Denis Coderre draws more attention to himself, on a day of two shootings, by claiming the Plante administration lie like they breathe, specifically about hiring more police.
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Kate
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Kate
I don’t often post fund-raisers, but there’s a Gofundme to help out the woman who lived upstairs from the little tailor shop on St‑Zotique recently firebombed. She is not someone I know.
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Kate
Two men have been shot in two separate incidents Tuesday afternoon.
One was shot in the parking lot of Rockland shopping centre, and the other in a restaurant on St‑Denis Street downtown. The latter is in critical condition.
Update: Both victims have died. Homicides #20 and #21.
TVA says the man killed downtown was an habitué of the Pizzeria Napoli in the Quartier Latin, where he met his end.
Ian
I was wondering why Rockland was very quickly and quietly blocked off including the mall parking, just as i was passing by. I swear I had nothing to do with it.
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Kate
Moshe Safdie has donated his architectural archives and his Habitat 67 apartment to McGill.
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Kate
The cost of restoring City Hall has now reached $182 million, after an initial estimate of $22.5 million in 2015. As the work was being done, more and more aspects of the building were revealed as needing work.
Spi
La responsable du patrimoine, Émilie Thuillier […] « Pour nous, l’hôtel de ville, c’est le coeur de la vie citoyenne montréalaise. Le projet a évolué en un projet de restauration patrimoniale exemplaire et en un projet d’appropriation citoyenne de l’hôtel de ville »
What absolute crock, how are you going to say it’s the heart of citizen life and then also admit only a few lucky ones have ever had the chance to enjoy it. How many or for what reason exactly does a regular montreal citizen go into the city hall?
If you want to conserve and restore a patrimonial building just say that instead of feeding the media some additional comms BS about the citizenry.
Kate
Well, there is the Hall of Honour, it’s definitely been open to the public, and it’s also been possible to go in and watch council sessions if you’re interested.
For a lot of people, the balcony where De Gaulle made his “Vive le Québec libre” speech in 1967 makes city hall an historic spot for that reason alone.
I’ve been inside the building a few times and so have many Montrealers. I don’t know how intense the security has become in very recent years, though.
The building is bound to present difficulties. As the article reminds us, it was built in the 1870s and sustained a massive fire in 1922. The existing building was reconstructed on the footprint of the old one to standards of a hundred years ago. It’s no crock that they’ve had to completely redo almost everything – heating, plumbing, electrics, and modern communications ducts as well, and that’s besides redoing the windows and other visible architectural stuff to match the style.
It would probably be cheaper in the long run to demolish and rebuild, but that would be an even harder sell. In 2122, people will be groaning about having to redo the stuff done to a 21st‑century standard in 2022.
DeWolf
You could demolish and rebuilt a glass box, but if you demolished and rebuilt a replica of the existing building, it would be vastly more expensive than any restoration.
@Spi, anyone can wander into city hall and council meetings are open to the public, so I’m not really sure what you’re upset about?
Em
City Hall is quite a beautiful building — and a huge one, so definitely an expensive reno.
It’s pretty accessible to the public in my experience (didn’t Denis Coderre even perform some weddings there?) but enlarging access and making it more welcoming would be good.
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Kate
The Rammstein concert Sunday at Parc Jean‑Drapeau has generally been lauded on social media but South Shore residents were less happy, complaints coming not only from St‑Lambert this time, but Longueuil, St‑Hubert and even Boucherville
Blork
Dishes in my kitchen were rattling. (I’m 5.5 km from the site.)
Uatu
Someone should write a song about how we hate Rammstein….. Oh wait 😉
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Kate
The Plante administration is planning to hire 282 new police officers by the end of the year.
Ephraim
Where are they going to find all these people who want to be police officers in Montreal? Are there really that many people left in St-Louis-de-Ha! Ha! that want to move to Montreal to become police officers?
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Kate
A man was stabbed Monday evening during what police describe as a possible robbery in Montreal North.
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Kate
A coroner is to investigate the two recent fatalities near the Inuit residence in Dorval. Both young women were mothers, and this La Presse piece draws a gloomy picture of the residence, placed deliberately far from most urban temptations in an industrial area on the 520 near the airport.
qatzelok
I see this as an incompatibilty between the social lifestyles of the resident Inuit, and the anti-social design of the neighborhoods in which they are offered space.
In a similar way, one of the major problems with the stretches of du Parc and St. Urbain that the Inuit hang out on… is that these urban spaces were re-designed – in the 20th Century – to move machines, and NOT to host actual human beings.
We have re-designed our cities to be machine-friendly, and humans are finding it harder and harder to live in them.
Kate
qatzelok, please don’t drag this into your idée fixe about cars and urban livability.
Anyway, the Inuit in this story are not permanent residents here, they’re in town temporarily for medical treatments, or to accompany people here for that reason.
The La Presse article includes a discussion with an indigenous doctor, who points a couple of things out: there was construction in the area, so that getting from the closest bar to the centre seems to have rerouted these women onto the highways. They would have no experience with that kind of traffic in their home villages, they would not know what to expect at all.
Also, alcohol is much cheaper and more plentiful here.
But the Inuit visitors can’t be treated like children or prisoners. If they want to go out for a drink, they go out. Placing the residence in a stark neighbourhood was deliberate, but it still has its temptations, apparently.
When my sister worked at the old Children’s, they sometimes had Inuit patients, and often their accompanying adults would wander off into the city for a bit. When the kids were ready to go home, they would send a social worker out to the old Bar Diana and round them up.
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Kate
The Montreal area still has its school bus deals up in the air as the rentrée looms.
What else can happen? If your company basically consists of several hundred yellow buses, what else can you do with them besides contract with school systems?
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