Christine Fréchette has named her cabinet; both Montreal CAQ MNAs have jobs, Karine Boivin Roy (Anjou–Louis‑Riel), as housing minister, and Chantal Rouleau (Pointe‑aux‑Trembles) doing Social Solidarity and Community Action, responsible for the Metropolis and the Montreal region.
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Kate
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Kate
Le Devoir explores Radio-Canada’s extensive art collection, although without enough images. Interestingly, half its pieces are still in the old Maison Radio‑Canada because, for various reasons, they can’t be moved.
DeWolf
I’m not sure if half the pieces are still in the old building:
« Il y a pratiquement autant d’œuvres ici que dans l’ancienne tour »
To me, that implies that nearly all the artworks were moved, except for the four pieces that couldn’t be moved, and the tapestries donated to the Musée des métiers d’arts.
Incidentally, the piece mentions the artworks that are still in the old building are now under the responsibility of the new owner, but doesn’t discuss their fate. The studios have already been demolished and the tower is currently being completely gutted, so it would great to know exactly how the artworks are being preserved.
Kate
Right, I read that to mean “there are about as many pieces here as are in the old building” whereas it probably means “as were in the old building in the past“.
Thank you.
Harvey
As long as are on the topic of Quebecois Art, what’s up with Hydro-Quebec’s collection?
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Kate
The big spring cleanup seems to have been an empty promise as many city streets are still festooned with post‑winter trash.
DeWolf
If you have no grand vision as a governing party, and instead your entire campaign was based around the promise of “going back to basics” as Claude Pinard put it, you’d better not screw up the basics.
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Kate
In 2024, a Superior Court judge ruled that the city is liable for racial profiling committed by its cops. The city is appealing the ruling.
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Kate
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is facing a dilemma: polls show that he can win the October election easily, but only if he gives up the promise of a referendum on the Quebec independence that’s the raison d’être of his party.
MarcG
Surely there’s a German word for this.
Kate
MarcG
Gonna send this video to PSPP
bob
In this the best of all political systems the PQ can maintain a funtamental position rejected by 2/3 of the electorate, have the electoral support of less than 1/3 of the electorate, and still win the election without giving up on its fundamental, unpopular position.
What this should reveal is that voting is no longer so much *for* things, rather than *against* things, like people or parties or positions. If you hate the CAQ, hate the Liberals, and hate QS, you can still vote for someone you hate slightly less, even though they might do something you don’t want, because you can vote against that when it comes.
Recall the Orange Wave, where the masses of Quebec did not in any way become more progressive or more left leaning, but saw fit to punish the parties that they perceived had wronged them with their scandal, ineffectiveness, corruption, etc. It was a kind of win-win, though not thoroughly good – you could bench the people you wanted to punish, but you would not get an actual NDP government doing all kinds of lefty things you don’t agree with – and in any case by that time the NDP had developed its policy of leaving Quebec alone to do its thing, party principles be damned (cf. @MarcG’s video).
So here we’ll have a government made up of people whose party was conceived for one main purpose, but that purpose will be put on a shelf. What is left for the party to do? Wallow in neoliberalism (i.e., theft), and all the usual corruptions. It is reminiscent of the old trope about the communists being the best dressed deputies in the post-war Italian Parliament.
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Kate
The STM bus network will be changing as of May 18 when the Anse à l’Orme REM opens, and not just in the West Island. The list of routes changing is a long one (but the map being used to show certain routes is disorienting, with west at the top).
Joey
That comparison tool is needlessly complicated. Can anyone figure out what the difference in, say, the 51 route is?
MarcG
If you download the “Understanding the redesign -> Summary document” at the bottom of the page it has more details than the individual route documents. For the 51 for example, on page 41, it says “Qu’est-ce qui change? Aucune modification de parcours, Rééquilibrage des fréquences sur la ligne 51 au profit de la ligne courte (51X) entre la gare Montréal-Ouest et la station Snowdon”. Pretty cumbersome.
jeather
Oh they might be upgrading the buses near my work so I can take the metro again.
Joey
Thanks, MarcG. Not sure why they couldn’t represent that visually, but whatever. More to the point, it would go a long way to distinguish between the kinds of changes on that summary table, rather than treat “addition of extra buses for part of the route” with “completely new trajectory”… That 51X is a good idea; Snowdon Metro is a huge bottleneck for that line.
EmilyG
I think the route for each bus is shown as a left-to-right line, which would lead to differing orientations of the map (with different cardinal directions at the top.)
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