Shots were heard in St-Léonard on Friday evening, but no victims turned up, just a few shell casings.
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Kate
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Kate
Projet Montréal is promising to create more green space in the east end by enlarging existing parks and acquiring more land.
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Kate
City traffic cam image from Park and Pine at 2:30 p.m. Friday.
Update: Radio-Canada estimates 112,000 students left their classes for the climate march. TVA doesn’t give any estimate of the crowd except “quelques milliers”.
CharlesQ
That annoying TVA helicopter flew over Jeanne-Mance park, hovering for hours. Argh…
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Kate
I believe we’ve heard this before: SPVM police moaning that they’re unwilling to act against gangs for fear of being called racist.
In view of Isabelle Hachey’s piece Thursday on police in Repentigny, consider this from Friday’s TVA piece: “Les patrouilleurs connaissent bien les individus criminalisés et avaient l’habitude de les interpeller régulièrement.”
Compare this to Hachey’s analysis that Repentigny police rely on their flair policier – an instinct that mostly leads them to stop, search and question law-abiding Black residents going about their business. Is this any different?
DeWolf
So the cops are saying they can’t crack down on gangs unless they can indiscriminately stop and search Black people. In other words, they’re admitting they have no intelligence on who actually is a gang member and who isn’t. Is the SPVM incompetent?
Considering that they’ve given up on enforcing traffic laws, and they don’t seem inclined to do anything about property crime, I’m wondering what the point of this police force is. All they seem to do is harass people and tear gas protestors (and hockey fans).
steph
> Is the SPVM incompetent?
yes. ACAB.walkerp
To reinforce steph`s answer: Yes.
Ephraim
Not just incompetent, but clueless. You can’t police from a car and from a camera. You have to be approachable and part of the community. You need to stop the random stops and reach out to understand the community to be able to actually get them to trust you and therefore to give you relevant information.
The whole thing on the black cars, black uniforms and fearing the police doesn’t work. They need to be respected and trusted and it’s the very last thing that is true about them. They would be better off with gong back to wearing light blue shirts, white or light blue cars and the realization that not only are they subject to the law, but that WE are watching them at all times and that they need our respect to police.
PS: Police crime statistics aren’t correlated with crime but with “reported crime”, because a lot of crime isn’t reported, like credit card theft, internal theft, rapes and even shoplifting. So the police rely on crime numbers to suggest that crime is going down, but it’s a societal value that it is going down and has nothing to do with their actual work, because the greatest part of crime today is online and most of these guys couldn’t even trace an IP address.
Mark Côté
The whole “thin blue line” idea, that is, that the cops are the last line of defence holding back violent social chaos, is a terrifying ideology.
GC
Also, they already look racist. That’s not going to get worse if they do their jobs.
qatzelok
The police can certainly follow gang members, hassle them, and even arrest some of them. But it is NOT the police who are going to make the gang phenomenon go away.
Ensuring equal access for all youth to participate in better socialization… is a job for a lot of other departments and social institutions. And for society in general. Schools, sports programs, apprentice programs, school clubs, employment opportunities, and more spontaneous neighborhood involvement in child-rearing and socialization would help. But giving cops yet another group to target… is a cop out. (heh heh)
And even *asking* the police to intervene… could be seen as a sign of ongoing failure on the part of our “rich” society to offer our youth any hope for a decent future.
Kevin
Police who don’t live in your neighbourhood aren’t members of your community.
jeather
Never agreed with you more, qatzelok.
Max
I suppose I would despise them less if they got out of their cars every now and again. But we’ll never know, will we?
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Kate
Author Daniel Sanger has just brought out a new book on Projet Montréal and the surprising rise of Valérie Plante. It’s also out in English with Véhicule Press.
MarcG
It’s too bad their website sucks so bad – I clicked on “Buy now” and it just opened a new tab with the same content. Does it work for anyone else? Here’s another new book about Montreal politics that I’ve ordered but haven’t read yet.
walkerp
Yes, same issue for me. The lower link works, but then charges in US dollars. Would be good to let them know.
walkerp
I emailed them.
MarcG
The link on this page works http://www.vehiculepress.com/new.php
Kate
I heard about the Sanger book and tried to get the ebook from Véhicule ten days ago. Paypal went through, then the site gave me a big 500 error. I emailed them, and they said the book wasn’t ready yet, but when I asked them why they had a live link up for buying it, if it wasn’t yet available, they did not reply.
I’m still out $15 and no copy of the book. If anyone here succeeds in getting the book from Véhicule, please let me know.
MarcG, interesting book from Black Rose, not available yet either. I guess all these writers and publishers are targeting the municipal election campaign.
MarcG
I also got the error page after payment and emailed them about it. Whoever does customer service is probably wondering why they’re having such a busy day.
SMD
In a very similar vein to the Black Rose book, this one from écosociété is quite good: Montréal en chantier.
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Kate
Some weekend driving notes from La Presse.
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Kate
A teacher of antivaxx views is suspected to be the source of an outbreak of Covid at
HochelagaRosemont’s St‑Émile primary school so bad that the school has closed and returned to distance teaching. Even the education minister has been brought in to talk about consequences, although his government has not mandated vaccination for teachers.Patrick
School is in Rosemont : https://st-emile.cssdm.gouv.qc.ca/
Kate
Oh yes, you’re right. On the north side of Sherbrooke. My eye was distracted by the HOCHELAGA lettering beside it on Google Maps.
walkerp
Just disgraceful. I hope they are fired and possible legal consequences.
Ephraim
See this tweet… https://twitter.com/vaccintrackerqc/status/1441060694946897924 the largest group with positive cases at the moment… those 10 and under.
And they will soon have approval for a microdose (a third of the adult dose) for children 5 to 11 years old.
YUL514
How disgraceful. Our regular dental hygienist couldn’t see my wife earlier this summer so instead of re-scheduling she accepted another hygienist, big mistake. The new one started spewing nonsense to my wife that Covid is all fake, blah blah blah and that people that get vaccinated are “stupid”, my wife said, “I’m vaccinated” and she starts going on about how she’s on a “Facebook group” that “reports side effects” of the vaccine. My wife didn’t get confrontational considering the position she was in. I took my daughter for a cleaning about one month later and mentioned it to our regular hygienist who was in shock and said her boss would be disappointed if they heard this story. I really can’t take these morons anymore.
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Kate
Not surprisingly, the city is facing higher office vacancies than ever, businesses either vacating their premises or reducing the square footage they’re prepared to pay for.
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Kate
The City of Montreal is in court trying to make Michael Applebaum repay $307,479 he received from the city after he stepped down as mayor in 2013. The problem is that, while Quebec has a law against paying elected officials if they’re convicted of certain crimes, the law was only passed after the Applebaum debacle. The case turns on whether that law can be applied retroactively.
Radio-Canada may get the prize for Most Obvious Subhead of the Year here: “Applebaum veut garder l’argent.”
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