A landlord who evicted tenants on false pretenses has been ordered to pay them $62,000.
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Kate
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Kate
Banned Airbnb rentals continue during the Grand Prix.
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Kate
The SPCA is offering free adoptions for older cats this weekend.
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Kate
In a classic Grand Prix weekend incident, a 22‑year‑old man smashed up a Lamborghini after going at high speed on the A‑15 in Longueuil.
In other news of powerful cars, CTV got hold of footage of an incident at the Ferrari dealership on Jean‑Talon two years ago. A car belonging to Luc Poirier, in the dealership for repairs, burst into flames, injuring a man so gravely he nearly died. Richard Papazian is suing the dealership, the car maker and others for $20 million. The story was really only reported earlier this month and CTV alleges a sort of news blackout at the time.
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Kate
Notice the absence of facts in these brief and almost identical reports of a person getting hurt in an encounter with the SPVM on Friday. Age and gender of the victim, location in town, reason why police were called – nothing. I don’t blame the journalists – the BEI are keeping wraps on this one.
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Kate
Radio-Canada previews the Festival Go vélo which starts this weekend out of town, and culminates next Friday and Sunday with the Tour la Nuit and Tour de l’Île. Event site.
SMD
There’s the free Critical Mass for kids at 2:30pm today, from Parc Père-Marquette down to Parc Lafontaine (by way of Parc Laurier) with activities and animation. And the usual Critical Mass on Friday the 29th at 5pm at the Mont-Royal statue.
Kate
Thank you, SMD.
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Kate
Repair work to a sidewalk on Park Avenue in Mile End left a hole that caused several falls, two of which can be seen in the video posted with the article. A UQAM professor is called on to deplore the lack of coordination between city and borough.
Joey
The lying and gaslighting from the borough PR person is nauseating… Appelé à réagir, l’arrondissement du Plateau-Mont-Royal a indiqué vendredi qu’il « prend ce type d’enjeu de sécurité très au sérieux ». that’s why it took La Presse to get this hole fixed after six weeks.
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Kate
The two teenagers who killed three men in a California mosque earlier this week were inspired by, among others, two notorious Quebec murderers, Alexandre Bissonnette and Marc Lépine. Like Lépine, they suicided, leaving a manifesto.
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Kate
CBC delves into reasons not all strippers are unified around the demands being made during this weekend’s strike.
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Kate
Complicated story here about Canadians captured in the Middle East, and a Montrealer called Wassim Boughadou who’s willing to come home even though he’s wanted by the RCMP – but Global Affairs won’t let him.
It seems like this story is mostly about a conflict between federal government departments. But I’m not impressed by how Boughadou says he wasn’t part of Islamic State but his wife was.
Chris
Yeah if she’s ISIS, she presumably interprets Islam strictly, so she should believe in being subservient to her husband. So I really doubt there was much daylight between them in ideology.
Telling that he’d rather be in Canadian jail than Turkish jail.
R T
Canadians have a Charter right to enter Canada (Section 6). The Government could try to argue that the limits are reasonable (Section 1), but it seems hard to do when they’re only blocking men and not women from entering—which makes the Charter violation even more remarkable, as Charter rights apply equally to men and women (Section 28).
Kate
It’s a fundamental principle of human rights that a person cannot be made stateless. We no longer send people into exile. Canadian authorities may know that Boughadou has dual citizenship, but I don’t know that.
Chris, you have a seriously reductive view of Islam. Don’t tell me that it’s because ISIS also does. It’s more complicated than that.
John
If there was sufficient evidence he was an ISIS member then Canada should prosecute him. Not use other countries for human rights abuse to their own citizens. He was declared not affiliated to terrorism by a Turkish court and was to be deported but the Canadian government refused to issue documents because they have no evidence against him. His wife being ISIS doesn’t make him ISIS he divorced from her for that and him not being in Syria and being In turkey is a proof he wasn’t a member of ISIS because if he was he would have tried to go there. Guilty by association isn’t a thing acceptable. A Canadian citizen is a Canadian citizen . There is something called presumption of innocence. Stop saying nonsense please.
Kate
Are you addressing me, John, or someone else in the thread? Or implied people in the government?
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Kate
Bill Brownstein writes about the team that preps the Circuit Gilles‑Villeneuve for the Grand Prix.
Villeneuve is being declared officially an historic personage in Quebec on Friday.
CE
It’s been quite a while since I’ve read a Gazette story because the website has been so bad for so long, but I’m amazed by how poorly this story was written for a major newspaper. The Gazette has never been a great paper but this story, while interesting, was painful to read. It reads as if it were published pretty much exactly as the journalist submitted it, with an absolute minimum of copy editing.
Kate
The Gazette has improved its page layout (it could hardly have been made worse) but you’re right, the article badly needs editing.
Sam
Bill Brownstei was never a good writer, even when he had editors… Between him and Josh Freed it is a race to the bottom. Post Media has thrown in the towel, and tacitly acknowledged that the only people who read the Gazette are over 80 years old and complain when something they have read for the past 60 years is taken away.
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Kate
Tourism businesses can expect a standout season this summer, so long as the Habs stay in the game and the weather holds.
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Kate
Putting this feature up a bit early, because this will not only be Grand Prix weekend, but will see the start of the Canadiens’ series against the Hurricanes.Weekend notes from Le Devoir, CityCrunch, Journal de Montréal, CultMTL.
Parties held in tandem with the Grand Prix. Also, Crescent Street as the place to be.
CTV warns of traffic difficulties as does TVA.
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Kate
A park in Griffintown has seen steps and sod put in, then almost immediately ripped out again and redone. Questions are asked.
James
As tax payers, we should be happy about this. The city refused to accept bad quality work and the contractor is re-doing it.
DeWolf
The article is pretty much rage bait, only if you read the story you’ll realize — as James said — that it’s not the city paying for the work to be redone. The contractor screwed up, the contractor eats the cost of redoing their own work.
If only the city was as consistent in enforcing quality across all of its projects. There are some whose finishing is excellent and others that are mind-bogglingly subpar.
MarcG
The city admin could do themselves a huge favour by improving communications. A street near me was torn up all last summer – big project, very disruptive to mobility – and in the fall it seemed to be done, everything patched up and back to normal. I went by last week and it’s all dug up and fenced off again! Surely there’s a reasonable explanation but I have no idea what it is so I just assume it’s stupidity and/or corruption.
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Kate
The mayor wants to see a parade for the victory of the Victoire.
jeather 13:43 on 2026-05-23 Permalink
Made a million in increased value in the home, landlord still came out well ahead. It’s a good start but unless judgements like this — not just to landlords but various companies that break the law — are actually painful financially the cost of a lawsuit or two will just be built in to their costs.