The Art Newspaper looks at the upcoming pop‑up cat museum which it says will be in Little Italy but will actually be in Villeray next month.
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Kate
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Kate
The prime minister is pressing for the enlargement of the Port of Montreal in Contrecœur to boost Canada’s ability to trade with countries other than the United States, especially with Europe. He also has his eye on Churchill, on Hudson Bay, for the export of liquefied natural gas to Germany.
I suppose now that we’re finding ways to stay afloat without the U.S., concerns about fossil fuels are passé.
Ian
It’s also helpful to note that there is a lot of interest in Germany because their main source of natural gas is Russia, whose supply they would like to wean themselves off of for obvious reasons.
su
This is great news for FEDNAV! Arctic melting is turning out to be a major GDP growth booster.
su
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/10/liquefied-natural-gas-carbon-footprint-worse-coal
Liquefied natural gas leaves a greenhouse gas footprint that is 33% worse than coal, when processing and shipping are taken into account, according to a new Cornell studyBlork
Given Russia’s determination to own the Arctic and its seaways, and given that shipping liquified natural gas to Germany is against Russia’s interests, and given that we cannot depend on the U.S. to help defend the eastern Arctic, the upcoming war between Russia and Canada will probably begin with Russia sinking a Germany-bound natural gas tanker in the Northwest Passage or maybe the Hudson strait.
Возможно, пришло время начать изучать русский язык.
Tee Owe
Tried responding to Blork with a Google translated Russian comment, it got blocked somehow
В Квебеке не пустятMarcG
I wonder if any other languages or alphabets would set off the spam blocker.
MarcG
こんにちは お元気ですか？
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Kate
As the premier gets called to testify at the Gallant commission, suddenly secularism bursts into the news again, with a committee report pressing for even stronger enforcement of the principle – for example, it’s really important for students not to cover their faces, and women in hijab will have to be fired from their jobs in daycares. This as the Supreme Court prepares to hear presentations against Quebec’s initial secularism law, aka Bill 21.
Kevin
The anger will persist until Quebecois women have more babies.
Kate
That could take a good deal longer than nine months.
Joey
@Kevin and agree to stay at home and raise them, since the province is setting itself up to decimate the childcare workforce with this xenophobic policy.
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Kate
Artists in Centre-Sud face dwindling access to affordable studio spaces; the city is promising funding for three studio projects but they’re in the Plateau and Ahuntsic.
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Kate
A Le Devoir editorialist queries the city’s decision to delay the project to replace lead water entries.
Nicholas
We could all do the math and see they’re behind, but it’s disappointing we are. I wonder if the requirement to do the private line side by 2030 will be delayed, or only delayed in places where the city line is already done, so there’s no efficiency in doing both together.
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Kate
To illustrate the auditor-general’s report on poor road quality around town, La Presse talks to a woman who suffered serious head injuries when a pothole ate her bicycle’s front wheel.
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Kate
The REM is back, but its early closures have been extended by five weeks, the last train being before 9 pm well into October.
Uatu
In the week it returned the train was late, sped past nun’s island without stopping, stopped for 10 minutes at nun’s island for some reason, one morning the entrance to central station was still locked so had to exit another way … All minor things, but made me apprehensive about reliability. I got docked at work for being late on rem opening day. They had 6 weeks of closure so wtf is all that nonsense? I hope it works out when the rest of it comes online.
Nicholas 20:48 on 2025-08-26 Permalink
The other day I mentioned to my mom that I was going to an event in Villeray. She did not know where that was. She’s lived in Montreal for 70 years.
Blork 21:33 on 2025-08-26 Permalink
This cat museum is the silliest thing ever and yet I am all-in.
Kate 21:44 on 2025-08-26 Permalink
I like cats but generally not so much the cat tchotchkes and memorabilia, but this museum thing is so close by that I may have to have a shufti.
Nicholas, if she’s an older anglo lady, she may never have made her way over here. Did you explain that it’s where Jarry Park is?
jeather 21:45 on 2025-08-26 Permalink
I’m definitely visiting.
DeWolf 23:40 on 2025-08-26 Permalink
@Nicholas — Where did your mom grow up?
Janet 08:16 on 2025-08-27 Permalink
shufti…
Kate larns me another one.
MarcG 08:41 on 2025-08-27 Permalink
Boomers grew up in a different time. They had a tram system when they were kids, but no metro, and pretty much stuck to their own hoods, and then they bought cars and moved to the burbs if they could. But also, I suspect that if you stopped random local young people walking down Ste-Cath and asked them to point out Villeray (or Anjou or Ahuntsic or Montreal North or Lachine or Ville-Saint-Pierre?) on a map your percentage would be better but not exactly perfect either.
Kate 09:41 on 2025-08-27 Permalink
My elderly godmother spent her last years in the now defunct Montreal Institute for the Blind home out near Loyola. Loyola high school was making its boys do good deeds, sending some to visit the old people at the institute. My godmother was outraged that the young man sent to chat with her didn’t know where Phillips Square is. Apparently he’d grown up somewhere in the Far West and had never had any reason to get familiar with downtown.
Meezly 10:04 on 2025-08-27 Permalink
Cats are part of the Montreal fabric so I feel it’s about time we have a museum dedicated to our felines. I remember the curator seeking submissions for personal cat stories last year, so I’m looking forward to reading anecdotes etc.
Mark Côté 14:26 on 2025-08-27 Permalink
I don’t let my cat outside for a variety of reasons, but I do understand why others do, and I love our neighbourhood outdoor cats.
Nicholas 15:05 on 2025-08-27 Permalink
Kate, I did immediately say Jarry Park, and then she got it. She went to Expos games there at the time, and took me to chess games at Lucien Pagé, so she knows where the area is, just not the name, and probably didn’t do much shipping there. She certainly knew Park Ex, St Michel, St Leonard, Anjou. I think it’s just a smaller neighbourhood that was not that big among Anglos until recently, like Longue Pointe or Vieux Rosemont. Met some francophones who had no idea where Ville Saint Pierre is, or Upper Lachine. My mom went to Cartierville and Belmont Park often when she lived in VSL, and almost no one knows where that is now.
DeWolf, my mom grew up in VSL, LaSalle and Châteauguay. Before the metro got there, so she wouldn’t have ventured that far east. I also grew up west of the Main (not that far), and remember going to a shop on St Denis around Mont-Royal in high school and thinking I had ventured half way to the ends of the earth.
MarcG and Kate followups: I feel that.
Jonathan 15:29 on 2025-08-27 Permalink
I wonder if that area of Villeray is just culturally part of little Italy. It was and largely still is home to a lot of Italians
Kate 18:57 on 2025-08-27 Permalink
It used to be, Jonathan, but I don’t think it is so much any more. Arabic and Spanish have been the growing languages around here after French and English in recent years.
Ian 19:14 on 2025-08-28 Permalink
Even in the 90s hardly anyone I knew ventured north of St Joseph on St Laurent, and there was still a definitley strong sense that east of Saint Denis was not for anglos. Even I lived above what is now Casa del Popolo and I don’t thnk I ever went north of Van Horne except to go to a handful of house parties.