A fire broke out in the city’s biggest homeless camp, where Notre‑Dame and Ste‑Catherine converge. Nobody was hurt but a wooden cabin was destroyed.
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Kate
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Kate
Golf equipment worth more than $25,000 was stolen from the Queen Elizabeth hotel this weekend. It was intended for the impending big golf tournament on Île Bizard.
There are already warnings about traffic headaches (yes) with 30,000 spectators expected daily from September 24 to 29 across that tiny bridge, and now someone’s gone off with the merch.
Update: There’s been an arrest in the golf theft.
EmilyG
I live near Ile-Bizard and often go to the grocery store there. I wonder if the bus will still go there. Or if I can walk over the bridge.
The last time there was a big golf tournament in Ile-Bizard, I also lived where I’m living now (in Pierrefonds) and there was bumper-to-bumper traffic on a lot of streets around here, especially on the big roads. I wonder how traffic will be this time.Kate
I have a feeling you may need to make other grocery plans between those dates.
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Kate
A young man stabbed Saturday night at a gas station in Longue‑Pointe died on Sunday. There have been two arrests.
CityNews doesn’t mention the gas station, showing instead a residential building on a nearby side street.
dhomas
This happened very close to my house (this is the gas station I used to go to when I had an ICE car). What’s crazy about the story is that the attacker is the one who lost his life. A group of 5 people, seemingly around 19 years old, attacked a 27 year-old at the gas station, to rob him. The 27 year old gave chase (maybe to recover what was stolen?) and ended up stabbing the 19 year old, a few meters away from the gas station (the side street seen in the CityNews article). Hard to tell if it was self defense or revenge. It’s sad that a young kid died, but it would also suck for the victim of the attack to go to jail if he was defending himself. Hopefully our justice system will sort it out.
dwgs
If the victim of the attack chased down one of his assailants and stabbed him to death it would not suck at all if he were to spend time in jail. That is not self defense.
Kate
dhomas, yes, that explanation was added later to one of those links. Sounds like the group of predatory kids picked on the wrong guy. There aren’t any good guys in the story, at least as we have it now.
dhomas
Yep, it is a shitshow. I was going off some unsubstantiated information on Reddit that claimed the 27 year old chased after the youths to recover what was stolen and that he was possibly attacked again, at which point he defended himself. But it’s Reddit, so I should have taken it with a healthy dose of salt. We’ll let the courts decide. The security cameras at the gas station should at the very least see if anything was taken, even if they don’t have the actual stabbing on film as they had left the premises by that point.
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Kate
We don’t have an Eater devoted to Montreal any more, but they just updated their list of the 38 best restaurants here.
Orr
I’ve have been working my way through the Ho Guom specialties, the D-I-Y roll-your-own Bò Lá Lốt is the favourite so far. I saw a very old vietnamese gentleman rolling his own sort-of-spring rolls and said “What is that? I’ll have the same as he’s having.”
Kate
I’ve had Ho Guom’s imperial rolls and they were good ones, but never had Bò Lá Lốt. Google images make them look almost like stuffed vine leaves.
Orr
And then you put the wrapped sliced meat inside rice paper wrappers with some leafy things and roll it up nicely and dip it in the special sauce. You don’t have to do the DIY wrapper thing thing but it was a very enjoyable experience. imo this could be a group experience, as I was quite stuffed by the end.
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Kate
It’s strikingly quiet around here this morning with the marathon being run along St‑Laurent a couple of blocks away. Normally I just tune out the background traffic noise, but it’s notable by its absence.
Update: Kenyan Philemon Kiptanu won the men’s side. I tend to forget every time that it’s also a competition, not just a big collective run.
Nicholas
People don’t realize how loud traffic is until it’s gone. Suddenly you hear birds, the wind, people talking, all much more often. Suburbs are rural areas are loud too. Traffic is the light pollution of sound, blocking out the aural stars.
GC
There’s been a water station in my block for the past (three?) years, so I’m not sure I’d call it “quiet”, exactly. I.e., lots of cheering as the runners go by. All the same, it is much more pleasant noise than car/bus traffic. And it’s not like it starts at the crack of dawn, either.
Kate
I didn’t hear any cheering, but it’s a different kind of noise anyway, doesn’t travel like the sound of 18‑wheelers gearing up to get on the highway.
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