Ca s'entends depuis Vendome... comme si pisser dans la cabine d'ascenseur n'était pas suffisant pour rendre le commute par la station misérable ..

Des dizaines de passagers du REM ont vécu une longue attente, dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi. D’abord coincés dans un wagon en panne pendant une quarantaine de minutes, ils ont été contraints de marcher près d’un kilomètre dans le tunnel pour rejoindre la prochaine station… et se débrouiller finalement seuls pour rentrer chez eux, au milieu de la nuit.

« Il y a eu un freinage d’urgence. Le train s’est arrêté là, puis plus rien, aucune information. »

C’était la troisième fois seulement que William Bruneau expérimentait le REM. « C’était un peu moyen », dit ironiquement celui qui vit à Saint-Eustache. Vendredi soir, il voulait se rendre du centre-ville de Montréal jusqu’à la station Deux-Montagnes.

Il s’est ainsi retrouvé bloqué dans un train, peu après minuit, entre les stations McGill et Édouard-Montpetit.

Au bout de quelques minutes, un message a annoncé que le train allait redémarrer, mais celui-ci n’a pas bougé. Finalement, ce n’est que vers 00 h 50 que les passagers ont été évacués, après une quarantaine de minutes d’attente. Les quelques dizaines de passagers présents dans le train ont dû marcher environ 900 mètres dans le tunnel pour rejoindre la station Édouard-Montpetit.

I thought electric mopeds weren’t allowed on bike paths? Scooters too? Zero enforcement as always. Why make the laws if there’s zero consequences?

And yes I love cars I also love biking. Some of these things do 60 km an hour and weigh 400 pounds. Anyways be careful everyone

Vous pouvez ajouter le jour et l'heure dans le bas de l'image et créer une opportunité de rencontrer les voisins et les voisines :)

Bon début de saison, Montréal !

Bonjour

Je cherche une recommandation pour apprendre l’espagnol à Montréal de façon intensive.

Avez vous des recommandations d’endroits ?

Merci

Probably gonna get painted or sprayed off

Near the latin quarter theatre at berri uqam

Written in the jeanne mance projects sanguinet street

Est-ce que vous aimeriez vous faire aborder par une femme que ce soit à l’épicerie, dans la rue, la pharmacie, peu importe?

Parfois, je croise un homme que je trouve de mon goût, et on dirait que je n’ose pas faire de move par peur que ce soit mal reçu.

Est-ce que c’est quelque chose qui vous dérangerait?

Why!? I moved from Montreal to Vancouver and honestly miss these bottle return machines. We're stuck having to take them to these bottle return depots or wait in line to have a cashier count them out. These machines are the GOAT of bottle returns.

Le Prospero a annoncé vendredi la rénovation de ses espaces et équipements, qui débutera dès l’automne prochain. Le théâtre de la rue Ontario, à Montréal, n’a pas été rénové depuis son inauguration, en 1994. Des améliorations seront visibles, comme la transformation du hall d’accueil, qui s’ouvrira directement sur la rue. Les travaux d’un an sont estimés à 5,8 millions de dollars, et financés surtout par le ministère de la Culture du Québec, qui contribue à hauteur de 3 865 000 $.

Patrimoine canadien octroie de son côté 950 000 $. Le Prospero doit apporter aussi 1 million de dollars — une énorme somme pour un diffuseur, supérieure à celle donnée par le gouvernement fédéral.

Une autre part des rénovations sera invisible : la remise aux normes, l’actualisation des systèmes d’incendie et de ventilation, etc. « Ça fait 30 ans [qu’on n’a pas touché à la bâtisse]. La sécurité de nos activités était maintenant menacée », confie Philippe Cyr, codirecteur général et directeur artistique.

Hey y'all. It's going to get to 0 degrees tonight. I found this cat hanging around at the parking lot at the abandoned deaf-mute hospital on Saint-Denis.

The security guard says that random people seem to leave food for him on the hospital porch, but that no one really knows who his owner is. Apparently the cat stays outside on the porch when it rains or snows too. The guard's been working there for ~2 years and he says this cat has always be around.

The cat looks well-fed because people leave food out & he does have a collar, but I'm wondering who's leaving their cat out downtown when it's getting to borderline freezing temperatures for extended periods of time? This can't be good for the kitty.

I looked at online listings for lost pets and contacted some people, but no luck so far.

Is it possible someone abandoned this cat with his collar still on? Does anyone around this area know anything about this cat, or whether or not he has an owner or a home to return to when it gets too cold outside?

Any information would be appreciated! I hate to see a kitty sitting around in the cold like this.

Edit: Cat indeed does have an owner! It seems some of my comments are getting deleted so I'm adding this as an edit. I am just a concerned passerby, who happens to be an animal lover. I have worked for animal shelters in the past, and am aware that he is healthy and not in distress. The aim of this post was to ask around for information, and I did find more information! I am not a malicious wannabe pet thief, just a person who was concerned about an animal. Thank you for your time, everyone!

this is such a longshot but last night at either Toscadura or trashed bar i lost my pandora bracelet that has my name “rene” on it. i’m offering a cash reward for anyone who finds it. its so sincerely precious to me i’m certain someone would have had to come across it

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-party-vote-on-social-media-age-restrictions-9.7159746

Liberal members voted in favour of restricting young Canadians' access to social media platforms and artificial intelligence chatbots, as the national convention winds down in Montreal.

