Smoke from wildfires is giving us an air quality advisory till sometime Tuesday. You can find it on the Environment Canada weather page.
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Kate
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Kate
Another week, another venue. The bar Blue Dog on the Main is closing this week over noise complaints. Sergio Da Silva tells CultMTL that it’s been caused by the same individual who has brought about the closure of two other bars in the area.
I thought the city was going to make moves to preserve music venues (that’s a piece from last September).
DeWolf
So much damage caused by one person. Why would you live on Saint-Laurent if you can’t tolerate noise?
Last I heard the Plateau’s reformed noise by-laws won’t come into effect until the fall. I wonder what difference that will make.
Ian
Jeez time to name names. What an asshole.
Kevin
Complaints used to be meaningful, in that someone had to actually be a bit ambitious to locate and approach someone who actually had some power and get listened to.
And that person who received complaints used to have some agency too, wherein they could dismiss crackpots and people who needed to lose phone privileges.But it is now too easy to make complaints, and it is too easy to get really nasty about complaint-making and to drag in an internet posse of bots and people with no lives.
Not all complaints are valid, and sometimes the appropriate response is to tell a complainer “No,” followed by “your future complaints will be ignored.”
And then to dig into the control settings and block the nutjob.
Kevin
Another case of a habitual compainer who now has the courts telling him “No”
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/education/2025-07-15/mots-a-connotation-sexuelle/un-pere-multiplie-les-poursuites-contre-l-ecole-de-sa-fille.php
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Kate
Mohamed Abdullah Warsame waived his bail hearing Monday. He is accused of uttering threats over his statements about wanting to set off explosives on public transit, but there are further complications for him in federal laws concerning terrorism. This item says he seems likely to plead guilty later this year.
Meantime, three of the four military men charged with terrorism will also stay behind bars.
Ephraim
The key difference is that a terrorism charge for Warsame can result in the loss of citizenship and deportation. The four military men, however, are domestic terrorists, not foreign. Anyone who supports terrorism should be put on notice; it’s something a civilized society must not tolerate. This is also why some protests should be careful, as they can attract individuals like Mai Abdulhadi, who end up ruining their entire lives over what will eventually just be another footnote in history.
Kate
By way of a footnote, Mai Abdulhadi is the woman who lost her Second Cup franchises at the Jewish General after uttering antisemitic threats at a protest at Concordia.
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Kate
Toula Drimonis on Montreal’s cultural diversity.
JP
I’m glad she has experienced this…I have had my days too where Montreal seemed utopian but it’s been awhile since I felt safe and comfortable being who I am, even here. I’m routinely experiencing antagonistic behavior, even if it’s a look or certain people spitting on the ground as I walk by, etc. Hopefully, things eventually get better again.
Kate
I’ve never met Toula, but have seen photos. She would probably not be described as a visible minority.
I’m sorry you’re facing that kind of treatment, JP.
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Kate
Marco Fortier continues his series on why we love our neighbourhoods with a look at village life in Outremont.
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Kate
More items on cleaning up after Sunday’s big rain, which caused power failures and flooding throughout the area. But the rain hasn’t ended the heat – we’ll be seeing temperatures as high as 33° this week.
Several La Presse items look at the cleanup, people who were severely flooded, the future of flooding in Quebec. Also photos.
maggie rose 19:54 on 2025-07-14 Permalink
weather underground offers a map with local air quality measurements. https://www.wunderground.com/health/ca/montreal/45.51,-73.55?cm_ven=localwx_modaq
MarcG 20:22 on 2025-07-14 Permalink
I kept a link to this horror that someone shared here during a previous smokestorm.