24Hres looked into what happens to discarded Christmas trees. How many people buying expensive pine essential oil in remote places could guess that it’s extracted from Christmas trees hauled away by city workers in Montreal?
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Kate
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Kate
Mark Carney’s Plains of Abraham speech has been all over the local news and comment (and editorial cartoons). It takes Toula Drimonis to zero in on the accusations of rewriting history: “We should be wary of inflammatory reactions by those locked in perpetual victimhood, stoking outrage because it feeds their political agenda.”
Update: Carney put the cat among several kinds of pigeon. Now the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake is writing to remind him that it wasn’t just the French and English who have sustained the existence of Canada.
Blork
Yeah, I saw one guy on FB issue a long counter-argument, some of which made sense, but then he claimed that French is BANNED in the rest of Canada. Oh FFS. Scroll on. No point in engaging with that kind of stupid.
Chris
“those locked in perpetual victimhood”… pretty much describes the entire woke movement of the last decade or so. Interesting to see some favourable to the movement in general now seeing its folly it in this case.
EmilyG
This news story, as far as I can see, isn’t anything to do with the “woke movement” (whatever that even means), so I don’t know why you’d even mention that.
Ian
To a hammer,. everything looks like a nail
qatzelok
I agree with Chris. “Inflammatory reactions by those locked in perpetual victimhood” describes some of the most successful propaganda of the last century… and the current one.
Ian
Well you are the expert on victimhood here. Tell me, should we blame propaganda’s insidious spread on smoke trees, cars, Westmount Rhodesians, or the existance of suburbanites?
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Kate
Ensemble’s first city budget has been adopted. Projet didn’t support it, but since they no longer have the majority on council, it passed anyway.
Ian
Well I guess it’s their turn to bitterly and ineffectually snipe for a few years.
Kate
The best thing Projet could do over the next four years is review what they wanted to do, what they did get done and what they didn’t or couldn’t get done. Especially the things they hoped to do but couldn’t, and face the reasons why. And then, how they’d go about it differently given a new chance.
I think what frustrated me most about Projet was a tendency to keep trying to do things that had proven unpopular or impossible. They should have understood that their ideas about the Camillien‑Houde were deeply unpopular, and they should have realized that their plans for developing social housing projects were never going to get funding from Quebec. I can’t say what they should’ve done instead in the case of housing, because I’m not a politician with financial chops.
Ian
That’s a very good analysis, really, and regardless of your chops it is the best course of action for any kind of post-mortem. Without that going over the wins and losses and coming up with strategies for moving their goals forward, there’s no real opportunity for learning from their slow deflation over that las tterm and eventual defeat.
Ferrada will blow it after a while, everyone does. Projet can be poised to come back in swinging if they focus not just on what this administration does wrong, but also what they themselves did when in power and how to really fine tune that plan for the next election – not just to win, but also to govern more effectively as a progressive political movement. After all, that’s what everyone voted for back when they rose to power.
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Kate
The woman who notoriously attacked a young boy with boiling water in Longueuil in 2024 was sentenced to 27 months this week. The kid, who was ten years old at the time, has scars – physical and emotional.
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Kate
The REM was down again for a time on Thursday morning and is in “reprise graduelle de service” between Côte‑de‑Liesse and Deux‑Montagnes as I post.
Uatu
3 days in a row. At this point I’m probably going to head to Longueuil and take the metro (watch the metro break down when I get there lol)
Joey 14:32 on 2026-01-29 Permalink
In our area the city decided not to do the planned pickup the week of Jan 12. Then it snowed a bunch, so most of the trees that had been put out by residents are now buried and will only emerge in the spring, presumably when a borough councillor will write another long Facebook post about how residents have to be better at managing trash.