The city was ordered to pay $115,000 in a police brutality case and has now given up its intention to appeal. The original incident took place in 2012 when Didier Berry was beaten up by three cops as he tried to film the arrest of someone else.
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Kate
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Kate
CBC lays out the plans for the farewell to Guy Lafleur including two days of visitation at the Bell Centre and coverage of the funeral ceremony on radio and TV.
Update Sunday: a lot of people have lined up all day to say a personal farewell to Lafleur.
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Kate
La Presse profiles Faiz Abhuani, a man who became a real estate agent so he could work for social justice in Park Extension.
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Kate
François Legault called the planned Moderna vaccine plant a victory for Quebec on Friday, the selection of Quebec over Ontario being regarded, as someone said on Twitter, like the Habs defeating the Leafs.
I’d still like to know what it’s costing the taxpayer, in grants or tax breaks, to bring this facility here.
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Kate
Le Devoir’s Isabelle Paré considers the impact of 15,000 Covid deaths in Quebec as people seem to have become blasé – all except those who’ve lost someone to the virus.
mare
I’ve read an article in the Atlantic about the same subject and one of the most striking facts was that one of the first questions people ask when meeting a relative of a Covid victim is ‘Were they vaccinated?” And if they were old. As if that makes it less sad. Not something you want to hear over and over when you are grieving.
(And asking ‘did they smoke?’ or ‘were they overweight?’ are hopefully not questions people ask grieving relatives of people who died of other causes.)
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Kate
I haven’t had a cheese bagel in years but am glad to know they still exist. The Gazette inquires into the origin of the horseshoe-shaped pastry, which has little in common with bagels tout court – and seems to be specific to Montreal, although its origin remains a mystery.
CE
I’ve only had them a couple times (a long time ago) and remember being but off by their sweetness.
jeather
I love cheese bagels a lot and have to explain them to everyone. I don’t see then as much as I used to, even in the places I used to find them regularly.
Kate
jeather, another thing I remember from living in Snowdon was salt sticks, which I loved. Do you ever see those any more?
JaneyB
And more Snowdon treat questions: the kosher cinnamon rolls in the foil plates or as logs. Are they still around? I’ve made a few tours to the awful IGA by metro Plamondon that used to have them but haven’t seen them. I hope that bakery is still around.
Ian
Babka? They have them at PA on Parc and Chesky’s on Bernard. Lipa & Fooderie too.
jeather
I’ve never really been a fan of salt sticks, so I’m not sure. The cinnamon babka are around at the Ashkenazi bakeries and honestly, they’re not that hard to make. I don’t see the cinnamon danishes they used to sell at the cafe in the YMHA back when I was a kid, though. I used to find them at Cantor’s or REAL bagel occasionally.
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Kate
There’s the air of something not being told in these accounts: a man, visibly drunk, is questioned briefly by police in Pointe Claire on Friday night, then walks away. Twenty minutes later, he’s struck by a train and dies. The location of the conversation and the incident are not being disclosed. But why is the BEI investigating, which they normally only do when police are directly involved in a fatality? Is it just that the man should’ve been taken to the drunk tank for his own protection, rather than let loose to fall into danger?
Update: Sunday, the locations of the police interaction with the man and of the fatal accident are still not being mentioned, but at the same time, the BEI is asking any witnesses to speak up.
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