Police are investigating a suspicious fire at the Aviron Technical Institute in TMR, but the item doesn’t mention that the same building was shot at a couple of months ago.
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Kate
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Kate
There was a demonstration and march Friday for Earth Day, pressing for an end to fossil fuels. It’s well intentioned, but makes me think of the Ringwraith’s “Let the little people blow! Sauron would deal with them later.”
dhomas
To counterbalance, there was the Libarté convoy at the Galeries d’Anjou today, with tons of pickup trucks and other large combustion engine vehicles. Also seen were “Fuck Trudeau” and defaced Canadian flags. I don’t understand exactly what the point of this “protest” is.
Kate
Neither do I. A piece I linked below mentions that some of them are against Quebec’s Bill 15, which prioritizes the well‑being of children in family law situations, but that’s got nothing to do with Trudeau.
CE
There were a hundred or so people complaining about masks and their lack of freedom at Parc La Fontaine today. They had a stage and a few trucks that would blare their horns every once and a while. Lots of Canadian flags along with more Alberta and American flags than you normally see flying in Montreal.
Kate
Has anybody ever asked the spokespeople what they think freedom would mean? And what is happening in their lives that keeps them from experiencing freedom now? (Besides masks, of course, which are an outrage worthy of North Korea.)
DisgruntledGoat
“To counterbalance, there was the Libarté convoy at the Galeries d’Anjou today, with tons of pickup trucks and other large combustion engine vehicles. Also seen were “Fuck Trudeau” and defaced Canadian flags. I don’t understand exactly what the point of this “protest” is.”
dhomas, Kate, this is the same routine of us trying to filter the 2016-2020 news from the US through some traditional analytical filter that uses rational thought and journalistic standards. It doesn’t matter anymore. Protests happen because people are mad and they like annoying people, the only cause is the disruption and annoyance of the “other”. There is no reasonable political discourse going on in cases like this, it’s a waste of brain cells trying to reconcile it.
Kate
All I mean is: what would satisfy them?
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Kate
A man leapt from his Crescent Street window on Friday evening – TVA says it was the third floor – on hearing police at the door. He’s not dead, but the BEI is investigating.
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Kate
The east-end shelter for the homeless that created a fuss when it was moved into the Auberge Royal Versailles in Longue‑Pointe is being displaced again, this time into a church basement. It can’t be pleasant to go from hotel rooms, no matter how basic, to a tiny section of a church basement, as shown in the photo, and with no door for privacy, but I suppose people feel that, quite literally, beggars can’t be choosers.
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Kate
There are a lot of pieces Saturday about Guy Lafleur – as much as you want to read. Guy Lafleur’s favourite victim (why isn’t anyone called Rogatien any more?), interviews with Ken Dryden and Scotty Bowman, Lafleur playing for the Remparts, Stéphane Laporte on childhood idolatry. And that’s just a sample from La Presse! André Pratte sums it up for many: “Je suis en deuil de ma jeunesse.”
Radio-Canada considers the hockey world’s reactions to Lafleur’s death and the upcoming biopic on the legend, and more.
CTV talks to Bob Gainey and Yvan Cournoyer and the Gazette talks to Steve Shutt and also to Scotty Bowman.
Of course Mathieu Bock-Côté finds in Lafleur’s demise a symbol of the decline of his people and Martineau twists it into a meditation on men’s rights. You can’t hold these guys down, they do what they do even if it means repurposing a collective sad moment for their idées fixes.
However, I do have to give props to QMI for getting possibly the most touching interview: a visit with Lafleur’s mom. Pierrette Lafleur is 90.
François Legault wants to name part of an autoroute for Lafleur. I would’ve thought they could find something less impersonal. Like maybe a hockey arena? But then the road already exists and it won’t cost much to add a few new signs.
Tim S.
I won’t give MBC the click, but #2 in NHL scoring right now is Jonathan Huberdeau, of St Jerome.
Robert H
I never followed hockey closely, so I see this “collective sad moment” of Guy Lafleur’s death (astute term!) at a remove. What I notice most is how such an event takes over the media and drives or reflects the public’s attention. When this phenomenon coincides with my own enthusiasms, that’s when I realize that I too, am not immune from getting caught up in the ambient conversation. On the francophone side at least, the hitherto prevailing focus was the end of District 31 with interviews, think pieces, and retrospectives appearing over the last fortnight. So it’s not only always about the close of a human life. With certain public personalities or articles of popular culture, you can even predict this response. But I’m reminded that every famous, accomplished person has one last opportunity to shift the discussion. Then our attention is held for a while.
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Kate
The city’s French denizens are lining up again at the Palais des congrès to vote in the second round of their election.
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