Projet campaign manager Julie Bélanger has left that position to take up the same job for Craig Sauvé’s Transition Montréal.
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Kate
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Kate
The SPVM has announced they’ve solved a 2008 murder. Catherine Daviau was found dead in her Rosemont apartment after a fire was called in. She had been raped and killed, and police surmised the fire was set in an attempt to disguise the fact. But the suspect, Jacques Bolduc, died in 2021.
TVA goes on to say that Bolduc was a career criminal.
Ian
Well that was fast! Nice police work, Lou.
Kate
To be fair, the identification was based on technology we didn’t have in 2008.
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Kate
The new bridge to Île Bizard is being renamed pont Guy‑Lafleur.
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Kate
We’re looking at a record year for claims being made against the city for pothole damage. A notable case is reported in lower NDG where it took three years to get a pothole fixed after it caused damage to a new car parked there.
Meantime, the patched pothole that caused a rider to fall on the weekend in the Grand Prix Cycliste has, according to CTV, made the city notorious worldwide although in this piece Geneviève Beauchemin also points out that professional cyclists somehow cope with cobblestone streets when racing in Europe.
azrhey
Cobblestone streets also can, and depending on the area often do, have potholes.
My home town in Portugal has one last street with cobblestones and there has been so so much drama in the last 4 or 5 years about those two stones missing in the street that cause a pothole. people have filled the hole with gravel and pebbles and assorted things, but still it is not pretty and why doesn’t the municipality just fix it instead of spending our taxes in RV parks and bike paths!!!! I can’t believe that commie mayor (actual proper communist party, not the Temu Commies you guys pretend to have in north America 😉 ) got elected twice and that hole is still there!!!Different language, different continent, same social media rants from the populace… it is oddly comforting, really.
(And someone, someone, could make a pretty buck exporting the orange cone mania too 🙂 )Ian
I guess the distinction would be that cobblestones are a more or less constant irregular surface but potholes are wherever. (Sing to the tune of “Diamonds are Forever”)
Blork
Picky point: the lower NDG pothole caused damage to a car that drove there, not a car that parked there. (How can a pothole damage a parked car?)
Kate
If it sank in?
Blork
That would be a sinkhole not a pothole.
Blork
Hey, my smile emoji got stripped out!
Ian
Better put up an orange cone where it was to warn people.
haha
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Kate
Radio-Canada reports on the mayoral debate held Tuesday evening at the Grande Bibliothèque. Similarly from the Gazette.
Le Devoir headlines it that Martinez Ferrada claims she has been victimized by the “debate” around bike paths.
DeWolf
The headline writers are clearing having a field day with Martinez Ferrada’s “victim” remark, but then again, the mairesse du logement also seems like she would be the mairesse des gaffes.
GC
She is correct that people can get awfully emotional (on both sides) at the mere discussion of bike paths. If a safety audit–with the goal of actually just improving safety, without taking away lanes–is all she really meant, then sure…
But, I do think using the word “victim” is a little melodramatic here. At least, I would find it that way if she used it in English.
As Kate has said many times, Ensemble has had this habit over the years of just sniping at Projet over every little thing and not proposing any alternatives. They may style themselves as the opposition but that doesn’t mean they have to be contrary on very position just for the sake of it. So, if some of that is coming around to bite them now I’m OK with that.
Bumper Carz
Her bike-path trolling makes her look like an unserious, retro candidate.
Her promo posters should be in black and white.
Ian
LOL thank goodness qatzelok is here to tell us what is politically “serious”
At least you know from trolls 😉 /Mile End Rhodesian smoke tree enjoyer
Ian 09:26 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
Now THAT is an interesting development! … I’d love to hear more about the cause of those “tensions”.
Joey 09:54 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
Leaving the Judean People’s Front for the People’s Front of Judea, eh? Or maybe it’s the other way around…
Kate 15:28 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
Splitter!