A march was held Saturday afternoon through the Plateau to support a new independence referendum for Quebec.
In unrelated news, Trump just announced a new 10% tariff on all goods from Canada in revenge for the commercial he didn’t like. Yes, this would be a grand time to break the country up.
CBC examines what’s left of Expo 67, which isn’t a story that changes fast, although the announcement that La Spirale would be demolished soon seems to have given the topic another boost.
Interesting piece in today’s Wall Street Journal about an investment group going after Six Flags for poor management of its assets (e.g. parks). They think it can be saved. I think the headline will explain why I thought it was interesting:
“Travis Kelce Is Jumping In to Save Six Flags Just When It Needed It Most
The football star is enthusiastically backing a hedge fund that’s looking to shake America’s largest theme-park operator out of its funk. ‘I could not pass this opportunity up, man.’”
Advance polls will be open Sunday afternoon. This piece has links where you can check the location of polling places, and other information.
Silo 57 elects the nine most interesting streets in the city.
Who Killed the Montreal Expos? is currently streaming on Netflix, so it’s getting some mentions. GQ asks why people are still obsessed with the team. USA Today, Sports Illustrated and People all have pieces, blogs like Awful Announcing are also looking in, and the Roger Ebert review site assesses it as a documentary production.
There’s no mystery. A professional team’s support is called a market for a reason, and if not enough people are buying, the team will be moved somewhere more profitable.
There were choices made to basically drown Montreal as a market.
Meanwhile, driving over the Champlain Bridge, the electronic signs which usually tell you to drive safely were displaying “Let’s Go Blue Jays” (in English only). What’s even the point of the Bloc Quebecois?
Tim, were the signs rotating? The federally managed Champlain Bridge usually has bilingual signs, with the electronic signs usually rotating. Then again, Let’s Go is French when applied to sports teams.
They were not!
I figured as well that someone decided that “Let’s go” could technically count as French, but really…
Le Devoir’s Jeanne Corriveau investigates whether candidates have been careful about expressing themselves in French during the campaign, and finds some not prudent enough to always write in the langue de Molière.
Also the langue de Alfred Jarry, which frankly seems more appropriate.
Bike paths having become one of the main issues in the election, 24Hres offers some numbers.
Ian 19:03 on 2025-10-25 Permalink
Besides Ruba Ghazal that looks like an awfully white crowd.
Jim 08:06 on 2025-10-27 Permalink
Is it awful that the crowd was too white?
Kate 14:31 on 2025-10-27 Permalink
It’s indicative of the demographic caught up with this thing.
Jim 16:18 on 2025-10-27 Permalink
It sure is. Just reacted to the fact that the first reply was judgement on skin colour.
Ian 18:38 on 2025-10-27 Permalink
Lacking in apparent diversity even among a large minucipal population with a large POC francophone contingent speaks volumes all by itself. The “independance” movement is largely ethnonationalist, and the lack of POC representation in the crowd makes it pretty clear that POC might not feel welcome. Money and the ethnic vote, yo.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
SMD 22:20 on 2025-10-27 Permalink
But, but PSPP says he’ll make independence with the immigrants! /sarcasm