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• Kate 22:00 on 2024-06-28 Permalink | Reply  

  The Gazette has two historical sex abuse stories Friday.

  A class-action suit has been authorized against the EMSB and one of its former principals, alleging sex abuses for decades in the last century. The principal is still alive and living in B.C.

  A class-action suit has been proposed over two social workers at the Jewish General alleged to have abused children in the 1980s. The two men have since died and the lawyer representing one of the potential plaintiffs is hoping more victims will step forward.

   

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• Kate 21:33 on 2024-06-28 Permalink | Reply  

  There was a protest against Airbnb in Hochelaga on Friday and some people even occupied an apartment, saying it was an illegal conversion.

  People in the Plateau are also displeased about the inaction against illegal Airbnbs in the area.

   

• Kate 21:27 on 2024-06-28 Permalink | Reply  

  The Montreal Economic Institute says the city shouldn’t increase its presence in the real estate market, which is a reliable indicator that it absolutely should.

   

• Kate 11:55 on 2024-06-28 Permalink | Reply  

  Opossums never used to make it across the Canada‑U.S. border, but now they’re establishing themselves as denizens of the island of Montreal.

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  • jeather 12:34 on 2024-06-28 Permalink

    I had no idea!

  • walkerp 13:03 on 2024-06-28 Permalink

    That’s cool. They are really neat animals. Be prepared if you have never seen one before, they can get quite large and may appear at first to be a gigantic rat.

  • Ian 13:38 on 2024-06-28 Permalink

    I’ve seen them in Petite Patrie. Only cats, rats, skunks, groundhogs, raccoons, and squirrels in my alley so far.

  • Uatu 13:47 on 2024-06-28 Permalink

    They eat ticks which means they’re a welcome addition to the island!

  • Ian 20:25 on 2024-06-28 Permalink

    They can eat their entire body weight in ticks each year, which is great since I don’t eat any at all.

  • Ephraim 17:22 on 2024-06-29 Permalink

    You don’t eat ticks or Opossums? Personally, I don’t eat either, but I figured I would ask for clarification, just in case 😀

  • Ian 17:52 on 2024-06-29 Permalink

    Well neither, but I did mean ticks 😉

  • Ephraim 13:09 on 2024-06-30 Permalink

    Incidentally for your neighbours… none of them are kosher. All insects aren’t. And only Addax, Antelope. Bison, Cow, Deer, Gazelle, Giraffe, Goat, Ibex and Sheep can be kosher. (Though, no one is sure how to properly shochet a giraffe anymore.)

  • Kate 13:22 on 2024-06-30 Permalink

    That’ll be OK. I don’t think opossums are Jewish.

  • Ephraim 13:53 on 2024-07-01 Permalink

    You think giraffes are?

• Kate 11:51 on 2024-06-28 Permalink | Reply  

  More on the rise in crime in the metro as reported in 2023, a sharp increase from the previous year – and giving the metro’s special constables plenty to do.

   

• Kate 11:05 on 2024-06-28 Permalink | Reply  

  A collision between a river shuttle and another boat Thursday afternoon off Île Charron, one of the Îles de Boucherville, left nine people injured.

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  • Nicholas 16:44 on 2024-06-28 Permalink

    La Presse has a lot more details, including that the pleasure boat was going at high speed and fled the scene, meaning there could be criminal charges. It also correctly notes this is a Navark boat (which operates service for the ARTM), unlike the CTV article which incorrectly calls it an “STM river shuttle”, even though the STM has nothing to do with this. But CTV published first, so I guess that’s what counts. La Releve published a few minutes after CTV, with quotes photos from the scene that La Presse presumably paid for, given it’s the same La Releve photographer. The local pubs are really putting the national media to shame, especially as Bell cut some more technicians yesterday.

  • Kate 18:57 on 2024-06-28 Permalink

    Thank you, Nicholas.

    Hit-and-runs even on the river!

• Kate 08:51 on 2024-06-28 Permalink | Reply  

  An outdoor exhibit about Zïlon has been put up along Atateken till October, shown in this video from CBC. Zïlon died last year.

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  • Ephraim 14:26 on 2024-06-28 Permalink

    And the building he painted has basically destroyed his artwork. You have to go back to 2014 to see it in all it’s glory! https://maps.app.goo.gl/eZrT8waMFtwB7qud7

  • CE 21:06 on 2024-06-28 Permalink

    That was a really good piece but what replaced it by Bordalo II, made out of old junk is exceptional!

  • Ephraim 22:05 on 2024-06-28 Permalink

    Yes, but only because Zilon’s work was tagged and covered over. It’s a shame we can’t keep nice artwork sometimes.

  • Kate 14:10 on 2024-06-29 Permalink

    Zïlon chose to work mostly in forms subject to alteration or obliteration. He must have known when he painted that building that the owner, or a future owner, was bound to eventually change or demolish it. I think we have to accept that as part of his philosophy as an artist.

  • Ian 17:53 on 2024-06-29 Permalink

    Zïlon was also known for painting over other people’s work, so fair game.

• Kate 08:46 on 2024-06-28 Permalink | Reply  

  Weekend notes from CityCrunch, La Presse, Sarah’s Weekend List, CultMTL.

  List of things to do from Time Out, summer activities from Silo57, free activities from Narcity.

  Open and closed for Canada Day weekend.

  And TVA is already dreading the traffic while CTV warns of rain.