A retrospective report has found that 150 homeless people were ticketed for breaking the Covid curfew, even though the Quebec government had promised to recognize that you can’t fine people for not going home if they have no home.
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Kate
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Kate
Cricket is growing in popularity here, although there aren’t many public facilities for matches.
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Kate
The Gilles-Villeneuve course is getting spiffed up in advance of next month’s Grand Prix. But with GP events planned in Vegas and Miami, will the attractions of Montreal be dimmed?
Ensemble is complaining about the money being spent but had the Plante administration decided not to support the GP any more, Ensemble would be loud in its condemnations too.
Ephraim
Do a search for a room for the Grand Prix weekend… The Quality at the airport is over $900 a night.
Kate
Airbnb prices for that weekend are ridiculous. $1,529 a night for a Plateau apartment.
dhomas
I used to have a co-worker that would pay off his yearly mortgage during the weeks before and after the GP with his Airbnb. The rest of the year was gravy for him.
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Kate
Bill 96 will cause issues getting access to justice. The current and past presidents of the Quebec bar explain the problems.
A study shows that anglos in Quebec already have higher unemployment and lower income than francophones.
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Kate
Montreal was founded as Ville-Marie, a European-style settlement, on May 17, 1642 somewhere near what we now call Place Royale, with, inevitably, the celebration of a Mass. Happy 380th birthday.
Matt G
Wow, this page was last updated April 2000. It’s um beautiful in its own way.
qatzelok
“By 1685, Ville-Marie was home to some 600 colonists….”
And an approximately equal number of First Nations.
https://documents.recitus.qc.ca/2e-cycle/dossier/fondation-montreal
Kate
Where do you get that information from that page, qatzelok?
And even if true, I wonder how many of those Indigenous people were on site voluntarily.
EmilyG
I thought 375 was supposed to be the anniversary that Montreal was supposed to celebrate, heh.
qatzelok
@Kate:
Document 6 : Français et Autochtones à Ville-Marie
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Kate
Trying to find a better photo of this mural to Fredy Villanueva that was unveiled recently.
Update: CTV now has a piece with some video.
MarcG
Kate
Thanks!
MarcG
For anyone without an instagram account here’s a direct link to the close-up
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Kate
A woman whose arm was broken by police in a 2014 incident has received a $90,000 settlement from the city of Montreal. Police tried to claim she had assaulted them, but a judge threw that story out as nonsense. Not surprisingly, given our police history, Majiza Philip is Black.
CBC notes that this is the second settlement within a week that the city has made over police brutality to a Black person, only in the case of Pierre Coriolan, they shot him dead, and it was the family who accepted a settlement that has not been revealed.
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