Michel C. Auger writes with satisfaction about Quebec’s change of heart over the REM de l’Est.
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Kate
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Kate
I am not sure whether to entirely believe this Daily Hive piece that says the average Montreal apartment rent has risen $150 monthly since the start of 2022 and that the average price for a one-bedroom in NDG is $1,490.
Ian
In Mile End that would be a hot deal
Mark Côté
For new leases, I’d believe it, although there’s quite a range between eastern and western NDG.
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Kate
A group of indigenous women say the cross on Mount Royal is a symbol of atrocities done to their people and they want it taken down.
Jebediah Pallendrome
Bodies buried behind the Allan? Yes, I’m almost certain of it.
But Indgenous bodies found under Mount Royal Cemetary, that I had not heard of before. I know plenty of bodies likely dating to pre-contact times have been found on Mount Royal, namely in Westmount, but I never heard of Indigenous bodies found in the cemetaries. Anyone heard of this?
Also, let’s all enjoy the secularists rushing to defend the symbol of colonialism, genocide, oppression and ultramontanism in our city
Ephraim
Can we just add an M before and an L at the end?
qatzelok
The Allan (Ravenscrag) is another symbol of atrocities committed (MK Ultra).
And the James McGill statue is another one.
We may have to take down Western Civilization in its entirety. I wouldn’t be strongly opposed.
JP
This is a bit of a tangent but It’s not clear to me…are crosses allowed to be on school buildings. Our local Centre de Loisirs entrances also have crosses….
jeather
Of course they are. Crosses, like schools named after Jesus or saints, are secular.
Kate
JP, some school buildings still have crosses on them, although new builds do not. jeather’s sardonic response is entirely true: they were deemed a secular part of Quebec history at some point, so there has been no order to take them down.
Blork
@Ephraim said “Can we just add an M before and an L at the end?” and I think that’s the best idea I’ve heard in a decade.
jeather
I don’t really think that the ones that are built into the brickwork need to be removed, but the names should be changed to actual secular ones. (Some are hard because we have all sorts of boroughs and cities and streets that are named after saints, so we get schools named after those.) But of course that won’t happen, we’re worried about hair coverings.
Ephraim
@jeather – There’s a little problem with that idea. St-Denis is named after Viger and St-Paul is named after deMaisonneuve… we will end up with a lot of duplicates. (And I don’t think they even know who St-Catherine was named after) See http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=1560,11245605&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
Kate
Ste-Catherine is named after me. I will have invented a time machine.
GC
HA. Awesome. Please keep it to yourself. Most of society can’t be trusted with one.
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Kate
A special law forced port workers back to work a year ago. Now they want a new collective agreement.
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Kate
There are always rats in the city but what can be done? CBC is partnering with Concordia’s journalism department on some stories lately, and this is one of them.
Ephraim
I thought that they were in the National Assembly in Quebec City?
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Kate
The planning and development of the REM de l’Est has been taken away from CDPQ Infra. Quebec has also decided not to build a branch through downtown.
Jebediah Pallendrome
“No more elevated downtown REM!”
Hooray, you mean you’re going to tunnel instead?
“Nope, just going to hook it up to the Green Line.”
Won’t that add too many more passengers on an already over-burdened transit system?
“Let’s wait and see what the experts have to say…”
Weren’t they just fired?
“…it wasn’t my call”
Are you still going to build the Pink Line?
“This press conference is over!”
Faiz imam
On the one hand, it’s excellent that the governance of transit planning is coming back to the hands of local and regional government. With no regard for profit.
On the other hand, this will be blue line v2.
Im not expecting any further updates for years. Maybe this will get done in 20 years. But without proper government funding it’s really not happening at an accelerated pace.
mare
Can’t wait for another rail system, incompatible with everything else we already have, so users have to transfer to another system for almost everywhere they go, and maintenance and parts management will be as inefficient as possible.
I’m not a fan of the REM, but the East section being the same system as the ‘classic’ REM made it at least possible to connect them (somewhere, somehow, in some future) or move rolling stock to where it was needed.
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Kate
The air is full of springtime and the city smells of the organic fertilizer spread on the fields surrounding it.
I always start by wondering if something’s gone wrong locally, and then read Reddit’s Montreal group and there’s a thread about it with entries from all over town.
Best riposte: “C’est le convoie de la liberté qui a passé dans le coin.”
Meezly
So that’s what it was! But is it really organic…?
MarcG
I think “organic fertilizer” was just a euphemism for pigshit.
Kate
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Kate
La Presse’s Nathalie Collard inveighs against Airbnb with evidence that the erosion of the city’s rental stock continues boldly in the face of laws and limits that government is powerless to enforce. But she’s right that something needs to be done.
Ephraim
Revenu Quebec is in charge of the dossier… but no one is forcing them to report. Journalists, under the freedom of information act, should request information, like how many AirBnB listings have been verified to ensure that the establishment number is listed. How much in taxes have been collected? How much in fines for non-payment? Has the information been sent to the city so that they can charge them commercial property taxes? Etc. The only way to get Revenu Quebec’s attention is to have an MNA ask questions in the NA or request information under the freedom of information act.
What we really need is a requirement of Revenu Quebec to provide public and open documentation on all the portfolios that they are in charge of, so that citizens and the journalists can question what they do. Without information, we can’t actually see that they are doing their job as they should.
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Kate
Radio-Canada talked to some people coming to pay their last respects to Guy Lafleur while La Presse asks who should play Lafleur in a planned biopic.
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Kate
A May Day march Sunday was dispersed by police.
Were there two marches? TVA says the May Day march was held dans le calme while other media report broken windows and pepper spray.
JS
Plenty of police and the odour of pepper spray or tear gas at La Gauchetiere/St-Urbain yesterday around a quarter past six.
SMD
There were three.
Kate
Thanks, SMD.
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