Dirty, ugly and depressing?
How anyone could walk through Montreal streets just now, with trees in bloom, flowers in front yards, everything bright and soft, with a pervasive mood of optimism for the coming summer – and write a column about how dirty, ugly and depressing it is, I do not know. I see why Elsie Lefebvre is out of political life if she’s this bad at reading the room.
(What are the odds the Journal has a rota where each columnist has to take a turn shitting on Montreal and saying how lousy it is?)
Robert H 14:28 on 2022-05-25 Permalink
Au JdM, Ce genre de commentaire n’est que service au lectorat. C’est practiquement un gabarit marque deposée qu’on peut s’appeller Montreal Est Un Trouᴹᴰ. Il suffit de lire les commentaires qui suivent chaque article de ce type: Un chœur de fâchéphones (VF des angryphones) témoignant combien ils détestent Montréal, combien la ville est devenue dégoûtante, combien elle est dangereuse, comment ils évitent d’aller en ville pour quoi que ce soit, comment ils sont partis il y a des années et ne reviendront jamais et combien leur vie est merveilleuse maintenant à Québec, Les Laurentides, L’Estrie, Le Gaspé, zzzzzzzzz…
Poutine Pundit 07:40 on 2022-05-26 Permalink
This article is a month late, but it would’ve been true in late April. It is true that Montreal is slow and under-resourced when it comes to spring cleanup, as it has been for decades. Although I would never move back to Quebec City, the contrast in cleanliness is shocking when you go there in April. It’s a chronic problem that should be solved, regardless of whether we like the Journal’s suburban readership or not.
DeWolf 20:21 on 2022-05-26 Permalink
Quebec City is generally more well-kept than Montreal, even in areas that are rough equivalents (eg Saint-Sauveur and Saint-Henri). It would be interesting to really dig into the systemic differences behind that, because clearly things are not working the same on a bureaucratic level.
cc 15:16 on 2025-05-23 Permalink
it it depressing and disgusting in winter and summer come on !