Le Devoir has a sheaf of articles to mark the 20th anniversary of the Office de consultation publique de Montréal.
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Kate
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Kate
Women’s groups held a demonstration downtown Saturday against conjugal violence.
Around the same time, another demonstration was being held to denounce the oppression of women in Iran.
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Kate
The city is facing a big bill for police services this year, and that’s not even counting the security that will be needed for the COP15 session in December. Not surprising, given the pressure to add more cops in response to shooting incidents – the SPVM has only been able to recruit 45 of the 282 new officers promised – and the constant replacement (at overtime rates) of police out on sick leave with Covid.
Luckily, gunshots have been way down over the last four months.
Ian
Gain, so much for the “big, big conversation” Plante implied was on the table only 2 years ago.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/plante-police-defund-discussion-1.5603076
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Kate
The headline here is arresting: Un meurtrier perd la vie dans un accident de la route. A man on leave (?) from the Pinel Institute, where he has been living since murdering his parents in 2011, crashed his car in the Montérégie, and died.
We have a growing theme of guys just out of psychiatric care going on to kill: Jonathan Pomares, in treatment for depression, who in 2019 murdered his kids then killed himself; Kamaljit Arora, accused of killing his kids last week in Laval; Abdulla Shaikh, accused in three random shootings in August (and subsequently shot dead by police); Mitchell Arnott, accused of murdering his parents a few days ago (TVA headline: “Un autre cas de psychiatrie”), and now Tanvir Singh, who attacked and seriously injured a child in March – and was probably held back from killing her because he acted in public in the presence of others – who claims he’s just fine now, although the psychiatrists in his case are more on the side of keeping him inside for awhile.
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