The Permanent People’s Tribunal has opened a week‑long investigation here into missing Indigenous children and unmarked burials. But as noted in the Radio‑Canada deck, the tribunal’s rulings are not legally binding. A full ruling is expected at the end of September.
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Kate
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Kate
The city’s official list of pedestrianized streets for summer 2026.
Here’s a version from CTV with a grille, but no map. Item from La Presse, but still no map.
Isn’t St-Paul Street usually pedestrianized? But it never seems to be listed.
Some media note that rue Villeray is a new one, but it’s only being pedestrianized as an alternative to de Castelnau, part of which had been closed to traffic for several summers but which needs to be dug up this year.
Mozai
Before I make one, I wonder if there’s a visual map of these locations.
Kate
Looking, but haven’t seen one.
LJ
The Gazette has one here:
https://montrealgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/pedestrianized-streets-2026.svg
Kate
Was just about to post that, LJ. Thanks!
SMD
@Mozai The Gazette has one here: https://montrealgazette.com/news/car-free-pedestrianized-streets-montreal-summer/. There also a shapefile you can download to make your own: https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/rues-pietonnes/resource/425d94e5-19e9-450a-89ef-4548ed409dcd.
CE
St-Paul is already pedestrianized from Marché Bonsecours until St-Laurent and essentially becomes a shared street until McGill. You could also add place Jacques-Cartier which, for some inexplicable reason, is open to cars throughout the winter. I also noticed signs saying that Place d’Youville is going to be closed to cars over the summer.
Mont-Royal has been blocked off and they’re setting up. My favourite though is Duluth. Why the city allows cars on that street most of the year makes no sense to me!
CE
I guess St-Denis in the Latin Quarter isn’t being pedestrianized this year?
DeWolf
@CE — Sadly the Latin Quarter won’t be pedestrianized for the next two or three years due to the construction on Berri. The rationale is that St-Denis is needed for emergency access to the CHUM now that Berri is completely blocked. I think that also means the circus festival and other events held on the pedestrian strip will be displaced. The city gave the SDC a bunch of money this year so maybe there will be some interesting public terrasses or other installations.
These annual media reports never seem to include St-Paul, for some reason, even though the SMF administration cancelled plans to keep it pedestrianized year-round, so it’s definitely one of the summertime-only pedestrian streets.
There’s also Ste-Catherine in the Quartier des spectacles but thankfully that was permanently pedestrianized before SMF came into power. It had been “temporarily” pedestrianized year-round since 2020.
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Kate
La Presse has a short photo essay around the 150th anniversary of Mount Royal Park.
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Kate
Serge Audette was found guilty Monday of a murder committed 30 years ago, when he killed his neighbour Patricia Ferguson in Pointe‑aux‑Trembles.
Updating to add Daniel Renaud’s interview with Sabrina Ferguson.
Meezly
A great example of how effective and powerful good journalism/filmmaking can be. According to the article, the doc raised the question of how a violent sex offender was the last person to see Ferguson alive (and how the police didn’t look into him properly?). Ferguson also had an 11 mo girl at the time and her daughter always thought she had been abandoned. Now she knows the truth.
Kate
Good point, Meezly. It must be so strange for her daughter, who wouldn’t even remember her mother yet could have been haunted by the thought she might have been abandoned. It is better to know.
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Kate
The Snowbirds are to do another flyover Monday evening around 18:15, before the Canadiens match at the Bell Centre.
MarcG
“Dear Ron MacLean. Dear Coach’s Corner. I’m writing in order for someone to explain to my niece the distinction between these mandatory pre-game group rites of submission and the rallies at Nuremburg. Specifically the function the ritual serves in conjunction with what everybody knows is in the end a kid’s game“
Tim S.
OK, MarcG, I’ll take this at face value. If I shouldn’t, forgive me.
You are, if I’m not mistaken, of the opinion that COVID was a social disaster, in that people didn’t/don’t care enough about each other to take basic precautions to mitigate harm. Might I therefore suggest, that events and rituals that bring people together, create joy in being part of something beyond oneself, could create bonds of empathy and lead to people caring more about each other?
Or is it better if we all bowl alone?
MarcG
The song is a criticism of the military piggybacking on sports events, maybe I didn’t post enough of the lyrics.
MarcG
Also brings to mind the interview with the guy who was burned badly at the Ferrari dealership linked below – he mentions how sparklers on his birthday cake reminded him of the incident and caused a sleepless night – imagine the effect war planes overhead has on some of us.
Kevin
Ah well, disagreement is not treason.
But it’d be a different world if the orchestra I went to on Saturday, or the last Sugar Sammy show I saw, started with O Canada.jeather
Hey thanks for this it explains the very loud noise I just heard.
MarcG
Maybe they fly the planes so that the steady stream of car and bank advertisements seem less violent. (Just heard them fly over)
Joey
I thought it was nice of the Snowbirds to do a flyover right after I retired the first batter while pitching in a softball game yesterday…
Josh
Flyovers for sporting events that are held indoors makes even less sense to me.
CE
Considering how much we as a society spend on high-tech military equipment, I enjoy getting to see it every once in a while.
I’m curious what bank and car advertisements can be considered “violent.” Unless you consider annoying and repetitive as a form of violence (I kind of like the very intense ones that the National Bank is running during the games on TVA).
Kate
I play La Presse’s five-letter game, which involves watching a 15‑second commercial each time. Most are commercials for Honda, tightly edited. In some, there’s a few seconds of the car coming right at the camera. Every time, I flinch. Is that a violent image? As a pedestrian, I’m not sure I’d call it violent, exactly, but it’s jolting.
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Kate
A parade to celebrate the triumph of the Victoire will be held downtown Saturday, but details of the route are not yet out.
SMD
A Radio-Canada journalist said 11am at the Place des festivals, with the cup going along pedestrian Sainte-Catherine for a few blocks.
Kate
Thank you, SMD.
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