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  • Kate 19:13 on 2026-06-22 Permalink | Reply  

    TVA says the perpetrator of Monday’s shootings was an incel from Alberta and Radio‑Canada/CBC also give some detail on the shooter, but also mention that it was police who shot the third person who died on the scene.

    Radio-Canada has a video on this page titled “two minutes to understand what happened” but how the police action moved from the Hilton on Decarie around to the PA on de Courtrai (where, according to TVA, nothing happened) is not yet clear.

    Before this incident we had a homicide count of 10. How many will this incident add? I haven’t yet seen a number.

    Adding: The SPVM has named their fallen colleague: Mohamed Lamine Benredouane.

    CBC also names the bystander who was killed.

    I suppose the meeting between Fady Dagher and SMF was postponed?

     

    • Kevin 20:02 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      The Hilton and the PA apparently share underground parking.

    • Ian 20:45 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      Aaah thank you – now it makes sense.
      Sokath, his eyes uncovered.

  • Kate 17:46 on 2026-06-22 Permalink | Reply  

    Cyclists should be aware that police are handing out more tickets to riders breaking the law.

     

    • Blork 18:08 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      Good work as long as they’re being fair and reasonable. The tone of that JdeM report implies the cops are on an educational mission as much as anything, and that many of the people being stopped (and not all are ticketed) are not even aware of the rules. For example, you must wear a helmet when using an ELECTRIC Bixi (not required on a regular Bixi). Also, you’re not allowed to wear headphones while riding your bike. Not everyone knows this.

      Stop signs and red lights are a bit trickier. Everyone SHOULD know you’re required to stop. On the other hand, there are times and places where it just seems silly, and the good ol’ “Denver stop” is sufficient. But I don’t think the law here recognizes that.

      OK, I know you’re all wanting examples. Here’s one: cars are pretty scarce in my neighbourhood, especially outside of commuting hours. It’s not hard to ride along my street and through six or seven intersections and not see a moving car within 100 metres in any direction. Asking a cyclist to come to a full stop under those circumstances is just dumb. That doesn’t mean you can just blow through without even looking, but a full stop? Nah.

    • Ian 18:36 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

    • Joey 18:47 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      Ideal would be to treat it like a crosswalk, no? You must always slow down when approaching but you don’t have to stop unless someone (pedestrian, bike or car) is crossing.

    • Nicholas 22:03 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      Joey, that’s the Denver stop (or Idaho stop) that Blork was referring to: treating a stop sign as a yield sign. It’s the law in 13 US states plus DC. Plus in lots of countries stop signs are rare, they use yield signs or the default yield to traffic on the right.

      It would be great if we got this here, and one could ask their candidates this question in the upcoming election (it’s the province that regulates this).

    • Chris 22:26 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      Idaho stop was heavily lobbied for during the last CSR review, but the gov did not want it.

    • Ian 22:56 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      I guess the question in terms of legislation is whether people can be trusted to use their judgement and… well, you can’t turn right on a red in Montreal for reasons, and maybe Idaho stops fall under that too. Riders blowing through stop signs and red lights like it’s a suggestion not a rule should endure an occasional reality check.

    • Nicholas 01:20 on 2026-06-23 Permalink

      I would be fully supportive of stricter enforcement of cyclists putting people in danger, such as those not yielding to pedestrians everywhere, in exchange of non-enforcement of cyclists doing non-harmful things, such as going through while slowing down when there is no traffic to yield to (or wearing earbuds even in one ear, something I never do but that distracts me much less than when in a car with a loud radio and the windows up, which is completely legal).

    • DeWolf 02:07 on 2026-06-23 Permalink

      To anyone on a high horse about cyclists not doing their stops, I would ask: do you? I mean a full legal stop, which requires you to stop moving completely and put your foot on the ground?

      Because that’s absurd. And it’s why approximately 99.9% of cyclists do Idaho stops.

    • Kate 09:26 on 2026-06-23 Permalink

      People who demand cyclists make so many full stops have never ridden a bike in traffic. In traffic, a cyclist’s momentum is their fuel, and it’s what keeps you safe, able to move quickly when needed.

    • Chris 10:19 on 2026-06-23 Permalink

      >Riders blowing through stop signs and red lights like it’s a suggestion not a rule should endure an occasional reality check.

      Agreed; but that’s not what the Idaho stop is.

      >or wearing earbuds even in one ear

      Hilariously, that’s legal for car drivers (hands-free = safe, don’t you know?), but not cyclists! Somehow operating a 1000 kg vehicle with one ear is ok, but operating a 10 kg vehicle with one ear is just too dangerous.

