A controlled deer hunt is planned in Longueuil’s Michel‑Chartrand Park this fall. It will be carried out by appointed people with crossbows, not an open free‑for‑all.
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Kate
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Kate
A woman pushing a two-year-old girl in a stroller was hit by a car in Montreal North on Wednesday morning and the kid did not survive.
Tim S.
Just awful. Nothing has changed my view of the city as much as trying to get around on foot with small children. People who haven’t done it really don’t get how dangerous little bad habits can be, though I doubt we’ll ever find out what happened in this case.
Ephraim
Tim S. Try doing it with a cane and the inability to pivot. It’s not much fun, either.
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Kate
Daily Hive has a short list of public swimming pools that may be useful to somebody. Prices vary.
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Kate
Details concerning that mysterious secret trial of a police informant will stay secret after a request by a consortium of local media – as well as Quebec’s chief justice and attorney general – was dismissed by the Court of Appeal.
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Kate
Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery suspended a union leader for five days, so office workers there held a one‑day strike Tuesday. Meantime, the cemetery gets more overgrown, which looks wonderful and should be good for insects, birds and animal life.
Love Le Devoir’s line about families “envisageraient même de mettre fin à la présence de leurs ancêtres sur ce site.” A cemetery is not the kind of place where you can easily threaten to bring your business elsewhere, not if it means moving the bones of your ancestors.
The Sulpicians need to pay people properly.
Robert H
This labor conflict at Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges might be more complex than it would initially appear. The disputes are obvious enough: dissatisfied clientele vs. overburdened-underpaid workers vs. parsimonious management. But, given the venue, I believe there’s also the matter of people’s ambivalence toward death: how to honor the dead and the proper environment of a gravesite. I don’t exclude myself. I’ve always thought the cemeteries took up too much space on Mount Royal. The park could be even better than it is without all that land given over to the dead. But of course, it’s not all about the dead; cemeteries are for the living, and they are often beautiful places. The «plan vert» sounds like a good thing. I interpret it to be a loosening of the Jardin-Versailles-of-the-departed model for a more naturalistic landscape. Cemetery spokesman Daniel Granger suggests that people will be more receptive once it’s explained to them, but I’m struck by Éric Dufault’s riposte that it’s all just green-washing amid staff reductions and budget cuts. I do agree with you, Kate, that allowing some overgrowth and perhaps letting the grass grow wouldn’t be such a bad outcome. In my wildest imagination, if the disputants at Notre-Dame-de-Neiges can’t settle their arguments, I can see the whole place eventually going to seed. We’ll have our own version of London’s Highgate (in North London adjacent to Hampstead Heath), a cemetery that fell on hard times, filled with gravesites of families whose bloodlines dissipated, crumbling monuments, a sort of controlled mess run by a nonprofit, and an absolutely gorgeous ruin. Not so bad.
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Kate
The city has posted a job for a homeless “liaison” who would work on dismantling homeless camps – or, as Ted Rutland tweeted, “La Ville embauche un agent de nettoyage social.”
Blork 19:04 on 2022-07-20 Permalink
They’ve been talking about this for a couple of years and they keep putting it off. Will they really do it this time?
As a Longueuil resident who lives very near the park, I love seeing the deer every day. But the park really is a wreck, between the deer population, the Asian ash beetle, and those goddamn caterpillars (I forget what they’re called) it’s like a war zone there for half the year (when there is no foliage). It’s sad but necessary.
Kate 20:19 on 2022-07-20 Permalink
I am confidently waiting for some editorial cartoonist to portray Anne France Goldwater as Robin Hood.
Blork 16:25 on 2022-07-21 Permalink
While I applaud the sensibility of not firing off guns so close to people’s homes, I cringe at the thought of all those deer being brought down by crossbow bolts.
Kevin 11:12 on 2022-07-22 Permalink
When first announced they wanted to kill 15 of the 30 deer in the park.
Now, after years of wrangling with animal rights activists, they will kill 100 of the 115 or so deer in the park.
Meanwhile in a wooded area about 2 km away, hunting deer by crossbow has been going on for more than 20 years.