City agrees to name walkway after Laurin
The mayor made a 180 and agreed to name a walkway in the new UdeM campus after Camille Laurin, this after Rich*rd M*rtineau threw a tantrum about white men being slighted by her administration.
-
Kate
Reply
Download the 2025 calendar!
SANTÉ QUÉBEC COVID NUMBERS
Deaths in Quebec:
20,977 (+26)
As of December 11
Numbers from Santé Québec
Updated weekly, usually Wednesday
Canadian respiratory virus page
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Meezly on Medical stories of the week
- Uatu on Medical stories of the week
- Kate on Medical stories of the week
- Kevin on Medical stories of the week
- Kate on Longueuil trims deer herd
- DavidH on Medical stories of the week
- Kate on Quebec, Newfoundland make power deal
Pages
Other levels of gov’t
Sideblog projects
Enviro Montreal is a Twitter feed that follows environment news.
Archives
Pages rescued from montreal.com
Meta
MattG 10:21 on 2021-04-20 Permalink
I really despise him. And I despise the fact that some close family members like him and respect his opinions. It makes for interesting Christmas dinners.
Marco 12:29 on 2021-04-20 Permalink
Oh good. Finally something in Montreal is named after an old white man.
Tee Owe 12:40 on 2021-04-20 Permalink
IMO most people described or categorized as ‘white’ are actually pink. Could provoke a re-alignmnent, maybe?
Kate 17:47 on 2021-04-20 Permalink
And people who are categorized as Black are really various shades of brown. It doesn’t get us anywhere, really.
qatzelok 22:07 on 2021-04-20 Permalink
No matter the color of his skin or his gender, Camille Laurin was the psychiatrist who invented Bill 101 – a hero and genius in a great number of people’s eyes.
Joey 08:41 on 2021-04-21 Permalink
Isabelle Hachey explains how Denise Bombarider et. al. made up the whole “Valerie Plante is too woke to name a street after a white man” in La Presse today: https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2021-04-21/camille-laurin-merite-mieux.php. The mayor’s office had nothing to do with the decision. The toponymy commission rejected it to avoid duplication, given the existing street in RDP (which Kate noted in her previous post). This is all invented BS and lies, and there will be no consequences for the “journalists” who purposefully misled their readers. Moreover, the idea that Valerie “REM station Griffintown-Bernard-Landry” Plante wouldn’t name something after a dead white QC nationalist is absurd.
Kate 09:20 on 2021-04-21 Permalink
Thank you, Joey!
Tee Owe 11:17 on 2021-04-21 Permalink
Sorry Kate I didn’t mean to be flip, I was trying to make a point, that ‘white’ is used kind of triumphantly by certain segments of the population, whereas black/brown/yellow are considered inferior, being ‘non-white’ – so if we were to re-classify ‘whites’ as ‘pinks’, maybe a lot of folk would be less vocal. I agree, it’s tortuous thinking but I wanted to explain myself.