The Crown wants to see Ali Ngarukiye declared a dangerous offender. This is the man who tried to kill a cop, then killed his cellmate after his arrest. He’s been declared guilty on both those charges.
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Kate
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Kate
Fighter planes were spotted over Montreal last week for the opening game of the CFL, but a larger group of planes were seen trailing coloured smoke on Tuesday afternoon for a different reason. These were the Italian air force’s aerobatic team, Frecce Tricolori, celebrating the RCAF’s hundredth anniversary.
Ian
Yesterday i was driving west past Ottawa and saw them over the city. I wondered what that was about.
Kate
They’re doing a tour.
CE
I know there are many (totally legitimate IMO) objections to flying fighter jets over the city but every time I see those machines shooting by overhead, I’m absolutely impressed by them!
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Kate
Counter-protesters showed up Tuesday at the Square Victoria pro‑Palestine encampment – some pro‑Israel and some, apparently, mostly peeved that there’s an encampment at all. Police kept the peace among the discordant groups.
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Kate
The owner of Motel St‑Jacques down the west end of NDG is accused of a lurid range of activities including drug dealing and sex trafficking. “Police at Station 9 execute a quarter of all their arrest warrants at the motel.” Authorities seized the building last week.
bob
I think this has been “news” since the 50’s when it originated as Peg’s Motel. It had a bar in a separate building out front which was a hangout for truckers and gangsters, which became the Spoke, which was replaced by a drab condo a few years ago, so, ironically, Motel St. Jacques no longer fronts on St. Jacques.
Blork
Fun lunchtime reading: check the reviews on Google: https://maps.app.goo.gl/mCP9QVVbapyVMPrU7
Ephraim
Is it for sale cheap? The land is likely worth more than the building. The city zoned a 4 story, right in front of it, so it might actually be a good location for some social housing or mixed use social housing.
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Kate
A McGill study identifies the ten most dangerous corners for cyclists, with Berri and Ontario winning the dubious honour of worst of all.
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Kate
A 14-year-old who was hit by a car Monday in Cartierville while riding an e‑scooter has died.
Marco
So sad. I can’t imagine what the parents are going through. The loss of a child is devastating. My heart goes out to them.
Tux
eScooters need to be regulated, and I say thay as the owner of one that has benefitted from the legal grey area. I actually would like to sell mine and get a regular bike with pedal assist instead…
Blork
I tend to agree with Tux. Although we don’t know if the nature of the vehicle is to blame here, I wouldn’t be surprised.
There is a whole new world of electric scooters out there (in the past couple of years) where many of them are classified as “electric bicycles” but they are designed to be used as scooters with throttles. There is some degree of regulation around them, but it’s technical and largely unenforceable. Some of these scooters can easily go 60 or 80 kph. They’re not toys, and they shouldn’t be treated as toys.
(I’ve been following some so-called “e-bike” groups on FB lately and wow, what a world of fast and dangerous scooter-like things there are, most classified as “bicycles.” And there is a large and fanatical fan base for them. Incidents like this one will only increase. And I fear for regular people like me and Tux who just want a pedal-assist e-bike; the eventual crackdown might affect us, which would be wrong.)
CE
There is an entire cottage industry of people who attach fake pedals to what are essentially electric mopeds so people can take them on bike lanes.
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Kate
A car was stolen Monday morning in Pierrefonds with a baby in the back seat. The thief dropped the baby on the sidewalk nearby, drove away, then ran from the vehicle in Park Ex. The baby was unharmed.
CTV is extra cautious, headlining the story as Alleged Montreal car thief… – well, the car didn’t steal itself. A person can be alleged to be a thief, but when the story is told without any name, there’s clearly a thief in the story and no individual is being directly accused. But the journalists may be working from an abundance of caution on advice of lawyers.
TVA later specified that when the baby was removed from the car, it was in its car seat. The perpetrator is still at large.
