Some Black officers of the SPVM have written a letter saying they fear reprisals if they are blamed for blowing the whistle on racist and hateful actions by some of their white colleagues, causing a team at Station 39 to be disbanded, and bringing about criticism and possibly an inquiry into institutional racism in the force.
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Kate
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Kate
Ismaël Koné, Quebec’s biggest star on the Canada soccer team, has suffered a broken leg after a tackle by Qatar’s Assim Madibo. Canada got its first World Cup win ever, but at the expense of losing one of its top players.
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Kate
A worker was impaled by a steel rod at a Kirkland construction site on Thursday morning. TVA has photos of the man being lifted from the depths of the site on a stretcher with the help of rescue workers from the fire department.
Ian
I can only guess it was probably rebar, not some kind of post as it was framework. Rebar punctures are really bad, that’s awful.
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Kate
The city is investing in a project of 350 housing units in the Îlot Angus, currently projected to be “affordable” at $1100 to $1400 per month, but by the time the project is completed, probably more.
Chris
Are those sneering quotes? 🙂 How low would it have to be to not add quotes? What would a reasonable/fair “affordable” rent be in this city? Would it have to be “affordable” to an unemployed person? Minimum wage earner?
Kate
I am not sneering, I’m just according the word a certain distance, because it’s always reported as if it has a clear well-defined meaning, but it’s always going to be relative and subject to change.
Ian
@Chris the rule of thumb for a reasonable rent is 25% of the household take-home income, so 1100/m for a 1 bedroom apartment would “reasonably” require a 75k salary (about 53k net). The average salary in Montreal was $50,120 in 2025… I doubt it’s gone up 24k in 2 years. I think we can “reasonably” say that a rent that requires a person to earn 150% of the average is not “reasonable”.
I know you weren’t being serious but for comparison, a full-time minimum wage earner makes about 31k per year.
Chris
I was being serious in that I was curious where Kate’s lines were.
It’s an interesting thought exercise I think.
Your 50k and 75k numbers are individual, not household, right?
Is it “reasonable” that maybe people that need subsidized housing maybe need a roommate too? Two 31k salaries per year is 62k per year. 1.1k a month is 13.2k a year. 13.2k / 62k is 21% of household income. But yeah you’d have to split a bedroom. All very back of envelope, but it’s not horribly far from “affordable” perhaps.
Ian
The article said 1100 dollars is for a one bedroom apartment.
Basically the only way any of these units are “affordable” or “reasonable” is for a childless couple.MarcG
Anyone who suggests that sharing a bedroom with a roommate is reasonable should be forced to live that way and see if they continue to hold that opinion.
Kate
An adult having to share a bedroom with an unrelated adult who is not a romantic partner reduces the place to a dormitory, not an apartment.
Ian
Also I would like to note, Chris, that your “back of envelope” calculation is predicated on an error, which is that your rent should reasonably be 25% of your net, not your gross. A person making 31k in QC would have about 26k take-home according to 2025 rates, so with 2 people that is only $52k, not $62k.
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Kate
The OQLF has received a record number of complaints over the last year. Are some of you blokes still dreaming in English?
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Kate
There’s little local news Thursday morning except for the rain and thunderstorm watch.
Ian
Hey now weather can be a big news. Why, that brief thunderstorm we had yesterday knocked out the REM for four hours.
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