A massive church on Adam near Viau looks likely to become a pickleball club, following the conversion of a Chambly church for this purpose. The photo of the interior of St Clement church looks interesting, with many intersecting arches, but the text tells us how the building has become decrepit over years of disuse.
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Kate
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Kate
Winter came early, and all signs indicate that spring will come late, even if the equinox is on Friday morning.
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Kate
The landlord in the Youville fire admitted in 2024 that he knew apartments were being sublet illegally on Airbnb, trying to pass the buck to another man who was doing this on his property.
I find it hard to believe that a landlord – and a lawyer with it – would have passively allowed some other man to profit illegally by his property. If nothing else, wouldn’t he find it odd that one man had rented eight apartments from him?
CBC talked to a couple of bereaved parents for their response to the landlord’s arrest.
Let’s not forget that the landlord also owned another Old Montreal building where two people died in a fire in October 2024, but he’ll probably have to be charged and tried separately for that incident.
Blork
I don’t find that hard to believe at all. As a landlord – and particularly as a lawyer – his only concern is that he gets his rent and avoids any kind of liability. It is 100% about the money with such snakey landlords. No one on Earth looks the other way faster than a lawyer who has no vested interest in looking straight ahead.
And I would advise people to never confuse becoming a lawyer with being drawn to any kind of ethics. Most lawyers work in corporate law, not criminal law, and very few of those corporate lawyers got into it because they have some kind of ethical drive or desire to serve justice. Most do it so they can figure out how to bend the law to suit their goals (or their boss’s goals).
Kate
If it’s 100% about the money, my point is: why would he allow some other guy to make bank on property he owns? Something’s not right about this account. I remember a suggestion that the second man was acting as an agent for the landlord, but that’s not the story told in the article today.
Not that it matters. The charges have come home to roost with the man who owned the property, as they should.
Tim
That’s easy Kate: he does not want to bother with the day to day annoyances of dealing with Airbnb clients. The bank that the other guy is making is not worth the effort.
Joey
Why rent a building to a restaurant owner when you could start your own restaurant?
Blork
I agree with Tim. And he has the added bonus that if the other guy is making money off the apartments then he’s much less likely to complain about the rent, or even move out (creating an annoying vacancy that must be filled), etc. So he gets a very reliable and zero effort tenant who will stick around. Every landlord’s dream!
Bert
Joey, you can’t be serious. Why collect a monthly rent cheque with little-to-no extra work when you could forego the rent income and have to deal with producing a good, managing a bunch of employees, deal with input cost inflation, manage the risk of not turning enough covers.
Perhaps you forgot to add a /s to your post.
Joey
@Bert I didn’t think it was necessary…
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Kate
It may be snowing outside your window, but the black bear at the Ecomuseum Zoo is waking up from hibernation.
MarcG
“yo what’d i miss?”
Kate
If I were a bear, I’d go snooze again until it stopped snowing.
MarcG
I wonder if captured animals ever learn to act dangerous in order to get tranquilizers. (Gonna start a psych band named Pavlov’s Drugs)
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