Maison Benoit Labre is in the news again for the trail of drugs and syringes and the louche behaviour it brings, all next door to a school.
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Kate
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Kate
Food banks in town are facing constantly growing needs and homeless numbers keep rising.
JaneyB
I wish the media would stop treating the increase in homelessness is some kind of natural disaster. Policies have created it; policies can fix it. The loss of rooming houses to condo development is a huge factor. This used to be the standard option for those down on their luck or simply troubled. The ongoing Airbnb problem is perverting the rental market with no end or enforcement in sight. And then there’s the pet issue in leases which also needs to change. There should be a damage deposit option for those with smaller pets.
MarcG
100% this and for every issue. The hellworld we live in is a choice.
Kate
JaneyB, your first two sentences there will top the list of quotations for the next blog calendar.
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Kate
The time is past when outdoor rinks would stay reliably solid through the winter. La Presse also examines how Quebec City is refrigerating its famous toboggan slide for the first time.
The Journal names the best rinks in town.
Orr
An idea I like is that the tennis courts in Parc Jeanne-Mance should be a refrigerated ice rink in winter.
Speaking of Jeanne-Mance, I finally visited the the Musée des Hospitalières – de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal on avenue des Pins to see the exhibition on her, Hotel Dieu hospital, the nunnery, and the about-to-end on 5 January exhibition on Parc Mont Royal. Enjoyed every part of it. A+
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Kate
CBC looks into future possibilities at Le Boulevard mall now that construction has begun on the blue line extension.
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Kate
Six Projet figures are now vying for the party’s top job, Ericka Alneus having thrown her hat in. She’s a councillor from Rosemont borough.
DeWolf
I’ll be very interested in hearing how these candidates differentiate themselves from one another, because as far as I can tell, they are all pretty well committed to doing the same thing PM has been doing for the past two terms. Perhaps with the notable exception of Guedwig Bernier, who seems to have a slightly more neoliberal, business-oriented view of things, but that’s just based on what little he has said to the media since joining the race.
Ian
The funny part is I don’t remember much news coverage at all about the party politics when Plante got in, except that being a relative unknown made it easier for PM to win elections since she didn’t have as much political baggage as the old guard. If Ferrandez had been put in charge, for instance, it might have gone differently.
Kate
I recall a sense of relief that Richard Bergeron had left, and that Plante was generally thought to be a less likely choice for party chief than Guillaume Lavoie. She hadn’t made much of a mark as a councillor for Ste‑Marie. I was reading news every day for the blog and, given that’s all I remember, it isn’t very dramatic.
DeWolf
Yeah, it wasn’t as much of a race back then, and nobody expected PM to win the mayor’s office the next year anyway.
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Kate
An SUV crashed into a jewelry shop in Park Ex on Saturday evening. The driver or drivers stole some jewelry and ran, but unless that was a stolen vehicle, won’t the cops know who they are?
Monday, CBC has a video from the interior of the store and quotes from the store owner about wanting more police presence. Nothing yet about identifying the vehicle or any arrests.
yasymbologist
only if the cops decide to stop being lazy for a while and go to some lengh to collect nearby CCTV footage, I guess
Kate
Wouldn’t the license plate be a clue?
Chris
Sure would! Especially since the store’s security footage shows the plate as it backed in. And as they seem to have left the car there, there’s also the VIN.
yasymbologist, I get that it’s fashionable to hate on the cops, but do you really think such acts are not investigated?
yasymbologist
I admit I cannot help trashingt cops, because my previous car was totalled in a hit-and-run when I was driving carefully along Ave du mont-royal on a snowy day, with my then-4-year-old son sitting in the back. it was a huge truck trying to overtake using the wrong-direction lane, and its plate was partly covered by snow. I asked my insurance agent if that drunken chauffard was finally found so he could take the driving lessons he skipped, considering there were storefront cameras everywhere and his truck is damaged too. She didn’t laught but told me just forget about it.
But I also have to say almost every single police officers I ever met in person was very nice and decent.
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