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  • Kate 10:18 on 2024-10-13 Permalink | Reply  

    Some kids dressed in black scaled Silo No. 5 on Friday and posted videos of themselves on the roof.

     
    • Major Annoyance 12:24 on 2024-10-13 Permalink

      These people are ruining the place for the legit urban explorer crowd with their antics.

      Also, you really don’t want to get caught doing that on federal property. The working part of the Port (including the cruise ship terminal) is an official point of entry into Canada. The RCMP will look up your butt and may well lay federal charges. Don’t ask me how I know this.

    • Ian 22:47 on 2024-10-13 Permalink

      I guess you never got up on Silo 5 eh? It’s a hell of a view 😉

    • Major Annoyance 06:37 on 2024-10-14 Permalink

      Not yet. I did make it up the grain-handling tower at the end of Jetty #1 a couple of times though. Talk about your Montreal glorious views.

  • Kate 09:24 on 2024-10-13 Permalink | Reply  

    Protesters entered an empty school building in Hochelaga on Saturday to demonstrate a need for more social and community space. Community groups were evicted from the building last year, but it currently stands empty.

     
    • Kate 09:01 on 2024-10-13 Permalink | Reply  

      Washington Post weighs in on what it calls Kamala Harris’s five tumultuous years in Montreal, asserting that her political life began at a time when “tens of thousands of English‑speaking families fled” and listing various FLQ incidents that happened here years before Harris arrived. Kristian Gravenor is namechecked too.

       
      • Kate 08:51 on 2024-10-13 Permalink | Reply  

        A man was stabbed to death late Saturday night on the eastbound platform of Guy‑Concordia metro station, the 29th murder of the year.

         
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