Most of the homeless campers evicted from under the Ville‑Marie this summer still have no homes despite airy promises made at the time.
On a related topic: Ted Rutland and another writer claim that ‘mixed’ police squads don’t help the homeless – they actually make things worse for them. Their aim is “to intervene in lives of unhoused people in the interests of businesses, wealthier residents or other city residents who wish to see them displaced.”
TVA says people almost came to blows in a situation outside the Park Ex borough council meeting on Tuesday evening over bike paths vs. parking.
Maybe that’s why I’ve been hearing so many sirens?
Wednesday morning, there are reports of mischief when someone strewed thumbtacks on the Park Ex bike path, and more on the clash between protest groups.
I’ve kyped the photo below from Facebook mostly because I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at “Parking Matters”!
I briefly thought people had been spreading bedbugs on bike paths haha
Good interview this morning on CBC with a councillor from Parc-Ex (I missed her name) who pointed out that it is kind of a zero-sum game. If they could keep the parking spaces and add the bike lanes, they would but they just don’t have the space. So this radical extremist pro-car minority is being disingenuous when they ask why the two needs can’t be “married”.
42% that commute to work by car is a minority but hardly a “radical extremist minority”. An 8% majority is a swing riding.
Given how low turnout is for municipal elections, imagine if they all voted because of a hot button issue … look what happened in Outremont.
PM doesn’t have Parc Ex tied up by any stretch.
Three judges at the Court of Appeal have ruled that the U.S. has immunity over the MKUltra experiments carried out at the Allan Memorial Institute. A law which would allow them to sue only came into effect in 1982, much later than the end of those experiments.
Well duh. You may as well expect Henry Kissinger to visit the Hague.
He will certainly visit Hades, at least.
Saw a photo last week of the very aged Jimmy Carter and his wife, the comment below being that Carter is determined to outlive Kissinger.
Also saw Carter calling out the US as a straight up oligarchy. May he live a hundred years and continue to speak truth every day.
TVA visited with a group that catches stray cats, sterilizes them, then lets them go. Piece notes that a cat can live to be 15 years old, but I’ve had two so far that made it to 20.
Lucky! My oldest cat was 16 but he was in pretty rough shape by then.
Yeah, weird, they describe it as 15 being lucky, while I think 15 is about the youngest I’d expect a healthy indoor cat to die.
I’ve been fortunate. Both my elderly cats were pretty spry till their last year or so.
I knew a guy with a Siamese cat that lived to be 22, but by the end it was practically transparent.
Maybe they were referring to strays? Feral cats have a much shorter life expectancy.
The item says that although a domestic cat can reach 15 years of age, a feral cat seldom gets past 5.
The thing most people don’t realize is that even a minor ailment can be a death sentence for a feral cat. If they can’t forage or hunt for a couple of days and are fighting off an infection, it’s sually game over. Those tough old grizzled toms you seen in alleys are either secretly housecats or yeah, under 5.
Hot temperatures will break records here today till Thursday.
Radio-Canada says the Parti Québécois win in Quebec City’s Jean‑Talon riding is the end of the CAQ honeymoon, which seems a bit fervid. The PQ now has four seats, wow.
The article does a good job supporting their assertion that the honeymoon period is over, what makes you say it’s a bit fervid?
The CAQ’s time is not over even if the Radio-Canada headline writer wants it to be.
Honeymoon Kate, honeymoon.
If you insist, Spi : )
A condo building constructed in 2007 for the SHDM in an old watercourse has been flooded so often that it can no longer be insured against flood damage, so residents have to cope with the hassle themselves.
The interesting part here is that the address is on Parthenais in eastern Ville‑Marie, not on some remote West Island shoreline. The sewer system is old, the construction company declared bankruptcy and can’t be sued, and the city seems to have washed its hands of this building from before the era of the current administration.
Meantime the city is going to construct more parks and pavements that will act as sponges to soak up water from downpours. Perhaps it can make sure future building plans take into account the city’s natural geography, too.
Also meantime, Quebec’s donating $11 million to help nine francophone countries with climate change projects. Since, of course, it’s francophones who are deserving of largesse.
More on the 30 sponge parks and 400 sponge sidewalks being planned around town.
Ian 17:49 on 2023-10-04 Permalink
Yeah well cops are the private army of capitalism, they’re never on the side of the underdog.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.