Mayor Plante says shelter for the homeless should be offered year round, and not only when it’s cold out. She’s also asking Quebec for help with housing generally.
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Kate
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Kate
Quebec solidaire MNA Andres Fontecilla is asking the public security minister to tell cops to stop wearing “thin blue line” patches. A law passed since the camo pants era is unequivocal on restricting police to their regulation kit and nothing else.
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Kate
Anglos have a tougher time getting jobs and make less than francophones when we do, according to a new report.
Updated to add, tangentially: Académie Française denounces rise of English words in public life.
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Kate
The federal government is offering a handout to support public transit but wants the provinces to equal the amount and make a promise to work with towns on the housing crisis.
I’m prepared to bet Quebec turns this offer down because of the conditions.
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Kate
The Montréal en lumière (High Lights Festival) opens Thursday with various events including the Nuit blanche on February 26.
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Kate
Some people are still being housed by the city eight months after moving day.
Ensemble wants the city to start making plans for moving day 2022.
Ted Rutland critiques the city’s planned rent registry: it will only ask landlords to report rents every five years (making it useless 4/5 of the time).
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Kate
Although thin blue line patches clearly contravene the SPVM’s rules on uniform embellishment, the most the city will say in this article is that they “have a discomfort” with it.
This is one of the times I want to ask bluntly: who’s in charge of our police? Because all too often it seems they’re a law unto themselves, and not too concerned about responding to the democratically elected city government.
steph
The police’s job is to maintain order. The order of things isn’t something they’re interested in changing, any disruption or change to that higharchy (including giving rights to groups that didn’t have them before) is a change of order. ACAB.
You’ll never see a POC with a thin blue line patch/flag. Everyone knows it’s a symbol of racism and white supremacy, it should obviously be banned and the offending officers punished.YUL514
“who’s in charge of our police?”
Police union probably, they have too much power. It’s why we can’t get body cams on them.
qatzelok
Policemen, like truckers and nurses, are working class people who have to perform a useful function for other people. This is not the group that is resonsible for social inequality or the resultant breakdown in social peace.
When rich powerful entities criticize workers, they shouldn’t be imitated.
dwgs
qatzelok, have you ever gone outside?
qatzelok
I go outside every day. For hours and hours.
And, more relevantly, I support ALL demonstrations against abuses of power, and not just those that correspond to my own tribe’s interests.
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Kate
Another victimless shooting happened overnight, this one in Rosemont. A car was hit by one or more bullets.
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