A cyclist is in critical condition after getting hit by a truck at Park and Mont-Royal on Monday afternoon. The driver is said to have fled, but police caught up with him in Outremont.
Update: The truck driver will be charged Tuesday, but the item doesn’t list the charges.
The STM is being reprimanded by the Inspector General for accepting ballooning costs on three of its contracts, and not even ones directly concerning transit – two are for office equipment and one (a rather minor one, relatively) for publicity. I would imagine the STM can defend itself for spending a bit more to communicate pandemic measures to clients.
The city firefighters have come out in support of Valérie Plante.
Hopefully this is a sign that people haven’t forgotten how much Coderre slashed public services during his term, all while lavishing public money on corporate buddies like Evenko.
I think it’s got more to do with the provincially-imposed pension fund changes and firefighters storming into city hall.
Since the pandemic, the numbers of homeless are rising, most particularly First Nations and Inuit people, an observation made by a woman who has gone from being a homeless person to working with the homeless herself.
September 30 has been declared the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, with a commemorative march planned.
A Toronto Star writer goes off on Montreal and Tampa Bay sharing a baseball team as a terrible idea: “it was cockamamie when it was first proposed and it’s cockamamie today.”
I love that word, cockamamie. Such a treasure.
And such an interesting history: https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/wordroutes/a-far-fetched-etymology-that-seems-a-little-cockamamie/
That’s great, Mitchell, thank you!
Anyone who doesn’t think it’s a scam should visit the Videotron Centre.
You can park right by the front door 24/7, 365+.
Angrignon Park is going to be spiffed up, and with a light hand, at least. More trees and bushes will be added and it sounds like they’re not planning to include new any features that would take away from the green space.
The Gazette has a Marian Scott piece talking to various people weighing the issues in the mayoral race.
Both Plante and Coderre are promising to start a lease register in an effort to limit rental increases.
Here’s an odd Mario Girard piece which comes to a tortured conclusion. Because the EMSB tweaked the dragon’s tail recently by stating that Quebec is not a nation (a radical idea it later withdrew), Girard suggests this bad attitude is why the EMSB doesn’t want to have a new school building constructed on the grounds of Dunrae Gardens, one of its schools in TMR.
“Les francophones sont maintenant majoritaires [in TMR]. Les anglophones doivent aujourd’hui se tourner vers des institutions comme les commissions scolaires pour faire valoir leurs droits.”
He even goes on to suggest that the students are likely to clash because of linguistic stresses.
And yet he entirely ignores the simple, Occam-like reason why the EMSB doesn’t want the new school built on its land: it doesn’t want to give up its playing fields. You can see on Google maps that putting a second school building on that land means neither school would have space around it. The EMSB’s resistance to this plan needn’t have anything to do with anglo rights.
Also note the accompanying La Presse photo which totally distorts the proportion of the lot where the existing school stands.
I know it’s been a long pandemic, but two years ago the Education Minister took several schools away from the English board and gave them to a French board. (General Vanier and John Paul I)
I’m beginning to think that Mario Girard is just not very good with details.
Mario Girard is bad at being a columnist.
Kevin, I assume that Dunrae Gardens could simply be taken away from the EMSB and given to the French-language board service centre. They might as well get on with it.
The Gazette has published an excerpt of Linda Gyulai’s piece in Montréal: A Citizen’s Guide to City Politics on how power is used, misused and limited at Montreal city hall.
I bet this is the first time they’ve ever published anything from Black Rose Books.
I’ve got a copy of the ebook myself, but I wish I didn’t find it such an irritant that they write “Montréal” throughout even though it’s the English version.
Nice work by La Presse’s Vincent Larouche reveals how a piece of land in Montérégie, once used by the federal government as a shooting range but since sold off, has been divided up among Montreal mobsters, among them Raynald Desjardins and various connections of the Rizzutos. These folks are also construction magnates, and they want to build up the land – but some local folks don’t want to see it despoiled.
I think that this land is *just outside* the ex-shooting range property.
The shooting range land is hoped to be added to parc national de Mont Saint Bruno and these people want to profit by selling deluxe-land on its doorstep.
“…le partage des terres agricoles situées stratégiquement en bordure d’un immense terrain vacant…” and the “terrain vacant” is the shooting range land.
AFAIK, the shooting range land has *not* been sold off.
Chris 22:38 on 2021-09-27 Permalink
Seems she has died. 🙁
Will the motorist be charged with anything? Hopefully there will be follow-up in the media.
Kate 23:25 on 2021-09-27 Permalink
Bad news, but thank you. I suppose it’s possible, if it was a heavy enough truck, the driver could claim he never felt a thing.