House sales have slowed down since the hot market this time last year.
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Kate
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Kate
Culture Montreal has put in its recommendations toward the municipal election, noting particularly the interesting buildings standing empty that could be repurposed. Surprisingly, one of its suggestions is to assist young anglophone theatre groups.
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Kate
CF Montreal is banning its own Ultras after some incidents of “violence, intimidation and unauthorized pyrotechnics” at various matches.
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Kate
The PQ wants an end to the state of emergency but actually, what is this meme of politicians standing in manspreading form looking like they’re waiting for somebody to beam them up?
I mean, I suppose it started with social distancing, but the manspreading is pretty noticeable.
David774
Hah, yeah, that looks like a group photo taken following a Raelian meditation retreat.
qatzelok
Colombia has been under a state of emergency for 37 of the last 40 years, and look how well governed it is. A failed narco-state that hates its own people.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/state-of-siege-in-colombia-1532575.html
qatzelok
That article is from 1992. Since that time, there have been many states of emergencies.
david552
First of all, that state of emergency is nothing like what they had in Colombia, which had decades of paramilitary conflict and a de facto tri-partite division of the territory. It’s absurd to raise that comparison. Second of all, most cities in Colombia are very safe and pleasant. There’s no sense at all that you’re in any danger. Finally, the only people these days who are calling Colombia a “failed narco-state” are your Maduros, Cuban government types, the Communist International Magazine, etc. who hate the government there, support the FARC, and see Colombia as destabilizing Venezuela. In reality, it’s in better shape than ever.
So, your idea that Quebec’s Covid emergency decree will turn the province into a dystopian decades-old vision of Colombia during the height of the drug wars . . . there are some holes there.
qatzelok
David, you read so much into that.
What I would most liked to have surfaced is that governments seem to feel free to use emergency powers to drive through unpopular laws. Various Colombian governments have done this for 60 years, and many Colombians are currently embattled against the government.
That there are nice cities to visit is great to know, but I wasn’t commenting on the economic situation or the tourist experience.
Kate
Your parallels and your implications are still silly, qatzelok. In fact I’d deleted your comments here till I saw they’d been responded to, then I put them back. But this thread doesn’t make any useful point, so in a little while I’m going to take it down.
Jeff
“Manspreading” is a sexist slur. Men typically are more comfortable in that position because their genitals are on the outside of their body, in the groin area. If were a woman laying on a couch, is it Ladylaying? If somebody came to sit, you would sit up. If somebody came to sit next to a man with his legs spread, he would close them. You do what’s most comfortable if there is enough room, and if there isn’t, you don’t. Maybe the term originally described men who would not change position when space became scarce, but now it is applied to just any man who sits comfortably. It’s pure ignorance. Let’s just not.
MarcG
Bof
walkerp
Clearly Jeff has never been a woman sitting on the metro.
I haven’t either but I’ve seen plenty of assholish manspreading to know it is real.
Mark Côté
Lol indeed I’ve never seen a man not sitting with his legs at 90 degrees. What a hilarious comment.
Jeff
You guys can laugh but it’s still a sexist slur
Mark Côté
Or it’s an accurate representation of a society that is still largely patriarchal. Oh we poor men, still dominating so many of the power structures.
Kate
Jeff: Bof.
dhomas
Not to feed into this too much, but I’m pretty sure it’s only “manspreading” when it’s someone preventing someone else from being able to sit close to them, like in walkerp’s example. When you’re just standing (while socially distancing in this case!) and not bothering anyone, it’s just natural and comfortable. Source: I’m a man (also, Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manspreading).
Kate
Sigh.
You know, nearly 20 years on this blog, and this is the first time I’ve really had any gender-based squabbling.
Personspreading?
MarcG
Check out the Bloc’s massive balls in this pic https://i1.wp.com/yvesengler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/FED-ELXN-DEBATE-SEP09.jpg?ssl=1
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Kate
A fire Tuesday in a seniors’ residence in Anjou killed a very old woman.
There were also several suspicious fires overnight including one in a pizza place in DDO.
steph 20:45 on 2021-09-08 Permalink
So the supply is going down, IIRC this drives up the prices. ” prix médians ont continué d’augmenter fortement”.
Ephraim 22:09 on 2021-09-08 Permalink
Supply is constantly dwindling, because we aren’t building as fast as we are growing, while people argue that they want social housing… ensuring that prices will continue up. But in this case, I think demand is also down. The situation is a lot more stable today then it was a year ago.
Kevin 22:19 on 2021-09-08 Permalink
Scotiabank had a graph out earlier this year that Quebec City and Montreal are the only big cities in Canada where housing supply and new builds are remotely close to demand and population growth.
But overall, Canada has the lowest housing to population ratio of any G7 country.