Milton-Park dep meets police resistance
A new dépanneur has opened in the Milton-Park area, but police want to block its alcohol permit because of the homeless who hang around around the intersection.
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bob 22:14 on 2026-04-22 Permalink
Oh what bullshit. There’s a 24 hour dep literally around the corner. Who isn’t getting paid?
Ian 08:01 on 2026-04-23 Permalink
There’s a LOT of deps right around there. It does sound like somebody forgot to pay somebody off for sure.
“Several other alcohol outlets are located within minutes — even seconds — of Marché Shanaj.
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At the Couche-Tard convenience store on the corner of Sherbrooke Street and Park Avenue, staff confirmed they do not sell alcohol to people who appear intoxicated.
At the Metro grocery store in Galeries du Parc, the owner said security guards screen individuals as they enter.”
There’s also an SAQ in Galeries du Parc and yeah, a whole pile of deps within a 5 minute walk of that corner.
Regardless, blaming a depanneur for contributing to the problem of homelessness instead of oh, I don’t know, actually using that grotesquely inflated cop budget to improve community policing in a stressed area is pretty damn rich.
it would be more effective to put money and effort towards addressing social and economic problems such as drug addiction, homelessness and mental health than strengthening law enforcement. This is just one more example underlining that the police are not up to the task.
Joey 13:09 on 2026-04-23 Permalink
Big banana republic vibes to this story. Cops acting as if they can determine that it’s OK for these stores to sell certain products but not those (I suspect Ian’s hypothesis is correct), a store-owner selling beer and wine without a valid permit, business owners freely admitting that they illegally refuse entry to all homeless people.
Kate 15:27 on 2026-04-23 Permalink
I think a lot of them do refuse entry. Couple of years back I was waiting for the light at the corner of Park and Sherbrooke when an Indigenous man sitting there, leaning up against the wall at the corner, asked me for a handout. I talked with him for a moment, and he told me that what would really help, instead of just giving him money, is if I would buy him a sandwich and some juice in the Couche‑Tard across the street, because he was not allowed in there himself.
He seemed to take it as normal that he could not enter a business premises and needed to ask a white person to do it for him.
So I got him a sandwich and juice. I didn’t query him about how many establishments kept him and his confrères out, but I bet it’s most of them that area.
Ian 17:57 on 2026-04-23 Permalink
You’re not wrong. I’ve been asked to do dep runs before in that stretch, and not for beer.
We know the Metro illegally bars people they perceive as homeless, I wonder if the Provigo at Sherbrooke and Parc does, too. It’s kind of shocking that they can so brazenly flout the law considering it basically means homeless people have problems buying food.