A young man was arrested Thursday somewhere in CDN‑NDG on terrorism charges, having sworn allegiance to the Islamic State (items don’t say where he made this statement) and tried to acquire weapons. As he’s still under age he can’t be named in the media.
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Kate
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Kate
Mayor Plante welcomed Prime Minister Carney to city hall Wednesday and, if this report is to be believed, they got along well, various fiscal promises were made and the book was signed.
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Kate
Quebec’s public health czar Luc Boileau has had to apologize publicly to his boss, Christian Dubé, for lashing out at a guy riding a scooter on the sidewalk who nearly plowed him down in front of the old Bay store downtown – and getting videoed doing it.
MarcG
The guy was biking the wrong way and Boileau was j walking. Did anyone count the number of estis? I haven’t been downtown in forever and it looks a lot nicer now, wider sidewalks, bricks on the road, hot stuff.
Tim S.
Was Boileau jaywalking? I couldn’t make out any of the traffic lights in the video. Anyways, nice to see evidence that the powers-that-be have to put up with the same crap as the rest of us.
Bert
Look at 0:05 in the video and both cross-walk lights, not traffic lights, are showing do-not-cross (possibly flashing). That said, I have not been downtown since the before-times and do not know if the pedestrian or traffic light sequencing has changed, much less for any pedestrianization changes have just set all lights to some other default setting.
That said… Sais-tu à qui tu t’adresses?… ça manque de classe. Mais aussi le cycliste aurait pu metre relaxer sa vitesse et metre de l’eau dans son vin. Lucky luke was quick on the phone-camera!
MarcG
Good catch it does look like both directions can cross at the same time and he probably just started crossing before the red hand showed up. Not that I really care but I started it, so… I think the “Do you know who I am?” say a lot about what occupies the minds of most public figures.
Kate
Yes, I thought we’d all enjoy his “Sais-tu à qui tu t’adresses?” thing.
Bert
There are a whole lot of possible combination of failures here, among them:
POSSIBLY and not exclusively:
- pedestrian jaywalking i..e. leaving the southern sidewalk with a solid do-not-cross
- pedestrian only looking left, west, for car traffic
- pedestrian not seeing cyclists on either side of Ste Cat, some riding contre-sens
- the video and my observation of a flashing light being due to a rolling-shutter effect (mea culpa)
- cyclist not realizing that pedestrians would look west and not both ways
- cyclist moving at a good clip in to an intersection that seems to have been “red”, based on oncoming traffic being stopped. I understand that some camera lenses might be really fish-eye
- pedestrian being an arse
- cyclist being an arse
I am often of the opinion that the simplest explanation is the correct one
Nicholas
I have crossed an intersection when I wasn’t allowed, on a bike and on foot, each literally thousands of times. I bike everywhere, I salmon, I run reds, and I hate the bike scolds. But I do it safely, and I don’t inconvenience others who have the right of way. Sometimes I make a mistake, and I feel bad. This cyclist was 100% wrong. That intersection has a pedestrian scramble iirc, everyone crosses as it’s flashing, as they should, it’s a small intersection so easy to get across quickly. That cyclist is going WAY too fast, through a mass of people, the wrong way on a busy street. If the ped light is red he the cyclist couldn’t go, and even if the light let him got he has to yield to peds. That that cyclist thought releasing this video would make him look good shows how delusional and dangerous he is.
The politician is entitled, and maybe wrong too, but he’s only on TV because he’s a somebody. I’d have been yelling at the cyclist too. Learn to live with others, you asshole.
walkerp
The Cyclist is wrong and it is perfectly fine for Boileau to cuss him out.
Where he went wrong was the “do you know who I am?” line. I know he’s a bureaucrat but that speaks volumes about the culture of government here in Quebec.
MarcG
I wonder if the cyclist would have released the video it if it showed his own face. He was clearly looking to pick a fight.
jeather
Yeah, this would have been normal but for the “do you know who I am?” which is where Boileau went too far. (Would most people be able to identify him by sight?)
