The city has bought a piece of land around the old Riverside pumping station, currently occupied by Les Forges de Montréal with plans to keep the forges working.
That’s awfully close to the Peel Basin.
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Kate
Radio-Canada basically gasps over a massive new condo project to be built at Sherbrooke and Guy.
david992
I don’t know about gasps, that’s a fairly alright account of this excellent project.
Key note near the end:
“Une analyse de la Banque Scotia relevait récemment qu’il y avait 440 logements par millier de résidents à Montréal en 2016. Ce ratio a diminué à 437 par millier en 2020. À l’échelle canadienne, 100 000 unités de plus auraient dû être construites pendant ces quatre années pour garder le cap.”
Robert H
Massif? Par rapport à quoi? Il y a déjà des bâtiments d’envergure à proximité, le Port Royal par exemple. De plus, pas question d’embourgeoisement. Broccolini va construire un complexe de condominiums de luxe dans un quartier parsemé de condominiums de luxe. Le Projet est une bonne nouvelle pour le centre-ville, surtout pour ce coin qui est un vide dans la paysage urbain depuis des lustres. Le Sherbrooke contribuera à la métamorphose du centre-ville. Au fur et a mesure que les employés de bureaux quittent les lieux, les résidents s’installent, apportant avec eux un véritable vie de quartier. J’ai remarqué qu’il n’y avait pas un mot dans l’article sur le projet précédent pour ce site. Il y a plus qu’un décennie, c’était censé être l’emplacement d’un hôtel Waldorf-Astoria, un projet qui est mort au bout de quelques années. C’est donc encore mieux que ce terrain vague soit enfin rempli. Je m’en fous si je ressemble à un promoteur. J’espère que ce projet va de l’avant.
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Kate
Pandemic measures will soon be lightened up in Quebec, including allowing the Bell Centre to be totally sold out for hockey matches, so long as everyone is vaccinated. Movie theatres will also be able to operate normally.
Chris
Normally? As in: without vaccine passports? Or do you consider vaccine passports part of normal? 🙂
Kate
I do, yes. Because they are.
dhomas
Normally, as in: at full capacity (and presumably with popcorn!). Cinema operators (except maybe that crackpot Guzzo) don’t really care if unvaccinated people are excluded if their theatres are full and concession stands are making money.
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Kate
Here’s a Téléjournal report on the massive new reservoir in Rosemont. Wait till they come to the comparison with the Mines of Moria.
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Kate
Marc-Antoine Desjardins has dropped out of the mayoral race and has joined forces with Balarama Holness’s Mouvement Montréal. Desjardins had 24 candidates in Ralliement pour Montréal, who will now be running under the Mouvement banner.
CharlesQ
I’m disappointed in Mouvement Montréal’s program. Some of it (in french anyway) is copy and pasted twice. Most of it is either already been done or is not under municipal jurisdiction and depends on Quebec and it’s all really vague. The idea of a bilingual (french/english) Montreal is outdated. For the Ville de Montréal, the numbers are 52,4% francophones, 34,4% other and only 13,2% anglophones. There are twice as many trillingual people on Montreal then in Toronto in percentage. A multilingual Montreal makes more sense then going back to a 1960s language model. Anyway as long as Coderre doesnt get back in, i’ll be happy.
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Kate
Thursday is the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation across Canada. It isn’t a statutory holiday in Quebec, and TVA is annoyed that it’s causing confusion over what’s open and what’s closed.
This is against a backdrop of François Legault holding out stubbornly against the fact that there’s systemic racism in Quebec. Paul Journet describes the scrap at the National Assembly as Legault coped with the first anniversary of the death of Joyce Echaquan by squabbling with MNA Greg Kelley over the phrase. Allison Hanes in the Gazette notes how Legault feels any criticism of him or his government is an attack on Quebec itself.
Speaking of Legault, I was struck by this Guardian piece, reminding me that it’s not just in Quebec that “the woke” are a straw man opponent for the right.
Incidentally, Legault won’t allow us to have another stat holiday because he wants more productivity.
Meezly
After the death of Joyce Echequan, Legault has had a year to educate himself on how systemic racism impacted her unnecessary suffering and death. There have been discussions here about his ‘stubborness’…it should be clear by now that his denial is intentional and political.
Calling him stubborn in his willful ignorance makes him sound like a crochety old man who doesn’t want to change. Can we please try to put in context why he’s being this stubborn?
As leader of this province, his intentional denial of systemic racism is a political strategy which makes him more a threat to democracy than merely holding onto the status quo. He can’t admit to systemic racism as that would impact the racist Bill 21 and discriminatory Bill 96.
steph
He’s obviously doing it to cater to his base – which is enough in this political system to get him elected. It’s a shame.
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Kate
A couple who sheltered Edward Snowden when he fled to Hong Kong have found their home here in Montreal. I’m surprised the United States isn’t making more of a fuss – wouldn’t they regard Snowden’s helpers as aiding and abetting his crimes?
Ephraim
Here’s the problem… https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54013527
What he exposed, what they want to try him for. What they sued him for in civil court. The whole basis of what he is charged for… was… declared illegal in September of 2020. So, while he violated the espionage law, he’s also now legally a whistleblower. So they want to charge him under the espionage act but he should be protected under the Whistleblower Protection Act. But it took 7 years to vindicate what he was saying. It’s a very complicated case.
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Kate
A man was shot overnight in a Côte-des-Neiges apartment, allegedly as a drug deal was going down. He is not expected to die.
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