Ninety firefighters are at a blaze in western NDG (not Montreal West as in the headline), an abandoned residential building on Elmhurst Avenue.
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Kate
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Kate
Laws enacted to protect the environment – which they were only permitted to do marginally anyway – are being swept aside, François Legault calling the bureaucracy that administers such rules a camisole de force – a straitjacket, which he wants to abandon – and Mark Carney equally prepared to steamroller environmental concerns as at Contrecœur to keep the wheels of industry turning.
Nobody in power wants to remember that the economy is a fiction, while the ecology is a fact. You can’t make fiction more important than fact forever. Fact will come back to burn you or drown you or starve you to death – if not you, your kids or your grandchildren.
Nicholas
“Le BAPE, ce n’est pas le pape.” Maybe leaders should remember who said this, and how it turned out for him and the project being reviewed in this case.
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Kate
René Homier-Roy, whose 60-year career marked the media in Quebec, has died. He was 85.
Radio-Canada calls him a monstre sacré.
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Kate
La Presse profiles Claude Perreault, who puts in and tends flowering plants in his part of Rosemont.
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Kate
CTV profiles Aqeela Nahani, who heads the group that has started the cat museum, currently holding its first exhibit in a disused church presbytery on de Castelnau in Villeray.
I visited the museum on Saturday. It’s nicely organized, with sections specifically about cats in Montreal, and more generally on cat adoption, health, behaviour and so on. I had no idea how many Victorian photos included both people and cats.
There is one section where visitors are encouraged to draw cats, with paper and art supplies provided.
The museum is also collaborating with cat rescues and selling everything from catnip mice to pawprint earrings to support the rescues. But for the moment, there are no actual cats.
jeather
How was it? I was considering going this weekend, but balked at the price.
mariah
In the future people will view cat ownership with the same revulsion we reserve for slave owners: a system of control dressed up as affection, normalized through museums, toys, baubles, and sentimentality, but ultimately an abomination.
Kate
Nonsense. The cat chose to come live with people, as the dog had some time earlier. These are species that are happy to coexist with us – we’re mutually beneficial. Of course we want to celebrate that.
jeather, I have to admit it’s overpriced for what you get. After leaving, I felt it would’ve been fair to charge on the order of $8 or $10 rather than the $16 or so that I paid. But it’s in my neighbourhood so I decided to be supportive.
Ian
I, for one, welcome our cat overlords and volunteer to supervise my fellow humans in the kibble mines.
Meezly
It seemed overpriced to me too ($19 w/tax for adults), but it’s not deterring people. Online tickets are selling out fast. I’m taking my daughter in a couple of weeks.
Orr
Surely the address is on “de Catselnau”.
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Kate
Protesters have turned out Sunday to object to the participation of the Israel-Premier Tech cycling team in the Montreal Grand Prix.
Later it’s reported that there were seven arrests – and TVA says one rider fell after hitting a pothole.
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Kate
Another story about cyclists getting hurt on flaws in the road, this one a pothole on Guy Street.
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Kate
François Legault’s cabinet shuffle dominated the cartoon week, with Legault’s crack about France-Élaine Duranceau as Cruella inspiring Ygreck, while Bernard Drainville going to Environment sparked a couple of comments. Sonia LeBel at education also inspired Chloé.But it wasn’t only Quebec this week. Our artists also spared a thought for events in France and the United States.
jeather
What did I miss in France?
Chris
Their credit rating was reduced, their government fell, maybe the Gilets jaunes will be back.
jeather
The only non US international news I’ve heard about is Nepal.
Chris
I guess that’s really a function of which news sources you follow.
jeather
I would say I mostly get international news from the Guardian, which is why I was surprised to have missed major French political news.
Kate
Of our media, Le Devoir seems to have the most interest in goings‑on in France. I think that’s why I knew about it.
jeather
You’d think the Guardian would pick up European news first! Also none of my living in France friends mentioned it. But there’s so much news.
Kate
The UK has plenty of its own crises to fill their front page.
Chris 15:57 on 2025-09-14 Permalink
Very close to that other recent one.
Kate 20:45 on 2025-09-14 Permalink
This one? Yes.
I haven’t seen anything yet about the causes of either, but the media are usually pretty forthright to hint if the fire department suspects arson, and that wasn’t mentioned in either case.