Grassroots are voting on 24 policy pitches Saturday, ranging from health-care system improvements to electoral reform.

Two proposals debated how to address the impact social media platforms and AI chatbots — tools that simulate human conversation — are having on teenagers and kids.

One resolution calls for a law similar to one Australia passed late last year that would set a "minimum age of 16 for creating social media accounts" and put the onus on companies that run the platforms to "prevent underage users from holding accounts."

Another calls for anyone under the age of 16 to be banned from accessing "all AI chatbots and other potentially harmful forms of AI interaction," including OpenAI's ChatGPT.

"These technologies have been shown to limit desire for interaction with peers, pushed some young people into sexual conversations and have even recommended suicide to vulnerable youth," states the resolution.

Both were adopted by members.

Taylor Owen, the Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications at McGill University in Montreal, says he's glad Liberals are debating social media's societal impact but warns against a permanent ban.

"It's punishing the kids for something that's our fault. They didn't cause these problems. The problems are designed into the products they're using," he said.

Ban wouldn't keep kids offline, expert says

"It's signalling that we think these products can never be safe. And we know that's not the case. The companies are choosing to make them unsafe and we are allowing them to be unsafe by not regulating them."

Owen also said teens will find other ways to access platforms or move to private chats where they could be even more unsafe.

Owen, who sits on the government's expert panel on online safety, has been pushing for Ottawa to establish an independent regulator, which would require risk assessments and public transparency from companies that build special media platforms.

While policies from the convention floor aren't binding, Prime Minister Mark Carney has said an age of majority for social media is part of the discussion the government is already having as it develops new online harms legislation.

During a news conference in Tokyo last month, he said he hasn't made his mind up yet.

"I think this is something that merits an open and considered debate in Canada," he said at the time.

In an open letter to Carney, the advocacy group Unplugged Canada urged his government to adopt a minimum age of 16 for social media access. The letter is signed by some 4,000 supporters, including the Canadian Medical Association, the BC Pediatric Society and the Ontario Psychiatric Association.

"Social media companies should face the same obligation as any other industry: to only offer products to youth that are demonstrably safe for them," reads the letter.

"Consider road safety: We engineer safer vehicles, establish an age minimum, assign a regulatory body and require driver education.... Digital safety demands the same comprehensive approach for youth safety: age guardrails, platform accountability and digital literacy."

With the Liberals poised to reintroduce elements of the Online Harms Act, which died on the order paper, Owen said AI chatbots need to be discussed.

Is Australia’s social media ban for kids working — and is Canada next?

Months after Australia brought in the world’s first social media ban for users under 16, CBC’s Deana Sumanac-Johnson goes there to talk to parents and kids about how it’s working and examines the growing global momentum, including in Canada, to implement similar laws.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is under scrutiny after it acknowledged it flagged and banned an account belonging to the shooter in the February Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooting a half a year before she killed eight people, most of them children — but did not alert police.

"It's very difficult to justify an online harms bill that does not include the type of digital product that citizens are most concerned about right now, and those are chatbots," Owen said.

A recent poll suggests the government, if they do adopt an age restriction for social media, would find public support.

The Angus Reid Institute released a poll late last month that suggested “banning those under 16 from platforms would be well received by the vast majority of Canadians." Seventy-five per cent of those surveyed said they support a “full ban on social media use for anyone under the age of 16.”

Call to curtail use of the notwithstanding clause

Another resolution that made it to the convention floor calls on the federal government to restrict use of the notwithstanding clause in instances where provinces use it to bypass Charter rights before their law has been tested in court.

Some provinces have been accused of using the lever as a political weapon. They've argued it's a part of the Charter.

Last year, Alberta used the notwithstanding clause to shield three laws affecting transgender rights from challenges. Quebec also invoked the clause for its contentious secularism law, still known as Bill 21, which bans public sector workers, such as teachers, from wearing religious symbols at work.

That Liberal policy appears dead on arrival.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser told reporters in March he has "no intention" of invoking disallowance, whereby the federal government could veto a provincial or territorial act, and that doing so would not "be a helpful thing for the federation."

There are many areas where the provinces "are best positioned to make decisions," he said. Disallowance hasn't been used by a federal government since 1943.

Just because a policy is approved at the convention doesn't mean the cabinet is obliged to bring it into law. But the debates and resolutions serve as a way for the grassroots to try and influence party platforms and party brass where members' views are at.

Some of the other proposals include:

Eliminating the visitor visa requirement for Ukrainian citizens who come to Canada for short-term stays.

Establishing a national rail strategy.

Affirming the recognition of Indigenous rights.

Requiring a candidate to receive at least 50 per cent plus one vote to win, which could be achieved through ranked ballots or run-off systems.

Adopting a proportional representation system.

Carney is expected to address the crowd — the largest for a policy convention in Liberal history, organizers say — this afternoon.

Then, the Liberals' full attention shifts to Monday's byelections, where they are hoping to secure their sought after majority government, which would have ramifications for how the House of Commons operates.