Kate
jeather, even someone working in news or healthcare might not have clued in, if they saw him out of context on Ste‑Catherine Street. Boileau’s not a very distinctive‑looking guy, and he’s not a politician whose face is seen on placards. I don’t think he’d even been in editorial cartoons till this week!
Meezly
It looked like the cyclist was going to cut through the pedestrians crossing Ste-Catherine on the other side of that intersection (while going the wrong way, fairly fast too) before turning around to confront Bolieau. He was indeed delusional to think he was in the right.
Orr
The scofflaw was riding a scooter, not a bicycle, so he was not a cyclist.
Please adjust your default assumptions.MarcG
Looks like I started that, my bad.
CE
There’s something about the people on these electric scooters. I had a guy whizz through a group of cyclists I was with and when someone politely told him he shouldn’t shoot through a bunch of bikes, he turned around and started cursing us out like a complete asshole. About half the group was children on top of everything.
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Kate
The area around Berri‑UQAM station is scheduled to become a construction site from 2026 to 2028 to do repairs on the station – and if you’re having déjà‑voodoo about this, you’re not the only one.
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Kate
I’m tempted to add to the annual news cycle page the announcement that there’s a serious shortage of teachers as the new school year looms.
Ian
One difference worth noting is that it’s so bad this year that the QESBA is suing the government over cuts to education
jeather
What do these mean?
Mandatory spending on “dedicated and protected measures,” declared unconstitutional by the Quebec Court of Appeal in its April 2025 Bill 40 ruling (Quebec English School Boards Association v Procureur général du Québec, 2023 QCCS 2965, confirmed 2025 QCCA 282), as they force funding priorities misaligned with our community’s needs.
Required participation in regional and national mutualization projects, further limiting our control.Kate
jeather, that’s a good question to which I have no idea of an answer.
jeather
I had hoped someone here would know and answer.
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Kate
Cronkite News has never crossed my radar before, but there’s currently a piece about how much Montreal wants Major League Baseball to return to town. The writer interviews Stephen Bronfman, who apparently still hasn’t let the idea drop, but doesn’t talk to any of the millions of residents who would rather the province and the city spend money on things we need more than another big stadium.
Josh
Apparently it’s the training ground for the student journalists at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University.
Kate
Thank you.
Bill
Everyone should tell the Savannah Bananas to come here. As early and as often as possible. They would sell out the Olympic Stadium for multiple days
https://thesavannahbananas.com/Kate
Is that sort of a baseball version of the Harlem Globetrotters? Do we really have such a hunger for that sort of thing here?
I mean, we might. It’s really not in my area of expertise.
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Kate
Earlier this month, police responded aggressively to a protest in Émilie‑Gamelin park, where some people were also attending a family salsa dancing event. They succeeded in tear‑gassing children and others not involved in any sort of protest.
Ian
“SPVM tear gasses babies” is a slogan that sells itself.
Hamza
Those babies were a clear threat. /s
walkerp
You want to be shocked but we are so used to the excess of these pigs that it’s almost to be expected at this point.
George Orwell’s quote about the future is getting more and more accurate. Just appalling.Kate
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Kate
I did try to read all of Andy Riga’s account of why the EMSB’s Joe Ortona was facing hate speech charges and why they were dismissed but bogged down in all the he‑said she‑said stuff and the internal workings of the school board election. Bravo to Riga for getting all that down, I guess.
Tim S.
My question is, who appointed the ethics commissioner?
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Kate
Another new municipal party is on the scene. Futur Montréal has named Jean‑François Kacou as their mayoral candidate. Kacou used to be executive director of Ensemble Montréal.
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Kate
Rosemont’s Père-Marquette park is split into three pieces by Rosemont Boulevard and Bellechasse. The borough plans to experiment next spring with closing that section of Bellechasse and linking two pieces of the park, with a view to making this arrangement permanent.
How this pans out may depend on who gets elected or re‑elected in November.
DeWolf
Essentially the same thing that was done to Baldwin Park many years ago, and is currently being done to Duluth in Jeanne-Mance and Émile-Duployé in Lafontaine. It’s a great way to expand green space while also filtering and calming traffic.
The 24 Heures article seems like it’s going out of its way to find opposition to this.
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