The jazz festival has announced its seven big free outdoor shows, the final one including a Mardi Gras style parade. I guess if the comedy festival has a parade, the jazz festival gets to have one too.
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The FTQ is calling for a one-day boycott of Shell this Friday to protest the conversion of its east-end refinery into a simple distribution centre needing far fewer workers. Quebec’s still hoping the refinery will find a new buyer.
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The city has put up some statistical breakdowns about the most numerous ethnic communities in town, viz: Italy, Haiti, China, France, Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon, Vietnam, Romania, the Philippines, Greece and India.
Via Montreal 2025 on Twitter.
Having lived in two different areas with Portuguese bakeries, rotisseries and grocery stores for years, I’m surprised they’re not in the top twelve. And where, I ask, are the Romanian restaurants?
Also note: Italy, France, Algeria and Greece are all in the World Cup. Expect honking.
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Some Inuit are now mad at people – including Villeray’s borough mayor – who have expressed resistance to the plans for an Inuit residence in the area and everyone’s mad at the Montreal health agency for not explaining its plans to the borough and its residents until rumour and paranoia had done their work.
This is something of a microcosm of the recurring issue in this town, where higher authorities make plans, only releasing information when they have no other choice, rather than thinking of their projects from the beginning as part of an interconnected web that will affect nearby residents as well as the fabric of the whole city. We see it over and over again. A new philosophy clearly has to come into being about the limits of ownership and authority within a densely populated place.
I’m also going to quietly say here that there may not be the clear demarcation that’s being floated. We’re told the residence will be for sick people needing treatment in Montreal hospitals, not a drug and alcohol rehab centre. I suspect the eventual institution will have to have aspects of both. What that will mean for the tone of the neighbourhood remains to be seen.
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Jany
About 20 years ago such a centre was opened in Wpg. The idea is for people to somewhere to stay while they’re in the hospital. Most of these folks have never been out of their very small communities and would be all alone during their treatment without such a centre. There’s never been the slightest problem with the Inuit centre in Wpg.
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Kate
Jany, I’m glad to know about that. Thanks for the comment.
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Shawn
Through my friendship with the gang at Rezolution Pictures, I’ve met people who’ve come down for surgery and such. I agree with Jany: they’re just nice people from the North who’ve come down for major surgery or traveling with their loved ones. They’re also some of the most kind and decent I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet.
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There’s a plan afoot to demolish part of Cavendish Mall and turn the resulting space into a residential area.
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Spacing is looking for the city’s top spots – not in the conventional sense of pubs, clubs and poutine restos, but urban exploration and artistic favourites. They also have an announcement about a talk this week with a prominent sustainable-cities guy.
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The Accueil Bonneau in Old Montreal is closing for 24 hours today – the first time it has closed at all in 133 years – as a statement and a protest towards government that it badly needs more money to be able to go on helping the homeless. Quebec had announced some anti-poverty measures yesterday but expelled anti-poverty activists from the event.
Louise Harel’s candidate Chantal Rouleau won the borough mayor by-election in Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles yesterday, taking an estimated 41% of the votes cast. Mind you, apparently only 15% of eligible voters bothered to vote.
After 13 seasons in the CFL with the Alouettes, Bryan Chiu has retired even though he’d signed with the Alouettes to play this year. He’s 35.
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Isabel of Montreal
I’m 35. I WISH I could retire this year!
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admin
Not if you were as injured as that guy is, I imagine.
Globe & Mail has some notes on the Festival TransAmériques; Métro lists some things not to miss at the upcoming Francofolies; interview with a concierge who makes wishes come true for the rich and famous during Grand Prix weekend; notes on Pointe-à-Callière’s Easter Island exhibit opening tomorrow and continuing till the fall.
I have a feeling a hostel for residents in Ville-Émard on their way to Laval would have more of an effect on the number of rowdy alcoholic drug addicts than what this centre is being described as. An earlier CBC report described the place as being meant for the families of those who come to Montreal seeking treatment at our hospitals. As a former American, we get good at smelling this out, and the reaction really reeks of pure, old-fashioned racism.