Wish I’d been quick enough to video this.
Jarry on Tuesday afternoon. A man is walking toward me in full Santa rig, beard included. At the corner, one of those small white and red cars used by city parking agents stops for the light.
Santa starts gesticulating and the agent rolls his window down. “Pas de cadeaux pour toi!” he shouts, waving a finger.
Thousands of members of the FAE marched Tuesday from the Cartier monument down to the premier’s Montreal office.
There were a bunch of similar actions, my wing of the CSN was in Valleyfield picketing the MNA’s ofice there.
Oh that’s where they were! I didn’t see any near schools or even in front of the MUHC today.
Here’s a great shot – it’s like a red tide of solidarity: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1499237704142065
The main part of the Olympic stadium is closed and can’t be used while preparatory work is done for the eventual replacement of the roof.
CTV notes that this means CF Montreal won’t be able to hold its home opener in the stadium, as it has always done, back through the years when it was called the Impact.
A necessarily unnamed young person has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 16‑year‑old Jannai Dopwell‑Bailey outside his school, two years ago. The convict is now of adult age and the prosecutor says he will be asking the judge to sentence them as an adult.
So, we can pretend someone was an adult while under age for the purpose of imposing a harsher sentence than the law allows for people who commit crimes while not adults, but we cannot name this (now) adult because the crime was committed while not an adult. Makes sense!
25 YEARS FOR ADULTING WHILE CHILDRENING
bangs gavel *
Given the details of the case, specifically that the murderer had been suspended from school, made a special trip for the purpose of attacking Dopwell-Bailey, chased him down when he tried to flee, forced him against a wall, stabbed him repeatedly and then fled the scene to post a picture of the weapon and insults about Dopwell-Bailey on social media, I incline toward his being sentenced as an adult, especially as mental illness has not been mentioned as a mitigating factor.
A reminder too that Legualt and Plante both made a big show about condemning the near-contemporary death of white 16-year-old Thomas Trudel in St-Michel and visiting his memorial but had zero reaction to Dopwell-Bailey’s assassination until embarrassed into doing so — and then performatively — by his family and media reports.
Vicious and premeditated as it was, he was not an adult.
Anyone that has studied developmental psychology could speak to this popular misconcpetion at length, or you could simply look it up.
The nastiness of a crime does not affect the mental capacity of the perpetrator. This is why we have the distinction between adult and juvenile court.
The city adopted its 2024 budget on Monday, a $7‑billion monster imposing an average 4.9% tax increase on property.
The mayor was not present, taking it easy since her collapse last week at a press conference.
Lots of aimless carping from Ensemble in the piece, leaving me as always with the question, what could they have done differently, given present conditions? And the answer – not very much.
A Wall Street Journal travelogue on visiting Montreal in wintertime.
Ian 15:37 on 2023-12-13 Permalink
In effect dressing as Santa is a form of clowning.
This is, indeed, a problem we can solve with clowns.
anton 12:35 on 2023-12-14 Permalink
…Santa Claus is co-homing to frown.