Another business that’s been around for ages: Pantalons Supérieur, next to Metropolis, and its 83-year-old owner.
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Apparently various SAQ branches around town have been held up pretty violently and employees are edgy about who’s next.
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Snowpea
That article needs an edit, if only because the perpetrator managed to pepper-spray the store AFTER leaving in a gray vehicle.
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Kate
Maybe it was a time-release capsule.
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Doobious
Does anyone know if the cops ever got to the bottom of the Baie d’Urfe SAQ shooting a while back? Boy, was that a weird crime.
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The head of the Commission de toponymie maintains that naming places around Montreal is not controversial, but this article (and most especially its comments) finds otherwise.
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William Raillant-Clark
I agree with counsellor Norris about the renaming of streets and places – let sleeping dogs lie. However, Montreal is an effervescent city and there’s always new constructions and places opening up. Look how many new squares have been opened at Place des Arts over the past two years – maybe some of them could carry artists’ names. And when it comes to choosing who, I’m sure the web could play a role in voting or consultation.
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qatzelok
Yes, WR-C, but how dormant do we let our dogs get? Does this mean forgetting history entirely? …
For example, Moncton New Brunwick – which is named for a man who became famous for ethnic cleansing the Acadians – is the largest Acadian city now. Shouldn’t this name be rethought? …
Or Amherst Street, in the gay village – named after someone who ethnic-cleansed natives with poison blankets and scalping bounties – should his name remain in the gay village as a beacon of tolerance and multiculturalism?
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William Raillant-Clark
I think those are great examples that offer an interesting opportunity to inform and remind Canadians about our country’s bloody history. Why not, for example, have information panels written by qualified scholars? Maybe in two parts – firstly explaining how the place came to have its name, and secondly the current controversy. Surely removing the name altogether would have a worse effect in terms of collective memory.
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qatzelok
WR-C “an interesting opportunity to inform and remind Canadians about our country’s bloody history”
It’s pretty obvious that the capital of Israel shouldn’t be Hitlerville. Why do you think it’s “educational” to have the capital of Acadia named after one of their principal genociders? Surely, this is one instance where a name change is appropriate and desirable.
The commemorative plaques could be erected at an Acadian Holocaust museum.
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Jack
Qatzelok I will help you with Moncton if you help me with Lionel Groulx, his fascism and anti-semitism must obviously be abhorrent to you. So in common cause lets change the names of the Metro, mountains, CEGEPs, high schools and countless streets and institutes named after him.
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Marc
People, you can’t whitewash history. Jack: as for Lionel-Groulx, while he was anti-semitic and such, he was not any more anti-semitic and fascist than were no shortage of other people during his era. How about W.M. “none is too many” King? Should he be on the $50 bill? I have no problem with it as he is still the longest-serving PM; and I say that as a currency collector, too.
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Jack
Obviously I am trying to be satiric,historical revisionism is a fools game. These place names speak to specific moments in time not to now. By the way King never said that.
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William Raillant-Clark
When someone resorts to reductio ad hitlerum remarks, you realize there’s not much point pursuing a conversation. By the way, we were talking about Montreal and Quebec.
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Dhomas
@qatzelok: Godwin’s Law. This comment thread should now be closed.
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Kate
I think the thread has fizzled out, but I will invoke Godwin if necessary.
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mare 22:59 on 2011/08/21 Permalink
I get all my jeans there. Cheap and they hem it for you at exactly the right length. I don’t know how they survive, the whole family is always present in the shop.
Doobious 22:51 on 2011/08/23 Permalink
As much as I love the guys at Superieur and their $50 501s, I should mention that the Neon shop on Mont-Royal’s got ‘em at $40. Or so their shop window said a week or so ago.