Outremont is closing a bike path for winter. TVA clearly reads in this the hand of Ensemble.
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Kate
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Kate
Haiti’s national team has qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup (video from CBC). One of the players who helped the team qualify is Quebec‑born Woobens Pacius.
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Kate
Residents and business owners in Chinatown are not happy about a plan by the Old Brewery Mission to create a permanent shelter in an older building there, the feeling apparently being that the small neighbourhood has already had enough troubles with the homeless and does not want to invite more.
Both sides have a point.
Updating to add: this building would not be a “shelter” in the sense of a temporary overnight stay, but shelter in the sense of a place to live.
Nicholas
They’re opposed to building a shelter in a place that has long had a problem of too many homeless people? Are they aware that the way to eliminate homelessness is to build homes for people without them?
Joey
Really disappointed to see Fo Niemi leading the opposition here. @Nicholas it’s not a shelter, it’s housing for vulnerable 50+ who have been determined to be capable of leading autonomous lives and just need help to find somewhere to live:
“Selon M. Hughes, le projet installerait 60 unités de logement pour des personnes de 50 ans et plus. Des gens issus de l’itinérance qui ont la capacité à être autonomes, ainsi que des personnes à risque de sombrer dans l’itinérance.”
There was some reporting a few weeks ago describing opposition to this project. At the time it occurred to me that a lot of the people who were upset about it had made a categorical error, that is they mistakenly concluded that unhoused people whose lives are centred around the Old Brewery Mission don’t count as residents of the neighbourhood and members of the community, just because they had the bad fortune of not having a permanent roof over their heads. What chance do we have at solving the homelessness crisis when someone who is usually as thoughtful as Niemi is arguing that we need a “mini-museum” instead of housing for the homeless – well, let’s just say it’s pretty demoralizing. Kudos to James Hughes and his team for pushing forward despite this hollow opposition.
Kate
By permanent shelter, I had meant a permanent place for people to live. Shelter was the wrong word to use.
Nicholas
Yes, I was just following the language used. I used to be on a board of an org that ran supportive housing, and I agree it’s important to include everyone as part of a neighbourhood, not gatekeep and sweep away everyone else, like some places do.
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Kate
We’re under a fog advisory Thursday morning, but how’s this: “Forecasters warn that visibilities will be significantly reduced in fog.” You think maybe?
azrhey
About 10 years ago or so I was passenger in a car on the 133 along the Richelieu with thick pea-soup fog (which made me happy as these parts of Quebec seldom have the heavy fogs from my childhood in Portugal) ..but the driver kept driving like it was all sunshine and I kept saying “Dude, you have no visibility, you can barely see 5m on front of the car! Slow down!” and he kept saying “limit is 70kph, I’m allowed”
That was the last time I got into a car with that driver. I don’t know if it is due to the rarity of proper fog in Quebec (at least around Montreal) , but it seems people seem not to think “reduced visibility” is a thing they should care about (hello? heavy snowfall?)
Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal, but each time I see a fog warning I am reminded of that scary afternoon….Ian
Lots of hoarfrost in Sainte Anne this morning
MarcG
The air quality is much worse today (80) than when it was made into a news item in October (50).
Kevin
Arzhey,
You can be dead right about the rules of the road and still be dead.Chris
>and he kept saying “limit is 70kph, I’m allowed”
Well, he’s wrong, he’s not allowed: CSR 330: “The driver of a road vehicle must reduce the speed of his vehicle when visibility conditions become inadequate because of darkness, fog, rain or other precipitation or when the roadway is slippery or not completely cleared.”
Ian
By how much is at the discretion of the driver.
Chris
Ian try convincing the cops and judge.
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Kate
Geneviève Hinse, the fired PLQ chief of staff, is threatening legal action as the story begins to evoke the saga of Sue Montgomery and the fired admin in CDN‑NDG. La Presse’s Paul Journet tries to untangle the story.
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Kate
There was an arson attempt early Thursday on the Main near Milton. I’ve mostly been putting stories like this on the incident map because there’s usually not much to them, but the map shows interesting patterns over time.
This story is anodyne till you recall that three days ago there was another arson attempt at this corner. Was it the same building or business? Well, we’re not told that, but it’s a safe guess there’s some untold story there.
Ah. La Presse does tell us it’s the same club that was a target three days ago.
And: it belongs to A5 Hospitality, the group that has sustained repeated attacks, listed by Daniel Renaud in August.
And the club Flyjin in Old Montreal – also an A5 business – was also the site of another arson attempt this week, followed by three arrests.
Chris 08:32 on 2025-11-21 Permalink
>La piste cyclable […] sera remplacée par une voie partagée…
Oh, so they’re going to allow cyclists to use the full width of the lane? /s Or they’re talking about a “sharing” where one gets 90% and one gets 10%?
SMD 16:20 on 2025-11-21 Permalink
The last paragraph of this La Presse article is the most important, to me. The mayor states that the borough’s intention is to maintain the mobility plan that has Lajoie becoming one-way in order to put in an all-season protected bike path. « La première étape de notre plan de mobilité durable, il passe d’abord par les avenues Fairmount, Bloomfield et Saint-Viateur, mais ensuite ce sera Lajoie, probablement autour de l’été 2027 ». I hope she is held to this commitment.
Ian 16:28 on 2025-11-21 Permalink
One way form Stuart to Outremont, or all the way? I think from Davaar to Hutchison would make more sense, but nobody’s asking me. Thi sis also very interesting as the Hassidic school buses go up and down these streets so if they block Lajoie east of Outremont it could get weird, I don’t know what is being discussed.
Also, one way in which direction?
SMD 20:00 on 2025-11-21 Permalink
According to the mobility plan, Lajoie would become one-way westbound from Hutchison to the end of the street at de Vimy (see page 38).
Ian 00:44 on 2025-11-22 Permalink
Wow, the full length then. Thanks for the link!