A silent march was held Saturday in Longueuil in honour of Nooran Rezayi.
Another march will be held Sunday, this one being called an anti police brutality march – and we know what that means. Authorities are calling for calm.
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Kate
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Kate
The STM maintenance union made an offer to the employer on Saturday but it was turned down like a bedspread.
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Kate
The Gazette runs a decent interview with Craig Sauvé* defining his style and intentions.
Le Devoir lists the notable moments so far of the campaign.
La Presse discusses how rising rents are driving people off the island, although without direct mention of the election campaign, and the Journal lists off the main concerns of voters.
*the original link is here – I realize my archive links don’t work for everyone, but not sure how to solve that.
DeWolf
Regarding the story in La Presse — the media sure are milking those ISQ projections.
The narrative being developed is that Montreal is both too expensive and too unsafe/dirty/congested/etc. and so people are leaving the city. But Montreal has had negative net migration to the regions every year since 2000 — and almost certainly in the years before that, too. It’s essentially the status quo: people move from Montreal to the suburbs or other parts of Quebec, and they’re replaced by immigrants. It’s how the city has grown for many, many years.
Take a look at page 10 of this demographic portrait of Montreal from 2000–2020: https://ville.montreal.qc.ca/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/MTL_STATS_FR/MEDIA/DOCUMENTS/DYNAMIQUE_MIGRATOIRE_2019-2020.PDF
In other words, the story of young couples leaving their 4 1/2 in town to buy a house off-island is nothing new. Maybe the only change is that those couples are increasingly going beyond the suburbs to places like the Eastern Townships and Lanaudière, because the suburbs are much less affordable than they used to be.
The ISQ’s projections are based on the new immigration restrictions, because if Montreal doesn’t get new immigrants, its population will decline. In other words, it’s a political situation, and as we all know, the political landscape can change pretty quickly. If Montreal’s population goes into free-fall as the ISQ is predicting, there will be pretty serious economic consequences, and I doubt whichever government is in power after 2026 will be inclined to maintain low rates of immigration.
Housing unaffordability is really not good, but it’s not to blame for intra-provincial migration off the island, because that’s a phenomenon that has existed for ages and is fairly consistent from year to year.
MarcG
Sauvé band was pretty good.
Ian
Having gone down the youtube rabbtihole over this band I cannot comprehend how everyone keeps calling it “death metal”. There’s a friggin’ saxophone.
Sam
I think the appropriate term is “mathcore.”
MarcG
Boomers call anything that’s even a bit aggro metal.
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Kate
The allegation that China was running clandestine “police stations” in Canada, including in two social service groups run by and for the Chinese community in the Montreal area, has been quietly dropped with no charges, but the groups have defamation cases against the RCMP still open.
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Kate
Five restaurants in Montreal made the prestigious World’s 50 Best list.
MarcG
Waiting for Kate’s theory about food comments to manifest.
Kate
Food gets comments, restaurants as such not so much, especially when the story is about expensive places most of us won’t be visiting very often. (I’ve never been to any of the five, and hadn’t even heard of a couple of them.)
MarcG
Ah, I missed the nuance. Eagerly awaiting a post about Israeli couscous.
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Kate
A woman was injured in a hit‑and‑run in Lachine on Friday evening, and died later in hospital.
Another woman had been hit by a bus in the same area on Thursday evening.
MarcG 08:00 on 2025-09-28 Permalink
The last article mentions that “two other youths were arrested for posting a photo of the young victim on the grounds of a police station on the South Shore”. I can’t even find a word to describe it. Arrogance? Hubris? Inhumanity?