Hotel plan raises hackles in Griffintown
Radio-Canada has a good report on a dubious plan to put up a luxury hotel complex in Griffintown on federal land initially leased years ago by a man who simply promised to put up a cultural centre for the Czech community. The hotel plan would almost inevitably involve blocking public access to the canal and boosting traffic in the area, the city doesn’t like it, and this is not the first time the plan has been reported in the media (La Presse, last October). But greed may well win out.
Raymond Lutz 10:09 on 2019-05-25 Permalink
Pfff… l’élection de Valérie Plante nous avait insufflé (le petit monde ordinaire, locataires, prolétaires) une puff d’espoir. Ça n’a pas duré… comme avec Obama [1] (perso, je n’ai jamais mordu à l’hameçon Trudeau fils, donc pas déçu par l’annonce des “Sunny Ways”).
When will we see here in Montreal special dedicated entrances for poor people designed into those upscale residential projects, as they start to appear in London? [2]
“So here Doctorow shows us a screengrab of one of the most brutal aspects of Neoliberalism’s heart of darkness: the will to humiliate, the will to impose the very shittiest of conditions on whomever it can. Free markets is a euphemism for fuck you.”
Cet aphorisme est tiré de ‘Who Says Violence Doesn’t Solve Anything?’ A Review of Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment [3].
PS: my html anchors didn’t pass, so here they are:
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3-FFcCUMGk ;
[2] https://boingboing.net/2019/05/23/neovictorian-dickens-larpers.html ;
[3] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/05/who-says-violence-doesnt-solve-anything-a-review-of-radicalized-four-tales-of-our-present-moment-by-cory-doctorow.html