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  • Kate 23:20 on 2021-12-13 Permalink | Reply  

    Work will begin soon on a massive centre for autism education and research to be built in the Technopole Angus.

     
    • EmilyG 10:22 on 2021-12-14 Permalink

      Good news, but the way the article is written bums me out a little.
      I wonder when journalists will catch up to the autistic community, and learn that “Aspergers” is an outdated term, and “autistic” is an okay word. The only time the word “autistic” is used in this article is when they’re quoting an actual autistic person.

    • Ian 17:51 on 2021-12-14 Permalink

      Jeez it’s only been almost 10 years since the term “Asperger’s” got deprecated. That said many older people on the spectrum might still self-identify as having Asperger’s since that’s the label they lived with for years. My teen daughter is ASD1 though and very precise about that sort of thing, she wouldn’t stand for it for a second 😀

  • Kate 23:06 on 2021-12-13 Permalink | Reply  

    The Théâtre St-Denis is getting enlarged with a big makeover. This is not the first for the venue: a century ago it had a sort of small Greek temple protruding from the front.

     
    • Ian 17:53 on 2021-12-14 Permalink

      Not a miniature temple, but a “portico”

      /nerd

    • Kate 19:58 on 2021-12-14 Permalink

      Not an edicule?

  • Kate 14:57 on 2021-12-13 Permalink | Reply  

    Six teenagers have been arrested after allegedly making social media threats against a Lasalle high school, but apparently a lot of schools are dealing with similar threats, never knowing how seriously to take them, yet not wanting to risk assuming they’re frivolous. The high school remains open but on alert.

     
    • Kate 11:59 on 2021-12-13 Permalink | Reply  

      Guess who’s cited in this BBC piece on how France is resisting the US challenge to its values.

       
      • Meezly 14:31 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        Covid has already been used for World War C, but wonder if we can also include Culture Wars as the next world war?

        Back in the heady 60’s, revolutionary ideas transcended nations and borders. Black Panthers and Communist China were united in shared causes and French intellectuals drew much inspiration from African American activists when they grew disillusioned with their own movements. Times have sure changed.

      • david8122 16:43 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        Probably more than anything, and similar to Quebecois (but not Anglos, especially those that moved to Montreal from Canada), a very large number of French are just unwilling to apologize for their culture.

      • Kate 16:47 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        Troll city limits.

      • Tim S. 18:08 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        Perhaps the divide is between people who think culture is a thing that can be strictly defined, and those who think it’s just what comes when you let people live their lives.

      • qatzelok 19:37 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        Toppling statues and banning unpopular guest speakers… is not the same thing as **a revolution.**

      • Ian 21:07 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        Qatzi, I remember when you called Anglo Qubeckers Rhodesians almost every day. Maybe you should sit htis one out.

      • carswell 21:41 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        “We are in a country where the freedom to talk about anything and everything is taken for granted. When you have minorities who say such and such a subject is off-limits, people instinctively say that’s censorship, and we can’t accept it,” he says.

        Good thing the subject of systemic racism isn’t off-limits in Quebec, eh, Matty?

      • Raymond Lutz 08:58 on 2021-12-17 Permalink

        Eeet devinez qui verse une diarrhée débile sur CNEWS au sujet des organismes qui distribuent des paniers maraîchers dans les banlieues françaises? Indigénisime??? Gné? et pis quoi encore? content warning

        idée, on devrait lancer un fil MBCwatch … 8:)

    • Kate 11:25 on 2021-12-13 Permalink | Reply  

      The STM has two places on its board intended for members of the public who use the service, but these have always been filled by political appointees. Now, they’re actually appealing to the public for people to take the seats. They want people who not only use transit, but have some expertise in finance, urbanism or transportation. Here’s the posting.

       
      • Meezly 11:59 on 2021-12-14 Permalink

        What a wonderful opportunity. Imagine how this person could make a difference in transit commuters lives, however small! I hope the candidates will also have lived experience with transit systems in other cities, as well as here.

      • dhomas 19:16 on 2021-12-14 Permalink

        Regular poster ant6n comes to mind as an ideal candidate. 🙂

      • MarcG 19:44 on 2021-12-14 Permalink

        I was thinking the same thing

      • Kate 01:00 on 2021-12-15 Permalink

        I agree. ant6n, we nominate you!

    • Kate 11:19 on 2021-12-13 Permalink | Reply  

      The thing that strikes me about this brief piece on some Ville-Émard residents protesting a new condo development is the photo. Is that really a piece of undeveloped green space, with the picnic tables on concrete bases, and the pretty waterway and all?

      Update: On CBC radio news, Tuesday morning, it became clear that the space in question is a private lot that had become a sort of de facto park, something on the order of Parc Oxygène in the McGill ghetto. People become accustomed to having a little green hangout space in their neighbourhood and manage to forget it isn’t technically public at all.

       
      • Joey 11:25 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        Looks like a photo of Jarry Park, actually. I mean, NIMBY gonna NIMBY, but I can understand why it would be a shame to turn whatever this picture is of into a condo building.

      • Ephraim 11:38 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        Assuming the land is private property, how about asking these people how much they are willing to increase their property tax in order to buy the property from the developer… put your money where your mouth is… as they say.

