A social media trend called body‑checking – a term familiar enough in a hockey town – has been experienced by women on the streets of Hochelaga‑Maisonneuve recently.
What pleasure the assailant gets from doing this, I don’t understand, unless it’s a way to infringe on a woman with plausible deniability. I simply bumped into her as I passed her in the street, Your Honour.
Christopher Watts, the sexual predator who ducked out of a halfway house in Montreal last week, was arrested in Ontario on Thursday.
The Bon-Pasteur monastery fire happened in 2023, but it may be 2028 before the people who lived there can go back home. But, since the building is classed as heritage, doing any work on it involves not only money and materials, but negotiations.
Weekend notes from Le Devoir, CityCrunch, Journal de Montréal, CultMTL.
Places you cannot drive.
Radio-Canada sent a photographer and a reporter to talk both to neighbours and residents of a homeless camp in Hochelaga‑Maisonneuve.
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