The plans for Place des Montréalaises were unveiled Wednesday. It will take three years to complete, starting next spring.
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Kate
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Kate
Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve is following suit with Rosemont and Ahuntsic boroughs in allowing residents to keep chickens. When Radio-Canada announced the Ahuntsic decision last month, Mathias Marchal also spoke to the SPCA and got their angle on naive city dwellers setting up coops, but that’s not mentioned in Wednesday’s piece on Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
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Kate
Valérie Plante promised Wednesday to build 60,000 affordable housing units on land the city will buy and develop.
At the same time, Denis Coderre promised to make the city cleaner.
Denis has made a careful calculation, and it shows: he knows that municipal voting skews older. Plante would be wise to find ways to get out the vote among people under 50.
Spi
Plante is being willfuly blind if she thinks this city isn’t dirty. It always has been, even her shinny REV is often littered with trash (mostly through Ahuntsic and Villeray).
The cleanliness of the city is a problem with it’s citizens above all else.
Kate
Plante never said anything about the city not being dirty.
Maybe it’s my eyes, but when I walk around my neighbourhood, Villeray, I am not struck by how dirty it is. I worked for the census all through the summer and I walked a lot through Villeray and down into Petite-Patrie, and only a couple of blocks of one street, which shall remain nameless, struck me as not especially clean.
When there are events in parks and public places there’s often not enough room in the poubelles for the trash being generated by the crowd. They might look into how to handle that issue.
MarcG
Yeah I don’t find our city especially ‘unclean’. Down by the river in Verdun there are regular volunteer cleanups to pick up after the party idiots/ignorant/myself-when-i-was-younger which makes a big difference there. A lot more garbage recepticles added around here since the pandemic started which also seems to help.
JaneyB
There are Projet Montreal signs up all along the bike paths by the river down in Verdun so let’s hope all those cyclists show up to vote. It amazes me that Coderre/Mr. Evenko is even considered a credible candidate but as you say, the older folk vote. The world would be a different and better place if the 25 year olds would use the power they have. Fingers crossed.
Myles
Most of my friends who have visited me here remark on how clean the city is. Of course it varies by season and neighbourhood, but I agree on the whole.
dhomas
I’ve worked for a French company with the HQ in Paris. When my colleagues would visit, they would comment on how clean the city is, too. Of course, they would come in the summer, so they wouldn’t see our spring thaw revealing the garbage hidden by snow all winter. Paris is also quite a dirty city by comparison.
EmilyG
This might just be tangential, but:
I know that quite a few West Island people, in boroughs that are part of Montreal, prefer Coderre over Plante because they see Plante as being anti-car. A lot of suburban people really like their cars and worry about things like parking spaces. I doubt they care much about issues in the rest of Montreal, such as downtown.
Also, I don’t know much about borough mayors, but it appears that the mayor of my borough is on Coderre’s team, so that worries me a little.Kate
Plante needs to start campaigning in a huge, egregious SUV and get some car dealerships to offer her their support.
jeather
I was speaking to someone who was complaining about Plante and cyclists not following traffic rules (not letting pedestrians cross, not stopping at red lights) and I just don’t see how that is her fault.
GC
It’s also not something that only started after she took power.
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Kate
Taylor C. Noakes skewers the saga of finding something to name after Oscar Peterson.
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Kate
Students are planning to come out on a climate demo Friday along with others around the world
Update: The Journal already has an estimated head count Thursday for a demo that won’t take place till Friday. In fact, I will be interested to see whether the spirit of the original Greta Thunberg-inspired marches has survived the pandemic.
Raymond Lutz
Radical times call for radical actions. How long before this dedication comes here in North America? Berlin hunger strike, day 24: Meet the protesters starving for climate justice. Ma conjointe m’a dit: «Tu ferais quoi si c’était ta fille?» Bonne question… C’est d’une grande violence, mais le geste n’est pas porté contre autrui.
thomas
How about serious problems call for serious solutions? Anyone can set a target, but it requires dedicated mental effort to realize that objective. I am very disappointed that in the last election the NDP and Green party proposed no plan to achieve their objectives.
