A ruling from a Superior Court judge in a class action suit started in 2019 came down Tuesday, saying the city must pay victims of ‘systemic’ racial profiling by police. Each victim should receive $5,000.
The story has made it to the Guardian.
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Kate
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Kate
Royalmount opened for the media Tuesday and will be opening to the public this Thursday with half the retail open and not a single residential space built.
La Presse’s Marie-Ève Fournier tells us what the media visit was like.
Journalists on a junket also report on the mall: CBC, which also offers a video, CTV, the Gazette, La Presse.
CBC has a what you need to know with everything except why anyone needs Gucci.
PO
Excited to see the mall’s entire roof covered in trees and plants and greenery. That’s what the concept designs showed, right? Right?!
bob
You can wander down the road to see its future – Decarie Square.
CE
Decarie Square (along with Les Cours Mont-Royal) is what I always think of when imagining the future of this place.
Robert H
As far as building the residential component, I’m sure Carbonleo is pretty confident they can wait-out VMR’s current administration. The novelty factor will make Royalmount a success for at least the next few months. I just wonder how it can succeed long term. There is no lack of places to shop in Montreal. Rockland is just up the road (though maybe for not much longer?). Andrew Lufty must have some great research confirming that thousands of Montrealers with the means to indulge in recreational shopping have been skipping town to leave their cash in Toronto, New York or points beyond. I wonder if it will wind up like Les Cours Mont Royal downtown, a place that was opened to similar fanfare decades ago.
Uatu
Yep and Les Cours also has luxury condos built on top so proximity doesn’t necessarily translate into sales, but we’ll see. I think it’s going to end up on the abandoned mall YouTube channel circuit in a decade or so.
dhomas
The Zara at Rockland has already closed and will move to Royalmount. Same with Michael Kors and Rudsak. Other notable recent closures (no announcements of relocation to Royalmount as of yet): Vero Moda, Stuart Weitzman, Urban Planet. The Royalmount seems to be completely replacing Rockland right now. We’ll see if the Royalmount itself suffers the same fate in a few years.
jeather
I’m vaguely curious, but until now the website didn’t have a list of stores or a map, and even now it’s not clear to me which of the stores/restaurants are actually open and which will open soon.
MarcG
Here it is https://www.royalmount.com/en/directory
jeather
Thank you! Yesterday the directory did not look like that.
dhomas
Yes, I was basing myself of press releases for my info. The official directory seemingly released today is even more dire for Rockland.
Jack & Jones, Massimo Dutti, La Vie en Rose, Ernest, Bikini Village, M/2, H&M, Aldo, Browns, L’Occitane, Sephora, Yves Rocher, Industria, Swarovski, GIO, Pandora, all also have stores at Rockland. But for how long?jeather
I am disappointed that I don’t see a bookstore there. My bank account, perhaps less so.
JP
I was hoping for a bookstore too. I work in a building next door, though I’m currently on vacation so haven’t checked out the mall yet.
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Kate
Superminister Pierre Fitzgibbon has handed in his resignation. Until Tuesday, Fitzgibbon was minister of the economy, of innovation and energy, minister responsible for regional economic development, minister responsible for Montreal and MNA for Terrebonne. CBC notes almost in passing that “Fitzgibbon was the subject of six ethics investigations related to contracts awarded to companies he had business ties with.”
Fitzgibbon will also be a loss to the editorial cartoonists of Quebec.
Paul Journet is asking who will replace him. Which five people, you might ask instead. Or take bets on which international corporation Fitz will be working for next.
Fitzgibbon’s official announcement was given out in Rimouski on Wednesday morning during a CAQ caucus meeting: Politics is never easy.
Joey
Those ethics investigations never amounted to anything, eh? He was planning on resigning around Xmas but the premier forced him to quit now; the National Assembly will be studying (and, presumably, passing) his energy reform bill and Legault may have decided he wanted someone else at the helm to steer it through the legislative process – which is, of course, basically a done deal given the CAQ majority. Fitz was clear he wasn’t going to run again and, having wrested control over the future of Quebec’s energy policy (Northvolt, HQ production increase, the threat of rising electricity prices, the neutralization of Sophie Brooch), he didn’t have much left to accomplish in government.
Ian
There was some talk on CBC radio this morning (Daybreak) that he may have been asked to leave for openly contradicting Legault on several fronts including the necessity of raising hydro fees to pay for the transition projects the CAQ government has embarked upon. He also openly supported bulding more transit infrastructure to reduce the number of cars on the road, as without doing so the goal of carbon neutrality becomes that much harder to reach – in open opposition to CAQ disinterest in funding public transit infra. Definitely a big picture guy and not easy to rein in like the sycophants Legault clearly prefers.
Kate
That all makes sense, Ian. It will be interesting to see the direction the CAQ takes on several issues before the next election, now that Fitzgibbon is gone.
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Kate
Several times since I started this blog, nearly 22 years ago, claims have been made that someone has revived the Montreal melon. It’s happening again as a group claims to have grown some on the old Blue Bonnets site. But they never come to market.
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Kate
Faced with a record 91-candidate ballot in the LaSalle‑Émard‑Verdun byelection, Elections Canada is trying to figure out a legal way to avoid delays in counting in the September 16 vote. But one expert says there’s a limit to what they can do, as all ballots have to be checked to make sure they haven’t been spoiled with multiple markings.
The expert also says that the Longest Ballot Committee is only creating obstacles for Elections Canada and that it won’t hasten electoral reform.
Steve Faguy posted a sample ballot to X to give an idea what this monster ballot may look like.
bob
Is it just me or are protests getting dumber every year? Throwing soup, gluing hands to pavement – it kind of defeats your purpose when the public gets annoyed with you and not the ostensible object of the protest.
Nicholas
bob, I think this is silly too, but protests always cause annoyance to the public: that’s the point! Casseroles are annoying, marches (which block traffic) are annoying, strikes are annoying, work to rule is annoying. The point is to wake people out of their slumber and draw attention to an issue. The methods you mention are often done because something splashy will draw way more attention than a march with 10 people (and it’s easier to keep organizing). If you have broad support you can get tens or hundreds of thousands out in the streets, but you also can’t keep it up, usually.
An interesting point is that at the time, MLK Jr. was really unpopular. One 1964 Gallup survey found he was the second least respected American, and half of White people though he was doing more harm than good for civil rights. People really like order, normalcy, calm. As evidenced.
SMD
“When a wise man points at the moon, the imbecile examines the finger” ― Confucius
Ian
I think maybe we should be happy that there are more symbolic forms of protest like these currently being embraced. More immediate actions can be remarkably unpleasant for all those involved. Let’s not forget this is the city where we burned down the Parliament in a riot.
CE
The fact that people are annoyed and talking about the issue means this protest has been successful in its first goal. Whether it results in any change will determine if it has been successful in total but this is the first step. Trudeau breaking his promise to bring in electoral reform really took the wind out of the sails of the movement for quite a few years and I’m glad to see it’s back in the conversation again.
Ian
Electoral reform was on the list of Liberal promises that didn’t come through – despite saying it would to the NDP as a condition of their support. One thing to lie to the public, but your crucial political allies? That’s not very strategic.
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