Workers for Canadian Pacific have been locked out after negotiations for a new contract failed. The Teamsters union had threatened to strike.
Teamsters are also involved in the strike vote at Molson.
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Kate
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Kate
Adding to the police blotter for the weekend is the stabbing of a woman in Westmount early Sunday. She’s in critical condition.
simon
Phew, wouldn’t want to live in Westmount, that’d be *scary*.
Ant6n
Maisonneuve / Roslyn is almost across the tracks. Basically the slums of Westmount.
dhomas
There’s a lot to unpack in that brief comment, Ant6n. First off, I don’t think that area could be considered “the slums”. Slums generally don’t sell for over 2 million dollars:
https://www.centris.ca/en/property/16022719Second, even if it was “the slums”, so what? Should we care less because it’s “just the poors” suffering?
Kate
dhomas, I’m not entirely sure Ant6n was serious…
dhomas
My bad if that’s the case. 🙂
There are some “slummy” parts of Westmount, though, that are across the tracks. Around Saint-Antoine and Greene, for example.dwgs
Would we make light of a stabbing victim near death in the Point? I get the point you’re trying to make but it’s crass at best.
Kate
Good point, dwgs. Thank you.
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Kate
The nominally Irish parade will return Sunday. From what I read earlier, unlike the parade in CBC’s photo, this one won’t have any huge lethal trucks pulling floats, and a good thing too. It’s already started, having begun at 9:30 at Lambert Closse and running east to Union Street.
Not seeing any sign of it on the Peel and Ste‑Catherine webcam though and the United Irish Societies website hasn’t even been updated to mention this parade.
MarcG
j2
I’m still wondering why it was set earlier? To keep the numbers down?
carswell
@j2 The parade ended at St. Patrick’s Basilica. Maybe the timing was not to interfere with services (09:00, 11:00 and 17:00 on Sundays) or to funnel paraders into the 11 a.m. service?
carswell
Another idea: to get the parade over before attendees are drunk out of their minds?
DisgruntledGoat
Nature is healing
carswell
For the record, on Sunday CBC Radio interviewed one of the parade organizers who said the early start time and other changes were because they “wanted to shake things up” for the first post-pandemic (eye roll) parade. No mention of booze but I find it hard to believe that’s not the real reason.
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Kate
Two guys got stabby early Sunday after a bar brawl in the Quartier Latin. Cops are said to be trying to find out how the situation came about, but sometimes it’s like, two drunk guys got aggressive.
QMI remains convinced that three attacks in different parts of town around the same time Friday evening were coordinated and predicts a violent springtime. A retired SQ guy is quoted: “Spring doesn’t only bring out maple sap, it also brings out the criminals.” Poetry.
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