The mayor visited the Village on Thursday to talk security concerns with residents and business owners. She and the police chief say things are improving, with more police and social workers on the ground.
There’s no objective statistics here demonstrating whether things actually are getting better, as Plante says, or worse, as claimed by Ensemble.
The federal government is kicking in $3 million to preserve the Cinema Imperial on Bleury.
Now that I’ve been schooled, dare I make a mildly sarcastic remark about the Netflix documentary about the end of the Expos?
Schadenfreude ist die schönste Freude.
Genau!
Inter Miami is coming to Montreal for a match against CF Montreal on May 11. This would hardly be news except that the Miami team now features Lionel Messi. Fans are upset that ticket prices have been absurdly inflated to meet the increased interest and demand.
Imagine if Messi got injured meantime and you spent $750 to see an ordinary soccer match. I don’t wish any harm on Messi, but that would be satisfactory.
What’s with the negative vibes? Some people find joy in watching soccer even overpaying for it. Stop judging others, in the long run you’ll feel better inside.
Thank you for your kind advice.
Are there enough of those “find joy” people to fill the stadium? What about all the people who like to watch soccer but are also having trouble making ends meet (which is an awful lot of people these days)? I guess all those working class families (once the core audience for soccer) can go f*ck themselves since they can’t come up with $2000 to take the whole family to see a single game.
I wouldn’t see anything wrong with this extreme pricing if the tickets for that game were priced as:
Just want to watch this soccer game: $30
Want to find joy in watching this soccer game: $750
The Hong Kong government recently paid for Inter Miami to visit for a friendly match against the local exhibition league. Prices were of course massively inflated, but Messi was injured and sat on the bench the whole time. Actual soccer fans knew what was up, and probably hadn’t even bothered to attend the match anyway. But all the bandwagoners who were there simply to see a celebrity were outraged.
Then the government amplified their outrage by having their lackeys complain that Messi had gravely insulted Hong Kong/China and he should never set foot in the city again. Of course, it was all a distraction from some impending national security legislation…
So now I’m imagining a scenario where a Messi injury and subsequently not playing leads to accusations of “Quebec bashing” from JdeM.
Finding joy in overpaying is a very specific humiliation kink, but far be it from me to kink-shame.
My son loves Messi. I would love to bring him to see a match where he plays. But we are a family of 5, so tickets for the whole family would cost 2250$. Sorry, my boy…
The Centre des mémoires montréalaises is holding an exhibit on the stories of people of colour of Montreal who’ve largely been omitted from official histories.
A man was injured and his car vandalized in a case of road rage in Ville‑Marie on Wednesday night.
A man was found gruesomely injured in Rosemont overnight, and it seems he was kidnapped in Saguenay and brought to Montreal with injuries that suggest a form of torture.
Wild. Montreal is still so old school crime-wise.
I know. Next it will be concrete galoshes.
Plans have been cooking for some time to create a new carbon‑neutral neighbourhood in a run‑down postindustrial section of Lachine.
P 03:13 on 2024-02-23 Permalink
Kinda makes me wish Bill Binns was here to provide his input…
Ian 13:39 on 2024-02-24 Permalink
Yeah well just imagine someone going on about crackheads and fentanyl and molotov cocktails and political correctness and you’ll be able to come up with a close approximation.