Anglo, mais pas trop
It was a mixed bag of themes this week as we hover between summer and school, the tendentious trade negotiations with the fractious dictator to the south and the impending Quebec election. Côté didn t get much of a holiday with everything going on. Our cartoonists tend to enjoy seeing Carney crushed by Trump although I [ ]
Two fans of CF Montreal have been banned after accusations of antisemitic abuse directed at an opposing player of Israeli origin on the New England Revolution team.
La Presse focuses on the hazards of electric bicycles and there have been items on the dangers of e scooters in town as well. The Journal even reported on the son of Justin Trudeau using such a scooter without a helmet.
TVA has a very scanty report on a possible murder in St Michel on Saturday afternoon. Not much more detail in La Presse. Sunday morning, there s info that it was a woman who was stabbed to death, and that a man has been arrested. Police are numbering this as the city s 15th homicide this year. I [ ]
Friday morning, cops boarded boats and busted a meth lab on an island off Verchères, round about here.
Claude Paquin will receive $20 million in restitution after he was cleared of conviction for a double murder in 1978. He was behind bars from 1983 till 2001, after which he was still under strict parole conditions. He was finally acquitted two years ago – but now he s 83 years old.
Both Radio-Canada and Le Devoir headline items about the upcoming cycling events using road space as Casse-tête en vue but drivers need to think of this differently. Cyclists and pedestrians are often faced with a casse-tête en vue when trying to work out how to get across a tricky intersection without getting killed. It s so [ ]
La Presse thinks the deaths of homeless people are underestimated, partly because of how we estimate a person is homeless. The accompanying list of people who died while living in precarious conditions – in garages and back sheds – tends to bear that out. In related news, Urgences-Santé is now distributing naloxone kits in an [ ]
A strike is looming by the 230 blue collar workers at Parc Jean Drapeau, who haven t had a raise since 2023.
Weekend notes from CityCrunch, Le Devoir, CultMTL, free and cheap events in the Journal. Some traffic notes.
More on the AI camera and the police, and why they took it down when rumbled.
An influencer posted a misleading video about the Old Port zipline, and is alleged to have demanded payment to take it down.
The tennis tournament attracted record numbers this year, which will undoubtedly be taken as support for a bigger stadium.
A multimodal hub is going to be built in Dorval to unite Via and Exo trains and airport bus shuttles in the same place. No mention of the REM, whose airport spur has started running preliminary tests this week.
L actualité columnist Noémi Mercier asks the question why Montreal has so many police per capita, when our crime rate is relatively low. And studies have found that it isn t the crime rate, or the size of the city that s the reason why a police force is allowed to expand. It s the presence of immigrant communities.