The city has apologized to Christopher DiRaddo, the writer who requested a library room for his book club but was initially turned down because he wasn’t offering simultaneous translation of any English discussion into French. But the city has turned to Quebec for more guidance, so there may be explicit policy on this matter soon.
Updates from January, 2025 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
-
Kate
-
Kate
A man was found unconscious in Rosemont Friday morning, and seems to have been victim of an attack, but the incident is still under investigation.
Update: The man has died in hospital and there’s no homicide number yet.
-
Kate
A train crashed into a truck hauling ethanol and gasoline in St‑Laurent Friday morning. Nobody was hurt, but TVA says 8000 litres of fuel got spilled.
-
Kate
Nearly 900 affordable housing units are under construction or newly available, 570 being already occupied.
DeWolf
In this case they’re talking about non-profit social housing, not “affordable housing” which is usually still part of the private market 🙂
Kate
Are they? The headline does, but the opening ‘graph says “Ce nouvel immeuble fait partie des 27 projets de logements à loyer abordable…”
MarcG
It sucks that journalists can’t stick to the accepted terminology when discussing housing.
Kate
It may be their fault, or the PR people may be blurring the distinction whether deliberately or not.
-
Kate
Weekend notes from CultMTL, CityCrunch, La Presse.
jeather 17:46 on 2025-01-31 Permalink
As per Toula Drimonis:
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a City of Montreal librarian told me a similar story, this time involving Spanish-speaking parents wanting to organize a children’s story time in Spanish. “Bill 96 prevents us from conducting any public or administrative events that aren’t in French,” the librarian told me.
Imagine if it were in Arabic.
Kate 19:13 on 2025-01-31 Permalink
If Bill 96 doesn’t, the new Roberge law very well might.