Tenants of three buildings in Little Italy have won in Superior Court against a landlord who wanted to renovict them.
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Kate
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Kate
Denis Coderre has announced on his Facebook page that he experienced a stroke last week and is recovering at the Jewish General.
Martin - ProposMontreal
I don,t like the politician, but I don’t wish this on any human. (ok, maybe a few)
I hope he gets better soon and happy that it was not worst.Kate
I agree. I didn’t like his political personality but I hope he recovers OK.
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Kate
Noticed just now that while there are Mastodon accounts for CBC Toronto, CBC Ottawa and other towns, there’s no CBC Montreal feed.
CBC is taking a Twitter break after being tagged “government‑funded media” by the Musk empire, at the request of Pierre Poilievre.
NPR and PBS in the U.S., also blighted with that tag, have left Twitter. The BBC has been labelled publicly-funded media.
Tuesday, Patrick Lagacé looks into Poilievre’s anti‑CBC obsession.
bert
Those look like unofficial bots that just forward twitter feeds into ActivityPub. Would love to see real CBC feeds migrate to Mastodon.
shawn
I would too bert but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards, for now. In fact I had just asked Anna Asimakopulos about that very thing.
CBC Montreal does have a very active Instagram account.
shawn
Oh and someone did create a bot account for CBC Montreal in early March and it just posted like five times. It’s on a @bird.makeup server that is masked on Mastodon Canada and not worth following…
jaddle
This sort of thing is where the decentralized nature of mastodon can really shine – CBC (or any other organization) can set up its own server, so any federated account @cbc.ca is known to be official. A few other news orgs have set this up, but it would be great for something as big as the CBC to do it.
shawn
Yes, those of us who are active on Mastodon keeps saying that: how organizations could set up their own instances, etc. etc. I keep suggesting it to my journalist friends. Yet no one really seems to want to step up and do that, it seems. Aaron Derfel gave Mastodon a good try and his last post there was March 19. Seems like he gave up on it too.
shawn
Indeed someone named Jan McCartney (from “Canada’s south coast”!) just replied to my Mastodon with this article from last year. jaddle, is this you? Anyway I’m not holding my breath: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/11/10/CBC-Should-Start-Own-Mastodon-Server/
EmilyG
At least a few CBC journalists seem to be taking breaks from Twitter as well.
qatzelok
It’s telling that Elon Musk hasn’t elected to label any media “billionaire-funded media” – even when it’s true. Ownership is often important in determining editorial positions whether that ownership position is filled by a government or a billionaire.
shawn
CBC’s Jaela Bernstien is now on Mastodon at @JaeBern@newsie.social
Josh
I think the migration to anywhere new is a chicken-and-egg thing. It doesn’t matter how great a service is, it’s when there’s enough of a critical mass on it that the media outlets and corporations and so on will devote resources. So, until Mastodon has enough users, it will continue to… not have enough users.
shawn
It’s about 11 million now. With much higher levels of interaction. So it is growing.
Josh
I mean, Twitter is at 4M+ in Canada alone. One thing to say it’s growing. Quite another to say it’s hit whatever threshold where a major media outlet would consider it worth devoting resources to.
shawn
I have no idea what that threshold might be.
I’m in frequent contact with Montreal journalists about migrating. I think it’s more a question of when and if Twitter finally crashes and burns or becomes too unbearable thanks to Musk.
I’ve been talking to one journo today who is active on Twitter and Facebook and he rightly says that a third social media platform is just too much work. And it is, especially to get started on Mastodon.
dhomas
I used to like Elon Musk. He’s done quite a bit to push EVs forward and also for space exploration. But he’s going a bit crazy now. Also, is he like 15 years old? First, it was the 420 jokes. Now, he’s changed the label for the CBC to “69% Government-funded Media”.
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Kate
The city got more complaints about aggressive dogs in 2022 than in recent years. A brief discussion with dog owners hints that dogs adopted for company during the pandemic by inexperienced owners haven’t been properly trained.
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Kate
A big brush fire in Kahnawake Sunday sent up a plume of smoke visible from a long way away.
EmilyG
Is it really being referred to as “smoke signals”?
Kate
Of course not. I was being silly.
EmilyG
Then I guess this blog’s tagline “We’re all Wokes on this bus”, is ironic.
