Rain comes to dampen 100th night of demo
I can hear rain pattering down, as the 100th night of tuition protest marches toward what the Gazette has called “Emelie Gammelin Park” in one of its recent brilliant copyediting coups.
I don’t want to be mean, but yesterday in that gluten-free bakery piece the caption reads: [...]share a laugh in the kitchen of their store Mi & Stu, were their make gluten-free baked goods in Montreal. Ayoye.
Later note: a motorist got impatient with the demo walking down Saint-Denis and drove into the crowd, injuring a young man who had to be taken away by ambulance.
It’s not just the Gazette. La Presse calls it Emile-Gamelin in that piece. Can’t we just revert to calling it Berri Square?
Ian 07:36 on 2012/08/02 Permalink
The students are calling it place Emile-Gamelin, too, and have been since the beginning of the protests. I too am unsure of when that nomenclature shifted. I find it curious that the Gazoo article spells it “Gammelin”, though.
Michel 09:10 on 2012/08/02 Permalink
Correct me if I’m wrong, but by calling it a park rather than a square allows the city to enforce the 12am to 6am curfew. Again, I might be wrong, but I think it was the ex-mayor of Ville-Marie (can’t remember name, was powerful but then got caught in some wheeling-dealing bs) who made the change.
Kate 09:55 on 2012/08/02 Permalink
It’s Émilie, not Émile, there’s a statue of her in the metro entrance on the square.
Michel, you’re thinking of Benoit Labonté? I think you’re right, he was big on cracking down on itinerants.
Michel 10:53 on 2012/08/02 Permalink
Yeah, that’s it. Outta sight, outta mind.