There’s to be a jet flyover Sunday afternoon at 3:45 during the national anthem at the Grand Prix. Maps shown on item.
(They sing the national anthem at the Grand Prix?!)
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Kate
Mount Royal Park marks 150 years this month.
AMF
The anniversary of the inauguration is today! May 24th. Is the park doing anything to celebrate it? I haven’t found any events listed.
Kate
Even if they had plans, at 12° and rainy, it wouldn’t be the most pleasant day out.
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Kate
A rainy Sunday will be interesting for the big race, as noted on this UK Formula 1 site (and check out that crazy headline font).
Radio-Canada reminds us that it was also a rainy race day in 2024.
MarcG
I didn’t realize that you can code a font to display differently if it followed specific other characters, neato.
Kate
Typographically they’re called ligatures, and yes you can. But the ones in that headline are unconventional. Typically it will be fi, fl, ffi, ffl and sometimes st and ct, although there’s no strict rule.
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Kate
The Gazette has part 2 of a piece on how the CAQ has attacked tenants’ rights in their time in office.
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Kate
The Canadiens are an ongoing theme, Chapleau looping in Christine Fréchette, and Côté providing a sketch that tells a story; Ygreck loops in the race as well.Fréchette was also the inspiration for a call‑and‑response between Côté and Chapleau this week.
Godin throws shade on the Grand Prix but sees two victories for women.
Quebec’s cartoonists are distrustful of Newfoundland’s motives as the Churchill Falls deal with Quebec is renegotiated. Trump’s motives for forcing change on Cuba are equally unpopular while Chapleau sees Danielle Smith trying to keep the lid on a pot she put on the stove herself.
Côté draws a two-parter critiquing Quebec’s handling of the PEQ immigration program. He also has a good social observation satire this week, while Ygreck illustrates inflation.
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Kate
Sex workers held a demonstration downtown Saturday, seeking safe and legal work conditions.
Blork
If you stopped reading after “Sex workers held a demonstration downtown Saturday…” you’d have a very different notion of what the story is about. 🙂
Kate
It’s been in the news that strippers and other sex workers would hold a strike this weekend, so I assumed readers would understand the statement in that context.
Ephraim
Should build a legal brothel on Ile St Helene… we already have all the other amusements out there.
Kate
Some time ago I was in a friend’s car, driving around aimlessly. We were over on the island when a car full of young men flagged us down and asked where the big strip club was. They didn’t want to believe that there wasn’t one on the island. (It turned out the club they named was in St‑Jean‑sur‑Richelieu, so they were definitely lost.)
Bert 14:56 on 2026-05-24 Permalink
Yes, every GP gets their national anthem played, sometimes acapella, instrumental, experimental. The Spanish GP actually plays both the Spanish anthem, The Royal March (which has no official lyrics!), as well as the Catalonian national anthem, The Reapers.
Everything is all timed out, you can basically set your watch to the events.
Flybys are common, if not e rigueur for most large outdoor events. Somehow I think they don’t do flyovers at the Centre Bell, or the Olympic Stadium. Though that last one might be to avoid the jet blast from blowing the structure down.
Nicholas 15:02 on 2026-05-24 Permalink
I know someone who worked for the Als for years and he said you know how much precision it takes to ensure the singer gets to the exact end point of the anthem just as the jets fly overhead? And when you think about it, almost all sporting events start at the exact planned time, and there’s a lot going into that.
Kate 17:42 on 2026-05-24 Permalink
You’re right. I did a very small bit of theatre work when I was a teenager, and learned that even timing a simple stage performance is a feat. Arranging the arrival of jets would be a challenge.
Blork 17:59 on 2026-05-24 Permalink
Enjoy ‘em while you can. The Snowbirds will be grounded after the 2026 season while the planes are replaced, which could take four years or more.
Interestingly, the replacements will be Swiss-made acrobatic propeller planes, the Pilatus PC-21. At least they’ll be quieter. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/snowbirds-grounded-2030s-9.7204210
Blork 17:59 on 2026-05-24 Permalink
Those planes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilatus_PC-21
Joey 09:53 on 2026-05-25 Permalink
@Bert not much point of a flyover if there’s a roof…
@Nicholas helpful to think of these events as live TV productions, gotta be right on time…
roberto 11:10 on 2026-05-25 Permalink
They will be flying over the roofed Bell Center tonight at 6:15 for Game 3.
Kate 11:43 on 2026-05-25 Permalink
There will be a lot of people out in the street before the game, though.