It’s the weekend of the Journées de la culture in Quebec – official site of the event. Also the usual listings from CityCrunch and CultMTL, and notes about Pop Montreal from La Presse and CultMTL. The New York Times has a piece about the tribute shows to Lhasa de Sela.
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Kate
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Kate
A man who masturbated on a bus in front of a teenage girl has been arrested, and it was found he’d been going around town doing similar things since April.
Ephraim
At this point, he should be given paperwork that forbids him from being in a public transit and likely also public parks. I mean, seriously, putting him in jail isn’t going to do much to get him to keep it in his pants.
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Kate
Port dockworkers have declared a 72‑hour strike starting Monday.
jeather
And Tuesday starts a strike at all the east coast US ports.
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Kate
Stephan Probst, former head of nuclear medicine at the Jewish General, faces new accusations of sexual assault from women who’ve spoken up to La Presse. Probst has been provisionally barred from practising medicine in Quebec, following his recent conviction for sexual assault. (The Gazette cites someone as saying he was facing “disbarment” but I thought that term only applied to lawyers – still, it’s clear what it means.)
We had a bit of a dust‑up on the blog a month ago about terminology around this case.
jeather
For everyone’s info, the judgement is online.
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Kate
As climate changes, basement dwellings are becoming a thing of the past.
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Kate
The city has made some changes in the control of access to Île Bizard for the golf.
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Kate
A noisy demonstration was held Thursday evening outside La Tulipe against its sudden closure over noise.
In addition, a lot of cultural figures have signed an open letter to denounce the shutdown.
walkerp
This was very cool. We need another one in front of the developers house in the burbs as well.
JaneyB
Great to see such support. May La Tulipe prevail – and may the noise of relentless protest drive the owner from his condo next door.
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