In the Gazette, Erik Leijon ponders the fate of our late‑night eateries. He finds that Covid may have closed some or caused them to back away from opening all night, but social change was already happening before the pandemic. Most of the lists I’ve found are already years out of date, but The Main has a list from February this year and CultMTL has a best-of list from June.
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Kate
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Kate
The Conservative party has pulled a promotional video showing, among other things: “a ‘Canadian dad’ … actually stock footage from North Dakota, … a clip of children attending class was shot in Serbia, the ‘Canadian-built’ homes were under construction in Slovenia, and a university student ‘late for class’ was filmed at a post-secondary institution in Ukraine. A scene in which a child walks with her grandparents was shot in London’s Richmond Park, and a family gathering where the group enjoy ‘a wonderful venison that was shot with totally legal Canadian firearms’ was filmed in Italy.” And there are more. Here’s the video, saved by someone else, and the thread on X that sparked the extensive debunking.
One scene showed a pair of fighter jets. A spokesperson for Canada’s defence minister identified them as Russian.
walkerp
And we want this guy to be our latex salesman.
dhomas
Ha! He was kinda caught with his pants down, now wasn’t he?
steph
Ignoring the poor sources of stock footage… what about this ad is “Conservative Party”? I imagine the identical ad for the Liberals, or the DNP – just change the party logo at the end.
Kate
I wonder whether any of the footage was actually from Canada.
jeather
It’s a remake of the Molson I am Canadian ad, more or less. (I watched the beginning only and got stuck on the kid being dropped off at school in a bus, then their father driving away. Continuity error!)
David
Don’t forget that the scene of the family in Italy drinking wine was supposed to be a celebration of a family member’s anniversary of their sobriety.
Annette
And looking proudly up at the sky through the tops of pine trees at Russian fighter jets. Wait! We were just driving through *endless fields of wheat* to our oil derrick repair job. Now we’re in the forest? wtf?
Blork
I think I spotted only one non-white person in the whole video. (There’s a non-white student in the university class.)
MarcG
I did the same exercise and was surprised by the diversity. First school kid getting off the bus, grade school kid on the left in the next scene, student and teacher in the next shot, 2 kids on the left in the next shot, etc.
Blork
MarcG you clearly did a more thorough analysis than I did. I admit I used the scrubber to go fast because I couldn’t bear to sit through the full three minutes in real time.
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Kate
The Mohawk Mothers are unhappy with the recent ruling by the Court of Appeal, overturning the requirement that archaeologists must oversee any excavations around the site of the old Royal Vic, and they intend to continue to press for this to be done.
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Kate
François Legault is to announce that Canada is going to pause approval of temporary foreign workers for low-wage jobs in Montreal. Apparently low wages are now considered anything below $27.47 an hour.
Adding later: Legault’s announcement also includes limits on foreign students and of course frames the reasoning as a way to protect French. In response, Paul St‑Pierre Plamondon is promising to drastically reduce all immigration if the PQ is elected.
Uatu
Great! Now all our problems are solved!/s
Joey
“Ceux qui travaillent en santé, en éducation, dans la construction, en agriculture et à la transformation alimentaire bénéficieront d’une exemption.” How many low-wage temporary foreign workers settled in Montreal to work in fields other than healthcare, education, construction, agriculture and food processing?
jeather
There have been a lot of articles about this — they were hired into low paid retail/hospitality/food service, where officially they were not allowed to do this if the unemployment rate is above 6% (which it currently is).
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Kate
The city wants to see the
drug consumptiondrop in day centre of the Maison Benoît Labre moved because it’s too close to a grade school, although it is not asking to move the shelter part of the project.The tricky part will be to find a place for the centre, because nobody will want it nearby.
The city also knows that some councillors work against establishing shelters in the areas under their management.
Em
It’s the drop in day centre portion they want moved, not the drug consumption.
Kate
OK thanks!
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