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  • Kate 19:55 on 2021-10-02 Permalink | Reply  

    CBC says a small plane crashed near St Helen’s Island, Saturday evening. It had been towing a banner. TVA says one person has died and another was injured. TVA also specifies that the plane landed in Parc de Dieppe, at the tip of Cité du Havre, and La Presse tells us the crash didn’t affect the Osheaga site.

    Apparently the banner read “Veux-tu m’épouser?” – “Chantal will you marry me❤️” – an unauspicious omen for the engagement.

    Update: La Presse has much more detail Sunday morning, including a confirmation that it indeed was the same plane that made an emergency landing on Park Avenue in 2006. What won’t be known for awhile yet is the cause of the crash Saturday.

    Nobody has yet succeeded in talking to the person who commissioned the banner, nor to the Chantal named on it.

     

    • EmilyG 21:36 on 2021-10-02 Permalink

      Rumors are that it was the same plane that made an emergency landing on Ave du Parc in 2006.
      source: https://twitter.com/MWagnerRC/status/1444465120982220802?s=20

    • Janet 10:32 on 2021-10-03 Permalink

      Why translate the banner?
      The photo showsd “Chantal will you marry me❤️”

    • Kate 11:14 on 2021-10-03 Permalink

      Janet, I was going by something I saw on Twitter.

    • Janet 12:53 on 2021-10-03 Permalink

      Never trust Twitter

    • CE 21:19 on 2021-10-03 Permalink

      I was at the tam tams when that plane made the emergency landing on Parc back in 2006. I had been living in the city for about a week at that point and it seemed like something crazy was happening every day. That plane really took the cake though!

    • Kate 22:03 on 2021-10-03 Permalink

      I’m shocked that it’s still allowed to trail a big sign in English over the city.

    • JP 00:19 on 2021-10-04 Permalink

      A complaint to the OQLF could be underway.

  • Kate 19:51 on 2021-10-02 Permalink | Reply  

    Ten candidates have signed up to run for mayor, but that’s not surprising. At any election you tend to find anywhere from eight to a dozen people you’ve never heard of on your ballot.

     

    • Kate 15:09 on 2021-10-02 Permalink | Reply  

      A man and woman who were victims of a stabbing attack in mid-September tell how they asked for police support in getting items back from the woman’s previous residence, but police blew them off. Instead, her ex‑boyfriend attacked and stabbed both of them. (Warning for the squeamish: video shows details of their wounds from the incident.)

      Incidentally, note the headline “Alleged victims of stabbing attack…”. Our journalists aren’t well trained about this stuff. These people are not “alleged” victims. They are victims. Where you need to say “alleged” is when talking about the attacker, not the victims. “John Doe is alleged to have attacked his ex-girlfriend” – yes, because it hasn’t yet been proven in court, so saying so can be libellous and you have to be careful. But the attack itself is not an allegation.

      This came up last week when a nurse in Sherbrooke was punched by an assailant angry that she had vaccinated his wife. CTV headline: “Police in Sherbrooke searching for man who allegedly punched nurse.” The nurse was punched, that’s not debatable, so it isn’t an allegation. The identity of the attacker was unknown, so no allegation had occurred.

      Alleging that an established attack took place is not necessary and makes it sound like the writer is hinting the incident never took place. Were those people stabbed? Yes. Did that nurse get hit by an unknown male assailant? Yes. Not allegations.

      Leaving all that aside, the Montreal knifing incident is an example of police not taking domestic violence seriously. Cops need to listen when a woman says she needs backup, especially when a relationship is ending.

       

      • Nick 17:38 on 2021-10-02 Permalink

        They are alleged victims because his lawyer will be claiming self defense. He will be alleged victim of an attack in his home and attempted robbery and whatever.

      • Kate 11:15 on 2021-10-03 Permalink

        Hmm. Doesn’t apply in the case of the nurse, though, unless she punched herself in the face and made up a story.

      • david277 03:50 on 2021-10-05 Permalink

        The “alleged” thing is because you can sue for defamation, nothing more than that.

    • Kate 14:13 on 2021-10-02 Permalink | Reply  

      The numbers of SPVM police who hold down a second job has doubled since 2017, with 570 out of 4600 cops admitting to moonlighting. The story gets a bit vague where it begins mentioning that some of these “jobs” are things like being an unpaid sports team coach for kids. And admittedly, what a “job” is can be somewhat nebulous in the internet economy.

      The main concern would be any job that could lead to conflict of interest.

       

      • Kate 14:07 on 2021-10-02 Permalink | Reply  

        La Presse weighs up the 2017 electoral promises of Valérie Plante and judges whether she’s been able to keep them. Short version: she’s in the process of keeping them except for holding property taxes below the level of inflation.

        And there’s a coda about Plante’s parting of the ways with borough mayors Sue Montgomery and Giuliana Fumagalli, although no mention of the sudden departure of Luc Ferrandez from municipal politics.

         

        • jeather 14:20 on 2021-10-02 Permalink

          I am not delighted by every one of her choices but overall she has a close enough version of the city to me and whatever else, her goal as mayor is to make the city better, not to earn eternal personal fame or make a fortune in graft. I voted for her last time and hope she wins again.

        • Mark Côté 16:52 on 2021-10-02 Permalink

          I’m so torn between voting for Sue Montgomery vs projet’s NDG mayoral candidate, Gracia Kasoki Katahwa. If Montgomery was indeed trying to deal with intransigence in municipal affairs and was punished for it, I want to support her. But Project aren’t terrible in general, and the pragmatist in me balks at the idea of another 4 years of fighting in city council. Blech I hope some day we find out what all this kerfuffle was really about.

