A naked bike ride took place downtown Saturday afternoon, purporting to be against fossil fuels, supporting the idea that all bodies are beautiful, and pressing for more bike paths.
Not all bodies are beautiful: saying so doesn’t make it so.
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Kate
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Kate
Pointe-Claire is creating a memorial orchard and garden in honour of its Covid victims.
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Kate
The CSSDM (Centre de services scolaires de Montréal) is wilfully pursuing a community group in Ahuntsic for thousands of dollars following a refused rent hike in 2018. That was the year the school board (soon to be a “service centre” in the lingo of the CAQ) started pushing out community groups which had, for decades in some cases, benefited from modest rents in disused school buildings. In this case the group runs a much-needed food bank, but the CSSDM is determined to make them cough up.
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Kate
The city is bracing up for a 2022 cruise season. I’d been hoping that Covid would put an end to the environmentally damaging cruise business, but it seems likely to bounce back.
Festival season is proceeding in a limited way with producers also looking forward more to next year.
maggie rose
Shame about the cruise ships. Would be nice to take a tip from Venice, which is banning large cruise ships starting August 1. Being more of an eco-city would actually be a draw for tourism.
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Kate
La Presse talked to several store owners along Mount Royal who are angry about the street’s pedestrianization for a second summer in a row. Plateau borough mayor Luc Rabouin counter-claims that his people talked to 130 merchants and only a handful were against this year’s plan.
It seems likely that the malcontents are blaming the pedestrianization, at least partly, for the effects of the pandemic generally. Squeaky wheel effect, also.
(I’m also mildly curious why an old white guy is running a resto called Chinoiseries et Dumplings with the word Chinoiseries in that corny old pseudo-Chinese font – although, to be fair, plenty of actual Chinese restos have used that font as well, to telegraph their offerings.)
A
Not 100% sure the pedestrianisation is to blame, when you go in there you feel like you are intruding on his day, also he burns the dumplings.
Kate
A Dumpling Nazi!
david477
Before people start up with accusing the dumpling guy of being a racist or whatever, know that the white guy is the front man, the wife in the back is Chinese.
CE
Nobody accused the dumpling guy of being racist.
Meezly
I guess Chinoiserie implies imitating or evoking something, so at least he’s not claiming to be the real deal!
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Kate
A teenager was found drowned in a public pool in Maisonneuve early Saturday. What the kid was doing in the pool at 4 a.m. and/or how someone noticed him and called it in at that hour are not made clear.
It’s not unheard of for teenagers to climb a fence and horse around in a pool out of hours. In 2018, another boy was found dead in a public pool in Cartierville, late at night.
Update: CTV has more on Sylvano Tshiunza Jr., who died in this weekend’s drowning.
Bob R 19:05 on 2021-07-17 Permalink
There is a line of thought which states, beauty is that attribute, that dominant power assigns to itself, to the exclusion of others. That who is beautiful, and who is ugly, is really about who has power.
Kate 09:16 on 2021-07-18 Permalink
There’s also a line of thought which states, put on a shirt and pants, nobody wants to see that.
Blork 14:55 on 2021-07-18 Permalink
LOL
Raymond Lutz 21:29 on 2021-07-18 Permalink
Cycling naked? I can’t recall in which circumstances I once tried it… but, guys, be careful with your couilles, they tend to slip along the saddle and stay there when your thigh goes up again! 🙂
Ian 18:06 on 2021-07-19 Permalink
Breaking my hiatus to give you a virtual high five Kate, genuine LOL