      • Kate 11:44 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        Jarry Park’s pond is smaller. I thought this might be Angrignon.

      • nau 11:49 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        Reverse image search shows it has been used for other park-related Journal stories. It definitely reminds me of Angrignon Park.

      • Kate 11:51 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        nau, good work.

      • Blork 12:11 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        What strikes me about that article is that it never occurred to the writer nor the editor to mention the location of the disputed development. #FAIL

      • MarcG 12:16 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        Amazing that the group is impossible to find on the internet – even searching through Facebook groups I can’t find a trace of them.

      • Mary 12:20 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        That is most definitely the larger of two ponds at Angrignon, taken facing towards de la Verendrye Blvd. Whenever I contacted the PM councillor who had the parks dossier, Alain Vaillancourt, about problems at the park he told me he was advised by Les Amies du Parc Angrignon, a group with no structure, no mandate, a clic, if you will.

      • Kate 12:23 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        Mary, sometimes groups like that are valuable – I know, because I follow Les Amis du Parc Jarry, which has done some good work saving green space in that park from the constant encroachment of the tennis facility, among other things. Looked at one way, you could call it “a group with no structure, no mandate” but it’s still a valuable true grassroots group. People essentially select themselves into it because they give a damn, and they stay in it because nobody else turns up who wants to do the job more than they do.

      • Ephraim 12:30 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        Ville Emard is pretty small… it runs from Raudot to Monk, along the canal/St-Patrick and up de Montmagny. The only real space might be near the industrial area along Jacques Hertel, Hamilton, Beaulieu. Unless it’s going up in a space that burnt or was knocked out.

      • steph 19:15 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

      • nau 21:52 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

        I’m pretty sure that google maps’ rectangular representation of Ville Emard (Raudot, etc.) is inaccurate. First, surely it extended to Angrignon Park. Then there’s an Ave. Emard between Verendrye and Hadley (just short of Monk) and a Bain Emard on Laurendeau near Jolicoeur, which are outside of that rectangle. While that google maps image does appear in Wikipedia’s Ville Emard article, the text has (amusingly enough) two different descriptions of its borders. Both have it running from Angrignon Park along Verendrye to either Desmarchais and then Monk to Lachine Canal or to Leprohon and then Laurendeau to Caron and then Briand to Lachine Canal. Wikipedia is also saying Jolicoeur metro station is in Ville Emard, which would agree with Leprohon. On the other side, just looking at street signs (Lasalle’s are green), it looks like the border with Lasalle is Irwin rather than de Montmagny. That’s a bit bigger area, though there’s still not very much undeveloped land there either. There’s maybe one undeveloped lot on Egan between 1687 and 1703. Pretty small though. There are also a couple churches with adjacent undeveloped areas, such as at Laurendeau and Desmarchais (though that’s the front entrance) and on de Seve near Drake (but mostly grass).

      • MarcG 10:18 on 2021-12-14 Permalink

        Global had a story on November 25th that mentioned this plot was on Holy Cross – here it is: https://goo.gl/maps/5Q4bmmhzrJL4cv456. Now whether that’s in Ville Emard or Cote-St-Paul I don’t know – the borders don’t seem to be described officially by the city anywhere.

      • Kate 19:59 on 2021-12-14 Permalink

        MarcG, thanks for the links. I can see why that neighbourhood appreciated the greenery, but it bears no resemblance to the photo the Journal used!

      • nau 20:04 on 2021-12-14 Permalink

        Good find. I’ve always gotten different answers from people with roots in the area as to the exact borders. I looked at the Cote Saint Paul wikipedia page, and it has the same two variations of borders as the Ville Emard page. I think whoever is editing these pages seems to think that the official borders when they were both towns was the one with Leprehon, but that since they were incorporated into Montreal, the notion of what’s the border between the neighbourhoods has shifted to Desmarchais. Who knows if that’s accurate however. These people certainly seem to think they’re in Ville Emard, which is contrary to the Desmarchais thesis. Looking again I see that across from Bain Emard on Laurendeau, there’s a Ville Emard Deli-Pizzeria, so it would seem that the old town borders are still very much in play.

    • Kate 10:58 on 2021-12-13 Permalink | Reply  

      The Journal has some photos of windstorm damage, half of them showing trees, half tempos.

       
      • Kate 10:55 on 2021-12-13 Permalink | Reply  

        Le Devoir tells about two men who profit from forcing modest tenants out of buildings in Verdun, then turning the buildings into condos, claiming they’re “revitalizing” the area. But the borough has made some of their maneuvers illegal.

         
        • Kate 00:32 on 2021-12-13 Permalink | Reply  

          A man was found dead in Lachine on Sunday evening, with marks of violence on him. TVA goes further and tells us several bullet casings were also found on the premises.

          Update: The victim, Tyree Virgo, is described here as a criminel endurci. It’s homicide #33 of the year.

           
          • Mr.Chinaski 10:44 on 2021-12-13 Permalink

            This little pocket of Lachine is a dump filled with racaille, no surprise. All these buildings will be demolished in the next decade with Lachine-Est

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