Another story echoing through regular and social media this weekend, including accolades from the mayor and premier, is the death of TV personality Nadège St-Philippe of TVA. She was 47.
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Kate
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Kate
The biggest news of the weekend, going by numbers of items and reactive tweets, is the departure of Jeff Petry to the Pittsburgh Penguins.
There’s been a lot of discussion in sports columns and on social media about the various trades by the Canadiens, but except for big stories like this one – apparently – I pass on them, always figuring real aficionados will have already found out more than a blog like this can possibly tell them.
Josh
Kate, as an aficianado I’ll just say that I appreciate it when you post about sports goings-on that affect city life in some way beyond field/ice/whatever. If a team is making a deep playoff run, or announces major upgrades at a stadium, or changes owners, that’s the sort of thing I might expect to see discussed here. Player transactions or coaching changes, I agree – leave those to the subject experts.
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Kate
The ER at the Children’s is overwhelmed and they are tweeting to ask non‑urgent cases to stay away. TVA illustrates the story with a photo of the old Children’s on Tupper, long since demolished.
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Kate
Been playing with an AI image system. This is what comes up with the prompt “Walking in Montreal” – I didn’t specify winter.
MarcG
I love how the last one has someone riding a unicycle. 🙂
Kate
I liked the big boots on the top right. Also, do we really have any red buildings?
thomas
Kate
Those are great, thomas. I like how there are two buildings with big domes that are almost recognizable, but not.
Richard
The first set reminds me a bit of Phillip Surrey paintings in the the way subjects are rendered vaguely and generally “lost in themselves”.
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Kate
The Journal has a short piece on the origin of the Tam-tams, which have been going on for more than 50 years.
Blork
Every time someone does a story on the origin of the tam-tams it’s a different story.
I haven’t been to the tam-tams in years, but I used to like going in the late 80s and early 90s. I really liked (and still do like) the fact that it’s not owned or organized by anyone, that it just happens. But it’s been interesting to see how, over the years, there have been various attempts to organize and regulate it, pretty much all of which have failed. Keen observers can derive useful lessons from this story.
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Kate
Here’s the Journal’s view of Montreal as depicted by their cartoonist Ygreck. Anyone who could depict the city this way in the full flush of summer could only be a suburbanite driver from outside the city.
CE
What’s with the chickens?
MarcG
Nid de poule
Tim S.
One interesting observation from Daniel Sanger’s book about Project is that much of the media opposition could be traced to the fact that the first traffic calming measures were directly on the route to QMI/Radio-Canada offices.
bumper carz
Those bullets depicted in his cartoon kill far fewer children (and far fewer adults) than suburban cars do.
Artist in denial, employed by corporate media.
Chris
The bullets depicted in his cartoon in fact are killing no one, because they aren’t hitting anything, which I’d guess is a comment about the headlines about shots being fired but no victims being found.
dhomas
So, I think I understand what the artist means by the bullets, the chickens, the cactus cones, and who I assume to be Mayor Plante in a bike helmet hiding behind a cactus. But who or what is the vulture supposed to represent?
Kevin
The vulture is a symbol of imminent cancellation due to being out of touch with reality.
mare
The readers of Le Journal de Montréal don’t live in the city centre and many not on the island or even near Montreal. They all drive, because they have to. Not even necessarily in/to Montreal but it’s good to have a common enemy.
A while ago my car broke down up north and I had a 250 km long lift by a car tow truck. The driver, in his 30s, knew exactly what anti-car measures and bike path construction were being carried out in Montreal and was very upset about it. I asked if he was a cyclist. Oh no, the idea… I asked how often he came to Montreal. He hadn’t been there in three years.
The power of the JdM.
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Kate
Although CBC said recently that a Parks Canada camping event by the Lachine Canal had been cancelled, 24 heures says it’s still on and that there was a protest because of the unfairness of banning camping by the homeless, yet welcoming it by the well‑heeled.
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Kate
Some residents of Pointe-aux-Trembles say there are too many coyotes in their area, and that one has killed a dog and another has bitten a person.
I’d be curious to know whether these animals carry rabies, and if so, what’s being done about it – but it isn’t mentioned.
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