The three-day Common Front strike ended Thursday evening but the FIQ and FAE strikes are ongoing.
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Kate
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Kate
Charges have been laid in the strange case of two brothers who kept the body of an Inuk woman in their house for months. But the charges concern improper handling of human remains, not homicide. The cause of Alasie Tukkiapik’s death hasn’t been given out.
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Kate
The Chamber of Commerce says one in five construction cones is pointless, and the cone situation hasn’t improved since it first reported on this last January.
MarcG
Love stats like this.
walkerp
Did anybody ask those 1 in 5 cones how they felt? Not great I bet, being labelled “pointless.”
Ian
Is it every 5th cone sequentially or one really big useless site that uses 20% of the cones?
/n3rdqatzelok
It’s nice to leave a few lying around so that self-motivated activists can use them to disrupt automobile traffic in order to increase safety for others.
Orr
I have moved some to make it harder for drivers to make illegal u-turns on my street in front of the no-u-turn sign.
Ian
Vigilante action goes both ways, careful what you wish for. I’m sure you gentlemen would be outraged if somebody started moving cones into the bike paths.
Kate
It will cause you a world of hurt if you move cones with the intention of pranking drivers, and provoke an accident.
Never forget there are a lot of cameras around and you could be caught and charged with mischief at the very least.
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Kate
Weekend notes from CityCrunch, Sarah’s Weekend List, CultMTL.
Highways to heck this weekend. The Île aux Tourtes bridge will be completely closed.
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Kate
When even a crabby old anglo notices an error in Radio‑Canada’s grammar…
Daisy
That’s a very egregious error for our state broadcaster to make!
Kate
Especially in an item about students and education, I thought.
As of 10 am it’s been corrected.
John
« Goncourt » is a famous french literary prize; the « Goncourt des lycéens » is the choice made by « les lycéens » for the same prize.
Kate
I didn’t question that. What I did question was the verb form in “ont participer”.
Later it was corrected to “ont participé”.
John
Yes indeed, my bad for not noticing!
Les subtilités de la langue 😉
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Kate
The issue of the homeless occupying public space is tackled from two angles currently.
One is the new police policy for the metro, involving more special constables and security.
The other is a public library policy to be implemented in the new year, in which people who smell bad will be asked to leave.
In both cases, RAPSIM (Réseau d’aide aux personnes seules et itinérantes de Montréal) spokespeople are outraged, but I’m of two minds about this. It’s clear that homeless people need somewhere to go inside in winter, but the metro and the libraries don’t operate so well if expected to also function as homeless shelters.
jeather
I have seen a lot of unhoused people in the metros, but I have never noticed it really causing a problem for operations, they tend to try to stay away from the busier locations. It’s not good that there are so many of them, though that’s a larger issue, but I don’t want more cops in the metro more than I don’t want people sleeping in corners.
I do see how it can be a bigger problem in libraries, but also that particular rule seems just set up for unfair and unkind enforcement.
Kate
There have been accounts on social media of unpleasant encounters with angry or deranged people in the metro, or people shooting up in plain sight. I think it’s that kind of thing rather than people sleeping in corners that has people feeling unsafe in the metro.
I haven’t been using the metro at all lately so I have no personal observations on this point.
As for the libraries, I couldn’t say. I visited the Mordecai Richler library briefly a couple of weeks ago and it was full of clean, studious young people. But that may not be one of the locations with the problem.
jeather
I am sure there are unpleasant encounters, but I am curious what the actual numbers are vs “people complain on social media and it trends”.
Uatu
The other day when the metro stopped at Lionel groulx there was someone angrily screaming “putain” at the top of their lungs and you could hear it echoing throughout the station and into the metro car. You could feel the tension and everyone in the car hoping that the metro leaves before that screamer gets on. It made me think twice about using public transport. Hopefully these new initiatives will help.
jeather
I take the metro a lot lately and I have had exactly zero unpleasant person interactions other than every asshole keeping their backpack on their backs at rush hour. I know they happen, but I would like to hear actual statistics on problems.
Tim S.
While the phrasing of the bylaw seems bad, I’ll note that the news story quoted various homeless advocates and no library user (though one head of a library association).
Ian 13:35 on 2023-11-25 Permalink
It’s kind of astounding that only JdeM had any decent coverage of the marches, and even they focused mostly on the FAE.