Blue Dog to close over noise complaints
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 18:25 on 2025-07-14 Permalink
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 20:25 on 2025-07-14 Permalink
Jeez time to name names. What an asshole.
Kevin 23:40 on 2025-07-14 Permalink
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 09:49 on 2025-07-15 Permalink
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