Man stabbed at Tam-Tams
A man was stabbed Sunday afternoon at the Tam‑Tams, and there’s been one arrest.
Why does CBC describe the location as “Avenue du Parc and Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges in the Ville-Marie borough”? Sometimes it feels like the people writing our news are talking about another planet.
Monday morning: the victim has died.
Nicholas 23:10 on 2026-04-26 Permalink
Essentially all of Mount Royal Park (not counting the cemeteries, mostly) is technically in Ville Marie borough, with the northeast corner at Park and Mount Royal Aves. So half of the intersection of Cote-Ste-Catherine and Park is in VM, half is in the Plateau. So they did mess up the street name, but the borough is technically correct, even if literally zero people would ever call that anything but the Plateau (or Mile End), and if told it wasn’t the Plateau would guess it’s Outremont.
Joey 23:30 on 2026-04-26 Permalink
Yes, but the area where the Tam Tams are is completely Parc Ave.
Nicholas 00:06 on 2026-04-27 Permalink
Joey, I assume you mean completely west of Park Ave. Which would make it Ville-Marie. (I remember back in the day it was much bigger and stretched into Jeanne Mance Park, but last I went by it was all on the mountain side of Park Ave.
Blork 09:07 on 2026-04-27 Permalink
They must have updated the article because now it says “Parc Avenue and Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road.” (It says that’s where the police were called to.)
Kate 09:14 on 2026-04-27 Permalink
Freelance proofreading by Montreal City Weblog.
Joey 10:52 on 2026-04-27 Permalink
I actually meant to write “completely along Parc Ave.”… anyway, the question isn’t which borough the stabbing occurred in, it’s that it occurred along Parc Ave, not along “Avenue du Parc and Chemin de la Côte-Ste-Catherine,” which is not an actual place.
Blork 11:02 on 2026-04-27 Permalink
Joey, Ave. du Parc and Chemin de la Côte-Ste-Catherine is an actual place: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ESKHU2CiDwqGjzDW6
Joey 11:38 on 2026-04-27 Permalink
@Blork, yes it’s an intersection, but not a street (as the original article implied). Moreover, that place is not where the Tam Tams are. Now the article states, “On Sunday, police were called to a section of the park that is near the intersection of Parc and Duluth avenue,” which reads less like someone from ‘another planet’ wrote it, as Kate properly put it…