Public transit in Montreal is far from cutting the $156 million that Quebec has told it to cut.
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Kate
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Kate
Radio-Canada finds that a diverse group of political militants are aiding the Kahnistensera, the Mohawk Mothers, in their battle to ascertain whether there are unmarked graves around the old Royal Vic site.
I would want to find out who, if anyone, is behind the militants Radio‑Canada claims are backing up the Mothers, and what is in it for them.
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Kate
Pride runs from July 31 to August 10. CultMTL has a guide as does Time Out.
Radio-Canada tells about internal dissension in the organizing group.
24Hres says there will effectively be two Pride events now that the groups have split. It’s the Judaean People’s Front and the People’s Front of Judaea again.
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Kate
Our flagging soccer team has apparently written a letter to fans promising to rebuild and do better – but does the CBC link to the text? We still have this weird arbitrary wall between the mainstream media (which have been online for years now) and web media, so that it’s still pretty usual for news items to reference things which they’ve seen online, so must know where they are, but do not link.
The letter is not on top of the CF Montreal home page, as I expected, either.
On the other hand, La Presse drops in a link to the text right in the story.
(Has CF Montreal acquired the right to refer to itself as “le bleu‑blanc‑noir” yet? I mean, does anyone think of them as that, except their PR department?)
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Kate
As mentioned in comments here recently, St‑Denis Street in the Plateau has evolved into a hot friperie destination.
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Kate
The girl allegedly killed by her father south of the border was drowned in a pond in Ticonderoga, New York. The town held a vigil on Tuesday evening.
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Kate
Four vehicles were found in the Mille‑Îles river in the recent freelance search, including one that belonged to a man missing since 1988. The investigators who made the discovery have said they will be back.
As commented here earlier, why weren’t our own police carrying out these searches, if not for lost vehicles, at least for the missing man?
Later, it’s being reported that ten cars have been located in this part of the river near Deux‑Montagnes, although only four are being pulled out.
Kevin
From what these guys have said elsewhere, the sonar on police boats is attached so that it only points down, whereas they have mounted their unit so they can spin and rotate it through multiple directions therefore making it easier to recognize a car that is tilted.
Kate
Could the cops not learn a few things from these guys, like how to use their sonar more effectively? We live on an island! It would be a useful method here!
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Kate
The short block of St‑Laurent between de Maisonneuve and Ontario, long known as a spot for army surplus and other oddball businesses, has become another urban hellhole especially since a devastating fire took out a piece of the block in April.
Robert H
The longer, emblematic streets of the city have gone through changes over time and location. As with Saint-Denis, Saint-Laurent has gone through changes of its own, though they seem to me to be less related to different eras than to what stretch of the street one is visiting. It’s in better shape north of Sherbrooke. In fact some portions are hopping. Down the slope, Lower Saint-Laurent has always been more or less seedy. The vacant Katacombes bunker anchors the Ontario corner like a monument to better times. Only a block away from the Quartier des Spectacles and across the street from relatively new high-rise housing, that block between de Maisonneuve and Ontario is a perfect example of Urban Mange, as planning rhetoric would put it. It’s a thin patch in the lush coat of the cityscape. I’d refer to it more as an unattended sore that threatens to infect the surrounding area.
The crumbling, abandoned fire-damaged buildings can be demolished and the lots cleaned up, but the situation will migrate to the adjacent blocks. I agree with a comment from Ephraim recently about the state of the contested Hôpital de la Miséricorde site: the only real change will come when the city establishes a new legal framework for real estate ownership, requiring more of landlords and increasing the penalties for allowing a property to sit neglected. It’s as if the city has adopted a policy of containment instead of enforcement. The results just tend to worsen.
dwgs
It’s not just that block though. All the side streets between Ste Catherine and Rene Levesque east of St. Laurent are chock a block with people shooting up, smoking crack, etc. It’s as bad as I’ve seen anywhere.
Mozai
“The vacant Katacombes bunker” is gone — there’s a high-rise there now.
Nicholas
dwgs, we had that story about the safe injection site right there a month or so ago.
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Kate
A heat warning is out for Thursday, expected to reach 33° with high humidity.
Blork
At least it will only last one day this time. (High of 23 on Friday.)
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Kate
La Presse looks at the work of paramedics coping with the opioid crisis, and the use of naloxone to counter overdoses.
Ian 22:22 on 2025-07-23 Permalink
It’s like the CAQ is just openly burning bridges now.
Tim S. 08:37 on 2025-07-24 Permalink
No no no, they’re building bridges! Well, specifically one tunnel.