Nicholas
Maybe they’re not sure if it’s really a car or a papier mâché project that looks like a car, so an alleged Montreal car…thief. Journalists can never be too careful when discussing anything with cars, wouldn’t want to imply anyone did anything wrong.
Whenever journalists write badly about cars I’m reminded of this excellent McSweeney’s piece that could be about cars but is actually something worse.
Blork
I wouldn’t necessarily presume the baby was left behind IN ITS SEAT. Have you ever tried to unclip one of those? Some are easy. Some require a degree in mechanical engineering. Hopefully this was an easy one.
(OK, they’re theoretically all “easy” if you’ve done it before. But rando car thief might not have.)
EmilyG
I think that my dad’s friend, who found the baby, said the baby was in a baby seat.
Kate
EmilyG, that’s news coming close to home, for you!
Glad to hear that even a car thief had enough conscience not to simply chuck the baby onto a sidewalk with nothing protecting it.
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Kate
TVA reports that Monday’s St‑Jean parade passed in a mere 15 minutes before arriving at the concert at Maisonneuve Park. And it wasn’t even the faute du fédéral.
(No, the fédéral is blamed Tuesday for the failure to be able to franciser more immigrants.)
MarcG
Everyone knows girth is more important
Clee
shrinkflation
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Kate
The rejigging of bus routes in southwestern Montreal, set to go into force on August 26, is already unpopular with some users. Maybe it’s the kind of change that always runs into some resistance, or maybe some of the decisions are bad – it’s difficult to tell from this piece.
Em
As I understand it, my bus service will vastly improve. I’ll go from a line that passes once every 30 minutes, to one that’s a 10 minute max during rush hour. So the changes aren’t all bad.
Nicholas
It is often that. People learn habits and when those are disrupted people get annoyed instinctively. But then they learn new habits and often it’s fine, sometimes better. It can be hard to visualize a new system both on a map but also the frequency of service, which is not public yet from what I understand, other than the
1012 minutes max service.The most common valid complaint is usually related to path dependency. You have a job, so you get an apartment that is on a bus line that goes right to that job. You stop at a fruiterie on that line on the way home. You build your life around the different options you have. Then the system changes, and maybe more homes are on a frequent bus line to that job, and maybe more jobs are on your new bus line, but yours isn’t. Maybe now a different fruiterie is more convenient, so you lose that personal connection. So the life you set up is disrupted, and you have to make changes. That’s something that averages won’t show: you need individual trips of everyone, and that data doesn’t exist.
So yes, some changes will be worse, but if they did this right, more people will be like Em, and get better service, but unlike Em may not be able to visualize it yet.
Blork
What @Nicholas said. (Well said.)
The other observation here is that the La Presse article should be taken with a grain of salt. Basically, they’re just looking for something to say about it, and the only people making any noise are the ones who are negatively affected by this — and they are most likely the minority, by far.
It’s a bit like reporting on a food store that has slashed its prices in half for cash-only payments, and La Presse writes a report that only talks about the people who don’t live near an ATM. That’s worth mentioning, but it’s not THE story.
jeather
Are they really going to go back to these people and see if any of them found it actually wasn’t a problem?
Kate
Nah. News tends to get slow between St‑Jean and the rentrée so some journalists will be sent out to make stories out of people grousing.
Blork
It’s “what about-ism” elevated to “journalism.”
John B
I sometimes use the 37 to get from southern Verdun to St-Henri, and that will no longer be possible, which will suck.
However I use the 107 much more frequently if I want to rush to the metro station, and it’s going to be a high-frequency route, and be extended to the west so I can get almost to the Parc des Rapides if I want, that’s great.
Overall these changes are a big win for me – unless I stop walking to the metro and therefore stop exercising.
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Kate
Protesters in the recent pro‑Palestinian encampment on Square Victoria tried to topple the statue of the queen Monday night, but police were called.
Global outlines the protesters’ demands, which have nothing to do with Queen Victoria.
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