CBC has a brief profile of a master tailor who’s been doing business in Hochelaga for 50 years, but the story is a little confused. Is the man closing up shop and retiring, or is he seeking an apprentice? I can’t see how he can do both.
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Radio-Canada has a feature on historical predictions for 2025 including a 1975 vision of Mirabel as the busiest airport in the world.
yasymbologist
Maybe Mirabel will be busy again in 2050, when YUL and YUH are both saturated.
Nicholas
YUL is not going to be saturated. There is tons of space to build terminal expansion, and the runways aren’t maxed out (and you could fit another with some pain). And if YHU takes off (sorry), that’ll reduce any pressure at YUL.
Kate
I think yasymbologist may have intended sarcasm.
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Denis Coderre has applied to compete for leadership of the Quebec Liberal party, and also threatens to sue Revenu Québec for revealing details of his tax woes.
It’s a long haul for the candidates. The new PLQ leader will only be announced on June 14. Three others have declared an interest so far.
Westmount mayor Christina Smith joins the growing list of Quebec mayors declining to seek re‑election this fall.
walkerp
This guy is like the Terminator of politics.
Kate
“I’ll be back”?
Orr
You can see Denis Coderre’s legacy Montreal public art project’s 27 granite stumps if you keep your eyes open and know what to look for, but one thing you never see is anyone enjoying their aesthetic qualities or even just sitting on them bc the top of the stump is slanted, not level, presumably to prevent people from sitting on them.
These stumps cost taxpayers 3.45 million dollars. Let’s do the math! So, for 27 stumps, each stump cost taxpayers $127.7 thousand dollars. Always surprised that for that price they aren’t gold plated or diamond-encrusted.Ian
To be fair I actually do like them, but I don’t 127.7K apiece like them.
Blork 18:22 on 2025-01-19 Permalink
I think he just wants to pass on his knowledge to someone, which is not related to closing the store (aside from not wanting to see the finality of the store closing AND his decades of experience and knowledge just go ZAP into the ether).
Kate 20:04 on 2025-01-19 Permalink
But apprenticeship is a practical thing. You can’t teach someone a concrete skill like tailoring unless you have materials and tools and a space to work in. Something like a tailor’s shop…
steph 08:48 on 2025-01-20 Permalink
Ideally he wants someone to take over his business; paying him for the built in client base and buying out his inventory. He knows he’ll have to train a successor to cash in and do that.
Kate 09:29 on 2025-01-20 Permalink
Then he should have started seeking an apprentice a few years ago. You can’t hand off a business like that after a couple of days of instruction.
Andrew 09:33 on 2025-01-20 Permalink
In his Facebook post, he was inviting CEGEP students to use his workshop for their projects for a few weeks. I guess if he’s just clearing out existing stock he’s not using it for sewing, but it definitely doesn’t seem like a succession plan.
Blork not Côté 11:45 on 2025-01-20 Permalink
I think it’s a mistake to assume there is some specific plan in place here. He’s retiring and giving up the shop, and it’s safe to assume he knows the odds are slim that anyone will step in and take it over. But at the same time he wants to pass on his knowledge and skills, but he doesn’t have a specific plan as to how to do that. It sounds like he’s just throwing the option out into the universe to see if it catches anyone’s attention.
That’s not a plan, it’s just a wish.
Blork 11:46 on 2025-01-20 Permalink
Hey! The Côté problem! WTF?
Kate 12:18 on 2025-01-20 Permalink
Are you on a different device from previously, Blork? A phone or tablet as compared to a desktop box, maybe?
I haven’t changed anything in how the blog handles text encoding since the previous discussion.
MarcG 12:53 on 2025-01-20 Permalink
I suck at explaining technical stuff but browser cookies are only loaded after the page is refreshed, and since this site uses AJAX to post comments, you’ll only notice the bug after re-visiting.
MárçG 13:06 on 2025-01-20 Permalink
Testing fix
MárçG 13:07 on 2025-01-20 Permalink
Mark Côté: The next time you post you’ll probably have to re-enter your name but after that it should be fine.
Blork 13:48 on 2025-01-20 Permalink
Kate, same device, same browser, etc. as previously. In the interim I used a different device, but those posts don’t include the “not Côté” in my name. The only difference I know of is the previous ones (which worked) were freshly typed, whereas the one from today was remembered from a previous session. The machine has been asleep in the meantime.
Kate 13:56 on 2025-01-20 Permalink
Ah, but MarcG has been working, like a good elf, while your machine was sleeping. Give it a try now!