’t have to be out on the street to carry out investigations.
Joey
Ces policiers, principalement des cadres, ont été écartés pour toutes sortes de raisons, que ce soit des guerres de clans, des allégations auxquelles ils ont fait face ou simplement parce qu’on ne voulait plus d’eux dans l’organisation.
Not clear if they are union-protected, but it does seem like they are toxic and therefore should be dismissed instead of suspended with pay (or assigned to menial tasks).
Kate
Yes, the guys mentioned in the article would count as management. I wonder how many unnamed constables are also on permanent leave – they would be protected by the union.
Ephraim
That’s the problem. But we should get at least SOMETHING out of it. Janitorial work? Filing? Traffic? How about making them measure tread wear on winter tires? Checking plates for people who haven’t paid their tickets? Getting double parked cars to move? Tickets for handicapped parking spots? Something… anything… just don’t let them stay home.
I don’t know if I want them to have database access without strict controls.
DavidH
Again?
They are not part of the union. They are management. Says so in the very first sentence. These are the guys the union fights, not defends…
They have an “Association des cadres” which is more of a lobby than what a union is.
This is about litigation, not unions. Same as with Pichet. These people have legal recourses, same as all workers, public or private sector. The City wants them out but does not or cannot do the HR work all the way. In other jobs, people in these circumstances accept a cash settlement and get out. Police define themselves by their jobs. Accepting to leave is akin to pleading guilty. Some of them would probably cost more if we gave them a settlement to leave like they do in the private sector.
The problem here is partly optics. When a private company pays someone toxic to leave (or when the City paid Alain Marcoux to leave), they don’t assign them a menial job they won’t do. And we don’t expect them tp do so either. We just want the damage to stop. We pay them the equivalent of 10-12 years in salary straight up and move forward. These guys dragging things out until retirement age is the same. It’s frustrating but it’s really got nothing to do with unions.
Alison Cummins
Management can’t do union jobs. Period.
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Kate
The acquittals of Gilbert Rozon and Éric Salvail on decades-old sexual aggression charges will not be challenged.
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