Some campaign talking points over the last week, as listed by Le Devoir, which includes links to their summaries of previous weeks as well.
Projet would continue to expand pedestrianization of Old Montreal although about half the merchants in the area are still against the idea.
A selling point for keeping cars out of the Vieux is that it’s so much easier to take Instagrammable pictures if cars are not constantly intruding into your frame, but I’ve never seen this mentioned.
I noted a few days back that I was registered to vote according to Elections Quebec, but Elections Montreal still insisted that my information “did not correspond.”
I tried again just now, and still nope. And then something occurred to me.
My surname is McDonnell. But in documents from Quebec, often it turns up as Mc Donnell. I don’t think of the name as having a space there, but some francophone systems do.
I once had to proofread an entire document in which all the Mc and Mac names had spaces. I queried this but was told it was what they wanted.
So I inserted the space, and bob’s your uncle. I can vote.
I checked for my girlfriend and it said she wasn’t registered until I put her middle name in. Mine, however, didn’t require a middle name.
If she previously registered using a document that included her middle name, she’ll probably have to remember to go on using it when she votes. Computer systems can be maddeningly literal sometimes.
That’s a surprising result, I have to say.
Fyi, there is no point updating that. Changes get merged back in to the original source, but since the original source for the list, Elections Quebec, is right, the change would do nothing, and the local list gets destroyed after the election. Worst case they make you swear an oath that the name differs slightly.
Thanks for the advice Kate and CE! My wife thought she wasn’t registered to vote but when she put her first and middle names together, it turns out she is registered after all.
I just checked to be sure, now I have another “Montreal English” phrase for the list:
civic number
Civic number is used by Canada Post.
Indeed they do, Which is interesting to me as most other English docs call it your street address.
Except that the Elections Montreal site just wants your address number, not the entire address.
They don’t ask for your street because they can infer it from your postal code, which they do ask for. This is pretty common, especially for provincial websites (how many iterations of Rue Principale exist with all kinds of configurations across the province?)…
That’s actually something that is considered in form design UX. Anything you can infer should be removed.
If I know your postal code, I don’t need to know your street name, city, or province.
With the first 3 characters of your postal code and your street address number you shouldn’t have to enter in any other location info at all.
You need the full postal code since the first 3 letters covers quite a large area that will likely have overlapping civic numbers. This is how the Info Collects form works https://montreal.ca/en/info-collections (note they go with “municipal street number”).
Good point. I was thinking within riding maps but you’re right.
Nice CBC piece on Chinatown’s community garden, which offers spaces to both Indigenous people and those of Asian descent.
Chapleau is captivated by the electoral campaign while Ygreck compares the situations of Montreal and Quebec City three weeks before the election.
The proposed Quebec constitution inspires both Ygreck and Côté.
Trump inevitably crops up, Côté with a commentary on supply management (a subtle point for a cartoon, but something Trump wants to attack or destroy in Canada), and also with an understated drawing of pax Americana. Ygreck has his doubts about Trump’s intentions in Gaza too.
Mark Carney’s visit to the White House last week is seen quite differently by Chapleau and Ygreck.
And Godin thinks about food insecurity among CEGEP students.
The OQLF, better funded than ever this year, is preparing to carry out 1,200 inspections in Montreal next year, as its funding continues to rise.
Well, 49 million would pay for just under 79 km of tram line. The whole island is only about 50 km in length, at least along the 40.
La Presse looks at two people set up to become chairman of the executive committee should their mayor win the election: Claude Pinard, who has run Centraide since 2021, and Gracia Kasoki Katahwa, currently mayor of CDN‑NDG.
The CAQ had promised two mini private hospitals for the east end of Montreal in the last election campaign, but they’ve been put on ice.
Notes on what’s open and closed on Monday.
MarcG 06:50 on 2025-10-13 Permalink
And those photos turn into tourists and their money.