      >I would ask: do you? I mean a full legal stop

      Motorists don’t ever do full stops either.

    • Joey 11:33 on 2026-06-23 Permalink

      I used to think talking hands-free while driving was no big deal until I apparently completely missed a stop sign on a street I had driven on hundreds of times while on the phone.

    • Tim S. 11:39 on 2026-06-23 Permalink

      Stop signs: the first spark in the unthinkable but world-changing romance between Idaho libertarians and Montreal cyclists.

    • Ian 12:23 on 2026-06-23 Permalink

      @chris “Motorists don’t ever do full stops either.” The fine is over 300 bucks and you lose 2 demerit points. Bicyclists not so much. Go sit by the cop station on Remembrance some morning and count the bicyclists that stop at the stop sign.

      @Joey since bike delivery, bixi, and maybe a deathwish have become increasingly common I often see people in my neighbourhood riding no-hands while consulting their phone, presumably for directions.

  • Kate 13:30 on 2026-06-22 Permalink | Reply  

    A policeman has been shot and a gunman is at large in Côté-des-Neiges. Posting from fone, more soon.

    A cop is dead and another person injured, but the attacker has been stopped.

    According to these reports, a police officer, another person plus the suspect are all dead.

    Watching interview with Fady Dagher, who observed that it’s 24 years since the last SPVM cop died doing their job.

    BBC covers Monday’s shooting (is Ana Faguy a relative of Fagstein’s?).

     

    • jeather 15:09 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      Dislike the journalists asking him how he personally feels,come on. That said the safety of policing as a job here puts into spotlight the lack of balance in their killing innocent people.

    • steph 17:58 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      That police officer straight up murdered Michael Moshe Mizrahi. Is this going to be the straw that breaks the camels back on the “systematic racism” issue?

    • Blork 18:14 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      I don’t understand the sequence of events. Apparently the shooter was in a room at the Hilton overlooking the scene, but there’s video of the cops busting the glass on the PA store and going in there. What’s the connection?

    • bob 09:07 on 2026-06-23 Permalink

      That police officer did not “murder” anyone, she reacted to what she perceived as the shooter coming at her, and shortly after that was wounded herself.

    • Ian 16:45 on 2026-06-23 Permalink

      She panicked and killed a civilian but cops don’t get charged even with manslaughter. I guess steph was joking about the “anti anti semitic” crowd but it”s not like the cop shot Mizrahi for being black.

  • Kate 09:08 on 2026-06-22 Permalink | Reply  

    Flooding remains the biggest story Monday, many householders still coping with the aftermath.

     

    • jeather 12:59 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      Really cursed us with that “biggest story”.

    • Kate 14:51 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      No kidding.

  • Kate 08:25 on 2026-06-22 Permalink | Reply  

    I was wondering as I read about the UK Labour prime minister leaving office voluntarily part way through his term to make way for a more popular choice as leader – has something like this ever happened in Canada?

     

    • CE 08:53 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      This doesn’t look too much different from Trudeau’s resignation last year.

    • Kate 09:16 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      Short memory here. You’re right.

    • Joey 09:18 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      It was a voluntary resignation but the lede makes it clear that his choices were quite limited – “… forced out by his own party after missteps and mistakes…”

      Same thing more or less happened to Francois Legault earlier this year (though obviously at different moments in both his career and his mandate, but broadly…).

    • Tim S. 11:35 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      I would draw the Chretien-Martin analogy, since it seems Starmer’s choice was forced by the election of a rival who would have made internal party politics extremely difficult for him.

    • CE 12:36 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      I was also thinking of Chrétien but wasn’t he already planning to retire and just wanted to set up the next leader for the upcoming election?

    • Ian 18:40 on 2026-06-22 Permalink

      Chretien was going to retire but then refused when he felt he was being forced out. He intentionally screwed over Paul Martin, which led to that long period where the Liberals were searching and searching for a viable candidate until they finally had the brainflash to make Trudeau do it and just shadow government the whole shebang until he found his feet. I personally blame Chretien for Harper. In the end Carney’s not much better than Harper was, but hey.

  • Kate 08:22 on 2026-06-22 Permalink | Reply  

    Police chief Fady Dagher is to meet with the mayor and other elected officials Monday, behind closed doors.

    CBC reports on a relevant incident from last fall, in which a Black family holding a birthday party in their back yard in Montreal North was allegedly pepper sprayed by police, including the senior parents.

     

    • Ian 20:39 on 2026-06-23 Permalink

      How is that they got pepper sprayed “alleged”? I understand the legality of saying x did y as opposed to x is alleged to have possibly committed something against y but in this instance we kniw for a fact the family got pepper sprayed and that’s not even being debated.

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