A man described here as an Orthodox Jew was stabbed by a coworker Thursday afternoon. From the tone taken in this article the implication is that the apparent attacker was not of the same faith, but it’s not made explicit.
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Kate
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Kate
The woman who was shot overnight was not too badly hurt, but the attack is being put down to scoring, a competition between gangs to count up how many shootings they can claim.
Two men have been arrested and charged with possession of illegal arms; more may be at large.
JB
Weird how this horrific new practice of random violence against strangers is something only the reporter describes, with no secondary confirmation from police, social workers, ex-gang members, community leaders, or academics. People do all kinds of horrible things and i’d wouldnt be stunned to learn this were true, but a claim as explosive as “gangs are randomly selecting Montrealers and going so far as to murder them in order to score ‘points’” sure seems like it needs rather a lot more support than the scant explanation of this practice purported here.
Kate
I agree.
Joey
The article attributes the scoring theory to police.
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Kate
Quebec continues with its dance of journalists and politicians as Luc Ferrandez takes over the microphone at 98,5 to replace Bernard Drainville, who’s been a journo, a PQ politician, a journo again, and is going back into politics with the CAQ this time.
This follows the entry into politics of Martine Biron, who’s done a 180° about Quebec City’s troisième lien, switching from criticizing it as a journalist commentator, to entirely buying into the CAQ line that it’s exactly what the vielle capitale needs.
La Presse’s Paul Journet says the CAQ is a very wide party containing a lot of people with differing views on many things, as more people climb aboard with the ambition of getting into office, and even Papa Legault may have trouble enforcing party discipline.
Blork
Wow, the lengths people go to in order to secure a good pension.
J
I wouldn’t characterize the elected official’s pension plan as a ‘good pension’.
Bryan
Agreed, J. I have to imagine there are a wide variety of other jobs in the public sector that come with comparable DB pensions and take far fewer years off your life than serving as an MNA/MP.
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Kate
Marc Cassivi writes in La Presse about the only Quebecer to win an Oscar for acting, beating out Greta Garbo and Gloria Swanson in 1930. Cassivi implies that had Norma Shearer, born in Montreal 120 years ago, been a francophone, she wouldn’t have been forgotten here so readily.
Jaye
Christopher Plummer was born in Toronto, but grew up in Montreal practically from birth….
Blork
Yeah, while I give a nod to the sentiment that anglo success stories are largely not a part of the Quebec cultural canon, I don’t think that’s the main issue here. After all, Norma Shearer was largely forgotten everywhere.
I doubt that even during her successful years there was much buzz about her here. It’s not like she was already known here and then went to Hollywood and springboarded to wider success. No, she was unknown when she lived here (as in, not in show biz at all) and some time passed between her leaving Montreal and becoming successful in Hollywood.
Even if a few newpapers reported at the time that this now-famous movie star grew up in Montreal, there was no social media back then to create a wave and then keep it moving. Arguably, if she had a Francophone name (and/or was Francophone) there would have been some buzz at the time, but I suspect that would not have lasted.
Kate
Not entirely sure that’s true, Blork. Cassivi floats the idea that had she been called Normande Charron, she might have been remembered. There might have been a street, a theatre or an award named in her honour, at least keeping her name in circulation. (Shearer Street was not named for Norma Shearer.)
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Kate
A brawl in Old Montreal overnight ended with an injured man and two arrests.
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Kate
A major police deployment is ongoing Friday morning in Pointe‑aux‑Trembles seeking suspects after a woman was the victim of a shooting in Rivière‑des‑Prairies overnight.
Slight update: teams are still on the ground midday Friday, no arrests yet.
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