Kate
That’s also meant to be silly, Emily. I can’t be dead serious all the time.
If anyone had been hurt in Kahnawake I wouldn’t have been flippant, but there were no reports of injuries.
EmilyG
Since there were no injuries, that makes it okay to joke about stereotypes of Indigenous people?
Kate
EmilyG, have you met any Indigenous people?
EmilyG
Yes.
I don’t know, maybe I’m not the expert on what it’s okay to joke about.Kate
Once a post goes up, the permanent link is created by the headline, which can’t be changed without leaving orphan links around.
I am going to leave this message up for a short period then delete the entire post. The story is not important enough to redo a new post.
I am sorry to have written something so offensive. Please put it down to my being old and sometimes experiencing a sort of cartoon brain.
jeather
Without suggesting whether the term is offensive to indigenous people or not (I have no idea), the actual communication method is well-documented across the planet, and for whatever reason my first association with it is in China along the Great Wall. (Mulan, probably, if I am being fully honest with myself.)
It’s also used by the Catholic church, of course.
Tim S.
I’m glad you wrote this post Kate, because I did see the smoke yesterday and wondered what happened. As a non-Lapresse subscriber, I appreciate your summary.
CE
@EmilyG Can anyone claim to be “the expert on what it’s okay to joke about?”
Blork
This reminds me of that thing where all the white people at Hanna Barbera decided to remove Speedy Gonzales from their cartoons on the assumption that he was offensive to Mexican people, only to discover that Speedy Gonzales was the favourite character of theirs among Mexicans.
Chris
>I am sorry to have written something so offensive. Please put it down to my being old and sometimes experiencing a sort of cartoon brain.
You didn’t write anything so offensive Kate, don’t apologize. Being offended is the choice of the reader. Anyone can chose to be offended by anything. EmilyG is free to feel offended, but that’s on her and her choice. The internet is too big for one’s writings to never offend anyone. Indigenous people are not all fragile snowflakes that don’t understand a good joke. It’s infantilizing and dehumanizing to think they need white protectors to act as thought police.
MarcG
@Kate: Regarding changing post titles & permalinks, WordPress should automatically create redirects from the old to the new if you change them.
dwgs
There’s a very good film from the ’90’s called Smoke Signals, not sure how easy it would be to find but it’s well worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwcJaUaVfR0&t=23s&ab_channel=Movieclips
EmilyG
Chris, we already know you’re a bigot. You don’t need to prove it again.
walkerp
Rather than get into accusations and defences, I think this is a great example to see how subtly and deeply racial biases and stereotypes are built into our consciousness. Kate, I don’t think you did anything explicitly wrong. The association is perfectly logical given how much exposure we have in our western media and culture of these kinds of stereotypes.
It’s a great moment to acknowledge that you got caught up in repeating one, which you did and for us all to think about how we think about First Nations and Indigenous people in our minds to work on moving beyond these simplistic stereotypes.
I can’t speak for them, but I suspect there would be quite a range of reactions by Indigenous people to seeing the smoke signals pun in response to this news and many would be offended or annoyed or generally negative. An apology is a recognition of that and an acknowledgment to be more mindful in the future.EmilyG
Well said, walkerp. Thank you.
Kate
I most deeply apologize to everyone.
I have made a $50 donation to the Native Women’s Shelter to atone for my frivolity at the expense of Indigenous people. I will do better.
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Kate
The city has to pour another $32 million into completing the composting and biomethanisation centres it needs.
shawn
Now the Gazette is belatedly running a story. I’m actually pleasantly surprised it’s not worse.
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Kate
La Presse’s Nathalie Collard makes the case for looking after all the old buildings, not just the Institut des sourdes-muettes, which has been in the news recently.
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Kate
Radio-Canada with the snappy headline saying Hydro‑Quebec has not yet completed the cable burying that it promised to Jean Drapeau.
Ephraim
This is back to the problem of public companies not having to put out annual reports and tell us everything. We, the shareholders, need a public report from Hydro, SAQ, SQDC, Revenu-Quebec, etc that we can all see that let’s us see how they are doing. And projects with timelines should be listed, so we can see where they are on the project… and they can’t be removed from the report until they are either finished or officially shelved with an explanation to the public of why.
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