Chris
The Green party achieved their objective of total self-destruction. 🙂
Raymond Lutz
The NDP didn’t even had the balls to make any promise about the aberrant TMX project. 8(
«NDP refuses to commit to killing the $16-billion, publicly funded pipeline expansion»Meezly
If anyone wants to know what it’s like to try to change systemic racism, become a climate activist. We’re trying to find solutions for a man-made global caplitalistic framework that’s been geared towards human exploitation, destruction of the natural world and upholding socio-economic disparities. Not one federal party leader was willing to even call out Bill 21.
Any party that wants to effect real change will need to be revolutionary and that’s just too radical for the majority of people, who just want better things yet maintain the status quo.
Raymond Lutz
Meezly, I can’t find the exact source, but that’s essentially what Chris Hedges is saying: “No changes will come from our [fake and depraved] electoral processes: it will come from the streets, and it will be revolutionary” (citing from memory). See Chris Hedges: America faces a historic choice — “ugly corporate tyranny” or revolution for a starter.
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Kate
I updated my list of federal ridings on the island of Montreal. There’s virtually no change, and I will update it again when Justin Trudeau settles on a new cabinet (same as the old cabinet?).
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Kate
Le Devoir’s survey shows Valérie Plante and Denis Coderre are neck and neck in vote intentions as the official campaign gets going.
Mr.Chinaski
Those 8% who are voting for Balarama LOL Plante can win easily just by showing those voters who he really is…
Kate
What’s your beef with Balarama?
Mr.Chinaski
Wants the balkanisation of MTL and would like to seperate the city from the province (clearly he doesn’t understand article 43). He then deleted those posts about it… he’s a preppy self-serving douch from McGill law that pretends he’s an activist.
Anyway he’s hurting Coderre by stealing english-voters, that’s good!!! LOL
Kevin
Every problem Quebec politicians worry about would be solved if the island of Montreal was a separate province.
Mr.Chinaski
Can’t wait for Hochelaga to separate from your newly formed Province of Montreal, then Place Valois seperates from the newly province of Homa!
It doesn’t work like that. Balkanisation is not the way to go. It’ll never be.
MarcG
Buk: Since I agree with the idea of smaller states = better states and am interested in hearing reasons why Chicoutimi should not be it’s own sovreign nation – do you have any thoughts besides “that won’t work”?
Kevin
Mr.Chinaski
In an ideal world, instead of a long trip to the dentist, Parizeau and his colleagues should’ve spent time in therapy and working on the insecurities of our fellow citizens.
Instead we’ve had the largest media group in the province and a string of politicians playing up those fears, passing prejudical laws, and setting up nobody wins scenarios in hopes of promoting separatism.
They are terrified of Montreal because we demonstrate that they are wrong.
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Kate
Hospital services are under stress in Quebec, according to a recent study by La Presse, with shortages, closures and postponed surgeries all over. Quebec has ordered Montreal hospitals to add 149 new beds for Covid patients and prepare to delay all other procedures.
Operating room nurses at the Lakeshore General are refusing to be moved to the ICU. Nurses being forced to work for 48 hours on two hours’ sleep, without time for food or bathroom breaks – we don’t expect this of any other class of workers.
A grade school in Cartierville has been shut down because so many cases of Covid have broken out.
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Kate
The motorist who drove into nine people outside a DDO polling station on Monday will not be charged. Just a mistake, apparently.
Chris
As always. 🙁
I never know with these announcements: are they referring strictly to criminal charges, or is she not even getting any ticket(s) for highway code (CSR) violations? Because for sure she violated several paragraphs of the CSR!
Tim
What is a “false manoeuver”? Are they going to take away this person’s license or at least ding her some demerits?
Kate
A “false manoeuver” is a lazy translation from French. It could more naturally be translated as a “wrong move”. I’ve seen nothing about the circumstances except that there will be no charges. The driver is 51 years old, so she can’t easily claim advanced age as an excuse.
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Kate
Four teenagers have been accused of conspiracy and death threats in their north end high school. They’ve been pulled out of school and sent home with a list of restrictions on their activities.
Update: TVA tells an altogether more gruesome story: they claim that these teenagers were planning a massacre. Although the writer of this piece begins an early paragraph “Explosifs, armes à feu, liste de personnes à cibler” she admits later “Aucune arme ni aucun engin explosif n’auraient été retrouvés.”
vasi 01:08 on 2021-09-23 Permalink
That’s a lot of work to do in that part of town while still leaving the expressway uncovered. Not sure why this one little last section of trench is still there, is there something about the area that makes it especially hard to fix?