Although hotels are doing better now than during the full pandemic, they’ve still got vacancies.
There’s a rise in Quebecers visiting Europe this summer, but the way this is expressed here is confusing: in a CAA survey, “16 per cent anticipated going to a country other than Canada and the U.S. […] Of this 16 per cent, 9 per cent were planning to go to Europe.” That’s not a lot of people, which is not surprising if you look at the cost of air travel now.
After a brief closure because of bacteria, Jean-Doré beach has reopened.
A survey done last year showed that most residents of Ville‑Marie borough would like to elect their own borough mayor and a full slate of elected councillors, as every other borough does. It wasn’t a big sample but it’s probably typical of anyone in that borough who gives a damn about municipal politics.
This earlier Le Devoir piece explains why the borough has had a unique form of governance since 2009. But there’s no reason why a spat between Gérald Tremblay and Benoît Labonté should hang over the city’s central borough forever.
Projet promised during the last election campaign that it would undo this damage, but it will have to petition Quebec to invalidate that 2009 change, and we know the Legault government is in no rush to keep Montreal happy. Also, they’d probably lean more into an authoritarian way of doing things anyway.
A young man was shot overnight, non‑fatally, in Anjou.
Also, someone shot at the window of a house in Montreal North, but there were no injuries.
Despite the heightened rhetoric about gun crime and violence, we have only had 13 homicides so far this year, of which maybe five were shootings (cause of death isn’t always made clear).
EmilyG 19:31 on 2023-07-22 Permalink
I think that sadly, a lot of people are still using AirBNB. I wish they’d use hotels instead. AirBNB is so bad for so many reasons.
GC 18:50 on 2023-07-24 Permalink
2022 was still an atypical year for travel, just like 2021 and 2020 were. It’s not really surprising that more people are going to Europe in 2023 than any of those other years, is it? It seems like the article should compare it to travel in 2019.