The city’s firefighters have ratified a new contract although with a non-overwhelming majority of 64.3 per cent. The contract is good till the end of 2017.
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Posters for the new Jay Baruchel movie Goon have (allegedly?) been removed from the metro because they show a man making a sexually suggestive gesture. The film’s producers are supposedly not best pleased although since this fuss is getting media attention it’s probably a pose. The poster shown on the IMDB page is different and would’ve passed unremarked. The Toronto transit commission had removed the “suggestive” posters earlier in the week.
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Blork
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Matt
I have to admit that when I first saw the ad, I had a feeling this was going to happen. Anyway, I’m fairly certain that the demographic this take-down is meant to protect doesn’t even know what the offensive gesture implies.
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Bert
Thank God!
Now there is more room for ads for lingerie shops and plastic surgery clinics.
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Hamza
isn’t this the city that put a man’s ass on the sides of buses all over the place
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Blork
As of 10:00 PM tonight, at least one of the rude posters is still up at Berri/UQAM.
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Blork
Specifically: http://instagr.am/p/HdJsl8neLx/
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William
I’m offended that they took them down. In fact, I would say the symbolism of taking them down is far more offensive to our society’s values than the contents of this extremely mild picture.
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William
When are we going to start saying NO to the Dictatorship of “Offense”? Well, thankfully it’s already starting: http://bit.ly/xV8JxY
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James
i assume you all have heard of the controversy over the opéra quatsous http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/actualites-culturelles/333433/affichage-la-stm-affirme-qu-il-n-y-a-pas-eu-de-censure
which was even more messed up, IHMO. i wonder if some people pissed that this american style film, with a cruder ad, passed and made a complaint, still angry about the above controversy. recent letter to the editor about the Goon movie http://m.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/342607/lettres-un-manque-de-jugement
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Kate
I did post about the Quat’Sous thing last year, but it turned into a discussion about why “3 groschen” became “4 sous” in French. The article you reference also mentions a poster for a French adaptation of the play Blasted which was removed from the metro in 2008 because it showed Roy Dupuis with a lot of blood on him.
You’ll note that the posters were removed for somewhat different reasons – the Goon poster (if indeed it is removed) because of a sexually suggestive gesture, the Quat’Sous one for skimpy clothing, drink and cigarettes, and the Blasté poster for gore.
I don’t see why someone who doesn’t want to look at a poster for the five minutes or so they’re on a metro platform can’t move along and look at something else, but maybe there’s some validity in the notion that people can be on edge in the metro and find violent or sexy images one thing too many to process.
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Book review in Le Devoir tells us all we need to know about Clément de Sabrevois de Bleury, who gave his name to a downtown street.
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People are getting nervous about changes at Radio-Canada as the firing of a respected news director is followed by the abrupt reassignment of their top Quebec City political reporter.
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Late Friday, a trucker lost control of his rig on the 40 in Anjou, and piled into some of those crash barrels, one of which flew through someone’s windshield, killing him; the rig then hit a sign structure, which fell onto another truck nearby. Picture the sort of crash little kids make with their toys and you’re probably close. Neither trucker was hurt.
Later note: The man who lost his life was a respected surgeon.
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La Presse weighs in with its Nuit blanche picks; a wide selection from Voir, which also has a preview of the Art souterrain segment.
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Friday’s snow was news after weeks with none, adding 25 cm to the contours of our almost snowless winter. Inevitably some traffic incidents ensued.
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Bill Binns
It’s beautiful. I wish it would snow like this 2-3 times a week.
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Charles
That snow sticking to branches and wires was beautiful! Did anyone take great photos of it?
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Kate
this is nice. Probably lots more circulating on Instagram, although I’ve seen too many that were out of focus.
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Ian
I got a few good ones. Snow is Montreal’s little black dress.
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Kate
Where are you posting photos these days, Ian?
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Ian
On instagram & the book of faces.
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The massive tower that was to rise over or near the Bell Centre has already lost 20 floors, the part that was supposed to be a hotel.
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Robert J
I’d rather see another parking lot filled elsewhere downtown and all the tax revenue that comes from real estate than a single, enormous project.
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Steve Quilliam
Human psyche is interesting. If this project had started as a 20 storeys project and ended as a 40 then all would be positive but because they let us believe, for a while, about a possible 60 storeys building and downgraded it to a 40 then it is suddendly a negative thing!
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Robert J
I think it would be nice to eventually see a tower the same height as PVM, but I’m not sure that location was the best. As it stands, a 40 storey tower at that corner would be roughly between the 1250 René-Lesvesque tower and the Cité du multimédia complexe, creating a sort of descending skyline towards the west. If built, it should fit in nicely.
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For pete’s sake. Are we getting as crazy as USers around here? Can’t tell the difference between “vulgar” and “obscene?” :-/