Friday being a stat holiday for many, some weekend notes are out early: La Presse, CityCrunch, CultMTL.
I also see mention of a poutine festival, although the image shown on the website looks more like Old Montreal in the summer than the Marché Central in April.
Traffic warnings of the weekend.
On the eve of Easter weekend, two Italian businesses were attacked overnight. Alati‑Caserta in Little Italy was shot at and Magasin Berchicci in St‑Léonard was set on fire.
In the city’s second homicide within 36 hours, a man was stabbed on Decarie in St‑Laurent early Thursday and brought to hospital, where he died. TVA says the suspect was a friend of the victim, named as Cedrik Emmanuel‑Choquette, 30.
For the increasingly creaky people who remember when the Canadiens could win a Stanley Cup, it’s kind of sweet to see people celebrating the team getting into the playoffs by the skin of their teeth.
Easter weekend, which comes late this year, often involves uncertainty whether Friday or Monday, both or neither, are holidays. Some notes from La Presse, from CTV, from Le Devoir.
(Shouldn’t Quebec have public holidays that don’t dance around the calendar based on some obsolete sacerdotal purpose? Ha ha, what am I saying, this is culture, not religion.)
If the Mouvement laïcque were serious they would disrupt this weekend’s public marches and break into stores closed on Sunday.
/s but not really
The Mouvement laicque were strangely absent last weekend when a parade of Palm Sunday celebrants a few blocks long marched down Cote des Neiges, complete with a large police escort to facilitate things.
I am shocked to find hypocrisy in so-called secularists here.
The city had planned to extend Souligny Avenue in the east end to facilitate access to the port, but the project is being abandoned. Not everyone is happy.
That extension would go right through the middle of the Ray-Mont project everyone was just talking about.
That wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing for them. Think how railways used to go near or through industrial facilities.
I bet they actually like having the railway spur go along two edges of their site. But for roads, yes, Dickson and Notre Dame are right there.
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