The city is planning a sponge street for eastern Ville-Marie. The name of the street? Larivière.
Editing to add an admiring story about Montreal’s sponge parks from an American site on urban matters.
Updates from July, 2024 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
-
Kate
-
Kate
Brendan Kelly reports on how Café Olimpico is expanding to Westmount.
-
Kate
A man who posed as a landlord and allegedly asked hopeful tenants for security deposits has been charged with fraud. Police are seeking other potential victims. Neither item even mentions that security deposits aren’t legal in Quebec!
More from La Presse about some of his victims.
-
Kate
Pierre Poilievre says he would shut down the supervised drug-inhalation sites if elected prime minister – which seems more and more likely.
jeather
A lot can change in a year — I can’t see what would happen to get the Liberals reelected, with or without Trudeau, but maybe something positive with the NDP?
Ian
PP will win against Trudeau easily on a punishment vote. This is just like when Harper got in except that compared to PP, Harper is a moderate and wise statesman. The byelection loss in Toronto spells it out in black and white, Trudeau needs to hang up his hat.
The most likely person to run the Liberals if Trudeau steps down is Carney, but Trudeau sees that too so has tapped carney for Finance Minister to keep him busy. Trudeau is pulling a Chretien, he isn’t ready to step down yet and is willing to take down the party if he has to. It’s a shame, because I think Carney could beat PP easily, PP’s raison d’être is “Trudeau sucks” and he has no real policy – get Trudeau out and PP has a bag of nothing.
Singh performing necromancy on the NDP is pretty unlikely, the only reason the NDP have any real power now is their alliance with the Liberals. If Trudeau had come through with changing the voting system maybe, but as it is the riding votes say it all and that means the NDP will stay blocked out in all their main voter bases. Singh playing at being a moderate isn’t doing the NDP any favours with their long-time voters, look what happened to Mulcair when everyone fell for the Liberal “campaign left, govern right” schtick yet again.
Kate
What amazes me is that because J. Trudeau hasn’t solved all our problems, many people think Pierre Poilievre could. It isn’t logical.
The NDP need another Jack Layton but they won’t get one. I know of nothing wrong with Singh as a person but he doesn’t have either the charisma or the drive to get much further than he already has. The NDP has sunk itself over and over by choosing nice, decent leaders. You need someone who will stab a few backs when the chips are down.
jeather
I don’t particularly like Singh’s interest in means-testing programs, so I guess I am the person Ian is referring to. I agree that the only way the NDP works is getting a new leader.
I am unconvinced that PP couldn’t swing to any other liberal leader being the same as JT and I think he could pull the same stuff off about whoever comes next.
walkerp
I don’t know. Cons haven’t put forth any real program that appeals to most Liberal by default voters. I think it all depends on the economy and inflation. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Libs get another minority.
Ephraim
We don’t really see as many majority governments as we used to see. 37th, 41st and 42nd since the year 2000. So 6 in the last 9 governments have been minority governments? Is this a sign that Canadians don’t trust either the Liberals or the Tories to deliver? Do you see enough people voting PP to get a majority? I think we are looking at another minority government, no matter who gets elected. Especially with the BQ rural Quebec voters.
-
Kate
Media are cautiously reporting gunshots fired into the façade of an unnamed Griffintown “establishment” on Wellington near Peel early Friday. Sounds like Pizzeria Moretti, which was shot at last November and was reported on in May for being the hangout of a certain class of folks. It was even in the news for flagrantly breaking Covid rules in 2020. That’s one spicy meatball.
-
Kate
Weekend notes from CityCrunch, La Presse, CultMTL.
Road closures of the weekend.
-
Kate
Tenants who moved this July had to accept an average rise of $260 in rent from their previous location.
In other housing news, some boroughs are making it harder to get a permit to convert a duplex or triplex into a single‑family home. This was announced by the Plateau a few months ago and discussed here.
DeWolf
My block is full of duplexes that have been converted into single-family houses. The ones that were converted 10 or 15 years ago are relatively modest, but everything done in the past few years is completely ostentatious. One example: the duplex across the alley from me was expanded into a three-storey house with a full basement and an in-ground dipping pool. Nearly 3,000 square feet of living space, according to property records.
And this isn’t an exception: the exact same thing is happening to a run-down old duplex that my friends considered buying for themselves and another family for $600,000. It’s currently getting a full basement excavation, third floor addition and rear extension. These mini-mansions have collectively removed around a dozen affordable apartments from the block. It’s gentrification on steroids.
Ian
This is basically what happened throughout much of residential Villeray about 10 years ago, and * poof * Villeray was suddenly no longer affordable.
-
Kate
A break in a major water main at Decarie and de Maisonneuve near the MUHC hospital means appointments are cancelled and ambulances are going elsewhere.
Mid-morning there’s still no drinking water at the complex.
Getting towards 1 pm, there are reports of things getting back to normal.
Towards 4 pm, news is improving.
yasymbologist 08:46 on 2024-07-14 Permalink
Perfect. This will be a great boost to the Fengshui of the neighborhood, when you look at the sponge street (wetland) together with its adjacent park (which includes a children’s playground and a dog park), soccer turf, basketball court, the school, and also the cat building on Parthenais.
the adjective “great” is used here because of the beautiful harmony in its form and name, as Kate already indicated.
It’ll be even “greater” if the name of the street wasn’t a factor when the municipality chose this location. The mystical power of kismet.