City outdoor pools are opening to help the populace face the heat wave expected to arrive in town Sunday afternoon. Item has a list of pools opening.
Is it possible there’s only one outdoor pool in the whole of Plateau borough? I suppose Baldwin Park pool won’t reopen this summer.
With Luc Rabouin aiming for the city mayoralty, Plateau borough will need a new mayor. Cathy Wong, who’s been out of the public eye for awhile, will be running for Projet Montréal there in November.
Meanwhile, Soraya Martinez Ferrada: “Il y a un mécontentement général sur le Plateau Mont-Royal alors que Projet Montréal y est au pouvoir depuis plus d’une décennie.”
[Insert “o rly?” owl meme]
I’m not sure how Martinez expects to be elected if she’s going to run on bad vibes and nothing else.
But it worked so well for Poilievre!
The idea that we would elect someone like Soraya Martinez Ferrada who to be honest appears to actually dislike Montreal does seem weird to me.
People have been pointing out in the NYC mayor’s election that certain candidates clearly love the city, and others clearly hate it. The people who love the city readily admit there are problems, but endeavour to fix them. It’s hard to run when you so clearly disdain a city and its people, especially when most of the people who agree with you did the obvious thing for them and moved to the suburbs or another city.
IMO, the demergers were one of the best things to happen to Montreal because we avoided having a bunch of people who disdain the city voting in our elections. Ensemble is campaigning for those votes but a lot of the people who agree with them will be voting in Dorval or DDO.
If not Joliette!
OK so now that we have the “I love Montreal” bona fides out of the way, why Cathy Wong?
Anyone care to speculate?
It’s an odd choice since she ran under Coderre when she was last in politics. She has experience and must be willing to toe the party line. Does Projet not have an internal voting mechanism among members to choose candidates? If so, it would seem that members liked what they saw.
“Does Projet not have an internal voting mechanism among members to choose candidates?”
I don’t know.
But hey, even Bergeron flipped for Team Coderre. Maybe they are more interchangeable than we thought.
François Croteau was part of Vision before moving over to Projet. There’s definitely some movement between parties.
Politicians being opportunistic? Say it ain’t so! /s
Plateau voters must be a strange bunch to be simultaneously “mécontent” and vote for a PM sweep in the plateau. The lowest score was 65% & the highest was 81%. Has that much changed since 2021?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Montreal_municipal_election#Le_Plateau-Mont-Royal
Lesser of evils.
Or maybe most residents of the Plateau, Ian notwithstanding, actually like Project and their policies.
I live in the Plateau and have been relatively happy with my elected representatives. This is not something I can say for other levels of government.
Yeah that’s right, it’s just me that finds the glib smugness of Projet openly lying to your face annoying.
But let’s be real, Ferrada is worse than Rabouin by a long stretch.
Still, I find it interesting that nobody seems to have any good reason that we should vote for Cathy Wong other than behind the scenes Projet muckitymucks seem to like her.
Is this vibe voting?
We’re still quite a while from the election and nobody really wants to think about it until the summer is over. I would hope that she’ll release some kind of platform, if not at least outline her priorities, along with the other candidates and people will make their decision.
Projet candidates have been receiving very large majorities for nearly two decades. Voters obviously like what’re doing and are willing to overlook the faults that the candidates/councillors have because they like the results.
Plans for the St-Jean festival this year include marking the 50th anniversary of the launch of Gens du pays on Mount Royal in 1975. There will be various festivities around town.
Is there any street party that comes close to what St-Viateur was like until it was cancelled after 2003 or so?
De Castelnau is most similar but it’s not quite the same.
That period of the Fête on Saint-Viateur was a revival of the pre-hipster glory days, funded by Ubisoft.
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2810844
Before that it was mostly organized by community acitivists like Comité des Citoyens du Mile-End and funded in part by orgs like the Y on Parc. It fizzled out not long after the last referendum.
https://citoyensmileend.com/2022/11/07/coup-doeil-sur-40-ans-daction-citoyenne-dans-le-mile-end/
The Ubisoft street fair wasn’t on St-Jean though.
2003 was definitely not Ubisoft sponsored, it was pretty informal. I remember it stopped being held because of noise complaints – the crowd was pretty big and lingered late.
Ah yes, I was conflating them. People hate fun even back then haha
The Rover has an opinion piece by a photojournalist on the SPVM’s police brutality problem.
No worries, there’s going to be a big, big conversation about this at City Hall one day.
Oof that was a hard article to read.
CE 21:59 on 2025-06-21 Permalink
Yes, without Baldwin Pool, the entire borough only has Laurier Pool, which isn’t that big. The Outremont pool isn’t too far away from many people in the Plateau but it isn’t very big either.
Nicholas 09:46 on 2025-06-22 Permalink
I often wonder if they’ll put a pool in La Fontaine, but it appears the Director’s Plan only commits to revitalizing the swimmer’s building, and the water play area, not a pool.
Kate 11:24 on 2025-06-22 Permalink
It was announced last fall that they would close Émile‑Duployé Street and integrate it into Lafontaine park – we discussed it here. The section east of Émile‑Duployé could contain a pool unless the land under it is an old dump (as happened at Baldwin park, where the pool has had to be moved because the park was mostly created over an old dump and it turns out that old garbage is an unstable substrate).
Looking at Streetview, I’m reminded that a slice of the eastern side of Lafontaine park along Sherbrooke is paved for a parking lot. Time for that to go!
CE 13:08 on 2025-06-22 Permalink
The new pool in Baldwin park has been slowed down by a group of NIMBYS who are concerned about noise or something. If the city proposed building a pool across the street from my house, it’s the last thing I’d complain about!
Kate 14:26 on 2025-06-22 Permalink
The pool is one reason I kind of like the square around the Outremont pool, which the map tells me is called John F. Kennedy Park. And I don’t even swim.