Premier Fréchette is said to be trying to round up Emmanuel Macron in an effort to get that defense bank headquarters for Montreal. Le Devoir, on the other hand, was not sanguine about Fréchette’s visit to France.
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Kate
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Kate
Sunday, May 17, this city marks 384 years as a European‑style settlement established on the island of Montreal. Happy anniversary!
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Kate
Quebec politics always offers possibilities, Côté poking fun at Québec solidaire, while both Ygreck and Chapleau spoof PSPP’s paranoia. Côté’s and Ygreck’s nervous fonctionnaires watch the launch of the digital health record, Côté’s horrified patient reading his chart.Québec solidaire proposed a tax on the ultra rich, but the response of François Lambert was the thing that activated the cartoonists. Côté has a dry comment on the wiliness of the wealthy.
Trump in China was an inevitable target as he tried to eat a burger and open a fortune cookie. He also tried to part the Strait of Hormuz.
As Mark Carney approves pipelines, Steven Guilbeault sees the mask come off.
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Kate
Rents in Montreal have risen by 70% over ten years. The Gazette blames “population growth, gentrification and a game of catch-up with other markets” in the deck to this piece, the first of a two‑parter, but it doesn’t note the utter failure of the TAL to keep rents reasonable.
Joey
Feels like they ate setting up the next instalment in the series to deal with the public policy failure here (which includes, but is not limited, to the TAL’s conduct).
Kate
I find the mention of “markets” also tone deaf. If you live in Montreal it doesn’t help you if the “market” in some other city is “more competitive” or whatever. You work here, you live here, the rental situation is what it is, it isn’t a “market”. Must everything be seen in the language of business college?
steph
At least the Montreal market comes with higher salaries…. right? right??
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Kate
A police car was set on fire downtown early Sunday, and the Canadiens hadn’t even won a game. Nobody got hurt in the blaze.
There were a lot of people downtown Saturday night, and there will be a lot of people for the watch party at the Bell Centre on Monday.
Chris
“hadn’t even won” is quite the understatement. 🙂
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