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  • Kate 14:22 on 2021-07-28 Permalink | Reply  

    Everyone’s passing around this letter from Geoff Molson about Logan Mailloux and what the team intends to do.

    At any rate, Mailloux won’t be going to the team’s training camp this fall.

     
    • Blork 17:43 on 2021-07-28 Permalink

      This might just be theatre, but if so at least it’s the right kind of theatre.

      If legit, it seems like a mashup of restorative justice and “go stand in the corner.” And I’m OK with that.

    • walkerp 08:30 on 2021-07-29 Permalink

      It’s a joke. I’m really glad I am not a Habs fan as this would be very hard for me to stomach.

      They are a cultural touchstone and the right move here could have sent signals through hockey culture in Quebec and Canada for real change. Instead they doubled down on the message that even the littlest bit of boy talent is more important than any woman’s life or values, that women are simply either stepping stones or blockers for men to live their lives. And then followed it up with this fake PR bullshit.

      This team is not run by leaders.

  • Kate 10:48 on 2021-07-28 Permalink | Reply  

    The city is cutting its road repair budget by $100M, saying boroughs need to do more in looking after local streets.

     
    • Ephraim 19:21 on 2021-07-28 Permalink

      How are they measuring? That’s always the same question. Without a way to quantitate it, how can you tell if they are or aren’t doing a good job?

    • Kate 09:21 on 2021-07-29 Permalink

      Well, you can’t have a control city, can you? And you can’t go by complaints, because there are a lot of people out there who complain incessantly – let the roads go to shit, they complain, fix the roads, they complain about orange cones.

  • Kate 10:45 on 2021-07-28 Permalink | Reply  

    The Canadiens risk losing major local sponsors over the Logan Mailloux affair.

     
    • JaneyB 11:11 on 2021-07-29 Permalink

      Wow. I’m surprised. Those are serious sponsors – St-Hubert, la Cage, Jean-Coutu, and Desjardins Group. All that’s missing is Molson and Hydro-Quebec. This affair may not be over yet.

  • Kate 10:30 on 2021-07-28 Permalink | Reply  

    A man who vandalized several vehicles then attempted to flee the scene in a stolen police car ran into a wall, took off on foot and then was caught and arrested, all in a few minutes downtown Tuesday evening.

     
  • Kate 10:28 on 2021-07-28 Permalink | Reply  

    A march in favour of civil peace Tuesday was led by a family that lost their son to a shooting early this month.

    Police are bound to be letting us know when they arrest anyone in connection with firearms, as they did in the three cases mentioned here recently. It’s good PR for them but it does prove they’re working on the issue.

     
    • Kate 10:21 on 2021-07-28 Permalink | Reply  

      QMI’s Bureau d’enquête found out that the criteria for being made head of the BAnQ were downgraded recently at the behest of Quebec’s executive council. Normally you’d need a master’s degree at a minimum to have a hope at that job, but they changed the rules so that Marie Grégoire, who has only a B.A. in communications, could be awarded the position.

       
      • mare 12:13 on 2021-07-28 Permalink

        Too bad it’s not an *official* Bureau d’enquête, and would have power to rectify this. Corruption is going to corrupt, business as usual. The public opinion might sway for a few days, but then everyone just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        (If she had been a chroniqueuse for the J de M, we would probably never heard about this…)

      • Kate 13:37 on 2021-07-28 Permalink

        The CAQ seems to think this is a figurehead position, so they want one of their own in place, in case they want to make changes. I assume they do – run the archives and the library more like a business, perhaps.

        In the past we’ve had – as I summarized a little while ago – Lise Bissonnette, generally considered a good choice although she wasn’t an archivist, Guy Berthiaume, who is an archivist, and Jean-Louis Roy, described by Wikipedia as historian, journalist and diplomat, onetime editor of Le Devoir. All three are people with cultural oomph and I don’t recall a sense that any of them was a partisan choice.

        Well, the CAQ will do what the CAQ will do. As you say, mare, everyone just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

        For Quebec, this is becoming something of a petite noirceur.

    • Kate 10:17 on 2021-07-28 Permalink | Reply  

      Sue Montgomery plans to fight her suspension as mayor of Côte-des-Neiges–NDG.

       
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