Montreal City Weblog

The REM is already bracing for the ice storm forecast for Wednesday.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136033

I just stepped out and heard gulls for the first time this season. It feels like summer out there.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136029

From time to time the media will glance at the STM's lost and found department, but this Le Devoir piece excels in the variety of photos of different categories of objects, and glimpses of the people working to identify and return missing items.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136027

Metro describes the appearance of Angine de poitrine on Tout le monde en parle, Sunday night. I'm mostly posting this here because I started seeing references to them here and there and assume you have too.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136022

Westmount Library is closed because of a bedbug infestation. I wonder how people are handling any books they've recently borrowed.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136019

Fasciné par cette simple, mais rare image d'une fontaine d'eau au pied de la Place Jacques-Cartier

Les détails des immeubles autour nous placent quelque part entre 1857, après la construction du Palais de Justice, mais avant 1872-4, avant la construction de l'Hôtel-de-Ville, absente sur la photo.

A documentary filmmaker is investigating the history of immigrants – mostly Italians, during the mid 20th century – being refused access to French schools. Although some have tried to deny this happened, there's too much evidence that it was standard... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136015

The city has unveiled the list of eligible properties it's willing to hand off to nonprofits for the development of affordable housing. As many as 5000 new housing units could be built, if this works out.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136012

We're to expect a lot of freezing rain on Wednesday and Thursday.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136008

A downtown demonstration Sunday celebrated Women's Day.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=136006

Trying to be unbothered but watching politicians responsible for women losing their jobs and who legally challenged (again and again) the right for the most vulnerable asylum seekers (single moms) to access subsidized daycare pretend to be feminists today is sending me into a quiet rage this #IWD.

The notion of making Montreal a sanctuary city has floated around. A rally Saturday pressed for the idea. This piece briefly recaps the recent history: Denis Coderre announced it in 2017, but it proved to be an empty promise; Valérie Plante undid this the... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135996

It may be timely for some Americans to claim Canadian citizenship by descent based on ancestors two or three generations back. But in this piece, as in others I've seen, it's mentioned that "Between 1840 and 1930, close to one million French‑speaking... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135987

The war in the Middle East, Trump, Carney, Trump and the sequel, were inevitably going to dominate the week. The war was also seen in terms of pain at the gas pump and impending inflation, although Chapleau used the gas pump purely as a metaphor in another... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135940

A man was found unconscious Saturday morning on a road near the airport, and another found in critical condition on Ste‑Catherine East on Sunday morning. Neither incident is being treated as criminal yet. (The man found downtown was reported as having died... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135983

And sumo's haru basho starts tomorrow, so they're well timed!

The amount of disinformation I’m seeing (much of it being spread deliberately) regarding yesterday’s court ruling on asylum seekers accessing Quebec’s subsidized daycare is mind boggling.

CTV has a story about a permanent memorial placed in a Pointe‑Claire park for a six‑year‑old boy who drowned there, 52 years ago. His mother is quoted saying there’s finally something to mark the spot where her son died. This strikes me as odd. Most... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135977

It was only in 1964 that women in Quebec were accorded the rights we now expect as adult humans in society: they could not sign a contract, practice a profession or initiate legal proceedings unless their husband gave his assent. The change in the law, led by... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135970

Some people in St-Henri are taking up a collection to hold a funeral for a man who lived in Sir‑George‑Étienne‑Cartier Park.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135968

The recent move feed of CBC/Radio-Canada, ICI RDI and CBC News to Amazon Prime Video is providing politically unpopular.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135962

Although most Quebec residents would like to abolish the clock change, it continues. We go back to Daylight Time overnight Saturday.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135960

Canada's Supreme Court has ruled that Quebec can't exclude asylum seekers from subsidized daycare. In tangential news, deaths exceed births in Quebec for the second year in a row.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135954

Weekend notes from Le Devoir, CityCrunch, La Presse, Journal de Montréal,... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135938

Le Devoir describes the SPVM's new more targeted approach to crime prevention with teenagers.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135949

A restaurateur who invested a sizable sum in the creation of a Crescent Street establishment talks about why he's closed the business following extortion threats, even though two of the men who allegedly threatened him are now in court.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135934

The CAQ's French language commissioner Benoit Dubreuil says the government ignored his recommendations when writing their economic vision paper last November. His job, after all, is to put French before all other concerns, even economic ones. In very... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135931

A bundle of fugitive arrest stories Thursday: Bryan Fuentes Gramajo was arrested in Rosemont borough early Thursday, wanted in a shooting death last year in Toronto; Stéphane Beaumont, sought for six years for violating parole conditions, was arrested in... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135929

The REM is alerting northbound passengers that they'll soon have to take notice whether they're boarding a train that goes all the way to Deux‑Montagnes, or one that stops at Bois‑Franc. Testing will soon be under way for the Anse‑à‑l’Orme branch.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135925

Not a Montreal-specific story, but I couldn't resist the headlines Ex-Quebec cop caught licking woman’s boot pleads guilty or Un policier lécheur de bottes plaide coupable. A onetime SQ investigator had attended a cheerleading competition "sans avoir... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=135922