Groups which say they’ve been protesting police racism for years are planning a demonstration Monday evening at Station 39 (6100 Henri‑Bourassa East in Montreal North).
La Presse reports that Montreal North mayor Christine Black expects difficult weeks and is now saying she hasn’t done enough, presumably about the entrenched racism in her borough – and not just among the police, but among borough workers (reports from 2021) as well.
The new terminal at the Metropolitan Airport will open on Monday, as previewed on Time Out.
SMF has launched a consultation to update the bike plan for neighbourhoods.
This piece is so fraught with SMF Newspeak that it’s almost hilarious. If I were teaching journalism, here’s the exam I would set:
What does SMF mean by:
a) revision of its bike plan
b) broader public consultation
c) adapting cycling infrastructure
“A revised Plan Vélo is expected to be presented in 2027.” Still time to sell your bicycle and buy a car. Buy two cars, why not? There will be plenty of parking.
27 is only next year …
Well, clearly they don’t have enough information about cycling in Montreal to make any decisions this year, especially since the counters were turned off for the first part of the season.
Fady Dagher finally bringing down the hammer on abusive police in Montreal North has met a deadpan lack of surprise among Black men in the area.
SMF has to say something about abusive police, but the situation went well beyond trust being broken between police and communities a long time ago.
Maybe our cops will get body cams now, but after this fuss has died down, maybe she’ll hold some consultations and have a report written eventually.
I notice nothing real from the premier, who I assume can’t figure out how to say this was bad but don’t worry, Quebec has no systemic racism.
That said I had no idea SMF was with a Black man, and she really did just say “there’s systemic racism and profiling and we need to talk about it”, which is a pretty big statement. That was my biggest problem with VP.
After the fuss dies down the party line will be that there was an isolated racism problem, but we took care of it, and there is no systemic racism in Quebec.
Autumn’s election is already starting to loom, the Alto train factor providing various visual gags and Godin predicting the first of many phone surveys. Perhaps Christine Fréchette didn’t quite welcome the end of the parliamentary session.
The ambivalent “noui” phenomenon came in for a few laughs, from Côté and Ygreck.
Banning social media to under-16s was illustrated by Godin and Côté, while the new Governor General was also a topic, although Ygreck seems to have forgotten the seven beige years of David Johnston between Michaëlle Jean and Julie Payette.
Trump never quite leaves the stage, but it was the criticism of Legault and Fitzgibbon’s rash investment in bad battery business that gave us the best caricature of the week from Chapleau.
Shots were fired Saturday evening from a vehicle during a party in Angrignon Park. Police arrived and chased the vehicle, then arrested several people. That’s what these media reports describe.
Someone reported this incident to Facebook as police having shot and killed two people, pepper sprayed everyone else present, and locked down the metro station. This report was also posted to reddit. Whether any of these other things happened isn’t clear, but official reports say nobody got shot during the incident.
Good example of not uncritically trusting social media (and good to not link it). Maybe some bodies will turn up, but if at this point the police are suppressing that and not telling the media that would be the scandal of the century.
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