Île Bizard residents “taken hostage”?
The mayor of Île-Bizard–Ste-Geneviève is annoyed that the 18,000 residents of Île-Bizard will have to show a passcode to get on and off the island during a golfing event called the Presidents Cup to be held at the Royal Montreal Golf Club in September.
People like that mayor forget that they’re often the ones bidding for prestige events or asking for more security, and then when the prestige event drops in with its security requirements, they get all ruffled. Anyway, Wikipedia tells me the golf course hosted the event in 2007, so it’s not like this hasn’t happened before.
Wikipedia doesn’t explain what makes it royal, though.
EmilyG 10:16 on 2024-06-01 Permalink
I live in Pierrefonds near Ile-Bizard. I remember the traffic being terrible on the main roads around here, especially on Boul. St-Jean, when the event was hosted in 2007. I was trying to get somewhere and it took a long time.
qatzelok 19:41 on 2024-06-01 Permalink
Is it “the residents” of Île-Bizard, or just “the drivers”… who will be carded when they leave their bungalow-soiled island?
Ian 20:54 on 2024-06-01 Permalink
My recently deceased father lived in a care home on île Bizard for the last few months of his life before he was moved into palliative care. I can assure you that it wasn’t a bungalow.
I know you hate the burbs but dial back the projection, we all know you hated your suburban childhood and are full of self-loathing. Maybe these are issues you shoukd take up with a therapist, seriously. You sound like you have little joy in your life. Stare down your inner animal.
bumper carz 09:44 on 2024-06-02 Permalink
Ian, there are Ile Bizards all over North America – they all look and feel the same – and the first generation of suburbanites were the first teens to take mind-altering drugs, and the first housewives to go on anti-depressants. They all blamed themselves for being miserable, just like you are asking me to do.
I left the burbs right after my teens, and moving out of suburbia was the best therapy of all. It isn’t about me – the suburbs really are an example of being lead to slaughter by private corporations (car and oil).
CE 11:41 on 2024-06-02 Permalink
My friend was just given a car to babysit so last night I spent an evening on Île-Perrot (finally tried Smoke Meat Pete!). It’s a very suburban (and rural) place where we met very friendly and interesting people were proud of their island and suggested pleasant and interesting places to go to. Not all of it was beautiful but people are resilient and generally make the most out of their surroundings.
@qatzelok/bumper carz I wouldn’t be inclined to hold you up as an example of good mental health. It seems as if you’ve never managed to let go of your bitterness from having to live in a place you saw as “beneath” you. Chill out and try to enjoy your life and let others enjoy theirs, even if they’ve made choices that are different from yours.
Kate 14:00 on 2024-06-02 Permalink
CE, that’s well put. Thank you.
Anton 11:18 on 2024-06-03 Permalink
There’s more than one unnecessarily angry person here
bumper carz 12:38 on 2024-06-03 Permalink
Please consider people’s points instead of trying to dismiss them with unqualified psychological diagnoses.
Thank you for not resorting to USA-media-style smear tactics. : )
Ian 13:42 on 2024-06-03 Permalink
Oh please, qatzi, you have literally wished death on suburbanites.
I really thought maybe you were in distress, so forgive my presumption. I’ll be sure not to give you the benefit of the doubt, if that’s what you prefer?