A bigger and higher project is being proposed for the Îlot Voyageur, adding up to 1200 residential units.
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Kate
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Kate
CBC talked to one of the people given 15 minutes to vacate that Park Avenue apartment building adjacent to the crumbling structure that has already caused trouble on the block near Van Horne. The borough is finally promising that it will demolish the decrepit structure in a matter of weeks, having waited far too long for the owner to take responsibility.
Meezly
A few days ago I saw a relative of one of the tenants posting on a Mile End FB group, almost pleading if anyone has an affordable room or apt for her nephew(?), as he’s been homeless since they were forced to evacuate. Awful situation to be in.
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Kate
The Gazette’s Jesse Feith profiles Father Claude Paradis, who follows in the footsteps of Emmett Johns in looking after street people downtown. Paradis says he does not impose religion on the people he helps.
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Kate
A Projet councillor representing Nuns Island has withdrawn from the party after making a derogatory remark about Indigenous people and Venezuelans on TikTok.
Honestly, how stupid can you get?
Blork
Apparently, that stupid. FFS!
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Kate
Isabelle Hachey dissects the psychology of Gilbert Rozon who apparently still believes that all the women he sexually assaulted desired him. The lines she quotes from his testimonies would be excessive in a romance novel.
Blork
I suppose he might be doing that as some kind of tactic, but if so it’s a losing tactic. More likely he has, as Hachey says, created a sort of parallel reality in his mind in which he’s the good guy in all of this.
It’s an interesting study in human psychology, and I think this kind of thing is more common than we realize. When you see otherwise “normal” people being strong Trump supporters, or so-called salt-of-the-Earth “regular people” getting wrapped up in that stupid trucker convoy thing from a few years ago… it’s not just stupidity or ignorance at play; there’s a kind of parallel reality going on in the minds of (some of) these people that completely blocks out some things and rearranges others. It’s weird but it’s real and it happens a lot.
And it’s not limited to the right either. There is no shortage of “parallel reality” thinking on the left too.
Kate
Not just the good guy – the irresistibly attractive guy who felt obliged to give in and “make love” to all these women who were mesmerized by his charms. It would be hilarious had he not wreaked so much damage (and I’m not going to write “alleged” this time because he’s actually been found guilty of sexual assault before. Wikipedia: “In 1998, Gilbert Rozon received an unconditional discharge from the Quebec Superior Court after pleading and being found guilty of a sexual assault on a 19-year-old woman, because a criminal record would have made it difficult for him to travel internationally for his work.”)
azrhey
this is not, unfortunately, a new thing. Some years ago in Portugal there was a football player accused of raping a woman in a nightclub. and his defense/POV was something like “She just said no and faked resisting because she didn’t want me to think she was easy, deep down she wanted to. Any woman would be lucky to have sex with me, I was the top goal scorer last season!” and, unfortunately a LOT of women ( and anything more than zero, is too many ) seemed to second that with street interviews of women saying “I’d be so lucky if did it to me!” and other “why is she complaining? she made the front pages of the magazines!” I seem to recall there was even “it is impossible that he raped her, she has to have wanted it! He earns millions of euros a year! Have you seen his abs?”
It was discussing, but it speaks to the mindset of that kind of people…they cannot comprehend someone not wanting to have sex with them. It is a strange world…
bob
There’s a failure of imagination in narcissism. There’s this thing in psychology and philosophy called “theory of mind”, which is basically a fundamental recognition that other people are conscious beings with their own thoughts and feelings just like yours, and it starts to develop in humans around the age of three (if all goes well). And it is developmental, not quite learned behaviour. Frequently the process is incomplete, or there are defects in it, and so they literally cannot imagine that other people can think or feel any differently than they themselves do, or have different motivations, points of view, etc. It can be solipsistic. It isn’t denial or an unconscious coping strategy or anything like that, it’s just how they are made.
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Kate
A driver has been arrested after his truck went into the Lachine Canal Tuesday evening. Nobody got hurt but the driver failed a breathalyzer and will be charged with impaired driving.
Nicholas 19:07 on 2025-07-09 Permalink
Great. Now to be home for 2,500 people, even while still shorter than the building across the street. Not every day you get that many homes directly connected to three metro lines, a grocery store and a university. It took forever, but at least it’s going to get done. Probably.
Ephraim 09:24 on 2025-07-10 Permalink
The area needs some office spaces as well, those businesses around there need afternoon foot traffic as well.
Kate 09:43 on 2025-07-10 Permalink
Isn’t there still a glut of office space downtown?
DeWolf 11:24 on 2025-07-10 Permalink
There’s already a ton of daytime workers around there. Two big office towers at Place Dupuis, UQAM (which has a combined 40,000 students and workers), plus the Grande Bibliothèque and the office building that used to be home to Archambault (which now includes Le Devoir’s offices among others).
The real structural problem with the Latin Quarter is that Berri is such a hostile street and the Îlot Voyageur is a big black hole that sucks the life out of everything around it. This redevelopment and the redesign/reconstruction of Berri (slated for 2027-29 I believe) will do a huge amount of good.
Kate 13:38 on 2025-07-10 Permalink
I wonder what effect the Hydro-Quebec substation will have on your optimistic forecast.