Papa Legault, moments after proposing to ban public prayer, says we should be proud of our Catholic traditions as Notre‑Dame reopens in Paris. But he’s made it clear that it isn’t Catholic prayer that’s getting on his wick.
It’s already being asked whether forbidding public prayer would be unconstitutional, but that’s what notwithstanding clauses are for.
Shake La Cabane was a family event planned for Sunday in Rosemont but it’s been cancelled after La Presse did a piece about its ticket pricing policy: white adults were to pay $25.83 while Indigenous adults and people of colour would pay $15.18. It’s become a bit of a scandal.
I’m reading through some of the comments, which are really harsh. People are saying this organization should basically be shut down because of they’re racist. I wonder if this level of vitriol and outrage is intensified because it’s Quebec.
If this happened in any other province, would people have just simply pointed out that pricing based solely on economic situation would have gone down better with the general public than skin colour?
I hope there is no place in Canada where one 10-year old child has to pay $13 to attend a public event and another has to pay nothing, because of the colour of their skin.
If you consider how income inequality and race intersect, that’s basically all of Canada.
I’m sure a lot of black/Indigenous/POC people find this to be very condescending. “Oh, you’re black (/Ind/POC)? Well OBVIOUSLY you’re poor.”
Completely racist policies, this charity is a joke and makes Quebec look like a joke. Can you imagine the protests and store-smashing that would happen by certain people on the community if white people were given free entrance while black people had to pay? They would literally burn down streets.
Michael, Demarcus, you white guys, you’re so funny.
“They” resort to fire and burning when they don’t get their way. Okay.
According to this, all of Quebec will be getting a new recycling system involving big blue bins.
I thought these things were planned by municipalities, not by the province…?
A couple years back Montreal tried to give me bins that size and most people on my street refused because we have nowhere to put something that large.
Which is to say, Montreal is supposed to be keeping the small bins (but no more bags) when Eco Entreprises Quebec takes over all recycling.
Yeah, the smaller 67 litre bins will still be available:
https://montreal.ca/articles/les-modeles-de-bacs-de-collecte-49215
How will I be able to call recycling greenwashing when the bins are blue?
(Greenwashing because there are very few things that can be made from contaminated plastics. Low quality raw materials don’t magically change into high quality products, and there’s only so much garden furniture people want.)
Someone’s uncle in the blue bin business just made bank!
People in my neighbourhood (Plateau) don’t have space for their 45L brown compost bins — they’re left in the sidewalk all week, I have to step around/over them on every block. And when they’re collected, they’re not returned to the same house — I live at the end of my block and there’s new bins every Monday afternoon. If they’re marked, I”ll walk them back to where they belong, but they’re rarely marked. My building now has twice as many brown bins as tenants in the building. Sometimes people notice theirs went missing, and come take them back from my place… but next Monday more show up on the sidewalk outside my door.
Parking fines will rise in the new year.
Parkign fines are a golden goose for sure. Theu unacknowledged emergent effect is that the more the city relies on fines to bring in money the less it will be able to afford people not driving cars…. a bit of a conundrum there. Maybe they coud start actually enforcing fines on commercial drivers, as a start.
The Musée d’art contemporain has been closed for some time, but demolition work has finally begun. The museum is expected to reopen only in 2028.
The previous design was no masterpiece but at least it was distinctive. The expansion will be a generic glass box, similar to what has been done to the TNM just down the street (which also erased a more distinctive design by Dan Hanganu).
Beyond the design, it says a lot about the sad state of culture in this country when Canada’s leading contemporary art museum will have been closed for more than seven years for a pretty modest expansion. Meanwhile, the Vancouver Art Gallery just cancelled plans for its new building — which was designed by Herzog & de Meuron, who did the Tate Modern and many other beautiful structures — and will go back to the drawing board to find something cheaper.
Workers at the SAQ have voted 71% in favour of the agreement in principle put to them recently. Fewer than half the membership voted at all.
A person with measles was present at and around the NATO meeting held here in late November, which sounds like a perfect way to distribute measles viruses across the world. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be proud.
The estimate is that per 100 vaccinated, if exposed to measles, 2 will still get measles. And of those unvaccinated… 100 of them will leave with measles.
Fun fact is that after measles you lose your immunity to all other diseases so you need to be re vaccinated and get exposed to all the usual colds and flus, sort of like a newborn.
(This is an oversimplification, you can look up measles immune amnesia for more detail.)
Fifteen beams were lit Friday at the lookout – 14 for the women killed at the Polytechnique, and a fifteenth, new this year, in memory of women killed in femicides since then.
Early Saturday, a driver southbound on St‑Urbain plowed right into the Thai restaurant at Bernard. People living upstairs were evacuated and the driver was arrested.
No! I love that place!
Is (was) it good? I can’t count how many times I’ve gone past it, on foot or in a bus, but I’ve never gone in.
There’s a common joke response in bike/ped circles, playing off how people blame the lack of visibility of people moving around rather than the high speed of the driver: “Was the building wearing a hi-vis vest?” It’s a funny response when it comes up, except that, for example, in the US cars drive into buildings about 100 times every single day.
I haven’t been there in 100 years but it was delicious then. I hope the fish are okay.
Wow, he really plowed into it. Only been a few times, and they’ve always been consistently very good. My daughter liked the table where you get to sit on the floor and watch the fishies swim in the aquarium.
My kid went to Lambert-Closse, kttiy corner to the restaurant, and the Mission is across hte street. That area is really busy with foot and bike traffic during the day, it’s good the accident happened so late, on a cold nigh where there wouldn’t be many stragglers coming home from a bar.
As a restaurant, Thaïlande is impressive in that it has been there for so long – when it opened Thai food had very little presence in Montreal. This was long before Mile End was even really a thing, let alone considered cool. Back then Bernard was mostly just weird old junk shops. It was also one of the very few places you could go that was good vegetarian food in that area, for a very long time.
Yes, consistently good and varied Thai menu. Family run, I gather, and a lovely community spot. Here’s hoping they can reopen soon.
Kevin 15:11 on 2024-12-08 Permalink
Dr. Paul Saba led his family on a prayer march to the Russian Consulate https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2024/12/07/ils-prient-en-public-quoi-quen-pense-legault