Ted Rutland is worth reading on the attitude of McGill to its own students in the protest camp – and how the police are the voice of reason in the situation! Thanks to regular reader dwgs for pointing this out.
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Kate
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Kate
A video has been circulating showing a man snickering as he pours water on a homeless man sleeping in a doorway in Chinatown.
carswell
dhomas
What a sick fuck. I gave his establishment a 1 star review on Google.
Ephraim
@dhomas – Sorry, but that’s not right either. You aren’t a customer and that devalues the whole review system and makes reviews less trustworthy, especially other reviews by you. (Also, they will simply “flag” the review as inappropriate, Google will eventually remove it and your account will be marked as having posted an inappropriate review, leading to your reviews being less valued and posted towards the bottom of all reviews. Which devalues them further).
CE
I wouldn’t put much value in reviews, most businesses inflate their good reviews on way or another. Most reviews are also generally left by people who are extremely happy or extremely disappointed by their experience.
qatzelok
Now that all the virtue-signalling is behind us… remember that we’re on our way to 100 million people here in Canada thanks to our government’s policies, and that this will lead to many awful and inhuman situations like this one. Just the fact that people sleep on dirty, rat-infested steps is inhuman.
Kate
1. “On our way to 100 million people” is a gross exaggeration.
2. Why is it more inhumane for a person to sleep in a doorway here than to starve somewhere else? Because wealthy white people are forced to notice it?
Danyboy
I would consider a Google review quite useful if it linked an establishment to a story such as this. I’d avoid the business at all costs.
dwgs
qatzy is there any joy in your life? Ever?
CE
To ask the question is to answer it.
F-Downtown
That homeless is nicknamed Congo. he is a real piece of shit, i have personally seen him mug people around the chinatown area. all the bleeding heart liberals can get fucked. he is a menace to everyone and every store in the area.
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Kate
An unlicensed taxi driver caused a serious crash Monday morning in Côte‑des‑Neiges. It’s under BEI investigation because the crash followed a police chase.
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Kate
It seems a bit late to be holding a coroner’s inquest into the death of Raphaël André, the homeless Innu man who died of exposure in a porta‑potty in January 2021, but it’s proceeding now.
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Kate
An Amazon warehouse in Laval will be unionized, a first in Canada.
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Kate
The city had a deal with Hockey Québec Région Montréal so they could make use of its facilities, but the deal has been suspended following allegations that people involved have been reselling rink time for profit.
In other sports news, the city is losing its triathlon.
dwgs
Hockey Quebec and the regional bodies governing the sport are long overdue for a major shakeup, it’s been old guys running fiefdoms and protecting their interests for decades.
John B
There does appear to be another triathlon a week before the cancelled one was scheduled. Maybe the problem was that there were two back-to-back?
saintjacques
The Challenge Esprit triathlon, the weekend after Labour Day is for amateurs and has been held for probably at least the last 10 or 12 years at Parc Jean-Drapeau.
The Triathlon Mondiale has been held in and around Vieux-Montreal and is part of the World Triathlon Championship Series. This race is mostly geared towards for professionals and typically has a much smaller field of competitors than the Challenge Esprit race in September, with a prize purse and points awarded towards world championships. That the Triathlon Mondiale is going away is not an enormous shock, since it is relatively common for races in that series to visit a particular city for 3-5 years under contract, and then move on to another city.
Kate
Thank you for the details, saintjacques.
A disgusting, dehumanizing act. The perpetrator looks and sounds like an complete asshole. He’s quoted as saying he apologizes for posting the video but not for committing the act. His after-the-fact accusations that the homeless man had been harassing customers sound too fucking convenient, are probably fabrications. Hoping the mooted criminal charges are laid and that there are other consequences, like protests in front of his crappy business and its imminent closure.