        • Tim S. 22:23 on 2021-10-02 Permalink

          Mark, do your best to meet them in person and decide for yourself. There’s one particular local candidate that, having met, I will never vote for, no matter what the press coverage says or how much I agree with their stated ideology.

      • Kate 13:32 on 2021-10-02 Permalink | Reply  

        Bullet holes were found in found in five trucks in an industrial part of Lachine Saturday morning. Also in the early morning, a car was torched with gasoline in St‑Laurent.

         

        • qatzelok 20:05 on 2021-10-02 Permalink

          This is all well and good, but there are still way too many cars.

        • Kate 20:10 on 2021-10-02 Permalink

          As I posted this one, I had the fleeting thought “If anyone responds, it will be qatzelok.”

        • qatzelok 17:54 on 2021-10-03 Permalink

          Thanks for thinking of me, Kate. : )

      • Kate 09:54 on 2021-10-02 Permalink | Reply  

        La Presse’s Caroline Touzin talked to several teenagers in legal trouble about guns, and how gang warfare in the north end means kids as young as 14 are walking around armed – and, in some cases, with legitimate concerns that other teenagers will take a shot at them if they get a chance.

        Since convicted minors are better treated and less harshly sentenced than adults, loyal minor gang members sometimes take the fall for acts they didn’t do, in order to spare adult confreres more time behind bars – and also stay safely inside a penal institution, protected from other teenagers who want to kill them.

         

        • Kate 09:41 on 2021-10-02 Permalink | Reply  

          TVA reports that squads of police carried out raids Friday night, looking for illegal weapons. There are a couple of troubling things in this piece.

          One is that there’s little account of how and whether people were physically searched for weapons.

          Another is this: “Les policiers ont reconnu un individu lourdement criminalisé, qui est devenu agressif quand les policiers lui ont demandé de présenter son passeport vaccinal.”

          Is the vaccination passport going to become a sort of general ID card? I am all for proving one’s vaccination status for legitimate reasons, but to see it become, so quickly, a form of general identification, that’s not so good. The cops were there – it’s evident from the wording of this piece – mostly to show shady people they’re being watched. They were not brought in to verify vaccination statuses.

           

          • steph 17:11 on 2021-10-02 Permalink

            Using the vaccine passport as a means to force people to identify themselves (The VaxiCode Verif app gives your full name) is crooked. I expect pushback on this abuse. OMG cops abusing their powers – who’s surprised.. ACAB. Even if I’m not a criminal, I’d just leave the bar.

          • Tux 08:58 on 2021-10-04 Permalink

            What with Sarah Everard’s case being so fresh, the cops should really not be so quick to start doing covid-related pretexting. If some cop walked up to me and asked for my vaccination passport on the street, my first thought would be “this guy is going to kidnap and murder me”

        • Kate 09:35 on 2021-10-02 Permalink | Reply  

          There are so many construction sites downtown that it has become littered with orange cones orphaned from their owners. A de-coning officer (“déconeux”) will be given the job of rounding them up and returning them to their owners.

           

          • MarcG 10:43 on 2021-10-02 Permalink

            You can’t make this shit up

          • Kate 10:57 on 2021-10-02 Permalink

            It isn’t a terrible idea. I don’t live downtown, but two cones landed on the sidewalk outside my place recently. No work was being done there and I don’t know how they got there, but eventually they went away. With so many cones in play, there must be a lot of this.

          • dhomas 11:22 on 2021-10-02 Permalink

            In the past, I would see people in my old neighbourhood of Rosemont “reserve” parking spots with those triangular sandwich signs for “horticulture” or “aqueduc” (kinda like these: https://www.signel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/EB67OS.jpg. Couldn’t find a better picture). But I think these are used less now than in the past, so they started to disappear and these same people are now using traffic cones. Though I don’t think the décôneux will make their way outside of downtown, I hope it will help put an end to this annoying practice once and for all, . Qu’ils arrêtent de déconner! (I couldn’t help myself!)

            Also, I quite like the examples given at the end of the story about the “permis d’inoccupation” they have in Chicago. It might be a good idea for Montreal to adopt something similar.

          • Kate 12:12 on 2021-10-02 Permalink

            There’s been discussion of penalties for holding commercial properties vacant for awhile, as the Chicago example, but nothing has materialized.

            Only time I see people holding parking spaces is when they’re moving house, and that seems to be understood and not penalized. Moving is always a stressful time and most people are happy to tolerate this for a neighbour.

          • Kevin 12:56 on 2021-10-02 Permalink

            In NDG, construction crews like to put up sandwich boards banning parking. Sometimes it is legit, because they are bringing in a truck with supplies or hauling away a dumpster, but more than half the time they just want a place to park their cars.

          • dhomas 12:50 on 2021-10-03 Permalink

            Most of the time, people moving would use two chairs and some rope. I’m fine with that. I think the ones I would see were more like the folks in Kevin’s example.

        • Kate 09:29 on 2021-10-02 Permalink | Reply  

          Friday was the deadline to declare candidacy in municipal elections, and several mayors and other candidates in Quebec towns have been returned by acclamation, including, on the island of Montreal, DDO’s Alex Bottausci, Westmount’s Christina Smith, and Baie-D’Urfé’s Heidi Ektvedt.

          Although a few candidates quit following the merger with Ralliement Montréal, Mouvement Montréal is fielding 74 candidates in the November election

           

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