There was an attempt to set fire to the Montreal Kosher Bakery in St-Laurent early Monday, but police are not ready to classify it as a hate crimes even though, as the item says, another kosher bakery in the area was firebombed earlier this month.
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Kate
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Kate
Although current news is more about heat in the west, a Canadian report says Montreal will be the major Canadan city with the most days of extreme heat as climate heating worsens.
Kevin
Ugh. And made all the worse with older, less insulated buildings.
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Kate
CDN-NDG mayor Sue Montgomery has been found guilty of 11 ethical breaches by the Quebec Municipal Commission. Leaping on this with glee, Lionel Perez is demanding she step down.
Jack
Please remember the Quebec Municipal Commission are civil servants. They protect their own.
Kate
Excellent point, Jack. I don’t think the ruling means much, but Perez’s tendency is always to make hay – even when it makes no sense for a borough mayor to step down in the summer before the election.
Cadichon
I don’t believe anyone at CMQ was trying to help a Montreal civil servant somehow. There is really no such thing as solidarity between civil servants… Especially if they come from competing branches or level of government (like in this case).
Jack
Cadichon I disagree. I wrote this after the Superior Court Judgement.
The judge who decided in Montgomery ‘s favour confirmed something I already thought. “ À l’origine de toute cette affaire se trouvent les plaintes répétées d’Annalisa Harris concernant l’indifférence de Stéphane Plante lorsqu’elle lui demandait des documents ou de l’information. L’insistance de la directrice de cabinet a été perçue comme du harcèlement psychologique par le directeur de l’arrondissement. “ I have to say this pisses me off and shows how many of these entrenched bureaucracies have contempt for the elected, which in essence is us.Cadichon
I really have no idea if there was harassment or not happening at CDN-NDG, my only point was that I don’t see the CMQ “protecting their own” there because they wouldn’t consider a Montreal borough manager “their own”.
Also, checked CMQ’s members bios, and it’s really a bunch of senior lawyers from the municipal world, with an ex Affaires municipales chief of staff acting as president. Not many civil servants sitting there actually.Jack
Thanks for responding and I take your point. I still believe that as employees of the Quebec Government they are career civil servants with very strict understandings of their roles and privileges. This is the bio of the president,”Monsieur Marois occupe depuis 1994 diverses fonctions au sein du gouvernement du Québec et de la fonction publique québécoise.”
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Kate
Mario Girard tells two stories about street benches. Paris’s mayor wanted to replace the classic Banc Davioud with something more comfortable and modern, and people got upset; the Montreal story is about designer Michel Dallaire getting upset that the city altered his bench design, shown in the story – both the original and the version changed by the city, which Dallaire calls mundane because the armrests were moved to the ends, like the vast majority of benches everywhere.
When Dallaire’s original design was first launched, some people found it hostile to the homeless, because the inserted armrests made it impossible to lie down. To my eye the design simply looks mildly hostile generally. It’s like an airplane seat. It doesn’t allow for two people, or someone with kids or a dog, to sit side by side, and makes an implicit assumption that everyone out and about is a solitary unit, which just isn’t so.
Dallaire has done some great stuff, like the Bixi bicycle. But his bench isn’t the masterpiece he thinks it is.
jeather
Ignoring how much I dislike the inserted armrests in general, his original bench just looks like a bench with armrests, not like a weird special non-mundane seating option.
Kate
That’s what seems to irk Dallaire. They made his great design mundane.
dwgs
I prefer the modified version from both a practical and aesthetic point of view.
Blork
I prefer the modified design too. The original with the inserted armrests at first seems clever, but the more you look at it the more affected and silly it seems; quirky for the sake of quirky. Not unlike someone wearing one white Converse hightop sneaker and one black Converse hightop sneaker. (Oh wait, that was me. Shaddap, I was in my 20s.)
thomas
Just a stupid question, but why do benches need arm rests?
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Kate
Christian Savard from Vivre en Ville writes in Le Devoir about why this year’s municipal election is a critical moment and the choices we make are important, as the pandemic subsides but we still must face a bigger crisis with climate change.
Chris 10:05 on 2021-06-30 Permalink
The item also says: no evidence the two are linked, no graffiti or other anti-Jewish messages. Basically zero evidence of any hate crime. Yet somehow the article headline throws it out there. On the other hand, there are 4 catholic churches burnt down in BC, but I’ve not seen any media hint at any hate crime there. Odd.
MarcG 12:22 on 2021-06-30 Permalink
Is revenge a hate crime?
Chris 20:57 on 2021-06-30 Permalink
If someone torched a mosque after 9/11 as revenge, is that a hate crime?
I would say revenge and hate crime are not really related. Something could be both, either, or neither.
Kate 00:26 on 2021-07-01 Permalink
Chris, you’re suggesting the people who burned those churches should be found, and charged with hate crime?
Chris 12:34 on 2021-07-01 Permalink
Kate, no. I was making a comment on the media, and their inconsistencies and biases.
I do think the BC arsonists should be found and charged though. Certainly with arson. There should be some environmental crime too, all that smoke and soil pollution. Hard to say wrt hate crime since the perpetrator’s motives are not known.
Hamza 02:55 on 2021-07-03 Permalink
Ftr , if someone did burn down a mosque “after 9/11” or take your pick of more recent events , actually yes that’s exactly what hate crime legislation is meant to protect.