When Bobby the Greek was shot this week it was in the presence of SQ officers who were following him that morning. At least ten police were on site when two guys walked in, shot Theologou dead and injured two of his henchmen, then left. No arrests!
Nobody seems to have talked to the Starbucks workers yet in the media either.
At least nine mayors in the Montreal metropolitan community (CMM) have been returned by acclamation as the candidacy period ended Friday with nobody to challenge them.
The city of Terrebonne – tenth largest in Quebec – must be a happy place, as they returned not only their mayor, but 14 of their 16 councillors, without any opposition.
CTV has a possibly useful rundown on how to check that you’re registered to vote in next month’s election. This is particularly useful info at a moment when it’s not certain everyone will get a voter card.
Deadline to be registered is October 16.
Elections Montreal had previously said that tool would be ready the week of September 22. Then it was à venir. I noticed last night it still wasn’t online, so it really was today. They certainly took their time, as the registration period is Oct 11-16 only.
FYI try with your first name AND with your first and middle because I was only registered if I put both into the first name field and was a bit worried when I first checked.
Elections Quebec says I’m registered – as I should be, since I’ve voted with the same name from this same address for years.
Elections Montreal says my information “does not correspond to that of the electoral list” which makes no sense. And, following jeather’s advice, I tried adding my middle name (which I seldom use) and it still doesn’t like it.
Sometimes the site does not respond at all.
I don’t know whether it’s safe to assume the Montreal site is buggy and that I’m on the list as the Quebec site says, or if I should take further steps.
The form is poorly designed, it doesn’t indicate that it’s processing so you click “Send” and nothing happens so it seems to be broken, but it’s working behind the scenes.
Kate, the people on the inside have the complete list and can search by many ways: name, partial name, address, date of birth, etc., so it can be worth calling when the registration opens on the 11th (not sure if you can earlier). The municipalities pull the data from the provincial list on September 5, so if you’re on there you’re probably fine. Normally I’d say wait for your card and it’ll be fine, but because there’s likely not going to be a card, I’d double check.
I used the site to ask for a callback, but I have little faith in the reliability of that site so I may actually use a telephone on Monday (horrors!).
The site worked for me, and I note that for the birth-date part the years goes back to 1910, in case your great great grandma still votes.
My great great grandmothers that I’ve got info on were all born by 1840. None of them would have had the vote.
TVA asks whether the killing of Bobby the Greek means we can expect a heightened gangster war but who can say?
CTV talked to La Presse’s organized crime specialist, Daniel Renaud, about the “brazen” daytime shooting. Renaud points out that daytime shootings are by no means unusual in that world. He also doesn’t think a mob war is necessarily coming.
(Renaud doesn’t list the two daytime shootings that occurred to me – Diego Fiorita, shot dead in the Pizzeria Napoli in 2022, and Claudia Iacono, killed in the parking lot of her salon in 2023. Pizzeria Napoli had been a Quartier Latin presence for decades, but it’s gone now.)
I think a killing in a coffee place in a mall is a pretty busy location and really unusual, as opposed to daytime in a parking lot. Not unheard of, but usually they try not to involve so many civilians.
Owners of the building at 5998-6000 Park Avenue are suing the city and the owner of 5990 when its partial collapse meant the tenants of 5998‑6000 had to evacuate for months. The city is included because it waited too long to force the owner of 5990 to act.
The landlords want money for having lost rental revenue when their tenants had to leave. It isn’t clear whether tenants will get any part of the reparations, but it doesn’t sound like it.
Once again we have “the city finally went ahead with the demolition on Aug. 7 and said it would foot the bill to the landlord.” But foot the bill doesn’t mean passing the bill to someone else. You’d have to write “the city said it would make the landlord foot the bill.”
TBH I can’t blame them. Even the fire inspector I talked to said they had been bugging the city weekly for over a year.
La Presse’s investigation has found that there are still hundreds of Airbnbs offered in ways that break the law using fake permit numbers and other methods that the authorities seem powerless to detect.
This is just lack of provincial political will. When you sign up for CommunAuto they will check your driver’s licence validity with the SAAQ. All you have to do is pass a law saying that any platform that does not check the hotelier licence validity with the government is fined $10,000 per rental and/or after enough violations it’s shut down. Make it an offence for a credit card company or payment processor to do business with an illegal platform, subpoena everyone involved, shut things down. It’s not possible to completely stop short-term rentals done outside large platforms, but the “I know a guy” market is really small, so it’s not a big deal, you can’t catch every violation. But the scale of the problem is only possible because of the large platform, so go after them.
I wonder how many politicians in Montreal and for that matter the province run illegal AirBnbs …
About to get a whole lot worse…
I don’t get it. AirBnB is not supposed to be allowed anywhere in Montreal outside of the Summer tourist season, right? But I can go right now to the airbnb site and see over a thousand listings in Montreal. Surely every one of those accounts can just be fined right now?
Friday is the last day of the limited strike at the STM, but nothing has been settled.
The Journal talked to people who say their businesses took a hit because of the partial strikes.
Weekend notes from CultMTL, Le Devoir, La Presse, CityCrunch, CTV.
Weekend traffic notes, and you cannot flee the island via the Île aux Tourtes bridge. Traffic en anglais.
steph 11:18 on 2025-10-04 Permalink
Was a cop undercover as a henchmen? I’m really curious to find out the whole of this story. A cop can shoot an unarmed kid, but a live shooter can just get away? Make this make sense.