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• Kate 19:42 on 2025-01-12 Permalink | Reply  

  A man trying to chuck his Christmas tree off a second‑floor balcony (some reports say third‑floor) in the Plateau on Sunday morning tipped over and went down with it, impaling himself on an iron fence below.

  Update: The man has died. He’s been identified as Mario Allard, a jazz saxophonist.

  No criminal investigation is involved, the incident being pure misadventure.

  Radio-Canada recounts Mario Allard’s career; similarly in Le Devoir.

  …Walking around Villeray just now, I noticed how many residential buildings here have the same combination of second- and sometimes third-floor balconies over a patch of front garden with an iron fence made of tines that function effectively as spikes if anyone were to fall on them.

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  • Roman 19:58 on 2025-01-12 Permalink

    That’s metal.

  • Ian 16:18 on 2025-01-13 Permalink

    The shot of the fence in question. Yikes. Not a nice way to go.

  • EmilyG 20:05 on 2025-01-13 Permalink

    I know a lot of people who knew him. Such a sad thing to happen.

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• Kate 17:35 on 2025-01-12 Permalink | Reply  

  Kim Yaroshevskaya, who was Fanfreluche on Radio‑Canada and played a long list of other roles on TV and radio, in movies and on the stage, has died. She was 101.

  It’s interesting to read in the Le Devoir item: “N’étant pas de confession catholique, elle est envoyée à l’école anglaise.” She only learned French later, but made her career entirely in francophone productions.

   

• Kate 11:25 on 2025-01-12 Permalink | Reply  

  La Presse inquires into what makes us good citizens, saying it isn’t just picking up litter or giving your seat to a pregnant woman on the bus, but theorizing that – in Quebec, anyway – it’s a sense of collective responsibility that picks up where shared religious belief left off.

  A second piece examines some beneficial citizen actions.

   

• Kate 11:10 on 2025-01-12 Permalink | Reply  

  The growing presence of graffiti is noted here in terms of how many calls to 311 have been counted on the topic. It’s a story sparked by the big tag that now covers half of a Michel Rabagliati mural on a Mont‑Royal bookshop.

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  • Ian 23:18 on 2025-01-14 Permalink

    That’s a throwie, not a tag, and graffiti is as much part of the urban texture as murals …

• Kate 10:02 on 2025-01-12 Permalink | Reply  

  Abdelhaq Sari, a councillor in Montreal North, has his eye on the federal election now that Emmanuel Dubourg has announced he won’t be running again in Bourassa riding. Sari speaks idealistically of doing more for the area from Ottawa, but has he really thought about what he will be able to do for the area from opposition?

   

• Kate 09:59 on 2025-01-12 Permalink | Reply  

  Radio-Canada explores the rise of early hours dance clubs where people go to dance through the evening, and the night is over at 10.