Saga of a real estate guy
An anonymous reader sent me three links: Tuesday’s story about the eviction of 200 elderly people in downtown Montreal, which I wasn’t sure I’d post till seeing this other story of renoviction by the same guy from 2019. It’s offset by a CultMTL story about the guy distributing toys, which now strikes me as on the order of Mike Ward getting into the media for distributing little wooden boxes to the homeless, just as news breaks that Jérémie Gabriel is about to sue him in civil court in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling that Ward did not breach the limits of free speech.
Meezly 10:42 on 2022-02-02 Permalink
Are you deliberately withholding the name of “the guy” to make readers click on link to find out?
Cuz it worked!
So you’re saying this Z***v guy was likely trying to offset his guilt from derailing tenants’ lives by donating toys to kiddos?
“What he doesn’t know is that to a columnist who has been writing for the better part of this year about politics, language tension and COVID failures, interviewing him for such a feel-good story feels like a breath of much-needed fresh air.”
I’ve been totally on board with Toula Drimonis’ political pieces, so quite surprised she didn’t do her due diligence in making the connection that he happens to be a big time renovicter. Or she knew but chose not to taint the Z***v feel good piece, which would be hard to believe.
Kate 11:25 on 2022-02-02 Permalink
I suppose over the years I’ve tended to be careful not to include certain people’s names so’s to avoid turning up on Google searches. And yes, I think someone like that will occasionally try to offset assholishness with a gesture. Note the point in Toula’s story that he “found” a lot of toys in a basement, you know?
Yes, I was surprised Toula was so uncritical in that piece too.
MarcG 16:05 on 2022-02-02 Permalink
@Kate: Why do you try to avoid showing up in search results?
Kate 17:40 on 2022-02-02 Permalink
MarcG, there are a few known litigious people around whose names I will not mention, by habit, but it has stretched to being wary of the names of anyone who’s proven themselves to be notably predatory. For example, this guy, and the guy who organized that Sunwing debacle, to hint at two recent people in the news. They do not need to find my blog when ego-googling (as I’m sure they do – or have their people do).
Unlike the media, I haven’t got deep pockets for lawyers if anything were to hit the fan.