A new monument has been placed near an old headstone in Mount Royal Cemetery for Shadrach Minkins, born in Virginia as a slave, but who escaped to Canada and lived out his life in Montreal.
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Kate
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Kate
Another demonstration in support of Palestine was held Saturday afternoon at the Cartier monument.
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Kate
The low temperature Friday night to Saturday was 18° and the midafternoon temperature Saturday is 14°. It’s one of those days some people are out in crop tops, t-shirts, shorts or sandals, others in scarves and puffy coats.
I’d put my sandals away for the season but got them out for one last stroll – I think.
It’s supposed to go down to 3° overnight to Sunday, and should hit freezing overnight to Monday, so any portable plants outside should come in. Next week will not be warm, and it’s going to be a chilly Halloween with a high of 3°.
MarcG
These dramatic temperature shifts seem like a fun new climate-change-related phenomenon, or at least the frequency of them appears to be increasing.
EmilyG
I was out this afternoon. I had on a T-shirt and a light jacket. It probably would’ve felt warmer if it wasn’t so windy.
DeWolf
The city was absolutely heaving with people this afternoon. It really had that fin-de-saison vibe.
DeWolf
Has there ever been a warm Halloween? I swear, we often have nice balmy days right up to the 31st – and then it’s always chilly that specific day. And in recent years we’ve had November warm spells, but Halloween is always cold.
Kate
It really was heaving. Even tertiary commercial streets in Villeray were full of people. I think a lot of folks felt, consciously or not, that it was probably the last balmy day for a promenade.
Of course Halloween is chilly. Samhain is one of the two times of year when the barrier between the mortal and the magical worlds is lifted.*
*No, I don’t believe this.
Tee Owe
IIRC Halloween 1999 was also T-shirt weather
Tee Owe
Sorry, was 1998 – we remember sitting out on the steps for the trick-or-treaters, a balmy evening
Tim
@DeWolf: last year was the warmest halloween of my lifetime. It was incredible.
Meezly
Parc Mont-Royal was also teeming with folks wanting to see the fall colours. It was funny to see the range of outfits too – from puff parkas to tank tops.
Kevin
It’s fricking snowing. Not hard, but it’s here.
Orr
We had a lovely picnic lunch at Parc du Dieppe in the middle of the river across from the Old Port. (this was previously named Parc de la Cité du Havre). Some people were gathered there for a funeral memorial, and ashes were put into the river. It was not sad, the people were celebrating.
Then we watched some surfers in the river behind Habitat 67.
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Kate
Notman House may have to be sold by the nonprofit that has run it for the benefit of the tech community. And if it does get sold, it will probably become a façade tacked onto another condo tower.
DeWolf
That would be nearly impossible. It’s a listed historic monument which is actually quite a rare status in Quebec, so even the slightest change needs approval not just from the city but from the Minister of Culture, with a report from the Commission des biens culturels. Demolishing the building for condos (and façadism is legally considered demolition) would be so insanely complicated, legally risky and politically controversial no developer would want to make an effort.
Besides, we’re talking about the Plateau, not exactly the most developer-friendly borough. The site is currently zoned for three storeys maximum, so even beyond the historic monument status, any attempt to build something new there would require a rezoning process: that means public consultation and likely a referendum, given the high-profile nature of the building. If Griffintown residents have been able to kill multiple condo projects that have just barely exceeded the zoning limits, imagine what Plateau residents would do to a proposal to demolish the Notman House.
On top of that, the site is very limited because the garden is owned by the borough which is going to turn it into a public park.
My guess is that Notman House will be sold to a university, another non-profit or maybe a private company that will use it in roughly the same way Osmo has been using it.
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Kate
A woman was left paralyzed by a forceful arrest last month. This piece explains that the woman was trying to collect her kid from school, but that she no longer had custody, so the school called police, and things became heated.
As this story recounts, when the woman said she couldn’t move properly, the cops dumped her on the sidewalk outside her house, and left. Neighbours called 911. She has since had surgery for her injuries.
It’s under investigation. Maybe those officers will even get a few weeks off.
Chris
>”La personne serait devenue agitée et agressive envers un des policiers.”
Yeah, don’t do that. You’re not going to win against cops with physical force.
Kate
Cops are also not supposed to dump people in distress and drive away.
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Kate
The Quebec Court of Appeal has rejected a challenge to the PREM, Quebec’s byzantine system that channels GPs out of Montreal, conveniently clearing the ground for private medicine to take root in the city.
Tim S.
“The judges reiterated, however, that it was not the role of the courts to substitute for legislative, executive or administrative powers in this situation.”
Most of the time I agree with this and think politicians should do their job. However, one of the whole points of liberal democracy is that courts and the law stand against simple majoritarian rule. Given that politics is increasing polarized along urban/rural lines, it might to make sense for courts to mitigate regional inequalities as well. I doubt there’s any actual realistic mechanism to expand their jurisdiction to this point, though.
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Kate
I was interested to read about this farmer-owned grocery store opening in Rosemont, but puzzled by the mention of “Mason Street” – do you suppose Global’s content is being written outside Quebec?
Seems it’s on Masson between 5th and 6th Avenues.
dwgs 07:46 on 2023-10-30 Permalink
I guess CBC uses the same weekend copy editor, and spell check wouldn’t have caught this one, “When he crossed the border he kind of slept into anonymity and furthermore today,” Ndiaye said.