Boundaoui trial begins
The trial of Salim Touaibi and Aymane Bouadi for murder in the first degree has begun. Five years ago, Meriem Boundaoui, a teenager sitting in a car in St‑Léonard, was shot dead in what this article says was a feud over parking spaces between two households, both alike in dignity. The trial is expected to take 10 to 12 weeks.
Dominic 20:23 on 2026-01-13 Permalink
From ancient grudge, break to new mutiny…
Ian 20:38 on 2026-01-13 Permalink
I do not park my car at THEE, sir…
But I DO park my car.
Kate 22:00 on 2026-01-13 Permalink
I love you guys.
MarcG 08:30 on 2026-01-14 Permalink
I knew I should have popped “both alike in dignity” into a search engine…
Ian 20:05 on 2026-01-14 Permalink
I come from one of the last generations of Ontario schoolkids that not only studied Shakespeare in English every year but actually got to watch the Zefferelli version of Romeo and Juliet in grade 9. I think a teacher would get fired for that nowadays haha
School has changed. My kids have never studied Shakespeare and because they don’t care about hockey, don’t know the national anthem. The past is a foreign country.
CE 20:09 on 2026-01-14 Permalink
Are they at least reading novels in full? I’ve heard some schools just give excerpts because administrators think students don’t have long enough attention spans to get through a whole book. I asked my niece and nephew over Christmas and they said they’re still assigned novels, but most kids just listen to the audio books.
Kate 20:31 on 2026-01-14 Permalink
Every year we did a Shakespeare play, but the teaching mostly involved sitting still while the teacher put the play into simple English, line by line. At one point I stopped going to class because it was so excruciating, then ran into the teacher by chance in the hallway. He asked where I’d been, I told him I already understood the play, he shot me with finger guns and nothing else was said about it.
CE 20:36 on 2026-01-14 Permalink
I had two English teachers who did an amazing job teaching Shakespeare. One would help us with the words and phrases that didn’t make sense in modern English without handholding us through what we would be able to understand. She would dive into the etymology of those old phrases and words and bring them back to how they relate to the English we speak now which was very interesting (at least it was for me). The other would get up in front of the class and recite the plays from memory with so much passion she once swore about one of the characters (she called him a bastard). I haven’t read Shakespeare since but still have an appreciation for him thanks to my teachers.
EmilyG 22:22 on 2026-01-14 Permalink
When I went to high school in the late 90s/early 2000s, we’d study a Shakespeare play each year in English class. In addition to novels and other writing.